Linked Helper 2 vs Octopus CRM
A straight comparison of Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM for B2B teams. We sell our own product, Creator, and we say so up front. Every price on this page was read on the vendor's own pricing page, with the date and the link next to it.
The short answer
Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM are not interchangeable. Linked Helper 2 suits budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app. Octopus CRM suits solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point. Octopus CRM starts at $9.99 on its Starter plan (per month, monthly billing), read on its own pricing page on 10 September 2026. We have not verified a current Linked Helper 2 price, so we do not publish one.
Budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app.
Solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point.
Linked Helper 2 vs Octopus CRM at a glance
The price, free plan and scaling rows come off the vendors' own pricing pages. Category and best for are our own read. Where a cell says not verified, it is blank on purpose: we had no figure we could stand behind, and a months-old number is worse than a gap.
| Attribute | Linked Helper 2 | Octopus CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Category (our read) | Outreach automation | Outreach automation |
| Entry price (vendor page) | Not verified | $9.99Starter plan, per month, monthly billing |
| Free plan (vendor page) | Not verified | No free plan. All plans come with a 7-day obligation-free trial, no credit card required. |
| How the price scales | Not verified | A flat monthly fee per account, with a 35% discount for annual billing. |
| Best for (our read) | Budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app. | Solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point. |
Pricing, plan by plan
Every figure below carries the plan name it belongs to, the basis the vendor states, a link to the page it came from, and the date we read it. Currencies appear exactly as each vendor publishes them. We never convert one currency into another, because a converted price is a price nobody will ever be charged.
Linked Helper 2 pricing
We have not read a current Linked Helper 2 price on Linked Helper 2's own pricing page, so this page carries no Linked Helper 2 figure. Publishing a stale number would be worse than leaving the gap.
Check it yourself at linkedhelper.com. The rest of this comparison stands on the parts we can stand behind.
- · The unit. Per seat, per connected account, per credit or a flat fee. Multiply it by the team you will have in six months.
- · The gate. Which tier holds the one feature you came for, because it is rarely the cheapest one.
- · The billing cadence. Note whether the headline figure assumes annual billing, and what monthly costs instead.
- · The meter. Credits, sending caps and enrichment allowances sit on top of the subscription and can beat it in size.
- · The trial. How long, whether a card is needed, and which features it withholds.
Octopus CRM pricing
Checked 10 September 2026- Starterper month, monthly billing$9.99
- Proper month, monthly billing$14.99
- Advancedper month, monthly billing$21.99
- Unlimitedper month, monthly billing$39.99
- Starterper month, billed annually$6.99
- Proper month, billed annually$9.99
- Advancedper month, billed annually$14.99
- Unlimitedper month, billed annually$24.99
Free tier: No free plan. All plans come with a 7-day obligation-free trial, no credit card required.
What the price is per: A flat monthly fee per account, with a 35% discount for annual billing.
Worth knowing: Pricing lives on the homepage anchor. The /pricing/ path returns a 404. The same $9.99 figure appears on Starter monthly and on Pro annual, so read the plan name alongside the number.
Source: octopuscrm.io/#pricing, read 10 September 2026.
What each vendor publishes about its own product
This section is quotation, not opinion. Each line comes off the vendor's own pricing page on 10 September 2026. We list only what a vendor states. Silence on a feature is not evidence a tool lacks it, so nothing here says a tool cannot do something.
Octopus CRM
Octopus CRM is a LinkedIn automation Chrome tool with a personal CRM inside it. It sends personalized auto-invites and bulk messages, views profiles, endorses skills, builds campaigns and funnels, imports and exports, and integrates with Zapier and HubSpot.
- · An activity control feature alerts you when it detects excessive activity on your LinkedIn account.
- · Starter, Pro and Advanced list Sales Navigator compatibility.
- · Unlimited adds Premium and Recruiter compatibility.
- · Agencies managing 20 or more accounts are told to contact the team for special pricing.
Only one side of this pair has a vendor block, because we read a pricing page for Octopus CRM and not for Linked Helper 2. Rather than fill the gap with our own description of someone else's product, we leave it out.
Which tool for which job
Most comparison pages rank two tools on a single line and call it a verdict. That is not how the decision works. The right answer changes with the job in front of you, so here is the matchup, job by job. Rows built on a vendor figure say so. Rows built on our opinion say that too.
| The job | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You are adding a second and third user | Octopus CRM | Octopus CRM publishes how the price scales. A flat monthly fee per account, with a 35% discount for annual billing. We have not verified how Linked Helper 2 scales, so we make no claim about it. |
| You run accounts for clients | Octopus CRM | Octopus CRM publishes an agency tier. No published agency price. Teams of 20+ accounts contact the vendor. We did not find a published agency tier for Linked Helper 2 on the page we read, which is not the same as saying it has none. |
| You are choosing inside one category, outreach automation | Read both descriptions | Category does not separate these two, so the shape of your week does. Linked Helper 2: Budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app. Octopus CRM: Solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point. |
| You need content, DMs, lead capture and pipeline in one place | Creator | That job spans more than either tool covers on its own. Creator installs the whole loop and runs it for you, which is a different purchase from buying software. |
What to expect from outreach automation tools
Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM are competing for the same budget line, so the category itself sets most of what you should be checking.
Outreach automation
Outreach tools send the connection requests, the messages and the follow-ups on your behalf. The whole category carries platform risk, so read what each vendor publishes about daily limits, warm-up and account safety, and treat that as part of the product rather than a footnote. The other thing to check is the unit of pricing. Some charge per seat, some per connected account, some a flat fee for many senders, and that single choice can move the bill by an order of magnitude at five accounts.
How to choose between them in an afternoon
You do not need a six-week evaluation. You need five answers, and four of them come off the vendor sites in under an hour.
- 1. Write down the one job you are buying for. Not three jobs. One. If the sentence needs the word and twice, you are shopping for two tools, and you should say so out loud before you compare anything.
- 2. Check the pricing unit, not the headline number. Octopus CRM bills like this. A flat monthly fee per account, with a 35% discount for annual billing. We have not verified how Linked Helper 2 bills, so read its pricing page yourself and do the same arithmetic.
- 3. Find the cheapest tier that still has the feature you came for. Entry prices are usually gated. The plan you actually need is often one or two tiers above the number in the ad, and that gap is where budgets break.
- 4. Run one real list through the trial. Not a demo list. Fifty of your own prospects, your own copy, your own sending times. Two days of that tells you more than every comparison page on the internet, including this one.
- 5. Ask what breaks when you stop paying. Sequences, data, inbox history and reporting all live somewhere. Find out what you can export and what you lose, before you have anything worth losing.
Our read on each
Everything below is our own assessment from running LinkedIn pipelines for B2B firms. It is opinion, not vendor documentation, and we label it that way so you can weigh it against the vendor sections above.
Linked Helper 2
Desktop LinkedIn automation tool with CRM features.
- + Most automation features per dollar in this category
- + One-time purchase option available
- + Built-in CRM reduces need for a separate tool
- − Desktop app - your machine must stay running for campaigns
- − Higher LinkedIn ToS risk than cloud-based tools
- − No content engine, no cloud safety record, no inbound layer
Octopus CRM
Simple LinkedIn automation and CRM tool.
- + The cheapest LinkedIn automation tool we track, at $6.99/mo billed annually
- + Simple to set up without technical knowledge
- + Sales Navigator compatibility from the Starter plan up
- − Chrome extension, so it runs on your machine and carries account risk
- − Premium and Recruiter compatibility needs the top Unlimited plan
- − Agencies running 20+ accounts get no published price at all
- − No content engine, no lead capture, no pipeline tracking
Four ways this comparison goes wrong
We have watched a lot of teams pick between tools like these. The same four mistakes account for most of the regret.
Entry prices are marketing. The number that matters is what the tool costs on the tier that holds the feature you came for, multiplied by the number of seats or accounts you will really run.
Every tool in this space demos well. What separates them is the hundredth time you do the routine task, whether that is approving a sequence, editing a draft or answering a reply. Ask a current user what they do every Monday, not what impressed them in week one.
Neither Linked Helper 2 nor Octopus CRM decides who you target, what you say or why anyone should reply. Software makes a working motion faster and a broken motion faster to fail. Get the offer and the list right first, then automate them.
Most stacks are strong at sending and thin at everything after it. Replies land in an inbox, someone has to qualify them, and the handoff into a calendar is where pipeline quietly leaks. Decide who owns that step before you pick either tool, or the tool will decide for you.
If neither one covers the job
Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM each solve one slice. Content, DMs, lead capture and pipeline reporting still have to meet somewhere, and in most firms that somewhere is a person with no time. Creator is the install that closes the loop: we set the whole thing up and run it, and you own it.
Built for B2B founders, consultants and agencies who use LinkedIn as their main pipeline channel. See the system and the results.
Frequently asked
- What is the main difference between Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM?
- Linked Helper 2 is positioned as desktop LinkedIn automation tool with CRM features and sits in the outreach automation category. Octopus CRM is positioned as simple LinkedIn automation and CRM tool and sits in the outreach automation category. In practice Linked Helper 2 suits budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app, while Octopus CRM suits solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point.
- How much does Linked Helper 2 cost?
- We have not read a current Linked Helper 2 price on Linked Helper 2's own pricing page, so we publish no figure for it. Check https://linkedhelper.com before you budget.
- How much does Octopus CRM cost?
- Starter at $9.99 (per month, monthly billing); Pro at $14.99 (per month, monthly billing); Advanced at $21.99 (per month, monthly billing); Unlimited at $39.99 (per month, monthly billing); Starter at $6.99 (per month, billed annually); Pro at $9.99 (per month, billed annually); Advanced at $14.99 (per month, billed annually); Unlimited at $24.99 (per month, billed annually). Read on https://octopuscrm.io/#pricing on 10 September 2026. No free plan. All plans come with a 7-day obligation-free trial, no credit card required.
- Is Linked Helper 2 or Octopus CRM cheaper?
- We only publish prices we have read on the vendor's own page, and we do not have a verified figure for both tools right now, so we will not rank them on price. The verified side: Octopus CRM opens at $9.99 on Starter. Check both vendor pages before you decide.
- Can I use Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM together?
- Most teams pick one. Linked Helper 2 and Octopus CRM both sit in the outreach automation category, so running both usually means paying twice for the same job. The exception is a migration, where you run the old tool until the sequences in the new one are stable.
- Which should a solo founder pick, Linked Helper 2 or Octopus CRM?
- A solo founder is buying one seat and one account, so the tool with the lower entry tier and the smaller learning curve usually wins. Our read: pick Linked Helper 2 if this describes you. Budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app. Pick Octopus CRM if this describes you. Solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point.
The verdict
On price we can only speak to one side. Octopus CRM opens at $9.99 on Starter, checked 10 September 2026. We have not read a current Linked Helper 2 figure on its own page, so we publish none.
Linked Helper 2 is the pick if this describes you. Budget-conscious teams wanting maximum LinkedIn automation features at the lowest price, and comfortable running a desktop app. Octopus CRM is the pick if this describes you instead. Solo founders and small teams wanting basic LinkedIn outreach automation at the lowest possible price point. If you read both descriptions and neither matches the job in front of you, the problem is probably bigger than a tool choice, and that is the case Creator exists for.
One caveat we will repeat: pricing pages move. The figures here were read on 10 September 2026 and each one links back to the page it came from. Click through before you sign anything. If a number on this page no longer matches the vendor's page, tell us and we will fix it.
How this page was sourced
We run one rule on every comparison we publish. A fact about a named company's product, pricing or features appears here only if we read it on that company's own page. Every figure carries the plan name it belongs to, the basis the vendor states, the URL it came from, and the date we read it.
Two things follow from that rule, and both are visible on this page. Where a vendor publishes in euros or pounds, the price stays in euros or pounds. We do not convert, because a converted number is a number nobody will ever be charged. And where we have no verified figure, the page says so and leaves the space empty rather than filling it with a price from months ago.
We also do not infer absence. If a vendor's page does not mention a feature, that is not evidence the tool lacks it, and you will not find a line on this page claiming otherwise. The opinionated parts, the categories, the pros and cons, the recommendations, are labelled as ours so you can weigh them separately from the sourced parts.
Last pricing pass: 10 September 2026. We sell a competing product, Creator, and we take no affiliate commission from any tool named on this page.
Key terms
- Connection RequestA connection request is the LinkedIn invitation one user sends to another to establish a first-degree connection.
- Cold DMA cold DM is a LinkedIn direct message sent to a prospect who has had no prior engagement with the sender - no content interaction, no existing connection, no shared context.
- DM SequenceA DM sequence is a series of LinkedIn direct messages sent to a prospect over time, typically triggered by a specific event like a comment or a profile view.
- LinkedIn AlgorithmThe LinkedIn algorithm is the ranking system that decides which posts appear in each user's feed and how widely a post is distributed.