Each of these LinkedIn automation alternatives pages answers one question: should you leave this tool, and for what? The short answer, checked on November 3, 2026: leave Waalaxy when you need email and an inbox in the price, Dripify for more accounts or more channels, Expandi when $99 a seat is the problem, HeyReach when your agency needs the leads found, La Growth Machine when your campaigns were mostly LinkedIn, PhantomBuster or Clay when one job is all you used, and Gojiberry to write your own sequence. Trigify users have no choice: it closed.
Full disclosure: I build Sendable, which appears on every page below. It ranks first on none of them: second of nine on the Gojiberry page, last on three. Every price in this hub was opened again on the vendor's own site on November 3, 2026, and every Sendable feature was checked in its code.
My verdict: leave a LinkedIn tool for the one thing it does not do, not for its price alone. The sending is close to identical from one tool to the next, and none of them removes the restriction risk that comes with automating a LinkedIn account. What differs is where the people come from, whether email sits in the same sequence, and how the bill grows with accounts.
LinkedIn automation alternatives at a glance
Prices opened on each vendor's pricing page on November 3, 2026, on monthly billing, in the vendor's currency, as shown to a visitor in the United States. Sendable and La Growth Machine bill in euros: at the European Central Bank rate of that day (1 EUR = 1.1179 USD), €59 is about $66 and €60 about $67. The tools are grouped by the job they do, and sorted alphabetically inside a group.
| Tool | Job | Entry price, monthly billing | Where the people come from | Email in the sequence | Free trial | Full comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dripify | LinkedIn and email drips | $79 a seat (Pro) | LinkedIn searches, post engagers | Yes, every plan | 7 days, no card | Dripify alternatives |
| Expandi | LinkedIn and email, dedicated IP | $99 a seat (Business) | Searches, groups, events, posts | Yes | 7 days | Expandi alternatives |
| HeyReach | Many LinkedIn accounts, for agencies | $79 a sender; $999 for 25 | Lists you import | Through Instantly or Smartlead | 14 days | HeyReach alternatives |
| La Growth Machine | LinkedIn, email, calls and X per sender | €60 an identity (Basic) | Its B2B data; intent signals on Pro | Yes, every plan | 14 days, no card | La Growth Machine alternatives |
| Waalaxy | LinkedIn outreach for one person | $19 a user (Pro) | Searches, post reactions, groups, events | Business plan, $69 | 14 days | Waalaxy alternatives |
| Clay | Enriches lists, no LinkedIn sending | $185 a month (Launch) | 150+ data sources | Email only, no LinkedIn step | Free plan | Clay alternatives |
| PhantomBuster | Extracts data, simple LinkedIn actions | $69 a month (Start) | 15+ platforms, LinkedIn included | No email step listed | Free trial, 2 hours | PhantomBuster alternatives |
| Gojiberry | AI agent that finds, writes and sends | $99 a month, 2 senders | Buying signals | Yes | Length not published | Gojiberry alternatives |
| Sendable | Finds people from signals, sends on LinkedIn | €59 (about $66) an account | 14 LinkedIn signals, AI check | No; finds emails and phones | 7 days, card | Ranked on all nine pages |
| Trigify | Engagement feed, never sent anything | Closed October 22, 2026 | Closed | No | Closed | Trigify alternatives |
Sources, all opened on November 3, 2026: the pricing pages of Dripify, Expandi, HeyReach, La Growth Machine, Waalaxy, Clay and PhantomBuster; Gojiberry's homepage and pricing article; Trigify's notice; and each vendor's homepage for the lead sources.
Read the table by the column that matches your reason for leaving. On price, no tool here sells a LinkedIn seat for less than Waalaxy Pro at $19, Sendable included at about $66. On channels, Dripify, Expandi, La Growth Machine and Gojiberry put email in the same sequence, which Sendable does not do. On volume, HeyReach's Agency plan works out at about $40 a sender for 25 senders. And for data, Clay's 150+ sources are in another league from every sender on this list.
Who should leave each tool, and where to go
One line per page: who should look elsewhere, why, and when staying is the better call. Each page then compares 7 to 9 alternatives with a ranking rule stated before the list.
Dripify alternatives
Look elsewhere if you need 10 accounts or more on one bill, calls and one inbox for every channel, or a lower price: Dripify now starts at $79 a seat (Pro), since the $59 Basic plan it listed on October 3, 2026 is gone. Stay if one LinkedIn and email drip per seat is the whole job. Seven tools priced per seat, from 1 to 25 accounts.
Expandi alternatives
Look elsewhere if $99 a seat is the problem: the Expandi page found four tools that document all four of Expandi's own criteria (dedicated IP, branching, signal triggers, workspaces): Dripify, Skylead, La Growth Machine and Meet Alfred. Stay if its dedicated IP and automatic warm-up already keep your accounts running. Seven tools scored on Expandi's own criteria.
HeyReach alternatives
Look elsewhere if your agency needs the leads found, or email in the same seat: HeyReach rotates sending across accounts and merges replies in one inbox, but it imports its lists from Sales Navigator, Clay or a CRM and sends email through Instantly or Smartlead. Stay if you send to lists you build: 25 senders cost $999 a month. Eight tools for agencies, priced at 5 to 50 accounts.
La Growth Machine alternatives
Look elsewhere if your campaigns were mostly LinkedIn, or you pay €120 an identity (Pro) for calls, the shared inbox and intent signals you rarely use; Basic, at €60, has none of the three. Stay if one sender needs LinkedIn, email, calls and X in one sequence and one inbox. Eight tools compared on the channels they run.
Waalaxy alternatives
Look elsewhere if you need email and an inbox in the price: Waalaxy is the cheapest seat at $19 (Pro), but email starts on Business at $69 and its LinkedIn Inbox is a €20 a month add-on after 500 free conversations. Stay if 800 invitations a month at $39 (Advanced) is all you send. Seven tools at their real cost, inbox and email included.
Clay alternatives
Look elsewhere if you want the LinkedIn message sent too, or if Launch, $185 a month for 15,000 actions and 2,500 data credits, is more workshop than you use: Clay builds and enriches the list but sends no LinkedIn invitation. Stay if you run multi-provider enrichment and Claygent research. Eight tools scored on the five Clay prospecting jobs.
PhantomBuster alternatives
Look elsewhere if you used one Phantom for one job and the execution time runs out: Start, $69 a month, gives 5 automation slots and 20 hours a month. Stay if you chain many automations across 15+ platforms for a team: every plan includes unlimited users. Seven tools sorted by the Phantom they replace.
Gojiberry alternatives
Look elsewhere if you want to write your own sequence, stay on LinkedIn only, or add teammates: Gojiberry's AI agent writes and sends for you, and each extra organization member costs $99 a month. Stay if one person wants an agent on LinkedIn and email: $99 a month covers 2 LinkedIn senders. Nine signal-based and classic LinkedIn tools.
Trigify alternatives
Everyone has to look elsewhere: Trigify closed for most customers on October 22, 2026, after its team joined HubSpot, and its FAQ says "Your Trigify account will not be migrated to HubSpot." Pick the replacement by the job you used it for: the engagement feed alone, or the feed plus the LinkedIn outreach. Nine replacements sorted by the Trigify job they take over.
Not leaving a specific tool?
Start with the category: LinkedIn automation tools scores 11 tools on four checks (runs in the cloud, keeps adding people, one inbox included, email in the sequence), with prices checked on October 29, 2026. Six pass all four.
What changed in the prices, checked November 3, 2026
Opening every pricing page again for this hub turned up four things that a comparison written a month ago gets wrong.
- Dripify dropped its Basic plan. On October 3, 2026, its pricing page listed Basic at $59 a month ($39 billed yearly). On November 3, it lists Pro at $79, Advanced at $99 and Enterprise on request.
- Trigify is closed. Access ended at 11:59pm BST on October 22, 2026, for customers on the standard notice period, and accounts were not moved to HubSpot.
- PhantomBuster and Clay show yearly rates first. PhantomBuster's page opens on annual billing, $56, $128 and $352 a month against $69, $159 and $439 billed monthly. Clay's plan cards show $167 and $446 a month, while its FAQ gives Launch "starting at $185/mo" and Growth "starting at $495/mo": the card figures are the yearly rates, 10% lower.
- Waalaxy's price depends on where you look from. A visitor in the United States sees Advanced at $39 a month; the same plan costs €49 in euros. Its LinkedIn Inbox stays a €20 a month add-on on every plan.
A page that quotes the card price as the monthly price, or Dripify's old Basic plan as the entry price, understates the cost by $13 to $87 a month.
Where Sendable falls short
Since I build Sendable, here is who should look elsewhere than Sendable, in plain terms:
- No email. A sequence can find a lead's email or phone through your own FullEnrich account, but it cannot send an email. Dripify, Expandi, La Growth Machine and Gojiberry can.
- The AI does not write your messages. It checks each person a signal finds against your ideal customer and gives a one-sentence reason; you write the sequence. Gojiberry's agent writes it for you.
- It costs more per seat than the cheapest senders. €59 (about $66) a LinkedIn account against $19 for Waalaxy Pro, and €1,475 for 25 accounts against $999 for HeyReach Agency. Teammates are free: "Inviting is free: only LinkedIn accounts use seats."
- No white label. An agency cannot put its own brand on it for clients; Expandi's Agency plan offers it.
- Volume has ceilings. A filter search returns 1,000 people at most, and a paid team runs 5 signals at a time.
What the price pays for instead: 14 LinkedIn signals and an AI check of every person, from your profile viewers to job changes and company page followers, so the list is built for you, with an inbox included. Each account brings 500 credits a month, one per person kept; the pricing page has the details, and the case studies show what teams built with it.
