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"Cheapest" is easy to fake with a teaser price that doesn't survive contact with your actual usage — per-seat multipliers, credit systems, and monthly-vs-annual traps all inflate the real number. This page starts with the full price table, then goes deep on the four tools that are genuinely cheap once you read the fine print, not just cheap on the pricing page's top line.
Full price table, cheapest first
| Tool | Entry price | Billing term | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linked Helper Cheapest | $8.25/mo | 12-month, Local Standard | Local or cloud |
| Dux-Soup | $14.99/mo | Monthly, Pro | Local or cloud |
| Waalaxy | €19/mo | Per user, Pro | Local (browser) |
| Dripify | $59/mo | Annual, Pro | Cloud |
| HeyReach | $79/mo | Per sender, Growth | Cloud |
| Expandi | $79/mo | Annual (else $99 monthly) | Cloud |
| Lemlist | $99/mo | Per seat, LinkedIn-capable plan | Cloud |
| Skylead | $100/mo | Flat, All-in-one | Cloud |
Prices checked directly against each vendor's own pricing page. Per-seat and per-sender tools cost more the moment you add a second person — see pricing traps below.
The four that are actually cheap
Below the top of the table, several tools are "cheap" only until you read what the entry tier excludes. These four hold up: the low price gets you a genuinely usable product, not a stripped demo.
Linked Helper Cheapest overall
Best for: the lowest real monthly cost with a genuinely full feature set, not a stripped-down free tier.
Linked Helper's Local Standard plan, billed on the 12-month term, is the cheapest verified entry point across all eight tools in this comparison — and unlike some cheap tiers, it isn't a crippled demo. You get a built-in CRM, unlimited campaigns, and full CSV export at that price; the only real ceiling is a 20/day cap on advanced actions and webhook profiles, which most solo users won't hit. Pricing scales predictably: $15/mo if you pay monthly instead of annually, $24.75/mo for Pro (removes the daily cap), and roughly double either number for the cloud-storage version instead of local.
Dux-Soup
Best for: near-identical positioning to Linked Helper, worth cross-shopping directly against it.
Dux-Soup's Pro tier runs $14.99/month, with roughly 25% off if you commit annually. It's one of the longest-running tools in this category, and like Linked Helper it gives you a choice between running locally (Pro, Turbo) or on Dux-Soup's own infrastructure (Cloud Dux, which jumps to $99/mo — no longer a budget option at that tier).
Waalaxy
Best for: testing the category before committing a card number, via a genuine 14-day trial on every plan.
Waalaxy's Pro plan runs €19 per user per month for 300 invitations, with every tier — including the pricier Advanced and Business plans — running on a real 14-day free trial. There's no permanent free plan as of this writing, so budget for the subscription once the trial ends, but the entry price stays competitive with Linked Helper and Dux-Soup while running as a straightforward browser extension.
Dripify
Best for: the cheapest way into a cloud-based, dedicated-IP tool with email included — once you're past pure browser-extension pricing.
Dripify's Pro plan is $59/month billed annually ($79 monthly), a step up from the three local-execution tools above but still well under the $99–100/month that Expandi, Lemlist, and Skylead charge for broadly similar cloud infrastructure. Every Dripify plan, including the cheaper Basic tier at $39/mo annual, includes a dedicated IP per account and both LinkedIn and email steps in one sequence.
Pricing traps to watch
- Per-seat pricing compounds fast. Dripify, Lemlist, and Waalaxy all charge per user — a 3-person team on Dripify Pro is $177/mo annual, not $59. Linked Helper and Dux-Soup charge per license instead, which is usually cheaper for small teams running one account each.
- Monthly billing is a real markup, not a rounding difference. Linked Helper's Standard plan is $8.25/mo annual versus $15/mo month-to-month — nearly double. The same pattern holds across almost every tool in this comparison.
- "Cloud" versions of local tools cost roughly double. Linked Helper Cloud Standard is $16.50/mo versus $8.25 for Local; Dux-Soup's Cloud Dux jumps to $99/mo versus $14.99 for Pro. You're paying for infrastructure you may not need if you're a solo user comfortable leaving a device running.
- Credit systems hide the real cost of scale. Dripify's email finder credits, Skylead's fair-use email caps, and similar systems on other tools mean the advertised price covers a baseline — heavier usage costs extra, and that extra rarely appears in headline pricing.
When paying more is worth it
None of this means the cheapest tool is always the right call. A few cases where the extra spend is defensible:
- Running several LinkedIn accounts at once — HeyReach's per-sender pricing gets cheaper at scale in a way the flat-license tools don't, and its sender isolation is purpose-built for exactly this.
- Dedicated-IP infrastructure matters more to you than price — Expandi's single $79–99/mo plan buys a country-matched IP per account, which none of the four cheap picks above include.
- You already need email outreach anyway — Lemlist and Skylead bundle LinkedIn with a full email platform; buying them separately (a cheap LinkedIn tool plus a dedicated email tool) can cost more than either bundled option.