Closely vs SalesRobot
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 assessedClosely compared with SalesRobot
SalesRobot publishes the clearer safety architecture, stating dedicated residential IPs per LinkedIn account and explicit daily quotas per plan, and it charges per LinkedIn account from $59 monthly. Closely is cheaper per account at volume and includes white label and unlimited mailboxes. If account survival is your first concern, SalesRobot documents it better; if agency branding and multichannel economics matter more, Closely is the stronger package.
SalesRobot compared with Closely
Closely covers three LinkedIn accounts for $127 with unlimited mailboxes, enrichment credits, and white label included; SalesRobot charges $79 to $99 for one account and bills email per mailbox. Closely wins comfortably on price and breadth. SalesRobot wins on the thing Closely will not put in writing: a dedicated residential IP per account with published, enforced daily quotas. Choose SalesRobot if account survival is the deciding factor; choose Closely if you need more accounts and multichannel economics.
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 SalesRobot if
Small sales teams and solo operators who want cloud LinkedIn plus email outreach with the daily limits decided and enforced by the vendor, a dedicated residential IP per account, and an AI layer that includes appointment setting and voice or video messages.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Closely | SalesRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Category | ||
| Starting price | $49 per month (Starter), or $29 per month billed annually (free trial) | $59 per LinkedIn account per month, or $39 billed annually (14 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. | Per-LinkedIn-account subscription across three published tiers plus a custom enterprise option, with email sending and email finder credits sold as separate add-ons. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | Free trial available on every tier, with a starter allocation of enrichment credits to test the finder | 14 days |
| 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. | Small sales teams and solo operators who want cloud LinkedIn plus email outreach with the daily limits decided and enforced by the vendor, a dedicated residential IP per account, and an AI layer that includes appointment setting and voice or video messages. |
| 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 an hour. Connect the LinkedIn account through the web app, let the vendor assign a residential IP, import an audience from Search, Sales Navigator, Recruiter, or CSV, and build a drip sequence. Connecting mailboxes for the email side adds another twenty minutes per mailbox. |
| 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. Because the daily quotas are set by plan rather than configured by you, the single hardest decision in most LinkedIn tools is removed. What takes longest is the AI layer: writing prompts that produce messages worth sending, and recording the voice sample for cloning. |
| Platforms | Web application at app.closelyhq.com, Cloud execution, no browser extension required, White-label branded deployment for agencies | Web application, Cloud execution, no browser extension, Dedicated residential IP per connected LinkedIn account |
| Compliance | GDPR data processing available, Standard SaaS encryption in transit and at rest | No published certifications |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine, with a New York facing presence | United States, with development staff in India |
| Ownership | Privately held, founder-led | Bootstrapped, founder-owned |
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.
SalesRobot
Strengths
- Publishes explicit daily action quotas per plan (20 on Basic, 75 on Advanced and Professional) rather than hiding behind vague safety language, and enforces them so you cannot exceed LinkedIn's own thresholds.
- Dedicated residential IP per LinkedIn account, which is the control that most determines whether a cloud tool's logins look plausible.
- The AI appointment setter is available from the entry plan rather than reserved for the top tier, which is the opposite of how most vendors gate their AI headline.
- Voice notes and video messages as native sequence steps, both of which lift reply rates well above plain text.
Limitations
- Per-account pricing with no volume discount makes agency use uneconomic: five accounts cost $495 a month at the Professional tier, four times what Aimfox charges per account at scale.
- The Basic plan at $59 is poor value: one active campaign, a 20-action daily quota, and no inbox at all.
- The unified inbox is gated to the $99 Professional tier, which forces most real buyers to the top plan regardless of team size.
- Email sending is charged per mailbox at $15 each, so multichannel costs noticeably more than the headline price suggests.
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.
SalesRobot
Per-LinkedIn-account subscription across three published tiers plus a custom enterprise option, with email sending and email finder credits sold as separate add-ons.
- Basic$59
- Advanced$79
- Professional$99
- EnterpriseCustom
For one to three accounts, SalesRobot is priced fairly for what it delivers: a dedicated residential IP per account, enforced daily quotas you cannot override, an AI appointment setter available even on the entry plan, and a unified LinkedIn and email inbox on the top tier. Nobody else in this price band both documents and enforces its limits, and for a buyer who has already lost an account that is worth paying for. Above three accounts the model falls apart, because $99 per account with no volume break puts a five-account agency at $495 a month for software that Aimfox delivers at roughly $25 an account. Buy SalesRobot for safety and AI depth on a small number of accounts you cannot afford to lose; do not buy it as an agency platform.
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.
Read the full Closely profileSalesRobot
SalesRobot is the tool to buy when the account matters more than the volume. It is the only vendor in this price band that both publishes and enforces its daily limits, it gives each LinkedIn account a dedicated residential IP, it throttles in real time, and it will not let you configure your way past LinkedIn's thresholds no matter how much you want to. Add an AI appointment setter that is included on every plan, voice and video steps that genuinely lift reply rates, LinkedIn Recruiter import that almost nobody else supports, and a bootstrapped profitable vendor with a named founder, and the case for one to three accounts is strong. Two things to weigh: the per-account pricing with no volume discount makes agency use plainly uneconomic at $99 an account, and the AI-cloned voice and video features send people something they will believe you recorded for them, which is a decision to make consciously rather than by default. For a small team protecting accounts they cannot replace, this is one of the two or three best choices here. For an agency, look at Aimfox or HeyReach instead.
Read the full SalesRobot profileClosely profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; SalesRobot last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.