Comparison. Prices checked 15 September 2026.SDR Pilot vs Expandi.
SDR Pilot (sdrpilot.ai) is an AI SDR from $97 a month that runs on your own LinkedIn account and can be driven by your own AI agent. Expandi is a cloud LinkedIn tool at $99 a month, or $79 billed annually. Both give an account a dedicated country IP. Expandi runs your campaign, SDR Pilot decides and then talks.
- Both cloud based
- Dedicated residential IP
- The AI answers the replies
The short answer
Expandi and SDR Pilot agree on the most important piece of infrastructure: a LinkedIn account should act from a dedicated IP in its own country, in the cloud, not from a browser extension on your laptop. After that they diverge completely. Expandi gives you a campaign builder with smart sequences and conditions. SDR Pilot gives you an agent that chooses who to contact and then holds the conversation.
| SDR Pilot | Expandi | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $97 a month per sender | $99 a month, or $79 billed annually |
| Agency tier | $297 and $497 a month | Custom pricing, 10 or more seats |
| Free trial | None, access is allow-listed | 7 day free trial |
| Where it runs | Cloud based | Cloud based software |
| IP | One dedicated residential IP per sender, in the account's country | Dedicated country based IP address |
| Model | AI SDR, no sequences | Smart campaigns and sequences |
| Lead sourcing | Six built in LinkedIn sources | Search, groups, events, post engagement, CSV |
| Replies | The AI answers from your playbook | You answer in the inbox |
| White label | Marked coming, not built | Available on the agency tier |
What Expandi does well
Expandi has been doing this for years and the campaign engine shows it. Smart sequences with conditional branches, personalised images, event and group sourcing, a seven day free trial, and an agency tier with roles, permissions and white label that actually exists today rather than being marked as coming. If you are an agency that needs branded client access this quarter, Expandi has it and we do not.
Its dedicated country based IP is the same insight our safety model is built on, and it is one of the reasons Expandi has a better reputation for account safety than the extension based tools.
Where SDR Pilot is different
The campaign is the thing SDR Pilot removed. There is no sequence to build and no template to write. Onboarding reads your website and drafts a playbook: your company, your offer, the persona you sell to, your rules, your goal and your FAQs. From that one document the agent writes every message, scores every lead and decides whether a person is worth one of the day's 20 connection requests at all.
The second difference is the inbox. In Expandi, a reply is work waiting for you. In SDR Pilot, a reply has already been answered, in minutes, from your playbook, and the thread is handed to you when the lead is ready. When you answer a thread yourself, from the app or from LinkedIn on your phone, the agent stands down on it.
The third is where the people come from. SDR Pilot works six sources continuously without being pointed at a list: incoming connection requests, profile viewers, people who engage with your posts, posts in your niche, people search on your ICP, and your own connections. Every one is read and scored before anything is sent.
The safety numbers, side by side
SDR Pilot caps a sender at 20 connection requests a day with a hard ceiling of 25, 100 messages a day with a ceiling of 250, 250 profile reads and 30 searches. New senders warm up from 5 requests a day and reach 20 on day 16. One action happens at a time per account, inside hours you set, on your own calendar day. It holds an encrypted session cookie rather than your password. Expandi publishes a dedicated IP and a warm-up of its own; what it does not do is read a profile before deciding whether to send.
When to pick Expandi
- You want to try before you pay. Expandi has a seven day trial and SDR Pilot has none.
- You need white-label client access today.
- Your outreach depends on conditional sequences, personalised images or sourcing from events and groups.
- You want to run email alongside LinkedIn in one campaign.
When to pick SDR Pilot
- The replies are the bottleneck, not the sending.
- You would rather send 20 researched requests than 75 unresearched ones.
- You want the warm sources worked automatically: your profile viewers, your post engagers, your ignored incoming requests.
- You want one document to tune instead of a campaign to maintain.
FAQQuestions people ask
Is SDR Pilot an Expandi alternative?
Yes, for the same LinkedIn account and a similar price, $97 a month against Expandi's $99. It is not a feature for feature replacement: Expandi has campaign sequences, a free trial and working white label, and SDR Pilot has profile research, ICP scoring and AI replies instead.
Do both use a dedicated IP?
Yes. Expandi advertises a dedicated country based IP address, and SDR Pilot assigns each sender its own dedicated residential IP in the account's own country before the first login, never shared with another account.
Does Expandi answer replies with AI?
Expandi gives you an inbox to answer in. SDR Pilot answers from your playbook itself and hands the thread over when the lead is ready for you.
Which is safer for a LinkedIn account?
Nothing can promise safety. Both are cloud based with a dedicated country IP, which is the part that matters most. SDR Pilot's defaults are lower: 20 connection requests a day against the 50 to 100 typical of campaign tools, a 16 day warm-up, and one action at a time per account.
Can I move from Expandi to SDR Pilot?
Yes, but not in parallel on the same LinkedIn account. Stop the Expandi campaigns first, because two tools acting on one session at the same time is the automation pattern LinkedIn reacts to.
It Starts With a DM. The Agent Answers First. 
SDR Pilot is allow-listed, so there is no checkout and no free trial. Send a DM on LinkedIn, the agent answers, and your account is set up from there. Plans start at $97 a month for one LinkedIn sender.