Is Dripify or Octopus CRM cheaper?

Dripify starts at $59/user/mo (7 days trial). Octopus CRM starts at $9.99 per month (Starter) (7 days trial).

Dripify vs Octopus CRM

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

Editorial assessment

Octopus CRM compared with Dripify

Dripify is a cloud platform in the $59 to $99 range with drip campaigns that continue when your browser is closed, team management, and a proper analytics layer. Octopus does a subset of the same actions for a fifth of the price with the browser-open constraint. If your outreach can happen while you work at your desk, Octopus saves you real money; if it needs to run unattended or across a team, Dripify is the smaller of the two mistakes.

Choose Dripify if

Individuals and small teams that want dependable LinkedIn sequences without an operator-grade learning curve.

Choose Octopus CRM if

Solo sellers, consultants, recruiters, and small business owners who want basic LinkedIn outreach for less than the price of lunch, work at their desk during business hours, and are willing to trade every advanced feature for a price that makes the decision trivial.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Dripify	Octopus CRM
Category	LinkedIn	LinkedIn
Starting price	$59/user/mo (7 days trial)	$9.99 per month (Starter) (7 days trial)
Pricing model	Per-user monthly tiers by feature depth; each user = one LinkedIn account. Annual billing discounts steeply.	Flat monthly subscription per user across four feature-gated tiers, with a 35 percent annual discount and an agency arrangement quoted on request. There is no per-account, per-credit, or per-action metering.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	7 days	7 days, no credit card required, available through the Chrome Web Store listing
Best for	Individuals and small teams that want dependable LinkedIn sequences without an operator-grade learning curve.	Solo sellers, consultants, recruiters, and small business owners who want basic LinkedIn outreach for less than the price of lunch, work at their desk during business hours, and are willing to trade every advanced feature for a price that makes the decision trivial.
Setup time	Under an hour to first campaign.	Fifteen minutes. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, open LinkedIn, run a search, import the results into a list, pick an action, and start. There is nothing to connect and nothing to configure at the infrastructure level because there is no infrastructure.
Learning curve	Low, the gentlest in the category.	Minimal, and this is the product's real virtue. Four actions, one funnel builder, one dashboard. A user who has never touched LinkedIn automation will have a working campaign within an hour, which is not true of PhantomBuster, TexAu, or Linked Helper.
Platforms	Web app (cloud execution)	Google Chrome extension, Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave) in practice, Desktop only, requires the browser to be open and the machine awake
Compliance	GDPR-aligned processes	GDPR considerations are the user's responsibility; the vendor publishes no formal certifications
Founded	2019	2016
Headquarters	Austin, Texas, US	Not disclosed
Ownership	Privately held	Privately held; ownership not disclosed

Strengths and limitations

Dripify

Strengths

Genuinely easy: most users are productive the first afternoon.
Clean visual sequence builder with the conditions that matter.
Effective annual pricing undercuts every serious rival.
Team dashboard covers small-org management needs.

Limitations

Single-account model with no rotation or pooled limits.
Targeting is search/CSV only, no engagement scraping.
Integrations are Zapier/webhook-level; no native CRM two-way sync.
Reporting depth is basic beyond core funnel metrics.

Octopus CRM

Strengths

The lowest cost of ownership in the category by a wide margin: $9.99 to $39.99 per month with no Sales Navigator seat required and no credits to buy.
Runs entirely in your own browser from your own IP with your own fingerprint, so there is no datacentre login, no country mismatch, and no session cookie sitting on a vendor's server.
A 7-day trial with no credit card makes evaluation genuinely free, which matters when the real question is whether the channel works for you at all.
Works with free LinkedIn accounts as well as Premium, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter Lite, so the tool does not force a $99 upstream subscription.

Limitations

Campaigns stop when Chrome closes. There is no cloud execution, so nothing runs overnight, on holiday, or while your laptop is shut, and this single fact rules the tool out for a large share of buyers.
No unified inbox. Once a prospect replies you are back in LinkedIn's own messaging, with no tags, no templates in context, and no team visibility.
Safety limits are set by you and not enforced by the vendor. Octopus markets the ability to send beyond LinkedIn's roughly 100 invites per week allowance via the connect-by-email path, which is precisely the kind of volume that triggers restrictions.
No email finder, no email sending, and no multichannel sequencing of any kind, so LinkedIn is the whole of your outreach.

Pricing compared

Dripify

Per-user monthly tiers by feature depth; each user = one LinkedIn account. Annual billing discounts steeply.

Basic$59
Pro$79
Advanced$99

On annual billing, Pro at ~$59 delivers the essential 80% of Expandi's workflow for 60% of the price, the definition of the category's value slot. The gap you're not paying for: engagement scraping, dedicated-IP positioning, and agency tooling.

Octopus CRM

Flat monthly subscription per user across four feature-gated tiers, with a 35 percent annual discount and an agency arrangement quoted on request. There is no per-account, per-credit, or per-action metering.

Starter$9.99
Pro$14.99
Advanced$21.99
Unlimited$39.99

Judged per dollar, Octopus CRM is unbeatable and it is not close: $14.99 buys automated invites and bulk messaging with no Sales Navigator requirement, against $49 to $200 elsewhere. Judged per capability it is the thinnest product here, with no cloud execution, no inbox, no email, no branching, and no agency layer. The correct way to read it is as a floor test rather than a platform: spend $10 to find out whether LinkedIn outreach produces meetings for your offer, and if it does, graduate to something that can run overnight and handle replies. Buyers who intend to stay on it long term should understand they are choosing a permanently manual reply workflow in exchange for saving roughly $40 a month.

Editorial verdict on each

Dripify

Best Value

Dripify is the category's honest value pick: the drip workflow nearly everyone actually needs, learnable in an afternoon, at annual prices no serious rival matches. It declines the architecture arms race on purpose, no rotation, no scraping depth, and that's exactly right for individuals and small teams, who should only pay up when a specific missing capability starts costing them pipeline.

Read the full Dripify profile

Octopus CRM

Octopus CRM is the correct answer to one specific question: does LinkedIn outreach work for my offer, and can I find out for the price of a sandwich? At $14.99 for automated invites plus bulk messaging, with no Sales Navigator seat required and a 7-day trial that costs nothing, it lets you generate real acceptance and reply data before committing to a real platform. It also has one genuine architectural advantage over every cloud tool here, which is that it acts from your own browser and IP and never holds a session credential on someone else's server. What you give up is everything else: campaigns stop when Chrome closes, there is no inbox, no email, no branching, no agency layer, and the vendor sets no safe limits while actively marketing a way past LinkedIn's invite allowance. Buy it as a cheap, low-commitment experiment or as a permanent tool for a solo operator who works at a desk and does not mind handling replies by hand. Do not buy it as the foundation of a team's pipeline, and do not use the connect-by-email volume feature it advertises unless you are prepared to lose the account.

Read the full Octopus CRM profile

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