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Best LinkedIn automation tools in 2026

This is the one outreach category where the tool can cost you the asset you are automating, so two questions decide it: who finds the people you contact, and what the vendor does to keep your account intact. A tool ranks higher here when it handles both halves, finding the people and running the outreach to them, across the channels a B2B seller actually uses. Most tools in this category only do the second half. You build the list from a LinkedIn search, import it, and the tool executes it. That is a real product and sometimes the right one, so each entry says plainly what it does and when it wins. Ties go to the vendor that publishes what it does to keep your LinkedIn account safe. Vaam is our own product and it sits at number one, which you should discount accordingly. We run our outreach on it, and that is the reason each entry also names the tool that beats us. If your requirement is the widest catalog of LinkedIn actions, or the lowest price per LinkedIn account, this ranking is not ordered the way you would order it, and the entries say so. Every third-party fact comes from the vendor's own pages, loaded on the date shown at the bottom.

Short answer

Pick us if you want the tool to build the list as well as run it. Our agents watch LinkedIn post engagement and, where enabled, people searches, enrich every profile they find, and check each prospect against the audience you defined before the matches enter a sequence of LinkedIn, email and per-prospect video steps. With no audience configured, they run without that check. A prospect's reply stops the sequence and comes to you as a task. If you want continuous sourcing across four channels including X and AI voice notes, La Growth Machine is the closest rival. If LinkedIn is the whole motion and you want the widest campaign catalog with a dedicated IP, pick Expandi. If cold email is the main channel and LinkedIn is the second, pick Lemlist. Waalaxy is the cheapest published entry price and the only vendor here that publishes a per-day invitation quota per plan. HeyReach is the pick for agencies running many LinkedIn sender accounts. Dripify gives you a simple visual campaign builder with published daily limits, and Linked Helper automates more LinkedIn actions than anything else here, for the least money, if you accept a desktop app you run yourself.

Top pick: Vaam Best for Agent-sourced LinkedIn, email and video outreach with a human on the replies

Pick Vaam if

  • You want the tool to find and qualify prospects continuously, not just execute a list you built somewhere else.
  • You want AI to do the sourcing and the sending, and a human to own every reply.
  • You want LinkedIn, email and video in one sequence rather than one product per channel.
  • You want video personalized per prospect included in the plan, not bought as a separate subscription.
  • You need email steps for prospects whose address is not public on LinkedIn, because Vaam enriches addresses itself.
  • You need customer data stored inside the European Union and a price published in euros.

Pick La Growth Machine if

  • You want leads imported continuously from an intent trigger, whether that is a like, a comment, an event signup, a job change or a website visit.
  • You want four channels in one sequence: LinkedIn, email, X (Twitter) and call tasks.
  • AI-personalized LinkedIn voice messages are a channel you want, and they are included on every plan.
  • You want team members included in the plan price rather than billed as extra seats.
  • A built-in 27M+ company database and waterfall email enrichment matter more to you than video.

Pick Expandi if

  • LinkedIn is the only channel you care about and you already run email somewhere else.
  • You want LinkedIn campaign types most rivals do not publish, such as group messages, event invites, company follow invites and inbound campaigns for profile viewers.
  • A dedicated country-based IP address and automatic profile warm-up per account matter to you and you want them included in the price.
  • You are an agency that needs white-label, roles and permissions and centralized campaign management across 10+ seats.
  • You build your own lead lists and want the tool to execute them, not to decide who is worth contacting.

Pick Lemlist if

  • Cold email is your main channel and LinkedIn is the second one.
  • You want a lead database, an email and phone finder, warm-up and a deliverability hub inside the same product.
  • You want the most channels in one sequence (email, LinkedIn, SMS and calls), with WhatsApp as a paid add-on.
  • Unlimited users on one email-plan price fits your team better than per-seat billing.
  • EU-hosted databases are a requirement your legal review will check.

Pick Waalaxy if

  • Price is the deciding factor and you want the cheapest published entry point in this category.
  • You want to know the per-day invitation quota before you pay, because the vendor publishes it per plan.
  • You are new to LinkedIn automation and want pre-built sequences rather than a blank campaign builder.
  • You want native Make, Zapier and n8n modules and a documented API from a low tier.
  • LinkedIn alone is enough at first, and you can move to the Business plan when you want cold email.

Pick HeyReach if

  • You run many LinkedIn accounts and want one campaign to rotate between them.
  • You are an agency that needs white-label branding, client workspaces and separated client data.
  • You want to add teammates, VAs and clients without paying per user, because billing is per LinkedIn sender.
  • One person needs to work the replies of many LinkedIn accounts from a single inbox.
  • You already send email from Instantly or Smartlead and want LinkedIn handled by a specialist tool.

Pick Dripify if

  • You want a simple visual drip-campaign builder rather than a platform to configure.
  • You want the vendor to publish the per-day action limits for each plan before you buy.
  • You need LinkedIn plus basic email sequences from one plan at $39 to $99 per user, and nothing beyond that.
  • You want a source that re-checks itself, and Evergreen Lead Upload watches a LinkedIn post every 12 hours or a Sales Navigator search weekly.
  • A 7-day trial with no credit card is enough to judge the product.

Pick Linked Helper if

  • You want the widest LinkedIn action catalog available, and Linked Helper advertises 30+ automated actions.
  • You need actions almost nobody else automates: skill endorsements, group and event invitations, company-page follow invites and post boosting.
  • Cost per LinkedIn account is the deciding number, from $15 per month and $8.25 on a 12-month term.
  • You prefer a desktop application that injects no code into the LinkedIn page, and you accept running it yourself.
  • You already have a cold-email tool and only need LinkedIn plus enrichment.

Sources last checked August 25, 2026. Prices and features are taken from each vendor's own public pages — see the sources at the bottom of this page.

The ranking

Ranked on how much of a LinkedIn + email + video outreach workflow each tool covers on its own.

  1. Vaam

    Best for Agent-sourced LinkedIn, email and video outreach with a human on the replies

    A sales outreach automation platform whose agents find prospects on LinkedIn, check them against your audience and enroll the matches into a sequence of LinkedIn, email and per-prospect video steps.

    From
    €99/user/mo
    Free trial
    14 days, no credit card
    • Vaam's agents find and qualify prospects on their own, sourcing from LinkedIn post engagement and, where enabled, people searches, enriching each profile, and checking each prospect against the audience you defined before enrollment. With no audience configured, they run without that check.
    • Sourcing, qualification and outreach live in one product, so there is no export-import step between building a list and running it.
    • You decide how much autonomy to give. Turn on Require approval to review every prospect first, or leave it off and let the agent enroll the matches by itself.
    • LinkedIn, email and video run inside one sequence rather than across three products.
    • Video is personalized per prospect and included in the plan, with no second subscription.
    • Email steps work even when the prospect's address is not on their LinkedIn profile, because Vaam enriches addresses, and email sends from your own Gmail or Microsoft 365 inbox.
    • LinkedIn actions run on Vaam's own infrastructure with managed proxy routing, randomized human-like pacing and tempo presets; nothing is installed on your computer.
    • Native CRM sync for contacts, activities and blocklists is included on the one plan, and all customer data is stored inside the European Union.
    • Our agents source from LinkedIn only. We have no website-visitor, job-change or CRM-signal agent, and Sales Navigator search URLs do not work.
    • No lead database of our own, while most tools on this page ship one with tens or hundreds of millions of contacts. You bring your own lists, or let the agents work LinkedIn.
    • A narrower LinkedIn action catalog than Expandi, Linked Helper or HeyReach. Our documented steps are connection request, message, like post, comment on post and profile visit, with no InMail, group, event or company-follow campaign.
    • We do not answer replies or book meetings. A prospect's reply stops the sequence and becomes a task for the seller.
    • We set volume with named tempos rather than a published number of actions per day, so you cannot compare quotas on our pricing page.
    • We price per user, so a team of five costs five times a single seat.
    • No white-label or reseller option for agencies, and one LinkedIn account per user.

  2. La Growth Machine

    Best for Continuous lead import across LinkedIn, email, X and calls

    A French multichannel outreach platform that runs LinkedIn, email, X and call tasks from one sequence builder, with AI-personalized LinkedIn voice messages included on every plan.

    From
    €60/identity/mo Basic — no CRM sync at this tier
    Free trial
    14 days, no credit card
    • Signals import matching leads continuously from an intent trigger, and Lookalike Search keeps suggesting companies similar to your best clients.
    • AI-personalized LinkedIn voice messages are included on every plan, from €60 per month per identity.
    • Four channels run in one sequence, covering LinkedIn, email, X (Twitter) and call tasks.
    • Team members are included in the identity price (3 on Basic, 25 on Pro, unlimited on Ultimate).
    • Built-in 27M+ company database and waterfall email enrichment across 9 providers.
    • List prices published in EUR, USD and GBP, with monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual terms.
    • No video step. The published channels are LinkedIn, email, X and calls.
    • CRM sync with HubSpot or Pipedrive requires the Ultimate plan at €180 per identity per month.
    • Billing is per identity and each identity is billed separately, so several senders multiply the price.
    • Enrichment runs on credits (1 credit per lead for data, 5 per lead for a verified email), and running out means buying more.
    • Neither an approval step before a lead is contacted nor an automatic stop of the sequence on reply is documented on its feature pages.
    • Two sub-processors in the DPA process outside the EU. Bright Data processes in Israel and OpenAI in the United States.

  3. Expandi

    Best for Depth on LinkedIn, with a dedicated IP per account

    A LinkedIn automation platform with a large catalog of campaign types, a dedicated country-based IP per account, and a white-label plan for agencies.

    From
    $99/seat/mo Business — LinkedIn-first, email steps need your own mailbox, video needs a paid Sendspark add-on
    Free trial
    7 days, full feature access, no charge until you subscribe
    • The widest set of LinkedIn campaign types in this ranking, covering connector, messenger, builder, open and paid InMail, group, event invite, mobile connector, inbound and company follow invite.
    • A dedicated country-based IP address and automatic profile warm-up are part of the Business price.
    • Limit ranges are enforced by the tool; Expandi states it will not let you exceed the limits you set.
    • A saved LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search can auto-reload on a schedule and assign new leads to the campaign.
    • Seat pricing that gets cheaper as you add seats, which suits agencies running many LinkedIn accounts.
    • Native HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce integrations, plus webhooks and an API.
    • Email steps require you to connect your own mailbox by SMTP and IMAP, and the prospect's address must already be public on LinkedIn or imported by CSV.
    • Expandi's own docs route email campaigns to Smartlead, a separate product with its own subscription.
    • Video personalization is a paid add-on that runs through Sendspark and needs a separate Sendspark account.
    • Image and GIF personalization costs extra on top of the subscription, and AI hyper-personalization is documented as beta access.
    • The only qualification is the search filters themselves; Expandi documents no separate audience or ICP check before outreach.
    • The privacy policy does not say where data is stored and states data may be transferred outside the European Union.
    • The free trial is 7 days, the shortest in this ranking.

  4. Lemlist

    Best for Cold email first, with LinkedIn as the second channel

    A sales engagement platform built email-first, with warm-up, a large lead database and a multichannel tier that adds LinkedIn, SMS and calling.

    From
    $69/account/mo Email — email only, LinkedIn needs the Multichannel plan
    Free trial
    14 days of full Multichannel access on any plan, no credit card
    • Mature deliverability tooling, including warm-up, on every plan.
    • A 650M+ lead database and email and phone finder inside the product.
    • The most channels in one sequence (email, LinkedIn, SMS and calls).
    • Campaign settings let you choose what a reply does: continue, pause the lead or end the lead.
    • The email-only plan covers unlimited users on one price.
    • Host servers for lemlist's databases are located inside the European Union.
    • LinkedIn automation requires the Multichannel plan, which is priced per user, so LinkedIn is the more expensive half of the product.
    • The People database is a manual search. You filter, select leads and push them to a campaign, and its AI agents qualify leads already on your list rather than watching a live source.
    • Video is not personalized per lead. lemlist's own docs state the attached video is the same for every lead who reaches that step.
    • WhatsApp is a paid add-on rather than part of the Multichannel plan.
    • Enrichment and intent data are consumed as separately purchased credits.
    • lemlist publishes no per-day LinkedIn action quota on its pricing page.

  5. Waalaxy

    Best for The cheapest entry price, with published invitation quotas

    A LinkedIn-first prospecting tool built for beginners, with published invitation quotas per plan, cold email on its top tier and a free plan that stores prospects without automating them.

    From
    €19/user/mo Pro — LinkedIn only, cold email needs the Business plan
    Free trial
    14 days on all plans; a Freemium tier remains after the trial
    • The cheapest published entry price in this ranking, at €19 per user per month.
    • The only vendor here that publishes an invitation quota per day and per plan, so you know the volume before you pay.
    • Fully cloud-based since 1 July 2026; no browser extension is needed to run campaigns.
    • Can automatically import contacts who like or comment on your posts, as well as LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite searches.
    • Documented API plus native Make, Zapier and n8n modules from the Advanced plan, and native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive sync.
    • A Freemium tier keeps your prospects and campaigns readable after the trial ends.
    • No video step of any kind; Waalaxy's own feature list covers LinkedIn, email and enrichment only.
    • Cold email and multichannel sequences are only on the €69 Business plan, and email finder credits are 25 per month below it.
    • The import is the only filter. The ICP Generator writes an ideal customer profile for you, but no ICP check is applied to imported leads before the campaign contacts them.
    • No approval step before outreach is documented; smart reply detection pauses the sequence afterwards.
    • Waalaxy's data usage policy does not state where customer data is hosted.
    • The trial converts to a paid subscription automatically, and the help center states that no reminder is sent before the first charge.

  6. HeyReach

    Best for Agencies and teams scaling many LinkedIn sender accounts

    A LinkedIn-only outreach platform priced per LinkedIn sender, built around sender rotation, a unified inbox and agency white-label.

    From
    $79/sender/mo Growth — LinkedIn only, email runs through Instantly or Smartlead, not inside HeyReach
    Free trial
    14 days on Growth with 3 LinkedIn accounts, no credit card; a 30-day trial of Agency and Unlimited on request
    • One campaign can rotate between unlimited LinkedIn senders, which is how you raise LinkedIn volume past one account's limits.
    • Billing is per LinkedIn sender, so teammates, VAs and clients cost nothing to add.
    • A unified inbox lets one person work the replies of many LinkedIn accounts.
    • Agency plans include white-label branding, client workspaces and separate client data.
    • Every LinkedIn action type is covered, including InMail, follows, profile views and post likes.
    • A dedicated residential proxy per LinkedIn sender is included on Growth, plus API, webhooks and an MCP server.
    • LinkedIn only. The sequence builder has no email step, no video step and no SMS step.
    • Multichannel means sending email from Instantly or Smartlead, which is a second subscription.
    • HeyReach does not discover or qualify prospects; campaigns run lists you supply from a CSV, the API or a tool such as Clay.
    • The per-sender price is hard on a small team where every rep sends from their own account.
    • Agency and Unlimited expect you to bring your own proxies.
    • HeyReach does not publish an EU data-residency guarantee; its privacy policy says data may be processed outside your country.

  7. Dripify

    Best for A simple visual drip builder with published per-day limits

    A cloud LinkedIn automation tool built around visual drip campaigns, with LinkedIn and email actions, an email finder and per-day action limits published for every plan.

    From
    $59/user/mo Basic — 1 drip campaign only, and 20 connection requests per day
    Free trial
    7 days, no credit card, with Advanced plan features
    • Publishes the per-day action limits for every plan (connection requests, messages and Sales Navigator InMails), which most vendors do not.
    • Evergreen Lead Upload re-checks a source by itself: every 12 hours for a LinkedIn post, weekly for a Sales Navigator search, adding only new leads and skipping duplicates.
    • LinkedIn and email sequences are on every paid plan, with 100 email-finder credits per month included.
    • Runs in the cloud at app.dripify.com rather than as a browser extension.
    • Dripify states it pauses the automated sequence once a response is detected, and you can resume it for a lead whose reply was only an acknowledgement.
    • Over 15 LinkedIn actions and conditions, including InMails, endorsements, follows and profile views, in a visual campaign builder.
    • The Basic plan allows one drip campaign and 20 connection requests per day, so the real entry plan for most teams is Pro.
    • No video capability appears anywhere on Dripify's features or pricing pages.
    • Leads are added from a LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter search URL, a profile URL list or a CSV; the only documented filtering is the search itself, and Evergreen Lead Upload skips company pages but applies no ICP check.
    • Dripify's own integrations page contradicts itself. It lists HubSpot as "coming soon" while its FAQ on the same page claims native HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and Pipedrive connections.
    • No approval step before outreach is documented.
    • The privacy policy says only that information is "stored and managed on our service providers' servers", with no hosting location, sub-processor list or transfer mechanism.

  8. Linked Helper

    Best for The widest LinkedIn action catalog at the lowest price per account

    A long-standing desktop application for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu that automates 30+ LinkedIn actions from your own machine, with a built-in CRM, contact enrichment and a license priced per LinkedIn account.

    From
    $15/account/mo Standard (local storage) — LinkedIn only, Linked Helper sends no email itself
    Free trial
    14 days, no credit card. Linked Helper states campaigns simply pause afterwards and you are not charged automatically.
    • The widest published LinkedIn action catalog in this ranking. Linked Helper advertises 30+ automated actions.
    • Actions almost nobody else automates, including skill endorsements, group and event invitations and messages, company-page follow invitations and post boosting.
    • The cheapest price per LinkedIn account here, from $15 per month and $8.25 on a 12-month term.
    • A desktop app rather than a Chrome extension, so no code is injected into the LinkedIn page.
    • AI ICP Detection scores collected profiles against an ICP you write in plain language and routes non-matching leads to a Failed list that never receives outreach.
    • Built-in CRM, verified email and phone enrichment, and a long list of native CRM integrations plus Zapier, Make and n8n.
    • It is a desktop app you install and run yourself, and campaigns only run while it is running; Linked Helper publishes RAM, CPU and disk requirements per account and recommends a Windows server for several accounts.
    • It sends no email. Its plan comparison table lists no email-sending action, and the docs hand the lead to a separate cold-email tool such as Instantly or Snov.io.
    • No video step of any kind; personalization covers text, spintax and images through Hyperise.
    • The collecting is a campaign action you launch, not a source the tool re-checks on its own schedule.
    • The Standard plan caps advanced actions at 20 per day, and enrichment and AI usage run on monthly credit allowances you top up separately.
    • Its outreach pacing is described only as "smart daily limits" inside recommended quotas, without stating the numbers.
    • No EU data residency. The privacy policy states information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where it or its service providers maintain facilities.

Feature comparison

Feature support by product
Feature Vaam La Growth Machine Expandi Lemlist Waalaxy HeyReach Dripify Linked Helper
Agent-sourced prospecting The tool finds and qualifies new prospects itself, instead of only running a list you built elsewhere. Yes Vaam's agents source from LinkedIn post engagement and, where enabled, people searches, enrich each profile, and check each prospect against the audience you defined before enrollment. With no audience configured, they run without that check. Yes Signals is auto-import of leads matching your ICP. You choose an intent trigger and La Growth Machine continuously imports matching leads from a LinkedIn like or comment, an event signup, a job change, a profile visit, a form or a website visit. Lookalike Search adds similar companies on an ongoing basis. The trigger and its filters are the qualification; no per-prospect verdict is published. Partial A lead list built from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search can auto-reload on a chosen frequency, and new results can be assigned to the campaign automatically. The only qualification is the search filters themselves. Expandi documents no separate audience or ICP check before outreach. Partial lemlist's People database is a manual search: you filter, select leads and push them to a campaign, and saved searches are filter templates you re-apply yourself. Its AI agents qualify ICP fit on leads that are already in your lead list rather than watching a live source. Partial Waalaxy builds lead lists from a LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter Lite import or a CSV, and can automatically import contacts who like or comment on your posts. The import is the only filter: the ICP Generator writes an ideal customer profile for you, but no ICP check is applied to imported leads before the campaign contacts them. No HeyReach campaigns run lead lists you supply: an existing list, a CSV upload, leads moved from another campaign, leads added from the Unibox, or the API and integrations such as Clay. HeyReach itself does not discover or qualify new prospects. Partial Evergreen Lead Upload monitors the lead source you chose and adds only newly detected leads, checking every 12 hours for a LinkedIn post and weekly for a Sales Navigator search. There is no ICP gate. The article documents only that company pages and non-personal accounts are skipped. Partial Linked Helper scrapes profiles from searches, groups, events and post interactions you point it at, and AI ICP Detection scores those collected profiles against an ICP you write in plain language, routing non-matching leads to a Failed list that never receives outreach. The collecting is a campaign action you launch on your own machine, not a source the tool re-checks on its own schedule.
Autonomous sequence execution Sourced prospects enter a multi-step sequence and every step sends on schedule without a person triggering it. Yes LinkedIn, email and per-prospect video steps send automatically, with randomized human-like pacing and a 400 active-prospect cap on LinkedIn sequences. Yes Multichannel sequences run LinkedIn, email, X (Twitter) and call tasks from one sequence builder once a lead enters a campaign, with conditions on opens, clicks and replies. Yes Campaign steps run automatically once leads are assigned, within the limit ranges and working hours you set. Yes Campaign steps across email, LinkedIn, SMS and calls send on the campaign schedule once leads are in the campaign. Yes Automated connection requests, messages and multi-step follow-ups run in the cloud once a campaign starts. Combining LinkedIn and email in one campaign needs the Business plan. Partial LinkedIn steps send on their own once a campaign is launched, but the sequence is LinkedIn-only. HeyReach's pricing page defines multichannel outreach as native integrations with Instantly and Smartlead, so the email leg runs in a second product. Yes Drip campaigns run LinkedIn and email actions, delays and conditions on their own once launched, inside the per-day limits published for the plan. Partial Campaign steps run automatically with smart daily limits and working hours, but only while the desktop app is running on your machine, and only on LinkedIn. Linked Helper sends no email itself.
Human control points Named places where a person can approve or halt the automation, such as approving prospects before outreach and replies that stop the sequence. Yes Require approval holds each prospect for your decision, and a prospect's reply stops the sequence and comes to the seller as a task. Not documented The feature pages document Out of Office detection that pauses actions automatically, a multichannel inbox and a Slack alert when a prospect replies, but state neither an approval step before a lead is contacted nor an automatic stop of the sequence on reply. Ask the vendor before relying on either. Yes Auto-assign can be left off so new search results wait for you to assign them by hand, and Expandi pauses the campaign for a lead who replies. Partial Campaign settings let you choose what a reply does: continue, pause the lead or end the lead. Leads only enter a campaign when a person pushes them there, so lemlist documents no separate approval gate. Partial Smart reply detection automatically detects replies and pauses sequences accordingly. No approval step before outreach is documented. Partial HeyReach's help center states that leads which respond to a sequence will end it automatically, and the reply is then worked in the Unibox. It documents no approval gate that holds a lead for a person before outreach starts. Partial Dripify pauses all further actions once a response is detected, and you can resume the sequence for a lead whose reply was only an acknowledgement. No approval gate before outreach is documented. Partial Linked Helper checks for replies before every follow-up and stops the sequence for prospects who have responded. Its published feature pages document no approval gate before outreach; the AI ICP filter decides that automatically.
Breadth of LinkedIn actions How many distinct LinkedIn actions the tool can automate, beyond connection requests and messages. Partial Five documented LinkedIn steps: connection request, message, like post, comment on post and profile visit. No InMail, group, event or company-follow campaign. Partial LinkedIn steps include connection requests, messages, profile visits, social warming and AI voice messages. No InMail, group or event campaign appears in the feature list. Yes Documented campaign types include open and paid InMail, group message, event invite, company follow invite, mobile connector and inbound; the builder adds profile visits, follows, likes and endorsements. Partial LinkedIn automation is included from the Multichannel plan; lemlist's pricing page names LinkedIn and SMS automation without publishing an action catalog. Partial The published feature list covers LinkedIn prospecting, invitations, messaging and automated follow-ups. No InMail, group or event campaign is documented. Yes Connection requests, messages, InMail, view profile, follow and like post, plus an "If connected" branch. Yes Over 15 actions and conditions, including Sales Navigator InMails, endorsements, follows and profile views, in a visual campaign builder. Yes Advertised as 30+ automated actions, including InMails, following, skill endorsements, group and event invitations and messages, company-page follow invitations, post boosting, auto-accepting invitations and withdrawing pending ones.
Email steps in the same sequence Email sent by the product itself, alongside the LinkedIn steps. Yes Email sequences are included and send from your own Gmail or Microsoft 365 inbox, with address enrichment included. Yes Included on every plan, with conditions on opens, clicks and replies. Partial The builder has an Email action, but you must connect your own mailbox by SMTP and IMAP and the lead needs an address Expandi already has. Expandi's docs describe exporting leads to Smartlead for email outreach. Yes Email is the core of the product, with 50,000 emails per month, warm-up and a deliverability hub from the entry plan. Partial Cold email and multichannel campaigns are only on the €69 Business plan. No HeyReach's documented sequence steps are LinkedIn actions only. Its pricing page defines multichannel outreach as native integrations with Instantly and Smartlead, so email is sent by a separate tool. Yes The pricing page lists LinkedIn and email sequences on every paid plan, with 100 email-finder credits per month included. No The plan comparison table lists no email-sending action. Linked Helper finds and enriches addresses and hands the lead to a separate cold-email tool such as Instantly or Snov.io.
Video in outreach Sending a video as a step in the sequence, personalized per prospect. Yes Recording and sending are built in; up to 400 AI-personalized videos per month, generated per prospect. No The published channels are LinkedIn, email, X (Twitter) and calls. No video step appears in the feature list or the plan comparison table. Personalization per lead is done with voice, not video. Partial Listed on the pricing page as video personalization through a paid Sendspark integration; the help center says you must create a Sendspark account first, and the video is generated by Sendspark. Partial Video can be attached to a LinkedIn message or placed on a personalized landing page, but lemlist's documentation states the attached video is not 1:1 personalized and is the same for all leads at that step. No Waalaxy's published feature list covers LinkedIn prospecting, messaging, email finder and cold email; no video step is documented. No No video step appears in HeyReach's documented sequence actions. No No video capability appears on Dripify's features or pricing pages. No Linked Helper's published feature set contains no video step; its personalization covers text, spintax and images through Hyperise.
Where the automation runs Vendor-hosted cloud, a browser extension, or a desktop app on your own machine. Yes Campaigns run on Vaam's own infrastructure over managed proxy connections; the Chrome extension is optional and nothing has to stay running on your computer. Not documented Campaigns run from La Growth Machine's platform, but the feature and pricing pages checked do not state whether a browser extension must stay installed for LinkedIn actions to run. Yes Listed on the Business plan as cloud-based software with a dedicated country-based IP address. Yes A cloud platform; the Multichannel plan adds access from Gmail and LinkedIn on top of the web app. Yes Fully cloud-based since 1 July 2026, running at app.waalaxy.com; an optional extension only speeds up imports. Yes Cloud-hosted, with a dedicated residential proxy per LinkedIn sender on Growth. Yes A cloud web app at app.dripify.com rather than a browser extension. Partial A desktop app for macOS 12+, Windows 10+ and Ubuntu 18.04+ that you install and run yourself. The download page states RAM, CPU and disk requirements per simultaneously running account and recommends a Windows server for several accounts.
Published safety limits Whether the vendor states, before you buy, how many actions per day a plan allows. Partial Volume is set with named tempos (Safe, Standard and higher) rather than published numbers; Vaam's docs recommend starting on Safe and scaling over weeks. Not documented The pricing and feature pages checked publish no per-day LinkedIn action limits. Partial You set a limit range per action and Expandi states it will not let you exceed it, and it ships profile auto warm-up, but it publishes no default safe number per day. Not documented The pricing page publishes no per-day LinkedIn action quota. Yes The help center publishes 11 invitations per day on Pro, around 300 per month, and 80 to 100 per day on Advanced and Business with a cap of 200 per week. Not documented The pricing page and the help-center articles checked describe sender rotation and a dedicated proxy per sender but publish no per-day action limit. Yes The pricing page publishes per-day limits per plan: 20 connection requests and 30 messages on Basic, 75 connection requests and 100+ messages on Pro and Advanced, plus 10 and 30 Sales Navigator InMails. Partial Plan caps for advanced actions, webhooks and bulk engagement are published (20 per day on Standard, unlimited on Pro), but the outreach pacing is described only as "smart daily limits" without numbers.
Native CRM sync A first-party integration that writes contacts or activity into your CRM. Yes HubSpot, Pipedrive and Upsales, included on the one plan; syncs contacts, activities and blocklists. Partial HubSpot and Pipedrive on the Ultimate plan only; not available on Basic or Pro. Yes HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce; the docs describe sending contacts and interaction data into the CRM. Yes CRM integrations and API from the Email plan. Yes HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, with CRM sync listed on every paid plan. Partial HubSpot, Attio and Breakcold are listed on the integrations page. Pipedrive and Upsales are not; Zapier, Make and n8n cover the rest. Partial The integrations page shows Make and Google as active and lists HubSpot as "coming soon", while the FAQ on the same page claims native HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and Pipedrive connections. Confirm before buying. Yes Native integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Close, Capsule, ActiveCampaign, HighLevel and Streak, and it can push messaging history as well as profile data.
Entry price published per month The cheapest published plan, in the vendor's own currency. Yes €99 per user per month, billed monthly. Yes Basic at €60 per identity per month, or €50 on annual billing. Yes Business at $99 per seat per month, or $79 on annual billing; Agency is quoted. Yes Email at $69 per account per month ($55 annual); LinkedIn needs Multichannel at $109 per user per month ($87 annual). Yes Pro at €19 per user per month on the pricing page's yearly view; cold email needs Business at €69. Yes Growth at $79 per LinkedIn sender per month, or $63 on annual billing. Yes Basic at $59 per user per month, or $39 on annual billing. Basic allows one campaign and 20 connection requests per day. Yes Standard local storage at $15 per LinkedIn account per month, or $8.25 on a 12-month term.
EU data residency Whether the vendor states that customer data stays inside the European Union. Yes All customer data is stored within the European Union. Partial Appendix B of the DPA names each sub-processor and where it processes. Most are inside the EU; Bright Data processes in Israel and OpenAI in the United States, and the DPA records a transfer for the OpenAI and MongoDB processing. Not documented The privacy policy does not state where the servers are. It says that because Expandi uses third-party providers in several countries outside the European Union, it may transfer collected data to those countries with safeguards in place. The company is registered in the Netherlands. Yes lemlist's privacy policy states the host servers on which it processes and stores its databases are located exclusively within the EU. Not documented Waalaxy is operated by SAS Waapi, a French company that answers to the CNIL under the GDPR, but its data usage policy does not state where customer data is hosted. Partial The privacy policy states HeyReach is an EU-based company but that personal information may be transferred to, stored in or processed in countries outside your country of residence. It publishes no residency guarantee. Not documented The privacy policy says only that information is stored and managed on its service providers' servers. It names no hosting location, no sub-processors and no transfer mechanism. No The privacy policy states information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where it or its service providers maintain facilities, and that EU users consent to the transfer. The contracting entity is Linked Helper LLC, Delaware, USA.

Pricing

List prices from each vendor's public pricing page.

Vaam pricing

Prices are in EUR per user per month, billed monthly, with no lock-in. Annual agreements are available on request. One LinkedIn account per user.

Vaam plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Vaam One plan, billed monthly, cancel anytime €99/user/mo — LinkedIn automation (connect + message sequences), Email automation, AI personalization, Built-in video for sales outreach, Up to 400 AI-personalized videos / month, Up to 400 email enrichments / month, Up to 3 active agents, Native CRM integrations (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Upsales), CRM sync (contacts, activities and blocklists), Standard blocklist, list management and targeting, Standard support

Free trial: 14 days, no credit card

La Growth Machine pricing

Prices are in EUR as published on La Growth Machine's pricing page, which also offers USD and GBP. The "list price" column is monthly billing and the "longer term" column is the annual price ("2 months free"). Pricing is per identity, meaning a profile that runs campaigns, and each identity is billed separately. Team members who only reply are included in the plan. Note that La Growth Machine's own pages disagree about plan gating: the features page states that every feature is included in all paid plans, while the pricing page's plan-comparison table marks several as unavailable on the lower tiers. This page follows the pricing page.

La Growth Machine plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Basic LinkedIn and email, up to 3 identities €60/identity/mo no CRM sync at this tier €50/identity/mo Channels (LinkedIn and email), 250 leads enriched per month, 1 sending email per identity, Up to 3 identities, each billed separately, 3 team members included, Waterfall email enrichment (9 email providers + 2 verification tools), 27M+ company database, AI-generated voice messages
Pro Everything in Basic, plus multichannel inbox and call tasks €120/identity/mo still no CRM sync, that starts on Ultimate €100/identity/mo Channels (LinkedIn, email and calls), 400 leads enriched per month, 5 sending emails per identity with rotating inbox, Up to 6 active campaigns, 25 team members included, Unified multichannel inbox, LinkedIn intent data (likers, commenters, event attendees), A/B testing, real chat mode and social warming
Ultimate Everything in Pro, plus CRM sync €180/identity/mo €150/identity/mo Channels (LinkedIn, email, X (Twitter) and calls), 1 000 leads enriched per month, 10 sending emails per identity with rotating inbox, Unlimited active campaigns and unlimited team members, Sync with HubSpot / Pipedrive, including CRM enrichment, CRM activity sync for LinkedIn, email and X
Agency / Custom Sales-led plans; Custom is quoted "from €150" Custom Agency requires a 6-identity minimum; Custom requires a 6-month commitment — Custom limits on identities and campaigns, Discounted plans for lead-gen agencies and freelancers, Custom support and onboarding

Free trial: 14 days, no credit card

Expandi pricing

Prices are in USD as published on Expandi's pricing page. Business is priced per seat. You add seats from inside the account, and Expandi says larger seat counts get bigger discounts. Annual billing is described as "2 months free". Image and GIF personalization and video personalization are paid add-ons on top of the subscription, and the Agency plan (10+ seats) is quoted on request.

Expandi plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Business One LinkedIn account, all features $99/seat/mo LinkedIn-first, email steps need your own mailbox, video needs a paid Sendspark add-on $79/seat/mo Cloud-based software, Dedicated country-based IP address, Profile auto warm-up, Smart algorithms for limit ranges, Unlimited campaigns and campaign prioritization, Sequence builder with conditions and engaging actions, Detailed step-by-step campaign statistics, Integrations and blacklist feature
Agency 10+ seats, quoted on request Custom — Everything in Business, Roles and permission management, Centralized campaign management, Transparent reports for clients, Dedicated customer success manager, Use Expandi under your own brand (white label)

Free trial: 7 days, full feature access, no charge until you subscribe

Lemlist pricing

Prices are in USD as published on lemlist's pricing page. The Email plan is priced per account with unlimited users; Multichannel is priced per user and is the plan that carries LinkedIn automation. WhatsApp is a paid add-on, and enrichment and intent credits are bought separately.

Lemlist plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Email Unlimited users, email only $69/account/mo email only, LinkedIn needs the Multichannel plan $55/account/mo 50,000 emails / month, Email and phone number finder, 650M+ lead database, Deliverability hub and warm-up, CRM integrations and API
Multichannel Everything in Email, plus non-email channels $109/user/mo $87/user/mo 5 senders per user, LinkedIn and SMS automation, WhatsApp automation as a paid add-on, Built-in call dialer and VoIP integrations, Task management, Access from Gmail and LinkedIn
Enterprise Custom pricing Custom — 5+ senders per user, Custom user roles and permissions, SSO/SAML, Dedicated account manager

Free trial: 14 days of full Multichannel access on any plan, no credit card

Waalaxy pricing

Prices are in EUR per user per month as published on Waalaxy's pricing page, which loads with the yearly billing option selected and advertises quarterly at −20% and yearly at −50%. Read them as yearly-commitment prices and check the monthly figure at checkout: Waalaxy's help center gives one monthly data point, stating that the standard price of a monthly Business subscription is €139 per month and may vary by country. One license covers one LinkedIn account.

Waalaxy plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Pro 300 invitations / month €19/user/mo LinkedIn only, cold email needs the Business plan — Unlimited campaigns, Pre-built prospecting sequences and automated follow-ups, CRM synchronization, 25 email finder credits / month, 11 invitations per day, the quota Waalaxy's help centre publishes for Pro
Advanced 800 invitations / month €49/user/mo LinkedIn only, cold email needs the Business plan — Maximum LinkedIn invitation limits, API access, Make, Zapier and n8n modules, Live chat support, reply within 4h, 25 email finder credits / month
Business Everything in Advanced, plus email €69/user/mo — Cold email sequences, Multichannel campaigns (LinkedIn + email), 500 email finder credits / month, Multiple sender accounts
Enterprise Custom pricing, 5+ seats Custom — Volume pricing, Dedicated onboarding, Centralized billing, Priority support

Free trial: 14 days on all plans; a Freemium tier remains after the trial

HeyReach pricing

Prices are in USD as published on HeyReach's pricing page. HeyReach charges per LinkedIn sender, not per user: teammates, VAs and clients are free. Quarterly billing is also offered. Agency and Unlimited require you to bring your own proxies, and multi-brand white-label is a $500 add-on.

HeyReach plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Growth Per LinkedIn sender, unlimited senders and unlimited users $79/sender/mo LinkedIn only, email runs through Instantly or Smartlead, not inside HeyReach $63/sender/mo Unlimited campaigns, All LinkedIn actions (connection requests, messages, follows, profile views), Unified Inbox across connected accounts, Native Instantly and Smartlead integrations for multichannel, 100 enrichment credits per sender, API, webhooks and an MCP server, Workspaces and permissions, A dedicated residential proxy per LinkedIn sender
Agency 25 senders included; a 50-sender tier is also offered $999/account/mo $799/account/mo Everything in Growth, 1,000 enrichment credits, White-label branding included, Done-for-you onboarding, Bring your own proxies
Unlimited Unlimited senders on one fee $2999/account/mo $2399/account/mo Everything in Agency, 3,000 enrichment credits, Multi-brand white-labels as a $500 add-on, Done-for-you migration, Priority support
Done for You Custom pricing. HeyReach runs the outreach for you Custom — ICP research and strategy, Full campaign setup, Dedicated GTM engineer and inbox manager, Weekly and monthly reports

Free trial: 14 days on Growth with 3 LinkedIn accounts, no credit card; a 30-day trial of Agency and Unlimited on request

Dripify pricing

Prices are in USD per user per month as published on Dripify's pricing page. The "list price" column is monthly billing and the "longer term" column is the annual price. Enterprise is quoted. Note that dripify.io now redirects to dripify.com.

Dripify plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Basic One drip campaign, the lowest daily limits $59/user/mo 1 drip campaign only, and 20 connection requests per day $39/user/mo LinkedIn and email sequences, 20 connection requests / day and 30 messages / day, 10 Sales Navigator InMails / day, Email finder, 100 credits / month, Advanced analytics and sequence templates, Built-in LinkedIn protection
Pro Unlimited campaigns and the full daily limits $79/user/mo $59/user/mo Unlimited drip campaigns, 75 connection requests / day and 100+ messages / day, 30 Sales Navigator InMails / day, Personal inbox and activity control
Advanced Everything in Pro, plus team management $99/user/mo $79/user/mo Multi-team management, Team dashboard, stats, roles and permissions
Enterprise Custom pricing Custom — Dedicated customer success manager, Premium onboarding

Free trial: 7 days, no credit card, with Advanced plan features

Linked Helper pricing

Prices are in USD as published on Linked Helper's pricing page, and one license covers one LinkedIn account rather than one user. Linked Helper sells two variants of every plan: a local-storage version that keeps campaign data in folders on your device, and a more expensive cloud-storage version that backs data up, adds incoming webhooks and unlocks cross-account data flow. Both variants are the same desktop app. The "list price" column is monthly billing; the "longer term" column is the 12-month price, advertised at −45%. Every plan is LinkedIn only. Linked Helper sends no email itself.

Linked Helper plans and prices
Plan List price Longer term Includes
Standard (local storage) Core lead generation, data kept in local folders on your device $15/account/mo LinkedIn only, Linked Helper sends no email itself $8.25/account/mo Unlimited campaigns and custom campaign builder, Connection requests, message follow-ups and reply detection, InMails, paid or free to open profiles, Advanced actions limited to 20 per day, 620 data credits and 250 AI credits per month at monthly billing, Linked Helper CRM with tags and notes
Pro (local storage) Everything in Standard without the daily caps $45/account/mo $24.75/account/mo Unlimited daily actions, Unlimited webhook integrations, Unlimited messages with images, Advanced data export, including messaging history, 3100 data credits and 500 AI credits per month at monthly billing
Standard (cloud storage) Standard with cloud-backed data and cross-account data flow $29.9/account/mo $16.5/account/mo Everything in Standard (local storage), Data backed up to the cloud automatically, Incoming as well as outgoing webhooks, Shared cloud CRM and inbox sync across cloud-enabled accounts, Cross-account campaign cloning and one-click lead transfer
Pro (cloud storage) Pro with cloud-backed data and cross-account data flow $59.9/account/mo $33/account/mo Everything in Pro (local storage), Data backed up to the cloud automatically, Incoming as well as outgoing webhooks, Shared cloud CRM and inbox sync across cloud-enabled accounts

Free trial: 14 days, no credit card. Linked Helper states campaigns simply pause afterwards and you are not charged automatically.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best LinkedIn automation tool in 2026?

It depends on whether you want the tool to build the list or only to run it. If you want both, we are the pick on this page: our agents source from LinkedIn and qualify each prospect against your audience before the LinkedIn, email and per-prospect video sequence starts. La Growth Machine is the closest rival, importing leads continuously from an intent trigger across four channels. If you only need execution, the answer changes by requirement: Expandi for the widest LinkedIn campaign catalog and a dedicated IP, Lemlist when cold email is the main channel, Waalaxy for the cheapest entry price and published quotas, HeyReach for agencies rotating many sender accounts, Dripify for a simple visual builder with published daily limits, and Linked Helper for the most LinkedIn actions at the lowest price per account.

Is LinkedIn automation illegal?

No. It is not a legal question; it is an account question. LinkedIn's user agreement prohibits automated access to the platform, so automation breaks the terms of service rather than the law, and the consequence is a warning, a temporary restriction or a ban on your account rather than anything unlawful. No vendor can promise that will never happen. Our own documentation says no proxy or automation service can guarantee that a third-party platform will never restrict an account. What separates the tools is how hard they work to avoid it: conservative pacing, a gradual ramp-up, active hours that match how you really work, and a stable network location. We ship tempo presets, randomized human-like pacing and managed proxy routing; Expandi ships profile auto warm-up, enforced limit ranges and a dedicated country-based IP; HeyReach gives each sender a dedicated residential proxy; Dripify and Waalaxy publish per-day limits.

How many connection requests per day is safe?

There is no single safe number, and any tool that advertises a fixed high number per day is worth being suspicious of. What is safe depends on how old the account is, how active it already is, and whether you have Premium. The published figures on this page give you the range vendors themselves consider reasonable: Waalaxy's help center publishes 11 invitations per day on its Pro plan and 80 to 100 per day on Advanced and Business with a cap of 200 per week; Dripify publishes 20 connection requests per day on Basic and 75 per day on Pro and Advanced. We publish no numeric quota at all. We set volume with named tempos instead (Safe, Standard and higher), and our documentation recommends that a new or quiet account starts on Safe, runs there for about two weeks, and only then moves up. The practical rule is the same whichever tool you choose: start low, increase over weeks rather than days, and pull back immediately after any LinkedIn warning.

What is the best AI tool for LinkedIn?

Almost every tool here now writes messages with AI, so message generation is no longer the thing that separates them. The useful question is what else the AI does. Our agents use AI to judge each prospect against your audience before outreach and to personalize a video per prospect. Linked Helper's AI ICP Detection scores profiles you have already collected against an ICP you write in plain language. lemlist's AI agents qualify ICP fit and add context to leads already on your list. La Growth Machine uses AI to read a per-lead intro in your own voice inside a LinkedIn voice message. Expandi documents AI hyper-personalization as beta access. Decide which job you want the AI to do, whether that is finding people, qualifying them or writing to them, and the shortlist gets short quickly.

Is there a free LinkedIn automation tool?

Free tiers in this category are thin, and a free tool usually moves the cost onto your LinkedIn account rather than removing it. Waalaxy is the only vendor on this page with a lasting free tier, and its Freemium plan keeps your prospects and campaigns readable but runs no automation. Everything else is a trial: 14 days on Vaam, La Growth Machine, Waalaxy and Linked Helper, 7 days on Expandi and Dripify, and 14 days on lemlist and HeyReach. Watch two details before you sign up. Waalaxy's help center states the trial converts to a paid subscription automatically with no reminder before the first charge, while Linked Helper and Dripify state you are not charged automatically. Free browser extensions outside this list are the real risk: they run inside your own browser session with no pacing controls and no proxy, which is exactly the pattern LinkedIn detects.

Is a cloud tool, a browser extension or a desktop app safer?

The category has moved to the cloud, and for good reason. A browser extension only works while your browser is open and injects code into the LinkedIn page; a desktop app runs from your own machine and IP but has to stay running. Vaam, Expandi, HeyReach, Waalaxy and Dripify all run campaigns from vendor infrastructure, and Waalaxy removed its Chrome extension entirely on 1 July 2026. Linked Helper is the exception here: it is a desktop application for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu, which means no code is injected into the LinkedIn page, but also that campaigns run only while the app runs, and Linked Helper publishes RAM, CPU and disk requirements per account. What matters more than the shape of the software is the network location: a stable, country-matched IP. Expandi includes a dedicated country-based IP, HeyReach gives each sender a dedicated residential proxy, we include managed proxy routing with an account-specific proxy as a paid add-on, and Linked Helper supports a dedicated proxy per profile.

Which LinkedIn automation tools also send email?

Four of the eight send email themselves in the same sequence. We send from your own Gmail or Microsoft 365 inbox and enrich the address when the prospect does not publish one. Lemlist is email-first, with warm-up and a deliverability hub from its entry plan. La Growth Machine includes email on every plan with inbox rotation from Pro. Dripify lists LinkedIn and email sequences on every paid plan with 100 email-finder credits per month. Waalaxy sends cold email only on its €69 Business plan. The remaining three hand email to a second product: Expandi's own docs route email campaigns to Smartlead, HeyReach defines multichannel as native integrations with Instantly and Smartlead, and Linked Helper enriches the address and passes the lead to a tool such as Instantly or Snov.io. Count that second subscription when you compare prices.

Do any LinkedIn automation tools send personalized video?

Very few, and the word "personalized" is doing a lot of work. We record and send video ourselves, generate a different video per prospect, and include up to 400 AI-personalized videos per month on our one plan. Expandi can send video, but through a paid Sendspark add-on that needs its own Sendspark account. Lemlist can attach a video to a LinkedIn message or a landing page, but its own documentation states the attached video is not 1:1 personalized and is the same for every lead at that step. The surrounding landing page is what varies. Waalaxy, HeyReach, Dripify, Linked Helper and La Growth Machine document no video step at all; La Growth Machine personalizes with AI voice messages instead.

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