Comparison
Lead Scorer vs LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Sales Navigator is the best targeting layer in B2B and it contacts nobody. Lead Scorer finds the accounts, scores them and writes the messages. They sit at different points of the same motion — but only one of them is a monthly line you can drop.
Verdict
Keep Sales Navigator if your targeting problem lives inside LinkedIn's graph and the filters are what you are paying for. Pick Lead Scorer if finding people was never the hard part, and the hard part is researching, writing and actually sending.
What LinkedIn Sales Navigator really costs one person
500 new prospects a month, one person, a 3-touch email sequence (1,500 emails).
Advertised
$119.99/month (Core), or $1,079.88/year ≈ $90/month
Real month, one person
$90–$120/month on top of whatever you use to actually reach people
Lead Scorer, same month
€49/month for the agent, the inbox and 500 credits — and €0 for the CRM if you only want somewhere to keep the leads. Adding Sales Navigator to Lead Scorer costs more than Lead Scorer does.
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Yearly billing takes 20% off Solo, Pro and Scale: €468, €948 and €1,908 a year (€39, €79 and €159 a month). Optional — monthly still cancels anytime.
What the advertised price leaves out
- Sales Navigator is a search and signals product with no sequencer, so its cost is additive to every other stack in this survey. We excluded it from our base totals for exactly that reason.
- InMail is the only sending mechanism and the credits are capped per plan.
- The ~100 invitations/week soft cap applies to your LinkedIn account whatever you pay. One account cannot physically work 500 new prospects a month.
- There is no free tier — a 1-month trial, then the full price.
How we priced this
- Scenario
- 500 new prospects a month, one person, a 3-touch email sequence (1,500 emails).
- Infrastructure counted in every total
- 3 mailboxes at 30 emails/day (Google Workspace Business Starter, ≈$21/month) and 2 secondary domains (≈$1.74/month) are counted in every stack, because every vendor leaves them out.
- Billing
- Annual commitment wherever one exists — the assumption most favourable to the vendor.
- LinkedIn cap
- LinkedIn's ~100 invitations/week soft cap means a single account cannot physically work 500 new prospects a month. The totals model 500 by email and ~400 on LinkedIn.
- Exchange rate
- €1 = $1.155 (US Federal Reserve H.10, 2026-08-06). Conversions are marked ≈.
- Limits
- No purchase was made. Every official figure comes from a vendor page read on 2026-08-09; third-party figures are labelled as such and never used as prices.
Side by side
| Feature | Lead Scorer | LinkedIn Sales Navigator |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Full CRM, forever | None — 1-month trial |
| Entry price | €0 · €49/mo with the agent | $119.99/mo · ≈$90 on annual |
| Sends messages | Email and LinkedIn, after your approval | InMail only, capped credits |
| Database search | None — official registry + your network | LinkedIn's full member graph |
| Targeting filters | NAF/APE code, headcount, département | Industry, headcount, job changes, intent |
| Writes the messages | Agent drafts, playbook + sanitization | No |
| Scores against your product | Company and decision-maker, 0–10 | No |
| Geographic coverage | France-first registry, worldwide via LinkedIn capture | Worldwide |
| Agent access | MCP server, 104 tools, OAuth 2.1 | No public API for Sales Navigator |
Where LinkedIn Sales Navigator beats Lead Scorer
Written by us, about our own product.
- Nothing else gives you LinkedIn's full member database. The filters — headcount, job changes, hiring, intent — are the best targeting layer in B2B and we do not have an equivalent.
- It is first-party LinkedIn data: no scraping, no staleness, no account risk.
- InMail reaches people you are not connected to. We cannot do that at any price.
- Saved searches and lead alerts surface job changes and company news that our registry-first discovery will never see.
Where Lead Scorer wins
Same standard of evidence, opposite direction.
- The CRM is free forever; Sales Navigator has no free tier at all.
- The agent writes the sequences and checks them against a versioned outreach playbook. Sales Navigator hands you a list and a search bar.
- Company records come from the official French State registry — verified SIREN, named dirigeant — which LinkedIn profiles do not give you.
- Sending happens in the product, with your approval and a daily cap, instead of capped InMail credits.
- MCP server, 104 tools: your agent can run search, scoring, writing and queueing end to end.
Which one is for you
Pick LinkedIn Sales Navigator if…
Anyone whose targeting problem is finding the right people inside LinkedIn's graph, especially outside France where a state registry does not help.
Pick Lead Scorer if…
Anyone whose problem is that finding them was never the hard part — the research, the copy and the follow-through are.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use Lead Scorer with Sales Navigator?
Yes, and it is a common setup. Export a Sales Navigator search to CSV, import it, and let the agent enrich, score and write. You stop paying for InMail credits to reach people who were never a fit.
Is Lead Scorer a Sales Navigator replacement?
Not if you are buying the database and the filters — nothing replaces those. It is a replacement for the hours after the search: researching each account, deciding who is worth a message, and writing it. If the search is the cheap part of your week, drop the €90–$120 and keep the agent.
Why isn't Sales Navigator in your stack totals?
Because it sends nothing, so it is additive to every stack rather than an alternative to any of them. Our 17-tool survey excluded it from the base totals and noted it as +$90 to +$120/month if your targeting needs it.
How many prospects can one LinkedIn account actually reach?
About 400 a month. The soft cap is roughly 100 invitations a week, and it applies to your account regardless of what you pay LinkedIn or any automation vendor. That single constraint is why the 500-prospect scenario in our pricing survey models 500 by email and ~400 on LinkedIn.
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