Linked Helper vs Dripify pricing, desktop vs cloud and which is better

The short answer

Linked Helper is the cheaper tool and Dripify is the one that keeps running when your laptop is closed. Linked Helper sells a license per LinkedIn account: Standard at $15 a month or $8.25 on a 12 month term, Pro at $45 or $24.75, and a Cloud Data Storage edition at $16.50 and $33 that stores your data on its servers but still runs the automation on your own computer or VPS. Dripify is $39, $59 and $79 a seat on annual billing, runs every plan in the cloud and includes email steps and 100 email finder credits a month. Pick Linked Helper for the lowest bill and deep LinkedIn control, Dripify for set and forget sending with a follow-up email. If email is the channel that books your meetings, a dedicated cold email tool such as AutoMail does that half better than either.

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Quick verdict

Who each tool is for

Both Linked Helper and Dripify are capable. Here is the shortest honest way to choose, with where AutoMail fits.

Pick Linked Helper

You want the lowest price per LinkedIn account, unlimited campaigns on the cheapest license, and deep control (if/else branching, group and event messaging, InMail, post engagement), and you are fine keeping a computer or a VPS running. Standard at $8.25 a month on a 12 month term is about a fifth of Dripify Basic.

Pick Dripify

You want LinkedIn and a follow-up email in one sequence, running in the cloud with nothing to install or keep awake. Pro at $59 a seat on annual billing gives unlimited campaigns, email steps and 100 email finder credits a month.

Pick AutoMail

Email is the channel that books the meetings and LinkedIn is the second touch. The AI researches each company, writes the opener and follow-ups for that prospect, warms and rotates your own sending inboxes, pauses the moment someone replies and sends interested prospects your booking link. Flat per workspace, from $39 a month on annual billing.

Linked Helper and Dripify both automate the repetitive part of LinkedIn prospecting: connection requests, messages, follow-ups and profile visits, sent on a schedule and stopped when someone replies. Both bill per LinkedIn account, both work with Sales Navigator, and both let you try them before paying. That is where the overlap ends.

The biggest difference is where the work happens. Linked Helper is desktop software on every version it sells. Its pricing page is explicit: the automation runs on your own computer or on a VPS you rent, and your LinkedIn session never sits on its servers. In 2026 it added a Cloud Data Storage edition at roughly double the price, and many buyers read "cloud" as "runs in the cloud". It does not. It moves your workspace data to Linked Helper servers in the United States so teammates can open it from another device. Dripify runs every plan from its own cloud with a dedicated IP per account, so campaigns continue overnight and on weekends with nothing installed.

The second difference is email. Every Dripify plan puts email steps in the same sequence as the LinkedIn steps and includes 100 email finder credits per user a month. Linked Helper finds emails (one data credit each, 620 a month on Standard and 3,100 on Pro) and can push leads to your CRM or a webhook, but its campaign actions are LinkedIn actions. The email follow-up happens in another tool. Every price on this page was read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026.

Side by side

Linked Helper vs Dripify vs AutoMail

Pricing verified September 2026. Capabilities change, so check each vendor for the latest before you buy.

What matters	Linked Helper	Dripify	AutoMail
Built for	Power users and teams who want deep LinkedIn control at a low license price	Sales reps and small teams running LinkedIn plus email sequences	Writing and sending personalized cold email that books meetings
Pricing model	License per LinkedIn account, bought for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months	Per user on three published tiers plus Enterprise	Flat per workspace, unlimited seats
Entry price	Standard $15 a month, $8.25 on a 12 month term ($99 a year)	Basic $59 per user monthly, $39 annual (one campaign)	Starter $49 a month flat, $39 on annual billing
Top self-serve price	Pro $45 a month, $24.75 on 12 months; Cloud Data Storage Pro $59.90 or $33	Advanced $99 monthly, $79 annual	Growth $99 a month flat, $79 on annual billing
Where the automation runs	On your computer or your own VPS, on every edition	Dripify cloud on every plan, dedicated IP per account	Fully cloud based
What "Cloud" means	Cloud Data Storage: workspace data on its US servers, automation still local	The automation itself runs in the cloud	Everything runs in the cloud
Campaigns	Unlimited on Standard and Pro	One on Basic, unlimited from Pro	Unlimited sequences
Daily caps by plan	Standard caps eleven advanced actions (group, event, post and webhook actions) at 20 a day; Pro lifts them	No plan cap on core actions; LinkedIn sets the real limit	Per-inbox send limits with warm-up and rotation
Cold email steps	Not a campaign action; leads go to your CRM or a webhook	Email steps on every paid plan	The core product, with a spam check before each send
Email finding	620 data credits a month on Standard, 3,100 on Pro; one email costs 1 credit, credits never expire	100 email finder credits per user a month	None, bring or sync your own verified list
What LinkedIn allows	About 100 invitations a week for most accounts	About 100 a week for most accounts, whatever the daily setting says	Not applicable; sends from your own warmed mailboxes
Team discounts	10 percent from 10 licenses up to 50 percent at 1,000, multiplied by the term discount	Enterprise quoted by seat count	Flat per workspace, no per-seat fee
Free trial	14 days of full Pro access per LinkedIn account, no card	7 days with Advanced features, no card	One-time demo sequence before you buy
Renewal	Licenses expire unless you turn auto-renewal on	Standard subscription, renews until cancelled	Monthly or annual subscription
AI copywriting	AI messages, reply assistant and commenter on both plans, metered by AI credits	Sequence templates and profile variables; you write the message	Researches each prospect and writes the whole sequence
Platform risk	LinkedIn prohibits third-party automation; restrictions land on your own profile	LinkedIn prohibits third-party automation; restrictions land on your own profile	Your own mailboxes and domains, with warm-up and rotation built in

Comparison reflects publicly available pricing and positioning as of September 2026. Company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

The third option

Where AutoMail fits between them

The AI writes the sequence

Both tools above leave the copy to you. AutoMail researches each prospect and writes a genuine 1:1 opener and follow-ups, so relevance, not just volume, drives the reply rate.

Deliverability built in

Inbox rotation, gradual warm-up and a spam-score check on every send keep personalized copy in the primary inbox, built for the 2026 Google and Microsoft sender rules.

Replies become meetings

When a prospect answers, the sequence pauses, intent is classified, and meeting-ready replies route to your booking link and CRM. Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, no credits.

One honest caveat: AutoMail has no built-in lead database, so bring or sync your own verified list. If prospecting data is what you need most, keep a data tool for that and run the outreach here.

Good questions

Linked Helper vs Dripify, answered

Linked Helper is better if you want the lowest price and the deepest LinkedIn control and can keep a computer or VPS running. Dripify is better if you want campaigns that run in the cloud with no machine to babysit and an email step in the same sequence. Most sales teams choose on that one question: local or cloud.

Buy Dripify Pro at $59 a seat on annual billing if you want LinkedIn plus email, running in the cloud. Buy Linked Helper Standard at $8.25 on a 12 month term if you only need LinkedIn and want the cheapest seat, or Pro at $24.75 if the 20 a day cap on group, event and post actions would bite.

Linked Helper, by a wide margin. On annual terms Linked Helper Standard is $8.25 a LinkedIn account a month against $39 for Dripify Basic, and even Linked Helper Pro at $24.75 costs less than Dripify Basic. The gap narrows only if you add a VPS so Linked Helper can run around the clock.

Linked Helper Standard is $15 a LinkedIn account for one month, $40 for three, $60 for six or $99 for twelve, which works out to $8.25 a month. Pro is $45, $120, $180 or $297. The Cloud Data Storage edition is $29.90 and $59.90 a month, or $198 and $396 a year. Volume discounts start at 10 licenses.

No. Linked Helper is desktop software on every edition, and it says so on its pricing page. The Cloud Data Storage version keeps your workspace data on Linked Helper servers in the United States, but the automation still runs on your computer or on a VPS you control, so that machine must stay on.

Dripify is $39 a user a month on Basic, $59 on Pro and $79 on Advanced with annual billing, or $59, $79 and $99 monthly. Enterprise is quoted by seat count. Each seat connects one LinkedIn account, and every plan includes email steps and 100 email finder credits a month.

Not as a campaign step. Linked Helper finds emails with data credits, one credit per email, and can send leads to your CRM or to a webhook, but the actions in its campaign builder are LinkedIn actions. Dripify runs email steps inside the LinkedIn sequence on every plan, and a dedicated sender like AutoMail handles email at volume.

No. Linked Helper's own FAQ says the machine running it has to be on with the app open, on both editions. For around-the-clock campaigns it suggests renting a VPS and running Linked Helper there. Dripify has no such requirement because it runs from its own cloud.

Pro lifts the 20 a day cap on eleven advanced actions, such as messaging group members or event attendees, liking and commenting on posts and sending profiles to webhooks or your CRM. It also adds messaging-history export, 3,100 data credits a month instead of 620, and about double the AI credits.

Both automate invitations, messages and follow-ups and both support Sales Navigator. Linked Helper covers more LinkedIn sources and actions, including groups, events, InMail and post engagement, with if/else branching. Dripify is simpler to set up, runs in the cloud and adds email steps. Pick on control versus convenience.

Neither is safe in the strict sense, because LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits third-party automation and restrictions land on your own profile. Linked Helper runs from your own machine and IP; Dripify runs each account from a dedicated cloud IP. Staying under about 100 invitations a week matters more than which tool you pick.

Partly. Linked Helper has AI messages and an AI reply assistant metered by AI credits, and Dripify gives you templates and profile variables, but you still design the sequence. AutoMail does the whole job for the email channel: it researches each prospect, writes the sequence, sends from your warmed inboxes and routes interested replies to your calendar.

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