Who Unipile is for, and who BeReach is for
Unipile is for a product team that needs to send and receive across many channels from one integration. LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and calendars, behind clean REST endpoints, priced per connected account.
BeReach is for someone who wants LinkedIn outreach that already works. It finds the people who just showed interest and writes the first line for each. The same operations are available as an API if you want to build on them.
Broad across platforms and stopping at the endpoint, or deep on one channel and finishing the job. That is the whole decision.
The honest difference: endpoints you assemble, or the finished behaviour
Unipile fills a real gap for product teams building multi-channel communication tools.
Multi-channel in one API. LinkedIn, email (Gmail, Outlook, IMAP), WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, and calendars. One integration point for all messaging. If you are building a CRM or recruiting tool that needs to send and receive across channels, this saves months of work.
Per-account pricing that scales. A €49/month minimum covers up to 10 linked accounts. Above that you pay a flat rate on every account, not just the extra ones: €5 per account per month through 50 accounts, and Unipile publishes further brackets at 51 to 200, 201 to 1,000, 1,000 to 5,000, and above 5,000 where the per-account rate steps down as volume rises (Unipile pricing, checked August 2026). Billing is monthly, invoiced at the end of each 30-day period on the peak number of accounts linked simultaneously, and an account is any connected mailbox or messaging profile rather than a seat. For SaaS products with many users, this model makes sense.
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Quick to integrate. Clean REST endpoints, webhook support, solid documentation. Unipile claims two-day integration time.
OAuth where available. A standard connection flow for the platforms that offer one.
Calendar sync. Google Calendar and Outlook through the same API. Useful for scheduling features.
Unipile's LinkedIn surface is genuinely broad, and that is the part most comparisons get wrong about it. What it does not ship is anything above the raw call: the read on a person, the pacing, the campaign.
BeReach ships that layer:
Find your audience. Search people, companies, jobs, and posts, including full Sales Navigator support, so you can target the exact accounts and roles that fit your offer.
Build lists from the people who just showed interest. Find who posted on your topic this month or used to work at a customer, and everyone who liked or commented on a post, so the first line has something real to say.
Carry the outreach end to end. Read a person, write the first line, track the review, and log the conversation, in one API rather than a stack of moving parts.
Manage every conversation. A full inbox layer: list, search, read, and track the unread count, so no reply slips through.
Track what is working. Engagement on your own posts, your follower count, and campaign stats.
Built-in CRM, 0 credits. Contacts, campaigns, search and stats, at no credit cost, in the same place as the API.
Built for AI agents. Agent state persistence (a key-value store so your agent keeps context), DM webhooks for real-time replies, and multi-account management under a single API key.
Plus: read your feed, check current usage limits in real time, and manage profiles.
On top of that API, BeReach runs the agent itself. It finds the people who just showed interest, reads their public profiles and writes the first line off their recent public activity. You approve every draft. Use the API directly, use the agent, or both. One model, BeReach 3.0 Flash, is included in every plan, with no separate AI bill, no key to bring, and no model to pick. Build the same layer on a raw messaging pipe and you are wiring and paying for it yourself.
What you give up either way
What you give up with Unipile:
- Raw context, no assembled picture. You can list a person's posts, the comments on a post, and the reactions on a post. What you cannot get back is the read on that person and what to open with. That synthesis is your code to write.
- Publishing without a content layer. You can create posts and comments, and read your own followers and profile viewers. There is no planning, scheduling, or performance view sitting on top of it.
- Sales Navigator only if your account already has it. Search covers Classic, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter, and the Sales Navigator variants need that subscription on the connected LinkedIn account. Unipile passes the request through, it does not include the seat.
- No campaign logic. Unipile's own outreach guide tells you to plan the sequence yourself, "store all generated slots in your database", and reschedule when LinkedIn refuses a send. That is a vendor describing the product you still have to build.
- No default send volume. Unipile documents LinkedIn's limits and then states, "We don't enforce any limits on our side." Deciding how many invitations and messages to send each day, and building the queue that spaces them out, is on you.
- No AI layer. No read on a person, no first line, and nothing in the docs or on the pricing page that offers one.
What you give up with BeReach:
- Every other channel. Email, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram all live in Unipile's single integration. BeReach is LinkedIn only.
- Calendar sync. Google Calendar and Outlook through the same API. No BeReach equivalent.
- Per-account pricing at scale. If you are connecting hundreds or thousands of accounts inside your own product, Unipile's brackets are built for that shape and BeReach's workspace plans are not.
- A pure pipe. If all you want is send and receive, BeReach carries a lot of product you would not use.
One API for your agent.
Find people, draft, send what you approve.
The BeReach API finds the right people, reads their profiles and posts, and drafts the first message. Your agent drives it, you approve every send.
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Feature matrix: where the two actually differ
Read this one for the rows where Unipile hands you an endpoint and BeReach hands you the finished behavior. The parity rows matter just as much, because most comparisons get those wrong and understate what Unipile can already do.
| Capability | Unipile | BeReach |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in CRM | No. Contacts and campaign state are yours to build and host | Yes, at 0 credits. Contacts, campaigns, search, and stats live next to the API |
| Sales Navigator search | Yes, if the connected account holds the subscription | The same people from a sentence, no subscription needed |
| Post engagement lists (who reacted or commented) | Yes, as raw endpoints | Every liker and commenter of any post, saved to your list |
| Find people and companies from a sentence | Search endpoints with LinkedIn's own filters; no plain-sentence search | Yes, the companies and people like your customers included |
| Read a full profile | Through the connected account | In about 2 to 3 seconds, 25 in one call, in preview or in full |
| Work emails | Only an email the member shared with the connected account (Unipile's own guide, checked 22 October 2026) | Found inside Claude, paid per email found |
| Signals: funding, hiring, new executives | No | Yes |
| Personalized drafts from recent public activity | No | Yes |
| Human approval before every send | Not provided. You build the review step | Yes. Drafts stay drafts until you approve them |
| Campaign scheduling and follow-up | No. Documented as something you build and store yourself | Each first message drafted for you; follow-ups run in Claude through the BeReach MCP |
| Content publishing | Yes, create posts and comments | No post publishing |
| Multi-account scale under one key | Any number of linked identities | 2 to 5 LinkedIn accounts depending on plan |
| MCP connector | Yes, a developer server at developer.unipile.com/mcp for docs search and API access from AI editors | Yes, a 32-tool outreach surface at mcp.bereach.ai |
One row decides most evaluations here: the CRM. Unipile ships no CRM at all, so contacts, campaign state, and results tracking are yours to build and host; BeReach's is built in at no credit cost, in the same place as the API.
What you'll actually pay
Look at the note column rather than the number. Unipile bills per linked identity against a floor, so its price barely moves as the team grows, and the rest of the bill lands somewhere the table cannot show you.
| Scenario | Unipile monthly | BeReach monthly | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user, 1 LinkedIn account | €49 | €99 (Pro, 2 accounts) | Unipile charges its €49 floor even for a single identity. BeReach Pro is a working product from day one. |
| 3 users, 3 LinkedIn accounts | €49 | €199 (Max, 3 accounts) | Still €49. Three identities sit well inside the 10-account base. |
| 5 users, 5 LinkedIn accounts | €49 | €299 (Max+, 5 accounts) | Still €49. BeReach prices per plan, so €299 covers the whole team rather than €299 per seat. |
| 10 LinkedIn accounts | €49 | Contact sales | The last point where Unipile's base absorbs everything. |
| 50 LinkedIn accounts | €250 (50 x €5) | Contact sales | Above the base you pay the per-account rate on every account, not only the extra ones. This shape is what Unipile is built for and BeReach is not. |
Billing basis: Unipile bills monthly in arrears at the end of each 30-day period, on the peak number of identities linked simultaneously, exclusive of VAT, with no annual discount published. One LinkedIn profile, one WhatsApp number, or one mailbox each count as one account, so the unit is an identity rather than a seat. BeReach bills monthly per plan, not per seat, with a 14-day free trial. Figures checked on Unipile's pricing page in August 2026. The full cost at 10, 50 and 200 accounts, with what the headline number leaves out, is in Unipile LinkedIn API pricing in 2026.
What the €49 does not include is the reason the two columns are not comparable. On top of it you are paying for the application you build around the pipe, your own model spend for any AI layer you want, and the send scheduler Unipile leaves you to build yourself. The BeReach line already contains all three, and the model is included with no key to bring and no model to pick.
Beyond the monthly line, here is what each product actually covers.
| BeReach | Unipile | |
|---|---|---|
| Outreach coverage | Find the people, write the first line, manage the inbox | Broad endpoints, no product layer on top |
| Inbox control | List, search, read, draft replies | List and filter chats, read/unread, mute, delete |
| AI agent | Yes - helps you book meetings | No |
| AI model | Included in every plan | None |
| Built-in CRM | Yes (0 credits) | No |
| Agent state / webhooks | Yes | Webhooks only |
| Other channels | LinkedIn only | Email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram |
| Development needed? | Optional (works out-of-box too) | Required |
| Free option | Free tools and chat + 14-day trial | 7-day free trial, no card |
At the entry tier, Unipile's base is cheaper, but it is just the pipe. BeReach's €99 Pro plan (2 accounts) includes the AI, the read on each person, the first line, the inbox, and the CRM. For large-scale multi-channel products with many connected accounts, Unipile's per-account pricing scales well and BeReach is not built for that; our breakdown of Unipile's LinkedIn API pricing walks through the per-account tiers in detail. For outreach depth on a handful of accounts, the real gap is BeReach's full find-to-meeting coverage against a set of endpoints you still have to assemble into a product. See more head to head comparisons of LinkedIn tools.
When to pick which
Pick Unipile if:
- You're building a product that needs LinkedIn + email + WhatsApp + more in one API
- Messaging is your primary use case (send and receive across channels)
- You're connecting hundreds of accounts and need per-account pricing
- Calendar sync across platforms is part of your product
Pick BeReach if:
- You want an agentic API that covers the whole outreach motion, not just messaging
- You want the list, the read on each person, the first line, the inbox and analytics in one place
- You're building AI-powered outreach workflows (agent state, webhooks, full control)
- You want a ready-made AI agent that helps you book more meetings
- You want something that works immediately, not just as developer infrastructure
- Sales Navigator access matters to your use case
Use both if:
- Unipile for email/WhatsApp messaging in your product. BeReach for everything outreach. They don't overlap much.
The honest take
Unipile is solid infrastructure for multi-channel messaging. If your product needs to send and receive messages across LinkedIn, email, and WhatsApp, it saves real development time. The per-account pricing scales well for large deployments.
But Unipile is a messaging pipe. It moves messages between platforms. For outreach specifically, that's a fraction of what you need to actually book meetings.
BeReach covers the whole outreach motion through one agentic API: find the people who posted on your topic or fit who you sell to from public data, write the first line, manage your inbox, and track what is working. Nothing goes out without your approval. It's not just a pipe: it's the full outreach toolkit. And it works out of the box for non-developers too, straight from the browser.
If you need many channels, Unipile. If you need outreach done completely, BeReach: one price with the AI included.
FAQ
How does the BeReach API compare to Unipile's?
The BeReach API covers the whole outreach motion: find warm leads, build lists, create and track outreach drafts, manage your inbox, track results, plus a built-in CRM and agent memory. Unipile's LinkedIn surface is broad too, with search, profiles, posts, invitations, and messaging, but it stops at the endpoint. Drafting, approval, scheduling, and pacing are yours to build. For outreach depth, BeReach is significantly more complete. For multi-channel messaging, Unipile covers more platforms.
What does BeReach's AI agent do?
It finds the people who just showed interest, reads their public profiles and writes the first line. You review and approve every draft. Built on the same agentic API, with agent state persistence and DM webhooks for real-time responsiveness.
Can I build custom integrations on the BeReach API?
Yes. A full agentic API for outreach, webhooks for real-time DM notifications, agent state persistence (key-value store), and support for n8n, Make, Zapier, and direct API calls. Multi-account management under a single API key.
Do I need coding skills to use BeReach?
No. BeReach has AI-powered campaigns that help you reach out without coding. The API is there for developers who want programmatic control, but it's not required.
Which has better LinkedIn inbox access?
It depends on what you need the inbox for. BeReach gives you the reading surface: list conversations, search, read messages, and watch the unread count, so no reply slips through, and every thread sits next to the campaign and the draft that earned it. Unipile has the wider administrative surface: it lists and filters chats, syncs history, and can change read status, mute, or delete a conversation across Classic, Sales Navigator, Recruiter, and company page inboxes. If you are administering threads, Unipile reaches further. If you are working replies into pipeline, BeReach puts them where the work already is.
