Five Curviate alternatives, and the one job each is built for

TL;DR

• The main Curviate alternatives for sales teams are HeyReach, Botdog, Dripify, Expandi and Waalaxy. For a team of reps on their own accounts, Curviate Automate stays the pick.
• Curviate costs $60 per LinkedIn account a month: $240 for four reps, against $316 on HeyReach and $396 on Expandi. Teammates are free.
• Curviate hands each contact to the rep already connected to them, which none of the other five says it does, and its limits stop the sending.

These are the five tools a sales team weighs against Curviate: HeyReach, Botdog, Dripify, Expandi and Waalaxy. Each section names the one job that tool is built for, so you can tell whether that job is yours. I build Curviate, and for a team of reps running LinkedIn outreach from their own accounts, here is why it stays first.

The short list, with the job each one is built for:

1. 1Curviate AutomateEvery rep on one Motion, one inbox
2. 2HeyReachBest if your email tool takes over
3. 3BotdogBest if someone else should run it
4. 4DripifyBest if you need email steps
5. 5ExpandiBest if you personalize with video
6. 6WaalaxyBest if one person runs outreach

How we picked

The buyer is a head of sales with five reps, each on their own LinkedIn account, deciding this week. Four questions set the order:

• One plan for the team: does one campaign run across all five accounts?
• Who reaches whom: can a contact go to the rep who already knows them?
• Limits that stop: do per-account limits halt the sending, or only warn?
• The bill at 1 to 4 accounts, with inbox and team features counted in.

On those four, Curviate comes first. Each alternative then gets the one job it is built for.

The top five, side by side

Feature	Curviate Automate	HeyReach	Botdog	Dripify	Expandi
Contact goes to the rep already connected		Not stated on their site	By available capacity	Not stated on their site	Not stated on their site
Limits that stop the action		Fixed weekly freeze	Guidance, not caps	Daily quotas	Limit ranges
One inbox for every account				Inbox per seat	Global Smart Inbox
Email steps in the sequence		Hands off to email tools
InMail as a step
Price per account, monthly billing	$60	$79	$79	$79 ($99 with team features)	$99

Curviate Motions have no email steps; if your sequences depend on them, the sections below say where to look. On the rows that decide a rollout across your reps, Curviate leads.

Four reps, one bill

On monthly billing, Curviate has the lowest list price of the five per-account tools at one, three and four accounts. At four, Botdog's cheapest option is its $299 Agency plan, $59 above Curviate's $240.

The $240 on Curviate covers every Automate feature for all four reps: Motions, one inbox, analytics, contacts and lists, drafts and scheduled posts, and the full API. Managers and assistants cost nothing, because you pay per connected account, never per person.

Try it on your own accounts: 7 days of Automate, no card.

1. Curviate Automate: best for a team of reps

Curviate Automate

Sales teams running several reps' LinkedIn accounts

$60 per account a month

Pros

• One Motion across every rep's account
• Contacts go to the rep already connected
• Limits that stop the Motion

Cons

• No email steps

Verdict: The pick for a sales team on its reps' own accounts.

One Motion runs across every rep's account: invites, messages, InMail from a rep's seat, voice notes, profile visits, likes, follows, endorsements and waits, with branches on accepted, not accepted and replied. It tests message variants, stops when someone replies and pauses when acceptance drops.

Contacts are shared across the accounts, and nobody gets an invitation from two of your reps. Each contact can go to the rep already connected to them, and people in another Motion or an open chat are skipped. Every reply lands in one Unibox, where you answer as the right rep.

2. HeyReach: best if your email tool takes over

HeyReach

Teams that hand LinkedIn leads to Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison

$79 per sender a month (Growth)

Pros

• Hand-off steps to Instantly, Smartlead and EmailBison

Cons

• Who reaches whom not stated
• Weekly freeze you cannot override

Verdict: Pick it for email-tool hand-offs; Curviate is $76 less at four.

Read more about HeyReach

HeyReach's sequences have steps that pass a lead to Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison, so your cold email tool picks up where LinkedIn stops.

What your reps give up is control over who reaches whom. Sending rotates across accounts, and HeyReach's pages don't say how a contact is matched to a sender. On Curviate, the rep who already knows the VP is the one who writes.

3. Botdog: best if someone else should run it

Botdog

Teams that want outbound run for them

$79 per account; $299 for 5 senders

Pros

• Managed plan, run by Botdog's team
• AI-written comments before the first message

Cons

• One Team campaign at a time
• Limit zones are guidance, not caps

Verdict: Pick it for done-for-you outbound; for a team running its own, Curviate does more for less.

Read more about Botdog

Botdog is the only tool here with a Managed plan, if you would rather someone else ran outbound. Its sequences can also post AI-written comments before the first message.

For a team running its own outreach, four senders cost $299 on Agency against $240 on Curviate, and the Curviate bill buys more. Botdog runs one Team campaign at a time and treats its limit zones as guidance; on Curviate, every Motion runs across every account and stops at each account's limits.

4. Dripify: best if you need email steps

Dripify

Teams that want LinkedIn and email in one sequence

$79 per seat; $99 on Advanced

Pros

• Email steps on every paid plan
• 100 email finder credits a month

Cons

• Team management needs Advanced
• $396 for four reps on Advanced

Verdict: Pick it for email steps; Curviate is $156 less at four.

Read more about Dripify

If your outbound mixes LinkedIn and email in one sequence, Dripify does it on every paid plan, with an email finder included. Curviate Motions have no email steps.

Team management, duplicate prevention and step analytics sit on Advanced at $99 a seat, so four reps who need them pay $396. On Curviate the same four pay $240, with shared contacts and analytics per step, per account and per variant in the price.

5. Expandi: best if you personalize with video

Expandi

Teams that send image, GIF or video personalization

$99 per account a month

Pros

• Image, GIF and video personalization
• Email follow-ups and InMail campaigns

Cons

• Highest entry price here
• Warm-up is opt-in

Verdict: Pick it for visual personalization; Curviate is $156 less at four.

Read more about Expandi

Expandi is the one to pick if your messages lean on personalized images, GIFs or video, which Curviate does not do. It also adds email follow-ups, an Open InMail campaign type and a dedicated IP in a country you choose.

Four accounts cost $396 on Business. Its warm-up is opt-in. On Curviate, new, quiet or returning accounts warm up by default, and Motions pause when LinkedIn pushes back, with nothing sent into the pause.

6. Waalaxy: best if one person runs outreach

Waalaxy

One person doing outreach alone

€39 to €139 per user a month

Pros

• Cold email sequences on Business

Cons

• Inbox is a €20 add-on
• Several senders only on Business

Verdict: Built for one; a team climbs to Business.

Waalaxy is built around a single founder or rep, starting on its Pro plan (pricing page).

A sales team pays for more than that. Multiple sender accounts and cold email sit on Business at €139 per user a month, and the LinkedIn inbox is an add-on at €20 a month. On Curviate, every rep's account, the shared inbox and team access come in the $60 per account.

Why most teams stay on Curviate

• Every rep, one Motion. Nobody rebuilds a campaign per rep, and nobody gets an invitation from two of your reps. The setup is on the multi-account page.
• The right rep writes. Contacts go to the account already connected to them, and an account that needs reconnecting hands its unreached contacts to the others after a day.
• One price, nothing to add. $60 per account covers the inbox, analytics and the API; the wider field is ranked in the best LinkedIn automation tools.

Your situation, and the tool that fits it:

If this is you	Pick
Five reps, one Motion, replies in one inbox	Curviate Automate
Contacts go to the rep who knows them	Curviate Automate
Leads move from LinkedIn into Instantly or Smartlead	HeyReach
Someone else runs outbound for you	Botdog
LinkedIn and email in one sequence	Dripify
Video and image personalization	Expandi
One person, smallest budget	Waalaxy

Try it on one rep's account first

Connect one account, run one Motion for a week and read the results per step; then add the other four. How sales teams run Curviate day to day is on Curviate for sales.

Sources checked

• HeyReach: pricing, sequence steps, safety, home page, read November 3, 2026
• Botdog: pricing, features, safety, read November 3, 2026
• Dripify: pricing, home page, read November 3, 2026
• Expandi: pricing, warm-up help article, read November 3, 2026
• Waalaxy: pricing, read November 4, 2026
• Curviate: pricing, for sales, multi-account, safety, read November 3, 2026