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Published October 8, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
The verdict in 60 words: Expandi is the most complete cloud LinkedIn sender in its price band. Branching Smart Campaigns, a dedicated country IP per account, native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive logging and, since September 2026, an MCP that drafts campaigns from Claude or ChatGPT. The weak spots are consistent in reviews: campaigns that stall without explanation, billing surprises after the trial, and personalization sold as paid add-ons.
Price: $99 a seat a month, $79 on annual, with volume discounts and a custom Agency tier at 10 seats and up. 7-day trial on all features. Best for: agencies, recruiters and SDR teams that run many LinkedIn accounts and want branching logic with CRM logging. Not for: teams whose problem is deciding who to contact and what to say.
What we checked, and when: each vendor's pricing and features pages, their public review listings (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot where present) and their own documentation, all read on October 8, 2026. This is a documentation and reviews-based assessment, not a hands-on test; where a limit or behaviour is stated below it is the vendor's own statement or a pattern repeated across public reviews.
Disclosure: Valley makes an outbound platform and competes for part of this budget. Where Valley appears it is marked, and every price and claim below was read from the source named next to it on October 8, 2026.
Valley is an AI outbound platform that finds the people most likely to buy from you - from live buying signals, natural-language search, or your own lists - qualifies them against your ICP, researches each one, and sends personalized messages across email and LinkedIn that get 15-45% reply rates, against a category average of about 2%.
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Expandi at a glance
Expandi | |
|---|---|
What it is | Cloud LinkedIn automation with email steps, for sales teams, lead generation agencies and recruiters |
Starting price | $99 per seat per month; $79 on annual |
Trial | 7 days, all features, charged only after |
Channels | LinkedIn connections, messages, InMails, event invites; email with follow-ups |
Prospect data | None built in; Sales Navigator searches, CSV, post and event engagers, ICP filters and Signals in the builder |
Stated volume | Up to 300+ connection requests a week |
Reviews | Capterra 4.4 from 31 reviews, read October 8, 2026; G2 sat behind a verification wall and could not be read |
Pros
Smart Campaigns with nine IF conditions and eleven actions: accepted, replied, viewed, email opened, each branching to the next step.
A dedicated country-based IP per account, automatic warm-up and daily limit ranges; reviewers credit it with keeping accounts safe.
Native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive logging and a Global Inbox across accounts, both shipped in the first half of 2026.
Event-invite and group campaigns, which reviewers use to reach people a connection request would not.
Expandi MCP (beta, 30 September 2026) drafts campaigns from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, n8n or Make, and never activates one on its own.
Cons
Image, GIF and video personalization are paid add-ons on top of the seat (Hyperise and SendSpark subscriptions).
The recurring Capterra complaint: campaigns getting stuck or stopping, with support unable to say why. Expandi's own 2026 checkpoint post admits this happened and that a delay control looked identical to an ordinary delay, which misconfigured campaigns.
Billing disputes after the trial: charged when they did not expect it, or for more seats than they used.
Some features are gated by seat count, and the redesign is called less friendly than the old interface.
No research or qualification; personalization is merge fields and the new AI message step, not per-person context.
Key features
Smart Campaigns
The campaign builder is the reason to buy Expandi. Conditions (connected, replied, viewed, email opened and five more) branch into actions (connection request, message, InMail, email, profile visit, endorsement, event invite and four more). Signals and ICP filters were added to the builder in 2026, so a campaign can start from a post engager or a job-change rather than a static list.
Safety and limits
Each account runs on a dedicated country IP with automatic warm-up and daily limit ranges, and Expandi states a ceiling of 300+ connection requests a week. An Automation Status dashboard added in 2026 answers the question reviewers used to ask: why did my campaign stop.
Multichannel and inbox
Email steps with follow-ups sit in the same sequence as LinkedIn steps; Smartlead is a named integration for the email side. The Global Inbox shows every account's conversations in one place, with A/B testing on messages.
CRM integrations and MCP
Native HubSpot (admin access required), Salesforce and Pipedrive logging, plus Zapier, Google Sheets and webhooks. Expandi MCP lets an AI assistant draft campaigns and templates against your workspace; it is drafts only, which is the right default for a tool that touches live LinkedIn accounts.
Personalization add-ons
Dynamic images and GIFs via Hyperise and personalized video via SendSpark are integrations that need their own subscriptions. Budget for them if the demo you saw used them.
Expandi pricing
All figures from expandi.io/pricing, read October 8, 2026.
Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
Business | $99 per seat per month; $79 per month on annual (2 months free) | Unlimited campaigns and templates, multichannel steps, dedicated IP, auto warm-up, campaign prioritisation; volume discounts with more seats |
Agency | Custom, 10+ seats | Adds a dedicated CSM and white label |
Trial | 7 days, all features | Charged only after you decide to continue |
Add-ons | Image and GIF personalization (Hyperise subscription); video (SendSpark, paid) | Not included in the seat price |
The worked examples, the annual maths and the add-on costs are in Expandi pricing explained.
Give your sales team
an unfair advantage.
Expandi alternatives
Prices read October 8, 2026 from each vendor's pricing page.
Salesflow: the same cloud-sender job at $99 a seat, dropping to $24.99 a seat at 100 seats; simpler builder, published volume caps. See our Salesflow review.
HeyReach: $79 per sender with unlimited client seats and account rotation; email through Instantly or Smartlead. See our HeyReach review.
Meet Alfred: $59 a seat monthly, $35 on annual, LinkedIn only on the cheap plan. See our Meet Alfred review.
Valley (our product) takes the opposite approach to a volume sender: it starts from live buying signals or your own list, qualifies each person against your ICP, researches them and writes a first message in your voice, then runs the LinkedIn and email steps. One seat is one LinkedIn account. Starter is $199 a month, or $149 billed quarterly, with a 7-day trial. The trade: fewer messages, with a reason to reply in each one. Head-to-head on the tools in this review: Valley vs the competition.
More options: Expandi alternatives, and the head-to-head in Valley vs Expandi.
Who Expandi is for
An agency, a recruiter or an SDR team that runs several LinkedIn accounts, wants conditional campaigns rather than a straight line of messages, and needs activity logged in HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive without a Zapier chain. At $79 a seat on annual it is priced fairly for what it does, and the dedicated IP plus warm-up is the safety setup most reviewers wanted.
Who Expandi is not for
Anyone whose real problem is targeting or message quality. Expandi sends what you configure, and its Signals and ICP filters narrow a list rather than research a person. It is also not for a team without a tolerance for stalled campaigns; the 2026 updates addressed the cause, but the reviews are recent enough to take seriously, and the trial billing complaints argue for cancelling in writing before day seven if you do not continue.
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FAQ
Is Expandi safe for LinkedIn? Expandi runs each account on a dedicated country IP with automatic warm-up and daily limit ranges, and states a ceiling of 300+ connection requests a week. Capterra reviewers credit it with keeping accounts within LinkedIn's limits. No automation tool can promise an account will never be restricted.
How much does Expandi cost? $99 per seat per month, or $79 per month on annual billing (two months free), with volume discounts for more seats. Agency pricing is custom for 10+ seats. Image, GIF and video personalization cost extra. Read October 8, 2026.
Does Expandi have a free trial? Yes, 7 days with all features, and Expandi says it charges only once you decide to continue. Reviewers still report trial billing surprises, so cancel in writing if you stop.
Does Expandi send email? Yes, email steps with follow-ups sit in the same campaign as LinkedIn steps, and Smartlead is a named integration for the email side.
Does Expandi integrate with HubSpot? Natively, with admin access to HubSpot required. Salesforce and Pipedrive are native as well; Zapier, Google Sheets and webhooks cover the rest.
What is Expandi MCP? A beta connector, launched 30 September 2026, that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, n8n or Make draft campaigns and templates in your Expandi workspace. It never activates or edits a running campaign.
What do reviewers complain about? Campaigns stalling without explanation, the campaign builder losing unsaved work, billing after the trial, features gated by seat count, and a redesign some found less friendly.
How this page was made: the facts were read from the sources named in the text on October 8, 2026; drafted with AI assistance; fact-checked, reviewed and edited by Saniya Sood.
