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9% -- inmail reply rate for LinkedIn cold InMail (B2B verticals) (2026)
The median reply rate for cold LinkedIn InMail across most B2B verticals in 2026 is 9%.
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9%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Quicklead
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Tier C
https://quicklead.io/blogs/linkedin-inmail-reply-rate-fix ↗
Source Article
Why Your LinkedIn InMail Reply Rate Is Below 10% (Fix It)
Introduction
If you've been running LinkedIn InMail and watching reply rates flatten in the 5-9% range, you're not alone, that's the median for cold InMail across most B2B verticals in 2026. The fix isn't more personalization or better copy (though both help). The biggest single lever is moving the …
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Vendor blog citing aggregate benchmarks; distribution given as 4% bottom decile, 9% median, 22% top decile
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LinkedIn cold InMail (B2B verticals): 9% inmail reply rate. Source: Quicklead (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/linkedin-cold-inmail-median-reply-rate-2026
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