Dux-Soup: what it is, how it works and what it costs in 2026

Dux-Soup at a glance

Dux-Soup is one of the oldest LinkedIn automation tools still standing, and in 2026 it has turned into a desktop application called STACKED. It starts at 55 dollars a month per seat in its local version and 99 dollars in the cloud version, there is no permanent free plan, and the old Chrome extensions, Pro, Turbo and Cloud, have been discontinued.

These are the figures published on its website, its pricing page and its knowledge base today:

What is Dux-Soup and what is it for?

The company describes itself as the original LinkedIn automation provider and says it has been at this for more than ten years. That detail explains a lot of what you will find when you try it, both the good parts and the awkward ones.

Dux-Soup does the usual job in this category. You pick a list of profiles, define a sequence of visits, invites and messages, and the tool runs the steps on its own while you get on with your day. What changes over time is the way it does that, and this is where the product has taken a sharp turn this year.

Until recently Dux-Soup was a Chrome extension that worked on the tab you had open. In 2026 everything moved to a desktop app and the Pro, Turbo and Cloud extensions were retired. Anyone holding an old licence had to move to the new product, at the new prices. I cover that in the drawbacks section, because it is the part of the story that the people who paid that small subscription for years will like least.

Who it makes sense for. Consultants and salespeople who live on LinkedIn and want the repetitive side of prospecting to stop eating their mornings. Agencies managing several client accounts from one panel. And sales teams where several reps need to share campaigns without stepping on each other.

Who it does not. If your budget is 20 euros a month, this is not your tool and there is no way around that. If you refuse to install software on your computer, neither. And if what you are after is a cold email tool with its own database, you are looking at the wrong category.

How does Dux-Soup work, step by step?

It is worth understanding how it is put together, because two decisions shape everything else.

A desktop app, not an extension

STACKED installs like any other program, with one executable for Windows and another for macOS. There is a build for Apple silicon Macs and one for Intel Macs, plus an installer and a portable version for Windows. Once installed, you sign in with Google and with the LinkedIn account you want to automate, and that is it.

From there you get the two variants of the product. STACKED local runs automation on your own machine, which means the computer has to stay switched on and awake whenever activity is scheduled. STACKED cloud does the same thing from Dux-Soup's infrastructure, so campaigns keep running with your laptop shut. That difference is what separates 55 dollars from 99 dollars a month.

You can add more than one account from inside the app without installing anything extra. In the profile screen you choose Add profile and sign in with the next user. For an agency running five client accounts, that saves a fair amount of fiddling.

Drip campaigns with up to 12 actions

The core of the product is drip campaigns. You build a sequence by dragging steps around and the tool runs them in order, on the timings you choose. The available actions are visiting a profile, following, endorsing a skill, liking a post, sending an InMail, sending a connection request and sending a message. On top of that you can share campaigns across seats in the same team, which is exactly what someone coordinating three reps needs.

Messages are personalised with merge tags, meaning fields that fill themselves with each profile's name, job title or company. And there is an AI layer that rewrites the text individually, which is where the difference shows between a message that reads like a template and one that does not.

The limits are the most interesting part

This is what I liked most about the documentation, and it is not a small thing. Dux-Soup publishes its limits and default speeds instead of hiding them.

Out of the box, profile visit speed runs in random mode between 25 and 125 profiles per hour, scanning runs at roughly six pages per minute, and the program pauses for five minutes after every 20 visits. Connection requests are capped at 20 a day and they themselves advise dropping to 5 or 10 if you are new to automation. Direct messages come with a 50 a day default.

And there is a table that explains why these numbers matter so much. The profile visits the tool allows you are consumed by every action, not only by visiting. Sending an invite, sending a message, endorsing a skill, liking a post or following someone all spend from the same allowance. The daily limits they recommend are 50 visits on a free LinkedIn account, 100 on Premium, 250 with Sales Navigator and 400 with Recruiter. By default there is a setting called "Detect: leave it to us" that detects your account type and applies the matching limit.

If your campaign ever looks stuck, the first thing to check is queued activity and daily limits, because most likely the tool is waiting for allowance to continue. That behaviour is annoying and at the same time it is what keeps you out of trouble with LinkedIn.

The email finder is separate and runs on credits

Dux-Soup does not come with an email database. What it has is The Address Finder, a feature inside its store that looks for the email of profiles you are not connected to, meaning second and third degree contacts. It is paid for with lookup credits and the model is quite fair. One credit per email found and nothing when it comes up empty, with a seven day window in which you can revisit the same profile without paying again.

It can trigger on its own when a campaign visits a profile, and any email it finds is stored with the rest of the prospect data so you can export it as CSV later. If your process depends on email, this lets you move from social selling to email without switching tools.

Integrations and AI agents

The product connects both ways with HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zapier, Make, HighLevel, SharpSpring and Freshsales. In practice that means you can launch a LinkedIn campaign from your CRM and have replies and data flow back to the same place.

The part that feels most 2026 to me is that there is also integration with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic. In other words, the product is exposed over MCP so an AI assistant can launch and query campaigns. If you work with agents, that is a route worth taking.

How much does Dux-Soup cost in 2026?

Two versions and two billing cycles, with no other tiers than those. The prices in the table are published in dollars and euros in their knowledge base.

Annual billing takes 25% off the monthly price, and the price per seat drops further once you buy in volume. From 11 seats up, local works out at $450 per seat per year, and in the 51 seat band or above cloud falls to $445, which against the single seat price is a discount of half. That scaling is aimed at agencies, not freelancers.

Agencies also get a flexible seat plan, with a minimum commitment of 5 seats on cloud or 10 on local. There you prepay the minimum and any seats you activate beyond it are billed in arrears and prorated, which makes sense when your client roster changes every few months.

On refunds, the website is clear. Cancel within 31 days of purchase and you get the full amount of the prepaid portion back, including any seats paid upfront. What you will not get is a partial refund, and later charges for extra seats or usage are non-refundable.

And one thing worth knowing before you decide, because it is drawback number one for an independent professional. There is no permanent free plan. What exists is a free trial, with sign-up on their site, and from there the cheapest price is 55 dollars a month. If you came from the old extension paying a small fee for light usage, that tier is gone. Dux-Soup has decided to aim at people who automate seriously.

Dux-Soup, Waalaxy and the rest: which one I would pick

It is worth splitting this by type of use, because the three tools people compare do not cost the same and are not built for the same person.

Waalaxy is the one I recommend to people starting out. It is an extension that works on top of your LinkedIn, it has an entry plan at 19 euros a month and you can try Waalaxy free for 14 days without a card. For anyone wanting to validate whether automation works for them, the barrier to entry is far lower than Dux-Soup's 55 dollars, and the campaign flow is just as clear. The big difference is deployment. Waalaxy lives in the browser and Dux-Soup no longer does.

Dripify and HeyReach play in the pure cloud league, with campaigns that run with nothing open, and they compete head to head with STACKED cloud. I have a Dripify review and a HeyReach review if you want to see their prices before comparing.

And if your bottleneck is not outreach but building lists, the step before this is something else. That is where Evaboot comes in, exporting Sales Navigator searches into a clean CSV with verified emails. Dux-Soup makes the contact, not the list.

Where Dux-Soup wins. On limit control, on the variety of actions per campaign and on integrations. Of the ones I have tested, this is the tool that best explains in writing what it will do with your account and at what pace, and in a market where almost nobody publishes their numbers, that counts for a lot.

Where it loses. On entry price and on installation freedom. You need permission to install software on your machine, which in large companies is not always granted, and with the local version you need a computer that never sleeps.

What do Dux-Soup reviews say?

I will stick to what I could actually verify, which in this category is little and worth saying out loud.

On Trustpilot, Dux-Soup has 4.6 out of 5, but from 44 reviews. That is a small base for a product claiming more than 300,000 customers, so the score works as a signal rather than a verdict. What does seem relevant to me is that the company replies to several reviews, including the critical ones, and that two kinds of comment keep coming up.

On the positive side there are long-term users who highlight the time it saves them and the support they get. A recent review from October 2026 simply says it is a great tool for acquisition. On the negative side there is one specific complaint that is genuinely useful. A user says the product works well on its own, but that after connecting it to Pipedrive they had months of data integrity problems. If your CRM is Pipedrive, that review deserves a full read before you sign anything.

The 300,000 customer figure is theirs, not mine. The same goes for the rating they display on their site. I could not cross-check G2 or Capterra because they block access from this server, so if public reputation is going to decide your purchase, open them yourself and read the last few months.

The drawbacks I see

Five, in order of importance.

The first is the forced migration. The Pro, Turbo and Cloud extensions have been retired and the product now lives in a desktop app. Anyone with flows built in the browser had to reinstall, relearn and pay the new rate. It is a defensible company decision and a raw deal for the customer who stayed with them for years.

The second is the entry price. 55 dollars a month per seat, with no permanent free plan, is double what it costs to start with Waalaxy or with most extensions. For a freelancer sending 150 invites a month, the maths does not work.

The third is the reliance on your computer if you choose the local version. If you travel constantly or your machine suspends every night, automation gets stuck halfway. And stepping up to cloud costs 44 dollars more per seat per month, which is not pocket change.

The fourth is the email finder. It runs on separate credits, it only works for second and third degree contacts and it is not a database. If you need emails at volume, you will end up paying for two tools.

The fifth is structural and not their fault. Everything depends on the limits LinkedIn tolerates at any given time. The more aggressive the usage, the more it shows. The default limits are conservative and well thought out, but the structural risk is still there and you should accept it before automating the account you sell with.

Verdict: is Dux-Soup worth it in 2026?

Yes, for one specific profile. If you automate LinkedIn heavily, you manage several accounts or you work with a team, and you want a tool that tells you in writing which limits it applies and at what speed, STACKED is well built and a decade of mileage shows. You can start with the free Dux-Soup trial and decide on your own numbers.

No, if you are just starting out or your volume is low. In that case 55 dollars a month per seat is not justifiable, and there are much cheaper routes to the same place. I would start with Waalaxy, which starts at 19 euros and lets you try it free for 14 days, and only consider the jump to Dux-Soup when volume or account count demands it. If your main channel is email anyway, the next piece is a good sending engine, and there Instantly has a free 14 day trial.

What I would not do is pay for it by inertia assuming a higher price means better results. In this category the difference between tools shows up in the details, and the outcome is decided by your list and your message. If you want to attack that part first, I have two reads that pair well with this one: what LinkedIn automation is and how to prospect on LinkedIn without getting banned.

Frequently asked questions about Dux-Soup

Is Dux-Soup safe for my LinkedIn account?

The tool includes daily limits by account type, random speeds, automatic pauses every 20 visits, a brake that stops activity once the cap is reached and a schedule planner. Its documentation says accounts are safe as long as you respect those settings, and they note that the specific safety measures stay confidential. That is a vendor promise, not a guarantee I can check for you. My usual advice is to start at low volume and watch how your account responds before scaling up.

Does Dux-Soup have a free plan or free trial?

There is no permanent free plan. There is a free trial you request from their website, and from there the cheapest price is 55 dollars a month per seat on the local version. If you came from the old extension on a small fee, that tier no longer exists. There is also a refund policy covering the full amount if you cancel within the first 31 days.

Does Dux-Soup work without Sales Navigator?

It works, because it automates plain LinkedIn. What changes are your limits. On a free LinkedIn account their recommendation is to stay under 50 profile visits a day, whereas with Sales Navigator the ceiling rises to 250. So without Sales Navigator the tool still runs, but it delivers less and takes longer to reach the same number of people.

Can Dux-Soup send cold email?

That is not its job. Dux-Soup moves LinkedIn. What it does have is an email finder paid for with credits that finds addresses for second and third degree contacts and stores them with the rest of the prospect data, which you can export as CSV and use in a sending tool. For the email side you need a separate engine.

Can I use Dux-Soup on my phone?

No. STACKED installs on Windows or macOS and opens from the desktop. There is no mobile app or web version for launching campaigns from your phone. The cloud version does free you from keeping the computer switched on, but you still need the machine to log in and manage campaigns.

If you want to tie this step to the rest of the process before deciding anything, I have two reads that fit here: what cold email is, to understand the channel your contacts will feed, and the cold email versus LinkedIn comparison, to decide where you start.