In short
- 1"Waalaxy is EUR 19, 49 and 69 per user per month on monthly billing, capped at 300 or 800 invitations a month (waalaxy.com/pricing, checked August 2026)"
- 2"HeyReach Growth is USD 79 per sender per month on monthly billing, Agency USD 999 for 25 senders, Unlimited USD 2,999 (heyreach.io/pricing, checked August 2026)"
- 3"The Agency bundle overtakes per-sender Growth at 13 senders, but Agency and Unlimited require you to bring your own proxies"
- 4"Waalaxy's 800 invitations a month works out at roughly 185 a week, well above the ~100 a week practitioners treat as the practical ceiling for one account"
These two tools get compared constantly, and they are not really competing for the same buyer. Waalaxy sells a seat to one person who wants their own outreach running by Friday. HeyReach sells sending capacity to whoever is responsible for twenty LinkedIn accounts that are not theirs.
The awkward part is the numbers. Reading the four pages currently ranking for this comparison in August 2026, every one of them quoted at least one figure that does not appear on either vendor's live pricing page: a HeyReach Unlimited plan at $1,999 a month, a Waalaxy "Elite" tier, a HeyReach plan at "$199 a month for 10 accounts", a Waalaxy free plan of "80 connection requests per month". So this piece starts by fixing the prices at source, then does the arithmetic nobody has done: the exact point where each pricing model overtakes the other, and the cost that is real but unpriced.
Waalaxy vs HeyReach, decided in one paragraph
Waalaxy charges per user seat, from EUR 19 to EUR 69 per user per month, and meters your volume by plan. HeyReach charges per LinkedIn sender from $79, meters nothing by plan, and gives away team seats. If you run one LinkedIn account, Waalaxy is cheaper. Past a dozen accounts, HeyReach's bundle wins outright.
Every figure above was read off heyreach.io/pricing and waalaxy.com/pricing in August 2026. Two rows in that table decide most purchases, and neither is the headline price: the billing unit, and the proxy row.
What each one actually costs per LinkedIn account
Waalaxy scales linearly. One seat drives one account, so ten accounts on Advanced is ten seats at EUR 49. HeyReach scales in steps: $79 per sender until the Agency bundle at $999 for 25 senders becomes cheaper, which happens at 13 senders. The two models cross once, and the crossing is sharp.
All monthly billing. The same crossover holds on annual terms, where Growth is $63 per seat and Agency works out at $799 a month, because both plans discount at the same rate.
The Unlimited plan is the one people misread. Against Growth alone its break-even would be 38 senders, since 38 times $79 is $3,002 against $2,999. But Agency sits in between and covers 25 senders, with a 50-sender option on the same plan card whose price the page reveals when you select it. So Unlimited is not a per-sender saving, it is what you buy when you have outgrown the Agency sender count or you need multi-brand whitelabels, which HeyReach lists as a $500 add-on on that plan.
Then the unpriced part. HeyReach's own pricing FAQ states that the entry plan "provides a dedicated residential proxy to each of the LinkedIn senders, while the 'Agency' and 'Unlimited' plans require you to bring your own proxies". That is the sting in the crossover table. Moving from Growth to Agency to save on sender cost hands you a proxy bill and a proxy problem that the $999 does not cover. For agencies that already run infrastructure it is a feature, not a cost. For everyone else it is the difference between a price and a project. This is the sort of line item our guide to the true cost of LinkedIn automation exists to catch.
Waalaxy has no equivalent line because it does not offer proxies at all. Its answer to infrastructure is that there isn't any.
Where the pages ranking for this question go wrong
Four comparison pages ranking for this query in August 2026 were checked against both live pricing pages. All four carried at least one wrong number, and two of them describe products that no longer exist in that shape. If you have been shopping on those pages, three specific corrections matter more than the rest.
- HeyReach Unlimited is $2,999 a month, not $1,999. The lower figure is the single most repeated error in this comparison. On annual billing it is $2,399 a month, billed as $28,790 a year.
- Waalaxy publishes no monthly invitation figure for its free plan. The widely quoted "80 a month" appears nowhere on Waalaxy's own pages. The free tier is metered at 3 actions per day per action type, which we unpack in what the Waalaxy free plan limits really get you.
- Waalaxy Advanced is EUR 49 per user per month on monthly billing, and its email finder credits are 25, not 500. Waalaxy's own comparison table puts 25 credits on both Pro and Advanced, with 500 arriving only on Business. Pages quoting 500 on Advanced are reading the wrong column, and pages quoting "around $56" are quoting an annual-equivalent in the wrong currency.
There is a fourth, softer correction. Several pages still describe Waalaxy as a Chrome extension reading your browser's IP. Waalaxy retired its Chrome extension in July 2026, and the product now runs entirely in the browser at app.waalaxy.com. Any argument built on the old extension is describing a version of the product that no longer ships.
Prices in this category move. Both vendors ran promotional banners during the August 2026 check, and HeyReach's pricing FAQ still refers to its entry plan by its previous name. Read the live page before you sign, and read the plan card rather than the comparison blog.
Waalaxy fits when the constraint is one account and a budget
Waalaxy is the right answer for a solo founder, a first sales hire, or a two-person team where each person sends from their own profile. EUR 19 a month is real money for what it does, the permanent freemium plan lets you look around first, and there is nothing to configure beyond your campaign. Nothing else in this comparison starts that low.
Three details decide which tier. Pro's 300 invitations a month is enough for one person doing considered outreach. Advanced at EUR 49 exists mostly for the 800-invitation ceiling, plus API access and the Make, Zapier and n8n modules. Business at EUR 69 is the only tier with cold email sequences and true multichannel campaigns, and the only one with 500 email finder credits.
Where it bites: it is per seat, with nothing bundled. Five people on Business is five times EUR 69, and if you want a proper reply inbox that is EUR 20 a month more, per Waalaxy's own pricing FAQ. A small team quietly arrives at agency-tier spend without agency-tier infrastructure. When that happens, the Waalaxy alternatives worth moving to are sorted by the constraint you actually hit.
HeyReach fits when the constraint is many accounts, not many people
HeyReach's model is built for one specific shape: many LinkedIn accounts, few of them yours. Its FAQ is explicit that a sender is "a LinkedIn account that you add to your organization" and that it does not charge for adding teammates, VAs, clients or users. If you have eight people who all need to see the pipeline but only three LinkedIn accounts sending, you pay for three.
That single decision is why agencies pick it. Client workspaces keep each account's data separate under one login, the unified inbox means nobody logs in and out of client profiles all day, and whitelabel branding is included on Agency. Volume is not sold to you by the plan at all: HeyReach paces each sender within its own daily limits and lets you add senders instead of buying a bigger cap.
Where it bites: for one account it is the most expensive option here, $79 a month for capability a solo sender will not use. Client workspaces, whitelabel branding and a unified inbox across accounts are built for someone managing several clients at once, and a single user pays full price for structure they will never touch. If that is your shape, the HeyReach alternatives guide sorts the options by the constraint you actually have.
Where neither one is the answer
Both tools price sending capacity. Neither prices the part that decides whether sending works. If your reply rate is the problem, a bigger invitation ceiling multiplies a number that is already too small, and the volume on offer is more than a single account can realistically spend anyway.
Start with the arithmetic on Waalaxy's own ceiling. 800 invitations a month is about 185 a week. The figure the industry treats as LinkedIn's practical weekly limit is around 100, which is consensus among practitioners rather than anything LinkedIn publishes, and the connection request limits guide explains where it comes from. So the top two Waalaxy tiers sell roughly double the invitations one account should send. Buying Advanced for the 800 is buying headroom you cannot use on one profile.
Then the reply side. In BeReach's own 2026 study of 48 workspaces and 42,236 connections, the mean response rate was 15.7% but the median was 4.5%, the 10th percentile was 0.4%, the 90th was 49.5%, and 68.3% of the responses were explicit disinterest. The full distribution is in what teams actually get from LinkedIn outreach. Doubling send volume against a median of 4.5% is a rounding error dressed as a strategy. LeadRiver's April 2026 analysis of more than 50,000 connection requests puts trigger-based notes at 50 to 60 percent acceptance against 15 to 25 percent for generic ones, and Belkins' 2026 study of 15.1 million touchpoints puts replies at 12.2 percent on warm touchpoints against 7.9 percent on cold. The leverage is in who you write to and why, not in how many.
For reference, HeyReach's pricing page carries customer case studies quoting acceptance rates between 35 and 57 percent. Those are real outcomes from operators who had already solved targeting. They are what the top of the distribution looks like, not what the tool does for you.
A third shape: the list and the draft come done, sending stays your call
Both tools are built to help you send once you already know who to write to. There is a third shape, which starts a step earlier: BeReach builds the prospect list, says who is worth your time and why, drafts a first message for each person, and a human approves every one before it sends.
In practice: BeReach builds and qualifies the list from public data, including with the turn a search link into a list. An included AI model researches each prospect against your ICP and drafts the message. Every message is approved by a human before it goes out. Pacing is enforced server side, with 50 invitations a day and 120 profile visits an hour as hard ceilings that no plan lifts.
Pricing is per workspace rather than per seat: BeReach Pro is EUR 99 a month billed monthly, or EUR 948 a year, and covers 2 connected accounts. Max is EUR 199 a month, or EUR 1,908 a year. There is a free tier with 100 monthly credits and a 3-day trial. Against Waalaxy that is more expensive for one seat and you should not pretend otherwise. Against HeyReach at $79 per sender it is closer than it looks once you count accounts. The honest head-to-heads are BeReach vs Waalaxy and BeReach vs HeyReach.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Waalaxy or HeyReach cheaper?
For one LinkedIn account, Waalaxy, by a wide margin: EUR 19 per user per month on monthly billing against $79 per sender. The order reverses with account count. HeyReach's Agency bundle at $999 a month covers 25 senders, so it overtakes per-sender Growth pricing at 13 senders and stays cheaper from there. Both figures were checked at each vendor's pricing page in August 2026.
What counts as a sender on HeyReach, and do team members cost extra?
HeyReach's pricing FAQ defines a sender, also called a seat, as a LinkedIn account you add to your organization, and states that teammates, VAs, clients and users are not charged. So an eight-person team running three LinkedIn accounts pays for three. Waalaxy works the opposite way and bills per user seat, so headcount and account count rise together.
Does Waalaxy still require a Chrome extension?
No. Waalaxy retired its Chrome extension in July 2026 and now runs in the browser at app.waalaxy.com. Its pricing page still displays a Chrome Web Store rating as social proof, which is probably why the confusion persists in comparison articles. If a page's argument depends on that extension, it is describing a version of the product that no longer ships.
Do either of them include proxies?
HeyReach's Growth plan includes a dedicated residential proxy for each sender. Its Agency and Unlimited plans do not: the pricing FAQ says both require you to bring your own proxies. That reverses part of the saving in the bundle, since proxy cost and proxy management move to you. Waalaxy does not offer proxies on any tier and does not price for them.
How many invitations can each tool actually send?
Waalaxy caps by plan: 300 a month on Pro, 800 on Advanced and Business. HeyReach publishes no per-plan cap and paces each sender within its own daily limits. The binding constraint is LinkedIn, not either tool. Practitioners treat roughly 100 invitations a week per account as the practical ceiling, a consensus figure rather than anything LinkedIn publishes, which puts 800 a month above what one profile should send.
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