Expandi is $99 a month, read 12 August 2026.
That is the second dearest published price of the seven in this directory's LinkedIn category, and the only tool above it is LinkedIn's own.
The more useful thing on Expandi's site is not the price. It is two sentences the vendor prints about itself: "Expandi is not an official product published by LinkedIn" and "Use of Expandi is at your own risk" [both vendor, read 25 August 2026]. No other tool in this category states the second one, and it is the single most important sentence a buyer in this market can read before entering a card.
So this vendor is unusually plain about the legal position and unusually quiet about the operational one. It does not publish what credential the product takes, it does not publish a steady-state action ceiling, and this directory does not hold how many LinkedIn accounts the $99 covers. Those three gaps are the page.
What does Expandi cost?
$99 a month, flat, self-serve, with no free tier. Read 12 August 2026. That is $1,188 a year on the monthly basis [computed], and no annual rate is held in this repo.
| Tool | Entry, monthly | Model | Free tier | Difference against Expandi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taplio | $39 | Flat, content rather than outreach | No | $720/yr less [computed] |
| Dripify | $59 | Per seat | No | $480/yr less [computed] |
| PhantomBuster | $69 | Flat | Yes | $360/yr less [computed] |
| La Growth Machine | $70 | Per identity | No | $348/yr less [computed] |
| HeyReach | $79 | Flat | No | $240/yr less [computed] |
| Expandi | $99 | Flat | No | Baseline |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator | $119.99 | Per seat, first-party | No | $251.88/yr more [computed] |
Every one of those differences is arithmetic on published monthly rates times twelve, and none of them accounts for how many sender accounts each rate covers, which this repo does not record for any tool in the category. Read the column as a sticker comparison rather than as a cost comparison.
The sentence that should sit beside the price
"Use of Expandi is at your own risk" [vendor, read 25 August 2026].
Read literally, that is a disclaimer of liability rather than a safety claim, and it is the honest shape for a product in this category. Compare it with the wording competitors use. One says its algorithms keep your automation secure and compliant. Another says LinkedIn explicitly forbids tools that perform automated actions without human intervention. Those three sentences describe the same legal situation and only two of them admit it.
The practical consequence is worth stating plainly, because it is the thing a pricing page will never tell you. No tool in this category is permitted by the platform it runs on. Choosing between them does not move you inside the rules, it moves you between clauses of the same User Agreement, and the enforcement lands on the member account rather than on the vendor. The architecture page maps each shape onto the clause that names it.
The account is usually the individual's rather than the employer's, and it carries a connection graph that cannot be repurchased at any price. That asymmetry is what makes a $99 subscription a bigger decision than a $99 subscription.
What Expandi does not publish
How a cloud LinkedIn tool actually runs
It acts as you, from somewhere that is not your laptop
Expandi runs on the vendor's servers rather than in your browser, which is why campaigns continue while your machine is off. That architecture has one requirement: a live session credential for your account, held by a third party, used from an address you did not choose. Expandi does not publish which credential it takes. HeyReach publishes that it accepts either an exported session cookie or a LinkedIn email and password, which is what a documented version of the same mechanism looks like.
The dedicated IP is the part that is documented
Expandi claims a country-selected dedicated IP and HeyReach claims a static residential proxy that never rotates and is never shared. Both claims describe the same problem, which is that a session appearing from a new geography is mechanically what a cloud tool does on its first run, and it is the trigger practitioners describe most often. Choosing the country reduces that one signal. It does not make the tool sanctioned, and neither vendor claims it does.
Three things, and each of them would change how you price the product.
| Question | Expandi | For contrast, HeyReach at $79 |
|---|---|---|
| Credential the product takes | Not stated publicly | Session cookie or email and password |
| Steady-state daily ceiling | Not published | 40 maximum, 25 default, 200 a week |
| Warm-up ramp | 5 to 21 a day | Not separately published |
| Dedicated IP claim | Yes, country-selected | Yes, static residential, non-rotating |
| Accounts included at the flat rate | Not held in this repo | Not held in this repo |
The credential row is the one that matters most and it is the one with the least excuse behind it. Expandi runs on the vendor's servers rather than in your browser, which means it acts as you while your laptop is off, which means it holds a live session credential of some kind. Two vendors in this category document exactly what they take. Expandi, Dripify and La Growth Machine return nothing when their own domains are searched for the words cookie, proxy and IP address.
That is a documentation finding rather than an accusation. Given two competitors publish it plainly, the silence is a choice rather than an oversight, and it is a choice you can raise with their sales team by quoting it back to them.
A warm-up ramp with no destination
Expandi publishes a warm-up range of 5 to 21 actions a day and does not publish where the ramp ends.
That is an odd shape for a published limit. A ramp is a path between two numbers, and this one has a starting point and no stated finish, so a buyer can work out the first week and nothing after it. At the top of the published range, 21 a day across five working days is 105 a week [computed]. What the tool permits once warm-up completes is the number that determines whether the product does the job, and it is absent.
| Pace | Per week | Per month, four weeks | Cost per action if $99 covers one account |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 a day, ramp start | 25 [computed] | 100 [computed] | $0.99 [computed] |
| 21 a day, ramp top | 105 [computed] | 420 [computed] | $0.236 [computed] |
| Steady state | Not published | Not published | Not computable |
The conditional in the last column is load-bearing and it applies to every flat-rate tool in this category. If the $99 covers several accounts, divide again. This page will not guess at the divisor.
One more caution that applies to every ceiling quoted in this market. LinkedIn publishes no official automation limits at all, which one competitor states on its own site, so every number circulating here is inferred by practitioners rather than sanctioned. And limits count per account rather than per tool, so running two tools at 21 actions a day each shows LinkedIn 42 on one profile.
The competitor claim on Expandi's own comparison page
Expandi's comparison table asserts that Dripify has no dedicated IP. Dripify's own documentation says it does.
Two vendors, one checkable question, two answers. The only version worth carrying is the one a vendor states about itself, with a date on it, which is why several cells in this site's architecture table read "not stated publicly" instead of carrying a number borrowed from a rival's marketing.
This is not a small point about one table. Ban-rate figures circulate in this category as marketing artefacts: one vendor publishes a restriction statistic about a competitor, the competitor publishes a rebuttal, and both originate with a party selling the product. A buyer who repeats one of those in a procurement document is repeating an advertisement. No independent measurement of any vendor's restriction rate exists that this site could locate.
This directory's own record for it is thin
This site defines a structured record for LinkedIn tools covering architecture, whether a session credential is needed, the dedicated IP claim, the vendor's compliance wording verbatim and any published daily limits.
It is empty on all eight tools in this category, Expandi included.
So everything above about architecture and limits comes from a published post rather than from data, which means it is not rendered on the tool page, not checked by the consistency script and not comparable across vendors without reading prose. Expandi's record is also marked as a listing rather than as researched depth, and there is no Expandi review in this repo. A page telling you to audit a vendor's documentation has to audit its own first.
There is no free tier, and one competitor has one
The eight LinkedIn tools here, on the fields this repo verifies
The table at the top of this page ranks seven published prices against Expandi. This one carries all eight records in the category, including the one that publishes no price and cannot be bought without a sales call.
| Tool | Entry rate held | Pricing model recorded | Free tier | Self-serve | Price verified on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taplio | $39 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| Dripify | $59 | Per seat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| PhantomBuster | $69 | Flat | Yes | Yes | Not recorded |
| La Growth Machine | $70 | Per seat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| HeyReach | $79 | Flat, and per sender | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| Expandi | $99 | Flat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator | $119.99 | Per seat | No | Yes | 2026-08-12 |
| Aware | None held | Custom | No | No | Not recorded |
HeyReach's $79 is per sender, which changes the row above it
That rate is charged per connected LinkedIn account rather than per workspace, so the $240 a year this page computes as the gap to Expandi holds at one account and stops holding at two. At three accounts HeyReach is $237 a month [computed] against an Expandi rate whose own account allowance this repo still does not hold. Neither figure is comparable to the other until both allowances are known, and only one of them now is.
One of the eight tools in this category carries a free tier and it is PhantomBuster at $69, which is also one of the two that documents its credential.
The genuine zero-cost route is not a free plan though. It is not automating. This site has costed a complete manual LinkedIn motion at $17 a month using free LinkedIn search and manual sending, with a ceiling of roughly fifty personalised messages a week. Against Expandi's published warm-up top of 105 a week, automation buys roughly twice the volume [computed] for $82 a month more, plus exposure to a clause the vendor itself declines to indemnify you against.
For a founder whose profile is their main professional asset, that trade is worse than it looks on a spreadsheet.
Who Expandi actually suits
Teams whose motion runs primarily through LinkedIn connection requests and messages, and who have already decided to accept the platform risk with their eyes open.
The country-selected dedicated IP is the specific thing the extra $20 a month over the nearest flat-rate competitor is buying, and it is a real feature rather than a marketing word: a session appearing from a data centre in a different country is mechanically the geographic jump practitioners describe triggering restrictions, and choosing the country reduces that particular signal. Whether it is worth $240 a year is a judgement this page cannot make for you, because nobody has measured the effect.
It does not suit anyone running a single account who is price sensitive, because two competitors sit $20 and $40 a month below it. And it does not suit anyone who wants a sanctioned route, because there is exactly one of those and it is Sales Navigator at $119.99 a seat, which is a research surface with deliberately restricted export rather than a sending tool.
How to check this before you pay
- Find how many LinkedIn accounts $99 covers. It is one line on the pricing page and it is the whole comparison against a per-seat competitor at $59. Five minutes.
- Search the vendor domain for the words cookie, proxy and IP address. Record how many pages return each and what they say. Our search on 25 August 2026 returned nothing on the credential question. Ten minutes.
- Read the onboarding documentation before you buy, not after. If the steps involve pasting a session cookie or entering LinkedIn credentials, you know which architecture you are buying and whose account absorbs the restriction. Five minutes.
- Copy the compliance sentence into a note, literally. Sort it into a claim about the law, a claim about the vendor's technique, or a disclaimer. Expandi's is a disclaimer, which is the honest kind, and a competitor's promise of compliance is not. Three minutes.
- Decide whose LinkedIn account this runs on, in writing, with that person. The account is usually theirs and the connection graph is the one asset in the stack you cannot repurchase. Ten minutes, and it is the only step here that is not about software.
Fail threshold: zero hits on all three words, combined with a product that runs while your laptop is off, means the tool holds a credential it has chosen not to describe. That is a reason to ask rather than a reason to walk, and the asking should be in writing.
What breaks in month three
An account, and usually not dramatically. Practitioner accounts describe restrictions triggered by a session appearing from a new address, which is mechanically what a cloud tool does on its first run. One thread describes three separate restrictions with no automation involved at all, purely from VPN and extension use, whose author writes that the triggers keep shifting.
Second is the identity check, where the account is restricted pending a government ID upload. The author of that same thread names it as the reason he stopped, writing that submitting an ID to LinkedIn is a no-go for him.
Third is the ceiling you never saw published, which arrives as a campaign that quietly stops pacing the way it did in week two. And fourth is the one this vendor already warned you about in writing, which is that use is at your own risk and there is no indemnity behind the subscription.
So what should you budget?
$1,188 a year on the monthly basis [computed from $99 a month], and find the account allowance before you compare it to anything.
If LinkedIn is genuinely your primary channel and you have accepted the platform risk deliberately, this is a defensible purchase and the country-selected IP is what the premium buys. If you are running one account and comparing on price, two competitors sit below it. If you have not read the User Agreement clause that names what this software does, budget zero and read that first.
And name the person whose account carries the risk before the invoice rather than after the restriction.