HeyLead vs Waalaxy

Last updated 25 September 2026

Waalaxy and HeyLead (heylead.dev) both run LinkedIn outreach from the cloud and both connect to Claude through MCP. Waalaxy automates LinkedIn prospecting campaigns, from €19 to €69 per user a month, with cold email on its Business plan[1][5]. HeyLead is an AI agent you brief in a sentence: it finds the people, writes each message, follows up and answers replies. Free is $0; Pro is $29 per connected LinkedIn account per month.

HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard.

Side by side

	HeyLead	Waalaxy
What it is	An AI agent that runs LinkedIn outreach: people, invitations, messages, follow-ups, replies.	LinkedIn prospecting automation, with cold email sequences on the Business plan[1].
Price	Free: $0, one LinkedIn seat, no card. Pro: $29 per connected LinkedIn account per month, monthly, cancel any time.	Pro €19, Advanced €49 and Business €69 per user a month, as the pricing page shows them. The page also offers quarterly (-20%) and yearly (-50%) billing, and we could not tell which billing period the shown prices belong to[1]. A Freemium version is free, without automation[3].
Where it runs	In the cloud, with your laptop closed. Not a browser extension. The MIT-licensed client can also run on your own machine.	"Waalaxy is now 100% cloud. No extension", says its help centre (1 July 2026)[2].
Invitations	20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account; 168 and 320 on Premium or Sales Navigator (measured 16 September 2026). Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone.	300 invitations a month on Pro, 800 on Advanced and Business[1]. The help centre gives 80 to 100 a day and at most 200 a week on Advanced and Business[3].
Channels	LinkedIn invitations, messages and InMail. Email to people whose record carries an address, once you connect a Gmail or Outlook mailbox. No voice messages.	LinkedIn. Cold email sequences and LinkedIn + email campaigns on the Business plan, and an email finder with monthly credits[1].
Several accounts	Pro: more than one LinkedIn account in one workspace, each billed and capped on its own. One workspace per client, with editor and viewer roles. No white-label.	A team dashboard with one-click access to each member's dashboard and reassignable seats. Search from one account and contact from another, so one Sales Navigator licence serves the team[4].
From an AI client	Built as an MCP server: every step of a campaign runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client, or the web dashboard.	An MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT on Advanced and Business: list prospect lists and campaigns, import prospects, add them to campaigns[5].
Integrations	HubSpot is the only CRM sync, from the local client. Meetings book on Google Calendar.	Native HubSpot and Salesforce; Zapier, Make and n8n[6].
Trial	A free plan instead of a trial, with no card.	A 14-day free trial[1]. The help centre says it takes a valid credit card to start, with no charge at that step[3].

Checked on 25 September 2026 on Waalaxy's own pages (waalaxy.com and its help centre at intercom.help/waalaxy, linked from waalaxy.com). Each [n] links to the page the fact comes from; the list is under Sources. Prices and plans change, so check the linked page before you decide. HeyLead wrote this page. If a fact here is wrong, write to [email protected] and we correct it.

What Waalaxy does better

A low entry price: Pro at €19 per user a month[1].
Team features: search from one account and contact from another, so one Sales Navigator licence serves the team, and seats move between accounts[4].
CRM integrations: native HubSpot and Salesforce, plus Zapier, Make and n8n[6]. HeyLead syncs with HubSpot only.
Cold email sequences next to LinkedIn on the Business plan[1]. HeyLead emails only as a fallback, to people whose record carries an address.

What HeyLead does differently

You brief it in a sentence, from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or the web dashboard. It saves a draft campaign and sends nothing until you press Launch.
Each message is written for the person, in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts. The agents plan each person's next step as accepts and replies land; every decision is readable with inspect or on the campaign page.
Replies are answered from your campaign's facts. Anything ambiguous is held for you, and "not now" gets a check-in in 30 days.
Free is $0 with one LinkedIn seat and cloud sending, no card.

A campaign has one of six goals, and the ICP, the fit check and the messages follow it: Sell a product or service, Find a job, Hire people, Find partners or investors, Find a vendor and Research interviews. Hire people, Find partners or investors and Research interviews run on a custom brief until their message sets exist.

HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time.

Choose Waalaxy if

You want the lowest price per user for a LinkedIn campaign tool[1].
Your team shares one Sales Navigator licence for search[4].
You need Salesforce sync, or Zapier, Make or n8n[6].
You want cold email sequences in the same tool[1].

When HeyLead is the wrong choice

You need Salesforce, or Zapier, Make or n8n. HeyLead syncs with HubSpot only, from the local client.
You want cold email sequences. HeyLead emails a person only when their record carries an address, 14 days after an invitation with no answer, once you connect a Gmail or Outlook mailbox.
You want to design each step of the sequence yourself. HeyLead has no visual sequence editor; the agents choose each person's next step.

Choose HeyLead if

You want to describe a campaign in a sentence and have every step run from your chat or the dashboard.
You want each message written for the person, in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, and replies answered from your campaign's facts.
You want a free plan that sends: Free includes cloud sending, invitations, the opening message and up to 2 follow-ups, with no card.
Your campaign is not only sales: a job search or vendor scouting has a goal of its own.

Questions people ask

What is the difference between HeyLead and Waalaxy?

Waalaxy automates LinkedIn prospecting campaigns from the cloud, with cold email on its Business plan and team features for sharing one Sales Navigator licence. HeyLead is an AI agent: you describe the campaign in a sentence, and it finds the people, writes each message in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up and answers replies. Both send from your own LinkedIn account.

How much do Waalaxy and HeyLead cost?

On 25 September 2026 Waalaxy's pricing page showed Pro at €19, Advanced at €49 and Business at €69 per user a month, with a 14-day free trial; its help centre says the trial needs a credit card. HeyLead Free is $0 with one LinkedIn seat and no card; Pro is $29 per connected LinkedIn account per month.

Is Waalaxy a Chrome extension?

Not any more, by its own help centre: on 1 July 2026 it said Waalaxy is 100% cloud and that the Chrome extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store. HeyLead is not an extension either: it reaches LinkedIn through Unipile's API and runs from the cloud.

Do both work with Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes, in different ways. Waalaxy's MCP connector, on its Advanced and Business plans, lets Claude or ChatGPT list prospect lists and campaigns, import prospects and add them to campaigns. HeyLead is an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP client, and every step of a campaign runs from the chat: the brief, the draft, the launch, approvals and replies.

Sources

Checked on 25 September 2026. Waalaxy's help centre is hosted at intercom.help/waalaxy and linked from waalaxy.com as its help centre. The pricing page offers three billing periods but shows one set of prices.

HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. LinkedIn's own rules are in the Terms. HeyLead is not affiliated with Waalaxy; the name belongs to its owner.

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