Makelead vs competitors: an honest side-by-side comparison
Last updated: October 2026
Makelead is a LinkedIn and X prospecting tool from €29.99 a month, built around a cap of 200 invitations a week that no setting can raise, with an AI setter that answers replies and posts written in your voice. Among the tools compared here, it is the only one that combines LinkedIn and X prospecting with post writing from its €29.99 plan, and its AI setter starts on Growth; it is not the cheapest (Waalaxy and Apollo have free plans) and it does not send cold email at volume (lemlist, Apollo).
Side-by-side comparison
Makelead is our product. Every claim about it can be checked on our pricing page and in the product. Competitor prices come from their public pricing pages, with the month we checked them; their strengths are listed as fully as their limits, because a comparison that hides them is useless to you.
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Channels | Account safety | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makelead | Prospecting from your own LinkedIn account without putting it at risk, with X and content in the same tool | From €29.99/month | LinkedIn, X | Fixed cap of 200 invitations a week and 40 a day that no setting can raise; a new account starts at 10 a day | |
| Waalaxy | Beginners who want simple LinkedIn prospecting at a low entry price | Free plan (80 invites/month), then €19/user/month | LinkedIn; email on Business | Volume adjustable up to 800 invites a month, via a browser extension | Makelead vs Waalaxy |
| lemlist | Teams whose main channel is cold email, with LinkedIn steps alongside | About $69/month (Email plan) | Email, LinkedIn | LinkedIn steps under the usual platform limits; email domain reputation to manage | Makelead vs lemlist |
| La Growth Machine | European sales teams running LinkedIn, email and phone sequences | €60 per identity/month | LinkedIn, email, phone; X on Ultimate | Cautious approach; volume set per identity by you | Makelead vs La Growth Machine |
| HeyReach | Agencies running many LinkedIn accounts from one place | $79 per LinkedIn account/month | LinkedIn; email through Smartlead or Instantly | Limits set account by account by you | Makelead vs HeyReach |
| Expandi | Full-time prospectors and agencies who want cloud LinkedIn sequences with branching | $99 per account/month | LinkedIn, email | Cloud with a dedicated IP per account; limits are adjustable | Makelead vs Expandi |
| Dripify | Beginners who want simple visual LinkedIn sequences in the cloud | $59/month ($39 on annual billing) | Cloud with a dedicated IP; the Pro plan advertises 75 connection requests a day | Makelead vs Dripify | |
| PhantomBuster | Growth teams who want to extract LinkedIn data and build custom automations | About $69/month | LinkedIn and many other web sources (data extraction) | Nothing stops you from exceeding the volumes LinkedIn tolerates | Makelead vs PhantomBuster |
| Apollo | Teams that need a large B2B contact database for email and phone outreach | Free plan, then about $49 to $119/seat/month (annual) | Email, phone; LinkedIn through an extension | LinkedIn is a secondary module, run through a Chrome extension | Makelead vs Apollo |
| Taplio | LinkedIn creators who want a complete content tool, with lead features on the top plan | $39/month (no AI) | Invitations and messages on Pro, paused when the prospect replies; no published sending cap | Makelead vs Taplio |
Each comparison in one sentence
- Makelead vs Waalaxy: Waalaxy is the cheaper way to start: a free plan with 80 invitations a month, then €19 per user per month.
- Makelead vs lemlist: lemlist is built around cold email, with LinkedIn steps alongside; Makelead is built around LinkedIn and X.
- Makelead vs La Growth Machine: La Growth Machine is a strong multichannel sequencer for sales teams: LinkedIn, email and calls in one sequence, with X on its top plan, billed €60 to €120 per identity per month.
- Makelead vs HeyReach: HeyReach is built for agencies: you pay $79 per connected LinkedIn account per month and run many accounts from one unified inbox.
- Makelead vs Expandi: Expandi and Makelead are both cloud LinkedIn tools with sequences that branch on what the prospect does.
- Makelead vs Dripify: Dripify is a simple cloud LinkedIn tool with visual sequences, from $59 a month ($39 on annual billing), without AI writing.
- Makelead vs PhantomBuster: PhantomBuster is a data extraction toolbox: it pulls almost any data from LinkedIn and many other sources and chains custom automations, from about $69 a month billed on execution time.
- Makelead vs Apollo: Apollo is a large B2B contact database with email sequences and calls, where LinkedIn is a secondary module run through a Chrome extension.
- Makelead vs Taplio: Taplio and Makelead both write and schedule LinkedIn posts.
Frequently asked questions
What makes Makelead different from other LinkedIn prospecting tools?
A cap of 200 invitations a week and 40 a day that no setting can raise, prospecting on LinkedIn and X in the same tool, an AI setter that answers the prospects who reply, and LinkedIn and X posts written in your voice, from €29.99 a month.
Which competitor is cheaper than Makelead?
Waalaxy has a free plan and paid plans from €19 per user per month, and Apollo has a free plan. Most other tools in this comparison start between $59 and $99 a month, or are billed per identity or per seat.
When is a competitor the better choice?
lemlist and Apollo for high-volume cold email, La Growth Machine for team sequences with email and phone, HeyReach for agencies with many LinkedIn accounts, PhantomBuster for custom data extraction, Taplio for a pure content toolkit.
Does Makelead work for English-speaking prospects?
Yes. Its AI writes each message in the prospect's language and its AI setter answers in the language of the reply. Data is hosted in the European Union and prices are in euros.