Waalaxy vs HeyReach: Per-Seat Solo Outreach vs Per-Sender Agency Scale (2026)

Who each tool is for

Waalaxy is packaged for the individual operator: every plan is quoted "/user/month", and the entry Pro plan is "€19 /user/month" with "Pre-built prospecting sequences" (pricing). The vendor is SAS Waapi, a French company in Montpellier (legal notices). Its centre of gravity is the ready-made sequence: the homepage advertises "99+ ready-to-use outreach sequences", with email enrichment bundled via Dropcontact (Waalaxy subscriptions).

HeyReach was built for a different customer. Its about page dates it to 2023 — "we created what we believe was the first agency-friendly LinkedIn outreach tool" — and its pricing headline is "Unlimited senders, one flat monthly fee". The billing unit is a LinkedIn account, not a person: "A sender (or a seat) is a LinkedIn account that you add to your organization. HeyReach don't charge you for adding team mates, VAs, clients or users" (pricing FAQ). Sender rotation, client workspaces and white-label all follow from that.

Pricing, verified 3 September 2026

Waalaxy — priced per human user:

Plan	Price as displayed	LinkedIn invitations	Email credits
Pro	€19 /user/month	300 invites/month	25/month
Advanced	€49 /user/month	800 invites/month	25/month
Business	€69 /user/month	800 invites/month	500 email finder credits

HeyReach — priced per connected LinkedIn account:

Plan	Monthly price as displayed	Senders
Growth	$79 /mo per sender	quantity you choose
Agency	$999 /mo	25 senders
Unlimited	$2,999 /mo	Unlimited senders
Done for you	Custom	managed service

Sources: waalaxy.com/pricing and heyreach.io/pricing, fetched 3 September 2026.

Waalaxy shows a "14-day free trial" against all three plans. HeyReach's FAQ says the entry plan "allows you to test HeyReach for 14 days (no CC required) with 3 LinkedIn accounts", and offers a 30-day trial on request "for both of the plans" — Agency and Unlimited. No refund policy appears on heyreach.io/pricing, though HeyReach's terms of service state that "all fees are non-refundable" (§7.2, as of 3 September 2026); Waalaxy's live Terms of Use specify neither trial length nor refunds, saying only that "subscription remains due according to the conditions initially subscribed to."

Waalaxy's entry plan is quota-limited and the step up is not linear. Pro caps you at 300 invitations a month while Advanced and Business both sit at 800, so the €49 step buys invitation headroom and the €69 step buys cold email rather than more invites. The Inbox is a separate add-on offered with "500 free conversations, no time limit" and no published paid price; Waalaxy offers quarterly (−20%) and yearly (−50%) billing across all plans and publishes no annual total (pricing). The pricing page lists no free plan either, while a vendor article updated 17 June 2026 describes a freemium tier limited to "3 actions per day and per type" (Waalaxy subscriptions).

HeyReach's proxy inclusion inverts as you move up. Its pricing FAQ states 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". Multi-brand white-label on Unlimited is "$500 per add-on" (same page), and the 50-sender Agency price renders only behind a client-side toggle and could not be captured — the page's own structured data lists the Agency plan at 999 with "50 senders included", contradicting the visible 25-sender card.

Architecture: where each runs, and who holds the login

Waalaxy is now cloud-only. Its help centre article dated 1 July 2026 states that Waalaxy "no longer relies on a browser extension. Everything runs directly inside the app at app.waalaxy.com", that the extension "has been removed from the Chrome Web Store", and that campaigns "run in the background regardless of what's happening in your browser" (Waalaxy is now fully cloud-based). An optional companion, Alien Copilot, speeds up imports but is not mandatory. HeyReach is also cloud-based, with no desktop client (connecting an account).

Login handling. HeyReach publishes both methods verbatim: "The first option is to do it via cookies. The second option is to manually set up your account using LinkedIn credentials (email and password)." Cookies are preferred — "you don't have to share your LinkedIn credentials" — while the credential route requires "your LinkedIn account's email address and password and 2FA secret key" plus a six-digit PIN (connecting an account). Waalaxy's cloud-migration article requires an account connection but does not describe the method, and its Data Usage Policy does not mention storing LinkedIn credentials either way.

IP handling. HeyReach claims a dedicated non-rotating IP per account: it "gives 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" (is HeyReach safe to use). Waalaxy documented IP handling for the Cloud add-on it ran before the migration — "Each user is assigned a fixed IP. There is a maximum of 5 users per IP… The IPs we use are VPN IPs" (Waalaxy Cloud) — but has published no equivalent for the post-migration app (cloud-migration article). Both send from vendor infrastructure rather than your own machine — see our explainer on where a LinkedIn tool runs.

Feature differences that matter

Capability	Waalaxy	HeyReach
Branching logic	Not checked	"If Connection" and "Open profile check" branches
InMail	Not found on the homepage, pricing or sales use case	Yes, but "InMail in HeyReach requires Sales Navigator" (InMail limits article); its older sequence-steps article still says a Recruiter account qualifies — the two vendor pages disagree as of 3 September 2026
Sales Navigator / Recruiter	Sales Navigator import	Both; Recruiter via the HeyReach extension
Inbox	Yes, sold as an add-on; multi-account management in one inbox	"Unibox" unified inbox included on every plan
Voice notes	Yes, from the Inbox	Yes, from the Unibox; not available via InMail
A/B testing	Not checked	Yes, on connection notes, messages and InMails
Agency / team	Roles, permissions, team dashboards	Client workspaces, sender rotation, white-label
Export	CSV export "in just a few clicks"; no plan or field list stated (lead list)	Public API and webhooks, from the Growth plan

Table sources: HeyReach — sequence steps, InMail limits, Unibox, for agencies; Waalaxy — homepage, pricing, sales use case, Inbox, lead list; all fetched 3 September 2026.

Waalaxy lists "voicemails, GIFs, emojis, PJs and images" as Inbox personalisation elements and notes that recording works on desktop as well as mobile, which LinkedIn natively restricts to mobile (Waalaxy Inbox). HeyReach documents voice notes in the Unibox — "You can add attachments, send photos and videos, but also record voice notes" — and states they cannot be sent via InMail, arriving as an .m4a file (Unibox overview).

The real gap is agency infrastructure. HeyReach ships sender rotation, isolated client workspaces under one login, and rebranding: "Your logo, your colors, your domain, your sign-in page." (for agencies). Waalaxy ships team roles, dashboards and a Team Plan where "All members must use the same plan." (Waalaxy subscriptions, updated 17 June 2026).

Safety controls each vendor documents

Neither vendor is exempt from LinkedIn's rules, and HeyReach says so plainly. Its CMO wrote in August 2026: "LinkedIn's User Agreement explicitly bans software that automates connecting, messaging, liking, and commenting. There is no approved outreach automation tool — ours included" (HeyReach blog). The same post discloses that on 25 March 2026 LinkedIn removed the HeyReach company page and restricted four executives' profiles, while stating "Customer accounts, campaigns, and the platform itself continued operating normally." It adds that HeyReach was "not singled out… LinkedIn has done this to every major tool in the space." Waalaxy's live Terms of Use place the risk on the user and name LinkedIn in neither clause: you "acknowledge that you are fully aware that the publisher of a web site and/or application may expressly forbid the use of such a solution", and you "release and indemnify Waapi against all consequences that may arise from the use of Waalaxy that does not comply with the requirements of the present terms and conditions" (§13, §13(c)).

HeyReach says it enforces the weekly connection-request ceiling automatically — "we automatically 'freeze' any account in your campaign that gets really close to this limit... nor can you override this rule" — alongside a 200-actions-per-day freeze per account (is HeyReach safe to use), a "minimum of 3 hours delay between two actions" (sequence steps), and a published manual warm-up schedule to follow before connecting a new account (free LinkedIn accounts).

Waalaxy's equivalent documentation is dated: its principal security article was published in September 2022 and last modified in October 2025, so it describes the extension that has since been removed. It claims randomised daily action volume, a "random delay between each action" of "two to three minutes", and an auto-pause holding the account for "48 hours" if manual actions exceed quotas. No equivalent for the post-July-2026 architecture appears on that article, the cloud-migration article or the Data Usage Policy.

Integrations

Waalaxy's integrations page names three native CRMs — HubSpot and Pipedrive two-way, Salesforce inbound — plus inbound data connections including Clay, Lusha, Folk and Attio. Its public API uses bearer-token auth (docs.waalaxy.com/api), but the pricing page lists "API access" and "Make, Zapier & N8N modules" as Advanced-plan features, so both are gated above the €19 tier. No webhooks are documented at docs.waalaxy.com/api, and the Make listing exposes only two modules (apps.make.com/waalaxy) — read the homepage's "2,000+ integrations" as three native CRMs plus a Zapier and Make surface.

HeyReach lists a wider native set — Instantly, Clay, n8n, HubSpot, Slack, Smartlead, Attio, Breakcold, RB2B and others (integrations) — but neither Pipedrive nor Salesforce appears on that page as of 3 September 2026; both route through Zapier, Make or the API. Its public API, webhooks and an MCP server are listed on the entry Growth plan rather than gated higher. HeyReach does not send email itself: multichannel runs through Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison (pricing), whereas Waalaxy sells cold email sequences directly on its Business plan.

What users say

Waalaxy has the larger review base: 4.4 out of 5 from 253 reviews on Capterra and a 4.7 TrustScore from 1,289 reviews on Trustpilot. One anecdotal criticism from the low-star minority: a Capterra reviewer wrote that "Email outreach needs to be polished - the text formatting is not supported and it is not possible to include variables". That is one individual opinion against a strongly positive aggregate.

HeyReach's verified sample is smaller: 4.0 out of 5 from 51 reviews on Trustpilot, and 5.0 out of 5 on Capterra from only two reviews — too small to read anything into. A Capterra reviewer noted anecdotally that "keeping the profiles connected consistently...requires some maintenance since sessions can expire or need to be reconnected periodically" — which matches the vendor's own documentation, where a cookie connection "remains valid until you log out of LinkedIn from the computer you used for this process" (connecting an account). That is a documented trade-off of the password-free route, not a defect.

Where ZenMode fits

Both tools above run your outreach on their servers. ZenMode takes the other approach: a desktop app that runs on your own computer, using your own IP address and your existing browser session, so no vendor stores your LinkedIn credentials and no rented or vendor-assigned proxy sits between you and LinkedIn. The honest trade-off is that the machine has to be on for a campaign to run — if you want sends continuing overnight while your laptop is shut, a cloud tool is the right answer and ZenMode is not.

That suits a solo operator or small in-house team who would rather own the risk surface than outsource it, and an agency rotating dozens of client accounts round the clock far less well. Pricing is per plan rather than per sender — see ZenMode pricing. If you are weighing one of these tools specifically, we have written up how it compares as a Waalaxy alternative and as a HeyReach alternative.

The verdict

• Choose Waalaxy if you want prebuilt sequences and bundled email enrichment cheaply and can live within 300 invitations a month on the €19 plan — accepting that neither its cloud-migration article nor its Data Usage Policy describes the login method or the new app's IP handling.
• Choose HeyReach if you run several LinkedIn accounts and need rotation, a shared inbox, per-client workspaces and white-label, and are comfortable paying per connected account rather than per person.
• Consider a desktop tool if the login and the IP matter more to you than uninterrupted overnight sending, and you would rather run outreach from your own machine.

FAQ

Is Waalaxy still a Chrome extension?

No. The vendor's help centre article dated 1 July 2026 states that Waalaxy "no longer relies on a browser extension" and that the extension "has been removed from the Chrome Web Store". Campaigns run with the browser closed, so reviews written before July 2026 describe the older product — and Waalaxy's homepage still carries a badge reading "4.8 on 2,000+ Chrome Store & G2 reviews", a figure that combines both platforms.

Which tool holds my LinkedIn password?

HeyReach may, depending on which of its two documented methods you pick: a Chrome cookie session, which it calls preferred because "you don't have to share your LinkedIn credentials", or a credential login requiring your LinkedIn email, password and 2FA secret key. Waalaxy's cloud-migration article and Data Usage Policy describe neither the method nor any credential storage.

Can I run several LinkedIn accounts on one subscription?

HeyReach charges per connected account — $79/mo per sender on Growth, 25 senders bundled into the $999/mo Agency plan — rotates sending between them, and adds human users free: "HeyReach charges only per LinkedIn senders, not per users." Waalaxy charges per human seat instead; its Inbox add-on manages multiple accounts in one inbox, and its Team Plan requires that "All members must use the same plan." (Waalaxy subscriptions).

Does either offer a free trial without a credit card?

HeyReach does: its pricing FAQ says the entry plan allows a 14-day test with no credit card and up to 3 LinkedIn accounts, with a 30-day trial on request for both the Agency and Unlimited plans. Waalaxy's pricing page displays a "14-day free trial" against all three plans but does not state whether a card is required. No refund policy appears on either pricing page; HeyReach's terms of service state that "all fees are non-refundable".