Linked Helper costs $15 a month for one LinkedIn account, and a twelve-month licence brings that down to $8.25 a month. Of the ten tools on our comparison page, only a Chrome extension costs less.
The price is low because of how the tool is built. Linked Helper is a desktop application. It runs on your own computer, keeps everything it collects in a local database on that machine, and stops when the machine stops.
The short version
Choose Linked Helper if you run one or two LinkedIn accounts, you do not mind leaving a computer switched on, and price is the thing you are optimising for.
Consider something else if you need campaigns to keep running while your laptop is closed, or you manage accounts for several clients and do not want to administer a server to do it.
We build Doreach, which competes with Linked Helper. Every price and limit below was checked against Linked Helper’s own pricing page and support centre on 25 August 2026.
Linked Helper, and the extension it gets confused with
Most people typing “LinkedIn Helper” into Google are looking for Linked Helper 2, the desktop app from Linked Helper LLC. The company spells its name without the “in” on the end, which is why both versions turn up in search.
A Chrome extension called LinkedIn Helper also exists in the Chrome Web Store. It is a different product from a different developer, it has 955 users, and it was last updated in July 2023. It helps you read a candidate’s LinkedIn experience. It does not send anything.
If you are shopping for an outreach tool, the desktop app is the one you mean.
What Linked Helper does
Linked Helper sends connection requests, message sequences, InMails and profile views. It builds lists from LinkedIn search, Sales Navigator, group members, event attendees and CSV import. It has a built-in CRM with tagging and notes, and it watches for replies so a sequence stops when someone answers.
Linked Helper also sells AI features: written messages, generated comments and detection of your ideal customer profile. Every licence includes a monthly allowance of AI credits for those.
The company says it has been running for nine years and has more than 300,000 users. It describes itself as a desktop app rather than a Chrome extension, and says nothing is injected into the LinkedIn page. Its support centre says the features are the same on Windows, Ubuntu and macOS.
Pricing
Linked Helper sells two licence types, Standard and Pro. Each comes in a version that stores your data locally and a version that also backs it up to the cloud. The cloud version costs more, and it does not move the app off your computer.
| Licence | 1 month | 3 months | 6 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard, local storage | $15.00 | $13.33 | $10.00 | $8.25 |
| Pro, local storage | $45.00 | $40.00 | $30.00 | $24.75 |
| Standard, cloud storage | $29.90 | $26.60 | $20.00 | $16.50 |
| Pro, cloud storage | $59.90 | $53.30 | $40.00 | $33.00 |
Every figure is the effective cost per month. A twelve-month Standard licence is billed as $99 in one payment, and Pro as $297.
One licence covers one LinkedIn account at a time. You can move a licence to a different account whenever you want, and install it on a different computer, but you cannot run it on two machines at once.
Bulk discounts start at ten licences: 10% for 10 to 19, 20% for 20 to 49, and up to 50% at a thousand or more. The length discount and the bulk discount stack.
Each licence also carries data credits, which the email finder and full profile scraping spend. Standard includes 620 a month and Pro includes 3,100, and there is no daily cap on how fast you use them. More credits cost $15 for a thousand, less in larger packages.
Two things here are worth crediting. The trial is 14 days with full access to both Standard and Pro features. And the safety settings do not get better as you pay more: Linked Helper’s own blog says its recommended ceiling of 150 actions per rolling 24 hours is identical on Standard and Pro, so the cheap licence is not the careless one.
The licence expires, and nothing renews it
Linked Helper does not sell subscriptions. Its support centre is direct about this: the tool uses a licensing model, and each time a licence runs out a new one has to be bought by hand, because there is no auto-billing.
For a recruiter hired for a three-month project, that is a real advantage. You buy three months, the licence ends, and there is no cancellation to remember or argue about.
For anyone running continuous outreach it is a job that lives on a calendar. A twelve-month licence at $99 is excellent value right up to the day it lapses, and on that day the campaigns stop without telling anyone.
What we would not do
Do not buy a long Linked Helper licence for a client account without putting the expiry date somewhere a person will actually see it. A lapsed licence looks exactly like a broken campaign, and you will lose the first hour to debugging the tool instead of checking the billing page.
What the 20-a-day cap on Standard actually covers
Several review sites say a Standard licence limits you to 20 connection requests and 20 messages a day. Linked Helper’s own comparison table says otherwise, and the difference decides whether $15 a month is a serious option.
Connection requests are uncapped on both licences. So are message follow-ups and sequences, reply detection, InMails, the number of campaigns you run, and CSV export of people profiles.
| Capped at 20 per 24 hours on Standard | Not capped on Standard |
|---|---|
| Likes and comments on posts | Connection requests |
| Messages to group members | Message follow-ups and sequences |
| Messages to event attendees | InMails |
| Messages with attached images | Reply detection |
| Sending a person to a CRM or a webhook | Unlimited campaigns |
| Invites to a group, an event, or to follow a company | CSV export of people profiles |
Two features are held back rather than capped: exporting your messaging history to CSV, and sending messaging history to a webhook. Both need Pro.
So the honest reading of Standard is that it runs an ordinary outreach sequence at whatever pace you set. What it restricts is engagement work and moving data out of the tool.
Keeping it running costs more than the licence
The work happens on your computer. Linked Helper’s support centre puts it plainly: Linked Helper 2 works locally on your PC, and the data it collects is stored in a local database.
You have a real choice at that point, and it is the one most buyers underestimate. Either you leave a machine on and awake for the hours your campaigns run, or you rent a server and run it there instead.
Linked Helper documents the second route properly. There is a whole section of its support centre on running the app on a virtual private server or a dedicated server, with separate install guides for Windows Server and Ubuntu. The requirements are specific: at least 2 GB of RAM and from half a real processor core for each LinkedIn account. Its own worked examples suggest two virtual cores and 4 GB for one account, and four virtual cores and 12 GB for three.
Those requirements are a pricing rule, not a hardware note. Your account ceiling is the size of the box you are paying for. Ten accounts means a server sized for ten accounts, ten licences, and somebody keeping the operating system patched. On Ubuntu, Linked Helper says its auto-update needs a password typed in, so updates become a manual visit.
Linked Helper hides none of this. It is simply a second bill and a second job, and the $8.25 headline covers neither.
Running several accounts in Doreach
In Doreach an account is a row in a list, not a process on a machine. You connect a LinkedIn profile, open Limits, and see four weekly numbers: 80 connection requests, 100 messages, 150 profile views and 25 InMails. Each one is editable per account, and the limits and pacing page holds the current defaults.
Attach several accounts to one campaign and Doreach divides the prospects between them, each account staying inside its own weekly allowance. Ten accounts working at a modest daily rate reach the same volume as one account pushed hard, with no account behaving unusually. The running multiple accounts page covers what else has to differ between them, because identical copy sent from ten profiles is a signal on its own.
Actions on the same account are separated by a randomised gap of five to thirty minutes, and campaigns act only inside their working hours in that account’s timezone. The gap is not adjustable, and we think there is no good reason to send faster. Safety and pacing covers what the scheduler does when an account starts collecting warnings.
Doreach runs in the cloud, so there is no machine to leave on and no server to size. Adding an eleventh connected account changes the bill, not the capacity.
Where it falls short
Nothing runs while your computer is off. Every other limitation follows from this one. A closed laptop is a paused campaign.
The licence does not renew itself. Outreach stops silently on the expiry date, and no invoice arrives to warn you.
Messaging history is stuck on Standard. You cannot export it to CSV or push it to a webhook without moving to Pro at $45 a month against $15.
Growing is a hardware exercise. How many accounts you can run at once is set by RAM and processor cores. Linked Helper publishes the arithmetic honestly, which is more than most, but the arithmetic is still yours to do.
Verdict
Linked Helper is the cheapest full outreach tool on our comparison page, and the price is not a trick. Connection requests and message sequences are uncapped on a $15 licence, and the 20-a-day limit lands on engagement actions and data exports rather than on outreach itself.
What you pay instead is attention. A computer that stays awake, or a server you size and patch yourself, plus a licence you renew by hand. Both are manageable for one or two accounts, and both get heavier with every account you add.
Doreach costs $36 per connected LinkedIn account per month on annual billing, or $45 monthly. That is more per account than a Linked Helper Pro licence at $24.75. The difference buys a tool with no machine in it, team members who are free and unlimited however many you add, and the same features on every account. Current numbers are on pricing, and the comparison page shows how the rest of the category charges. Our Dripify review covers the closest cloud tool at this end of the market.
Doreach also does not do several things Linked Helper does. There is no AI message generation, no email finder, no data credits and no post engagement automation. If those are what you are shopping for, this is not the trade you want.
If you are deciding this week, work out the real monthly number first: the licence, plus the server if you need one, plus the hours somebody spends keeping it alive. Then compare that against paying per account. If you want to see the other shape before you commit, connect one account on the 7-day trial and read its weekly limits before you launch anything.
