The short answer
Octopus CRM is a Chrome extension — its own FAQ sends you to "the Chrome web store" to "add OctopusCRM to your chrome browser" — that automates connection requests, bulk messages to first-degree connections, profile visits and skill endorsements, with a personal CRM, funnels, Zapier and HubSpot. From $6.99 a month, with "50 000+ users" on its home page.
Booost Business is a desktop application with its own browser sessions — one per LinkedIn account, isolated from each other and from the browser you use for everything else. It does outreach and content, maps the network you already have, and puts no quota on what you may send. €99 per managed account per month, €79 on Basic.
This is one of two comparisons on this site where the architecture argument does not apply: both products run on your computer, on your IP, with no third party holding your session. So this page is about the rest — and about a price gap of roughly ten to one, which we state first.
The price, first
Octopus CRM costs $6.99 to $24.99 a month. Booost Business costs €79 to €99 per managed account. If your need is invitations, bulk messages, visits and endorsements from the browser you already use, Octopus CRM is cheaper by an order of magnitude and you should buy it. The rest of this page is for readers who need more than that, and it says what "more" is.
Same side of the line — and what still differs
Section 8.2 of LinkedIn's User Agreement names "browser plug-ins, or browser extensions" before it names anything else. Octopus CRM is a browser extension; Booost Business is a desktop application; both automate, and both are covered. Neither of us can claim LinkedIn's approval — our Acceptable Use Policy says so in writing.
What differs is where the session lives. Octopus CRM runs inside the Chrome profile you use for everything else, on one LinkedIn account at a time. Booost runs each LinkedIn account in its own isolated browser session inside the app: several accounts from one installation, none of them sharing cookies, tabs or history with your personal browsing, and none of them dependent on Chrome staying open. The IP is yours in both cases.
What Booost does that Octopus CRM does not
It manages several accounts from one place, each in its own session. Octopus CRM's plans are per user and per extension. Booost's multi-account management is part of every edition: each LinkedIn account has its own session, its own warm-up state, its own safety counters.
The account is warmed up, not pushed. Octopus CRM has an "Activity control" that sends an alert "right after our system detects the excessive activity on your LinkedIn account". Booost's safety system is the product's spine rather than an alert: weeks of warm-up that gate reads as well as writes, actions spread across a working day, per-account daily caps enforced at execution time, a circuit breaker that opens when LinkedIn's responses change, and a diagnostic panel that says which gate stopped an action and why. The limits are identical on Basic and Pro, and exist to keep the account alive rather than to move you up a tier.
It maps the network you already have. Booost scores every contact on six axes — thematic fit, seniority, activity, target fit, influence and proximity — each with the evidence behind it, and shows your network as a graph connected by company, school and shared themes. The Strategy tab tracks an affinity score (0–100) for people you want in your network, rising with real interactions and cooling with silence, and can suggest a warm path through a mutual connection and draft the note. Octopus CRM's "Personal CRM with stats" stores who you reached and what happened; it does not score your existing network, and nothing in this comparison does.
It publishes. Booost drafts posts from your own sources — feeds you choose, merged across several outlets — runs each draft through quality gates (a fact-check against the web, a faithfulness check against the source), queues it for your approval, and publishes it under your name or as a Company Page, then reacts, comments and reposts around it in the same workflow as the outreach. Octopus CRM's feature list is outreach: invitations, messages, visits, endorsements. Publishing is not on it, and we state that as not listed.
It has an inbox, and an AI that writes in your voice. Booost reads your conversations, classifies them by intent, and drafts replies, comments and posts in your voice in any language — flat on Pro, with your own key across 20 providers on Basic, or with a local model through Ollama so nothing leaves the machine. Octopus CRM's feature list does not mention AI or an inbox, and we state that as not listed.
Built in the EU, GDPR by default, and the desktop app is audited WCAG 2.2 AA.
And Booost Personal is a different product entirely — a browser extension with its own dashboard, for people who want to be present on LinkedIn rather than run campaigns. It reads a post, drafts a comment in your voice in any language, and you publish it. It automates nothing — which is the difference between it and Octopus CRM, which is also an extension and does act. €19–29 per account per month.
Where Octopus CRM is stronger
- Price. $6.99 to $24.99 a month against €79 to €99. Nothing on this page changes that number.
- Simplicity. An extension you add to Chrome, a 7-day trial with no card, four features that do what they say. Booost is an application to install and a product to learn.
- Endorsements. Octopus CRM endorses "up to 7 skills" on your contacts' profiles automatically. Booost does not do endorsements today.
- Zapier and HubSpot. "Push actions from LinkedIn to Zapier" and on to HubSpot, Zoho, Asana, Google Sheets. Booost has no native CRM integration, webhook or public API today — a genuine gap on our side.
- Maturity and reach. "50 000+ users", and compatibility with Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter on the Unlimited plan. Booost opens on 1 September 2026.
Prices, as each company lists them
Read the right-hand column first. Octopus CRM prices per user, one extension, one LinkedIn account at a time; Booost per managed account.
| monthly | what it buys | |
|---|---|---|
| Octopus CRM Starter | $6.99 | auto-invite, bulk messages, auto-view, endorsements, CRM; compatible with Sales Navigator |
| Octopus CRM Pro | $9.99 | the same, at the next tier |
| Octopus CRM Advanced | $14.99 | the same, at the next tier |
| Octopus CRM Unlimited | $24.99 | adds compatibility with Premium and Recruiter; the tier Octopus recommends |
| Booost Business Basic | €79 · €899/year | per managed account; the whole platform, no quota: outreach, content pipeline, publishing as you or as a Company Page, AI inbox, network intelligence — with your own AI key |
| Booost Business Pro | €99 · €999/year | the same, plus Booost's managed AI and every workflow node |
Octopus CRM also offers annual billing at a discount; its home page did not show the annual figures to us, so we do not quote them. Currencies are left as each company publishes them.
Booost's founding price gives the Pro edition at the Basic price — €79 per account — locked for as long as the subscription stays active: a price that stops moving rather than a discount that expires.
The claim nobody in this category can make — except one
Octopus CRM's home page calls itself "the Safest LinkedIn Automation Tool on the Market". We are not going to argue with that sentence, because nobody — us included — can honestly claim LinkedIn's approval, and nobody has published data comparing restriction rates between tools or architectures. Section 8.2 covers extensions and desktop applications alike. Argue about the mechanism, which is checkable: one account in your personal browser, or several accounts in isolated sessions with a warm-up you can inspect.
The exception is Booost Personal, and it is the only clean compliance claim in the category: it performs no action on LinkedIn at all. It drafts, a human publishes. No cloud tool can say that, and no other browser extension can either — Octopus CRM included — because they act.
How to choose
If you want invitations, messages, visits and endorsements from the browser you already use, for the price of a coffee a month, Octopus CRM is the right tool and this page has told you so.
If you run more than one account, want a warm-up you can see rather than an alert after the fact, want the tool to build your presence and not only send your invitations, and want a map of the people already one step away from you — that is the product Booost is, and it costs ten times more.
Booost opens on 1 September 2026. Join the waitlist to keep the founding price.
Sources
Checked 22 August 2026.
- Octopus CRM home — plans and monthly prices, feature list, "Activity control", "50 000+ users"
- Octopus CRM FAQ — "go to the Chrome web store and add OctopusCRM to your chrome browser"
- LinkedIn User Agreement — section 8.2
- LinkedIn: prohibited software and extensions
- Booost prices and what each edition includes: our own terms and pricing