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What should you actually charge?

The cold email agency pricing calculator: enter your costs and time, get a monthly retainer you can defend — and see how it stacks up against the market. No signup.

Your inputs

Fill in your real numbers

Domains, mailboxes, sending platform, data/enrichment credits, etc.

Include monitoring, replies, list work, and the weekly report.

What your time is worth.

The profit margin you want to make.

The average number of meetings this client should generate.

Your pricing breakdown

See your recommended retainer and key numbers

Recommended monthly retainer
$2,898
Covers your $1,449 all-in cost at a 50% margin.
$1,000Typical agency retainer$3,500
All-in cost per client
Your total cost including time
$1,449
Implied price per meeting booked
Your retainer spread across expected meetings.market: $150–500
$362
Target margin
Your desired profit margin
50%
The hidden lever: hours per client.

Cut monitoring and reporting time and the same retainer doubles your effective rate — that's margin, not revenue.

This tool is for guidance only. Your results may vary.

Why cost-plus beats guessing

Most operators price by copying a competitor's number, then discover the retainer doesn't survive the hours a demanding client actually consumes. Pricing from your own costs and time makes the floor explicit: below that number, growth makes you poorer.

The market band for done-for-you cold email runs roughly $1,000–$3,500/monthper client, with premium offers above that when the agency owns strategy, copy, list building, and reporting end to end. Per-meeting pricing ($150–$500+ per booked meeting) is the same math viewed from the client's side — the calculator shows both.

Price your agency right. Then automate the monitoring that protects those margins.

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