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Dripify
LinkedIn and email drip campaigns run from the vendor's own infrastructure, so sequences continue with your browser closed. Basic USD 39 per seat a month billed annually allows one campaign and 20 connection requests a day; Pro USD 59 opens unlimited campaigns and 75-plus requests and 100-plus messages a day; Advanced USD 79 is marked most popular but publishes the same limits as Pro. Every paid plan includes email sequences and 100 email-finder credits a month. One LinkedIn account per seat, 7-day free trial.
Waalaxy
LinkedIn and email outreach automation, sold per user per month and built for prospecting rather than recruitment. Pro EUR 19 covers LinkedIn sequences with 300 invitations a month; Advanced EUR 49 raises that to 800 and opens the API plus Make, Zapier and n8n; Business EUR 69 adds cold email and multichannel campaigns. A 14-day trial, no free tier. It reads LinkedIn Search, Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite, and pushes to HubSpot and Pipedrive.
Dripify vs Waalaxy
Dripify runs the sequence from the vendor's own infrastructure so it continues with your browser closed, which is convenience and exposure in the same feature; Waalaxy ladders on capability rather than volume, and the reason to move up is cold email joining the sequence rather than more invitations.
Quick verdict
CloseBoth are defensible. A small number of criteria decide it.
Choose Dripify if
- Your sequences run for weeks and must not stall the first day you work from a different machine — hosted execution is on every paid plan, not just the top one
- You want email steps and LinkedIn steps in the same subscription: both come with every paid plan, plus 100 email-finder credits a month at every tier
- You want a week on the full feature set before paying — the trial runs 7 days on the Advanced features rather than a stripped version
Choose Waalaxy if
- You want the cheapest real entry into LinkedIn sequencing: EUR 19 a month for 300 invitations, where the comparable working tier on the other side is USD 59
- You need a fortnight to judge reply rates in your own market — the trial is 14 days on every tier, not 7
- Your ATS is not one the vendor integrates with directly, and the API plus the Make, Zapier and n8n modules from the Advanced tier are how you get data out
Neither, if
- The LinkedIn account is the one your whole desk depends on and you cannot afford to lose it — LinkedIn states members using automation risk restriction, and no vendor's safety language changes that
- You run a full LinkedIn Recruiter seat and expect support for it: one vendor names Recruiter Lite, and compatibility with one says nothing about the other
- You want to blast rather than nurture: both are built for multi-week sequences at controlled volume, and using either as a spam cannon is what gets accounts restricted
This is the best-evidenced pair in the catalogue — published prices, documented quotas and hands-on experience on both sides — and it is still close, because the products genuinely are. From our own use they land near each other on features and on risk, so the decision turns on hosted execution, trial length and whether email belongs in the sequence.
Summary
Choosing the tool that runs a recruiter's LinkedIn outreach sequence without them sending each message by hand
What they have in common
Both automate activity on a LinkedIn account that LinkedIn's own help pages say it does not permit, both publish per-seat prices, both offer a trial, and both are things SourcrLab has actually run rather than only read about. Neither has a free tier to fall back to.
Where they really differ
Where the automation runs, and what the ladder charges for. One hosts execution on every paid plan and prices tiers by daily activity and management features; the other runs against your own session and prices tiers by which channels join the sequence.
Who this decision is for
A recruiter or small desk that already sources inside LinkedIn, has decided to accept the account risk deliberately, and is now choosing between two products that land close to each other on features.
Decision guidance
Choose Dripify if you focus exclusively on LinkedIn outreach and want a clean, dedicated drip campaign builder. Choose Waalaxy if you want multi-channel sequences that combine LinkedIn automation with email follow-ups to increase response rates.
Summary
Dripify and Waalaxy are both LinkedIn automation tools used by recruiters for outbound prospecting. Dripify specializes in LinkedIn drip campaigns with connection requests, messages, and automated follow-ups in a clean sequence builder. Waalaxy extends beyond LinkedIn by offering multi-channel sequences that combine LinkedIn actions with email follow-ups. Dripify is more focused on LinkedIn-only automation, while Waalaxy provides broader multi-channel outreach capabilities.
Side by side, on what decides it
The deciding criterion here is: Whether the sequence has to keep running when your browser is closed, and what you accept in exchange
| Decision factor | Dripify | Waalaxy |
|---|---|---|
| Where the automation actually runs | On the vendor's infrastructure, on every paid plan; sequences continue with the browser closed | Whether execution continues with the browser closed is not established |
| What the entry plan actually allows | Basic at USD 39 a seat: one campaign and 20 connection requests a day, which is a trial with an invoice | Pro at EUR 19: LinkedIn sequences with 300 invitations a month |
| What the ladder charges for | Volume, then management: Pro at USD 59 lifts the daily ceiling; Advanced at USD 79 carries identical quotas and adds team management and analytics | Channels: Advanced and Business both allow 800 invitations a month, and the EUR 20 difference is cold email joining the sequence |
| Email inside the subscription | Email steps on every paid plan, with 100 email-finder credits a month at every tier, not carried forward | Cold email starts on Business at EUR 69; the Advanced tier's email allowance read inconsistently on the same page |
| How long you get to judge it | 7 days on the Advanced feature set | 14 days on every tier |
| What the discount is worth | Annual and monthly figures are both published: USD 39 to 79 annually, USD 59 to 99 monthly | Quarterly is advertised at minus 20 percent and yearly at minus 50, without showing what those come to |
Also weighs on it: Whether email belongs in the same sequence · How long you need to judge reply rates · Where the data has to go afterwards
Commercial facts
Only compare claims that SourcrLab can currently support. Unknowns stay unknown; verify buyer-critical details before purchase.
| Decision factor | Dripify | Waalaxy |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Per User (from From USD 39/seat/month billed annually) | Per User (from From EUR 19/user/month) |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
Where Dripify wins
The campaign finishes whether you are there or not
Hosted execution is the default on every paid plan rather than a top-tier upsell. For a multi-week nurture sequence that is the practical difference between a campaign that completes and one that stalls the first day you work off a different machine, and from our own use it behaves that way.
Email is not the upgrade
LinkedIn and email steps both come with the subscription on every paid plan, plus a monthly allowance of email-finder credits at every tier. Elsewhere in this category the email half is either the reason to move up a tier or a separate product with its own invoice.
Where Waalaxy wins
A fortnight is long enough to learn something
Fourteen days on every tier lets a real sequence run to completion and produce a reply rate from your own market, which is the only test that matters for outreach tooling. Seven days shows you the interface and the first two steps, and then asks for a decision.
There is a route out to systems it does not know
From the Advanced tier the API and the Make, Zapier and n8n modules open up, which is how anything reaches a system the vendor does not integrate with directly. For a recruiter whose applicant tracking system is not on anybody's integration list, that route is the integration.
The cheapest honest way in
EUR 19 a month buys LinkedIn sequences with 300 invitations, which is a working configuration rather than a demo. The comparable tier on the other side is the one at USD 59, because its cheapest plan allows a single campaign and twenty requests a day.
Trade-offs that apply either way
LinkedIn does not permit this, whichever one you pick
LinkedIn's own help pages say it does not permit third-party software, including browser extensions, that scrapes or automates activity on its site, and that members using them risk having accounts restricted or closed. Human-like timing and safety algorithms are mitigations, not permission, and both vendors describe them as the former while selling the latter.
Neither vendor says where your data sits
Hosting location and transfer safeguards are recorded as unknown on both sides. For a European recruiter running candidate outreach through a third party, that is a question the pricing page will not answer and the contract has to, and it applies whether execution is hosted or local.
From our own use they land close together
SourcrLab has run sequences in both, and on features and on risk they are near neighbours rather than opposites. That is worth saying plainly, because a comparison of two similar products is most useful when it names the two or three things that genuinely differ instead of manufacturing a gap.
Reading the two price models
- Compare the working tiers, not the entry ones. On one side the cheapest plan allows a single campaign and 20 connection requests a day, so the honest comparison is USD 59 against EUR 19, not USD 39 against EUR 19.
- Then decide whether you need email in the sequence. That is included on every paid plan on one side and costs EUR 69 on the other, which reverses the price order for a multichannel desk.
- Get the discounted figure in writing before committing on the Waalaxy side: the page advertises minus 20 percent quarterly and minus 50 yearly without rendering what those come to, and half of EUR 69 a seat is a different budget conversation than EUR 69.
Best by scenario
A recruiter who works from a laptop, a desktop and a phone
Hosted execution is exactly the property that keeps a multi-week sequence alive across machines, and it is on every paid plan rather than the top one.
A solo consultant testing whether outreach works at all
Fourteen days is long enough to see a sequence finish and produce a reply rate, and EUR 19 for 300 invitations is a working plan rather than a capped one.
A desk whose LinkedIn account carries every client relationship
Automating that account risks restriction whatever the tool promises. This is a decision to take deliberately, not one to arrive at by comparing feature tables.
What this comparison does not know
Unknowns stay unknown. Verify these with the vendor before deciding — they are the gaps that would change the answer.
- Whether Waalaxy's execution continues with the browser closed
- Hosting location and transfer safeguards, on both sides
- What Waalaxy's quarterly and yearly commitments actually cost
- Whether either works with a full LinkedIn Recruiter seat