B
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1%
1% -- positive reply rate for Cold email campaigns (interested, referral, or question replies) (2025-2026)
Competent cold email campaigns achieve a positive reply rate between 1% and 3% of delivered emails.
- Counts replies against delivered emails, excluding auto-replies and bounce notifications
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Value
1%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Sales.co
Primary
Tier C
https://coldmailopenrate.com/blog/what-is-a-good-cold-email-reply-rate/ ↗
Source Article
What Is a Good Cold Email Reply Rate? Benchmarks That Survived the Privacy Era
What Is a Good Cold Email Reply Rate? Benchmarks That Survived the Privacy Era
A competent cold email campaign earns a total reply rate of 2–6% of delivered emails, with a positive reply rate of 1–3%. Sustained results below 1% total replies indicate a structural problem — list quality, deliverabili…
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Sales.co
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Planning range of 1–3% positive reply rate; midpoint 2% extracted. Positive replies defined as interested, referral, or question.
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Industrymarketing
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Cold email campaigns (interested, referral, or question replies): 1% positive reply rate. Source: Sales.co (2025-2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cold-email-positive-reply-rate-benchmark
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