LinkedIn outreach tools — and what each one costs the account
All 17 tools in this category send under your name, and 11 of them do it from a server you do not control. That is the whole category: software that sends the connection request, the message or the InMail rather than drafting it for you. 1 claims a place in a LinkedIn partner programme; every other route here is one the User Agreement is written against, and the enforcement lands on the account rather than on the vendor. 14 document Sales Navigator support and 5 document Recruiter.
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What will send LinkedIn messages for me, and what does that cost my account?
Sequencers that send the connection requests, messages and InMail themselves, rather than drafting them for you to send.
Anyone about to buy a sequencer to send LinkedIn messages at volume — solo founders, agencies running client accounts, and outbound teams adding LinkedIn to email.
Where the sending happens. A browser extension sends from the machine and the IP you already use and stops when Chrome closes. A desktop application does the same from its own embedded browser. A vendor cloud holds your session and sends while you sleep, which is the wider reach and the larger footprint. The price ladders follow the same split: per seat for the extensions, per LinkedIn account or per identity for the clouds.
Every one of these buys reach with the standing of a real account. The vendors describe pacing, dedicated IPs and human-like timing, and those change the odds of detection rather than the position: LinkedIn’s policy carves out nothing for well-paced automation, and the subscription survives a restriction that the account does not.
The 6 filed here first, in the order that decides what they cost the account
Least exposure first: the tools that put no LinkedIn account behind them, then the ones that read a page you opened, then the ones that hold your session and act as you. The badge names the route and the second badge names what that route exposes; the colour repeats the word and never replaces it.
Closely
Vendor cloudCloud LinkedIn and email outreach priced by the number of LinkedIn accounts, with white-label included on every tier and a flat $999 unlimited-seat agency plan.
$49per month, billed monthly
AccountSends under your nameMCPNot supportedwww.closelyhq.comHeyReach
Vendor cloudLinkedIn-only sequencer priced per sender account, built for running many accounts under one login.
$79per sender, per month (monthly billing)
AccountSends under your nameMCPSupportedwww.heyreach.ioLa Growth Machine
Vendor cloudCloud-run multichannel sequences across LinkedIn, email, X and calls, priced per LinkedIn identity rather than per user.
€60 per identityper month, billed annually (2 months free)
AccountSends under your nameMCPSupportedlagrowthmachine.comSalesforge
Vendor cloudEmail and LinkedIn sequencing that runs LinkedIn actions from Salesforge's own servers, metered in social action credits.
$40per month, billed monthly (USD)
AccountSends under your nameMCPSupportedwww.salesforge.aiSkylead
Vendor cloudCloud-run LinkedIn automation and cold email on one $100 seat, with agency pricing published at $999 for 50 seats.
$100per seat / month
AccountSends under your nameMCPNot supportedskylead.iolemlist
Not establishedA cold email sequencer that adds LinkedIn profile visits, connection requests and messages as campaign steps, on a tier that costs more than double the email-only plan.
$69/mo billed monthly, or $55/mo billed yearlymonth, flat (unlimited users)
AccountSends under your nameMCPSupportedwww.lemlist.com
11 more serve this heading from another category
One row each rather than a second card. What the tool is, what its own pages prove about the LinkedIn route and the rest of its price ladder are on the page it is filed under, which is where the entry is maintained.
| Tool | Filed under | Route and exposure | Cheapest published tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salesloft | LinkedIn AI Sales Tools | Official API — exposure low | Quote only |
| Amplemarket | LinkedIn AI Sales Tools | Chrome extension — exposure high | $600/mo annual term |
| Octopus CRM | LinkedIn Automation AI | Chrome extension — exposure high | $9.99 per month, billed monthly |
| Waalaxy | LinkedIn Automation AI | Chrome extension — exposure high | €19 per user / month |
| Linked Helper 2 | LinkedIn Automation AI | Desktop app — exposure high | $15 1 month, per licence |
| Dripify | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $59 per user, per month (monthly billing) |
| Dux-Soup | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $14.99 monthly, or $11.25/month billed annually per month |
| Expandi | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $99 per month, per LinkedIn account |
| Meet Alfred | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $59 USD / €55 EUR / £49 GBP per user month, billed monthly |
| SalesRobot | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $39 per LinkedIn account / month, billed annually ($59 month-to-month) |
| We-Connect | LinkedIn Automation AI | Vendor cloud — exposure high | $49 per seat / month, billed annually ($588/year) |
Every figure above is the cheapest paid tier the vendor published on 20 September 2026, in the currency and on the meter the vendor printed it — per seat, per LinkedIn account, per identity and per licence all appear, so two figures are rarely comparable without the unit beside them. A free tier is not shown as a price. Nothing here recommends automating a LinkedIn account, and no entry treats a vendor’s assurance about pacing as a statement of LinkedIn’s policy. Where a tool’s own architecture breaches the User Agreement, the entry says so rather than working around it.
4 of the 17, on the rows that decide it
Three routes and the one vendor claiming a sanctioned one, rather than four vendors from the same shelf. The prices below are not comparable until you read the row under them — one is per LinkedIn sender, one is per user, one is per identity and one is a quote.
| HeyReachVendor cloud | WaalaxyChrome extension | La Growth MachineVendor cloud | SalesloftOfficial API | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How it reaches LinkedIn | Vendor cloud | Chrome extension | Vendor cloud | Official API |
| What it does with your account | Sends under your name | Sends under your name | Sends under your name | Sends under your name |
| Account exposure | High | High | High | Low |
| Cheapest paid tier the vendor publishes | $79 | €19 | €60 per identity | Quote only |
| What that figure is per | per sender, per month (monthly billing) | per user / month | per month, billed annually (2 months free) | No published figure |
| Free plan or free credits | No | No | No | No |
| Works with Sales Navigator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Works with Recruiter | No | Yes | No | No |
| Callable MCP server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Setup | Moderate | Easy | Moderate | Hard |
No column is marked as the pick, because the rows that matter most are not the ones a ranking would score. Sales Navigator, Recruiter and MCP cells read Supported where the vendor documents it on its own pages, Partial where it is bounded by a tier, a beta or a waitlist, Not supported where it was looked for and absent, and Not established where the vendor neither states it nor rules it out. That last one is not a no.
The situation decides this, and there are only a few situations
Each of these is a real shape of work rather than a persona. Find yours and the shortlist is two or three rather than 17.
Nothing here removes that risk, and the two things that reduce it are keeping the session on your own machine and keeping the volume low. Waalaxy runs from your own Chrome session at €19 and caps invitations per tier; Linked Helper 2 runs as an application on your own computer from $15 per licence and states that the session never reaches its servers. Both stop when the machine does, which is the point rather than the drawback.
HeyReach is priced per LinkedIn sender rather than per seat — $79 — with unlimited users on every plan, which is the shape agency work actually has. Its own posture is to spread volume across senders rather than to protect one profile, which spreads the consequence rather than removing it. Closely and Skylead publish flat agency tiers; Expandi and We-Connect attach a dedicated country-matched IP per account.
La Growth Machine sequences LinkedIn, email, X and calls together, with the bill attached to each LinkedIn identity rather than to each person — €60 per identity on its cheapest published tier, billed annually, and enrichment charged per lead beyond a monthly allowance. HeyReach is LinkedIn-only and hands off to a separate email tool. lemlist gates its LinkedIn steps to a per-user tier while its email plan is flat-rate, so moving a team onto LinkedIn steps changes the bill by more than the tier difference suggests.
Then the decision is not a purchasing one. The account is the employee’s under LinkedIn’s terms and cannot be shared or transferred, the enforcement lands on it, and no vendor in this category undertakes anything if it is restricted. Meet Alfred’s acceptable use policy is explicit that customers are responsible for their own actions.
Every route has a ceiling, and it belongs to the route rather than the tool
The table is the hard part: whatever a vendor in this category ships next, these limits do not move, because they are properties of how the software reaches LinkedIn at all.
The invitation ceiling is ~100 per week whatever is sending, and two vendors here publish hard daily ceilings coded into the product that sit below it. A tool that promises more volume is promising more of something LinkedIn meters per account.
Several vendors say otherwise on their own marketing pages — “100% compliant”, “completely under the radar”, “well within LinkedIn’s rules”. Those are claims about detection. The policy text names third-party automation services and browser extensions directly, and it does not distinguish a slow tool from a fast one.
| Route | Tools here | What the route cannot do, however good the tool is |
|---|---|---|
| Official API | 1 | Narrow by design. The self-serve permissions cover sign-in, email address and posting on your own behalf; Pages, Ads and Sales Navigator partner access are granted through programmes rather than applied for, and nothing on the self-serve list returns people search or another member’s profile. |
| Chrome extension | 3 | It reaches whatever the page in front of you shows, and nothing while the browser is closed. LinkedIn’s Prohibited Software and Extensions policy names extensions that automate the site, and enforcement lands on the member account. |
| Desktop app | 1 | The same reach as the extension class and the same clause against it, with one real difference: the session stays on your machine rather than in a vendor’s datacentre. The computer has to be awake for anything to run, and moving it to a rented server to fix that puts the traffic back on a datacentre IP. |
| Vendor cloud | 11 | The widest reach of any class and the highest exposure. It runs without you, the credential sits with somebody else, and every action is attributable to your account — which is also the thing LinkedIn can restrict. |
| Not established | 1 | Unknown, which is the point. Nothing in this directory treats an unread claim as a capability, and nothing treats an unanswered question as a reassurance. |
Section 8.2 bars developing, supporting or using software that scrapes LinkedIn or copies profiles and data, and bars bots and other automated methods of access. It does not distinguish between a slow tool and a fast one, and it carves out nothing for well-paced automation.
The Prohibited Software and Extensions policy names browser extensions and third-party automation services and states that LinkedIn may restrict or permanently restrict accounts that use them. The vendor keeps its subscription revenue either way.
Read from LinkedIn's own legal and help pages, quoted in substance rather than verbatim because LinkedIn edits them without announcement. The ceilings that apply to you as a member — invitations a week, InMail allowances, the search cap — are separate, apply whether or not a tool is involved, and are on the LinkedIn limits page.
The questions people arrive with, answered from the vendors' own pages
What is the best LinkedIn outreach tool?
The useful question is which route you are willing to take, because the feature sets converge and the routes do not. 11 of these 17 hold your LinkedIn session on their own servers and send while your computer is off; 3 send from your own browser and stop when it closes; one runs as an application on your own machine; and 1, Salesloft, is by its own account a member of LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator Application Platform and sends that way, with a Sales Navigator seat bought from LinkedIn at $119.99 a month or more. Pick the route, then the price ladder that fits how you are billed — per seat, per sender or per identity.
Is LinkedIn automation against the rules?
Automated access to LinkedIn is prohibited by the User Agreement, whatever the means. Section 8.2 bars developing, supporting or using software that scrapes LinkedIn or copies profiles and data, and bars bots and other automated methods of access. It does not distinguish between a slow tool and a fast one, and it carves out nothing for well-paced automation. That is the clause, dated and linked on this page. What follows from it is a decision about your own account, and this site does not make it for you.
Does LinkedIn ban accounts for using these tools?
The Prohibited Software and Extensions policy names browser extensions and third-party automation services and states that LinkedIn may restrict or permanently restrict accounts that use them. The vendor keeps its subscription revenue either way. Several vendors in this category publish recovery guides for restricted accounts on their own marketing sites, which is a fair indication of how often it happens. One vendor’s help centre lists the outcomes it has seen from running two automation tools at once: verification prompts, temporary restrictions, shadowbans and permanent suspensions.
Can I run two LinkedIn tools at the same time?
One vendor in this category documents the answer plainly on its own help pages, and warns against it: LinkedIn counts all activity on the account toward the same limits, so two tools pacing themselves independently produce one account going twice as fast. The same warning covers running a third-party Chrome extension alongside a cloud tool.
How much does a LinkedIn outreach tool cost?
16 of the 17 publish a figure. The cheapest published entry in the category is $9.99 a month, and it cannot send messages in bulk — that feature starts one tier up. Per-sender and per-identity pricing changes the arithmetic sharply at team scale: HeyReach is $79 per LinkedIn sender and La Growth Machine €60 per identity, and both bill each connected account separately rather than each person.
Price the route, not the feature list
17 tools in this category, 17 of them acting under your name and 0 putting no LinkedIn account behind them at all. Every figure printed above was read from the vendor's own page on 20 September 2026, and the 1 that publish no readable price say so instead.