Free LinkedIn Automation Tools in 2026
You want to try LinkedIn automation before paying for it, and almost every vendor says free somewhere. What that word buys you differs by a long way from one tool to the next.
If you want LinkedIn automation for free, you are almost always looking at a trial that ends after a week or two. Of the 45 tools read for this page, six publish a plan with no end date, 36 offer only a trial and three offer neither. Just nine of the 37 trials print a cap.
Every quoted line in the table is the vendor’s own, from its pricing page or help center, read on 14 October 2026, re-checked on 27 October and linked in Sources. Free plans and trials sit in separate parts of the table, because a plan that never ends and a trial that turns into a subscription are different purchases.
On this page
The caps on every free plan and trial
Free plans with no end date come first, trials after them. Waalaxy appears in both parts because it runs both. The fourth column is the vendor’s wording. The fifth says what the free tier leaves out, and for a trial it also says what happens on the last day when the vendor prints that. Where a vendor prints no cap for its trial, the cell says so.
| Tool | Free tier | Length | What it allows, in the vendor’s words | What it leaves out | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plans: no end date | |||||
| gtm-api.com | Free plan (Sandbox) | No end date (“the plan does not end”) | “the UI, the REST API, the MCP server and every LinkedIn action verb stay available”. 1 connected account, card required: none, 1 parallel cloud-browser session, 1 webhook. Per day: 5 connection requests, 10 messages, 5 InMails, 8 profile visits, 4 posts | Team members and the AI copilot. Each sync surface refreshes at most once every 24 hours, and realtime message push is off | docs |
| ConnectSafely | Free plan | No end date (“$0 /forever”) | “Boost 1 post a week. Write and schedule your LinkedIn posts.” Also “no card needed” | The API plan (“the API, the MCP server and the CLI”), which is $10 per LinkedIn account a month | pricing |
| Edges | Free tier | Renews every month | “100 free credits and 1 identity to try every endpoint. No card required” | The renewal is “for personal use”. Further identities and credits are paid | pricing |
| LeadConnect | Free Forever plan | No end date | “Up to 2 Invites per day”, “6 Message credits per day”, 5 templates | Volume: the paid tiers list up to 30, 60 and 100 invites a day | pricing |
| OutX | Free plan | No end date stated | “Free includes 2 private watchlists, team members, and basic fetching.” | “Growth adds more watchlists, OutX Credits, CSV exports, and email support.” | pricing |
| Waalaxy | Freemium | No end date | “The Freemium version gives you limited access to the Waalaxy application. It is completely free.” “You can only import prospects from a CSV file.” | Automation: “you can’t use any automation features”, and “In Freemium, you cannot launch campaigns.” The help article on the queue still lists 2–3 invitations a day for Freemium | subscriptions · quotas |
| Free trials: the clock runs | |||||
| Aimfox | Outreach seat trial | 14 days | “On signup, every client gets a 14-day trial of Outreach Seat. For this step you don’t need to add a payment method.” | No trial caps published | help center |
| Alsona | Trial of any plan | 7 days | “Start any plan free for 7 days.” | A card-free start: “A credit card is required to start” | pricing |
| Botdog | Trial | 7 days | “All plans come with a 7-day free trial. No credit card required. You can test all features” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| Buzz | Free seat with a trial | Not published | “Free seat with limited credits and a timed trial. No card needed.” | The credit amount and the trial length are not published | LinkedIn product page |
| Closely | Trial | Not published | A trial on every plan, and the advice to “exclusively operate within the warm-up mode of the platform during this trial phase” | The dedicated proxy: “during the trial version of our product, this specific type of proxy is not allocated” | help center |
| Dripify | Trial of Advanced | 7 days | “The trial runs 7 days with no credit card required and gives you Advanced plan features.” | No trial caps published. At the end, “nothing is charged automatically” | pricing |
| Dux-Soup | Trial | 14 days | “Start Free 14-day Trial” | No trial caps published | product page |
| Expandi | Trial | 7 days | “The 7-day free trial gives you access to all Expandi features” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| FirstTouch | Trial | 14 days | “Two-week free trial, no credit card required.” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| Gojiberry | Trial | Not published | “Free Trial · Live in 5 minutes · Cancel anytime” | The trial length is not published | homepage |
| HeyReach | Trial of Starter | 14 days | “the ‘Starter’ plan allows you to test HeyReach for 14 days (no CC required) with 3 LinkedIn accounts.” | Capped at 3 LinkedIn accounts. The ‘Unlimited’ plans trial for 30 days on request | pricing |
| La Growth Machine | Trial | 14 days | “14-day free trial” and “No credit card required.” | Capped at 1 identity, “During your free-trial you only have access to 1 identity”, and custom sequences are left out | pricing |
| Leadspicker | Trial | Not published | “Start for free, no credit card required.” | The length is not published. The FAQ calls it a free trial and a free plan in one answer, and the plan grid shows no $0 tier | pricing |
| lemlist | Trial of Multichannel | 14 days | “You’ll get access to the Multichannel plan’s features (except in-app calls), plus 200 free credits” | In-app calls. Capped at 200 credits | pricing |
| Linked API | Trial of Core or Plus | 7 days | “Per-seat pricing with a 7-day free trial and unlimited workflow execution.” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| Linked Helper | Trial of Pro | 14 days | “Full Pro access for 14 days” and “every feature, no daily caps. No credit card required” | Nothing renews: “the trial simply ends and campaigns pause” | pricing |
| LinkedCamp | Trial | 14 days | “every plan includes a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.” | No trial caps published. “Cancel anytime within the trial and you won’t be charged.” | pricing |
| LinkedFusion | Trial | 14 or 7 days | “Start my 14 day free trial” on the homepage, “Get 7 days Free Trial” after a sales call on the features page | No trial caps published | homepage · features |
| LinkupAPI | Trial | Not published | “Start free trial” (a button, with no terms printed next to it) | The length, the card terms and any caps are not published | pricing |
| MeetAlfred | Trial | Not published | Daily limits on the trial: “Max Invites 30”, “Max Messages 50”, “Max Engage Profile 100”, “Max Inmails 25” | The trial length is not published | help center |
| Octopus CRM | Trial | 7 days | “All plans come with a 7-day obligation-free trial. No credit card required, unsubscribe anytime.” | No trial caps published | homepage |
| Overloop | Trial | 7 days | “You’ll get a free 7 days trial! No credit card required.” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| PhantomBuster | Trial plan | 14 days | “5 Automations slots” · “2h Execution time” · “1k AI credits” · “MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, +)” · “Exports limited to 10 rows” | Exports past 10 rows, and execution past 2 hours (Start, the entry paid plan, has 20 hours a month) | pricing |
| Reply.io | Trial | 14 days | “Start 14-day trial” | No trial caps published | pricing file |
| Salesflow | Trial | 7 days | “7-day free trial”, “no card required” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| Salesforge | Trial | 14 days | “Start 14-Day Free Trial” | Capped at 50 contacts, 100 emails and 100 social action credits | pricing |
| SalesRobot | Trial | 14 days | “Free Trial (14 days)”. Asked whether all the features are in the trial, the FAQ answers “Yes, of course.” On the card: “we don’t take your credit card for the free trial”. | No trial caps published | pricing · FAQ |
| ScaliQ | Trial | 7 days | “ScaliQ offers a 7-day free trial so you can test the platform before committing.” | No trial caps published | homepage |
| Skylead | Trial | 7 days | “Start your 7-day free trial, & choose the right plan for your business.” | Its Warmup Mode for a new account “lasts for 3 weeks” | pricing · warm-up |
| Snov.io | LinkedIn Automation trial | 7 days | “All users can access a free 7-day trial of LinkedIn Automation.” | LinkedIn Automation is not in the renewable free Trial plan, which lists lead search, email tools and the CRM | pricing |
| Sonarly | Trial | 7 days | “you can try Sonarly free of charge for seven days. You will receive a free test budget of 500 credits during this period.” | Capped at 500 credits | pricing |
| Taplio | Trial (Pro access) | 7 days | “Full app access during the free trial, whichever plan you choose.” | “limited AI usage” during the trial | pricing · help center |
| Unipile | Trial | 7 days | “Full API access” · “Unlimited usage” · “Only provider limits apply” · “No credit card required” | No trial caps published | pricing |
| Valley | Trial | 7 days | “Eligible new subscribers get a 7-day trial.” | A card-free start: “A payment method is required.” | pricing |
| Waalaxy | Trial of Business | 14 days on the pricing page | “Once activated, you have access to all Business plan features.” | A card-free start: “you must enter a valid credit card”. Unless you cancel, “a monthly Business subscription will start automatically” | pricing · subscriptions |
| We-Link | Trial | 14 days | “100 API credits, 14 days, no credit card required.” | Capped at 100 API credits | pricing |
| Woodpecker | Trial | 14 days or 500 cold emails | “During the trial, you have access to all Woodpecker features.” | Capped at 500 cold emails, “Whichever limit you reach first applies.” | pricing |
No free plan and no trial on the pages read: AiSDR, CoPilot AI (now Yoke) and Zeekeo. Zeekeo’s pricing page offers a first month free with a promo code, a launch offer with no standing trial behind it.
In scope are tools that act on a LinkedIn account, whether they run in a vendor cloud, a desktop app, a browser extension or behind an API. CRMs, inboxes and data APIs that never act on an account are left off. How LinkedIn automation runs, what it costs and the rules around it are on the LinkedIn automation hub.
What the six free plans cover
Six tools publish a plan with no end date, and no two of them cover the same ground.
- ConnectSafely, a weekly post boost. The free plan boosts one of your posts a week and lets you write and schedule posts. Its API, MCP server and CLI sit in the paid plan at $10 per LinkedIn account a month.
- Edges, 100 credits and one identity a month. An identity, in Edges’ own definition, is “One real LinkedIn or Sales Navigator account that sends invites, messages or InMails”, and the free tier renews monthly for personal use. A credit is one record returned, and a message costs a credit outside engagement mode.
- GTM API, one connected account with every action capped per day. The UI, the REST API and the MCP server on one LinkedIn account, with no card. Five connection requests, 10 messages and 5 InMails a day are among the caps, and the full list is further down this page.
- LeadConnect, a browser extension at 2 invites a day. The Free Forever plan lists up to 2 invites and 6 message credits a day and five templates, and a footnote says invites “could be limited by the number of invites allowed on your connected LinkedIn account”.
- OutX, a listening plan. Two private watchlists and basic fetching, run through OutX’s Chrome extension. Credits and CSV exports start on the paid plans.
- Waalaxy Freemium, a plan with no automation in it. The help center says Freemium users “can’t use any automation features” and can only import prospects from a CSV file. It is also where a canceled Waalaxy trial lands: “Your plan will automatically switch to Freemium version.”
What the 37 trials have in common
A trial lends you a paid plan for a fixed stretch of days. Read side by side, the 37 trials in the table split like this.
- Length. 15 run 7 days and 15 run 14 days. Six publish no length (Buzz, Closely, Gojiberry, Leadspicker, LinkupAPI and MeetAlfred), and LinkedFusion’s homepage says 14 days while its features page says 7.
- The card. 19 vendors say no card is needed to start. Three require one: Alsona, Valley and Waalaxy, whose trial turns into a paid plan unless you cancel it. The other 16 do not say on the pages read.
- The caps. Nine print a number that limits the trial: HeyReach’s 3 LinkedIn accounts, La Growth Machine’s single identity, lemlist’s 200 credits, MeetAlfred’s daily limits of 30 invites and 50 messages, PhantomBuster’s 2 hours of execution and 10-row exports, Salesforge’s 50 contacts and 100 emails, Sonarly’s 500 credits, We-Link’s 100 API credits and Woodpecker’s 500 cold emails. Linked Helper prints the opposite for its trial, “every feature, no daily caps”.
- The plan you try. Four of the trials that name a plan lend one above the entry tier: Advanced at Dripify, Business at Waalaxy, Pro at Linked Helper and Pro access at Taplio. What you see during those trials is more than the entry price buys afterwards.
What free costs you in limits and pacing
A trial on a freshly connected account is mostly warm-up. The vendors that publish a warm-up schedule start a new account slowly, and their schedules run longer than their own trials. Expandi’s warm-up starts at 5 actions a day and adds 3 every two days up to 21, so on the seventh and last day of its trial a new account is at 14. Skylead’s Warmup Mode “lasts for 3 weeks” against a trial of 7 days. Aimfox’s optional warm-up covers “usually the first two weeks”, the whole of its trial. Closely sends “3-5 requests per day” in the first week and “8-11 for the second”, and asks trial users to stay in warm-up mode. A trial on a new account therefore shows you the tool at the slow end of its ramp, which is also what the first weeks of the paid plan will look like.
A free plan with no end date trades volume for time. LeadConnect’s Free Forever plan sends up to 2 invites a day and GTM API’s free plan 5. The commonly observed ceiling on a free or Premium LinkedIn account is roughly 100 invitations a week, with a safe pace of 15–20 a day across about five sending days once the account is warm. At 5 a day over five sending days, a free account uses about a quarter of that weekly ceiling. The LinkedIn limits calculator works out a daily plan from an account’s age and history, and the weekly mechanics are on the LinkedIn connection limits page.
A credit allowance is a cap in another unit. Edges’ free tier holds 100 credits a month, Sonarly’s trial 500, lemlist’s 200 and We-Link’s 100 API credits, and each vendor prices its actions differently: Edges charges a message “0 credits in engagement mode and 1 credit otherwise”. Divide the allowance by the cost of the action you plan to run before you count on a number.
The gtm-api.com free plan in numbers
GTM API’s free plan, called Sandbox in the docs, gives one connected LinkedIn account the full product: the UI, the REST API, the MCP server and every LinkedIn action, with no card and no end date. It runs one parallel cloud-browser session and one webhook. The caps are per connected account, per day.
| Action | Per day |
|---|---|
| Connection requests | 5 |
| Messages | 10 |
| InMails | 5 |
| Profile visits | 8 |
| Posts | 4 |
| Comments, reactions, endorsements | 5 each |
| Scraping actions | 15 |
| Enrichments | 12 |
| Data requests | 20 |
| Profile edits | 2 |
| Custom requests | 9 |
| Networking, general | 6 |
| Messaging, general | 15 |
The table is the ceiling. A newly connected account starts below it, because smart limits warm it up toward the plan cap exactly as they do on a paid account, and they can be switched off per account. Inside the day, calls of one kind leave one at a time with a gap between them, on the defaults about 30 seconds between two connection requests. Team members and the AI copilot are off on the free plan, and each sync surface refreshes at most once every 24 hours. The sync budget, the webhook and the rest of the plan are walked through on the gtm-api.com free plan page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a free LinkedIn automation tool?
Yes, six tools publish a plan with no end date, and they cover very different things. ConnectSafely’s free plan boosts one post a week. Edges gives 100 credits and one sending identity a month for personal use. GTM API gives one connected account with daily caps on every action. LeadConnect’s browser extension sends up to 2 invites a day. OutX’s free plan is two listening watchlists. Waalaxy’s Freemium runs no campaigns. Every other tool read for this page offers a trial or nothing free.
What is the difference between a free plan and a free trial?
A free plan has no end date and caps what you can do, per day, per month or by feature. A free trial lends you a paid plan, sometimes a tier above the entry one, for a fixed number of days, and then it stops or turns into a paid subscription. Waalaxy runs both: Freemium, which has no automation, and a trial of its Business plan that needs a credit card and converts unless you cancel it.
Which free LinkedIn automation tools need no credit card?
On the free plans, ConnectSafely, Edges and GTM API say no card is needed. Among the trials, 18 vendors say the same, including Aimfox, Dripify, HeyReach, La Growth Machine, Linked Helper, PhantomBuster, Unipile and Woodpecker. Three trials require a card up front: Alsona, Valley and Waalaxy. The rest do not say on their pricing pages or help centers.
How many connection requests can a free LinkedIn automation plan send?
Where the vendor publishes the number: up to 2 a day on LeadConnect’s Free Forever plan, 5 a day on GTM API’s free plan, and none on Waalaxy’s Freemium, which cannot launch campaigns. MeetAlfred’s trial runs at up to 30 invites a day. For scale, the commonly observed ceiling on a free or Premium LinkedIn account is roughly 100 invitations a week, and LinkedIn does not publish it.
What happens when a free LinkedIn automation trial ends?
It depends on the vendor. At Dripify “nothing is charged automatically” and the account goes inactive. At Linked Helper “the trial simply ends and campaigns pause”. At Waalaxy, unless you cancel, “a monthly Business subscription will start automatically”. Valley asks you to cancel before the trial ends “to avoid starting the paid subscription”. Read the trial terms before you connect an account.
Does a free tool change LinkedIn’s own limits?
No. LinkedIn’s limits belong to the account, whichever tool sends and whatever it costs, and a free tier only adds the vendor’s own cap below them. LeadConnect says as much in a footnote on its pricing page: invites “could be limited by the number of invites allowed on your connected LinkedIn account”. LinkedIn publishes no numeric invitation cap, and the commonly observed ceiling is roughly 100 invitations a week on free and Premium accounts.
Does GTM API have a free plan?
Yes. One connected LinkedIn account with the UI, the REST API and the MCP server, no card and no end date, one parallel cloud-browser session and one webhook. The daily caps per account are 5 connection requests, 10 messages, 5 InMails, 8 profile visits, 4 posts, 5 each of comments, reactions and endorsements, 15 scraping actions, 12 enrichments and 20 data requests. Paid plans start from $10/account.
Sources & Further Reading
- gtm-api.com, billing and plans (the free plan’s grants, daily caps, what is off and the sync cadence) · smart limits and warmup (warm-up and pacing) · pricing (the paid floor), read 2026-10-14
- gtm-api.com, LinkedIn connection limits (the weekly ceiling and the safe daily pace, community-observed figures that LinkedIn does not publish)
- Aimfox, free trial · pacing and warm-up, read 2026-10-14
- AiSDR, pricing (no free plan or trial published), read 2026-10-14
- Alsona, pricing (trial length and card), read 2026-10-14
- Botdog, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- Buzz, LinkedIn product page (free seat and timed trial), read 2026-10-14
- Closely, safeguard your LinkedIn account (the trial proxy and warm-up advice) · warm-up period (the first two weeks), read 2026-10-14
- ConnectSafely, pricing (the free plan and the API plan), read 2026-10-14
- CoPilot AI (now Yoke), pricing (no free trial published), read 2026-10-14
- Dripify, pricing (trial FAQ and what happens at the end), read 2026-10-14
- Dux-Soup, API product page (trial length), read 2026-10-14
- Edges, pricing (the free tier, the identity definition and credit costs), read 2026-10-14
- Expandi, pricing (trial FAQ) · account warm-up (the 5 to 21 schedule), read 2026-10-14
- FirstTouch, pricing, read 2026-10-14
- Gojiberry, homepage (trial line), read 2026-10-14
- HeyReach, pricing (trial FAQ and the 30-day trial on request), read 2026-10-14
- La Growth Machine, pricing, read 2026-10-14, re-read 2026-10-27
- LeadConnect, pricing (the Free Forever plan, the paid tiers and the invite footnote), read 2026-10-14
- Leadspicker, pricing (the start-free line, the FAQ and the plan grid), read 2026-10-14
- lemlist, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- Linked API, pricing, read 2026-10-14
- Linked Helper, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- LinkedCamp, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- LinkedFusion, homepage · features (the two trial lengths), read 2026-10-14
- LinkupAPI, pricing (a “Start free trial” button with no terms), read 2026-10-27
- MeetAlfred, campaign daily limits (the trial’s daily limits), read 2026-10-14
- Octopus CRM, homepage (trial terms), read 2026-10-14
- Overloop, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- OutX, pricing (the free plan and the plan differences) · docs (the Chrome extension), read 2026-10-14
- PhantomBuster, pricing (the trial card and the Start plan, read in a browser), read 2026-10-14
- Reply.io, pricing file, read 2026-10-14
- Salesflow, pricing (read in a browser), read 2026-10-14
- Salesforge, pricing, read 2026-10-14, re-read 2026-10-27
- SalesRobot, pricing · homepage FAQ, read 2026-10-14
- ScaliQ, homepage FAQ, read 2026-10-14
- Skylead, pricing · Warmup Mode (three weeks), read 2026-10-14
- Snov.io, pricing (the renewable Trial plan and the LinkedIn Automation trial), read 2026-10-14
- Sonarly, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- Taplio, pricing · help center (Pro access and AI usage on the trial), read 2026-10-14
- Unipile, API pricing, read 2026-10-14
- Valley, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14
- Waalaxy, pricing · subscriptions (trial terms and Freemium) · quotas · the queue (the older Freemium figure), read 2026-10-14
- We-Link, pricing (the free credits), read 2026-10-14
- Woodpecker, pricing (trial FAQ), read 2026-10-14, re-read 2026-10-27
- Zeekeo, pricing (the promo code, no standing trial), read 2026-10-14
- Related: The gtm-api.com free plan · LinkedIn limits calculator · LinkedIn limits · LinkedIn API pricing · LinkedIn automation hub
One LinkedIn account, free, with the caps in writing.
Connect an account on the free plan and run it from the REST API or the MCP server, every action under the daily caps above, with no card and no end date. Paid plans start from $10/account when you need more accounts or more volume.
Last updated: October 2026 · Definitions and benchmarks verified at time of publication