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LinkedIn & Social Selling

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LinkedIn and social selling tools help you find prospects on LinkedIn, warm them up and start conversations without doing every click by hand. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is the official way to search and research buyers but does not automate outreach. Automation tools such as Expandi, Waalaxy, Dripify, HeyReach, Skylead, Dux-Soup, Linked Helper and La Growth Machine send connection requests, message sequences and often email from one campaign, priced per seat, sender or identity. Taplio approaches social selling through your own posts and comments. Open-source projects range from a self-hosted sequencer (Linki) to agent skills and MCP servers that draft or send one action at a time. LinkedIn's terms restrict third-party automation, so daily limits and account safety matter when choosing.

Paid 9 reviewed

Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.

LLinkedIn Sales Navigator

AI-powered B2B sales tool for finding leads and building relationships.

$119.99free tierEExpandi

LinkedIn outreach automation for sales, agencies, and recruiters.

free tierWWaalaxy

Automate LinkedIn and email outreach with safe, human-like campaigns.

free tierDDripify

LinkedIn and cold email automation for outreach.

$59free tierHHeyReach

LinkedIn outreach automation for agencies, sales, and growth teams.

$999free tierSSkylead

LinkedIn automation and cold email software for sales teams and agencies.

free tierDDux-Soup / STACKED

LinkedIn automation for outreach, lead generation, and CRM integration.

$41.25free tierLLinked Helper

Desktop app for automating LinkedIn outreach, messaging, and lead management.

—TTaplio

All-in-one AI tool for LinkedIn growth and personal branding.

$39free tier

Free 8 direct

Free to use. You run it on your own server.

Direct alternatives

They do this job.

LIsergebulaev/linkedin-skills

Claude skills for LinkedIn. 12 Claude Code and Codex skills that write human-sounding LinkedIn posts, craft comments that get noticed, analyze your feed, and build a publishing cadence, all from your terminal. Content engineering by Creative Content Crafts. MIT.

★ 5kFreeLIstickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server

Open-source MCP server for LinkedIn. Give Claude and any MCP-compatible AI agent access to profiles, companies, jobs, and messages.

★ 4kFreeLImoaljumaa/linki

Self-hosted LinkedIn outreach automation tool

★ 171FreeCOethbak/connexion-for-linkedin

A free tool used to search for LinkedIn profiles with filters and to automate sending connection requests.

★ 35FreeINspirosbax/insaight

LinkedIn prospect intelligence inside Claude — MCP server + 8 skills that research people, companies and comment threads, draft outreach, and learn what gets replies.

★ 32FreeLHalexey-pelykh/lhremote

CLI and MCP server for LinkedHelper automation — let AI assistants control LinkedIn outreach

★ 20FreeLIstyfinity/linkedin-engine

Run your entire LinkedIn motion inside Claude Code. 29 skills (content, warming, outreach), 7 playbooks, a 13-tool MCP layer, and a 17-command CLI. Draft-first, capped at 20/day. Free by Styfinity.

★ 9FreeLImariellecamba-gtm/linkedin-prospect-engager

Open-source alternative to hosted LinkedIn engagement tools like Extrovert. Tracks the people you want to know, reads their posts every morning, and drafts one honest comment on each post worth engaging with. AI suggests, you decide, you post. Free to run on GitHub Actions.

★ 5Free

Feature by feature

Every paid tool and free repository we compared, marked against the same features.

✓has itPartlysome plans or extra work—confirmed not available?not confirmed✓the vendor's claim onlypricingClick a mark for its note and source

Paid · 10Free · 9
Featuremoaljumaa/linkiKandid-ai/AgentSDRstickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-serveralexey-pelykh/lhremotestyfinity/linkedin-enginemariellecamba-gtm/linkedin-prospect-engagersergebulaev/linkedin-skillsspirosbax/insaightethbak/connexion-for-linkedin
Starts at$119.99 per license per month, billed monthly (Core)$99 per seat per month, billed monthly$16 per user per month (another reader was shown €19); billing period not labelled$79 per user per month, billed monthly (Pro)$79 per sender per month, billed monthly (Growth)$100 per seat per month (All-in-one)$55 per seat per month, billed monthly (STACKED local)$15 per license per month, billed monthly (Standard, local storage)€50 per identity per month, billed annually (Basic)$39 per month, billed monthly (Starter)Linki Sustainable Use LicenseMITApache-2.0AGPL-3.0MITMITMITMITApache-2.0
Prospecting
Lead search and listsFind prospects on LinkedIn or in a database by filters and keep them in lists.
Sales Navigator importImport leads from a Sales Navigator search or list.
Contact enrichmentAdds verified emails or other contact data to LinkedIn leads.
Outreach
Automated connection requestsSends personalised connection requests to a list without clicking each one.
Message sequences with follow-upsMulti-step LinkedIn messages with delays that stop when the lead replies.
Engagement actionsProfile visits, likes, comments, follows or endorsements to warm leads before messaging.
Email in the same sequenceEmail steps run inside the same campaign as LinkedIn steps.
AI-written messagesDrafts or personalises messages, comments or replies with AI.
Operation
Runs without your computerCampaigns run in the cloud or on a server, not only while your own machine is on.
Daily limits and account safetyConfigurable daily caps, warm-up or dedicated IPs to reduce the risk of LinkedIn restrictions.
Conversations
Unified inboxRead and answer LinkedIn conversations in one place inside the tool.
Integrations
CRM integrationSyncs leads and activity with a CRM such as HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive.
Teams
Teams and multiple accountsSeveral LinkedIn accounts or seats managed together, with shared campaigns or roles.
Reporting
Campaign analyticsReports on acceptance, reply and campaign performance.
Social selling
Post writing and schedulingWrites or schedules your own LinkedIn posts to build presence.

Excluded candidates

Looked at, and left out of the comparison, with the reason.

Paid apps

  • Meet AlfredMeet Alfred sells per-seat LinkedIn and email outreach sequences, the same job as Expandi and Dripify, which publish fuller plan details and were selected instead.Source
  • AimfoxAimfox offers LinkedIn automation outreach seats at $49 a month with a free CRM. It overlaps Waalaxy and Dripify, which cover the same campaigns with published daily quotas or invitation limits.Source
  • BotdogBotdog is LinkedIn automation starting at $79 a month with a 7-day trial. It covers the same sequences as Dripify and Expandi at a similar price, so it ranked below them.Source
  • SalesRobotSalesRobot automates LinkedIn and email outreach with per-user plans and a 14-day trial, overlapping Skylead and La Growth Machine, which were selected as the multichannel options.Source
  • We-ConnectWe-Connect sells LinkedIn automation from $49 a seat billed annually, with AI outreach and email enrichment. It overlaps Waalaxy and Dripify, which were selected with fuller plan comparisons.Source
  • CloselyClosely is LinkedIn and email outreach priced from $65 a month with AI personalisation allowances. It overlaps Skylead and La Growth Machine, which were selected.Source
  • GetSalesGetSales offers LinkedIn and multichannel outreach from $39 a seat for GTM engineers. It overlaps HeyReach and La Growth Machine, which were selected for multi-sender and multichannel work.Source
  • Zeekeozopto.com now redirects to Zeekeo, which mainly sells a managed outbound service from $600 a month with platform seats at $149, so it is closer to an agency than a self-serve tool.Source
  • lemlistlemlist is an email-first outbound platform; LinkedIn steps come only with its multichannel plan at $109 a month ($87 billed annually), so LinkedIn is secondary.Source
  • KasprKaspr finds phone numbers and emails for LinkedIn profiles through a browser extension, with a free plan and paid plans from $49 a month. It enriches contacts but does not run outreach.Source
  • LempodLempod boosts engagement on your own LinkedIn posts through automated likes and comments from a network of members, rather than prospecting or messaging buyers.Source
  • AuthoredUpAuthoredUp helps write, format and analyse LinkedIn posts from $19.95 a month. It covers only the content side that Taplio also covers, without outreach.Source
  • SupergrowSupergrow is a LinkedIn content platform for individuals and teams from $39 a month. It overlaps Taplio on post writing but has no outreach features described.Source

Repositories

  • eracle/OpenOutreachOpenOutreach is now a browserless lead finder that buys verified work emails and sends email from your mailbox; its README says it uses no social-network account, so it no longer works on LinkedIn.Source
  • LaGrowthMachine/gtm-systemGTM System is La Growth Machine's own set of Claude skills and an MCP server for its product (P9), so it is a vendor add-on rather than an independent alternative.Source
  • Linked-API/linkedapi-mcpThis MCP server connects AI assistants to LinkedIn through the commercial Linked API service, so it is a vendor connector rather than a standalone open-source tool.Source
  • gtm-api/linkedin-mcpThis repository documents a managed LinkedIn MCP server sold by GTM API, so the outreach runs on the vendor's service rather than on software you run.Source
  • devag7/linkedin-mcpLinkedIn MCP gives AI assistants structured reads of profiles, jobs and the inbox with a few confirmed writes, aimed mainly at job seekers; LinkedIn MCP Server (G3) covers the same ground with far wider use.Source
  • OpenRecruiterTools/linkedin-toolkitLinkedIn Toolkit is an MCP server and Chrome extension built as an AI copilot for recruiters, not for sales prospecting or social selling.Source
  • joeyism/linkedin_scraperLinkedIn Scraper is a Python library that extracts profile and company data. It has no outreach, sequences or engagement features.Source
  • joshiayush/inbinb is a command-line LinkedIn automation script whose last change was a README fix in March 2025, and its licence is not a standard one GitHub recognises.Source
  • FujiwaraChoki/linkedin-botLinkedIn Bot automates LinkedIn outreach with Selenium and GeckoDriver, but its last push was in April 2024, so it is unlikely to work with today's LinkedIn pages.Source
  • sigvardt/linkedin-buddyLinkedIn Buddy is an MCP server and CLI for inbox and outreach automation, but the repository has no licence file and three stars, so reuse terms are unclear.Source

Gaps

What the research could not settle from the vendors' own pages.

What vendors don't publish

  • Linked Helper publishes the Standard price ($15 a license a month) but shows the Pro price only inside its interactive calculator, so the cost of lifting the 20-a-day caps cannot be compared from the page text.Linked Helper · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1
  • Sales Navigator Advanced Plus, Expandi Agency, Dripify Enterprise, Skylead Annual and La Growth Machine Agency are sold by quote only, so team and agency costs cannot be compared without a sales call.LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Expandi, Dripify, Skylead, La Growth Machine · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4
  • HeyReach, Expandi and Linked Helper do not publish the daily connection or message limits they apply, while Dripify publishes per-day quotas, so how hard each tool pushes an account cannot be compared.Expandi, HeyReach, Linked Helper · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1 · source 2 · source 3
  • Dux-Soup's pricing page does not mention a free trial or its length, which matters to buyers comparing the 7- and 14-day trials offered elsewhere.Dux-Soup / STACKED · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1

Where vendor pages disagree

  • Waalaxy's pricing page showed $16, $32 and $55 per user to one reader and €19, €49 and €69 to another, and neither label says whether the figure is monthly, quarterly or yearly, so the real monthly cost is unclear.Waalaxy · checked 2026-10-20 · source 1

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