Is Closely or Kanbox cheaper?

Closely starts at $49 per month (Starter), or $29 per month billed annually (free trial). Kanbox starts at $20 per month (Starter), or $10 per month billed annually (15 days trial).

Closely vs Kanbox

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Both sides assessed

Closely compared with Kanbox

Kanbox is a French extension-plus-cloud hybrid with EU data residency, a Kanban pipeline view, and a $20 entry price, aimed at individual operators who want a LinkedIn CRM as much as a sender. Closely is a purely cloud multichannel platform at $49 aimed at teams and agencies. Choose Kanbox for EU data residency and low-cost solo use; choose Closely when you need multiple accounts, white label, and email in the same sequence.

Kanbox compared with Closely

Closely is a pure cloud multichannel platform at $49 to $205 with unlimited mailboxes, enrichment credits, and white label included, aimed at teams and agencies. Kanbox is a cheaper extension-plus-cloud hybrid built around a Kanban pipeline with EU data residency, from $20. Take Kanbox for EU hosting, the visual pipeline, and low-cost solo use; take Closely when multichannel email in the same sequence and white-label client delivery are what you are actually buying.

Choose Closely if

Small teams and boutique agencies who want LinkedIn and email in one cloud sequencer, need to run two to five LinkedIn accounts, and value white-label client reporting being included at the entry price rather than sold as a $500 agency tier.

Choose Kanbox if

European solo operators, small sales teams, and boutique agencies who want LinkedIn prospecting, enrichment, and a visual pipeline in one affordable tool with data held on EU servers under GDPR, and who run moderate rather than aggressive volume.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Closely	Kanbox
Category	LinkedIn	LinkedIn
Starting price	$49 per month (Starter), or $29 per month billed annually (free trial)	$20 per month (Starter), or $10 per month billed annually (15 days trial)
Pricing model	Per-subscription tiers priced by the number of connected LinkedIn accounts, with unlimited email accounts, white label, and team management included on every paid plan, plus a monthly enrichment credit pool on the two higher tiers.	Tiered subscription priced per LinkedIn account on the individual plans and per bundle on the agency plans, with email finder credits sold separately and never expiring.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	Free trial available on every tier, with a starter allocation of enrichment credits to test the finder	15 days with full Starter access plus 30 email credits, no credit card required
Best for	Small teams and boutique agencies who want LinkedIn and email in one cloud sequencer, need to run two to five LinkedIn accounts, and value white-label client reporting being included at the entry price rather than sold as a $500 agency tier.	European solo operators, small sales teams, and boutique agencies who want LinkedIn prospecting, enrichment, and a visual pipeline in one affordable tool with data held on EU servers under GDPR, and who run moderate rather than aggressive volume.
Setup time	Under an hour. Connect the LinkedIn account through the web app, connect one or more mailboxes, paste a search URL or upload a CSV, and build a two-step sequence. There is no extension to install and no proxy to configure yourself.	Under thirty minutes. The vendor claims a two-click extension install with no technical configuration, and that is roughly accurate. Scraping a first Sales Navigator list and running the email finder over it takes another twenty minutes.
Learning curve	Low. The sequence builder is conventional and the inbox behaves the way a shared inbox should. The one genuinely non-obvious area is credit budgeting, because emails, phones, and AI personalizations draw on the same pool at very different rates.	Low. The Kanban metaphor is immediately legible to anyone who has used a project board, and the smart inbox behaves the way an inbox should. The only confusing part is the tier structure, where lead ceilings jump from 600 to 75,000 and the defining Kanban feature only appears at Pro.
Platforms	Web application at app.closelyhq.com, Cloud execution, no browser extension required, White-label branded deployment for agencies	Google Chrome extension, Cloud application with data on European servers, Web dashboard for pipelines, inbox, and campaigns
Compliance	GDPR data processing available, Standard SaaS encryption in transit and at rest	GDPR, with data stored on European servers
Founded	2021	2023
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine, with a New York facing presence	France
Ownership	Privately held, founder-led	Privately held, founder-led

Strengths and limitations

Closely

Strengths

White label included on every paid tier, including the $49 entry plan, which no comparable vendor does.
Unlimited connected email accounts at no extra charge, making genuine multichannel sequencing affordable for a small business.
Cloud execution means campaigns run continuously with no browser extension installed and no machine left switched on.
Cross-channel reply detection stops LinkedIn and email steps together, which is the single most-requested multichannel behaviour and is often done badly elsewhere.

Limitations

The account-safety story is not documented to the standard Expandi or SalesRobot set. Closely advertises human-like timing and safe activity limits, but does not publish a clear commitment to a dedicated country-matched residential IP per LinkedIn account. Ask before you buy, because this is the difference that decides whether an account survives sustained volume.
Multi-account depth stops well short of HeyReach: no account rotation across a shared campaign, no pooled sender rotation, and a lighter agency operating layer.
Vendor scale is small. This is a Ukraine-based team led by its founder, in a category where vendors are removed by platform enforcement, so treat it as a dependency to be hedged.
Legacy AppSumo lifetime-deal users sit alongside paying subscribers, which historically creates support load and pressure to move features into higher tiers.

Kanbox

Strengths

European data residency from a French company under GDPR, which for many EU buyers is the deciding factor against a category dominated by US and free-zone vendors.
The Kanban pipeline plus smart inbox combination makes Kanbox a lightweight CRM rather than a fire-and-forget sender, which is genuinely different from most tools here.
Email finder credits never expire, so unused balance carries forward instead of being lost each month.
The annual discount is roughly 50 percent across every tier, making the effective prices ($10, $30, $50, $279) very competitive.

Limitations

No dedicated per-account IP below the Agency tier. Proxy support is an Agency feature, so individual and small-team users rely on behavioural simulation alone, which is a weaker safety posture than SalesRobot, Expandi, or LinkedCamp offer at similar prices.
The vendor does not publish specific daily action limits, so you cannot compare its safety ceiling against competitors that do. Ask before committing an important account.
Extension dependency means parts of the workflow expect a browser session, so this is not the fully unattended cloud execution that Closely or SalesRobot provide.
The Kanban pipelines that define the product are gated to the $80 Pro tier, so the cheaper plans are a different and much plainer product.

Pricing compared

Closely

Per-subscription tiers priced by the number of connected LinkedIn accounts, with unlimited email accounts, white label, and team management included on every paid plan, plus a monthly enrichment credit pool on the two higher tiers.

Starter$49
Growth$127
Essential$205
CustomNegotiated

Closely is priced honestly for what it is. At $127 for three LinkedIn accounts, unlimited mailboxes, 3,000 enrichment credits, a unified inbox, and white-label branding, it undercuts the combination of a LinkedIn sender plus an email sequencer plus a data tool by a comfortable margin, and the included white label is worth real money to any agency. What you are not paying for is the strongest safety architecture in the category or the deepest multi-account tooling, and both of those gaps matter at scale. Below five LinkedIn accounts Closely is one of the best value propositions here. Above ten, the money is better spent on HeyReach.

Kanbox

Tiered subscription priced per LinkedIn account on the individual plans and per bundle on the agency plans, with email finder credits sold separately and never expiring.

Starter$20
Essential$45
Pro$80
Agency 10$399
Agency 30 and Agency UnlimitedCustom

On annual billing Kanbox is among the best value propositions in this category: $50 a month for five simultaneous campaigns, a 75,000 lead ceiling, Kanban pipelines, AI prompts, webhooks, an API, an email finder with non-expiring credits, and EU data residency is a lot of product for the money. The Agency 10 bundle at $279 annually for up to ten accounts with proxy support works out cheaper per account than most rivals' agency tiers. What you are not paying for is a documented, enforced safety architecture: below the Agency tier there is no per-account IP separation, and the vendor does not publish daily action ceilings. That gap is why Kanbox is excellent value for moderate-volume European operators and the wrong choice for anyone running an account hard.

Editorial verdict on each

Closely

Closely is the best-value package in this category for a small team or boutique agency running between one and five LinkedIn accounts. Unlimited email accounts, bundled enrichment credits, a genuine cross-channel unified inbox, real-time CRM sync, and white-label branding on every paid tier add up to a bundle that would cost noticeably more assembled from specialists, and $41 per LinkedIn account at the five-account tier is competitive with anything here. The reservations are specific and worth taking seriously: the published account-safety detail is thinner than Expandi's or SalesRobot's, particularly on whether each account gets a dedicated country-matched IP, the multi-account architecture runs out of road well before HeyReach's does, and the vendor is small in a category where vendors get removed by platform enforcement. Buy it for breadth per dollar at modest scale, ask hard questions about IP handling before you connect an important account, and wire the CRM sync up on day one so the conversation history is never trapped in one place.

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Kanbox

Kanbox is the best answer in this category for a European small business that wants its prospect data to stay in Europe, and it is a strong answer generally for anyone who thinks a LinkedIn tool should track conversations rather than just start them. The Kanban pipeline and smart inbox turn it into a lightweight CRM, the email finder is bundled with credits that never expire, the annual discount halves an already low price, and Agency 10 at $279 annually for up to ten accounts is one of the cheaper agency configurations available. The reservation is specific and important: below the Agency tier there is no per-account IP separation, and the vendor does not publish its daily action ceilings, so the safety architecture is less documented and less infrastructural than SalesRobot's, Expandi's, or LinkedCamp's at similar money. Buy it on the Pro or Agency tier for moderate-volume prospecting, wire the webhooks into a CRM early so the pipeline state is not the only copy, and do not use it to push an account you cannot replace.

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Closely profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Kanbox last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.