Dux-Soup vs PhantomBuster

Dux-Soup automates LinkedIn prospecting, relationship building, and outreach campaigns. Its STACKED plans support unlimited concurrent drip campaigns with up to 12 actions, including connection requests, messages, InMails, follows, endorsements, profile visits, and likes. Lead management includes profile tagging and search, campaign statistics, progress monitoring, funnel-stage exports, an action queue, and action history.

Listed integrations include Slack, Salesforce, Pipedrive, HubSpot, SharpSpring, Freshsales, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft Teams, HighLevel, Zapier, and Make. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini are listed for generating personalized LinkedIn messages. STACKED includes an open API with webhooks for profile visits, actions, and messages, plus remote control for profile views, invitations, and messages. The company describes natural pauses, daily activity limits, speed throttling, auto-snooze, and a daily planner as safety controls. It is compatible with LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter, and focuses on LinkedIn rather than adding other outreach channels. There is no free plan; a 14-day trial is available. Pricing starts at $11.25 per user per month billed annually. Dux-Soup was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Breda, Netherlands.

PhantomBuster automates lead sourcing, enrichment, and outreach using live data from more than 15 platforms. It lists over 100 automations for extracting information, assembling targeted lead lists, and enriching records in real time. Leads can be filtered, cleaned, scored, and segmented using more than 1,000 data points. Outreach options include personalized LinkedIn messages, follow-ups, connection requests, likes, and event invitations. Its Chrome extension can reveal contact details on LinkedIn profiles, qualify leads, and save them to lists or HubSpot. Automations run in the cloud and continue after the browser closes. The API uses HTTPS endpoints that return JSON and can launch or stop automations and retrieve their status and output. Listed integrations include HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Clay, ChatGPT, Zapier, Make, and n8n. A free plan and 14-day trial are available. Paid plans start at $56 a month, billed annually. When monthly execution time runs out, automations pause until the allowance resets or the account is upgraded; automatic overage charges do not apply.