Valley vs HeyLeads

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Updated October 2026 · Based on Valley's public website and help center

The short answer

Valley is an AI outbound tool that finds prospects from buying signals, researches each one, and drafts LinkedIn and email messages in your voice. Valley starts at $199 per seat (one LinkedIn account) / month; HeyLeads is $79 per LinkedIn sender.

The difference is everything around the send. HeyLeads builds a campaign from one sentence, sends voice notes in your cloned voice with each lead's name spoken, branches on what a reply actually means (eight intents), rewrites your replies with AI, and pulls both reactors and commenters off any LinkedIn post with its Chrome extension.

Valley is ahead today on email sequences included on Plus, built-in email waterfall enrichment (15+ providers), buying-signal prospecting: hiring, funding, job changes, profile viewers and InMail sending. If those matter most, it is a fine choice. If LinkedIn is your channel and you want AI doing the work around the send, HeyLeads does more.

Side by side

Feature by feature

	Valley	HeyLeads
Price
Price	✓$199 per seat/month, or $149 billed quarterly; finding prospects and emails uses credits.	✓$79 per LinkedIn sender / month ($72 quarterly, $64 yearly). $999 for 25 senders, $2,999 unlimited
Finding leads
Leads from a LinkedIn post	✓Post engagers, competitor post engagers and profile viewers offered as buying signals.	✓Reactors and commenters, right on the post, filtered by reaction, showing who's already in your lists
Sales Navigator and LinkedIn search	Not advertised as an import source.	✓Sales Navigator searches and lists, LinkedIn search, event attendees
Imports and integrations	✓Your own lists, native Clay table sync, HubSpot, API; hiring, funding and job-change signals.	✓CSV up to 50,000 rows, Clay, RB2B, HubSpot, Zapier, Make, n8n, API
Email enrichment	✓Email waterfall enrichment across 15+ providers on Plus and up; uses credits.	—Not built in (most teams connect Clay)
AI
Build a campaign	✓AI researches each prospect and drafts messages in your voice; you review before sending.	✓Describe it in one sentence; AI drafts every step, wait, branch and A/B variant AI
Voice notes	Not advertised.	✓Clone your own voice; every lead gets a separate note with their name and company spoken AI
Branch on replies	—Sequence stops when a prospect replies; no branching on reply meaning advertised.	✓Branch on what the reply means: interested, meeting booked, question, referral, not now, opt-out AI
Reading and writing replies	Not advertised; sequence stops on reply so you take over.	✓Replies sorted into eight intents; AI rewrite in five styles AI
Sending and safety
Where it runs	✓Cloud; sends natively on LinkedIn from the cloud.	✓Cloud. Runs 24/7 with your computer off
Multiple LinkedIn senders	One LinkedIn account per seat; sender rotation not advertised.	✓Unlimited senders, least-loaded rotation, each lead sticks to one sender
Account limits	✓Default pacing within safe daily zones (about 20-25 invites/day); warm-up and working hours not detailed.	✓Daily and weekly caps on six actions, warm-up, working hours per time zone, random gaps, escalating cool-off
IP per account	✓Dedicated IP per account (per Valley's own blog).	✓A dedicated, sticky IP per account; never shared
A/B testing	Not advertised.	✓Connection notes, messages and voice scripts
InMail	✓Sends InMails from the cloud, per Valley's own blog.	—Coming soon
Email sequences	✓Email steps in the same sequence; 1,000 emails/mo on Plus, paid add-on on Starter.	—LinkedIn only; syncs with Smartlead, Instantly and EmailBison
Inbox and agencies
Unified inbox	✓Unified inbox for replies across connected channels, with prospect research and history.	✓All accounts in one inbox, plus snoozes, shared drafts, snippets and ⌘K shortcuts
Agency workspaces	✓Separate workspace, ICP and voice per client; one seat per client.	✓Client workspaces, Master View, free client viewer seats
White-label	Not advertised.	—Not yet
Developers and AI agents
API and MCP	✓REST API with OpenAPI schema, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.	✓REST API, MCP server, CLI, Node and Python SDKs
Webhooks	✓Webhooks with 19 event types (replies, accepted connections, interest changes, more).	✓Signed, with retries and a delivery log

Valley details come from www.joinvalley.co and its help pages as of October 2026. Features change; tell us if something here is out of date and we'll fix it.

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Five things Valley doesn't do.

Your cloned voice

Every lead hears their own name and company, in your voice. Nobody records 200 notes.

Branches that read replies

"Talk to Sam, she owns this" becomes a referral. "Try me in March" waits until March.

Extension

Commenters, not just likers

The people who comment on a competitor's post are the warmest list in your market. One click, and they're in a list.

Rewrite any reply

Five styles in the inbox. Your reply goes out sounding like you on a good day.

Keyboard

⌘K everything

Clear an inbox of 50 replies without touching the mouse: E done, H snooze, Z undo.

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Bring everything over in an afternoon.

Step 1Bring your leadsProspects are reachable through Valley's REST API (prospects, campaigns, inbox) or synced via Clay/HubSpot; a CSV export is not advertised. Upload it to HeyLeads: up to 50,000 rows, deduplicated by LinkedIn identity.

Step 2Connect your LinkedIn accountsFrom the HeyLeads Chrome extension. Each account gets its own dedicated IP and a warm-up ramp.

Step 3Describe your first campaignAI builds it from a sentence. Point your Zapier, Make or n8n flows at HeyLeads webhooks and you're live.

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Valley vs HeyLeads: FAQ

Is HeyLeads a good Valley alternative?

Yes, if LinkedIn is your main channel. HeyLeads finds leads in LinkedIn post engagement and Sales Navigator, sends from unlimited LinkedIn accounts on a cloud platform, and adds AI at every step: campaigns built from a sentence, voice notes in your cloned voice, AI branching on what replies mean, and AI reply rewriting.

How does Valley pricing compare to HeyLeads?

Starter $199/seat/mo ($149 billed quarterly), Plus $299/seat/mo ($249 quarterly), Growth $499/seat/mo, one LinkedIn account per seat; Scale custom for 5+ seats; 7-day trial needs a card. HeyLeads is $79 per LinkedIn sender per month ($72 quarterly, $64 yearly), $999 a month for 25 senders, or $2,999 a month for unlimited senders.

What does Valley have that HeyLeads doesn't?

Today, email sequences included on Plus, built-in email waterfall enrichment (15+ providers), buying-signal prospecting: hiring, funding, job changes, profile viewers and InMail sending. HeyLeads is focused on LinkedIn; for email, it syncs with Smartlead, Instantly and EmailBison, and most teams use Clay for enrichment.

Can I move my leads from Valley to HeyLeads?

Prospects are reachable through Valley's REST API (prospects, campaigns, inbox) or synced via Clay/HubSpot; a CSV export is not advertised. HeyLeads imports CSVs of up to 50,000 rows and deduplicates them by LinkedIn identity.

Which is safer for my LinkedIn accounts?

HeyLeads uses daily and weekly caps on six actions, a warm-up ramp for new accounts, working hours in each account's time zone, random gaps, an escalating cool-off when LinkedIn pushes back, and a dedicated IP per account that is never shared. No tool can promise LinkedIn never notices.

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