Early Launch Pricing: LinkedIn senders $39$59/mo + 500 AI video minutes $79$99/mo
WeezlyWeezlyvsPhantomBusterPhantomBusterOne login. No meter.

PhantomBuster hands you the robots.
Weezly hands you the meetings.

PhantomBuster is the best scraping toolbox in the category, and this page says so openly. But running LinkedIn outreach on it means chaining four Phantoms, a spreadsheet, a verifier and a scheduler while an execution-hours meter drains, and everything hard-stops when it empties. Weezly is the machine those parts were trying to become: database, sequence, your AI clone in the DM, pipeline, booking. Flat $59/mo per sender, nothing metered.

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2.7x higher reply rate68% video watch rate+38% more meetings booked
PhantomBusterWith PhantomBusteroutreach, hand-assembled
PhantomBusterLinkedIn Search Export
session cookie · 21d oldcron 0 9 * * 1-5out: leads.csv → Sheets ran 26 min
PhantomBusterAuto Connect
in: leads.csvcookie: paste weeklythrottle: set your own ran 41 min
PhantomBusterMessage Sender
in: connected.csvpayload: text + {firstName}cron 0 10 * * 1-5 ran 12 min
PhantomBusterEmail Extractor
credits: 500/moverify: bring your own toolout: enriched.csv out of hours
Execution time
20h/mo plan · no rollover Slots: 5/5 in use Paused until next cycle

Four robots, two spreadsheets and a cron schedule later: plain text in a DM, and the meter is what stopped it.

Tanveer Ahmed
Hi Tanveer, saw your post on cross-border payments. Would love to connect and share how we...
Text. That is the whole payload.
VS
WeezlyWith Weezlythe finished machine
Weezly Outreach · one sequence Live
Connect AI video Voice note AI comment Book
no cron no cookies no chaining no meter
300M+ database attached, emails verified AI reads every reply, pipeline fills itself Positive replies ping your phone
Tanveer AhmedHead of Growth, Wise
LinkedIn DM
Emma Berg · 9:33 AM

Hi Tanveer, made this for you 👇

0:47 Your clone · made for Tanveer
Ha, this is great. Thursday work for a call?
Booked · Thu 10:30, both calendars

One node, one login. The video is a real file playing where he reads it, the reply feeds a pipeline, the booking is in-thread.

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PhantomBuster alternative · 01 of 02
With PhantomBuster
The honest read

The best scraper in the category. And outreach is a use case, not the product.

Credit where due, and there is a lot of it: PhantomBuster's data extraction is genuinely best-in-class, across LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, X, Google Maps and more. It is a general automation platform, not a LinkedIn outreach tool, and it does not really pretend otherwise. "Outreach" on it is something you assemble: Phantoms chained into Flows, wired with spreadsheets, run on session cookies and cron schedules, with throttling you configure yourself.

Best-in-class scraping, 15+ platforms 100+ Phantoms and Flows Public API, real developer flexibility Zapier, HubSpot, Clay, Sheets Waterfall email enrichment

Their AI lead-ranking copilot is in beta as of July 2026. If your job is data extraction, they are a fine choice and this page will not convince you otherwise. This page is about running outreach on it.

phantombuster.comThis is PhantomBuster
The real PhantomBuster homepage: Warm Leads. Every Day.
The meterExplained fairly, from their published pricing, July 2026 (check their pricing, it changes):
Starter
$69/mo
20h of execution time/mo
5 slots · 500 email credits
Pro
$159/mo
80h of execution time/mo
15 slots · 2,500 email credits
Team
$439/mo
300h of execution time/mo
50 slots · 10,000 email credits
One month of a multi-step LinkedIn campaign, Starter plan20h budget
Week 1 · scraper + connectsWeek 2 · follow-ups + enrichment Hard stop, mid-campaign
Hard stop at the cap No rollover No one-off top-upPer their docs and third-party reviews, July 2026.
And the outreach machine itself is simply not in the box
Purpose-built sequencer with branchingVideo of any kindFace + voice cloningVoice notesVerified-email leads databaseUnified inbox + reply pipelineBooking pagesMobile app + AI reply alerts

Per independent reviews and their public site, pricing and help docs, July 2026. Voice notes and AI post comments: not advertised. SSI-based limits: not advertised, throttling is DIY.

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PhantomBuster alternative · 02 of 02
With Weezly

The machine you were trying to assemble.

Six parts, one subscription, all illustrated below with live coded scenes and real app screenshots. Everything the Phantom chain was reaching for, already wired, with no meter on any of it.

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The steps · 1 of 6

Four chained Phantoms become one canvas.

The real builder below, exactly as it looks in the app. Branching on accepted and replied, safe caps applied, and step types no Phantom library carries.

app.weezly.com/campaigns/new The real builder, not a mock
The real Weezly Outreach sequence builder with branching steps
The chain is a menu nowEach step retires a contraption. Playing live:
Send Connection Requestwith safe daily caps applied
Connect Accepted
PhantomBusterwas: Auto Connect Phantom + cron + cookie
Send AI Videoyour clone, generated per lead
Generating for Tanveer
PhantomBusterwas: no Phantom does this
Send Voice Noterecorded, or your cloned voice
0:12
PhantomBusterwas: no Phantom does this
AI Comment on Postwritten about their actual post
PhantomBusterwas: no Phantom does this
Branch on Replied / Acceptedconditions inside one canvas
Replied?Yes → bookNo → wait 2d
PhantomBusterwas: a 2nd Phantom + a spreadsheet filter
Book a Meetingbooking page in the thread
09:3010:3013:00
Booked · on both calendars
PhantomBusterwas: a scheduler link pasted in text
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The delivery · 2 of 6

Zoom into the DM. Look at the payload.

The hero showed the two assembly lines. This is what each one actually puts in front of Tanveer, dissected part by part.

PhantomBusterThe Message Sender payload
Emma Berg · 9:33 AM
Hi {firstName}, saw your post on cross-border payments. Would love to connect and share how we help growth teams like {companyName}...
A video fileA voice noteA booking widgetAnything that is not text

Text with merge placeholders is what a message Phantom carries. No video capability of any kind was found in their docs or independent reviews, July 2026.

WeezlyThe Weezly payload
Emma Berg · 9:33 AM

Hi Tanveer, made this for you 👇

10:47 · .mp4 in the thread
0:122
3Pick a time with Emma
11:0014:0015:30
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The actual video file, uploadedgenerated per lead from your clone, plays in the DM
2
Your voice, as a voice noterecorded once or cloned, sent as a step
3
The meeting, right therea booking page in the thread, synced to both calendars
Same DM, different payload. The payload is what converts.
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The videos · 3 of 6

The only console you'll see renders you.

Face and voice cloned from one two-minute take, a unique video per lead in 25 languages, uploaded into the DM by the sequence. No Phantom, no chain, no hours billed.

The step no Phantom has

Record two minutes, once. The queue does the rest.

Weezly clones your face and voice from a single take. The sequence then renders a unique video per lead, in 25 languages, and uploads the file into the DM. It is the one job queue you will see in Weezly, and you never have to wire it.

REC · your one take2:04
Face cloned Voice cloned
Render queue · campaign: Q3 growth leaders AUTO
🇬🇧
Video for Tanveer AhmedHi Tanveer, saw Wise is scaling growth...
🇸🇪
Video for Anna EkströmHej Anna, Klarna växer snabbt just nu...
queued
🇪🇸
Video for María OrtegaHola María, Glovo está creciendo mucho...
queued
🇯🇵
Video for Yuki Tanakaこんにちは Yuki さん, Mercari の成長...
queued

Four leads, four languages, one recording, zero execution hours billed.

Clone quality, tested by us

We ran the same two-minute take through the clone engines we could test, Sendspark, Hippo Video and Sendr. None was close.

PhantomBuster has no clone engine to test. The clone videos playing on this page are unedited Weezly renders. Judge it yourself.

SendsparkHippo VideoSendrWeezly
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The leads · 4 of 6

They scrape and you verify. This is verified first.

PhantomBuster pulls data live per run and leaves verification to you and your credits. Weezly's 300M+ database verifies the email at search time, then pushes straight into a campaign. Below: the actual product.

app.weezly.com/leads The real app, not a mock
The real Weezly leads database: 3.3M sales managers with verified emails
RetiresPhantomBusterSearch Export PhantomPhantomBusterEmail Finder PhantomPhantomBustera separate verifierPhantomBusterthe CSV shuffleSearch, verify, push to campaign. One tab.
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The replies · 5 of 6

Robots log what ran. This logs what happened.

The real Unibox where every sender's replies land, the AI that reads them, and the mobile activity log showing what the cloud did while you were somewhere else.

app.weezly.com/inbox The real Unibox
The real Weezly Unibox: every sender's replies in one inbox
9:41
Activity
All senders · while you were in a meeting
UniboxPipelineActivityMeetings

A Phantom's console logs what ran. This logs what happened: videos sent, replies read, meetings booked.

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The sending layer · 6 of 6

Safe limits you don't have to configure.

No session cookies to paste, no proxies to rent, no delays to guess. SSI-based caps, rotation, cloud sending, and the honest channels row.

No cookies, no proxies, no cron

Sending that is managed, not configured.

On PhantomBuster, throttling is your job: session cookies, delays, proxies, limits. Weezly manages it: cloud senders, rotation, and daily caps read from each account's Social Selling Index. No LinkedIn automation is ban-proof, ours included, but there is a difference between limits you guess and limits the platform manages for you.

SSI-based safe limits
68SSI SCORE

Recommended: 34 invites/day

Read per account, applied in one click. Not a delay field you guess.

Multi-sender rotation

Sending as Emma B.

Cloud sending, every day. No execution-hours budget.

Channels, honestly
LinkedInLIVE
EmailComing soon
WhatsAppComing soon
InstagramComing soon

PhantomBuster scrapes many platforms. Managed outreach channels are a different job.

Replaces the sending stackHeyReachHeyReachExpandiExpandiLa Growth MachineLa Growth MachinelemlistlemlistDripifyDripifyWaalaxyWaalaxyWeezlyAll inside Weezly Outreach
The math

Their meter runs by the hour. Our $59 just runs.

PhantomBusterPhantomBustertheir published pricing, July 2026
Starter$6920h/mo of run time
Pro$15980h/mo of run time
Team$439300h/mo of run time

Metered by execution hours, Phantom slots and credits. Hit any cap and automations pause until next cycle: no rollover, no top-up. Check their pricing, it changes.

Still on your card, and your calendar, afterwards
An email verifier, reviewers budget $15-25/mo+$
A video tool, if you want video at all+$
A scheduler for the booking step+$
A CRM, because there is no pipeline+$
Your hours: reviewers estimate 5-10 hrs/week assembling and babysitting+$
WeezlyWeezly Nothing metered
$59/mo per sender

Flat. No execution hours, no slots, no credits to watch. Your senders send every day.

In the box
AI videos from your clone
Native video IN the DM
300M+ verified leads database
Unibox + pipeline + AI alerts
Booking pages
Mobile app, iOS + Android
What PhantomBuster users report

"The interface is hard to learn, and you need to be comfortable with cookies and proxies."

SalesRobot review, via Kondo, 2026

"Managing multiple client accounts and running large-scale campaigns with PhantomBuster can be challenging due to its execution time and phantom slot limitations."

Review roundup via Kondo, 2026

"20 execution hours sounds substantial until you start running multi-step sequences. A LinkedIn connection campaign with follow-up messages, a profile scraper, and a lead enrichment phantom can consume those hours within a week of moderate usage."

LaGrowthMachine pricing review, 2026

Public reviews, July 2026. PhantomBuster may fix any of these. The structural point stands either way: the meter and the assembly are the product, and the conversion machine is not in the box.

Side by side

The fair fight, ties included.

PhantomBuster wins real rows here: scraping breadth is genuinely best-in-class, and the developer flexibility is real. Look at what each subscription is actually for.

CapabilityWeezlyPhantomBusterPhantomBuster
Data scraping breadth (LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Maps, 15+ platforms)Fair fightNot our job. They win this rowBest-in-class: 100+ Phantoms, mature and broad
Developer flexibility: composable automations, public APIFair fightREST API and webhooks100+ composable Phantoms, Flows, public API
IntegrationsFair fightHubSpot, Slack, Zapier, webhooks, APIZapier, HubSpot, Clay, Google Sheets
Purpose-built LinkedIn sequencer with branchingOne visual canvas: accepted and replied branchesAssembled by hand: Phantoms chained into Flows
Pricing model$59/mo per sender, flat, nothing metered$69 to $439/mo metered by execution hours, slots and credits (their published pricing, July 2026)
What happens at the usage capThere is no cap: senders send every dayAutomations hard-stop until next cycle, no rollover, no top-up
Real video file uploaded natively in the LinkedIn DMGenerated per lead from your clone
AI face and voice cloning, 25 languagesOne 2-minute recording, ever
Voice notes as sequence stepsNot advertised
Verified-email leads database, browsable300M+ contacts, emails verified at search timeScrapes live, enrichment by credits, verification is your job
Unified inbox and deal pipeline on repliesUnibox plus kanban, AI reads every reply
Booking pages and scheduling includedA booking page under every video
Mobile app with AI reply alerts (iOS + Android)
Account safety approachManaged SSI-based caps per sender, cloud sendingSession cookies plus DIY throttling and proxies

PhantomBuster capabilities from their published site, pricing, help docs and independent reviews, July 2026. "Not advertised" means exactly that, we could not find it on their public pages. No automation makes LinkedIn ToS risk zero, Weezly included.

Weezly vs PhantomBuster, answered

Stop assembling robots. Start booking meetings.

PhantomBuster hands you 100+ Phantoms, a cron schedule and an execution-hours meter. Weezly hands you the finished machine: the database, the sequence, your AI clone in the DM, the pipeline and the booking page, one login, flat $59/mo per sender, nothing metered.

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