LinkedClient vs Valley: AI drafts to approve, or meetings in your calendar?
With LinkedClient, sales meetings land in your calendar while you get on with your work. Valley drafts the replies, then you approve them and send your booking link. On autopilot, Elsie answers replies within five minutes, agrees a time with the lead and books the meeting for you, on any LinkedIn plan.
LinkedClient is software that books sales meetings for you: Elsie researches each person, writes on LinkedIn and email, answers replies within five minutes on autopilot and agrees the meeting time in the conversation, with no calendar link. Valley drafts messages and replies in your voice, but you approve its replies and send prospects your booking link, and its quick-start guide lists a Sales Navigator subscription. LinkedClient works on any LinkedIn plan, including free Basic, and every plan includes email, a built-in AI CRM and onboarding by real people. Valley suits teams that want signal-based plays and prefer to approve every reply themselves.
Why do teams choose LinkedClient over Valley?
Meetings booked in the conversation
Elsie agrees a time with the lead, handles “Tuesday doesn’t work” and books the meeting in your Google or Outlook calendar, and the lead gets a normal calendar invite. No calendar link. Valley’s quick-start guide has you set a booking link to send to prospects. How Elsie books meetings
Replies answered within five minutes
On autopilot, Elsie answers within five minutes, even outside working hours, in the lead’s language. In Valley, AI-drafted replies wait for your approval, and it recommends checking approvals daily. Valley says it is deliberately not a fully autonomous AI SDR.
Works on free LinkedIn
Every feature works on LinkedIn Basic (free), Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter. Valley’s quick-start guide lists a Sales Navigator subscription and usually recommends Sales Navigator Advanced.
Email on every plan
Elsie writes emails from your own Gmail, Outlook or IMAP inbox, or LinkedClient-hosted email, on every plan. Valley Starter is LinkedIn only: email is an add-on there, and included from Plus.
A CRM that updates itself
Elsie moves every lead to the right stage based on the conversation: 12 stages, deal values, no data entry. Valley lists status tags and HubSpot sync, but no built-in CRM. See the AI CRM
Real people on every plan
A real person gets you live in about 15 minutes, then keeps coaching you, with chat and email support. Valley includes an onboarding call on Plus and Growth; on Starter it’s an add-on.
How do LinkedClient and Valley compare?
| Compared | LinkedClientFrom €199 per user/month | ValleyFrom $149 per seat/month (billed quarterly) |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | ||
| Made for | Founders, consultancies, agencies and small B2B teams without time to prospect | Founders, sales teams and agencies; Valley says it is not for teams wanting a fully autonomous AI SDR |
| Finding prospects | A LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter search, a CSV, your contacts, or leads from your website widget | 58 ready-made plays from signals such as hiring, funding or post engagement, or your own list |
| How messages are written | ||
| Who writes the messages | Elsie researches each person and company, then writes every message for that one person | Valley researches each prospect and drafts messages from your phrasing, punctuation and style |
| Style controls | Five sales styles, a meeting push slider and self-learning writing rules; 150+ languages | Learns from writing examples, style documents, sent mail or your edits |
| Review before sending | Approve every message, or switch on autopilot per channel | Approve drafts, or switch on autopilot per campaign |
| Channels | ||
| LinkedIn plan needed | Any plan: every feature works on LinkedIn Basic (free), Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter | Its quick-start guide lists a Sales Navigator subscription, Core or Advanced (it usually recommends Advanced) |
| Connection requests with a note, messages and automatic follow-ups | Connection requests, messages and InMails | |
| Yes, on every plan, from your own inbox (Gmail, Outlook, any IMAP/SMTP) or LinkedClient-hosted email | 1,000 email messages per month on Plus and Growth; an add-on on Starter | |
| Follow up your profile visitors | Yes, Elsie checks who viewed your profile and sends a connection request to every new visitor you’re not connected with | Yes, a daily play that messages your qualified profile viewers |
| Likes and comments on prospects’ posts | Yes, a daily list of your prospects’ posts, automatic likes within your daily limit and AI-written comments | No like or comment automation listed; it can message people who react to or comment on your posts |
| LinkedIn limits | You set a daily limit for every action; Elsie sends only within your working hours | Defaults start at 25 connection requests a day, sent with random delays in your sending window |
| Replies and meetings | ||
| Answering replies | Elsie answers within five minutes on autopilot, even outside working hours, handles objections and replies in the lead’s language | Sorts replies by intent and drafts a response in your style; you review and approve it, and Valley recommends checking approvals daily |
| Booking meetings | Yes, Elsie agrees a time in the conversation and books it in your Google or Outlook calendar, and the lead gets a calendar invite. No calendar link | You set up a booking link to send to prospects so they can book a call with you |
| CRM and reporting | ||
| CRM | Built-in AI CRM on every plan: Elsie moves every lead to the right stage based on the conversation; 12 stages and deal values | No built-in CRM listed; status tags in the inbox and HubSpot sync, where prospects become contacts |
| Reporting | Meetings scheduled, pipeline value, time saved, acceptance and response rates | Replies, meetings and pipeline, including estimated pipeline from interested prospects |
| Pricing and onboarding | ||
| What you pay for | Each user, with all 97 features | Each seat, meaning one connected LinkedIn account |
| Entry plan | Starter: €199 per user/month billed annually, or €249 monthly, with email and every feature | Starter (LinkedIn only): $199 per seat/month billed monthly, or $149 billed quarterly |
| With email and for teams | Professional: €299 per user/month billed annually, or €399 monthly | Plus: $299 per seat/month billed monthly, or $249 billed quarterly. Growth: $499 per seat/month billed monthly, adds $300 in credits every month |
| Free trial | No trial. Instead, a 30-minute demo shows who Elsie would contact for you, and a real person gets you live in about 15 minutes | Yes, 7 days for eligible new subscribers; payment method required |
| Onboarding | A real person gets you live in about 15 minutes, then keeps coaching you, on every plan; done-for-you on request | Onboarding call on Plus and Growth, add-on on Starter; Done-For-You at $1499/mo, waitlist only |
| Support | Real people on every plan: in-app chat and email support; a dedicated Success Manager on Enterprise | In-app chat on weekdays, 9 AM to 6 PM ET, and email; priority Slack support on Plus and Growth |
Competitor details from Valley’s own website, pricing page and help center, checked October 2026. LinkedClient prices excl. VAT. Valley prices in US dollars as shown on its pricing page. Tell us if something has changed: contact us.
What’s included in every LinkedClient plan?
No add-ons. Every plan has all 97 features, and real people help you get started. White label is available for agencies and partners, and LinkedClient is GDPR compliant and EU AI Act compliant.
Email outreach
Elsie writes and sends emails from your own Gmail, Outlook or IMAP inbox, or from LinkedClient-hosted email, alongside LinkedIn.
AI CRM that updates itself
Elsie moves every lead to the right stage based on the conversation. 12 stages and deal values, with no data entry and no syncing. How the AI CRM works
Meetings booked without calendar links
Elsie agrees a time with the lead in the conversation and books it in your Google or Outlook calendar. How booking works
Replies within five minutes
One inbox for LinkedIn and email. On autopilot, Elsie answers within five minutes, even outside working hours, in the lead’s language. Tricky cases become a task for you.
Profile visitor follow-up
Elsie checks who viewed your LinkedIn profile and sends a connection request to every new visitor you’re not connected with. How it works
Likes and AI comments
Every morning, fresh posts from the people you want to reach. Elsie likes them within your daily limit and writes comments you post yourself or put on autopilot. How it works
Website widget
Put LinkedClient’s widget on your website. Visitors leave their name, email, phone and a message, and land straight in your LinkedClient CRM.
Any LinkedIn plan
Every feature works on LinkedIn Basic (free), Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter. You never need to buy Premium or Sales Navigator.
Human onboarding and support
A real person gets you live in about 15 minutes and keeps coaching you. In-app chat and email support on every plan, and a dedicated Success Manager on Enterprise.
See all 97 features on the Features page.
Let Elsie book your meetings
Book a 30-minute demo and we’ll show you who Elsie would contact for your business. Plans from €199 per user/month, all 97 features included, on any LinkedIn plan.
Who is each tool built for?
Valley says it is “for founders, sales teams and agencies”. It is just as clear about who it is not for: volume cold-email operations, and “teams wanting a fully autonomous AI SDR (we deliberately keep a human in control)”.
The difference is how much of the job you hand over. Valley finds, researches and drafts; you approve the replies and take each conversation to a meeting. Elsie researches, writes, answers and books.
LinkedClient is for founders, consultancies, agencies and small B2B teams with no time to prospect or chase replies. If you can use LinkedIn, you can use LinkedClient.
Weighing AI sales tools in general? Read our guide to an AI SDR for small B2B teams, or LinkedClient explained for pricing, features and who it’s not for.
How does each find the right people to contact?
Valley starts from signals. Its library has 58 ready-to-run plays: you pick a signal, review the plan, and Valley finds, qualifies, researches and reaches out. Plays include:
- Your qualified profile viewers, or people who engage with your posts or a competitor’s.
- Companies hiring for roles that signal your problem, or that just raised money.
- A Sales Navigator audience, or your own list.
With LinkedClient, you choose who you want to meet: paste a LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter search, upload a CSV or pick from your contacts. A regular LinkedIn search is enough. Elsie researches each person and company, follows up your profile visitors and finds your prospects’ fresh posts every morning for likes and comments. Leads from your website widget land in your CRM too.
Who writes the messages?
In both tools, AI writes the messages. The difference is in the controls, and in what happens after the first reply.
Valley combines what it learns about each prospect, from posts, interviews and company news, with your phrasing, punctuation and style. You approve the drafts, or switch on autopilot per campaign.
Elsie first reads your sales profile and website to learn your offer. Then she researches each person, their company and their LinkedIn profile, and writes one message for that person. You pick one of five sales styles and set how hard she pushes for a meeting. She shows her reasoning for every message.
- Approve every message, or switch on autopilot per channel: connection requests, LinkedIn messages and emails.
- Elsie learns from your edits. Reviewing her messages takes 0 to 20 minutes a day, closer to zero as she learns your style.
- Prefer your own copy? Campaign mode runs your own templates, delays and steps.
See all 97 features.
What happens when a lead replies?
In Valley, replies land in one inbox and the sequence stops so you can pick up the conversation. For interested prospects, Valley drafts a follow-up in your style. You review and approve each draft; its help center recommends checking approvals daily, even with autopilot on. To get the meeting, you send your booking link and the prospect books a call through it.
In LinkedClient on autopilot, Elsie answers within five minutes, even outside working hours, in the lead’s language, and handles questions and objections. When someone is interested, she does the back-and-forth like a human assistant: she proposes times you’re free, answers “Tuesday doesn’t work” and books the agreed time in your Google or Outlook calendar. The prospect gets a normal calendar invite and never has to pick a slot on a booking page.
- Elsie moves the lead to the right stage in your CRM as the conversation goes.
- You set your bookable hours, days off and meeting limits.
- Tricky cases become a task for you, so you step in only when it matters.
Why no calendar link? Sending a booking link to someone you asked for a meeting hands them the work. Doing the back-and-forth yourself is polite, but it takes time. Elsie does it for you: on autopilot, within five minutes, at any hour. Read more about booking meetings without calendar links.
What does each cost for a team of 3?
Three people, each sending from their own LinkedIn account, on LinkedIn and email, at list prices as of October 2026.
Valley Plus, 3 seats
- Billed monthly: 3 × $299 = $897 per month
- Billed quarterly: 3 × $249 = $747 per month, paid as $2,241 per quarter
LinkedClient Professional, 3 users
- Billed monthly: 3 × €399 = €1,197 per month, cancel anytime
- Billed annually: 3 × €299 = €897 per month, paid upfront as €10,764 per year
On list price, Valley costs less per seat. So compare what the price covers. On Valley’s side, add:
- A Sales Navigator subscription, which its quick-start guide lists and LinkedIn bills separately.
- Email, which is included only from Plus; on Starter it’s an add-on.
- Credits for finding new prospects and verifying email addresses.
- Your time: someone on your team approves the replies and sends the booking link.
LinkedClient’s price includes LinkedIn and email outreach, Elsie answering replies and booking meetings, the AI CRM, the website widget and onboarding by a real person. It works on free LinkedIn, so there is no Sales Navigator to buy. We have not converted currencies because rates change. See all LinkedClient plans and prices.
When Valley is the better choice
Valley is a good fit when:
- You want ready-made plays that find people from signals such as hiring, funding or competitor audiences.
- You want to read and approve every reply yourself, and have time to check approvals every day.
- You want a lower price per seat and a 7-day trial before you commit.
When LinkedClient is the better choice
LinkedClient is the right fit when you want meetings, not another inbox to manage:
- You want meetings booked for you: Elsie agrees the time in the conversation and books it without a calendar link.
- Nobody on your team has time to answer replies. On autopilot, Elsie answers within five minutes, in the lead’s language.
- You want to use any LinkedIn plan, even free Basic, with no Sales Navigator to buy.
- You want an AI CRM that updates itself, and a website widget that puts inbound leads straight into it.
- You want email, profile visitor follow-up, and likes and AI comments on every plan, with no add-ons.
- You want a real person to get you live in about 15 minutes and keep coaching you.
- You run an agency or partner business and want white label. Ask us for the details.
What results do LinkedClient customers get?
“I didn’t think it was true, but when I got access and saw Elsie chatting and booking meetings for me...”
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Book a 30-min demoIs LinkedClient a good Valley alternative?
Yes, if you want meetings booked for you. LinkedClient’s AI sales assistant, Elsie, researches each person, writes on LinkedIn and email, answers replies within five minutes on autopilot and books the meeting in your calendar, on any LinkedIn plan. If you want signal-based plays and prefer to approve every reply yourself, Valley may suit you better.
Do I need LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator for LinkedClient?
No. Every LinkedClient feature works on any LinkedIn plan: Basic (free), Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter. Valley’s quick-start guide lists a Sales Navigator subscription, as of October 2026.
Does LinkedClient send calendar links?
No. Elsie agrees a time with the lead in the conversation, like a human assistant would, and books it in your Google or Outlook calendar. The prospect gets a normal calendar invite and never has to pick a slot on a booking page.
Does Valley book meetings for you?
Valley drafts replies in your style for you to approve, and its quick-start guide has you set up a booking link to send to prospects, as of October 2026. In LinkedClient, Elsie answers replies, agrees a time with the lead and books the meeting in your calendar.
What’s included in every LinkedClient plan?
All 97 features: LinkedIn and email outreach, replies within five minutes on autopilot, meeting booking without calendar links, a built-in AI CRM, profile visitor follow-up, likes and AI comments, and a website widget for lead capture. Onboarding, coaching and support from real people are included too, with no add-ons.
Is Valley cheaper than LinkedClient?
Per seat for a team, yes: Valley Plus is $299 per seat per month billed monthly, against €399 per user per month for LinkedClient Professional, as of October 2026. For one person with email, LinkedClient Starter is €249 per month and Valley Plus is $299, both billed monthly. Valley’s quick-start guide also lists a Sales Navigator subscription, while LinkedClient works on free LinkedIn.
How much does Valley cost?
As of October 2026, Valley Starter (LinkedIn only) costs $199 per seat per month billed monthly, or $149 billed quarterly. Plus, with 1,000 email messages per month, costs $299 per seat per month billed monthly, or $249 billed quarterly, and Growth costs $499 per seat per month billed monthly.
Is Valley an AI SDR?
Valley describes itself as a signal-based outreach platform and says it is deliberately not a fully autonomous AI SDR, because it keeps a human in control. You approve the replies it drafts. In LinkedClient, you choose: on autopilot, Elsie answers replies herself, books the meetings and passes tricky cases to you, or you approve every message first.
Does LinkedClient have a free trial?
No. Instead, you book a 30-minute demo and we show you who Elsie would contact for your business, and once you sign up a real person gets you live in about 15 minutes. Valley gives eligible new subscribers a 7-day trial with a payment method required, as of October 2026.
Let Elsie answer the replies and book your meetings
Pick a plan and Elsie can start this week, on the LinkedIn account you already have. Or book a 30-minute demo and we’ll show you who she would contact for your business.
From €199 per user/month excl. VAT · Any LinkedIn plan · Human onboarding included