Dux-Soup vs Emelia at a glance
- LinkedIn automationYesYes
- Cold email from your own mailboxesNoYes
- Email and LinkedIn in one sequenceNoYes
- Email finderYesYes
- Phone number finderNoYes
- Mailbox warm-up includedNoYes
- Native CRM integrationYesYes
- APIYesYes
Checked on October 20, 2026 on Dux-Soup’s own pages and on Emelia’s pricing page.
The Dux-Soup Chrome extension gave way to a desktop app
Dux-Soup was a Chrome extension for most of its history, sold as Pro, Turbo and Cloud. In September 2026 it moved to STACKED, a desktop installer for Mac and Windows: you sign in to your STACKED account with Google (the only option), open LinkedIn inside the app and build campaigns there. A dashboard also opens in the browser, at app.dux-soup.com.
The old listing is still live, though. “Dux-Soup for LinkedIn Automation” remains on the Chrome Web Store with 50,000 users and a 4.6 rating from 443 ratings, and it was updated on October 15, 2026, while Dux-Soup’s help centre calls the Pro, Turbo and Cloud extensions deprecated. Its setup guides now sit under an “alternative setup” heading.
For you, the switch changes what you install, not what you pay for the middle and top plans: STACKED local and STACKED cloud kept the prices of Turbo and Cloud. The cheap Pro plan, on the other hand, is gone; the Dux-Soup pricing page tracks the old and new grids.
Emelia takes the opposite route: its Chrome extension is there to connect your LinkedIn account, and the campaigns then run on Emelia’s servers, with your computer switched off, on every plan.
Dux-Soup reviews: Trustpilot, G2 and 443 Chrome Web Store ratings
Scores are high on every site that lists Dux-Soup. G2 and Capterra block automated visits: G2’s figures come from search results and the banner on Dux-Soup’s homepage, Capterra’s from search results.
What scores highest
- 93% of Trustpilot reviews give five stars
- Ease of use and customer service both at 4.1 on Capterra
- On the market since 2015
Where scores are lower
- Value for money, its lowest Capterra score (3.8)
- Only 16 reviews on Capterra and 89 on G2
- Reviews older than September 2026 describe the extension, not the STACKED app
What Dux-Soup automates on LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter
A Dux-Soup campaign is a drip sequence of up to 12 LinkedIn steps, with a delay before each one and an automatic stop when the person replies. Campaigns run side by side without a cap on their number, and the tool works the same way on LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter.
The steps a sequence can take
Profile visits, follows, connection requests, messages to first-degree connections, InMails (paid, or to open profiles), skill endorsements and post likes. Dux-Soup sorts campaigns into 4 kinds (Preconnect, Postconnect, Connect and Visit), depending on whether the person is already a connection.
Where prospects come from, and what happens to replies
Prospects are added from a LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter search, a list, a CSV file, pasted profile URLs, one profile at a time, or from your CRM. Replies from the 3 platforms land in one inbox, synced every 20 minutes, and a Funnel Flow board shows who was invited, accepted, followed up and answered.
Emails and AI, on your own account
An Address Finder records the email of first-degree connections when LinkedIn shows it, for free, and looks up second- and third-degree contacts with credits bought in the STACKED Store: 1 credit per email found, nothing when none is found. Dux-Soup does not publish the price of those credits. Message personalisation and reply sorting use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, with your own API key, billed per token by the AI vendor.
Local or cloud: one app, two ways to keep it running
STACKED local and STACKED cloud are not two products: it is the same desktop app, and the plan decides where the automation runs.
- STACKED local runs the campaigns on your own computer. Dux-Soup’s help centre is explicit: the machine must stay switched on, and must not go to sleep, while campaigns run.
- STACKED cloud runs them on Dux-Soup’s servers. You start a session in the app, which copies your LinkedIn session to the cloud; after that the computer can be off.
- Several LinkedIn accounts are added as profiles inside the app, each with its own session, and each takes a paid seat. Admins who only manage the team are free.
- The difference in price is $44 a month per seat, between $55 and $99.
1, 3 or 10 LinkedIn accounts: Dux-Soup seats next to Emelia’s plans
Each row is a number of LinkedIn accounts and nothing else, because Dux-Soup sends no email. Both Dux-Soup plans are shown: STACKED cloud is the one that, like Emelia, keeps running with your computer off. Dux-Soup has its own euro and dollar prices; you see the grid of your currency, and Emelia shows the same figure in either.
Billed monthly
1 LinkedIn account
3 LinkedIn accounts
10 LinkedIn accounts
Billed yearly (total for the year)
1 LinkedIn account
3 LinkedIn accounts
10 LinkedIn accounts
In the same price
Cold email
Runs with the computer off
Phone numbers
AI writing and replies
3 accounts cost slightly less on Start with 2 extra accounts than on Grow ($97), which adds 50 mailboxes. Emelia publishes no yearly price for an extra LinkedIn account ($29 a month), so yearly figures stop at 10 accounts. On Dux-Soup’s side, worth knowing: a 14-day trial, a full refund within 31 days of the first purchase, free admin seats, Recruiter campaigns and 6 native CRMs on both plans. Head to head with Dripify, which adds an email step: Dux-Soup vs Dripify.
What Dux-Soup looks like
Dux-Soup CRM sync, API, webhooks and MCP
Everything below comes with both plans: Dux-Soup does not keep integrations for the dearer one.
Native CRMs, both ways
HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Freshsales, SharpSpring and HighLevel. Contacts are updated from the campaigns, and a CRM record can start an invitation, a message or a campaign enrolment.
local and cloudSlack and Microsoft Teams
LinkedIn replies arrive in a team channel, and you can answer from there.
local and cloudAPI and webhooks
An open API covers campaigns, prospects, messages, queues and team reporting; webhooks fire on “visit”, “action” and “message” events and each one is delivered up to 3 times. Rate limits are not published. Zapier, Make and n8n are supported too.
local and cloudMCP server
Lets Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT drive campaigns through 29 tools, after signing in with the Google account used for STACKED.
local and cloudPriced per seat: one seat for each LinkedIn account
$55 or $99 a month per LinkedIn account, for STACKED local and STACKED cloud, or $495 and $890 a year per seat, before tax. Monthly seats keep the same price whatever their number; yearly seats get cheaper above 10, and agencies have post-paid flexible seats.
Every grid, including the pound one, the old plans and a calculator against Emelia: Dux-Soup pricing.
Dux-Soup questions: logging in, the free version, email
In the STACKED desktop app, with the Google account you signed up with: Dux-Soup offers no other way to log in. The same account opens the web dashboard at app.dux-soup.com. LinkedIn itself is opened and connected from inside the app.
Not on the pricing page: the free “Starter” edition belonged to the extension, and Dux-Soup says nothing of its fate with STACKED. What remains is a 14-day trial on STACKED local, without a card according to Dux-Soup. Emelia’s trial lasts 7 days, also without a card, and a work email gets 20 free credits at sign-up.
No. Dux-Soup says it only works with LinkedIn; for email it points to Woodpecker and Mailshake, to Zapier and Make, or to your CRM, each with its own subscription. Tools that run both channels in one sequence are on the Dux-Soup alternatives page.
Both have left the browser for a desktop app that drives LinkedIn from your computer, and neither sends emails. Dux-Soup adds a plan that runs the same app on its servers with the computer off, and bills in euros, dollars or pounds depending on where you are.
Supertec B.V., which publishes the app and the old extension. Dux-Soup was founded in 2015 by Will van der Sanden, claims 300,000+ users and says the product is available in 9 languages.
Emelia features: LinkedIn automation · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a Dux-Soup competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Dux-Soup comes from its own website or public review sites.
