Waalaxy alternatives: the full list, with what each one actually costs and where it runs.

First: which of the two reasons is yours?

Almost everyone leaving Waalaxy is leaving for one of two reasons, and they lead to opposite answers.

You hit the invitation cap. Waalaxy meters what you may send: 300 LinkedIn invitations a month on the €19 Pro plan, 800 on Advanced and Business. If that number is the problem, you are not looking for a different architecture — you are looking for a tool that either allows more or does not count at all.

Waalaxy moved to the cloud. From its own help centre, updated 1 July 2026: "The Waalaxy Chrome extension has been removed. Waalaxy works directly in your browser at app.waalaxy.com." If you chose Waalaxy precisely because it ran in your own browser, the product you bought no longer exists, and what you want is a tool that still runs on hardware you control.

The rest of this page is the list, and then which one fits which reason.

The alternatives, side by side

Checked on each company's own pages on 12 August 2026. Prices are left in the currency each company publishes — converting them produces a table that goes wrong on its own.

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Two things stand out once the table is in one place, and neither is in anyone's marketing:

1. Almost every one of them meters something. Invitations, daily actions, enrichment credits, AI credits. We-Connect is the exception and says so on its own page — "No credit caps, no locked features" — so "the only one without a counter" would be a claim we cannot make. What is true is narrower and more useful: Booost's ceilings are anti-ban limits, identical on both editions, and they exist to keep the account alive rather than to move you up a tier — and it is the only tool here that runs on your own AI key, or on a model on your own machine, so the AI bill is yours to see rather than ours to meter.
2. Two of them publish, and it costs extra. Most of this list is outreach only. We-Connect publishes through Post Remix, sold separately at $16 per seat a month; Meet Alfred publishes and schedules on four social networks, included. So "only Booost does content" is false, and we are not going to write it. What stays genuinely ours is the half upstream of the post: Booost builds the draft from your own sources — RSS, Reddit, the web — groups what several outlets say about the same subject, and runs it through fact-check and faithfulness gates before it reaches you. Nobody else on this page reads your sources at all.

If you left because of the cap

Your shortlist is short, because most of these replace one counter with another.

• Dripify looks cheapest at $39 a month, but read what that buys: one campaign and 20 connection requests a day. Full daily quotas are a paid upgrade. If the Waalaxy cap annoyed you, the Dripify entry plan will annoy you more.
• Expandi does not sell you a volume tier: limits are configurable ranges, tuned per account, at $99 ($79 annual). It is the closest like-for-like upgrade if you want to stay in the cloud.
• HeyReach is the answer if the real problem was accounts, not invitations — $999 for twenty-five senders, with automatic rotation between them.
• Booost has no invitation quota at any tier. The only limits are the anti-ban ones. It costs more per account than Waalaxy (€79–99 against €19–69) and does considerably more; whether that trade is worth it is the last section.

If you left because it went to the cloud

Then the question is not features, it is whose machine acts as you, and the list collapses to two.

Linked Helper is a desktop application — "Desktop app, not a Chrome extension" — running from your own IP, with a local database, and it is the cheapest tool on this page at $15–45 a month. It publishes official guides for installing on a VPS or dedicated server, so it can run around the clock on hardware you rent. On price, it wins. Its AI, though, is metered — 250 credits a month, 500 on Pro — while Booost's is flat on Pro: no key, no credit bundles, no tokens to top up.

Booost Business is the other one. It is a desktop app too, and every release ships a Linux .deb and an AppImage next to the Windows and macOS builds — the licence allows installing on "any device of your own", so a Debian server you rent works and campaigns run around the clock. Your LinkedIn and X sessions and the IP those networks see never leave the machine.

Everything else on this page — Expandi, HeyReach, Dripify, and Waalaxy itself — is cloud. If the cloud move is what pushed you out, they are not alternatives, they are the same decision again.

Where Booost actually fits

We build Booost, so read this section knowing that. The facts above are all sourced; this part is the argument.

Booost does both halves of LinkedIn — outreach and content — in one workflow. Meet Alfred and We-Connect publish too, so that is no longer rare on its own; what is rare is where the post comes from. Booost drafts it from your own sources, merges what several outlets say about the same subject into one piece, runs it through fact-check and faithfulness gates, and only then publishes it under your name or as a Company Page and engages around it — in the same workflow that sends the invitations. It also maps the network you already have — every contact scored on six axes with the evidence behind each, and an affinity score that warms with real interaction and cools with silence — instead of working from a list you import or buy.

Its AI is included flat on Pro: no key to configure, no credit bundles, no tokens to top up mid-month.

And what Waalaxy sells that we do not: it is cheaper — €19 against €79 — and it gives you Make, Zapier and n8n modules from the Advanced plan, which Booost has no equivalent for. If a few hundred invitations a month and a no-code integration are the whole job, that price difference is real and you should weigh it.

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 on LinkedIn, regardless of where it runs, and it names browser extensions explicitly. Cloud platforms are covered. Desktop applications are covered. Booost Business is covered, and our Acceptable Use Policy says so in writing. X's automation rules say the same of its own website, and Booost drives both networks the same way: from your machine, at a human pace.

So if any page tells you a tool is "LinkedIn-approved", close it. What differs between these products is the mechanism — whose machine, whose IP, whose session — and nobody has published data comparing restriction rates between architectures.

The exception is Booost Personal, which performs no action on LinkedIn at all: it drafts a comment in your voice and a human publishes it. No cloud tool and no other extension can say that, because both of them act.

Read next

The full page-by-page comparisons, each with its own sources: Booost vs Waalaxy · vs Expandi · vs HeyReach · vs Dripify · vs lemlist · or all of them.

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Sources

Checked 12 August 2026.

• Waalaxy is now fully cloud-based (help centre, updated 1 July 2026) · pricing
• Expandi pricing · HeyReach pricing · Dripify pricing · lemlist pricing · Linked Helper · We-Connect pricing · Post Remix · Meet Alfred pricing
• LinkedIn User Agreement — section 8.2