Gojiberry vs HeyReach: an AI agent on intent signals vs per-sender agency scale (2026)
By the ZenMode team · Pricing and features verified September 10, 2026 · Updated
Quick answer
Both drive your LinkedIn account from the vendor's side, but Gojiberry sells an AI agent: it watches buying signals, scores prospects against your ICP, writes the messages and sends on LinkedIn and email, for $99 a month with two LinkedIn seats and two agents. HeyReach sells volume: $79 per sender per month, free human seats, sender rotation and a public API, built for agencies running many accounts. Pick Gojiberry if you want prospects found and contacted for you; pick HeyReach if you run outreach for clients across dozens of accounts (both vendors' prices and plan contents were read from their own live pages on 10 September 2026).
This is an independent comparison written by the ZenMode team. ZenMode is not affiliated with Gojiberry or HeyReach, and the vendor facts below link to each vendor's own pages.
Who each tool is for
Gojiberry describes itself as an AI GTM team rather than an automation tool: "Automation tools execute your outbound. Gojiberry helps run it." Its agents detect buying and social signals, build lookalike audiences from your best customers, score every prospect against your ideal customer profile and contact the highest-intent ones first, across LinkedIn and email. The standard plan is aimed at "founders and operators running their own outbound".
HeyReach was built for the opposite shape of customer. Its about page calls it "the first agency-friendly LinkedIn outreach tool", and its pricing follows: you pay per connected LinkedIn sender and people are free, "HeyReach charges only per LinkedIn senders, not per users." Sender rotation, client workspaces, white-label and a public API are the headline features.
In practice the split is less about company size than about which half of the job you are buying.
Gojiberry fits a two-founder B2B SaaS with no SDR, where nobody has time to build lists and the ICP is stable enough for an agent to work from. It fits a consultant who wants to be told that a former buyer just changed jobs. It fits a team that wants LinkedIn and email in one place without paying for a second sending tool. The ceiling is structural: the standard plan carries two LinkedIn seats, so a third account means an add-on.
HeyReach fits a lead-gen agency running fifteen client accounts, where the list already comes from Sales Navigator, Clay or a scraper, and the problem is spreading a campaign across senders without tripping a limit. It fits an in-house team of five who want one campaign to rotate across five personal profiles. It fits anyone who needs a public API on the entry plan. It does not fit someone who wants to be told who to contact, because it has no answer to that question at all.
What Gojiberry's intent layer does
This is the part HeyReach does not attempt. Gojiberry's privacy policy lists the professional activity it processes to find leads: "job changes, likes, comments, event registrations", and its product pages add competitor engagement, lookalike audiences, ICP filtering and lead scoring. A Signal Agent runs continuously, and the help centre's first troubleshooting step for an empty lead list is to check that "you have selected at least one active intent signal". The site names the categories but publishes no count of signal types as of 10 September 2026, so you cannot audit the breadth of the engine before you buy it.
Lead discovery is metered as a separate unit from sending. Each account includes two Automated Lead Sources, each configured as either Signals or Lookalike, and extra ones are an add-on. That matters when you plan: adding a second ICP is not the same purchase as adding a second lead source, and the two are priced differently.
HeyReach starts from a list you give it or a search you run. Its enrichment is a one-time credit allowance, not a discovery engine: 100 credits per sender, 1,000 on Agency and 3,000 on Unlimited, topped up separately. The pricing page is explicit that this is a starter allocation rather than a monthly refill: "Every HeyReach subscription includes a one-time credit allocation to get you started."
Architecture: how each one runs
Both tools run on the vendor's side. Gojiberry's agents prospect 24/7, and its safety article explains how the account is reached: "Your LinkedIn session is accessed through a proxy in the same region you log in from." HeyReach likewise sends from its own servers, assigning "a dedicated static residential proxy (i.e. real IP address that never changes) to each of your LinkedIn accounts, and never shares that IP between two accounts". Both proxy claims are the vendors' own words, not findings of ours.
There is a caveat on the HeyReach side that only appears in its pricing FAQ: the dedicated residential proxy comes with the entry plan, while "the 'Agency' and 'Unlimited' plans require you to bring your own proxies". So the safety feature most often quoted about HeyReach is the one that stops being included exactly when you scale into the agency tiers.
They differ in how you hand over the account. Gojiberry's step-by-step guide offers a Credentials Login, where you enter your LinkedIn email and password and it states "We never store your LinkedIn password", an Infinite Login, and a Chrome extension route that copies session cookie data "without entering any username, password and 2fa codes". Its troubleshooting page suggests temporarily disabling two-factor authentication if the credentials login gets stuck. HeyReach also offers a credential route but recommends the cookie one: "you don't have to share your LinkedIn credentials. The only downside is that connection sessions last shorter."
That downside is a running maintenance cost, not a one-off. The same article notes the cookie connection "remains valid until you log out of LinkedIn from the computer you used", so a routine logout on the connecting machine drops the sender until someone reconnects it. Across twenty client accounts that is a recurring chore.
Where your tool runs is the trade-off covered in our guide to cloud vs desktop LinkedIn automation.
Pricing, read from both vendors' live pages on 10 September 2026
Two things on that table are worth reading twice. Gojiberry's trial length is not published: its help centre explains what happens when the trial ends but never says how long it runs, so the only honest statement is that we could not verify it on 10 September 2026. And HeyReach's Agency card carries a sender selector listing both 25 and 50 senders; the price rendered at rest is the 25-sender one, so confirm which count $999 buys before budgeting from it.
Multi-brand white-label on HeyReach is an add-on at "$500 per add-on". Gojiberry's discounts article mentions quarterly and annual discounts and custom plans for agencies without stating amounts. HeyReach's terms state that "all fees are non-refundable"; Gojiberry keeps a refund policy article in its help centre.
What this costs at three real sizes. One person, one LinkedIn account: HeyReach $79 a month, Gojiberry $99 but with a second seat and the signal engine included. Three accounts and one ICP: HeyReach $237, Gojiberry $99 plus $59 for the third sender, so $158. Fifteen client accounts: HeyReach $999 on the Agency bundle with room to spare, Gojiberry $99 plus thirteen extra agents at $59, so $866 before any organisation members at $99 each. The crossover is real but it moves depending on whether you need Gojiberry's discovery layer at all, because on HeyReach that budget line sits with whatever tool builds your lists.
Feature differences that matter
| Gojiberry | HeyReach | |
|---|---|---|
| Prospect discovery | Signals, lookalikes, ICP scoring, run by an agent | Your lists and searches; no discovery layer |
| Message writing | AI-generated, sent by the agent | Templates with variables, A/B variants |
| Sends email itself, with waterfall enrichment across 15+ providers | No sending of its own; via Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison | |
| Enrichment credits | 200 a month, included | 100 per sender, one-time, top-ups sold separately |
| Multi-account | 2 seats on Pro, more via add-ons or Custom | Automatic sender rotation across accounts on one campaign |
| Proxy | Region-matched proxy on all plans | Dedicated residential on Growth; own proxies required on Agency and Unlimited |
| Unified inbox | Yes | Unibox with team replies |
| API | API and MCP integrations listed | Public API with Postman docs on every plan |
| CRM | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive | HubSpot, Attio, Clay and others; Pipedrive and Salesforce via Zapier, Make or the API |
| White-label | Not documented on its public pages | Agency and Unlimited; multi-brand at $500 per add-on |
The safety model of each
This is the axis worth the most attention, because the two vendors have opposite philosophies about who holds the dial.
HeyReach enforces ceilings you cannot move. Its safety article names two. The first is a freeze near LinkedIn's weekly invitation cap: "Each of us gets around 100 connection requests to send per week. In HeyReach, we automatically 'freeze' any account in your campaign that gets really close to this limit. You don't need to do it manually, nor can you override this rule." It adds that "LinkedIn resets the counter every Monday at 2 a.m. Pacific Time". The second is a daily ceiling: "Each of our LinkedIn accounts is allowed 200 actions per day", where an action is any click, and "as soon as any profile in your HeyReach account reaches 200 actions, we freeze it until the next day." You cannot raise either. For an agency that is a feature, because it removes the possibility of a junior operator setting a client's account on fire.
Gojiberry publishes the risk model rather than a hard stop. Its safety limits article is unusually candid about the fact that the numbers are not knowable: LinkedIn does "not publish official fixed numbers", and the recommended daily windows are presented as a graphic rather than as text, so we are not quoting figures from it. What the article does state in words is a list of the patterns LinkedIn's anti-abuse systems look for, and it is the most useful thing either vendor publishes: velocity spikes, "jumping wildly from 10 to 150 invites overnight"; a connection acceptance rate "under 20%"; holding "more than 500 total pending, unaccepted invitations at one time"; robotic telemetry such as "executing a task exactly every 2 minutes"; and "rapidly jumping between conflicting IP locations".
Against those, Gojiberry describes two mechanisms: randomised spacing of actions across your delivery hours, and a global throttle so that "even if you create 5 different live campaigns" the total stays under your daily maximum. It also states a limit that is easy to miss when planning: "When you have two or more Agents connected to the same LinkedIn account, the LinkedIn limits (invites, messages, etc.) are shared between those Agents." Buying a second agent for the same profile does not buy a second budget.
On risk itself, neither vendor claims exemption. Gojiberry: "the risk is very low if best practices are followed", followed in the same article by "like any automation tool, there is always some level of risk". HeyReach: "There is no approved outreach automation tool, ours included". HeyReach also disclosed that in March 2026 LinkedIn removed its company page and restricted its executives' profiles, adding that customer accounts kept operating. See also our round-up of the safest LinkedIn automation tools.
Neither is verifiably safer than the other, and no tool in this category is approved by LinkedIn. HeyReach stops you at a fixed line; Gojiberry tells you where the lines are and expects you to respect them.
Where each one is weaker
Gojiberry. No published count of signal types, so the engine's breadth cannot be checked before purchase. No published trial length, and the trial converts automatically on a saved card. Costs climb in three separate directions once you pass the included two seats, at $59, $29 and $99 a month respectively, and the Custom tier is priced on request, so an agency cannot budget from the website. The agent writes and sends, which is the product, but it means less control over exact copy than a template builder gives. And its Organization Member model has a constraint agencies should read carefully: the member "uses the same payment method as the main account" and "the owner/manager can access the member account", which is the wrong shape if your clients expect billing and data separation.
HeyReach. No prospect discovery at all, so a list-building subscription sits underneath it. No email sending of its own, so a second tool sits beside it for multichannel. Enrichment credits are one-time rather than monthly. The dedicated residential proxy stops being included on the two agency tiers. The cookie login it recommends expires when the user logs out of LinkedIn on the connecting machine. InMail requires a Sales Navigator or Recruiter seat on top. And the same fixed ceilings that lower its risk make it inflexible if you have a mature account and want to run at your own pace.
ZenMode, since a comparison that finds no fault in its publisher is not worth reading. It is LinkedIn only, with no email channel at all. Its Signals feature, which finds people from LinkedIn activity, is launching soon; until then you bring the search or the list. Its $15 Novice tier has no AI features whatsoever. Above all, it is a desktop app that sends while it is open, which means the campaign stops when you close the laptop, and it is a poor fit for an agency running dozens of client accounts, because it has no sender rotation across accounts on a single campaign and no done-for-you migration service. And ZenMode is not exempt from LinkedIn's rules either; no tool in this category is.
Migration notes: what moving actually costs
Switching tools does not reset LinkedIn's invitation limit. This is the cost people miss. LinkedIn publishes no weekly connection request number; its help pages say invitation limits exist and that "All LinkedIn members, including those with Basic and Premium accounts, are subject to these limits" (LinkedIn Help), so whatever the limit is, it belongs to your account, not to the software spending it (how many connection requests you can send per week). HeyReach's own article puts it at around 100 a week and says the counter resets "every Monday at 2 a.m. Pacific Time"; both are HeyReach's statements, not LinkedIn's. If you run the old tool and the new one in parallel during a changeover week, both draw on the same allowance and the account reaches its limit at half the throughput you expected. Cut over on a Monday, and run one tool at a time.
Drain the pending backlog before you move, not after. Gojiberry's safety article flags more than 500 outstanding unaccepted invitations as a risk pattern, and advises withdrawing invitations "that have been sitting unaccepted for more than 3 to 4 weeks". Pending invitations do not transfer between tools, and a new tool starting on top of a large backlog inherits the risk without inheriting the record of it.
Leaving Gojiberry pauses rather than deletes. Its help centre states that when a trial or subscription ends, the workspace is "paused, not deleted": agents, campaigns, leads, contact lists and templates are preserved and available again on reactivation. That is generous if you may come back, and it also means your prospect data continues to sit on their side after you stop paying. There is a related trap for teams: if the workspace owner's subscription lapses, "the entire workspace is paused" and every member loses access with it.
Moving into HeyReach has a paid-for path. Its pricing page offers a done-for-you migration: "Moving your LinkedIn outreach data from another tool? We'll do that entire process for you." No equivalent service is advertised by Gojiberry.
What never transfers cleanly, in either direction: sequence timing and limit configuration, because the two tools express pacing differently, one as fixed ceilings and one as recommended windows under a global throttle; connection history and reply threads, which live in LinkedIn rather than in the tool; and the LinkedIn session itself, which has to be reconnected from scratch, by password or by cookie. Budget a week of reduced volume around any switch rather than expecting a clean cutover.
Moving to ZenMode, you sign in to LinkedIn in the window the ZenMode app opens. The lists still have to be exported and re-imported.
Where ZenMode fits
Both tools here run on the vendor's side. With ZenMode you sign in to LinkedIn in the window the app opens. It finds prospects from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search, AI writes the connection note and follow-ups from the $49 Practitioner plan, each campaign lets you review those messages before they send or leave it on Autopilot (new campaigns start on Autopilot), and every reply lands in one inbox, on flat plans from $15 a month. The published plans: $15 for the no-AI Novice tier, $49 Practitioner, $99 Master and $149 Dojo, with a 14-day free trial on Practitioner, Master and Dojo, and a Custom plan for more accounts. Verified against our own pricing page on 10 September 2026.
Signals, which finds people from LinkedIn activity, is launching soon. It has no email channel. Read it as a Gojiberry alternative or a HeyReach alternative, or see what ZenMode does.
Verdict
- Choose Gojiberry if you want prospects found from buying signals and contacted for you, on LinkedIn and email, and two seats are enough to start.
- Choose HeyReach if you run LinkedIn outreach for clients across many senders and want published per-sender pricing, rotation, free human seats and an API, with list building and email sending bought separately.
- Consider ZenMode if you want AI-written messages you review or send on Autopilot, every reply in one inbox and one flat price across accounts.
FAQ
Does Gojiberry or HeyReach need my LinkedIn password?
Both offer a route that avoids it. Gojiberry's Chrome extension method copies session cookie data so no password or 2FA code is entered, alongside its Credentials Login and Infinite Login. HeyReach recommends its cookie login over sharing credentials. In both cases the vendor then holds a working session on your account, and HeyReach's cookie session ends when you log out of LinkedIn on the computer you connected from.
Which is cheaper?
For one person, HeyReach's $79 per sender is below Gojiberry's $99, but Gojiberry's $99 includes two LinkedIn seats, two agents, email sending, enrichment and the signal engine. At three LinkedIn accounts Gojiberry is cheaper, at roughly $158 against $237. At fifteen, HeyReach's $999 Agency bundle wins on the sending line, though you will still be paying something else to build the lists. Prices read from both vendors' pages on 10 September 2026.
Can either tool send email?
Gojiberry does, with waterfall enrichment across 15+ data providers and 200 credits a month included. HeyReach sends no email itself and routes it through Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison, which is a second subscription.
How long is Gojiberry's free trial?
Gojiberry does not publish the length. Its help centre documents what happens when the trial ends, including that the subscription begins automatically on your saved payment method unless you cancel, but no page we could read on 10 September 2026 states the number of days. HeyReach publishes both of its trials: 14 days with no card and up to 3 accounts on the entry plan, and 30 days on request for Agency and Unlimited.
Will switching tools reset my LinkedIn connection request limit?
No. Whatever invitation limit LinkedIn applies belongs to your LinkedIn account, not to the tool, and LinkedIn publishes no weekly number for it. HeyReach's safety article says the counter resets "every Monday at 2 a.m. Pacific Time". Running the old tool and the new one at the same time spends one budget twice, so switch on a Monday and retire the old tool before the new one starts sending.