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Published September 14, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
The answer up front: choose Valley when you want prospect research, reviewed messages and replies in one browser workspace, with LinkedIn and email sent from the cloud after your approval, from one seat at $199 a month (or $149 billed quarterly). Choose Linked Helper when a low-priced desktop LinkedIn automation you run on your own machine matches your process and your risk tolerance, from $15 a month per LinkedIn account.
Disclosure: Valley makes one of the tools discussed here. Where another tool is the better fit for your motion, this page says so. Vendor facts were read from the vendors' own pages on the dates named next to them.
How we know this category: Valley runs outbound for 1,000+ LinkedIn accounts and has sent 30M+ messages.
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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Linked Helper is current, not legacy: it now sells AI messages, AI ICP detection, a Unified Inbox and cloud storage. Its operating model, desktop software on a machine you keep running, is the real difference. Rating terms and the seven-stage method are defined once on how Valley compares outbound tools, so this page spends its words on the differences that are specific to this vendor.
Three differences that decide it
1. It runs on your computer, and the computer has to stay on
Linked Helper is installed software for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu, not a browser extension and not a cloud service (downloads page). Campaigns run only while the app is open on your computer or a VPS you rent; the pricing FAQ says it does not run while the machine is off, on either storage version. It uses a built-in anti-detect browser with a separate fingerprint per account, proxies are bought separately, and the vendor's guidance is 2.5 GB of RAM for one account. Reviewers on G2 and Capterra praise the time saved and complain about a heavy app that slows or crashes the computer and a dated interface.
Valley runs in the browser from Valley's cloud, with nothing installed. Close the laptop and the campaign continues. For a distributed team, that also decides who can take over a campaign when the operator is away.
2. Email is a handoff, not a channel
Linked Helper finds emails (one data credit each, or through your own Snov.io or Apollo account) and hands leads to Instantly, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and others (integrations page). It does not send email sequences. On the Standard plan, native CRM sends and outgoing webhooks are capped at 20 a day; Pro lifts that. So an email plus LinkedIn motion is Linked Helper plus a sender plus the glue, and two suppression lists to keep in step.
Valley sends LinkedIn and email from the same campaign and keeps one record of who has been contacted. Email is an add-on on Starter and included from Plus.
3. What the AI writes from
AI Messages generates one message per lead from profile fields you mark as required (summary, experience, skills, mutual connections), visits the profile to collect a missing field, and queues drafts for approval with an auto-approve toggle. The FAQ states plainly that it does not write from someone's recent posts. AI ICP Detection scores a profile against your ICP description and drops failures before any outreach, which is a real qualification step and gets full credit. The Reply Assistant drafts replies you then send, and the multi-account Unified Inbox requires the Cloud storage licence.
Valley researches each person across the open web, shows the sources, and writes from your own writing rather than a prompt. Both tools put a human approval before the send; the difference is what the draft knows.
Pricing, read October 8, 2026
Plan | Price per LinkedIn account per month | What it includes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Linked Helper Standard, Local storage | $15 on a 1-month licence; $13.33 at 3 months; $10 at 6; $8.25 at 12 | 620 data credits and 250 to 1,500 AI credits a month; ten advanced actions capped at 20 a day; one-account inbox | |
Linked Helper Pro, Local storage | $45; $40; $30; $24.75 by term | Lifts the 20-a-day caps; 3,100 data credits; 500 to 3,000 AI credits; message-history export, webhooks and CRM send | |
Linked Helper Standard or Pro, Cloud storage | $29.90 or $59.90 on a 1-month licence; $16.50 or $33 at 12 months | Data on Linked Helper's US servers; second device; team sharing; incoming webhooks; Unified Inbox across accounts | |
Valley | Starter $199 a month, or $149 a month billed quarterly; Plus $299 or $249 quarterly; Growth $499. Per seat. | Plus adds 1,000 emails a month, priority Slack support and an onboarding call (optional add-ons on Starter); Growth adds $300 in monthly credits. 7-day free trial. | Valley pricing, read October 8, 2026 |
Linked Helper's licence is per LinkedIn account, teammates do not need their own, term and volume discounts multiply, a Standard licence cannot be upgraded mid-term, and the 14-day trial is full Pro with no card. Add the email sender, proxies and the machine or VPS to its column. The stack-cost guide prices the assembled version.
When to choose Linked Helper
Price per account is the deciding factor and you are comfortable operating desktop software and proxies yourself.
You run many LinkedIn accounts and want one licence each, with the Unified Inbox on Cloud storage covering 20 or more.
Your motion is LinkedIn only, or your email tool is already in place and a lead handoff is enough.
You want granular control of actions and limits: its support guidance is 150 actions per rolling 24 hours and 50 invites a day for accounts older than a year, and it says it cannot guarantee LinkedIn will not block an account.
When to choose Valley
Nothing should be installed, and the campaign should keep running when the laptop is closed.
LinkedIn and email belong in one campaign with one suppression list.
The draft should come from research with sources, in your own voice, not from profile fields alone.
More than one person needs to see the prospects, the drafts and the replies without sharing a machine.
A test to run on both
A boutique recruiter approaching engineering managers who are hiring is a fair case. Mix relevant hiring managers with unrelated profiles and test fit detection in both. Ask each for a message that ties the actual hiring context to the recruiter's specialty. In Linked Helper, inspect the desktop setup, the AI credit use and the email handoff. In Valley, read the fit explanation, the sources and both channel drafts. Count edits per message, then replies after two weeks against the benchmarks.
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FAQ
Does Linked Helper run in the cloud? No. Cloud storage moves the data to Linked Helper's servers and enables the Unified Inbox and team sharing, but campaigns still run from the app on your computer or a VPS you keep on.
Does Linked Helper send email? No. It finds emails and hands leads to Instantly, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot and other tools. Email sequences need a separate sender.
Does Linked Helper have AI qualification and writing? Yes. AI ICP Detection scores profiles against your description, and AI Messages writes from the profile fields you require. It does not write from recent posts, by its own FAQ.
What are the safe limits? The support article recommends 150 actions per rolling 24 hours, 50 invites a day for accounts over a year old and 10 to 15 for new accounts, and no more than 200 to 500 pending invites. It adds that it cannot guarantee LinkedIn will not block an account.
What do reviewers say? G2 shows 4.5 from 149 reviews and Capterra 4.9 from 278, both read in a browser on October 8, 2026. Praise: time saved, automation, customizability, support. Complaints: slow performance, heavy resource use, an outdated interface and a learning curve. Several G2 reviews are tagged as incentivized.
Sources
Linked Helper support: what kind of limits should I use, read in a browser
G2: Linked Helper reviews, read in a browser
Capterra: Linked Helper reviews, page updated September 29, 2026, read in a browser
Vendor facts were read on October 8, 2026 unless a line says otherwise. Review sites that blocked automated reads are named as such rather than quoted. Send corrections through the contact options on this site with the vendor, the claim and the supporting page.
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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.
