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HeyReach or Dripify for LinkedIn automation
A straight comparison of HeyReach and Dripify for automating LinkedIn connection requests and messages, answered on the same seven dimensions as every other compare page here. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors here, Prospect Engine included, and the page says where it is the wrong answer.
If you only read one part
Dripify is the cheap way for one person to automate their own LinkedIn. HeyReach is the tool you move to when there is more than one sender and somebody has to report on it.
The same questions, both tools
| HeyReach | Dripify | Prospect Engine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it actually does | Runs connection requests, messages and follows from a pool of LinkedIn accounts on one campaign. | Runs a drip of LinkedIn actions from your own account on a schedule you set once. | Takes a market definition or a domain list and returns enriched company and contact rows. |
| Coverage and hit rate | Many senders on one campaign, with the daily limits spread across them and tracked per account. | Connection requests, messages, profile views and endorsements, in a linear sequence. | Public sources, read directly, with the field's origin on the row. |
| What it costs | Per connected LinkedIn account per month, so the bill scales with senders and not with leads. | Per user per month in three tiers, which is the cheapest way onto LinkedIn automation here. | Cents per row, charged on a returned row rather than on an attempt. |
| How it fits a workflow | A real API, webhooks on every reply, and a unified inbox that a team can work together. | It runs in the cloud, so your machine can be off. Exports are CSV and the API is thin. | One API call, or an HTTP column in Clay, and finished rows come back. |
| Where the data comes from | It sends. Lists come from Sales Navigator, from your own export, or from an API push. | It sends. Lists come from a Sales Navigator search or a CSV. | The public web and public registers, named per field. |
| What it takes to set up | Connect the accounts, set the schedule, warm them up slowly. A few days before it is safe at volume. | Under an hour. Connect the account, paste a search URL, start the campaign. | Point it at a market or a list of domains and run it. |
| Where it stops | It is LinkedIn only. Email is a different product and this one does not pretend otherwise. | Built for one operator. Multi account work and team reporting are not what it is for. | It is not a table. Reviewing and editing rows is something you do elsewhere. |
The same seven questions are asked on every compare page here, in this order, so two of these pages can be read against each other.
Who wins what
- HeyReach wins on coverage and hit rate, how it fits a workflow. LinkedIn outreach built for running many sender accounts at once.
- Dripify wins on what it costs, what it takes to set up. A simple LinkedIn sequencer aimed at one person running their own outreach.
- Prospect Engine wins on what it actually does. One call that finds the companies, enriches them and returns finished rows.
- Nobody wins on where the data comes from, where it stops. HeyReach and Dripify give the same answer on those, and we are not going to invent a difference.
Both products
What we would actually do
A founder doing their own outreach should start on Dripify, because it costs a third of the alternative and does the linear sequence perfectly well. The move to HeyReach happens for one of two reasons: a second sender account, or a manager who needs one inbox and one set of numbers across the team. If neither of those is true yet, paying for HeyReach is paying for a shape you do not have. Whichever you pick, the list matters more than the tool, and neither of them builds it.
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