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LinkedIn automation tools compared

There are three kinds of LinkedIn automation tool. Campaign tools run sequences you build in their app. Account-connection APIs act through a LinkedIn account you connect. MCP servers put campaign tools or LinkedIn actions in front of an AI agent.

Choose by who decides each step. If a person builds the campaign in a UI, compare campaign tools. If your own agent or software should decide each LinkedIn action, compare APIs and MCP servers that expose LinkedIn actions.

01CAMPAIGN TOOLS

Campaign tools

You build the sequence in the vendor's app. Their APIs and MCP servers mostly steer those campaigns.

HeyReach vs Dripify in 2026: pricing, API and MCP comparedAnswers: how two campaign tools at the same price differ once an AI agent drives them.Key difference: HeyReach Growth and Dripify Pro both cost USD 79 per LinkedIn account per month on monthly billing. HeyReach's API includes message sending; Dripify's API and 4-tool MCP server need Pro or Advanced and cannot send a LinkedIn message yet.HeyReach alternative for AI agents: Curviate vs HeyReachAnswers: whether HeyReach's API, MCP server and CLI let an agent act on LinkedIn or steer HeyReach's campaigns.Key difference: 44 of HeyReach's 88 API operations work on its own campaigns, leads, lists and blacklists, and LinkedIn actions run as sequence steps. Curviate's 159 operations include 130 LinkedIn actions and reads.Dripify alternative for AI agents: Curviate vs DripifyAnswers: what Dripify's API can do, what it costs per account, and what stays behind when you switch.Key difference: Dripify's Public API has 18 operations, all on Dripify's own campaigns, leads, tags and teams. None runs a LinkedIn search, message, invitation or post.Expandi pricing, API and an alternative for AI agents (2026)Answers: what Expandi costs per account and what its API, webhooks and MCP server can do.Key difference: Expandi costs USD 99 per LinkedIn account a month, or USD 79 billed annually. Its REST Open-API has 40 operations, 8 of which schedule LinkedIn and email actions for its campaign engine.Botdog alternative for AI agents: Curviate vs Botdog (2026)Answers: whether Botdog's MCP server can run LinkedIn for your agent.Key difference: Botdog's 41 MCP tools are all for campaign management, and its API's send call "Never starts a new conversation".
02LINKEDIN APIS

LinkedIn APIs

Your agent or software calls LinkedIn actions through an API, on accounts you connect.

Linked API vs Curviate: LinkedIn API pricing compared (2026)Answers: how two per-account LinkedIn APIs with a cloud browser per account compare on price and coverage.Key difference: Linked API Core is USD/EUR 69 a month and Plus is 99, with Sales Navigator on Plus. Curviate is EUR 20 a month and includes Sales Navigator and Recruiter (beta, licence required).BeReach alternative: Curviate vs BeReach LinkedIn API (2026)Answers: whether BeReach is an outreach agent or an API for your own agent, operation by operation.Key difference: BeReach's public OpenAPI file (version 2.4.0) has 103 operations, Curviate's has 159. Recruiter, job posting management, groups, notifications, InMail and webhook management are only in Curviate's API.ConnectSafely.ai vs Curviate: LinkedIn API and MCP comparedAnswers: how an inbound LinkedIn growth product with a developer add-on compares to a developer layer sold as the whole product.Key difference: ConnectSafely's API, MCP and CLI module costs USD 10 per LinkedIn account per month. Curviate's public OpenAPI spec has 159 operations to ConnectSafely's 101, including 12 Sales Navigator and 23 Recruiter operations (beta); Curviate's 159 includes non-LinkedIn operations such as webhooks and accounts, so the counts are not like-for-like.
03MCP SERVERS

MCP servers

LinkedIn MCP servers compared: 7 options for agents in 2026Answers: which LinkedIn MCP servers give your agent LinkedIn actions and which give it a campaign tool to steer.Key difference: four action servers (Curviate, Linked API, ConnectSafely, BeReach) and three campaign servers (HeyReach, Botdog, Dripify), priced from USD 10 per LinkedIn account a month.
04APPROACHES

Approaches

Gojiberry AI vs OXYGEN vs Deepline: AI SDR or agent-native?Answers: whether to buy a finished AI SDR, an agent-native GTM workspace or a data layer for coding agents.Key difference: Gojiberry runs LinkedIn campaign steps itself, OXYGEN runs native LinkedIn actions on a connected account, and Deepline sends through your own HeyReach.
05METHOD

How we compare

Vendor facts come from the vendor's own public pages, docs and API files; a few posts add third-party figures such as npm downloads. Prices are as of the date each post states, with currency and billing period. Where a post counts API operations, it counts them from the vendor's public API files. Each post states the date its facts were checked. Vendors change prices and features, so check their pages before you buy.

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