What you are actually replacing
Expandi's pitch, from its own pages: "Dedicated country-based IP per account, automatic warm-up, fine-tuned daily limit ranges." That is a serious answer to a real problem — a cloud tool logging into your account from a random data centre in another country is asking LinkedIn to notice, and a dedicated IP in your own country removes the most obvious signal.
At $99 per account per month, $79 billed annually, most people leaving are leaving for one of three reasons:
- price, especially at more than a handful of accounts;
- agency economics — Expandi's Agency tier starts at 10 seats;
- or they have decided that an IP the vendor assigns is not the same as their own, and they want the software on hardware they control.
Those lead to three different shortlists.
The alternatives, side by side
Checked on each company's own pages on 12 August 2026. Currencies left as each company publishes them.
| tool | where it runs | publishes content | what it meters | list price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expandi (what you have) | cloud, dedicated country-based IP per account | no | configurable daily ranges | $99 · $79 annual per account |
| Booost Business | desktop app — your laptop or your own server | yes, incl. as a Company Page | nothing — only anti-ban limits | €79 / €99 per managed account |
| Booost Personal | browser extension; automates nothing | drafts comments, you publish | nothing | €19 / €29 per account |
| Waalaxy | cloud, since 1 July 2026 | no | 300–800 invitations/month by plan | €19 / €49 / €69 per user |
| HeyReach | cloud, dedicated residential proxy per sender | no | enrichment credits: 100 / 1,000 / 3,000 | $79 per sender · $999 for 25 |
| Dripify | cloud, dedicated IP in your location | no | daily quotas by plan — 20 connections/day on Basic | $59 / $79 / $99 · from $39 annual |
| lemlist | Chrome extension links your session; execution not publicly documented | no | credits: $10 per 1,000 enrichment | $109 · $87 annual (Multichannel) |
| Linked Helper | desktop app, installable on your own server | no | AI credits: 250/month, 500 on Pro | $15 · $45 |
| We-Connect | cloud | **yes — Post Remix, a $16/seat/month add-on** | seats; says "no credit caps" | $59 per seat, annual |
| Meet Alfred | cloud | yes — LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Instagram | per-user seats | $29 / $39 per user, annual |
Two facts the table makes obvious, and neither is in anyone's marketing:
- Almost every row meters something. Invitations, daily actions, enrichment credits, AI credits. The exception is We-Connect, which advertises "no credit caps, no locked features" — so we are not going to claim Booost is the only one without a counter. What is true: Booost has no plan quota at all, its ceilings are anti-ban limits identical on both editions, and it is the only tool here that runs on your own AI key or a model on your own machine — the AI bill is yours to read rather than ours to meter.
- And the half that is actually rare: only two of these tools publish on LinkedIn — We-Connect through Post Remix, a $16/seat add-on, and Meet Alfred across four networks. What none of them does is build the post from your own sources: Booost reads your feeds, merges what several outlets say about one subject, and passes the draft through fact-check and faithfulness gates before it reaches you.
If you are leaving on price
- Waalaxy is the cheapest cloud option at €19, but it meters invitations (300/month on entry, 800 above) and moved fully to the cloud in July 2026.
- Dripify advertises from $39 annually — read the small print: that is one campaign and 20 connection requests a day. Full quotas are the Pro tier at $59.
- Linked Helper is the cheapest tool on this page at $15–45, and it is a desktop app running from your own IP. Its AI, though, is metered at 250 credits a month (500 on Pro).
- Booost is not the cheap answer: €79–99 per managed account. It costs about what Expandi costs and does a second job — the honest trade is at the bottom.
If you are leaving because of agency economics
HeyReach is built for exactly this and priced for it: $999 a month for twenty-five senders — roughly $40 each — with automatic rotation of sending across connected accounts, a unified inbox across all of them, and no charge for teammates or clients using the platform. If cost per sender is your deciding number, it wins outright, and no page of ours will pretend otherwise.
Expandi's own Agency tier (white-label, roles and permissions, multi-account dashboard, from 10 seats) is the other side of that comparison and may still be the better fit if you need white-label — HeyReach and Expandi both offer it, and Booost does not.
If you decided a rented IP is not your IP
This is the reason that changes the shape of the list, because it removes most of it. Waalaxy, HeyReach and Dripify are all cloud: they answer the IP question the same way Expandi does, with an address the vendor assigns. Choosing one of them is making the same decision again with a different logo.
Two tools on this page run on hardware you control:
Linked Helper — "Desktop app, not a Chrome extension" — runs from your own IP with a local database, and publishes official guides for installing on a VPS or a dedicated server. It is also the cheapest thing here.
Booost Business — a desktop app that ships a Linux .deb and an AppImage with every release; the licence allows installing on "any device of your own", so a Debian server you rent runs campaigns around the clock. Your session and the IP LinkedIn sees stay on a machine you own.
For an agency this also answers the IP question in a way no cloud tool can: one machine per client is one IP per client, and none of them is rented from a vendor.
Where Booost actually fits
We build Booost, so read this knowing that; the facts above are sourced, this is the argument.
At roughly the same money as Expandi, Booost does a second job: it drafts posts from your own sources, publishes them under your name or as a Company Page, and engages with them, in the same workflow as the outreach. It also maps the network you already have — six axes per contact with the evidence behind each, an affinity score that warms with interaction and cools with silence, and a suggested warm path through a mutual connection — instead of building campaigns from imported lists. The AI is flat on Pro: no key, no credits, no tokens.
And what Expandi sells that we do not: white-label, roles and permissions, and more prebuilt campaign shapes — 11 campaign types with 19 actions and 11 conditions. If you run clients under your own brand, that is a reason to stay, and Booost has no answer for it today.
The one claim nobody on this page can make — except one
Section 8.2 of LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits third-party software that automates activity regardless of where it runs, naming browser extensions explicitly. Cloud tools are covered, desktop applications are covered, Booost Business is covered — our Acceptable Use Policy says so in writing.
And on safety specifically, the thing worth knowing while you shop: nobody has published data comparing restriction rates between architectures — not Expandi, not us. Expandi says its limits come from "extensive research and thorough big data analysis" and does not publish the analysis. Argue about the mechanism, which is checkable; be sceptical of any percentage.
Booost Personal is the exception to the 8.2 problem: it performs no action on LinkedIn at all. It drafts, a human publishes.
Read next
Booost vs Expandi · vs Waalaxy · vs HeyReach · vs Dripify · vs lemlist · or all of them.
Booost opens on 1 September 2026. Join the waitlist to keep the founding price.
Sources
Checked 12 August 2026.
- Expandi pricing and expandi.io
- Waalaxy · HeyReach · Dripify · lemlist · Linked Helper · We-Connect · Post Remix · Meet Alfred
- LinkedIn User Agreement — section 8.2