--- title: "HeyReach alternatives, by reason for leaving" description: "HeyReach alternatives ranked by why teams actually switch, with verified pricing and the trade each one makes." url: https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/alternatives/heyreach-alternatives updated: 2026-11-12 --- Alternatives · Verified 23 to 24 Oct 2026 # HeyReach alternatives, sorted by *why you are leaving* HeyReach puts the API, webhooks and an MCP server on its entry plan. What it charges for is the sender, and that number only gets cheap at thirteen. 3 replacements below, each one matched to a specific reason. Short answer Dripify if you run sixteen LinkedIn accounts or fewer, because $59 a seat on Pro beats $79 a sender, and its API reference documents every endpoint. Expandi if webhooks are the integration and you want one flat price with every feature in it. Reply.io if LinkedIn is one channel of several and email belongs in the same sequence. Most teams pricing HeyReach alternatives, or HeyReach competitors in general, sit under the thirteen-sender crossover, where agency pricing buys features they never open. Prices and limits for every option below are read off the vendor's own page. These are the HeyReach competitors that each answer a named problem. See the 3 alternatives [Read the HeyReach review](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/heyreach-api-review) replacements.txt 3 picks dripify **$59/user/mo annual** expandi **$79/user/mo annual** reply.io **$49/user/mo annual** Currently on $79/sender/mo Diagnose first ## The 3 reasons people actually leave If none of these is your situation, the honest answer is that you should probably stay, and the [HeyReach API review](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/heyreach-api-review) covers what you already have. The 17 providers in the [Sending APIs](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis) listing are where these replacements come from. ### 1 · Per-sender pricing is an agency price Growth is $79 a sender a month, $71 billed quarterly, and the $999 Agency plan for 25 senders only becomes the cheaper HeyReach line at about thirteen accounts. Below seventeen, a $59 Dripify seat is cheaper still, and a single operator pays for client workspaces it will not use. ### 2 · The ladder stops being published above 25 A 50-sender option appears on the pricing page as a selector with no figure against it, and the $2,999 Unlimited plan is capped at 300 senders by fair use. An agency growing past 25 accounts is back in a conversation, which is the thing the published ladder was supposed to spare it. ### 3 · The enrichment credits are a convenience, not a data product A hundred credits a sender on Growth and 1,000 on Agency. That covers looking up the odd email behind a connection and runs out quickly on a real list, so most teams pay a separate enrichment provider anyway and wonder why the allowance is in the plan at all. The alternatives ## 3 HeyReach alternatives, and what each one fixes Ordered by how closely each one answers the reasons above, not by price. | Provider | Entry price | Unit cost | Free tier | Best for | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [HeyReach](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/heyreach-api-review) | $79/sender/mo | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. Free trial, and senders are added one at a time. | Baseline | | [Dripify](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/dripify-api-review) | $59/user/mo annual | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. 7-day trial on Advanced features, no card. | An OpenAPI spec and documented errors for LinkedIn automation | | [Expandi](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/expandi-api-review) | $79/user/mo annual | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. 7-day trial. | Best for webhook-driven LinkedIn campaigns | | [Reply.io](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/reply-io-api-review) | $49/user/mo annual | Not sold by the unit | No free tier. 14-day trial with API access and 300 active contacts. | Best for teams that outgrow per-seat pricing | Read from each vendor's own pricing page between 23 and 24 October 2026. In detail ## The case for each one Each one below is matched to a reason rather than scored, and each one names what you give up by taking it. A replacement with no downside is a replacement nobody has actually run. ### Dripify Cheaper below seventeen accounts at $59 a seat on Pro, with the API on every plan, a downloadable OpenAPI spec and published daily caps. The arithmetic is the first reason. [Dripify](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/dripify-api-review) Pro is $59 a seat a month billed annually and one seat connects one LinkedIn account, against HeyReach at $79 a sender on Growth. For three accounts that is $60 a month, and the gap holds until about seventeen accounts, where HeyReach's $999 for 25 senders takes over. The documentation is the second. Dripify publishes a downloadable OpenAPI specification, 60 requests a minute and 5,000 a day per key, a 429 that carries Retry-After and documented 401, 403 and 404 responses. HeyReach publishes 300 requests a minute and a Postman collection, which is more throughput and less to read. Dripify also keeps email steps and an email finder in the same sequence, with finder credits at $0.0099 each and spent only when a find succeeds. HeyReach hands the email half to native Instantly and [Smartlead](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/smartlead-api-review) integrations instead, which is a cleaner architecture and a second vendor. #### What you give up Client workspaces, whitelabel and most of the request rate. Dripify allows 60 requests a minute per key, a fifth of HeyReach's 300, and has nothing like a 25-sender bundle. #### When it is the wrong answer An agency already past seventeen accounts. At 25 accounts Dripify Pro is $1,475 a month against HeyReach's $999, and per-seat pricing never bends, so moving there to save money only works on the way down. [Read the review](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/dripify-api-review) · [HeyReach vs Dripify](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/compare/dripify-vs-heyreach) ### Expandi One plan with everything in it, $79 a seat billed annually, and 22 webhook events as the integration surface. [Expandi](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/expandi-api-review) shares HeyReach's best idea and applies it more strictly: nothing is gated. There is exactly one plan at $99 a month, or $79 billed annually, with every feature included, so there is no sender count to track and no crossover to calculate. The integration surface is webhooks rather than a REST client, and on that axis it is genuinely strong. Twenty-two documented events run from connection accepted through to email bounced, including three that fire when an account has nothing left queued, and each campaign gets a reversed webhook URL that accepts a POST to add, pause or resume a lead. It also enforces the thing that protects a LinkedIn account: a dedicated country-based IP per account and daily action ranges it applies rather than suggests. In this category the asset you cannot replace is the profile, and a tool that holds the pacing is protecting it for you. #### What you give up A readable API and a finished [MCP server](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/mcp-servers). Expandi's REST reference sits behind a login, no rate limit is published anywhere, and its MCP server is still in beta, where HeyReach publishes its API openly at 300 requests a minute with keys that never expire and its MCP server is generally available. You also give up the agency shape: Expandi charges per seat all the way up. #### When it is the wrong answer Anybody running client outreach at scale. Twenty accounts on Expandi cost twenty times one, which is precisely the half of the comparison HeyReach was built to win. [Read the review](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/expandi-api-review) · [HeyReach vs Expandi](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/compare/expandi-vs-heyreach) ### Reply.io LinkedIn and email in one sequence, with the API on every plan and in the trial. The pick when LinkedIn is a channel rather than the business. HeyReach is LinkedIn automation that hands email to a second tool. [Reply.io](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/reply-io-api-review) runs both in one sequence, so a team whose motion is multichannel stops paying for two products and stops maintaining the integration between them. The API is on every plan, and the 14-day trial carries API access and 300 active contacts. It meters active contacts rather than senders, and the price changes shape partway up: $49 a user a month billed annually to 5,000 active contacts, then flat for unlimited users at 10,000. LinkedIn is priced on top, $69 a month per account on the Email Volume plans or inside the $89 Multichannel seat, so the saving is the second product you stop paying for, not the LinkedIn line itself. Reply.io also publishes the formula behind its unlimited mailbox claim, one mailbox per 40 active contacts, in its own support article. Check the API version before anything else on an inherited integration: v3 allows 100 requests a minute and 150,000 a rolling week, and the deprecated v1 and v2 allow 15,000 calls a month per user. #### What you give up The per-sender agency economics and the LinkedIn depth. Reply.io has no equivalent of a 25-sender bundle, and treats LinkedIn as one step type among several rather than as the product. #### When it is the wrong answer An agency running LinkedIn outreach for clients across dozens of accounts. Reply.io is a sales team's sequencer, and HeyReach's workspaces and whitelabel are the feature set that business needs. [Read the review](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/reply-io-api-review) Plan by plan ## What you would actually pay, on each one Every provider on this page publishes a rate card, so the real numbers can sit next to each other rather than behind a summary. The plan you want is the one whose included volume covers a normal month for you, not the cheapest one on the page. ### HeyReach HeyReach publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $79 to $2,999, with a quoted tier above it. #### Growth $79 /sender/mo - $71 a sender billed quarterly, 20% off yearly - Unlimited campaigns and all LinkedIn actions - 100 enrichment credits per sender - MCP server included #### Agency $999 /mo, 25 senders - 1,000 enrichment credits - Whitelabel included - A 50-sender option is offered with no price shown - Unified inbox across every sender #### Unlimited $2,999 /mo, up to 300 senders - Fair use caps it at 300 senders - Custom branding for multiple clients, $500 per add-on #### Done for you Custom quote - ICP research, campaign setup and reporting - Priced on the engagement rather than on seats ### Dripify Dripify publishes 3 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $59 to $79, with a quoted tier above it. #### Pro $59 /user/mo - Up to 75 connection requests and 100-plus messages a day - Open API and MCP server - Webhooks, HubSpot, dedicated inbox, CSV export #### Advanced $79 /user/mo - Everything in Pro plus evergreen campaigns - Adaptive activity control and team management - Advanced LinkedIn protection #### Enterprise Quote only - Premium onboarding and dedicated support - A customer success manager - Priced on seat count ### Expandi Expandi publishes 3 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $79 to $99, with a quoted tier above it. #### Business, annual $79 /user/mo - Every feature, with nothing gated - Dedicated country-based IP and auto warm-up - 20% off, billed as a year upfront #### Business, monthly $99 /user/mo - The same plan, month to month - Unlimited campaigns and templates - 22 webhook events and the reversed webhook #### Agency Quote only - For 10 or more teams, or white label - Priced by conversation - Larger seat discounts ### Reply.io Reply.io publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $210. #### Email Volume, 1,000 $49 /user/mo - Unlimited mailboxes under fair usage, 25 at this tier - Unlimited emails to active contacts - 50 live data credits, 200 website visitor reveals #### Email Volume, 10,000 $159 /mo - Unlimited users, no per-seat charge - 250 mailboxes under the published ratio - LinkedIn automation at $69 a month per account #### Multichannel $89 /user/mo - Unlimited active contacts - 10 mailboxes annual, 5 monthly - LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp included #### Agency Core $210 /mo - Multiple client workspaces under one account - Unlimited clients, users and mailboxes - White label as an option Read the included volume before the headline price. A plan that costs twice as much and carries five times the credits is the cheaper plan, and on this page that is the usual case rather than the exception. Cost model ## What each one costs at your volume HeyReach first, then every replacement. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers your volume on each one, which is the comparison a row of entry prices cannot make. ### HeyReach Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume. Cheapest seat with the API **Growth** Per seat **$79 a month** Monthly **$237 for 3 seats** Twelve months **$2,844** ### Dripify Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume. Cheapest seat with the API **Pro** Per seat **$59 a month** Monthly **$177 for 3 seats** Twelve months **$2,124** ### Expandi Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume. Cheapest seat with the API **Business, annual** Per seat **$79 a month** Monthly **$237 for 3 seats** Twelve months **$2,844** ### Reply.io Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume. Cheapest seat with the API **Email Volume, 1,000** Per seat **$49 a month** Monthly **$147 for 3 seats** Twelve months **$1,764** Plans are read from each vendor's own pricing page and the model picks the cheapest one that covers you, so these are list prices on the billing term each vendor publishes, annual where that is how it prices, before any discount you negotiate. Twelve months ## What a year costs at three volumes The same plan-fit arithmetic as the model above, run out to a year, because an annual number is what a budget actually asks for. HeyReach, Dripify, Expandi and Reply.io are priced per seat, so one row says it all: the figure is 3 seats for a year. | A year at | HeyReach | Dripify | Expandi | Reply.io | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | At any volume | $2,844 Growth | $2,124 Pro | $2,844 Business, annual | $1,764 Email Volume, 1,000 | These are list prices on the published plan that covers each volume, on the billing term each vendor publishes, so they are the number before you negotiate. Provenance ## Where the data comes from, and what you may do with it The question that arrives late and expensively is who is allowed to hold the data. A migration is the moment to check it, because you are signing a new contract anyway. | Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [HeyReach](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/heyreach-api-review) | LinkedIn profile, Work email | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated | | [Dripify](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/dripify-api-review) | Work email, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated | | [Expandi](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/expandi-api-review) | LinkedIn profile, Work email | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated | | [Reply.io](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/sending-apis/reply-io-api-review) | Work email, LinkedIn profile, CRM records | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated | None of these states a redistribution position on its pricing or docs pages. Internally that never matters. Put the rows in something your customers can see and it becomes the question your legal team asks first. Two practical notes that apply to every provider on this page. A compliance badge describes the vendor rather than your use of it, so a GDPR DPA does not give you a lawful basis for the outreach you send. And every one of these vendors runs its own opt-out, which means a person who asks you to delete their record has to be removed from your copy as well as from theirs. Migration ## Moving off HeyReach Written against Dripify, the first pick above, because the steps are the same whichever one you take and the specifics are what make them useful. Swap the name and the order still holds. 01 ### Measure the thing you are about to lose Record last month's sends, replies and bounces as HeyReach's API reports them, per mailbox and per account. Reputation does not move with the vendor, so this is the number the new sender has to reach on the same domains. 02 ### Check which fields change Dripify returns every field HeyReach does, so nothing downstream has to change shape. Confirm the values rather than the keys: the same field can be named, typed or formatted differently on the other side. 03 ### Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order HeyReach authenticates with an API key in an X-API-KEY header. Keys never expire. Dripify uses an API key in an X-Api-Key header, from Settings then API and Integrations. The limits are the part that bites later. HeyReach's limits: 300 requests a minute, shared across every request. Dripify's limits: 60 req/min and 5,000 a day, per API key. 429 carries Retry-After. A loop tuned to the first will either crawl or get throttled on the second. 04 ### Run both for one billing cycle Keep the old key live and route a slice of real traffic to the new one. A month is the shortest honest test, because credit expiry, rollover and the overage rate only show up at renewal and those are where the surprises live. 05 ### Cancel on the renewal date Annual seats and prepaid usage rarely refund mid-term. Check what the contract says about the time you have already paid for, and time the switch to the renewal date. The step people skip is the first one, and it is the only one that cannot be done after the fact. Once the old key is off you have nothing to compare the new one against, so a provider that is quietly worse on your workload looks like a provider that is fine. What practitioners say ## What practitioners say about Dripify Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page. ### The tool is not what gets the account restricted > Solid breakdown. The only thing I'd add is that tool choice matters less than behavior - most restrictions happen because people crank volume too fast or send obviously templated messages. Honestly, hyper-personalization + low daily limits beats any "smart automation" feature long term. LinkedIn punishes spam patterns way more aggressively now. [r/socialmedia](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/1ra0t8h/top_linkedin_automationoutreach_tools_tested_so/) · February 2026 · 2 points The same correction this directory records for cold email, pointed at LinkedIn. The sending tool does not decide deliverability and the automation tool does not decide whether an account survives; the volume curve and the message do. That is worth knowing before a comparison page persuades you the feature list is the risk. It also explains why Dripify's daily action ceilings are fixed rather than left open: up to 75 connection requests and 100-plus messages a day on every plan. A ceiling you cannot raise is a product deciding the thing most likely to get you restricted, which is a feature rather than a limitation. 14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page. What practitioners say ## What practitioners say about Expandi Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page. ### The pressure is on the category, not on one vendor > linkedin has been tightening the screws on all automation tools lately..... expandi, dripify, and pretty much every other player is feeling it... the thing is, linkedin doesn't want automation on their platform and eventually everyone running it at scale gets flagged...many tools have also received written warnings.. what's worked well for us is a co-piloted approach: instead of automating actions, we queue them up in a task manager \[...\]. this keeps things organized and under linkedin's daily limits.... no restrictions so far. [r/LeadGeneration](https://www.reddit.com/r/LeadGeneration/comments/1k0mp7w/expandi_dripify_suddenly_leading_to_linkedin/) · April 2025 · 2 points Worth reading before any comparison on this page persuades you that one vendor is safer than another. The platform risk sits with the category, and a thread titled for two named tools concludes that every player in it is in the same position. The practical takeaway is the one Expandi's own product already encodes: enforced daily action ranges per account and a dedicated country-based IP. A queue that stays under the platform's limits is the mechanism, and whether a vendor enforces that for you or leaves it to a slider is a real difference between the tools on this page. Nothing here is a claim about LinkedIn's policy, which LinkedIn does not publish in a form this directory could cite. 14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page. Verdict ## Should you actually switch? The short answer is at the top of this page. Before you act on it, run the test below, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether that answer holds for you. Before you migrate anything Sending reputation does not transfer, so the migration is a warm-up schedule rather than an export. Confirm the API is on the plan you intend to buy, move one domain first and run it alongside the old sender for two weeks, and compare reply rate on the same list. Moving everything at once is how a working domain gets burned. Keep going ## Head to head, and in a stack [Dripify vs HeyReach Compare Per user against per sender, and the crossover sits at about seventeen LinkedIn accounts. Compare them →](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/compare/dripify-vs-heyreach) [Expandi vs HeyReach Compare Both put everything on one plan. Only one of them lets you read the API reference first. Compare them →](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/compare/expandi-vs-heyreach) [All alternatives 57 Every provider in the directory that teams regularly try to replace, with the reasons and the replacements for each. Browse the hub →](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/alternatives) ## Before you switch, *try the waterfall in Clay.* Clay runs a waterfall across 150+ data providers from one table, without a separate contract with each. A lookup that finds nothing costs no data credit, and the free plan includes 500 actions a month. [Try Clay](https://go.frontal.so/clay) [See all alternatives](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis/alternatives) Frontal is a Clay Elite Studio Partner. FAQ ## Switching from HeyReach, answered **What is the best HeyReach alternative?** It depends on why you are leaving, which is how this page is organized rather than ranked. The first pick here is Dripify, which this directory sums up as "An OpenAPI spec and documented errors for LinkedIn automation", at $59/user/mo annual. The case for it, and what you give up, is in the section above. **Is there a free alternative to HeyReach?** None of the replacements here has a free tier that carries the API. The cheapest route is a trial, and each one's entry price is on its own review. **What is the cheapest HeyReach alternative?** For 3 seats, Reply.io: $147 a month against HeyReach at $237, on the cheapest plan of each that carries the API. The cost model above moves with your own volume. **How were these alternatives chosen?** By the reason teams leave, not by a score. The page opens with the reasons teams leave and matches a replacement to each one. Published by ## [Frontal](https://frontal.so/) Frontal is the go-to-market partner for B2B tech companies past product-market fit. It publishes this directory. Every price, tier requirement and rate limit on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page, developer documentation or knowledge base on the date below. Nothing on it is restated from a press release or a third-party listing. Where a vendor publishes no public figure, this page says so rather than estimating. [How we checked](https://frontal.so/gtm-apis#method). Reviewed by [Kenny Damian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenny-damian-90aba221a/) Co-founder & Head of GTM, Frontal **Verified** 23 to 24 Oct 2026 **Sources** 14 vendor documents Read from - [heyreach.io/pricing](https://www.heyreach.io/pricing) - [documenter.getpostman.com/view](https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/23808049/2sA2xb5F75) - [heyreach.io/cli](https://www.heyreach.io/cli) - [help.heyreach.io/en](https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/12123398-how-to-integrate-heyreach-mcp-with-claude) - [dripify.io/pricing](https://dripify.io/pricing/) - [api.dripify.com](https://api.dripify.com/) - [expandi.io/pricing](https://expandi.io/pricing/) - [help.expandi.io/en](https://help.expandi.io/en/collections/3042112-webhooks-crm-mcp-integrations) - [api.liaufa.com/open-swagger](https://api.liaufa.com/open-swagger/) - [help.expandi.io/en/articles](https://help.expandi.io/en/articles/16004989-how-to-connect-your-ai-tool-to-expandi-expandi-mcp-beta) - [reply.io/pricing](https://reply.io/pricing/) - [apidocs.reply.io](https://apidocs.reply.io/) - [docs.reply.io](https://docs.reply.io/) - [docs.reply.io/mcp](https://docs.reply.io/mcp/overview)