Outsolvi vs Expandi: the best Expandi alternative in 2026
Updated August 23, 2026
Quick answer
Expandi is a LinkedIn-first automation tool priced at $99 a month per account, or $79 billed annually, whose distinguishing feature is a dedicated country-based IP address for each connected LinkedIn account. Email follow-up steps run in the same campaign but email is not tracked the way a dedicated email tool tracks it. Outsolvi is an email tracking and sequencing tool from $7 a month with LinkedIn as a $49 an account add-on, a native Outlook add-in and Gmail extension, and Tier 1 to Tier 5 confidence scoring that excludes Apple Mail Privacy Protection and scanner opens. Prices read from Expandi's pricing page on 23 August 2026.
Expandi is one of the older names in LinkedIn automation and it is built around a specific safety idea: every connected account gets its own dedicated country-based IP address, so LinkedIn sees a consistent location rather than a datacentre that changes shape every week. If you have had an account restricted before, that pitch lands, and it is a genuine advantage we do not match.
What you are buying is a LinkedIn-first tool with email follow-up attached. Email steps live in the campaign, but email is not the product. There is no add-in in your inbox, no scoring of who actually read the message, and no tracking domain of your own. If your outbound is mostly LinkedIn and email is the polite second touch, that shape is fine.
Ours is the other way round. Email is the core, with real tracking in Outlook and Gmail and a confidence score on every open, and LinkedIn is a channel inside the same sequence for $49 an account. The price gap is the thing to look at honestly: Expandi is $79 to $99 for one connected account, ours is $7 for the plan and $49 for the account. If the dedicated IP is what you are paying for, pay for it. If it is not, you are paying a lot for a channel you could add to a $7 plan.
Expandi gives every connected LinkedIn account its own dedicated country-based IP, which is a real safety feature we do not offer, and charges $79 to $99 an account a month for it. Email is a follow-up step rather than a tracked channel. Outsolvi is $7 a month plus $49 a LinkedIn account, with a native Outlook add-in, a Gmail extension, and confidence scoring that keeps Apple prefetches and security scanners out of your open counts. Pick Expandi if the dedicated IP is the thing you are buying. Pick Outsolvi if email is your main channel.
How Outsolvi compares to Expandi (feature by feature)
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Install Outsolvi for Outlook or Gmail, send your next email, and see who opened it. $7/mo + $49 an account once your trial ends.
Why teams choose Outsolvi
The email half is a real email product, not a follow-up step. A native Outlook add-in for Desktop, Web and New Outlook, a Gmail extension, click tracking, custom tracking domains with rotation, and confidence scoring that grades every open Tier 1 to Tier 5 so the machine opens are excluded rather than counted. On the LinkedIn side you get seven actions, a published warm-up ladder that starts at 15 actions a day doing only views, likes and follows and climbs to 70 by day 22, connection requests held under 80 a week, and the ability to spread one campaign across several connected accounts. And the price is a different order of magnitude: $7 a month for the plan, $49 for a LinkedIn account, dropping to $35 an account at 25.
Where Expandi excels
The dedicated IP is not marketing. Running LinkedIn automation from an address that stays consistent and matches the country your profile says you are in is a meaningful reduction in restriction risk, and it is the single clearest reason to choose Expandi over anything on this page including us. Automatic profile warm-up is built into onboarding rather than being something you have to understand. The template library is large and battle-tested, and agency pricing improves as you add seats. If you have already had a LinkedIn account restricted, or you are running outreach for clients whose accounts you cannot afford to lose, that is worth $99 a month and we will not pretend otherwise.
Which is right for your team
Honest framing of who each tool fits best. Not every team is the same buyer.
Someone who has had a LinkedIn account restricted before
The account is the business. Losing it again would cost real pipeline, and the priority is anything that lowers that risk even at a higher monthly price.
Expandi. The dedicated country-based IP is exactly the mitigation for that fear and we do not offer it. Our warm-up ladder is conservative, but it is not the same thing.
AE whose pipeline comes from email, with LinkedIn as the way in
A hundred or so emails a week from the company domain, a connection request for the prospects that matter, and follow-up decisions made from who actually read the email.
Outsolvi. The email half is the product here and it is scored. On Expandi, email is a step in a LinkedIn campaign and the opens are not graded.
One rep who wants LinkedIn without a per-account platform bill
A single connected account, moderate volume, a budget that has to be justified per head rather than per tool.
Outsolvi. $7 for the plan plus $49 for the LinkedIn account against $79 to $99 for the account alone. Run the numbers before assuming the tools are comparable in cost.
Switching from Expandi to Outsolvi
What to expect, in order. The 14-day Outsolvi trial covers the whole switch.
Day 0
Export your Expandi campaigns and, above all, your blacklist. That exclusion list is the one thing you cannot rebuild from memory, and importing it on day one stops you contacting someone you already burned.
Day 1
Start the Outsolvi trial, install the Outlook add-in or the Gmail extension, and connect one LinkedIn account. It enters the warm-up ladder at 15 actions a day for the first three days, doing only profile views, likes and follows.
Week 2
Compare on reply rate, not on opens or accepts. Your open numbers will read lower because Tier 4 and Tier 5 are now filtered out, and your accept rate is a function of the warm-up stage you are in rather than of the tool.
Week 4
The account is at full pace and you have a month of scored email data. If the dedicated IP was load bearing for you, keep Expandi and treat the two as separate purchases. If it was not, the cost difference is the whole decision.
Frequently asked questions
Does Outsolvi give each LinkedIn account a dedicated IP?+
No. That is a genuine Expandi advantage and we do not match it. What we do instead is rate limiting: a published warm-up ladder that starts at 15 actions a day for the first three days doing only profile views, likes and follows, then 25 through day 7, 40 through day 14, 55 through day 21 and 70 from day 22, with connection requests held under 80 a week, below LinkedIn's own weekly guidance. Different mitigation for the same risk. If a dedicated IP is what you want, buy the tool that sells one.
How do the prices compare?+
On 23 August 2026 Expandi's Business plan was $99 a month per account, or $79 billed annually, with custom agency pricing from 10 seats. Outsolvi is $7 a month for the plan billed yearly, plus $49 for each connected LinkedIn account, falling to $35 an account at 25. For a single account the gap is large. For an agency running ten or more, get Expandi's agency quote before comparing, because their per-seat price improves at volume.
Does Expandi track email opens?+
Expandi supports email follow-up steps inside a campaign with basic tracking. What it does not do, and what no LinkedIn-first tool on this site does, is grade the opens. An Apple Mail Privacy Protection prefetch and a corporate security scanner fetching the pixel look the same as a human read. Outsolvi puts every open into one of five tiers and keeps the machine ones out of the number you act on.
Can one campaign use several LinkedIn accounts?+
In Outsolvi, yes: a campaign can use several senders so no single profile carries the whole list, and each connected account keeps its own daily limits and its own warm-up ladder. On Expandi the account is the unit you buy, so running several means several subscriptions.
What are Outsolvi's LinkedIn limits?+
Per connected account: 5 active campaigns, 500 leads a month and 50 actions a day, after the warm-up ladder. Seven actions are available: connection request, message, InMail, profile view, follow, like a post, and a connection check that branches the sequence on whether they accepted.
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Expandi wins on one thing that matters a great deal to some buyers and not at all to others: a dedicated country-based IP per account. If you have lost an account before, or you run client accounts you cannot risk, that is worth the price and we do not compete with it. If your pipeline is email with LinkedIn around it, you want tracking you can trust, and you would rather not pay platform money for one connected account, Outsolvi is the cheaper and structurally better fit. Both offer a free trial.
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Nate built Outsolvi after watching every email-tracking tool he had ever used lie to him about opens. Outsolvi runs Tier 1 to 5 confidence scoring on every open, native in Outlook and Gmail, so the number on the dashboard is one a rep can actually act on.
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