HeyReach vs Expandi vs Waalaxy vs Dripify: what does each cost?
On monthly billing, the entry plans cost $79 a month per LinkedIn sender on HeyReach Growth, $99 a month on Expandi Business, $79 a user on Dripify Pro and €19 a user on Waalaxy Pro. Those are the vendors' own pricing pages, checked 20 October 2026. Waalaxy's page showed us euro prices in one browser and rupee prices in another, so check the price it shows for your country.
| Checked 20 Oct 2026 | HeyReach | Expandi | Waalaxy | Dripify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan, monthly billing | Growth: $79 a month per sender | Business: $99 a month | Pro: €19 a user a month (Advanced €49, Business €69) | Pro: $79 a user a month (Advanced $99) |
| Longer billing | $72 a month billed quarterly ($214); $64 a month billed yearly ($759) | $79 a month on annual billing | Labelled 20% off quarterly and 50% off yearly | $59 a month billed annually (Advanced $79) |
| What you pay for | Each LinkedIn sender; teammates and other users are free | Each seat | Each user | Each seat, which connects one LinkedIn account |
| Stated connection request limit | Up to 40 a day, default 25; 200 a week per sender | Advises staying within 100 a week, 15 to 20 per working day | Pro: 11 a day (300 a month); Advanced and Business: up to 100 a day, 200 a week | Up to 75 a day |
| How it runs, as the vendor describes it | Its own login session for each account through a dedicated residential static proxy | Cloud-based software with a dedicated country-based IP address | Fully cloud-based, per a help article dated 1 July 2026; Chrome extension removed | Campaigns run on Dripify's servers from a dedicated IP |
| Free trial | 14 days with 3 LinkedIn accounts, no card | 7 days | 14 days | 7 days, no card |
The discount labels need a calculator. HeyReach's yearly card says $64 a month, but $759 a year is $63.25 a month; its quarterly card says $72, and $214 a quarter is $71.33. Expandi calls its annual price both 20% off and two months free: $79 a month is $948 a year, while two free months on $99 would be $990, or $82.50 a month. Dripify advertises up to 35% off annual plans, but its Pro plan saves 25% ($59 against $79) and Advanced 20% ($79 against $99). Sources: HeyReach, Expandi, Waalaxy and Dripify pricing pages.
What daily limits does each tool state?
Each vendor publishes its own ceiling, and none of them is LinkedIn's. LinkedIn's Invitation limit reached page gives no number; it says all members, Basic and Premium, are subject to invitation limits, and that a restriction typically lasts one week. Here is what each vendor says, checked 20 October 2026:
- HeyReach lets each sender send up to 40 connection requests a day, but its help article on limits (dated 28 August 2026) recommends keeping the default of 25 once an account is warmed up, and 30 only for warmed-up accounts with more than 1,000 connections. It caps every sender at 200 a week. An older HeyReach article, Is HeyReach safe to use? (17 February 2026), says each account gets around 100 connection requests a week. The two help pages disagree by a factor of two.
- Expandi publishes weekly figures. Its invitation limit guide (published 22 September 2026) advises staying within 100 invitations a week, or 15 to 20 on each of five working days, and calls this planning guidance, not an official LinkedIn quota. Its 2026 benchmarks (19 May 2026) say Expandi enables up to 300 weekly connection requests per account. Its pricing page lists a Mobile Connector campaign that allows an additional 100 requests a week, while the September guide says not to rely on that campaign to send more than 100 a week.
- Waalaxy caps Pro at 11 invitations a day, or 300 a month, and Advanced and Business at 100 a day and up to 200 a week, per its help article on quotas (8 July 2026). Its pricing page lists 300 invitations a month on Pro and 800 on Advanced and Business. It sets a random daily quota between 80% and 100% of the maximum, which it says helps prevent repetitive behaviour that could alert LinkedIn to an automation tool.
- Dripify says every plan includes daily limits of up to 75 connection requests, 100+ messages and 30 Sales Navigator InMails, and that you set your own volumes within those ranges. Five working days at 75 is 375 a week, 3.75 times the 100 a week Expandi advises.
How does each tool run: cloud or browser extension?
Here is how each vendor describes where your LinkedIn activity runs:
- HeyReach. You connect a LinkedIn account with exported browser cookies or with your login details. HeyReach's connection guide says it then starts a new login session for each account, dedicates a residential static proxy to it and simulates a real person's device. Its pricing FAQ says the agency plans require you to bring your own proxies.
- Expandi. Its pricing page lists cloud-based software and a dedicated country-based IP address under account safety.
- Waalaxy. Waalaxy used to rely on a Chrome extension. Its help centre said on 1 July 2026 that the extension had been removed from the Chrome Web Store and that Waalaxy now runs 100% in the cloud at app.waalaxy.com, with an optional extension to speed up imports.
- Dripify. Its pricing FAQ says campaigns run on Dripify's servers, so nothing depends on your browser being open, from a dedicated IP in your location, with randomised timing inside the working hours you set.
Where a tool runs does not change LinkedIn's rule, which names both third-party software and browser extensions.
What does LinkedIn say about automation tools?
LinkedIn says it doesn't allow them. Its help page Automated activity on LinkedIn, checked 20 October 2026, says: "we don't allow the use of third-party software or browser extensions that scrape, modify the appearance of, or automate activity on LinkedIn's website."
The same page says such software violates LinkedIn's User Agreement and may violate privacy laws in some jurisdictions. If an account is restricted for automated activity, LinkedIn asks the member to disable the software or extension, after which the account is re-enabled at the time given on the suspension notice. Section 8.2 of the User Agreement, effective 3 November 2025, lists things members agree not to do, including using bots or other unauthorised automated methods to access the services, add or download contacts, or send or redirect messages.
The vendors' own sites carry disclaimers. HeyReach's footer says it is not associated with or endorsed by LinkedIn, and Expandi's footer says use of Expandi is at your own risk. A vendor's safety features do not change LinkedIn's terms. This is not legal advice. For the signs that get accounts restricted and what to do if it happens, read is LinkedIn automation safe?
What happened to HeyReach's LinkedIn company page?
HeyReach says LinkedIn removed it. On 25 March 2026, HeyReach's CEO and co-founder Nikola Velkovski published Quick update from Nick, which opens: "You may have noticed LinkedIn recently removed our company page along with a few of our personal profiles (CTO, CRO, CMO)."
In the same post, Velkovski wrote that the removal had no impact on customers or the product, that LinkedIn can't detect who uses HeyReach, and that the restrictions were temporary. The post says LinkedIn had done the same to other tools, naming Apollo, Evaboot, Lemlist and LGM among them. These are HeyReach's statements, and the post does not give a reason from LinkedIn.
Read it next to LinkedIn's help page. A vendor saying LinkedIn can't detect its users is a claim about detection; LinkedIn's page is about what it allows, and it describes restricting accounts for automated activity.
What does each tool do well?
Each vendor has a clear strength, by its own description:
- HeyReach is built for running many LinkedIn senders. It charges per sender and not for teammates or clients, and Growth includes a unified inbox, API and webhooks, an MCP server and native integrations with Instantly and Smartlead. Agency is $999 a month for 25 senders on monthly billing.
- Expandi offers many campaign types and puts connection requests, messages and email follow-ups in one sequence. It also publishes benchmark data from its own platform.
- Waalaxy has the lowest entry price, nothing to install, and per-user quotas inside a team. Its Business plan adds cold email sequences and 500 email finder credits a month.
- Dripify runs LinkedIn and email in the same sequence on every paid plan, includes 100 email finder credits a month, and works with free LinkedIn accounts, according to its FAQ.
Which should you choose, and what should you do first?
Choose by use case, after deciding whether to automate LinkedIn at all:
- An agency or team running many LinkedIn accounts: HeyReach, which prices by sender and adds users for free.
- One founder testing on the smallest budget: Waalaxy Pro at €19 a month, which also has the lowest stated cap of the four, 11 invitations a day.
- LinkedIn and email in one sequence: Dripify Pro ($79, or $59 billed annually) or Waalaxy Business (€69).
- Conservative weekly guidance and published benchmarks: Expandi, which advises staying within 100 invitations a week.
Read LinkedIn's page before you buy
Decide with LinkedIn's own wording in front of you. It applies whichever tool you pick.
Set your own weekly number below the tool's ceiling
We suggest no more than 100 invitations a week, the figure Expandi advises and HeyReach's older help article gives. That is our suggestion; LinkedIn publishes no number.
Clear pending requests
HeyReach's own best practices include removing unanswered pending connection requests and keeping acceptance above 20%.
Write requests people accept
We suggest fewer, better requests over a higher cap. Start from our connection request templates, or compare with InMail in our InMail vs connection request guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is HeyReach cheaper than Expandi?
For one LinkedIn account on monthly billing, yes: HeyReach Growth costs $79 a month per sender and Expandi Business $99 a month, checked 20 October 2026. On yearly billing, HeyReach's card shows $64 a month ($759 a year, which works out to $63.25) against Expandi's $79. HeyReach charges per sender and not for teammates; Expandi charges per seat.
What does LinkedIn's User Agreement say about automation tools?
Section 8.2 of LinkedIn's User Agreement, effective 3 November 2025, lists things members agree not to do. They include using bots or other unauthorised automated methods to access the services, add or download contacts, or send or redirect messages, and using software, scripts or browser plugins to scrape or copy the services. This is not legal advice.
Why did LinkedIn remove HeyReach's company page?
HeyReach's post gives no reason from LinkedIn. Its CEO wrote on 25 March 2026 that LinkedIn had removed the company page and a few executives' personal profiles, that customers' automations were unaffected, and that LinkedIn had done the same to other tools in the space. Those are HeyReach's statements. LinkedIn's help centre says it doesn't allow third-party automation software.
Does Waalaxy still need a Chrome extension?
No. Waalaxy's help centre said on 1 July 2026 that its Chrome extension had been removed from the Chrome Web Store and that the tool now runs fully in the cloud at app.waalaxy.com, in any browser. An optional extension, Alien Copilot, speeds up imports from LinkedIn searches. You still need a LinkedIn account for Waalaxy to run your campaigns.
How many connection requests a day does Dripify allow?
Dripify's pricing page says every plan includes daily limits of up to 75 connection requests, 100+ messages and 30 Sales Navigator InMails, and that you configure your own volumes within those ranges. That is Dripify's ceiling, not LinkedIn's. LinkedIn publishes no number and says all members, free and Premium, are subject to invitation limits.
Which LinkedIn automation tool has the lowest daily connection limit?
Of these four, Waalaxy Pro, which its help centre caps at 11 invitations a day or 300 a month. HeyReach defaults to 25 a day with a maximum of 40, Waalaxy Advanced and Business allow up to 100 a day, and Dripify up to 75. Expandi gives weekly guidance instead: stay within 100 invitations a week.
Sources
- HeyReach pricing (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- HeyReach Help: How do Connection Request Limits Work in HeyReach? (dated 28 Aug 2026, checked 20 Oct 2026)
- HeyReach Help: Is HeyReach safe to use? (dated 17 Feb 2026, checked 20 Oct 2026)
- HeyReach Help: How to connect my LinkedIn account to HeyReach? (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- HeyReach: Quick update from Nick (CEO @HeyReach) (published 25 Mar 2026)
- Expandi pricing (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Expandi: LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit for 2026 (published 22 Sep 2026)
- Expandi: LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks 2026 (published 19 May 2026)
- Waalaxy pricing (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Waalaxy Help: What are Quotas? (dated 8 Jul 2026, checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Waalaxy Help: Waalaxy is now fully cloud-based (dated 1 Jul 2026, checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Dripify pricing (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Automated activity on LinkedIn (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- LinkedIn User Agreement (effective 3 Nov 2025, checked 20 Oct 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Invitation limit reached (checked 20 Oct 2026)