HeyReach Review 2026: The Price List Is Not On The Pricing Page
Evidence re-fetched · www.heyreach.io
The best agency machinery in LinkedIn outbound — it is the only tool in this directory whose API creates a client workspace and mints its key without a human in a browser — sold by a vendor that states in writing that its product violates the platform it automates.
- Best for
- Agencies and sales teams running ten or more LinkedIn sender accounts who will drive onboarding from code, and who have already decided that sender profiles are consumable.
- Not ideal for
- Anyone outreaching from a profile they cannot afford to lose, teams under about ten senders, and Agency or Unlimited buyers with no proxy infrastructure of their own.
- Pricing
- Growth is $79/mo per LinkedIn sender, $63 on annual — and $59/$47 once you pass ten senders, a rate published only in the help centre. Agency is $999/mo for 25 seats or $1,399 for 50. Unlimited is $2,999/mo and is capped at 300 seats.
- Our confidence
- Every price here was re-derived from page bodies rather than taken from the evidence run's automatic extraction, which reported the quarterly prices as annual, missed two whole tiers, and invented a whitelabel add-on price. The API section is not reported from documentation: we downloaded the published collection and counted the endpoints, methods and folders ourselves, and the rate limit is quoted from its own introduction. No credible restriction-rate figure for this product exists in public, and the page says so rather than picking one.
What holds up
The API creates client workspaces and mints their API keys from code. That is the exact operation Instantly and Smartlead both leave in a browser tab, and for an agency it is the step repeated at every client onboarding.
From official docsSingle sourceConnecting a LinkedIn sender is fully scriptable, security challenge included: Connect, ConnectWithCookies, SubmitPin, Reconnect, Resync, and separate re-logins for Sales Navigator and Recruiter are all endpoints.
From official docsSingle sourceProxies are scriptable too — list countries, read an account's proxy, replace it. That matters more than it sounds, because Agency and Unlimited customers have to supply their own.
From official docs2 sourcesAPI, webhooks and the MCP server are on every plan, including the entry Growth tier. Nothing programmatic is held back for the agency price.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“- API and Webhooks - Workspaces and permissions - [MCP server](https://www.heyreach.io/mcp)”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itselfA seat is a LinkedIn account, not a person. Teammates, VAs and clients cost nothing, so an agency's headcount never enters the bill.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“A sender (or a seat) is a LinkedIn account that you add to your organization. HeyReach don’t charge you for adding team mates, VAs, clients or users. We just charge you per sender/seat or a bundle of senders (see ‘Agency’ and ‘Unlimited’ pricing plans).”
— HeyReach pricing page · The vendor itself300 requests per minute, documented, shared across every endpoint. Comfortable for a nightly agency sync across dozens of workspaces.
From official docsSingle source“HeyReach allows a maximum of 300 requests per minute. All requests are attributed to the same limit. Going above the limit will return a 429 HTTP status code and an error.”
— HeyReach API collection (Postman) · The vendor itselfThe safety limits are enforced rather than advised. At 200 actions in a day a sender is frozen until tomorrow, and the vendor states the rule cannot be overridden.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“Needless to say, HeyReach adheres strictly to this limit. As soon as any profile in your HeyReach account reaches 200 actions, we freeze it until the next day.”
— HeyReach help centre — Is HeyReach safe to use? · The vendor itselfWhen LinkedIn removed its company page, the vendor published a full account of it — including the sentence no vendor in this category volunteers. Candour is not a feature, but it makes the risk legible in a way a marketing page never does.
Vendor's own claimSingle source
What does not
The vendor states plainly that its own product violates LinkedIn's User Agreement, and that no approved LinkedIn outreach automation tool exists. Everything else on this page sits downstream of that sentence.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“LinkedIn's User Agreement explicitly bans software that automates connecting, messaging, liking, and commenting. There is no approved outreach automation tool — ours included.”
— HeyReach blog — the March 2026 LinkedIn action · The vendor itselfOn 25 March 2026 LinkedIn removed HeyReach's company page and restricted the personal profiles of four of its executives, with no notice. Customer accounts were not affected.
Vendor's own claim3 sources agree“On March 25, 2026, LinkedIn removed the HeyReach company page and restricted the personal profiles of our CEO, CTO, CRO, and CMO. No notice, no communication. We just couldn't get in anymore.”
— HeyReach blog — the March 2026 LinkedIn action · The vendor itselfThe pricing page shows three plans. The help centre shows seven. The two it hides are the ones that save money: a volume rate at ten or more senders ($59/$53/$47 against $79/$71/$63) and a second agency tier at $1,399 for 50 seats.
Our read2 sources“| ≥ 10 Senders | - **$59/month** | - **$53/month** | - **$47/month** |”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itself'Unlimited' is capped at 300 seats. The tier's own feature list says 'Unlimited senders - no per-seat charges' — both sentences live on the same page.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“⚠️ **Seat pricing logic is working only for the Growth plan.** On the Agency plan, seats are fixed per tier (25 or 50) and come from a shared pool that can be distributed across any of your client workspaces. Unlimited plan is capped at 300 seats shared pool, and Custom is tailored per your needs.”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itselfThe proxy story inverts as you pay more. The entry plan ships a dedicated static residential IP per sender — the vendor's headline safety mechanism. Agency and Unlimited require you to bring your own, so the tiers built for running 25 to 50 client accounts are the tiers that ship without it.
Our read2 sources“The ‘Starter’ plan provides a dedicated residential proxy to each of the LinkedIn senders, while the ‘Agency’ and ‘Unlimited’ plans require you to bring your own proxies.”
— HeyReach pricing page · The vendor itselfTwo current vendor documents give different weekly connection-request ceilings: roughly 100 a week in the safety article, a hard 200 a week in the newer connection-request article. Both are live.
Our read2 sources“Each of us gets around 100 connection requests to send per week. In HeyReach, we automatically "freeze" any account in your campaign that gets really close to this limit. You don’t need to do it manually, nor can you override this rule.”
— HeyReach help centre — Is HeyReach safe to use? · The vendor itselfThere is a throttle you cannot see. When HeyReach detects LinkedIn pushback it silently delays a sender's requests for hours, and the state is surfaced nowhere in the product — opening a support ticket is the documented way to find out it fired.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“😶🌫️ 'Locks' are not visible across the platform. If you see your sender underperforming and suspect it's due to a lock, please reach out to our support team.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itselfPublished caps are ceilings, not throughput. A sender's daily limit is split across every campaign it runs, and any earlier step in a sequence throttles every step under it — a like-post step at 10/day caps a downstream connection-request step set to 20.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“The action steps that are higher in the sequence, limit the actions below. So, if you have the limit of Like Post action set to 10 per day, and your Connection request limit set to 20 per day, and the delay between them is less than a day - you'll never be able to deliver 20 connection requests per day for that campaign, because you'll always be limited by the 10 like posts per day.”
— HeyReach help centre — Configuring sending limits · The vendor itselfYou hand HeyReach the LinkedIn password and the security PIN, and it drives the account from its own servers. Session expiry, password changes and 2FA or CAPTCHA prompts are all documented reasons a sender drops offline.
From official docs2 sources“• LinkedIn session expired (most common). • Username or password was changed. • Proxy network issues. • Additional verification steps required (e.g., 2FA or CAPTCHA).”
— HeyReach help centre — LinkedIn account status · The vendor itselfNo credible restriction rate exists for this product. Public figures run from under 2% to 40% — an order of magnitude apart, both unsourced, both published by companies selling an alternative.
Our read3 sources agree“Northlight.ai's Q1 2026 analysis reported that roughly 40% of accounts using non-compliant automation tools - explicitly naming HeyReach, Expandi, Dripify, and Waalaxy - received some form of restriction between January and March 2026. The figure covers the full category of cloud-proxy tools, not HeyReach alone.”
— Valley · Sells a competing productThere is a whole marketing page for a HeyReach CLI with no way to install one. The page's 'HeyReach CLI for Mac users' and 'for Windows users' headings link nowhere, and the only heyreach-cli on npm is published by a private individual with no repository attached.
Our read2 sourcesThe vendor's own site disagrees with itself on the numbers it advertises: 7,000+ customers on the homepage against 6,500+ on the pricing page, and a 4.7 G2 score against the 4.6 G2 was showing the same day.
Our read3 sources agreeNo security or compliance page exists on the site. SOC 2, GDPR posture and data residency are undocumented for a product that holds LinkedIn credentials.
Our readSingle source
What a seat is, and why the price list is somewhere else
The unit is right and the publication of it is not. Billing per LinkedIn account rather than per human is the correct model for an agency, but four of the seven plans — including the volume rate that makes the model work — are only in the help centre.
HeyReach charges per connected LinkedIn sender. People are free: teammates, VAs and client users cost nothing. Growth bills per seat with a break at ten. Agency sells fixed pools of 25 or 50 seats that can be spread across client workspaces. Unlimited drops the per-seat charge and takes a flat fee.
Seven plans exist. The pricing page carries three of them.
Our read2 sourcesPast ten senders the Growth rate drops from $79 to $59 monthly, and from $63 to $47 on annual. Nothing on the pricing page says so.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“| ≥ 10 Senders | - **$59/month** | - **$53/month** | - **$47/month** |”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itselfThere is a second agency tier at $1,399/mo for 50 seats. The stray '50 senders' text in the pricing page's markup is the only trace of it there.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“| **Agency 50** | - 50 senders | - $1,399/mo | - $1,259/mo | - $1,119/mo |”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itselfThe Custom tier cannot be bought at all without a conversation — the vendor blocks self-upgrade to it in the product.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“⚠️ You're not able to self upgrade on Custom plan through the product.”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itself
Who this matters to: Anyone modelling cost at scale. At 25 senders the published Growth price says $1,975/mo and the unpublished one says $1,475 — and the Agency tier at $999 undercuts both while adding whitelabel. The cheapest configuration is the one you have to go looking for.
The limits, and the one you cannot see
The enforcement is real and better documented than most of the category. The problem is that the documentation contradicts itself on the number that matters most, and one throttle is invisible by design.
Every sender gets a hard ceiling of 200 actions a day, where an action is any interaction including a profile view, and HeyReach freezes the account on reaching it. Connection requests carry their own weekly cap with a Cooldown Mode that stops sending until Monday. On the entry plan each sender also gets a dedicated static residential IP that is never shared with another account.
The daily ceiling is 200 actions per sender, and hitting it freezes the account until the next day. You cannot override it.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“Needless to say, HeyReach adheres strictly to this limit. As soon as any profile in your HeyReach account reaches 200 actions, we freeze it until the next day.”
— HeyReach help centre — Is HeyReach safe to use? · The vendor itselfThe weekly connection-request ceiling has two current vendor answers, roughly 100 and exactly 200. Only a live account settles which one governs.
Our read2 sources“2. Weekly limit that is capped at 200 Connection Requests per sender, thereby ensuring compliance with LinkedIn's measures.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itselfLinkedIn's own weekly cap is undisclosed and set per account. The vendor says it tops out at 200, which is why the newer number is where it is.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“‼️ LinkedIn does not publicly disclose its weekly Connection Request limit, and it's dynamically determined for each account based on various factors. At most, it goes up to 200 per week.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itself'Locks' delay a sender's sends for hours on LinkedIn pushback and appear nowhere in the interface. The documented way to diagnose an underperforming sender is to ask support whether one fired.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“😶🌫️ 'Locks' are not visible across the platform. If you see your sender underperforming and suspect it's due to a lock, please reach out to our support team.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itselfThe vendor tells operators not to use LinkedIn by hand while HeyReach is running, and not to run a second automation tool alongside it. For a rep who also works LinkedIn manually, that is a real constraint, not a footnote.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“5. Do not commit manual actions on LinkedIn while using HeyReach.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itselfA competitor checked the safety documentation independently and confirmed it, which is worth more than the vendor asserting it.
Third-party reportingSingle source“And it is worth being fair to HeyReach: its help center documents a dedicated static residential proxy per account, a cap of roughly 100 connection requests a week, and an auto-freeze once an account nears 200 actions a day”
— Wonda · Sells a competing product
Who this matters to: Anyone sizing a campaign from the published caps. 200 actions a day per sender is the ceiling before campaign splitting, sequence-step throttling and an invisible lock take their cuts — so the number to plan against is not a number the vendor publishes.
What actually happened in March 2026
A brand takedown, not an account purge — and the distinction holds up under checking. What it does not do is make the underlying risk go away, because the vendor's own explanation of the takedown is also its admission of what the product is.
LinkedIn removed HeyReach's company page and restricted four executives' personal profiles without notice. The vendor published an account of it, framed it as a standing enforcement pattern against the category, and stated that customer accounts and campaigns were unaffected.
Customer accounts were not touched. A competitor writing about the incident reached the same conclusion.
Third-party reporting2 sourcesThe vendor places itself in a list: Apollo, Seamless, Evaboot, Lemlist and LGM have all had the same thing done to them, some more than once.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“Third-party tools losing brand presence is a standing enforcement pattern. We were not singled out, and the pattern will continue. LinkedIn has done this to every major tool in the space — Apollo, Seamless, Evaboot, Lemlist, LGM — sometimes more than once.”
— HeyReach blog — the March 2026 LinkedIn action · The vendor itselfIn the same post the vendor reports aggregate volume: 50.4 million connection requests sent, 10.7 million accepted, a 21.3% average acceptance rate.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“- **Connected with 10,721,715 people** from 50,406,739 total connection requests sent. 21.3% average acceptance rate.”
— HeyReach blog — the March 2026 LinkedIn action · The vendor itselfHow practitioners actually price the risk is the most decision-relevant thing in the third-party corpus, and no vendor page states it: sender accounts are treated as consumables, and founder profiles are kept out of them.
Third-party reportingSingle source“Multiple agency owners told me they treat LinkedIn accounts as somewhat expendable. They use SDR profiles or client profiles, not their personal founder accounts.”
— sbl.so · Sells a competing productG2's aggregated complaint tags for this product are all single digit, and not one of them concerns account restrictions. Either the pain does not reach G2, or people who lose an account do not come back to write about it.
Third-party reportingSingle source“LinkedIn Integration (26)Customer Support (23)Ease of Use (20)Automation (11)Affordable (11)Update Issues (2)Poor Customer Support (2)Limited Features (2)Expensive (2)Campaign Management (2)”
— G2 · Vendor-listing directory
Who this matters to: Anyone choosing which profile to put in the tool. The takedown says nothing about your account; the User Agreement sentence says everything about it. Those are two different findings and they get collapsed constantly.
The agency machinery
This is the part of the product that justifies the price, and the part rivals have not built. It is also where the pricing page stops telling you things — the whitelabel has an unpriced upgrade and an unquantified functional cost.
Agency and Unlimited put multiple client workspaces under one account with a shared seat pool, a master view across all of them, a manager role for external client organisations, and whitelabelling onto your own domain and branding. Each workspace carries its own API key and its own MCP connection.
Whitelabel users lose access to HeyReach-branded features. The vendor states it in three words and never says which features those are.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“‼️ HeyReach-branded features are not available for white-label users.”
— HeyReach help centre — Whitelabel · The vendor itselfThe Agency tier includes exactly one branding. Multiple brandings are an Unlimited-tier add-on whose price appears on no vendor page we fetched.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“With the Agency plan, you get one whitelabel branding included free of charge, while the Unlimited plan offers additional whitelabel brandings across multiple workspaces.”
— HeyReach pricing page · The vendor itselfClay pushes leads straight into a HeyReach campaign as an enrichment column, with personalisation variables usable inside connection notes and InMails. For the GTM-engineering audience this is the integration that decides the stack.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“## HeyReach and Clay are natively integrated! You can easily send leads from Clay into a HeyReach campaign, fully automatically.”
— HeyReach help centre — Clay integration · The vendor itselfThe documented webhook use case is the handoff to email: push the leads who never accepted a connection request into Instantly or Smartlead.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“👀 An example of using a webhook in HeyReach would be pushing leads who didn’t accept your connection request, from HeyReach to Instantly or Smartlead, for further email engagement.”
— HeyReach help centre — Webhooks · The vendor itselfEven competitors put the fit boundary in the same place: below roughly ten senders the product is over-bought — which is also where the vendor's own volume break sits.
Third-party reportingSingle source“HeyReach shines in agency setups and large sales teams managing 10+ LinkedIn accounts.”
— PhantomBuster · Sells a competing product
Who this matters to: Agencies deciding between HeyReach and stitching one together. The multi-tenancy is genuinely built here, including in the API — which is the thing that is expensive to reproduce.
Can you drive it from code?API and agent surface
The best agency-multi-tenancy API in this directory. 82 endpoints, and they cover the operations rivals leave in a browser: creating a client workspace, minting its API key, connecting a LinkedIn account and swapping its proxy. What it cannot do is spend money or tell you when the product is throttling you.
What you still cannot do without a browser
Buy anything. Not one of the 82 endpoints touches billing: seats cannot be added, plans cannot be changed, and the Custom tier cannot be self-upgraded even from inside the product. An agency onboarding a client past its seat pool stops until a human buys more.
From official docs2 sources“⚠️ You're not able to self upgrade on Custom plan through the product.”
— HeyReach help centre — Plans and pricing · The vendor itselfFind out that a sender is being throttled. 'Locks' are surfaced nowhere in the platform, so there is no field to read and no endpoint that could return one — the vendor's documented diagnostic is to message support.
Vendor's own claimSingle source“😶🌫️ 'Locks' are not visible across the platform. If you see your sender underperforming and suspect it's due to a lock, please reach out to our support team.”
— HeyReach help centre — Connection request limits · The vendor itselfOpen a conversation with someone new. inbox/SendMessage needs a conversation that already exists, and the vendor blocks direct messages to anyone not previously contacted — so first contact has to run through a campaign, never a script.
From official docs2 sources“🚨 You cannot send ' **Direct** **Messages**' to leads that haven't been previously contacted from your LinkedIn Inbox or a HeyReach campaign.”
— HeyReach help centre — Direct messages via Unibox · The vendor itselfSet up the whitelabel. Domain, branding and colours are the feature an agency pays the Agency tier for, and no endpoint configures any of it — which means a new client's branded environment is hand-built every time even though the workspace under it was not.
From official docs2 sources
Worth knowing before you build against it
Workspaces, their API keys, their users and the LinkedIn accounts inside them are all creatable from code, with invitations split by role — admins, members and managers each get their own endpoint. This is the client-onboarding path Instantly's 184-endpoint API does not have.
From official docsSingle sourceA LinkedIn account can be connected by credentials or by cookies, have its security PIN submitted, be reconnected, resynced, moved between workspaces, and re-logged into Sales Navigator and Recruiter separately — all without a browser.
From official docsSingle sourceProxy management is in the API: list available countries, read the proxy attached to an account, replace it. On Agency and Unlimited, where you supply your own, that is the difference between scripted onboarding and a manual step per sender.
From official docsSingle sourceThere is no machine-readable specification. The API host redirects /mcp to /swagger and /swagger returns nothing, so the Postman collection is the only artefact — which is why the endpoint count on this page had to be counted rather than cited.
Our readSingle sourceEmail enrichment is exposed as a two-step async job — submit, then poll a job id — rather than a synchronous lookup. Budget for the round trip in any Clay-style pipeline.
From official docsSingle source
Re-fetched 2026-08-27Pricing and what it actually costs
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Growth (under 10 senders) | $79/mo per sender | $63/mo per sender | Unlimited campaigns and all LinkedIn actions · Unified Inbox and multichannel outreach · 100 enrichment credits per sender · API, webhooks and MCP server · Dedicated static residential proxy per sender · No whitelabel, no done-for-you onboarding, no dedicated Slack channel |
| Growth (10 or more senders) | $59/mo per sender | $47/mo per sender | Identical feature set to the tier above · Volume rate published only in the help centre |
| Agency — Micro agency 25 | $999/mo | $799/mo | 25 sender seats, shared pool across client workspaces · 1,000 enrichment credits · One whitelabel branding, done-for-you onboarding, dedicated Slack channel · Master view and manager role for external client organisations · Bring your own proxies |
| Agency — Agency 50 | $1,399/mo | $1,119/mo | 50 sender seats · Same Agency feature set · Absent from the pricing page |
| Unlimited | $2,999/mo | $2,399/mo | No per-seat charge — but a 300-seat shared pool cap · 3,000 enrichment credits · Done-for-you migration and priority support · Multi-brand whitelabels sold as an add-on · Bring your own proxies |
| Done for you | Contact sales | — | ICP research and strategy, full campaign setup · Dedicated GTM engineer and inbox manager · Cannot be self-upgraded to from inside the product |
| Early stage program | Contact sales | — | Under $250,000 ARR and fewer than five people · Closed to existing customers · Described as heavily discounted; no figure published |
Per connected LinkedIn sender, not per person. Monthly, quarterly or yearly, with the discount deepening in that order. Four of the seven plans below appear only in the help centre, not on the pricing page.
Add-ons that change the real number
Priced separately, figure not published where we could verify it:
- Additional whitelabel brandings (Unlimited tier) — “Yes. The 'Agency' and 'Unlimited' plans allow you to have your own domain and branding. With the Agency plan, you get one whitelabel branding included free of charge, while the Unlimited plan offers additional whitelabel brandings across multiple workspaces.”
- Your own proxies (required on Agency and Unlimited) — “What if I want to get the ‘Agency’ or ‘Unlimited’ plan, but I don’t have my own proxies?”
A price only appears on this page when the figure is present in the quoted sentence backing it. These did not clear that bar.
14 days on the entry plan, no card, limited to three LinkedIn accounts, and it does not auto-convert. Agency and Unlimited have a separate 30-day trial that has to be requested through a booking form.
Priced sensibly for its target and published badly. At 25 senders the Agency tier at $999 beats the visible Growth price by nearly half and the hidden volume rate by a third, while adding whitelabel — so the correct plan for a mid-size agency is cheaper than the pricing page makes it look. The costs that do not appear at all are proxies on every tier above entry, and a whitelabel add-on with no published figure.
Reported, not collected by usWhat the review platforms say
One rating, and it is small. 71 reviews, 59 of them from small business, 87% five-star and 2% one-star — a base thin enough that a handful of reviews moves it. HeyReach's own pricing page advertises 4.7 against the 4.6 G2 was displaying on the day we checked. Capterra is effectively empty: a competitor's review reports two reviews there, which we could not confirm at source. Trustpilot blocks this pipeline, so the two Trustpilot reviews circulating in third-party writeups — one calling support slow, one calling it excellent — are unverified here and are not counted above.
YouTube, US/en, 2026-08-27Video reviews worth your time
HeyReach Review & Demo
LeadLoft · 1,043 views · 5:43 · YouTube rank #1
Ranks first for 'HeyReach review' and is the only top result whose description carries no referral or affiliate link. Also the oldest here, so treat its pricing as stale.
HeyReach Beginner Tutorial for 2026
Matt Lucero · 8,403 views · 11:37 · YouTube rank #2
By a wide margin the most-watched independent walkthrough, and the top result for 'HeyReach tutorial'. The description carries an affiliate link (heyreach.io/?via=ml).
Clay + HeyReach Integration Tutorial: Personalized LinkedIn Outreach at Scale
HeyReach · 1,641 views · 38:24 · YouTube rank #4
Thirty-eight minutes on the Clay pipeline specifically — the integration that decides whether this fits a GTM-engineering stack. It is the vendor's own channel, so it shows the happy path only.
How to Use HeyReach (Full Tutorial 2026)
Tim Yakubson · 3,642 views · 29:55 · YouTube rank #3
The longest current end-to-end setup walkthrough. Co-produced with HeyReach by a practitioner who also appears as a testimonial on the pricing page, so read it as vendor material.
Testing Every Feature in HeyReach | What Actually Moved the Needle
Alex Kamel · 53 views · 5:17 · YouTube rank #9
The only feature-by-feature test filmed after the March 2026 takedown. Fifty-three views and an affiliate link — included for its date, not its authority.
Your New Outreach Engine: HeyReach × Instantly Live Demo & Use Cases
Instantly · 1,630 views · 61:12 · YouTube rank #12
An hour on the LinkedIn-to-email handoff, which is the workflow both vendors' documentation points at and neither writes down in detail. Both parties sell into it.
If HeyReach is not it
Expandi
Best if you need
The closest like-for-like: cloud-based, dedicated IP, agency-oriented.
Priced per account with no equivalent to HeyReach's shared seat pool or workspace API, so multi-client onboarding stays manual.
Dripify
Best if you need
A cheaper per-seat tool for a small team running its own profiles.
Bills per user rather than per sender, which inverts the economics the moment one person runs several accounts — and one third-party comparison puts its restriction rate far above HeyReach's, on numbers neither side sources.
Waalaxy
Best if you need
The lowest entry price in the category.
A different weight class — built for individual prospectors, not for an agency running a seat pool across client workspaces.
Dux-Soup
Best if you need
To never hand your LinkedIn password to a third party.
Runs in your own browser session rather than on the vendor's servers, so no credentials leave your machine. The trade is that it stops when your laptop does, and there is no cloud sender rotation. The source for the distinction sells the alternative; the distinction itself is corroborated by HeyReach's own account-status documentation.
La Growth Machine
Best if you need
LinkedIn and email in one native sequence rather than a webhook handoff.
Multichannel is built in rather than integrated; HeyReach's documented path to email is pushing non-accepting leads out to Instantly or Smartlead.
LinkedHelper
Best if you need
A desktop application you run yourself, licensed per LinkedIn account.
Named by HeyReach's own comparisons page as a competitor. Same category, opposite architecture — local execution instead of cloud servers holding credentials.
Sourced from Google People Also AskQuestions buyers actually ask
- Will HeyReach get my LinkedIn account banned?
- Our read
Nobody can honestly give you a rate. The public figures run from under 2% to 40%, an order of magnitude apart, and both come from companies selling an alternative with no primary data attached. What is certain is the exposure: HeyReach itself states that LinkedIn's User Agreement bans software that automates connecting and messaging, and that no approved tool exists. The behaviour of experienced operators is the most useful signal available — they run these campaigns from SDR or client profiles and keep their founder accounts out of it.
- How much does HeyReach actually cost for 25 senders?
- Our read
$999/mo on the Agency tier, or $799 on annual — which includes whitelabel and a shared seat pool across client workspaces. That is cheaper than 25 Growth seats at either the published $79 rate ($1,975) or the unpublished 10+ volume rate of $59 ($1,475). The plan that looks like an upgrade is the cheaper one.
- Is the Unlimited plan really unlimited?
- Vendor's own claim
No. The help centre states the Unlimited plan is capped at a 300-seat shared pool, on the same page whose feature list says 'Unlimited senders - no per-seat charges'. What is genuinely uncapped is people: teammates, VAs and client users are free on every tier.
- Do I need my own proxies?
- Vendor's own claim
On Agency and Unlimited, yes — and the vendor does not price them. Only the entry Growth plan includes a dedicated static residential IP per sender. This is worth pausing on, because that proxy is the vendor's headline safety mechanism and the tiers built for running 25 to 50 client accounts are the tiers that ship without it.
- How many connection requests can one sender actually send per week?
- Our readVendor does not answer this
The vendor's own documentation gives two live answers: roughly 100 in the safety article, a hard 200 in the newer connection-request article. Neither is the number you will get, because a sender's limits are split across every campaign it runs and an earlier sequence step throttles every step beneath it. Only a real account settles it.
- Does HeyReach have an API, and what can it do that others cannot?
- From official docs
82 endpoints, authenticated with an X-API-KEY header at 300 requests a minute. The distinctive part is organisation management: it creates client workspaces, mints their API keys, invites users by role, and moves LinkedIn accounts between workspaces. Creating a workspace from code is something Instantly's much larger API cannot do, and minting an API key is something Smartlead's cannot.
- Is there an OpenAPI spec?
- Our read
No. A Postman collection is the only public reference. The API host redirects /mcp to a /swagger route, and that route returns 404.
- Is there an official HeyReach CLI?
- Our readVendor does not answer this
There is a page for one. There is no install path on it — the Mac and Windows headings link nowhere — and the only heyreach-cli published on npm belongs to a private individual, with no repository and a description conceding it does not cover the full API. The MCP server, by contrast, is real, official and free with any account.
- Can I run first contact from a script?
- From official docs
Not directly. inbox/SendMessage requires an existing conversation, and the vendor blocks direct messages to anyone not previously contacted through the LinkedIn inbox or a HeyReach campaign. You can create and start the campaign from code; the first message has to travel through it.
- What happens to my clients' branded environments if LinkedIn goes after HeyReach again?
- Our readVendor does not answer this
The vendor does not say, and it is the question a whitelabelling agency should be asking. The March 2026 action took the company page and four executive profiles and left customer accounts alone, but nothing on the vendor's site describes what a repeat would mean for a whitelabel tenant.
Final verdict
HeyReach is the best-built agency machine in LinkedIn outbound, and the evidence for that is in the API rather than the marketing. Eighty-two endpoints, and the ones that matter are the boring ones: create a client workspace, mint its API key, invite a manager into it, connect a LinkedIn account, attach a proxy, move the account between workspaces. Instantly's API is more than twice the size and cannot create a workspace. Smartlead's cannot mint a key. If your business is onboarding clients repeatedly, that is the difference between a scripted afternoon and a manual one, and it is the single strongest reason to choose this product.
The pricing is sensible and published badly. Three plans on the pricing page, seven in the help centre, and the four that are hidden include the volume rate that makes the per-seat model work at scale. 'Unlimited' means 300 seats. The proxy that the vendor holds up as its safety mechanism ships with the cheapest plan and not with the two expensive ones. None of that is dishonest exactly, but a buyer who reads only the page they are pointed at will overpay and will not know what they are missing.
Then there is the sentence. HeyReach states in writing that LinkedIn's User Agreement bans what its product does and that no approved tool exists — its own included. That candour is genuinely unusual and it does not reduce the risk by a percentage point. What it does is make the decision honest: the March 2026 takedown hit the vendor's brand and left customer accounts alone, but the exposure it revealed was never about the vendor's page. No credible restriction rate exists in public, the circulating numbers span from under 2% to 40% and every one of them is published by somebody selling an alternative. The only signal worth acting on is behavioural, and it is unanimous: operators who do this at scale run it from profiles they can afford to lose.
Two things we could not settle from documents, and both need an account. The first is throughput — what a 25-sender agency actually delivers in a week once per-sender limits are split across campaigns, sequence steps throttle each other, and the invisible 'Locks' take their cut. Every published cap is a ceiling and the vendor has not published the floor. The second is the weekly connection-request limit itself, where two current vendor articles say roughly 100 and exactly 200. If you are running this today, those are the two numbers worth measuring, and we would rather print them from a real account than guess at them here.
35 sourcesEvery source on this page
- https://www.heyreach.io/HeyReach homepageThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://www.heyreach.io/pricingHeyReach pricing pageThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/14741630-heyreach-plans-and-pricing-what-s-included-and-how-to-chooseHeyReach help centre — Plans and pricingThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
The real price list. It carries four plans the pricing page does not, including the volume rate and the second agency tier.
- https://www.heyreach.io/blog/heyreach-banHeyReach blog — the March 2026 LinkedIn actionThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
The vendor's own account of an enforcement action against itself. Self-interested framing, but it contains the User Agreement admission, which cuts against that interest.
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9877960-is-heyreach-safe-to-useHeyReach help centre — Is HeyReach safe to use?The vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/15128619-how-do-connection-request-limits-work-in-heyreachHeyReach help centre — Connection request limitsThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
The newer of two limit articles. It contradicts the older one on the weekly ceiling; both are live.
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9892903-how-to-configure-my-sending-limitsHeyReach help centre — Configuring sending limitsThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9897768-multiple-linkedin-senders-on-one-campaign-sender-rotationHeyReach help centre — Sender rotationThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9935996-sending-direct-messages-via-heyreach-uniboxHeyReach help centre — Direct messages via UniboxThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9903131-heyreach-whitelabelHeyReach help centre — WhitelabelThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/10461178-what-does-my-linkedin-account-status-meanHeyReach help centre — LinkedIn account statusThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9910966-how-to-integrate-heyreach-with-clayHeyReach help centre — Clay integrationThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/9877965-webhooksHeyReach help centre — WebhooksThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/12117291-how-does-heyreach-mcp-work-with-popular-toolsHeyReach help centre — How the MCP server worksThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://help.heyreach.io/en/articles/12123398-how-to-integrate-heyreach-mcp-with-claudeHeyReach help centre — MCP with ClaudeThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
The source for the per-workspace connection URL and for the fact that regenerating the key changes that URL.
- https://www.heyreach.io/cliHeyReach CLI pageThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
Markets a CLI and publishes the two Claude skill bundles. Contains no link to a CLI.
- https://www.heyreach.io/mcpHeyReach MCP pageThe vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
- https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/23808049/2sA2xb5F75HeyReach API collection (Postman)The vendor itselfchecked 2026-08-27
The vendor's only public API reference. We downloaded the collection rather than reading the rendered page, so the endpoint counts, methods and folder weights on this page were counted from the file itself.
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/heyreach-clinpm registryNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-27
Registry metadata, not editorial. Read for maintainer and repository fields only.
- https://www.g2.com/products/heyreach/reviewsG2Vendor-listing directorychecked 2026-08-27
- https://www.wonda.sh/blog/linkedin-automation-safety-heyreach-banWondaSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Sells a competing product, and independently verified HeyReach's safety documentation rather than attacking it. Corroboration that runs against the source's interest is worth more than corroboration that runs with it.
- https://www.joinvalley.co/blog/linkedin-automation-safety-2026ValleySells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Origin of the 40% restriction figure. Attributes it to a Northlight.ai analysis we could not locate.
- https://openhosst.com/blog/linkedin-automation-toolsOpenHosstSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Repeats the same 40% figure without attribution. Two blogs repeating one unsourced number is one claim, not two sources.
- https://derrick-app.com/tools/heyreach-reviewDerrickSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Origin of the under-2% figure. Also unsourced, also from a party selling an alternative.
- https://www.salesforge.ai/blog/heyreach-reviewSalesforgeSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
- https://sbl.so/blog/heyreach-review-customers/sbl.soSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Cites a Reddit thread it does not link; Reddit is unreachable through this pipeline, so that part is unverified. The account of how agencies treat sender profiles is the usable part.
- https://www.dux-soup.com/blog/the-best-linkedin-automation-tools-tried-and-testedDux-SoupSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Sells the browser-based alternative, so the framing of the credentials point is self-serving. The underlying fact is corroborated by HeyReach's own account-status article.
- https://lagrowthmachine.com/heyreach-review/La Growth MachineSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
Concedes the safety record. Its pricing figures are stale — it quotes a $1,999 Unlimited plan against the live $2,999 — so it is used here for judgement and never for numbers.
- https://octopuscrm.io/blog/heyreach-review/Octopus CRMSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
- https://phantombuster.com/blog/tools/heyreach-alternatives-for-linkedin-automation/PhantomBusterSells a competing productchecked 2026-08-27
- https://becheetah.com/systems-lab/tools/expandi/Cheetah Systems Lab — ExpandiNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-07
- https://becheetah.com/systems-lab/tools/dripify/Cheetah Systems Lab — DripifyNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-07
- https://becheetah.com/systems-lab/tools/waalaxy/Cheetah Systems Lab — WaalaxyNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-08
- https://becheetah.com/systems-lab/tools/dux-soup/Cheetah Systems Lab — Dux-SoupNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-07
- https://becheetah.com/systems-lab/tools/la-growth-machine/Cheetah Systems Lab — La Growth MachineNo disclosed commercial tiechecked 2026-08-07