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How many emails Gmail lets you send.
A personal Gmail account can send to 500 recipients a day; Google Workspace, 2,000 messages. Past that, Google stops your sending for up to a day. Plan a campaign below: how many emails it really is with follow-ups, and how long it takes at your pace.
Updated 6 October 2026
Emails in all
600
200 first emails + 400 follow-ups
Sending days at 30 a day
20
About 4 weeks of weekdays
Google’s daily cap for this account
500
Your pace uses 6% of it
Google's limits, in its own numbers
- Gmail (@gmail.com): more than 500 recipients in one email, or more than 500 emails in a day, hits the limit. Sending comes back within 1 to 24 hours.
- Google Workspace: 2,000 messages a day (500 on a trial); 3,000 unique recipients a day, 2,000 of them outside your organisation; 500 external recipients in one message.
- For every sender to Gmail addresses: SPF or DKIM set up for your domain, and a spam rate in Postmaster Tools below 0.3%.
- Over 5,000 messages a day to Gmail addresses, Google also asks for DMARC and one-click unsubscribe on marketing email.
A follow-up is an email too. Two hundred people with two follow-ups each is six hundred emails, which is more than a personal account’s whole day.
Sources, checked 6 October 2026: Gmail sending limits; Gmail sending limits in Google Workspace; Email sender guidelines. Google changes these numbers now and then, so check its pages before a big send.
Questions
How many emails can a Gmail account send a day?+
Google's help page says a personal account hits its limit at more than 500 recipients in one email or more than 500 emails sent in a day, and can send again within 1 to 24 hours.
And a Google Workspace account?+
2,000 messages a day (500 on a trial account), up to 3,000 unique recipients a day of whom 2,000 can be outside your organisation, and 500 external recipients in one message. Past a limit, users can't send new messages for up to 24 hours.
So is 500 a day a safe pace for cold email?+
Google's numbers are the most an account can send before it's blocked, not a pace that keeps you out of spam folders. What keeps you out is people not marking you as spam: Google asks senders to keep the spam rate reported in Postmaster Tools below 0.3%, and recommends below 0.1%.
How does Sochen pace it?+
Outreach sends from your own Gmail, 30 a day unless you change it and 100 at most, a few at a time on weekdays in your working hours. It sends at most two follow-ups, stops the moment someone replies, and pauses a campaign once 3% of its emails have bounced (and at least two).