Dripify vs HeyReach
Dripify
Best documented LinkedIn automation API $39/HeyReach
API, webhooks and MCP on the $79 entry plan $79/Dripify vs HeyReach both charge by the LinkedIn account and the arithmetic crosses over at a specific point worth knowing. Dripify is $59 a seat a month on Pro billed annually, and one seat is one LinkedIn account. HeyReach is $79 a sender on Growth, so at small numbers Dripify is cheaper, but from thirteen accounts upward HeyReach's $999 Agency plan is the cheaper way to buy them.
Where they actually differ
Every value comes from the same record that drives the Sending APIs listing, so this table cannot disagree with the cards. Accented tags are data one provider returns and the other does not.
| Compare | Dripify | HeyReach |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | One seat is one LinkedIn account, and the API starts at Pro | Priced per LinkedIn sender, with nothing gated behind a tier |
| Entry price | $39/user/mo annual | $79/sender/mo |
| Unit cost | Not sold by the unit | Not sold by the unit |
| Billing model | Subscription Per seat Credit packs | Subscription Per seat |
| Free tier | No free tier. 7-day trial on Advanced features, no card. | No free tier. Free trial, and senders are added one at a time. |
| GTM motion covered | Engage | Engage |
| Data returned | Work emailLinkedIn profile | LinkedIn profileWork email |
| MCP server | Yes https://app.dripify.com/api/v1/mcp | Yes Per workspace, from Integrations |
| Interfaces | REST API MCP server Webhooks | REST API MCP server Webhooks |
| Auth | API key in an X-Api-Key header, from Settings then API and Integrations | API key in an X-API-KEY header. Keys never expire |
| Rate limits | 60 req/min and 5,000 a day, per API key. 429 carries Retry-After. | 300 requests a minute, shared across every request. |
| Coverage | Global | Global |
| Compliance | GDPR DPA | GDPR DPA |
| Best for | Best documented LinkedIn automation API | API, webhooks and MCP on the $79 entry plan |
Pick each one when
Dripify
- Twelve LinkedIn accounts or fewer, where $59 a seat is the cheaper line.
- A downloadable OpenAPI spec and documented 401, 403 and 404 behavior.
- Email steps and an email finder inside the same tool.
HeyReach
- Thirteen accounts or more: $999 for 25 senders beats $79 each from there up.
- 300 requests a minute, and the API and MCP on the entry plan rather than at Pro.
- Client workspaces and whitelabel for running outreach on behalf of others.
A sender's rate card is not the part that bites. Confirm the API is on the plan you intend to buy, then run one real sequence of 200 contacts through each on a mailbox you have already warmed, and compare what the API tells you afterwards: which replies it classifies, what it reports on a bounce, and whether the webhook arrives at all. None of that is on a pricing page.
What each one costs, tier by tier
Both publish a full rate card, so this comparison runs on numbers rather than on adjectives. Dripify lists 4 tiers and HeyReach lists 3. Every figure is read off the vendor's own pricing page, and the pages they came from are listed at the foot of this one.
| The short version | Dripify | HeyReach |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | Basic, $39 | Growth, $79 |
| Tiers published | 4 | 3 |
| Free tier | No free tier. 7-day trial on Advanced features, no card. | No free tier. Free trial, and senders are added one at a time. |
| Unit cost at entry | Not sold by the unit | Not sold by the unit |
The cheapest paid plan is rarely the plan you end up on, because what moves you up a tier is usually volume rather than a feature. The two rate cards below are what you are choosing between.
Dripify
Dripify publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $39 to Quote.
Basic
- 20 connection requests and 30 messages a day
- One campaign at a time
- No API, no MCP, no webhooks, no Zapier
Pro
- Full daily quotas, 75 requests and up
- Open API and MCP server
- Webhooks, HubSpot, dedicated inbox, CSV export
Advanced
- Everything in Pro plus evergreen campaigns
- Adaptive activity control and team management
- Advanced LinkedIn protection
Enterprise
- Premium onboarding and dedicated support
- A customer success manager
- Priced on seat count
HeyReach
HeyReach publishes 3 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $79 to Custom.
Growth
- $71 a sender billed quarterly, 20% off yearly
- Unlimited campaigns and all LinkedIn actions
- 100 enrichment credits per sender
- MCP server included
Agency
- 1,000 enrichment credits
- Whitelabel included
- A 50-sender option is offered with no price shown
- Unified inbox across every sender
Done for you
- ICP research, campaign setup and reporting
- Priced on the engagement rather than on seats
What Dripify and HeyReach cost at your volume
Put your own volume in. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers it on each side, which is the question a rate card cannot answer and the one that decides the bill.
Dripify
Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume.
HeyReach
Priced per seat, so the bill moves with headcount rather than with volume.
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 before any discount you negotiate and before annual billing, which most of these vendors discount.
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. Dripify and HeyReach are priced per seat, so those columns do not move with volume. The figure shown is 3 seats for a year.
| A year at | Dripify | HeyReach |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | $2,124 Pro | $2,844 Growth |
| 10,000 a month | $2,124 Pro | $2,844 Growth |
| 50,000 a month | $2,124 Pro | $2,844 Growth |
2 of the 2 providers here publish enough to be put in this table. These are list prices on the published plan that covers each volume, so they are the number before you negotiate and before annual billing, which most of these vendors discount by between a fifth and a half.
How this plays out once it is running
HeyReach sells 25 senders for $999 a month, which works out at about $40 each. Twelve senders on Growth is $948 and thirteen is $1,027, so the crossover is sharp: at 25 accounts Dripify Pro is $1,475 against $999. The Unlimited plan at $2,999 is capped at 300 senders by fair use.
On the integration surface they are closely matched and HeyReach is slightly ahead on access: it puts the API, webhooks, an MCP server and client workspaces on the $79 entry plan, where Dripify holds all of that back until Pro, and HeyReach allows 300 requests a minute against Dripify's 60. Dripify is ahead on documentation, with a downloadable OpenAPI specification, three meaningful error codes and a published daily cap as well as a per-minute one. HeyReach also ships native Instantly and Smartlead integrations for running the email half in a dedicated sender, which is the right architecture for multichannel and something Dripify does in-house instead.
What each one is genuinely good at
Not a feature list. These are the things that make somebody keep paying after the novelty has worn off, which is a different question from what the marketing page leads with.
Dripify
Cheaper up to twelve accounts
Pro is $59 a seat a month billed annually, one seat per LinkedIn account, against HeyReach's $79 a sender. Below about thirteen accounts that difference is the comparison, and for a team of three it is $60 a month.
A downloadable OpenAPI spec and documented error behavior
Published rate limits of 60 requests a minute and 5,000 a day per key, a 429 that carries Retry-After, and documented 401, 403 and 404 responses. That is the best API documentation in LinkedIn automation and it shortens an integration by days.
Email steps and an email finder in the same tool
Email finder credits cost $0.0099 each and are only spent when a find succeeds. For a motion that is LinkedIn-first with email follow-up, keeping both in one sequence avoids stitching two vendors together, which HeyReach handles through native Instantly and Smartlead integrations instead.
HeyReach
The arithmetic inverts at about thirteen accounts
$999 a month for 25 senders works out at $40 a sender, against $79 each on Growth and $59 a seat on Dripify Pro. From roughly thirteen accounts upward the Agency plan is the cheapest way to buy LinkedIn automation in this directory.
The API, webhooks and an MCP server are on the entry plan
Nothing is reserved for a higher tier, where Dripify puts all three behind Pro. HeyReach also publishes 300 requests a minute shared across every request, and API keys that never expire, which removes a class of rotation maintenance.
Client workspaces and whitelabel for running outreach for others
Included from the Agency plan, with 1,000 enrichment credits. If the business is doing LinkedIn outreach on behalf of clients, that is the feature set the pricing is built around and Dripify does not have an equivalent.
Where each one falls down
Every provider on this site has a case it handles badly, and the people who find out are the ones who bought it for that case. These are the ones worth knowing before you sign rather than after.
Dripify
Basic has none of the integration surface
No API, no MCP, no webhooks at $39 a user. The plan that looks like the cheap entry is not a cheaper version of the product being compared here, and a build starts at $59.
Per-seat pricing with no volume shape
Every account costs the same $59, forever. There is no agency tier and no bulk rate, so a business running twenty accounts pays twenty times one account, which is precisely where HeyReach's model pulls ahead.
HeyReach
More expensive below thirteen accounts
$79 a sender against $59 a seat. For a single operator or a small team, you are paying a premium for an agency-shaped product and using none of the agency features.
The 50-sender option has no published price
Growth is $79 a sender and Agency is $999 for 25, and a 50-sender option appears as a selector with no figure attached. Above 25 senders you are back to asking, which is the thing the published ladder was meant to avoid.
Senders are added one at a time
There is no free tier, only a trial, and seats are provisioned per LinkedIn account. For an agency onboarding a client that is a small operational tax on every new account.
Using Dripify and HeyReach together
A two-way comparison assumes the answer is one of them. On this pairing it often is not, and the arrangement below is what teams actually end up running.
Both drive the same LinkedIn accounts, so this is a replacement decision. Two automation tools on one profile is how an account gets restricted, and no cost saving survives that.
The one time both appear legitimately is during a migration at the crossover point, where an agency growing past a dozen accounts moves the new ones onto HeyReach and leaves the existing ones on Dripify until renewal. Keep the split by account rather than by campaign, let each account settle for a week, and watch for restrictions before moving the next.
Dripify or HeyReach, for you
Two questions, answered from the same records as the rest of this page. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no result to email yourself.
Each answer leans one way. The recommendation appears here once you have picked at least two.
A tool like this can only weigh what is on the page. It does not know your segment, and the one test that does is the bake-off further down: real rows, cheapest entry on each side, spend divided by survivors.
Where an answer leans on a certification or an integration, it means that vendor publishes it on the pages this directory read, which is not the same as the other one lacking it. The sources are listed at the foot of the page.
Where the data comes from, and what you may do with it
The question that arrives late and expensively is not how good the data is, it is who is allowed to hold it. These are the fields each one returns, the coverage it claims and the compliance it publishes.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dripify | Work email, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| HeyReach | LinkedIn profile, Work email | 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, not 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.
Moving between Dripify and HeyReach
Most readers of this page are already on one of these two. A swap is four hours of code and a month of watching, and the order below is the one that catches the expensive mistakes while they are still free.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Run 500 rows you already have through Dripify and record the match rate, the fields that came back populated and the cost. Without that number a migration cannot be judged, because every provider looks cheaper per unit than the one you are paying for today.
Check the fields, not the field count
HeyReach returns every field Dripify does, so nothing downstream has to change shape. Confirm the values rather than the keys: two providers can both return a mobile number and disagree about which one it is.
Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order
Dripify authenticates with API key in an X-Api-Key header, from Settings then API and Integrations. HeyReach uses API key in an X-API-KEY header. Keys never expire.
The limits are the part that bites later. Dripify rate: 60 req/min and 5,000 a day, per API key. 429 carries Retry-After.
HeyReach rate: 300 requests a minute, shared across every request. A loop tuned to the first will either crawl or get throttled on the second.
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.
Cancel on the renewal date, not before
Credits on most of these plans do not survive a downgrade. Check what happens to the balance you have already paid for, and time the switch so you are not buying the same records twice.
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 match rate against, so a provider that is quietly worse on your segment looks like a provider that is fine.
What practitioners say about Dripify
The one part of this page that is not a vendor claim. Quotes are transcribed as written, linked to the thread, and nothing here is the only source for a figure in the tables above. Where a comment makes its point in crude words, we summarize it in our own words instead of quoting it.
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 · 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 set by plan rather than left open: 20 requests a day on Basic and 75 and up on Pro. 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.
Restrictions cluster around account hygiene, not campaign volume alone
In our words: Someone who has run hundreds of LinkedIn accounts through Dripify and its rivals says the restricted ones are the accounts with safety features off and every action maxed, several accounts per person, a new account making a purchase, or an assistant logging in from another country.
r/LinkedInTips · April 2026 · summarized rather than quoted
Every item on that list is about the account rather than the software: safety features switched off, action ceilings maxed, several accounts from one person, a brand new account making a purchase, and a login from a different country than the profile. None of those is the automation tool.
Treat the specifics as a signal rather than as policy. LinkedIn publishes no automation rules this directory can cite, so nothing here is a figure the site stands behind, and the operational point stands on its own: the account is the asset you cannot replace, and the cheapest protection is leaving the safety defaults alone.
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.
The wider field for both
A two-way comparison assumes the answer is one of these two. Often it is not, and the reason you are comparing them at all points somewhere else entirely: Dripify alternatives both start from the reason people leave.
Related comparisons
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Dripify and HeyReach, answered
Read from the same records that drive the table above.
Is Dripify or HeyReach cheaper?
On the entry plan it is Dripify, $39/user/mo annual against HeyReach at $79/sender/mo. The entry price is the comparable figure, because they do not meter the same thing.
Can I try Dripify and HeyReach for free?
Dripify: No free tier. 7-day trial on Advanced features, no card. HeyReach: No free tier. Free trial, and senders are added one at a time.
What are the rate limits on Dripify and HeyReach?
Dripify: 60 req/min and 5,000 a day, per API key. 429 carries Retry-After. HeyReach: 300 requests a minute, shared across every request.
Do Dripify and HeyReach both have MCP servers?
Both do. Dripify: https://app.dripify.com/api/v1/mcp. HeyReach: Per workspace, from Integrations.
Which is better, Dripify or HeyReach?
Dripify vs HeyReach both charge by the LinkedIn account and the arithmetic crosses over at a specific point worth knowing. Dripify is $59 a seat a month on Pro billed annually, and one seat is one LinkedIn account.
What are the downsides of Dripify and HeyReach?
Measured against each other rather than in general. Dripify: there is no free tier, only a trial, so test your own list inside its limits before paying. HeyReach: there is no free tier, only a trial, so test your own list inside its limits before paying.
Can you use Dripify and HeyReach together?
Both drive the same LinkedIn accounts, so this is a replacement decision. Two automation tools on one profile is how an account gets restricted, and no cost saving survives that.
Can I migrate from Dripify to HeyReach without losing data?
The fields survive: HeyReach returns everything Dripify does. What changes is the auth and the limits. Either way, measure your match rate on 500 rows before you switch, because that number is the one you cannot recover afterwards.