What you would give up by leaving La Growth Machine, and who else has it
Before switching, list what La Growth Machine does that you actually use. Some of it is rare; we only name another tool when its own site confirms the feature.
- X (Twitter) steps in a sequence. X is not part of Emelia's plans, and we found no X automation in the other tools below. If X matters, La Growth Machine is the one that does it (on Ultimate, according to its plan cards).
- LinkedIn voice messages. lemlist sends LinkedIn voice notes on its Multichannel plan, HeyReach on its Growth plan. They are not part of Emelia's plans.
- Calls in the sequence. La Growth Machine creates manual call tasks from Pro. lemlist Multichannel includes 400 call minutes per user per month, Reply.io adds calls and SMS to email and LinkedIn, and Apollo.io has a dialer. Emelia's plans include no dialer.
- A built-in company database. La Growth Machine's covers 27M+ companies. lemlist lists 650M+ contacts, Reply.io 1 billion, and Apollo.io is built around its database. Emelia has none built in.
- Buying signals. La Growth Machine's Signals import leads on a job change, a post interaction or a website visit; lemlist sells signals from €29 a month.
- What Emelia adds in return: mailboxes counted per plan for the whole team rather than per sender, warm-up included (La Growth Machine has none built in), and a CRM integration, unified inbox and API on every plan.
La Growth Machine alternatives, by need
7 tools, from the closest replacement to the most specialised. Prices are list prices, billed monthly.
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Emelia
Best for: LinkedIn + cold email on one planThe same LinkedIn and email sequences, billed by plan instead of by sender: 1 LinkedIn account and 3 mailboxes on Start, 3 and 50 on Grow, 10 and unlimited mailboxes on Scale. Mailboxes are counted per plan for the whole team. Warm-up, unified inbox, A/B testing and a CRM integration on every plan. No built-in database, and X and LinkedIn voice messages are not part of its plans.
from €37/monthSee Emelia pricing - 2
lemlist
Best for: Email first, with a contact databaseAnother French tool, stronger on email: lemwarm warm-up included, a 650M+-contact database paid in credits, LinkedIn with voice notes on Multichannel. Its email-only plan is billed by volume for the whole team; Multichannel, the plan with LinkedIn, is billed per user, each sending from up to 5 addresses of their own.
Multichannel €109/month per userLa Growth Machine vs lemlist - 3
Reply.io
Best for: Calls and SMS in the sequenceEmail, LinkedIn, calls and SMS in one sequence, with its own contact database. Its Multichannel plan includes 1 LinkedIn account per user; more cost extra. Billed in dollars.
Multichannel $99/month per user - 4
Apollo.io
Best for: Data firstA very large B2B contact database with sequences and a dialer on top. LinkedIn steps in its sequences are manual tasks. The right pick if finding leads is the bottleneck, not LinkedIn automation.
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HeyReach
Best for: Many LinkedIn accountsBuilt to run many LinkedIn accounts in one campaign, with LinkedIn voice notes on Growth, unlimited users and white label from Agency. From 10 accounts, the price drops to $59 per account. It does not send emails itself: a step pushes leads to Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison, each billed separately.
$79/month per LinkedIn account - 6
Instantly
Best for: Many mailboxes, email onlyUnlimited mailboxes on every plan and volume-based pricing, from 5,000 emails a month. No LinkedIn: you would keep or add another tool for it.
from $47/month - 7
Waalaxy
Best for: LinkedIn first, lower entry priceA French LinkedIn tool with ready-made campaigns, billed per LinkedIn account. Cold email comes only with its Business plan, at €139 per account per month.
from €39/month per LinkedIn accountWaalaxy guide
Same team, different bills: 3 reps on LinkedIn and email
3 sales reps, each with a LinkedIn account, sending from 15 mailboxes between them (5 each). Only the tools that do LinkedIn and email in one sequence can answer that need on their own.
Price for this team
Billed monthly
Billed yearly (per month)
What the team gets
Mailboxes
Warm-up
Enrichment credits
Calls
HeyReach and Instantly each cover one channel: this team would need a second tool, so we do not put a price on them here. Emelia and lemlist prices exclude VAT; La Growth Machine does not say whether its prices include it. Credits bought on top are left out.
La Growth Machine vs lemlist, the comparison people search most
The two French tools are often weighed against each other: La Growth Machine leans on LinkedIn and bills per identity, lemlist leans on email and bills LinkedIn per user. Our La Growth Machine vs lemlist comparison puts them side by side.
Choosing a La Growth Machine alternative: your questions
La Growth Machine lists PhantomBuster among its integrations, available from Pro: the two are meant to work together. To replace La Growth Machine's LinkedIn and email sequences, look at the tools above.
Apollo.io if your main need is finding contacts in a large database; La Growth Machine if your main need is running LinkedIn-led sequences. Both have a database and sequences, but Apollo.io leaves LinkedIn steps as manual tasks.
Emelia bills by plan: 3 LinkedIn accounts and 50 mailboxes on Grow, for the whole team. HeyReach bills per LinkedIn account but includes unlimited users, and lemlist's email-only plan covers the whole team. La Growth Machine bills each sender as an identity, and lemlist bills LinkedIn per user.
For one rep with a LinkedIn account and up to 3 mailboxes, Emelia Start at €37 a month, against €120 for La Growth Machine Pro if that rep needs more than one address.
Emelia is a La Growth Machine competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about La Growth Machine comes from its own website or public review sites.
