Best lemlist Alternatives for LinkedIn Outreach

lemlist is a sales engagement software that runs outbound campaigns across email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one place. If you're comparing lemlist alternatives for LinkedIn outreach, LinkedIn probably books more of your meetings than email does, so you want a tool and a bill built around it.

We built the LinkedIn sending engine inside Omniscient this year, so we read lemlist's help articles on LinkedIn limits closely while we set our own. Below are the eight alternatives we'd shortlist, matched to the reason you're leaving.

If you're short on time, here's where we'd start:

• Pick Omniscient for LinkedIn outreach you approve, inside a CRM that fills itself in.
• Pick La Growth Machine for the closest swap, with LinkedIn and email on the starting plan.
• Pick Expandi for email steps plus a dedicated IP and an automatic warmup.
• Pick Dripify for simple LinkedIn and email sequences in a visual builder.
• Pick Skylead if you send a lot of cold email alongside LinkedIn.
• Pick HeyReach if you run many LinkedIn accounts for clients.
• Pick Waalaxy if you do outreach alone on a small budget.
• Pick Linked Helper for the lowest price per account, if a desktop app is fine.

Tool	What it is	Starting price	Best for
Omniscient	LinkedIn outreach you approve, inside a CRM that fills itself in	$19 per seat a month, billed yearly	Small B2B teams that want outreach and a CRM together
La Growth Machine	Multichannel sequences on LinkedIn, email, calls and X	€60 per identity a month	Reps who mix LinkedIn and email every day
Expandi	Cloud LinkedIn sequences with email steps and a dedicated IP in your country	$99 a month	Teams that want LinkedIn and email in one careful tool
Dripify	LinkedIn and email sequences made in a drag and drop builder	$79 per user a month	Small teams that want simple sequences
Skylead	LinkedIn automation and cold email with unlimited email accounts	$100 per seat a month	Teams that send a lot of cold email
HeyReach	LinkedIn outreach from many accounts with one unified inbox	$79 per sender a month	Agencies with many client senders
Waalaxy	Simple LinkedIn outreach with monthly invitation quotas	€19 per user a month, billed yearly	Founders doing outreach alone
Linked Helper	Desktop LinkedIn automation that runs on your own computer	$15 per LinkedIn account a month	The lowest price per account

What lemlist does well for LinkedIn outreach

lemlist's homepage says more than 20,000 sales teams run their outbound in it, and its strength is putting every channel into one sequence. Here's what its pricing page lists for LinkedIn today:

• LinkedIn automation comes with the Multichannel plan, at $109 per user a month or $87 billed yearly.
• LinkedIn steps cover profile visits, follows, invitations, text messages, voice messages and InMail.
• Each Multichannel user gets 5 senders, a built in call dialer and lemlist inside Gmail and LinkedIn.
• HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive integrations come with every plan, along with lemwarm for email deliverability.

Honestly, if email books most of your meetings and LinkedIn is the second touch, lemlist is hard to replace. Our comparison of Waalaxy vs lemlist goes deeper on that split.

Why teams look for a lemlist alternative for LinkedIn

Each reason below starts from lemlist's own pages:

• LinkedIn steps need the Multichannel plan, so a seller who only uses LinkedIn still pays for the email and call tools that come with it.
• Its help article on disconnections says you reconnect LinkedIn through lemlist's Chrome extension, and that logging out or clearing cookies disconnects it.
• Ramp-Up, lemlist's invitation warmup, is a setting that the help center says "must be turned on" before it raises your daily volume.
• Only invitations ramp up, so on a new account its limits article tells you to lower messages, profile visits and follows by hand for two to three weeks.
• After a LinkedIn warning, the help center asks you to pause all LinkedIn steps for at least 48 hours, then restart at about 5 actions a day.

lemlist's LinkedIn limits next to our pacing

lemlist's help center is specific about LinkedIn, and its articles on account limits and connection request limits give the figures below. We've put our engine's settings beside them:

Interestingly, the two sets of numbers sit close together. lemlist treats about 100 a week as LinkedIn's cap, but LinkedIn doesn't publish one, so both columns are each tool's own reading. Our guide to the LinkedIn connection request limit explains where the common figures come from.

In the articles we read, lemlist leaves the warmup switch and the pause after a warning to you. That's where the two tools differ most, because our engine ramps up a new account and slows down on its own.

A few more habits shape each day of sending in our engine:

• Each day's real total lands between 80% and 100% of your limit, so the days don't all look the same.
• A profile view goes out 1 to 4 hours before each invitation, unless you turn that setting off.
• A reconnected or restricted account starts its warmup again from 5 a day.

LinkedIn's page on invitation restrictions names "many invitations within a short amount of time" as one cause, along with invitations that are "ignored, left pending, or marked as spam." A lower daily pace helps with the second cause too, because a list people ignore shows up in your acceptance rate before many requests pile up.

Spreading invitations out does cost speed: at the Normal pace of 80 a week, a list of 400 people takes at least five weeks to invite.

Every tool on this list automates LinkedIn, ours included, and LinkedIn's prohibited software page says members who use such tools are "in violation of the User Agreement." So even a careful pace carries some risk for your account.

The 8 best lemlist alternatives for LinkedIn outreach

1. Omniscient

Omniscient is a CRM and LinkedIn outreach software that drafts a message for each lead and sends only what your team approves. Replies land in one Inbox next to the person's CRM record, and the CRM fills itself in from your email and calendar.

In Omniscient, a campaign usually starts in Scout:

• You describe your buyer in one sentence, and Scout finds the people who match.
• Each lead gets a score out of 100, with up to 60 points for fit and up to 40 for timing signals like hiring or a new role.
• One click turns the people you pick into a campaign.

Otto, our agent, then writes each person's connection request and messages from your pitch and the person's role and signals. You approve each person yourself, or approve everyone at launch. Editing a message after its approval clears that approval, so LinkedIn only ever receives text someone on your team approved.

Campaigns /Founders, EU softwareDraftGo live

People 48Approve 2

Rina SatoCEO at Pallet CloudReady

Jordan BlakeHead of Sales at TallyfinNeeds approval

Theo LindqvistFounder at Northbeam LabsReady, connected

Amara KofiCOO at LedgerlyActive elsewhere

Diego MarínCEO at ShiftwiseNeeds approval

Jordan BlakeChanged since approvalApprove

Connection requestOtto

Hi Jordan, saw Tallyfin is hiring two SDRs. We help small sales teams keep every LinkedIn reply on one CRM record. Happy to connect.

Opening messageEdited

Thanks for connecting, Jordan. When the new SDRs start, would a short walkthrough of how other teams plan their first month be useful?

Why Jordan is hereTallyfin is hiring 2 SDRs, from its careers page.Head of Sales since August, from his profile.

A few rules hold in every campaign:

• A person can be in only one live campaign at a time, and a reply stops their outreach in every campaign.
• Before each invitation, the engine checks the relationship on LinkedIn, so a person with a pending request never gets a second one.
• A send that times out is never retried on its own, because a doubled message can't be taken back.

Admittedly, Omniscient sends on LinkedIn only, with no email or call steps. If email books most of your meetings, lemlist or La Growth Machine will suit you better, and an agency rotating dozens of client accounts should look at HeyReach.

Paid seats start at $19 per seat a month, billed yearly, and the free trial lasts 14 days with no credit card. See the LinkedIn Outbound and CRM pages for more.

2. La Growth Machine

La Growth Machine is a sales automation software that runs multichannel sequences on LinkedIn, email, calls and X. Basic costs €60 per identity a month for LinkedIn and email, and Pro costs €120 per identity and adds calls and a unified inbox.

• An identity is one person's set of accounts, and each one is billed separately.
• Basic allows up to 3 identities, with 1 sending email each and 250 enriched leads a month.
• Native HubSpot and Pipedrive sync comes with the Ultimate plan, which also adds X.
• The free trial lasts 14 days with no card and covers 1 identity.

Personally, we'd look here first if you like lemlist's mix of channels and want LinkedIn and email on the starting plan.

3. Expandi

Expandi is a LinkedIn automation software that runs outreach sequences from the cloud for sales teams and agencies. Its Business plan costs $99 a month, or $79 billed yearly, and the free trial lasts 7 days.

• Business includes a dedicated IP address based in your country and an automatic profile warmup.
• Sequences mix connection requests and messages with email follow ups in one flow.
• The Agency plan starts at 10 seats with custom pricing and adds white label use.

Frankly, Expandi suits a team where LinkedIn leads and email follows up, and where you'd rather have the warmup handled for you.

4. Dripify

Dripify is a LinkedIn automation software that builds sequences of LinkedIn and email steps in a drag and drop builder. Pro costs $79 per user a month, or $59 billed yearly, and Advanced costs $99, or $79 billed yearly.

• Both plans include LinkedIn and email sequences, a HubSpot integration, an open API and an MCP server.
• Team management and a check that prevents duplicate outreach come with Advanced.
• The free trial lasts 7 days with Advanced features and needs no card.

Dripify suits a small team that wants lemlist's LinkedIn and email steps at a lower monthly price per user. Its FAQ allows up to 75 connection requests a day on every plan, and we'd stay well below that, since lemlist suggests 20 and our engine stops at 40.

5. Skylead

Skylead is a LinkedIn automation and cold email software that builds sequences with if/else conditions across both channels. The All-in-one plan costs $100 per seat a month, and the free trial lasts 7 days.

• Each seat includes unlimited email accounts, up to 100,000 emails a month, email warmup and an email finder and verifier.
• The Agency plan costs $999 a month for 25 seats, or $1,999 for unlimited seats, listed as a first year promotion.

Skylead fits a team that sends a lot of cold email and wants LinkedIn in the same seat. Ask what the Agency promotion becomes in year two before you move clients over.

6. HeyReach

HeyReach is a LinkedIn automation software that runs outreach from many LinkedIn accounts at once, with every reply in one unified inbox. Growth costs $79 per sender a month, or $64 billed yearly, and Agency costs $999 a month for 25 senders.

• HeyReach bills per LinkedIn sender, so adding teammates or clients costs nothing.
• Email runs through native integrations with Instantly, Smartlead and EmailBison.
• Agency adds white label and done for you onboarding.
• The free trial lasts 14 days, with no card and up to 3 LinkedIn accounts.

Happily for agencies, the Agency plan turns 25 client accounts into one predictable bill.

7. Waalaxy

Waalaxy is a LinkedIn outreach software that finds prospects, sends invitations and messages, and follows up until people reply. Its pricing page lists Pro at €19 per user a month with 300 invitations a month, and Advanced at €49 with 800, both on yearly billing.

• Business, at €69, adds cold email and 500 email finder credits a month.
• An Inbox for your LinkedIn conversations is an add on at €20 a month.
• All three listed plans include CRM sync and a free trial of 14 days.

Its homepage says "75% of our users had never done LinkedIn outreach before," and monthly quotas keep a beginner at a modest pace. Waalaxy's subscriptions article gives Business a standard price of €139 a month, which can vary by country, and says the trial needs a credit card, so cancel before it ends if you're only testing.

8. Linked Helper

Linked Helper is a LinkedIn automation software that runs as a desktop app on your own computer. Standard costs $15 per LinkedIn account a month on a monthly term with local data storage, and $8.25 a month on a 12 month term.

• Standard caps some advanced actions, such as group messages and likes, at 20 a day, and Pro lifts those caps.
• Native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive integrations come with both plans.
• The trial gives 14 days of full Pro access with no card, and nothing renews on its own when it ends.

Luckily, it's the lowest price per account on this list if your budget is tight. In return, the app works only while it's running on a computer or server you keep switched on.

Where your LinkedIn replies end up

In lemlist, LinkedIn replies land in its unified inbox and reach your CRM through the HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive integration. That works well when your CRM is already set up and someone keeps it current.

In Omniscient, the Inbox sits next to the CRM record, and each reply goes through these steps before anyone opens it:

From the thread, you can create an opportunity and pick its stage. Otto can also write a suggested answer into the composer, and it never sends that answer by itself.

lemlist alternatives compared

Past the price, here's what we'd compare first:

How to switch from lemlist without risking your LinkedIn account

Moving a LinkedIn account between tools is the moment we'd watch most closely, because the account's history comes along with it. Here's the order we'd follow, and our guide to automating LinkedIn outreach without getting restricted covers pacing in depth:

1. 01
   Pause lemlist first

   Its help center says two tools on one LinkedIn account still share one LinkedIn quota.

2. 02
   Export who you've contacted

   Save your lead lists and replies, so the new tool skips anyone who already heard from you.

3. 03
   Bring your opt outs

   Before the new tool's first campaign starts, mark everyone who asked you not to contact them.

4. 04
   Restart slower than you ended

   Treat the first week like a warmup, even on an old account, and raise limits only while acceptance stays at 30% or more, the level lemlist calls healthy.

5. 05
   Withdraw only stale requests

   lemlist suggests withdrawing after 7 to 14 days, and LinkedIn blocks a new invitation to the same person for up to three weeks after a withdrawal.

6. 06
   Test the reply path

   Ask a colleague to answer a test message and check that it lands on the right CRM record.

Thankfully, a careful tool handles part of this for you. Before every invitation, our engine checks the relationship on LinkedIn, so someone still holding a request from your lemlist days doesn't get a second one.

Questions about lemlist alternatives