The 6 Best Waalaxy Alternatives for LinkedIn Outreach in 2026

Waalaxy changed shape this year, and most comparison articles have not caught up. The Chrome extension was pulled from the Chrome Web Store in 2026 and everything now runs at app.waalaxy.com. Campaigns continue with your browser closed, which is genuinely more convenient, and your LinkedIn account is now signed in from Waalaxy infrastructure rather than your own connection.

Their documentation is unusually candid about what that means: a VPN IP near your location, shared with up to five other Waalaxy users. If you picked Waalaxy partly because an extension felt safer than a cloud tool, the thing you chose no longer exists.

Pricing is 19, 49 or 69 euros per user per month, and the old free tier is effectively gone: you can browse without paying, but importing prospects and launching campaigns needs a subscription. Here are six alternatives worth the comparison.

Waalaxy alternatives at a glance

Tool	From	Priced per	Runs	Finds leads
Linked Helper	$8.25/mo	LinkedIn account	your machine, desktop app	no
Octopus CRM	$9.99/mo	LinkedIn account	your machine, extension	no
Reachy AI	$39/mo	flat, 1 account	your machine, desktop app	yes, from signals
Dripify	$59/mo	user	cloud	no
La Growth Machine	€60/mo	identity	cloud, dedicated mobile proxy	no
Expandi	$99/mo	seat	cloud, dedicated country IP	no
Waalaxy	€19/mo	user	cloud, shared IP	no

Vendor-published prices as of August 2026. Several of these changed this year, so re-check before you commit.

Why look for a Waalaxy alternative?

The architecture changed underneath you. Cloud execution is a real convenience and a real trade. The mechanics are in cloud vs local LinkedIn automation, but the short version is that a shared IP is the weakest isolation model on this list.

Billing is the loudest complaint. Across Trustpilot and Capterra, the recurring theme is not the product, it is unexpected auto-renewals, unclear trial terms and slow refunds. Worth reading recent reviews before you subscribe annually.

Support runs on French office hours. Nine to six, France time. If you are in the Americas or APAC, that is effectively next-day support.

The invite ceiling barely moves. Pro allows 300 invites a month, Advanced and Business 800. Above that you are buying more seats, not more capacity, and the per-seat maths gets steep quickly.

Email is gated to the top tier. At 19 or 49 euros you are LinkedIn-only.

Credit where it is due: Waalaxy has the largest review base in this category by a wide margin, at 4.5 on G2 from over 1,500 reviews, and the onboarding is genuinely the friendliest here. Their claim that most users had never done outreach before is believable, and that is not a small achievement.

1. Reachy AI, if you want your own IP back

Disclosure: this is my product, so check the rest independently.

If the cloud migration is what bothers you, this is the direct answer. Reachy AI is a desktop app that runs from your own machine, behind your own IP, at human pace. No shared VPN, no proxies, no datacenter fingerprint.

It also covers the step Waalaxy does not: sourcing. Paste your website URL and it works out your ICP, then builds lists from live signals, who reacted to a post, who joined a group, who follows a creator, who attended an event. It scores each contact against your ICP, writes the sequence with your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key at no markup, and sends it.

Pricing is flat: $39 for one account, $79 for five, $179 for fifteen. No per-invite ceilings and no email tier to upgrade into.

Pick something else if you need campaigns running overnight with your laptop closed. That is the honest cost of local execution.

2. Linked Helper, if price is the whole problem

$8.25 a month on an annual term is the floor for a serious tool, and like Reachy AI it is a desktop app running from your own IP. Deep, granular workflow control, local data storage, and support that reviewers describe in minutes rather than days. Capterra 4.9 from 276 reviews.

The catches are real: a steep learning curve, a dated interface, roughly 2.5 GB of RAM per account, and no native email sending at all. The email step hands the address to Snov.io.

Pick it if you are technical, patient and cost-sensitive. See Reachy AI vs Linked Helper for where the two diverge.

3. Dripify, if you want cloud done more cleanly

$59 a month, or $39 annually, cloud, with a regional dedicated IP per account rather than a shared one. Email included on every paid tier rather than gated to the top. Capterra 4.7 from 477 reviews.

Watch the entry plan: Basic gives you one campaign that cannot be edited or archived, which several reviewers describe as closer to a demo than a product. Budget for Pro.

Pick it if you want to stay in the cloud but want your own IP and email in the base price. Reachy AI vs Dripify.

4. La Growth Machine, if you want the strongest cloud isolation

From 60 euros per identity, cloud, no extension, and each identity gets a dedicated 5G mobile proxy. That is carrier-level isolation and the best answer available to the shared-IP problem without leaving the cloud. Four genuine channels: LinkedIn, email, calls and X, with conditional branching.

Per-identity billing compounds hard. Ten client identities lands around 1,000 euros a month with no plateau before custom pricing.

Pick it if multichannel sequencing matters more than cost and you want the safest cloud architecture on this list.

5. Expandi, if you want the mature option

$99 a seat, $79 annually, dedicated country-based IPs, automatic warm-up and a long operating record. Native email with warm-up and open tracking, which is more complete than Waalaxy at any tier.

It is the most expensive option here and there is no free plan, only a seven-day trial. G2 rates it 4.3, the lowest of the cloud tools, and billing errors come up more than once in reviews.

Pick it if you want the incumbent and the budget is not the constraint. Reachy AI vs Expandi.

6. Octopus CRM, if you are still testing the channel

$9.99 to $39.99 a month, a Chrome extension, running on your machine. No AI writing, no sourcing, no depth. What it does have is the lowest credible price in the category and the same IP advantage as any local tool.

Pick it if you want to find out whether LinkedIn outreach works for your market before spending properly.

Which should you actually pick?

• You left because of the cloud migration: Reachy AI or Linked Helper, both local.
• You want to stay cloud but not share an IP: Dripify, or La Growth Machine if budget allows.
• You need lead sourcing, not just sending: Reachy AI.
• Price is the whole decision: Linked Helper or Octopus CRM.
• You run five or more client accounts: compare flat pricing carefully. Per-seat models stop making sense somewhere between five and ten accounts.

Before switching anything, check how close your accounts actually run to their weekly ceiling. Most people find the real limit is LinkedIn’s invitation cap, not the tool enforcing it.

Download Reachy AI if you want sourcing and sending in one place, on your own machine. Fourteen-day trial, no card.