The Allen comparison
The best alternative to every LinkedIn tool.
We compared Allen to 19 LinkedIn tools and alternatives, one page each. Most chase volume, automate generic comments, or publish content. Allen is the only one that finds your buyers, comments in your trained voice every day over the official LinkedIn API, and hands you the DM when they reply.
Every LinkedIn tool, side by side.
Commenting tools, content suites, outreach bots, engagement pods, analytics. Allen is the only one that runs the whole loop for you, safely, from finding your buyers to the DM that starts the conversation. Click any tool for the full head-to-head.
| Tool | Built for | Voice comments | Finds posts for you | LinkedIn API | Pipeline + CRM | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| allen. | Intelligent commenting + pipeline | from $39/mo | ||||
| PowerIn | Automated commenting | $19-59/mo | ||||
| Engage AI | AI comment extension | $0-80/mo | ||||
| HyperClapper | Engagement pods | $39/mo | ||||
| Lempod | Engagement pods | $10-50/mo | ||||
| Taplio | Content + scheduling | $39-199/mo | ||||
| AuthoredUp | Post formatting + analytics | $19.95/mo | ||||
| Supergrow | AI post writing | $19-49/mo | ||||
| Postdrips | AI post writing | $20/mo | ||||
| MeetAlfred | Multi-channel outreach | $29-499/mo | ||||
| Expandi | Cold outreach / DMs | $99+/mo | ||||
| Gojiberry | Buying signals to outreach | $99/mo | ||||
| HeyReach | Agency-scale outreach | $79-2,999/mo | ||||
| Prosp | AI messages and voice notes | $40-80/mo per account | ||||
| Waalaxy | Outreach sequences | €19-69/user/month | ||||
| Dux-Soup | Outreach automation | $15-99/mo | ||||
| PhantomBuster | Scraping + automation | $69-439/mo | ||||
| ChatGPT | General AI assistant | $0-20/mo | ||||
| Hiring a VA | Outsourcing to a person | $1-5k/mo | ||||
| Doing it manually | Your own time | 1-2 hours a day |
A dot means partial or add-on support. "LinkedIn API" means the tool connects through LinkedIn's sanctioned login rather than cookie scraping or a browser extension. Pricing, categories, and features reflect each product's public positioning at the time of writing and may change. We do our best to describe competitors fairly, and we encourage you to evaluate every tool yourself before you buy.
Why people switch to Allen.
It finds your buyers
You tell Allen who you want as customers. Every day it finds fresh posts written by those exact people, filters out the noise and the wrong audience, and comments for you. You never scroll for material again.
Your voice, trained
Not generic 'Great insight!' filler. Allen learns from your sample comments, your edits, and your thumbs up/down, so every comment and every DM sounds like you and reads as human, the kind people actually reply to.
Safe by design
Allen connects through the official LinkedIn API, not cookie scraping or a hijacked session. You authorize once with a normal LinkedIn login, and nothing has to run in your browser for the day to happen.
Replies to conversations
Most tools chase volume. Allen emails you when someone replies, drafts the DM in your voice, tracks every conversation on a pipeline board, and pushes the lead into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, or TaxDome.
Head to head
Allen vs everyone, in detail.
A full page for each one: what it does, where it genuinely wins, the feature-by-feature table, and who should pick which.
Commenting & engagement
The closest neighbours to Allen. All of them believe commenting beats broadcasting, they just disagree about who writes the comment.
Content & scheduling
Built to help you publish your own posts. Useful tools, solving the other half of LinkedIn.
Outreach & automation
Connection requests, DM sequences, and scraping. Volume plays, where Allen is a familiarity play.
The DIY options
No product at all: a chat assistant, a hired human, or your own hour a day. Two of these are what most people are actually comparing against.
Set it once.
Let Allen work..
Tell Allen who you want as customers and turn on Autopilot. Every day it finds them, comments in your voice, and hands you a DM for everyone who replies.