59per account / month
47/mo billed yearly
- 1 LinkedIn profile, 1 campaign running at a time
- AI messages, free Open Profile InMail, Smart Inbox
- 1M AI tokens a month
Head-to-head comparison
Quicklead vs HeyReach - Which LinkedIn Automation Tool Fits Your Team?
HeyReach and Quicklead are both cloud-based LinkedIn automation tools built for teams running many LinkedIn accounts. HeyReach is built around sender rotation and flat-fee agency plans; Quicklead is built around deciding who to message and what to say, with AI ICP scoring and AI-written openers. Here is an honest side-by-side.
Prices checked September 2026 Feature-by-feature Migration supported
Why teams switchLive data
Comparison reflects publicly documented HeyReach features and list prices as of September 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at [email protected].
Quick answer
HeyReach and Quicklead both automate LinkedIn outreach from the cloud. The practical difference is what happens before the message sends: Quicklead scores every lead against your ideal customer profile, writes the opening line from that person's profile and posts rather than from a template, and detects LinkedIn Open Profiles so it can message them free. Pricing is per connected account, with seats you can add at any time.
- Free trial
- 7 days, no credit card
- Migration
- Under an hour, we help
- Run in parallel
- Yes, compare on one list
- Entry price
- From $59/account/mo, USD
Side by side
Quicklead vs HeyReach
| Feature | Quicklead | HeyReach |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | From $59/account/mo | $79/sender/month (Growth) |
| Pricing model | Per LinkedIn account, add seats any time | Per sender; Agency $999/mo for 25 senders |
| Cloud-based | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI lead scoring against your ICP | ✅ 0-100 with reasoning (Scale and up) | Not advertised |
| AI-written openers from profile and posts | ✅ 5 variants per prompt, built in | Via Claude, ChatGPT or Clay connections |
| Free Open Profile InMails, auto-detected | ✅ | Not advertised |
| Sender rotation across many accounts | Per-account campaigns and shared inbox | ✅ Core feature |
| Unified inbox | ✅ | ✅ |
| Sends email itself | ✅ Email Finder + email steps | Via Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison |
| API, webhooks, MCP | ✅ Scale and up | ✅ |
| Free trial | 7 days, no card | 14 days, no card |
Pricing
What each tool costs, in USD
Quicklead is priced per connected LinkedIn account. Starter is the entry point at $59 a month, Scale at $79 unlocks signals, ICP scoring and integrations, and Agency drops to $69 per account from 10 accounts. HeyReach's cheapest published plan is $79 per sender / month.
79per account / month
63/mo billed yearly
- 3 profiles, unlimited campaigns, 2M AI tokens
- Social signals and ICP scoring
- API, webhooks, MCP server, CRM integrations
69per account / month
55/mo billed yearly · minimum 10 accounts
- 10 profiles included, minimum 10 accounts
- 2M AI tokens per account
- Dedicated manager, WhatsApp group, unlimited training calls
$79per sender / month
Agency $999/mo for 25 senders
- Per sender, flat-fee Agency and Unlimited plans
- 14-day free trial, no card
- Email sending via Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison
USD, per LinkedIn account, billed monthly. Quarterly billing is 10% lower and yearly 20% lower. HeyReach figures are its publicly listed monthly rates as of September 2026. Every Quicklead plan starts with a 7-day free trial, no credit card.
The honest split
Where each tool is genuinely stronger
Quicklead wins on
- AI ICP scoring decides who enters a sequence, so connection requests go to buyers, not everyone on the list
- Openers are written from each prospect's profile and posts inside Quicklead, with no extra AI subscription to connect
- Automatic Open Profile InMail detection reaches Premium members free, without spending a connection request
- Lower entry price for one or three accounts: $59/mo on Starter vs $79 per sender
- Email Finder and email steps built in, rather than a separate email tool
HeyReach wins on
- Flat-fee plans for very large sender counts (Agency: 25 senders for $999/mo)
- Automatic rotation of sends across many LinkedIn senders
- Deep integrations with Instantly, Smartlead, Clay and n8n for teams that already run that stack
What HeyReach does well
- Sender rotation across unlimited LinkedIn accounts
- Unified inbox with replies on behalf of colleagues
- Large integration catalogue: HubSpot, Clay, n8n, Make, Zapier, API, MCP
Where teams run into limits
- AI personalization depends on connecting external AI tools
- No built-in ICP scoring or Open Profile InMail detection advertised
- Per-sender price is higher than Quicklead for small teams
Best fit
Teams that make the switch
Agencies with fewer than 25 senders paying per-sender prices
Sales teams that want AI to choose and write, not just rotate sends
Founders who need LinkedIn and email in one tool
The verdictChoose HeyReach if you run dozens of LinkedIn senders and want flat-fee rotation across them. Choose Quicklead if your bottleneck is reply quality: ICP scoring, AI-written openers and free Open Profile InMails get more meetings from each account, at a lower price for small and mid-size teams.
Benchmarks
What good looks like for teams switching from HeyReach
Quicklead figures are averages across active AI-personalized campaigns in Q1 2026. Category figures are public industry benchmarks. Your results depend on offer, list quality and account standing.
| Metric | On Quicklead | Typical manual outreach | What drives the gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connection acceptance rate | 38% | 20-25% | Warm-up steps before the invite |
| Cold reply rate | 30% | 8-10% | Opener written from the profile, not a template |
| Open Profile InMail reply rate | 23% | n/a | A channel most tools do not detect at all |
| Meetings per seat per month | 10-30 | 4-8 | Only ICP-scored leads enter the sequence |
| Hours saved per rep per week | 10h | 0 | Sequences run in the cloud, 24/7 |
Switching
Moving from HeyReach, step by step
Most migrations take under an hour. Nothing has to stop while you do it, and you can run both tools in parallel until you are satisfied.
Export your lists
Pull your prospect lists out of HeyReach as CSV. Campaign membership, tags and any custom fields all come across.
Import and re-score
Drop the CSV into Quicklead. Contacts are deduplicated on the way in, then ICP scoring grades the whole list so you can see which of your existing prospects were never worth messaging.
Rebuild the sequences
Bring your best-performing HeyReach copy. We rebuild the sequence structure with you on the onboarding call, adding branch logic and a free Open Profile InMail step that HeyReach has no equivalent for.
Run both for a week
Point half your list at each tool and compare reply rates on the same audience. It is the only comparison that settles the question.
Move the accounts over
Once you are convinced, connect the remaining LinkedIn accounts. Warm-up ramping restarts conservatively on each new seat to protect account standing.
Be honest about it
When to switch
Your reply rate has plateaued and template variables are as far as personalization goes
You are qualifying leads by hand in a spreadsheet before importing them
The per-seat cost is climbing faster than the pipeline it produces
You want a free channel to the prospects who never accept a connection request
You run several accounts or clients and need real data separation between them
Be honest about it
When to stay put
Your HeyReach setup is dialled in and outbound is not a growth constraint right now
You run a single seat at low volume, where the cost difference is marginal
You depend on a specific integration we do not support yet, so check that first
You are mid-contract and the remaining term outweighs the gain from moving
We will tell you if it is not a fitA bad-fit customer costs us more than it earns. If HeyReach is genuinely the better tool for your motion, we will say so on the call.
Reviews
From teams who already switched
Verified G2 reviews.
★★★★★
Quicklead is so much better than Copilot AI and costs much less. The dashboard is very easy to use, and creating flows is a blink of an eye. These guys go the extra mile.
Gianluca P.Founder, Americas Heritage Institute PBC
★★★★★
LinkedIn outreach made super easy! The customer support is excellent. Anytime I had feedback, Parth was there to listen. They actually ship what users ask for.
Domenico CoppolaroSaaS Account Executive
★★★★★
Quicklead is one of the best lead-generation tools I have used for LinkedIn so far. The interface, onboarding, and affordability surpass most other tools. I definitely recommend it to any lead-gen agency like mine.
Cyprian SundayFounder, Realtorbuddies
★★★★★
Saves me hours on LinkedIn outreach. The automated sequences run while I focus on closing. Having everything in one tool instead of juggling three is a game changer.
Ashok ChandrapalFounder, Practivo
★★★★★
Very easy to use and it saves hours on LinkedIn outreach. The automated sequences, Smart Inbox and dashboard make it easy to see exactly how campaigns are going.
Akshay SainiCEO & Founder, Serverwala.com
★★★★★
What I like best is how easy Quicklead makes LinkedIn outreach. Setting up campaigns for connection requests and follow-ups is simple and efficient. The clear dashboard makes it easy to track results.
Jay NayakSEO Lead
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
For most teams, yes. Quicklead starts at $59/account/month, and Agency is $69 per account from 10 accounts. HeyReach Growth is $79 per sender per month, and its Agency plan is $999 a month for 25 senders, which works out cheaper per sender only at high volume.
HeyReach supports AI-driven replies and personalization through connections to Claude, ChatGPT and Clay. Quicklead has AI personalization built in: it writes five opener variants per prompt from each prospect's profile and posts, and scores every lead 0-100 against your ICP.
Yes. Export your lead lists as CSV, import them into Quicklead, and rebuild your sequence in the visual builder. Most teams are live in under an hour, and our team helps with the migration.
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