Valley AI LinkedIn alternative: no 5-profile limit, from $49
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- Jorrit van Ginkel, founder of Ziplined
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Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar, and the Valley AI alternative for teams that already have an outreach tool. Ziplined finds the Leads and your outreach tool sends them, where Valley writes and sends itself.
Short answer: choose Ziplined for Leads in the outreach tool you already use. Choose Valley if you want AI to research, write and send the messages on LinkedIn and email.
At a glance
- Starting price
- $49 a month vs $395 per seat a month
- What you pay for
- Credits for the scan vs a seat, plus credits
- Profiles you watch
- No limit vs 5 at a time
- Writes and sends
- Never vs LinkedIn and email
What is Valley, and what is Ziplined?
Valley finds the right prospects, researches what matters to them, writes relevant messages and sends outreach in your voice across email and social networks, in under 5 minutes.
Valley
- Collects
- Engagers, profile viewers, hiring and funding
- Profiles you watch
- 5 competitor or influencer profiles
- Sends for you
- Yes, on LinkedIn and email
- Starts at
- $395 per seat a month
Ziplined
- Collects
- Likes and comments, plus dark signals
- Profiles you watch
- No limit, credits are the only limit
- Sends for you
- No, your outreach tool sends
- Starts at
- $49 a month, 3,000 credits
Ziplined vs Valley: the comparison table
 Ziplined | Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Leads: people who fit your ideal client, in your own tools | Prospects, research and messages, sent from your accounts |
| Engagers on your team's posts | Yes (teammate sources) | Yes, LinkedIn post engagers |
| Competitor and industry expert posts | Yes (competitor and industry expert sources) | Yes, up to five competitor or influencer profiles at a time |
| Profile viewers | Yes, free Chrome extension, 1 credit each | Yes, LinkedIn profile viewers and company profile viewers |
| New followers and connections | Yes, through the extension | Profile followers |
| Hiring, job changes, funding | No | Yes, hiring signals, job change alerts and funding rounds |
| Keywords | No | Keyword engagement |
| Limit on what you watch | None. Credits are the only limit | 5 competitor or industry expert profiles |
| Filter | Your ideal client decides who is a Lead. Views add more than 20 filters, such as seniority, warmth, engagement and comment text. | Each person is scored against your ICP before anything is written |
| Destinations | Slack, email, CSV on every plan. Webhooks, Clay, Google Sheets, HeyReach on Team, from $99 a month. Instantly, Waalaxy, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Attio coming soon | A native Clay table sync and a HubSpot OAuth connection, plus webhooks for anything else |
| AI agent (MCP) | Yes, every plan | Yes, on every plan |
| Writes and sends messages | No, never | Yes, LinkedIn on Starter, email from Plus |
| Seats | Solo 1 user. Team unlimited users | One seat connects one LinkedIn account |
| Pricing model | You pay for the scan, in credits | You pay per seat, plus credits for finding new prospects and for finding and verifying email addresses |
| Starting price | $49 a month, 3,000 credits | $395 per seat a month |
| Free trial | 7 days, 3,000 credits, card needed, no charge on day one | 7 days, payment method required |
Read on 6 November 2026: joinvalley.co, /pricing, /product, /mcp, /api, /signals/competitor-post-engagers, /signals/linkedin-profile-viewers, /linkedin-automation and /terms-of-service, and Ziplined's app and pricing. We did not test Valley with a paid account.
The LinkedIn Lead Radar
- Watch your market for buying signals
- Analyze your own audience
- No LinkedIn login or cookie
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Grok Bot
- Cursor
- Slack
- HeyReach
- Google Sheets
- Clay
What does a Valley AI alternative need to cover?
This table shows where each Valley part sits with Ziplined.
| Valley part | Ziplined |
|---|---|
| People who engage with your posts | Yes, sources with the role teammate, for everyone on your team |
| People who engage with competitors and industry experts (5 profiles) | Yes, sources with the role competitor or industry expert, no limit |
| Profile viewers and followers | Yes, the free Chrome extension, one per colleague. It does not use a seat |
| ICP scoring | Yes, your ideal client. Ziplined reads your website and suggests it |
| Clay sync, webhooks | Yes, Clay and webhooks on Team |
| HubSpot | Coming soon |
| MCP | Yes, the AI agent connection, on every plan |
| Messages in your voice, LinkedIn and email sending | No, by design. Your outreach tool sends: HeyReach on Team, from $99 a month, or any tool behind Clay or a webhook |
| Unified inbox for replies | No. Your outreach tool keeps your inbox |
| Hiring, job change and funding signals | No |
| Company profile viewers | No |
How do Ziplined and Valley differ on profile limits, price and signals?
1. Ziplined watches every profile you add, Valley watches five
Valley watches up to five competitor or influencer profiles at a time. You can swap them whenever the market changes.
Both tools read profile viewers.
Ziplined, every plan
No limit on profiles
Your team, competitors and industry experts
Profile viewers through a free extension, no seat
Valley
5 profiles at a time
Competitor or influencer profiles
Profile viewers through each seat's LinkedIn account
2. Ziplined charges for the scan, Valley per seat that writes and sends
Valley sends outreach in your voice across email and social networks.
Ziplined never likes, comments, connects or sends. Your outreach tool keeps your sequences, your limits and your inbox.
Ziplined Solo
$49 a month
You pay for: the scan, in credits
Finds: people who fit your ideal client
Writes: no messages
Sends: no messages. Leads go to Slack, email or CSV
Valley Starter
$395 per seat a month
You pay for: a seat, plus credits
Finds: prospects, and researches them
Writes: Valley, in your voice
Sends: Valley, from your LinkedIn account. Email from Plus
3. Valley also reads hiring, job change and funding signals
Valley tracks hiring signals, job change alerts and funding rounds. Ziplined reads LinkedIn engagement and dark signals only.
Ziplined
Hiring signals: no
Job change alerts: no
Funding rounds: no
Valley
Hiring signals: yes
Job change alerts: yes
Funding rounds: yes
When is Valley the better choice?
- You want AI to write and send the messages.
- You want hiring, job change and funding signals.
- You want a native HubSpot connection today.
When is Ziplined the better Valley alternative?
- You already pay for HeyReach or Clay (Team, from $99 a month).
- You watch more than five competitors or experts.
- You want nothing connected to your LinkedIn account.
Ziplined and Valley pricing side by side
| Ziplined | Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| What the price buys | The scan, in credits. Ziplined finds, filters and delivers Leads | A seat for one LinkedIn account. Valley finds, researches, writes and sends |
| Lowest public price | $49 a month (Solo) | $395 per seat a month (Starter) |
| Included | Solo 3,000 credits. Team 10,000 to 100,000 credits | Starter: LinkedIn only |
| What credits buy | 1 post, 1 reaction or comment, 1 follower or profile view | Finding new prospects, finding and verifying email addresses, and upgraded message generation |
| Trial | 7 days, 3,000 credits, card needed | 7 days, payment method required |
| Refunds | Downgrade at renewal, no refund | No refunds, except where required by law |
Checked on 6 November 2026 (ziplined.io pricing, joinvalley.co/pricing, joinvalley.co/terms-of-service).
How do you switch from Valley to Ziplined?
List what you watch.
Note the competitor and industry expert profiles in Valley, and who on your team posts.
Start the trial and add sources.
Include the past week.
Describe your ideal client.
Ziplined reads your website and suggests it, and you confirm or change it.
Install the extension for each colleague who wants dark signals.
It runs only on linkedin.com and does not use a seat.
Connect your outreach tool.
HeyReach, Clay or a webhook on Team, from $99 a month. Your sequences live there.
Writing, sending and the reply inbox do not move to Ziplined. They move to your outreach tool.
What Ziplined is not
Ziplined does not send messages, write posts or scrape random profiles. Nothing connects to your LinkedIn account, and your outreach tool does the sending.
FAQ
Is there a cheaper alternative to Valley AI?
Yes, on starting price. Ziplined Solo costs $49 a month for 3,000 credits. Valley Starter costs $395 per seat a month (checked 6 November 2026). The prices do not buy the same thing: Valley also writes and sends.
Does Ziplined write and send messages like Valley?
No. Ziplined finds, filters and delivers Leads. Your outreach tool, such as HeyReach on Team (from $99 a month), writes and sends. Valley writes and sends from your own LinkedIn account and inbox.
Does Valley have a free trial?
Valley has a 7-day trial, and a payment method is required. Ziplined has a 7-day trial with 3,000 credits. A card is needed, with no charge on the first day.
How many profiles can I watch on Valley and on Ziplined?
Valley tracks up to five competitor or influencer profiles at a time (checked 6 November 2026). No Ziplined plan limits the profiles you watch. Valley adds hiring, job change and funding signals, which Ziplined does not read.
Can Ziplined see who viewed my LinkedIn profile?
Yes. The free Ziplined Chrome extension adds your team's profile views, new followers and new connections. Each profile view or new follower costs 1 credit. Valley also reads profile viewers.
Do Ziplined and Valley work with Claude or ChatGPT?
Both have an MCP server on every plan. Ziplined's AI agent connection is included in Solo at $49 a month.
Is Valley's price per seat?
Yes. One seat connects one LinkedIn account, and Starter is $395 per seat a month. Ziplined Team has unlimited users from $99 a month.
