Waalaxy free plan limits: what 3 actions a day really gets you

Say you sign up for Waalaxy's free plan on a Monday morning to find out whether LinkedIn outreach is worth your time. You import a list of 200 prospects, write one message, hit start, and go make coffee. By the time you are back, the queue has stopped. It sent three connection invitations and will not send a fourth until tomorrow. That is the free plan working exactly as designed.

Waalaxy's free tier is metered by a daily ceiling of 3 actions per type. Widely repeated write-ups quote a headline of 80 invitations a month, but Waalaxy publishes no monthly allowance for the free plan anywhere we could find, and their pricing page does not mention a free plan at all. Three invitations a day is roughly 90 across a month, which is enough to feel how the tool works and run a tiny test. It is not enough to run anything you would call a campaign.

This is the honest breakdown of what the free tier actually buys, where it stops, and what to reach for instead. Figures below were checked against Waalaxy's own pricing page, help centre and blog on 3 August 2026. Their surfaces do not entirely agree with each other, which is itself worth knowing before you plan around them, so treat the digits as a snapshot and confirm on their site before you commit.

What 3 actions a day actually means

The number that governs the free plan day to day is 3 actions per day, per type. A "type" is a category of action, so profile visits, connection invitations, and messages each get their own 3-per-day allowance. Waalaxy states this on their own blog, alongside "Yes, Waalaxy offers a 100% free freemium plan, with no time limit."

The daily cap is the binding one, and it is the only free-tier number Waalaxy publishes. Three invites a day tops out near 90 across a 30-day month. You cannot save up the allowance and send 40 in a burst on a good day. The pacing is fixed, which is reasonable for a free tier and means it is metered for tasting, not volume.

Worth being clear about why the ceiling is set that low: it is not account safety. At roughly 90 a month you sit at about a fifth of the 430-odd invitations the widely reported safe rate allows (about 100 a week), so the free cap is a paywall, not a guardrail. LinkedIn would let you send five times more before it worried. Waalaxy will not, unless you upgrade. That gap is the whole point of a freemium tier, and it is worth naming rather than mistaking the cap for a protective feature.

For scale, a mid-size LinkedIn campaign might send 300 to 400 invitations a month. At roughly 90, you are running near a quarter of that. It is a demo, not a pipeline.

The full free-plan limits table

Here is everything the free plan includes and, more usefully, everything it does not. This is the table to copy if you only want one thing off this page.

Two rows do most of the deciding, so they are worth expanding.

What changed in July 2026, and why it matters more than the invite count

Waalaxy used to be a Chrome extension. It is not any more: the extension has been retired and the product now runs fully in the browser at app.waalaxy.com. Everything runs server side, so the old "close your laptop and the queue stops" problem is gone, which is now the clearest line between Waalaxy and a cheaper browser-bound tool like Octopus CRM.

The catch moved rather than disappeared. Waalaxy's help centre article on the cloud migration states plainly that "to import prospects and launch campaigns, you need a paid subscription", and their subscriptions article says the free version means "you can't use any automation features" and that "you can only import prospects from a CSV file". Their own blog is softer, describing the free plan as letting you "keep your prospects and campaigns active, without advanced automation".

Those two readings genuinely conflict, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The safe interpretation, and the one their help centre supports, is that the free plan is now for evaluating the interface rather than for running even a small campaign unattended. If that distinction decides your purchase, test it on a free account before planning around it, because it changed once already this year.

What the free plan quietly leaves out

The invitation cap gets all the attention, but the missing features are the reason most people upgrade within a few weeks:

• No CRM sync and no Sales Navigator import. On free, you build lists from standard LinkedIn search. If your prospecting lives in Sales Navigator, that import is a paid feature.
• Basic sequences only. You get simple templates, not the multi-branch, condition-based flows that make automation worth setting up.
• Email finder credits are minimal. Waalaxy's paid tiers bundle email enrichment; the free tier does not give you enough to matter, so it is LinkedIn-invite-only in practice.
• No unified inbox. Replying to conversations inside Waalaxy is a separate paid add-on at EUR 20 per user per month, on top of any plan.

None of this is a knock on Waalaxy. A freemium tier exists to show you the product, and 3 actions a day does that. The trap is treating it as a permanent free outreach engine when it is designed as an on-ramp.

Where the free plan sends you next

If the free plan works for you, the natural next step is a paid tier. Here is what you are actually choosing between, so you can see whether the jump is worth it.

All prices are per user per month on monthly billing, checked against Waalaxy's own pricing page in August 2026.

A few things to read off this. Waalaxy's own page lists these plans in a 19 to 69 EUR range, but several third-party breakdowns quote a 49 to 99 EUR range for the same plan names, because they fold in per-seat costs or add-ons under a "real cost" heading. If the number you see is higher, check what it includes before assuming a price hike. Watch the email finder credits in particular: Waalaxy's own comparison lists 25 a month on both Pro and Advanced, and 500 only on Business, so a comparison showing 500 on Advanced is reading the wrong column. On billing term, Waalaxy discounts quarterly by 20% and yearly by up to 50%, so the annual rate really does land near half the monthly one, which is a steeper discount than most tools in this category offer. The LinkedIn inbox is an extra add-on at EUR 20 per user per month on every tier, not included.

And notice the ceiling: the top plans allow up to 200 invitations a week, which sits at roughly double LinkedIn's widely cited safe rate of about 100 connection requests a week. The extra volume the top plan sells you is partly headroom into account-risk territory, not just more pipeline.

When the free plan is genuinely enough

Be fair to it. The free plan is the right call when:

• You are testing whether LinkedIn outreach is worth doing at all, and want zero spend to find out.
• You send a handful of targeted invitations a week by hand and just want light sequencing on top.
• You are learning the mechanics before committing budget.

If that is you, 3 actions a day is fine, and you should not pay for more until you have proven the channel works for your offer.

When you have outgrown it

You have outgrown the free plan the moment any of these is true:

• You want more than 2 to 3 invites a day without the daily cap throttling you.
• You want outreach to keep moving when your laptop is closed.
• You are tired of building the lists, writing the templates, and babysitting the queue yourself.
• You want the research and personalization done for you, not just the sending automated.

That last one is the real fork. Waalaxy, free or paid, automates the sending. You still do the finding, the qualifying, and the writing. If the part eating your time is the research, a bigger Waalaxy plan does not fix it, because it was never the thing Waalaxy did.

The alternatives, by what you are optimizing for

There is no single "best" replacement, so here is the neutral version, sorted by what you are actually optimizing for.

The distinction worth understanding before you pick: most Waalaxy alternatives are the same shape as Waalaxy. They connect to your account, hold a session, and automate steps you designed. They differ on price, reliability, and polish, not on the fundamental model. For a like-for-like read on the account-exposure differences between the popular tools, the safest LinkedIn outreach tools rundown compares them on exactly that axis, and the tools ranked by account access piece goes deeper on which ones hold your session and for how long.

Where BeReach fits, and where it does not

BeReach is a different shape, and the free-plan angle is the cleanest way to see it. The reason Waalaxy has to meter its free tier so tightly, down to 3 actions a day, is that every one of those actions runs live through your LinkedIn session, so the thing being rationed is account exposure. BeReach splits that in two. It is an AI agent that finds prospects from public data, qualifies them against who you sell to, and drafts each message for you to approve, and all of that finding, qualifying, and drafting runs with nothing connected to your LinkedIn account. A session is only needed at the final send step, when a message actually leaves. BeReach calls this cookieless until outreach. The effect on the free-tier math is the interesting part: what a free BeReach account rations is research volume, not risky account actions, because the research never touches your account in the first place.

There are real tradeoffs. BeReach starts higher than Waalaxy (Pro is EUR 99 a month flat for 2 connected accounts, with a 3-day trial; see pricing for the current tiers), it is LinkedIn-only with no built-in cold email, and there is one included AI model rather than a picker. If 19 EUR a month is your ceiling, Waalaxy wins on price and that is that. For the full side-by-side on when each one fits, read BeReach vs Waalaxy.

Two things you can try before deciding anything, both free and neither needing an account: BeReach runs 8 no-signup finder tools, including a free LinkedIn people search tool for pulling prospect lists, and a free tier with 100 monthly credits. And because the send-side caps matter for account safety, the usage limits page lays out the daily action ceilings (50 invites a day at base), with pacing built to keep you inside the widely reported safe weekly rate rather than racing past it. For the raw invitation math on the LinkedIn side, the connection request limits breakdown has the numbers.

The takeaway

Waalaxy's free plan is a well-designed tasting menu: 3 actions a day per type, no expiry, and enough of the interface to judge it. It answers whether the product feels right, for free. What it is not is a standing outreach engine, because the daily cap, the missing enrichment, and their help centre's position that campaigns need a paid subscription all point toward an upgrade. Knowing that going in saves you the disappointment of expecting a campaign from a demo.