The cheap ones are not cheap. Here is the second invoice.
Every tool below publishes a headline price, and on six of the fourteen that price does not buy working outreach: it buys a capped tier you are expected to leave. This page prices the tier that actually does the job, which is the number you will really pay in month two. Figures are the vendors’ own published prices, read from their own pricing pages in August 2026, quoted at the annual rate because that is how this category quotes itself.
- 14 of 14rivals will sell you a faster sending pace
- 6 of 14headline prices that do not buy working outreach
- 10 of 14hold your session on their own infrastructure
- £0it costs to raise your daily pace, because you cannot
This is written by wireagent, so read it the way you would read any comparison written by one of the things being compared. The defence is that the rows where wireagent is beaten are left in, and named as losses: Linked Helper and Octopus CRM are genuinely cheaper than it even at their real price, and the section at the bottom says who should buy them instead. Prices marked unconfirmed could not be read from the vendor’s own page, so they come from third party roundups and should be treated as indicative.
The matrix
| Tool | Headline price | What that actually buys | Real cost of a working setup | Runs where | Can you raise the pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wireagent | £18.75 a month billed yearly, £25 monthly | Everything the product does | £25. Higher tiers add agent work | Your machine | Unlimited on every plan, up to LinkedIn’s own limit |
| Octopus CRM unconfirmed | $6.99 a month | Auto-invite only, no bulk messaging | $9.99 on Pro | Browser extension | Yes, by tier |
| Linked Helper | $8.25 a month | Capped at 20 advanced actions a day | $24.75 on Pro, uncapped | Your machine | Yes, on Pro |
| Closely | $29 a month | A Starter seat | $29, same tier | Vendor cloud | Yes, by tier |
| Botdog | $35 an account | Unlimited invitations and messages | $35, same tier | Vendor cloud | Yes |
| Dux-Soup | $11.25 a month | No drip campaigns at all | $41.25 on Turbo | Browser extension | Yes, by tier |
| Waalaxy | €19 a month | 300 invitations a month | €49 on Advanced, 800 a month | Browser extension | Yes, by tier |
| Meet Alfred unconfirmed | $29 a month | No Sales Navigator support | $49 on Pro, plus Sales Navigator | Vendor cloud | Yes, by tier |
| Phantombuster unconfirmed | $56 a month | 20 execution hours, 5 phantom slots | $56 plus hours as you use them | Vendor cloud | Yes, buy more hours |
| Dripify | $39 a month | 20 connection requests a day | $59 on Pro, 75+ a day | Vendor cloud | Yes, 20 to 75 a day |
| HeyReach | $63 a month | Unlimited sender accounts | $63, same tier | Vendor cloud | Yes |
| Expandi | $79 a seat | One seat and a dedicated IP | $79, same tier | Vendor cloud, own IP | Yes, smart limits |
| lemlist | $87 a month | LinkedIn starts at this tier, not the $55 one | $87, same tier | Vendor cloud | Yes |
| Skylead | $100 a seat | Everything, one seat | $100, same tier | Vendor cloud | Yes |
| Zopto unconfirmed | $197 a month | Needs Sales Navigator to function | About $296 with Sales Navigator | Vendor cloud | Yes, by tier |
wireagent is priced in pounds; every rival figure is the vendor’s own published price in its own currency, so read the symbols rather than the numbers. All figures are the monthly cost when billed annually, which is how most of this category quotes itself and is the cheaper of the two rates in every case, since the monthly-billed prices are higher, so this comparison is the one least flattering to wireagent. “Real cost of a working setup” is the vendor’s own next tier up where the entry tier is capped or missing the feature; where the entry tier already does the job it says so. Marked rows could not be read from the vendor’s own pricing page. Octopus CRM returned a 404, Meet Alfred and Zopto refused the request, and Phantombuster served nothing readable, so those four come from third party roundups and are indicative only.
The column that decides it
Read the last column again. Fourteen out of fifteen rows say yes. Raising the sending pace is the feature this entire category competes on, it is the reason every one of those tiers exists, and it is also the single behaviour LinkedIn acts on when it restricts an account. You are being sold the thing that gets you banned, one tier at a time.
wireagent has no plan that raises it. Its pricing scales with the number of accounts you run, never with speed, because a tier selling more volume would be a tier selling you a restriction. That is either the reason to choose it or the reason to dismiss it, and both are legitimate: if you want to send more per day than a person plausibly could, every other row on this page will serve you better, and you should buy one of them.
The price on the pricing page is not the price
The cheapest tier of a LinkedIn tool is usually not a tier, it is a doorway. Six of the fourteen publish a headline price that cannot run an outreach campaign, and the gap between the two numbers is not small.
- Linked Helper advertises $8.25 and caps you at 20 advanced actions a day. Uncapped is the Pro tier at $24.75, three times the headline.
- Dux-Soup advertises $11.25 for Pro Dux, which has no drip campaigns at all. Campaigns start at Turbo, $41.25, nearly four times the headline.
- Dripify advertises $39 and caps you at 20 connection requests a day. The 75-a-day tier is $59.
- Octopus CRM advertises $6.99 for a tier that cannot send bulk messages.
- lemlist advertises $55, and that tier has no LinkedIn automation. LinkedIn starts at $87.
- Zopto lists $197 and needs LinkedIn Sales Navigator behind it to function, another $99 to $179. Meet Alfred’s Sales Navigator support starts on Pro. Phantombuster does not sell seats at all, it sells execution hours, so the bill grows with how long you run it.
wireagent starts at £25 a month and every paid tier comes with unlimited usage, up to LinkedIn’s own limit. There are tiers above it and they are worth being precise about, because this page is about upgrades that turn out to be the real price: they sell agent work, meaning how much of your queue gets researched, written and put in front of you for approval. None of them sells speed. There is no capped tier below and no uncapped tier above, because the cap is not for sale in either direction. No seat minimum, no dedicated IP to rent, no warm-up service, no Sales Navigator, no execution hours, no credit balance. The number on the pricing page is the number on the invoice in month two, which on this page is a differentiator rather than a given.
If you run more than one account, the arithmetic goes our way
Growth covers up to five LinkedIn accounts for £99, which is £19.80 each, and Scale covers up to ten for £189, which is £18.90 each. The accounts share one envelope of agent work and each one keeps the same pace as a single account. One row in the table below is cheaper per seat than that, and it is a fifty-seat agency tier; if fifty seats is what you are buying, read their row rather than ours.
| Tool and tier | Price | Accounts | Per account |
|---|---|---|---|
| wireagent Growth | £99 a month | up to 5 | £19.80 |
| wireagent Scale | £189 a month | up to 10 | £18.90 |
| Skylead Agency | $999 a month | 50 seats | $19.98 |
| HeyReach Agency | $799 a month | 25 senders | $31.96 |
| Botdog | $35 an account | per account | $35.00 |
| Dux-Soup Cloud Agency | $371 a month | 5 seats | $74.20 |
Expandi’s agency tier is quoted on application for ten seats or more and is left out rather than guessed at. HeyReach’s Growth tier at $63 includes unlimited senders, so an agency buying purely on sender count should read their row as well as ours. What Growth and Scale buy is up to five or ten accounts sharing one envelope of prepared agent work, each at the same 75-a-day pace, on your own machine. Need more than ten? Write to [email protected].
What makes wireagent different
Four things, and every one of them reads as a missing feature on the matrix above. That is the point: they are the features, and the matrix cannot show it.
- The pace is fixed and no plan lifts it, so there is no upgrade path that ends with your account restricted. Fourteen rows above sell you that path.
- There is no select-all on any list in the product, and the test suite fails if one is ever added. The safeguard is enforced by the build, not by a promise on a marketing page.
- Your session never leaves your machine. Your session, leads, notes and settings sit in a local directory, and there is no analytics or tracking of any kind. Only Linked Helper is comparable here; ten of the fourteen run in a vendor cloud outright, and the three browser extensions still sync your campaign data back to the vendor.
- Price scales with agent work and accounts, never with speed, which is the pricing shape you get when volume is not the thing being sold. It is why there is no second invoice hiding behind the first: the tier you pick on day one sends exactly as fast as the dearest one. It is also why the multi-account row above is the one place a rival beats us outright.
Which one to actually pick
Honestly, and including the cases where the answer is not us.
- Cheapest that is still safe is Linked Helper, and it is cheaper than wireagent at both its prices. It runs on your own machine, it has been going since 2016, and nothing here undercuts it. If the 20-a-day cap on its Standard tier is a ceiling you are happy to keep, its $8.25 is the best value on this page and you should stop reading. The full head to head is here.
- Cheapest of all, if you only want invitations is Octopus CRM at $6.99, provided you never need to send a message in bulk.
- Running client accounts as an agency is HeyReach, whose Growth tier includes unlimited senders at $63 and is built for exactly that. Worth knowing that on 25 March 2026 LinkedIn removed HeyReach's company page and restricted the personal profiles of four of its executives. Its customers were not cut off and campaigns kept running, so this was enforcement aimed at the vendor rather than at the people paying for it, which is a different risk and worth understanding before committing.
- LinkedIn and cold email in one tool is Waalaxy at the cheap end or lemlist at the serious end, remembering that lemlist’s LinkedIn automation begins on the $87 tier and not the $55 one. The full head to head with Waalaxy is here.
- Sequences run from a cloud, sending while your machine is off is Dripify, provided you read its two daily ceilings before choosing a tier. The full head to head is here.
- Profile visiting and CRM integration on a budget is Dux-Soup at $11.25, as long as you do not need drip campaigns, which start at $41.25. The full head to head is here.
- Maximum volume with the most infrastructure behind it is Expandi or Zopto, which buy you a dedicated IP and a warm-up routine, and bill you accordingly.
- Scraping and enrichment rather than outreach is Phantombuster, which is a different category of tool wearing the same label.
- You have already had an account restricted, or you cannot afford to, is the case wireagent is built for. It is the only row on this page that cannot sell you the thing that caused it.
Questions people ask before choosing
What is the safest LinkedIn outreach tool?
Architecture matters more than brand. Tools that run on your own machine and your own connection, which here means wireagent and Linked Helper, look to LinkedIn like you using LinkedIn. Browser extensions such as Dux-Soup, Waalaxy and Octopus CRM sit in the middle: the traffic is yours, but the campaign data is not. Cloud tools send from vendor infrastructure, which is why the good ones sell you a dedicated IP and a warm-up routine to compensate. After that, the deciding factor is pace, and the safest pace is one set for your account rather than for a tier: wireagent is unlimited on every plan up to LinkedIn’s own limit, and recommends about 150 actions a day on an established account.
Is LinkedIn automation against the terms of service?
LinkedIn’s user agreement prohibits automated access and scraping, and its prohibited software policy names third party tools that automate activity on the site. Every tool on this page sits in that tension, and any vendor telling you otherwise is selling you the risk rather than removing it. What differs is how closely a tool imitates ordinary human use, and how hard it is to push past that.
How many LinkedIn connection requests can I send a day?
As many as LinkedIn will accept, and that is a property of your account rather than of any tool: an established account carries far more than a new one. wireagent puts no limit of its own on any plan. Usage is unlimited up to LinkedIn’s own limit, the daily pace is yours to set, and across invitations, messages, profile visits and follow-ups together we recommend about 150 actions a day on an established account, materially fewer on a new one.
Why is the cheapest LinkedIn tool not the cheapest?
Because on six of the fourteen the headline price buys a tier that cannot run a campaign. Linked Helper advertises 8.25 dollars and caps you at 20 advanced actions a day, with uncapped sending on a 24.75 dollar tier. Dux-Soup advertises 11.25 dollars for a tier with no drip campaigns, which start at 41.25. Dripify advertises 39 dollars and caps you at 20 connection requests a day, with 75 a day at 59. Octopus CRM advertises 6.99 for a tier that cannot send bulk messages, and lemlist advertises 55 dollars for a tier with no LinkedIn automation in it at all. Separately, Zopto needs Sales Navigator behind it at another 99 to 179 dollars, and Phantombuster bills execution hours rather than seats. Compare the total you will actually pay in month two, not the number on the pricing page.
Do I need a cloud tool for LinkedIn outreach?
Only if you need it sending while your computer is off, or you are running many accounts for clients. For one person running one account, a local tool avoids the whole category of problem where your account is worked from an address on the other side of the world.
Which LinkedIn outreach tool has a free plan?
Not wireagent, and this answer used to say otherwise. Its free plan became a fourteen day trial on 19 August 2026: one account, five invitations a day, and it asks for a card, though nothing is charged for it. Waalaxy has historically offered a free tier of 80 invitations a month, though it no longer appears on its published pricing grid, and Meet Alfred lists a free plan limited to one active campaign. Everything else on this page is a trial rather than a free tier: seven days on Botdog, Dripify, Expandi, Skylead and Zopto, fourteen on Linked Helper, Dux-Soup, Waalaxy and lemlist. Linked Helper’s is the most generous of those, because it is full featured and takes no card.
One to one
Where a rival is close enough to deserve its own page, it has one. These go deeper than a matrix row can, and each says plainly where the other tool wins.
- LinkedIn automation that runs on your own machine is the idea behind the “where it runs” column: the three ways a tool can be built, what each one exposes, and which two of these fifteen keep your session on your own computer.
- The Linked Helper alternative is the closest comparison on this page: the only other tool that runs on your own machine, and cheaper than wireagent at both its prices.
- The Dripify alternative is the clearest version of the argument, because Dripify prices the disagreement openly: 20 connection requests a day at $39, seventy-five at $59.
- The Waalaxy alternative is the one most people are choosing between, and the one where a monthly quota turns out to be a daily pace in different units.
- The Dux-Soup alternative carries the widest gap on this page between the advertised price and the one that runs a campaign: $11.25 against $41.25.
Still reading?
Then the pace column mattered to you, and you already know which row you want. wireagent opens soon, and everyone on the waiting list keeps the founding price.