WarmerlyWarmerly ahead on this row
Every mailbox on the plan, not metered
Warmerly
Woodpecker
One-to-one · Warm-ups included
Warm-ups included
One row, in depth: what each tool does, the verified numbers, and who each suits.
Woodpecker details read from its pricing, home, features, integrations, agency and help centre pages on 21 October 2026.
Warmerly
Every mailbox on the plan, not metered
Woodpecker
4 in the base price
The short answer
Warm-ups included, in one look.
Warmerly warms every mailbox on your plan and does not count warm-ups. Woodpecker includes 4 warm-ups in its base price on the page we read, and charges per account beyond that. Woodpecker's own help article gives a default ceiling of 50 warm-up emails a day in later stages, the same figure as Warmerly's day 30 volume, so the sharper difference is in how warm-ups are counted and who runs the network, not in the headline volume. Last checked 22 October 2026.
Woodpecker
4 in the base price
The picture
Drawn side by side.
Which mailboxes get warmed
A 25 mailbox example. Each dot is one mailbox. Filled means warmed from the base price.
WarmerlyWoodpecker
Warmerly
25 of 25 warmed. Growth covers 25 mailboxes, warmup is not metered.
Woodpecker
4 of 25 in the base price. The rest need the per-account add-on, see the next row.
How fast a warmed mailbox ramps
Emails a day on day 0, 3, 7, 14, 21 and 30. Warmerly publishes its ramp. Woodpecker's pages do not.
WarmerlyWoodpecker
| Tool | Warm-ups in the base price | Ramp |
|---|---|---|
| Warmerly | Every mailbox on the plan, 25 on Growth | 4 a day on day 0, 8 on day 3, 15 on day 7, 25 on day 14, 35 on day 21, 50 on day 30 |
| Woodpecker | 4 | Not stated |
On screen
What it looks like.
WarmerlySample data
How Warmerly does it
Warmerly, in detail.
Warmup is not a billing meter: each mailbox on the plan follows the same ramp, from 4 emails a day on day 0 to 50 a day by day 30, inside Warmerly's own private warmup network, and it never emails your prospects.
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Every mailbox on the plan
Warmup is included and is not metered. Free covers 1 mailbox, Starter 5, Growth 25 and Agency 100, and each follows the ramp.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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The ramp, from anchor points
The daily quota rises from 4 a day at day 0 to 8 at day 3, 15 at day 7, 25 at day 14, 35 at day 21 and 50 at day 30. It counts days the mailbox really sent.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Provider caps and health cuts
The quota is also limited by provider caps of Gmail 40, Outlook 30 and Zoho 25, weekends at 0.6 of the weekday quota, and health.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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The reason for today's limit is named
The warmup page shows the factor that limits each mailbox today, and you can set a lower daily limit yourself.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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A private network, two-way traffic
A mailbox in warmup exchanges ordinary-looking email with other mailboxes in Warmerly's private warmup network. Your mailbox sends to peers, peers send back, and both sides open and reply to a tuned share. Partners are other customers' mailboxes and mailboxes Warmerly runs itself.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Partner choice
Warmerly picks partners by how busy they are, the mix of providers and each partner's own volume, and tries not to pick the same partner twice within 72 hours. Nothing excludes your own other mailboxes, so two of yours can be partners.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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The ramp counts days the mailbox really sent
The ramp day is the smaller of calendar age and the days on which a send succeeded. A paused mailbox, or an old one that only just enabled warmup, cannot skip to late-ramp volume.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Weekends and health
At weekends the quota is 0.6 of the weekday figure, judged in the mailbox's own timezone. A low health score or a high spam placement score cuts the quota, to 0.75 or 0.4 for health and 0.7 or 0.4 for spam placement.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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You can set a lower ceiling
Each mailbox has a warmup daily limit setting from 1 to 500, or none. Raising a daily limit does not skip the ramp.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Keep it on after launch
Warmup is not a setup step you finish. The docs say to keep it enabled after campaigns start, as the background activity that keeps the mailbox healthy. A campaign on a mailbox with under 14 days of warmup starts at 3 emails a day per mailbox.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Warmup reply rate is internal
The Positive engagement check on a mailbox's Overview tab measures replies inside the warmup network only. It says nothing about your prospects, and a campaign's reply rate measures real leads.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
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Where Warmerly is behind
Warmerly's warmup is part of the plan, so you cannot buy more warm-up capacity without buying a bigger plan. Woodpecker lets you add warm-ups one account at a time.
Warmerly product, checked 21 October 2026
How Woodpecker does it
Woodpecker, in detail.
Free warm-up is listed as a key feature, with 4 warm-ups in the base price and more as a $5 add-on per account. Help articles name two outside providers, Mailivery and Warmy, and give a default of 50 emails a day in later stages.
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4 warm-ups in the base price
The pricing page lists 'Warm-ups: 4' in the base price, shown as free, and a paid add-on for 'Additional warm-ups'.
woodpecker.co/pricing · read 21 October 2026
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Warm-up in the key features
The home page and features page list 'Free warm-up' as a key feature, described as 'Automatically builds your sender reputation'. The email deliverability page lists it without a description.
woodpecker.co · read 21 October 2026
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A warm-up help collection
The help centre has 10 articles on warm-up, including how to warm up a domain and an email account, what domain age is, connecting Google Workspace, Office 365, Mailgun and Yahoo accounts, and why the initial sending volume is low. We read titles only.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/collections/3370900-email-domain-warm-up · read 21 October 2026
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Third-party names in the help titles
Help article titles mention Mailivery and Warmy in connection with the warm-up process. We did not read the articles, so we do not say who runs the warm-up network.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/collections/3370900-email-domain-warm-up · read 21 October 2026
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Two named providers
The help article on using warm-up says warm-up runs through Mailivery or Warmy, and that 'Both providers perform similarly'. You choose one when you click Add warm-up.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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Sending days differ by provider
Warm-up emails go out Monday to Friday with Mailivery and Monday to Sunday with Warmy, matched to the account's time zone.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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A stated ceiling and a reply figure
By default sending reaches 50 emails a day in later stages. The article says the reply rate for warm-up emails 'should be up to 55%'. That is Woodpecker's expectation, not a result we checked.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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How long it should run
The FAQ says a proper domain warm-up 'should last up to 3 months', and recommends not running campaigns and warm-ups at the same time: warm up first, then send campaigns.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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The first week is low on purpose
A second article says sending volume starts very low, especially in the first week, and that even with a higher daily limit set, 'the system will intentionally limit the number of emails sent during the early stages'. For new domains it advises avoiding sending, warm-up emails included, or keeping volume minimal for the first 1 to 2 weeks.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/14285800-what-should-i-expect-during-the-email-warm-up-process-and-why-is-the-initial-sending-volume-low · read 22 October 2026
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How slots are counted and billed
Each plan includes a number of free warm-up slots, which the article does not state. Extra slots are $5 a month each. Pausing does not stop charges; you stop paying only once warm-up is removed from the account. Downgrading a plan can reduce free slots, and the article's example is 13 free slots becoming 10, so 3 in use get billed.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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Rules for warm-up mail
Do not mark warm-up emails as spam, because the article says this 'will negatively impact the entire network'. Aliases cannot be added to warm-up. The snippets UNSUBSCRIBE and AI_VIDEO are unsupported, and with spintax or fallbacks only the first value is used.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
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Monitoring
The Warm-up tab shows the provider, emails sent today, replies, total sent and start date, with statuses In progress, Inactive or Stopped. Bulk activation, pausing and removal are supported for some providers.
woodpecker.co/help-center/en/articles/5789584-how-to-use-the-warm-up-process-in-woodpecker · read 22 October 2026
What Woodpecker does not say
We looked, and found no statement on these. That is about its published pages only, not about the product.
- How many free warm-up slots each plan or slider step includes: the help article does not state it
- An explicit rule for how a warm-up slot is counted; the article implies one per email account
- The full daily ramp: only a low start, a first-week note and a default of 50 a day later are stated
- Who runs each provider's network or how many mailboxes are in it
- Which of the 10 warm-up articles apply to the current setup beyond the ones we read: we read two of them in full and the other eight by title only
Where the sources disagree
We report each version rather than pick one.
- On 17 October 2026 we read 2 included warm-ups at the default setting, with more as the prospect allowance grows. On 21 October 2026 the page showed 4. The count may depend on the slider step, which we could not tie down, so check the page at your own volume.
- The pricing page lists 4 warm-ups, while the help article says each plan includes a number of free slots without stating it and describes a downgrade example of 13 free slots dropping to 10. The figure appears to vary by plan or step, so check it at your own volume.
The numbers
Only what we could verify.
| Measure | Warmerly | Woodpecker |
|---|---|---|
| Warm-ups included | Every mailbox on the plan, not metered | 4 in the base price |
| Warm-ups in the base price | Every mailbox on the plan (5, 25 or 100) | 4 |
| First-day warmup volume | 4 a day, per mailbox | Not stated |
| Day 30 warmup volume | 50 a day, per mailbox | Not stated |
| Provider caps | Gmail 40, Outlook 30, Zoho 25 a day | Not stated |
| Default ceiling in later stages | 50 a day per mailbox, by day 30 | 50 emails a day (help article) |
| Suggested warm-up length | Ramp reaches 50 a day at day 30; keep it on after launch | Up to 3 months for a domain |
| Weekend sending | 0.6 of the weekday quota | Monday to Friday with Mailivery, every day with Warmy |
| Who runs the network | Warmerly's own private network | Mailivery or Warmy, per the help article |
| Stated warm-up reply rate | Tuned internally; not a prediction of campaign replies | Up to 55% (stated expectation) |
| Pausing | Mailbox can be paused; the ramp counts only days sent | Pausing does not stop the $5 charge |
In practice
What it means for you.
Our reading of the facts above. Not a promise, and not the only reasonable reading.
4 covers a small setup
If you run four or fewer mailboxes, the included warm-ups may be all you need on Woodpecker. Beyond that, see the next row for the per-account charge.
Ask what a warm-up counts
Woodpecker's pages do not say how a warm-up is counted or how fast it ramps. Ask before you plan volume around it.
Day 14 on Warmerly
A mailbox that has really sent on 14 days is at 25 warmup emails a day, before provider caps (Gmail 40, Outlook 30, Zoho 25) and the weekend factor. On a Saturday that is 0.6 of 25, which is 15.
A paused mailbox
If you pause a mailbox for a fortnight on Warmerly, the ramp does not advance for those days, because it counts days with a successful send. On Woodpecker, pausing does not stop the $5 charge for a bought slot; you must remove warm-up first.
A new domain
Woodpecker's help article says to avoid sending, warm-up emails included, or keep it minimal for the first 1 to 2 weeks on a newly registered domain. Warmerly's docs say a brand-new domain can take longer to earn trust. Both say a new domain needs patience; neither publishes a guaranteed date.
Downgrading on Woodpecker
The article's own example is 13 free slots dropping to 10 on a lower plan. If you were warming 13 accounts, the 3 beyond the free slots would be billed at $5 each, which is $15 a month.
Choosing a provider on Woodpecker
Adding warm-up to an account asks you to pick Mailivery or Warmy. The two have different sending days, so a Saturday on Mailivery has no warm-up mail while on Warmy it does. Ask which suits your sending schedule.
Who it suits
Pick the one that fits.
Warmerly
Warmerly is the better fit if
- You want every mailbox warmed on a published ramp and do not want to count warm-ups
- You want the reason for a mailbox's daily limit shown to you
- You want one private network and one ramp you can read in the docs, with the reason for today's limit shown
- You want warmup to carry on in the background after campaigns start without a separate line
Woodpecker
Woodpecker is the better fit if
- You run four or fewer mailboxes and the included warm-ups cover them
- You prefer to keep warm-up inside the same tool you send from
- You want a choice between two warm-up providers and a stated reply-rate setting you can change
- You want a single help centre with ten warm-up articles, including provider-specific connection steps
Questions
Does Woodpecker include email warmup?
Yes. Its pricing page lists 4 warm-ups in the base price, with additional warm-ups as an add-on. Its pages do not describe how the warm-up works.
How many mailboxes does Warmerly warm up?
Every mailbox on the plan: 1 on Free, 5 on Starter, 25 on Growth and 100 on Agency.
Who runs Woodpecker's warm-up network?
Its help article says Mailivery or Warmy. Warmerly uses its own private network.
What are the daily warm-up volumes?
Warmerly runs 4 a day on day 1 to 50 a day by day 30. Woodpecker's help article gives a default ceiling of 50 a day in later stages.
Sources
- Woodpecker pricing page and its FAQ
- Woodpecker home page
- Woodpecker help centre: Email and domain warm-up (titles only)
- Woodpecker help: How to use the warm-up process in Woodpecker
- Woodpecker help: What to expect during warm-up and why initial volume is low
- Warmerly docs: How warmup works
Woodpecker pages were read on 21 October 2026. Plans and wording change, so check the vendor's own page before you decide. Warmerly details come from the product as it runs today.
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