TL;DR
- HeyReach Growth and Dripify Pro, the first Dripify plan with API and MCP, both cost USD 79 per LinkedIn account per month on monthly billing (USD 63 and USD 59 per month billed annually). Dripify Basic costs USD 59 per month (USD 39 per month billed annually) and has no API.
- HeyReach puts API, webhooks and MCP on its lowest paid plan, and an official CLI works with the same API key. Its OpenAPI 3.1 spec lists 87 paths, message sending included.
- Dripify announced its API in September 2026. API and the 4-tool MCP server need Pro or Advanced, and neither can send a LinkedIn message yet.
- Neither endpoint list has a live LinkedIn search, a post or a comment. Both expect the campaign to be built in their app.
- If your own agent should make the LinkedIn calls, Curviate, a LinkedIn API, CLI, MCP server and TypeScript SDK for AI agents, costs EUR 20 per account per month, excl. VAT.
HeyReach and Dripify publish comparison pages about each other, and both now sell an API and an MCP server for AI agents. I build Curviate, a LinkedIn API for agents, so I read both vendors' pricing pages, API references and help articles as they stood on 2 October 2026. The labels match, the products behind them do not. HeyReach opens most of its workspace to code. Dripify opens a thin slice of its campaigns.
What is the difference between HeyReach and Dripify?
HeyReach is a multi-sender outreach tool for agencies and sales teams. Dripify is a per-seat drip campaign tool. HeyReach's home page headline promises "Unlimited senders, one fixed cost". Growth is priced per sender, flat agency tiers go up to 300 senders, and teammates and client logins are free.
Dripify sells seats. One seat connects one LinkedIn account ("A team of five reps needs five seats") and runs sequences of invitations, messages, Sales Navigator InMails, profile views, likes, follows and email steps.
Underneath, both are sequencers. The campaign, its steps and the inbox live in the vendor's app, and the API and MCP server let an agent feed and read that campaign. HeyReach's API adds leads, pauses and resumes campaigns, reads stats and replies. Dripify's reads campaigns, leads and statistics and uploads leads.
Neither endpoint list I read lets an agent run a live LinkedIn search, publish a post or comment. Profile reads work by lead or profile URL, plus a sender's own network in HeyReach. An agent on either tool picks which campaign to feed. What happens on LinkedIn is up to the sequence.
HeyReach vs Dripify: which one should you choose?
HeyReach is the better buy once you run 10 or more LinkedIn accounts, your own or clients', and want code access from the entry plan. Dripify works for one to a few reps who each run their own drip sequence. If your own agent decides each action, a campaign tool is the wrong layer, and an API like Curviate fits better.
- 10 or more LinkedIn accounts, yours or clients'
- API, webhooks, MCP and a CLI on the entry plan
- An agent that manages campaigns and answers in a unified inbox
- One to a few reps, each with their own drip sequence
- Teams that need no code access: Basic is USD 59 per month
- Your own agent (Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, a script) decides each action
- LinkedIn reads the agent calls itself: search, profiles, companies, posts, comments
- One price per account, no campaign layer in between
How do HeyReach and Dripify compare side by side?
On monthly billing HeyReach Growth and Dripify Pro cost the same, USD 79 per account. The interfaces are far apart. HeyReach's API has 87 paths, replies in LinkedIn conversations and works with an official CLI. Dripify's API and MCP server need Pro or higher and cannot send a message yet. "Not listed" means I did not find it on the vendor's public pages.
| HeyReach | Dripify | Curviate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per account, monthly billing | USD 79 per month (Growth, under 10 senders) | USD 79 per month (Pro; Basic USD 59 per month has no API) | EUR 20 per month, excl. VAT |
| Price per account, longest billing | USD 63 per month billed annually | USD 59 per month billed annually (Pro) | EUR 16 per month billed annually |
| Public REST API | Yes, OpenAPI 3.1, 87 paths, all paid plans | Yes, Pro and Advanced only | Yes, OpenAPI 3.1 |
| API rate limit | 300 requests/min | 60/min and 5,000/day per key | Per-account limits, no usage metering |
| MCP server | Yes, URL and key per workspace | Yes, 4 tools, Pro and Advanced | Yes, hosted, OAuth or API key |
| Send a LinkedIn message via API | Yes (inbox SendMessage) | Not yet ("coming soon" in help) | Yes |
| Live LinkedIn search, posting, commenting via API | Not listed in API docs | Not listed | Yes |
| Profile reads via API | By profile URL (GetLead); a sender's network | By profile URL (lookup) | Any profile |
| CLI | Official, Homebrew and Scoop | Not listed | Official, npm |
| SDK | Not listed (n8n node exists) | Not listed | TypeScript |
| Campaign builder and UI | Yes | Yes | No, your agent runs the logic |
| Sales Navigator / Recruiter | Both connectable | Sales Navigator InMail and search import; Recruiter Lite accounts | Both (beta), with the matching licence |
How much do HeyReach and Dripify cost per LinkedIn account?
HeyReach Growth and Dripify Pro both cost USD 79 per LinkedIn account per month on monthly billing. Curviate costs EUR 20 per month, excl. VAT. Seat, sender and account mean the same thing in all three: one connected LinkedIn account. I left the currencies unconverted.
| Accounts | HeyReach | Dripify Pro | Curviate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1, monthly | USD 79 per month | USD 79 per month | EUR 20 per month |
| 1, billed annually | USD 63 per month | USD 59 per month | EUR 16 per month |
| 5, monthly | USD 395 per month (Growth) | USD 395 per month | EUR 100 per month |
The list prices leave a few things out. HeyReach's per-sender price drops to USD 59 per month (USD 47 per month billed annually) from 10 senders, per its plans help article. Agency covers 25 senders for USD 999 per month, but Agency and Unlimited require your own proxies. Growth includes one per sender.
Dripify's Basic plan (USD 39 per month billed annually) has no API, no MCP and one campaign. For agent work the comparable plan is Pro.
Curviate's EUR 20 per month buys the LinkedIn actions with no usage metering. The sequencing lives in your agent.
What can an AI agent control in HeyReach?
Most of the workspace, through the API, and parts of it through the MCP server and CLI. Live LinkedIn search, posting and commenting are missing. The HeyReach API authenticates with an X-API-KEY header and allows 300 requests per minute. Its OpenAPI 3.1 spec has 87 paths: LinkedIn account connection (including Sales Navigator and Recruiter re-login), lists, leads and tags, campaign creation and sequence updates, analytics, webhooks, email enrichment, blacklists, and an inbox with conversation reads and SendMessage.
The MCP server gives each workspace its own connection URL and key. HeyReach does not list its MCP tool count on the pages I checked. The official HeyReach CLI (v1.0.2, May 2026) manages campaigns, leads, inboxes and webhooks from a terminal. All of it is on the Growth plan.
None of the 87 paths runs a live LinkedIn search, a post or a comment. GetLead returns profile fields (headline, experience, education) for a profile URL you give it. The API operates HeyReach's campaigns and inbox, and LinkedIn is reached through the sequence.
What can an AI agent control in Dripify?
Less than in HeyReach, and the access is new: Dripify announced its Open API in September 2026. The API reference calls itself a "Read-only public API for your Dripify campaigns and leads", yet lists writes for leads, custom fields and tags. Its help article lists "sending LinkedIn messages through the API" as coming soon.
The Dripify MCP server runs over Streamable HTTP with the same API key and has four tools. It lists campaigns, lists a campaign's lead lists, searches a lead by email or profile URL, and uploads up to 1,000 LinkedIn profiles as a new lead list. Sales Navigator and Recruiter URLs are not supported. Per Dripify, Claude and ChatGPT apps cannot connect yet, and OAuth is planned. API and MCP both require Pro or Advanced. I found no CLI or SDK.
How does an agent call LinkedIn without a sequencer?
It calls LinkedIn actions directly. Curviate exposes search, profiles, companies, messages, InMail, connections, posts, comments and jobs through a REST API, a CLI, a hosted MCP server and a TypeScript SDK, on one key and one budget per account. In Claude Code, one line connects the MCP server:
# Add Curviate's hosted MCP server to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http curviate https://app.curviate.com/mcp
The agent decides what to read and send. Curviate holds each account to per-account limits and pacing (how). A person profile read again within its 12-hour default, or a chat Curviate already stores, comes from a per-workspace store. That makes no LinkedIn request and spends none of the account's action budget (caching guide).
What other LinkedIn tools should you compare with HeyReach and Dripify?
Botdog and BeReach also expose APIs and MCP servers. Botdog is a sequencer, BeReach an AI outreach agent.
Botdog is centred on Sales Navigator. Solo costs USD 79 per account per month (USD 55.33 per month billed annually), and Agency is USD 299 per month for 5 senders. Its REST API (OpenAPI 3.0, 37 paths) can send into an existing conversation, while sequences are built in the app. Its OAuth MCP server lists 41 tools, mostly for campaigns.
BeReach prices per workspace on its pricing page: Pro EUR 99 per month for 2 LinkedIn accounts, Max EUR 199 for 3, Max+ EUR 299 for 5. Each plan has a monthly credit pool (20,000 on Pro), and work stops when it runs out. It has a REST API, a TypeScript SDK and a remote MCP connector for Claude. You connect by pasting your LinkedIn session cookie.
What do you lose when you switch from HeyReach or Dripify?
Your LinkedIn accounts move freely, since these tools only connect to them. Campaign state, tags, CRM mappings and warm-up stay behind.
- Which lead sits on which step, and what is scheduled, lives in the old tool. Export leads and statuses before you cancel and let running sequences finish, or prospects get a second first message.
- Messages stay on LinkedIn. Tags, labels and notes do not.
- HeyReach syncs natively to HubSpot. Dripify lists HubSpot on Pro but "coming soon" on its integrations page. Webhook and Zapier mappings have to be rebuilt.
- A new tool has its own limits and pacing, so ramp the account up again.
Moving to an API also means your agent owns the sequencing logic.
Which tool fits an agent-run LinkedIn workflow?
HeyReach lets an agent run campaigns at scale. Dripify lets it feed leads into one. An agent that should search, read, decide and write on its own needs LinkedIn actions, and that is what Curviate does: EUR 20 per account per month, excl. VAT, with a 3-day trial and no card. Prices are from the vendors' pages on 2 October 2026, so check them before you buy. Not affiliated with LinkedIn Corporation.