Weezlyvs
Octopus CRMKeep the thrift. Skip the ladder.Octopus CRM grows your network.
Weezly grows your pipeline.
Respect to the veteran: shipping since 2018, 70,000 Chrome Web Store users, and among the cheapest tickets in the category. But its four plans unlock features rung by rung, the whole thing lives inside your open Chrome, and every rung still ends at the send. Weezly runs in the cloud, puts a video made by your AI clone natively in the DM, reads the replies and books the meeting, on one rung, at $59.
Their ladder, decoded from their live pricing tablemonthly, from their published pricing, July 2026Weezly$59Cheap, simple, steady since 2018. And gated, rung by rung.
Credit where due: Octopus CRM installs in a minute, costs less than lunch, and 70,000 people use it happily to grow a network. It is maintained, not abandoned, version 3.7.19 shipped in March 2026. If all you want is invites, visits and endorsements from inside your own Chrome, the octopus delivers. The question is the ladder, and everything no rung of it holds.
Starter $9.99, Pro $14.99, Advanced $21.99, Unlimited $39.99 monthly, about 35% less on annual, per LinkedIn account, from their published pricing, July 2026 (check their pricing, it changes). Agencies with 20+ accounts: a contact form.
Personalized invites. Cannot send a message: bulk messaging starts one rung up.
Messages, visits, endorsements. Campaigns and funnels start one rung up.
Campaigns, funnels, CSV. Zapier and their own safety alerts are one rung up.
Everything on the ladder, incl. Activity Control alerts and connect-by-email credits.
Their own review article lists the cons in their own words: "Browser-based only: automation stops the moment you close your browser" and "No separate web dashboard; all management within Chrome extension." Octopus CRM blog, 2026.
None of it on their site, store listing or their own 2026 feature articles, July 2026. The email finder is real and credited above; an email channel it is not.
The machine that ships on one rung.
Six parts, one $59 subscription, all in the cloud, all illustrated below with live coded scenes and real app screenshots. Everything their ladder gates, plus everything it never includes.
No feature gatesYour clone300M+ emailsMorning digestBrowser optionalConnect, message, visit, endorse... then six steps further.
The real builder below, exactly as it looks in the app: campaigns and funnels like their Advanced rung, plus branching conditions and the step types no rung of the ladder sells.
Generating for AnaOne recording of you, a unique video per lead, uploaded as a real file.
Their funnels are real and start on the Advanced rung, but they run in a straight line: their own cons list says "no multi-step conditional logic", and reviewers note each step is transferred and launched by hand.
A CRM that is a list, or a pipeline that moves itself.
Their Personal CRM counts what happened, genuinely useful and warmly credited. It just ends there: no inbox, no stages, no deal. Ours reads the reply, stamps the sentiment and walks the card to Won, then briefs your phone in the morning.
Their CRM: a list with statsOctopus · Personal CRMIN THE EXTENSIONGenuinely useful for watching volume: acceptance rates, messages sent, SSI tracking. Their own reviewers complete the sentence: no inbox management after lead replies.
Ours: the pipeline itself
Every reply lands in the Unibox, AI stamps the sentiment, and the card travels Interested → Meeting Booked → Won. In the cloud, browser closed.
The morning digest their extension cannot send.
A Chrome extension has no mobile story by construction: when your browser sleeps, so does everything it knows. The Weezly app for iOS and Android wakes up before you do, with every reply, the AI's read on it, and the meetings it booked overnight.
An Octopus CRM mobile app: not advertised, July 2026. The AI-Octopus app on Google Play is an unrelated product by a different company.
An endorsement warms a lead. A video books one.
Auto-endorse is Octopus CRM's signature move and most modern tools dropped it, credit where due. Here is the same profile receiving both kinds of attention.
Their touch: the endorsement
Auto-endorse is real, distinctive, and honestly a bit charming: up to 7 skills per profile, a warm-up most modern tools dropped. Weezly does not endorse skills. It does what the endorsement is hoping for.
Our touch: the conversation
Hi Ana, made this for you 👇
Sent with Weezly Your clone · made for AnaThe same profile, opened as a thread: an AI clone video rendered for Ana, a real file playing in the DM, and the booking that follows it.
Merge tags were 2018. Your clone is 2026.
Octopus CRM personalizes with placeholders and advertises no AI at all. This renders a video of you, per lead, overnight, and uploads the file into the DM.
Their personalization is a merge tag. Ours is your face.
Octopus CRM fills first name and company into a template, honestly and reliably, the way tools did it in 2018. It advertises no AI feature at all. Weezly clones your face and voice from one two-minute take, renders a personal video per lead in 25 languages, and uploads the file into the DM.
🇵🇱For Ana Kowalski🇬🇧
For Gustav Haag🇪🇸
For María Ortega🇩🇪
For Jonas WeberEvery render is a different video: the lead's name, company and language, spoken by your clone.
We ran the same two-minute take through the clone engines at Sendspark, Hippo Video and Sendr, side by side with Weezly. It was not close.
Octopus CRM was not in that test: it has no clone engine to enter. The clone videos playing on this page are unedited Weezly renders. Judge it yourself.
They work your list. Weezly is the list.
Octopus CRM automates the profiles you feed it from LinkedIn searches or CSVs. Weezly ships a 300M+ database with emails verified at search time. Below: the actual product.
Octopus CRM's connect-by-email is genuinely clever: it finds a lead's corporate email and delivers the invitation there, with a claimed 65% hit rate. It is also Unlimited-only, metered at 500 credits a month, and by their own note those invitations cannot be personalized.
A finder feeds invites. A database feeds campaigns.
Weezly's 300M+ contacts are searchable by title, industry and company, emails verify at search time, and 10,000 results push into a campaign in one click. No credit meter, inside the $59.
And yes, we send safely too.
Human speeds and daily caps are their home ground. Weezly reads your SSI per account, rotates senders from one dashboard, and does it all from the cloud, with no rung to climb for the safety features.
Their whole ladder is our baseline.
Invites, messages, visits, human speeds: real, and covered. Weezly does the same ground from the cloud with limits read from each account's Social Selling Index, safety that ships on the only rung we sell instead of the top one, then spends the rest of the subscription on what happens after the send.
Recommended: 36 invites/day
Per account, in one click. Their Activity Control alerts are Unlimited-only; this is the baseline.
Sending as Lena K.
Octopus needs a subscription per account, switched by re-logging in the same browser
Both tools are LinkedIn-first today. Their email finder delivers invitations, not an email channel; our next channels are on the roadmap.
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WaalaxyAll inside Weezly Outreach$6.99 is a fair price for what it does. $59 is a fair price for what it replaces.
Say it plainly: Octopus CRM is cheaper, and even its top rung undercuts Weezly by more than half. The ladder is the catch. The rungs you actually need sit at the top, and the things that book meetings are not on the ladder at all.
Octopus CRMtheir published pricing, July 2026Per LinkedIn account, about 35% less on annual. Check their pricing, it changes.
Weezly One rungEvery feature on the only plan shape we sell. Nothing gated behind a higher rung.
Fair math: if invites and endorsements are truly all you need, buy the octopus, it is a bargain. The moment you need the meeting, the ladder costs more than the machine.
"Users must manually transfer and launch each step of their campaigns, which defeats the purpose of automation."
"No separate web dashboard; all management within Chrome extension."
"Support response times can be slow, sometimes needing multiple emails."
Third-party review roundups and their own published cons list, July 2026. Plenty of users on G2 and Capterra also praise the support and the price, both sides are real. The structural point stands either way: every rung runs in your open browser, and every rung stops at the send.
The fair fight, their wins included.
Octopus CRM wins real rows here: the entry price outright, the endorsement feature we simply do not have, the years of mileage. Look at what each subscription is actually for.
| Capability | Weezly | Octopus CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price per LinkedIn accountTheir win | $59/mo per sender, whole platform included | From $9.99/mo, $6.99 on annual. Among the cheapest in the category (their published pricing, July 2026) |
| Simplicity, time to first campaignFair fight | Visual builder, templates, one login | Install the extension, pick a list, run. Genuinely low learning curve |
| Years in the gameFair fight | Newer platform, shipping fast | Since 2018, v3.7.19 shipped March 2026, 70,000 Chrome Web Store users |
| Auto endorse skillsTheir win | Up to 7 skills per profile, a warm-up feature most modern tools dropped | |
| Runs in your own browser session, no credentials sharedFair fight | Cloud platform, credentialed connection | Extension in your own Chrome, on your own IP. A legitimate preference |
| CSV import and exportFair fight | From the Advanced plan up | |
| CRM and workflow integrationsFair fight | HubSpot, Slack, Zapier, webhooks, REST API | Zapier to HubSpot, Zoho, Asana and others, on the Unlimited plan only |
| Always-on sending, browser closed | Cloud sending included at $59/mo | No cloud tier at any price. Their own blog: automation stops when the browser closes |
| Conditional, branching sequences | Branches on Replied and Accepted, runs itself | Campaigns and funnels from Advanced up, linear; their own cons: no multi-step conditional logic |
| Real video file uploaded natively in the DM | Generated per lead from your clone | No video capability advertised |
| AI face and voice cloning, 25 languages | One 2-minute recording, ever | No AI features advertised; personalization is merge tags |
| Voice notes as sequence steps | Not advertised | |
| Searchable leads database with verified emails | 300M+ contacts, emails verified at search time | Email finder for invites: 500 credits/mo, Unlimited only, invitations not personalizable (their words) |
| What happens to replies | AI sentiment kanban, Interested to Won, built in | The Personal CRM is a processed-leads list with stats; no inbox, no pipeline |
| Booking pages and scheduling included | A booking page under every video | Not advertised |
| Mobile app with AI reply alerts (iOS + Android) | Not advertised | |
| Multi-sender rotation and team workspace | Rotate senders from one dashboard | One subscription per LinkedIn account, switch by re-logging in the same browser |
| Account safety approachFair fight | SSI-based recommended caps per account | Human-like speeds; Activity Control alerts on the Unlimited plan |
Octopus CRM capabilities from their published site, Chrome Web Store listing, FAQ and their own 2026 feature articles, July 2026. "Not advertised" means exactly that, we could not find it on their public pages.
Weezly vs Octopus CRM, answered
Skip the ladder. Buy the machine.
Octopus CRM earned its 70,000 users: cheap, simple, steady since 2018. But every rung of its ladder still ends at the send, in a browser that has to stay open. Weezly ships the whole machine on one rung: cloud sending, AI clone videos in the DM, a 300M+ database, a reply pipeline and a mobile app for $59. Switching takes an afternoon.