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Sales Navigator pricing, plans and alternatives

LinkedIn's compare plans page, read 19 October 2026, lists Sales Navigator Core at US$119.99 a month, Advanced at US$159.99 a month, and Advanced Plus by quote. Yearly billing shows US$1,079.88 and US$1,799.88. Sales Navigator is a search and alert tool on LinkedIn's own network: it finds people and lets you message them, with 50 InMails a month, but it does not run a sequence or answer replies for you. The alternatives below depend on which of those gaps you want to close.

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Core per license per month; US$1,079.88 on the yearly view. Advanced is US$159.99 a month or US$1,799.88 a year: US$119.99
InMail messages a month on the plans page; 50+ search filters; up to five Advanced licenses bought online: 50
members LinkedIn says Sales Navigator searches, its own claim: 1B+

What Sales Navigator is and what it costs

Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's own sales tool: search and lead alerts on its network, with plan tiers sold per license. Prices below are US dollars as LinkedIn lists them, and the page says taxes may be excluded.

Sales Navigator plans, read 19 October 2026, USD
Plan	Monthly view	Yearly view	Notes
Core	US$119.99	US$1,079.88	Per license; free trial for members with no paid subscription and no LinkedIn trial in the past 365 days; payment method required
Advanced	US$159.99	US$1,799.88	Per license; up to five licenses online; Team features
Advanced Plus	Quote	Quote	Through sales; CRM integration and lead or contact creation

Source: business.linkedin.com, read 19 October 2026, and the product page business.linkedin.com, read 19 October 2026. The page states prices are subject to change.

Who should stay with Sales Navigator

You want LinkedIn's own search with 50+ filters, lead and account alerts, and relationship maps across a team, none of which depend on a third party tool.
You want InMail, 50 a month on the plans page, and Message Assist and AI drafts, which LinkedIn lists in public beta in select languages.
You need the CRM connections LinkedIn lists: Salesforce, HubSpot Smart CRM, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Oracle Sales, with Microsoft Teams alerts.
You want zero third party access to your account. Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's own product, so it carries no automation risk that LinkedIn's rules on prohibited software describe.

Who should look elsewhere

From the vendor's own pages, not from user reviews, which this page does not collect. These describe scope, not faults.

You want the messaging to run for you. The pages checked describe search, alerts, InMail and AI drafts, and no scheduled sequences or autonomous agents.
You want emails and phone numbers for people outside LinkedIn's walls. Sales Navigator is built around the LinkedIn network, and a data tool lists contact details separately.
You want a price per outcome. A license is paid per seat per month whether or not it books a call.
You want your pipeline and replies in one place. Sales Navigator hands that to a CRM through an integration.

What LinkedIn says about automation tools

LinkedIn's own help page on prohibited software, read 19 October 2026, says LinkedIn does not permit third party software that automates activity, and that using it can lead to restricted accounts.

Any tool in the alternatives table that sends invitations or messages for you works in that area. Check your own risk tolerance before you choose one, and see how each vendor describes its safety model on its own page.

Alternatives by need

Prices are each vendor's list price on the monthly view, with what the price counts. They are not equivalent units, so compare what the price includes before comparing the number.

Alternatives to Sales Navigator, grouped by need
Need	Tool and price as stated	What the price counts
Messaging at scale, LinkedIn only	HeyReach and Waalaxy: see heyreach.io, read 19 October 2026	Per sender or per user per month, with each vendor's own limits
Contact details beyond LinkedIn	Apollo: Free $0, Basic $65, Professional $99 per seat per month; Lusha: Free $0, Starter $49.9 monthly	Per seat or per credits a month
Enrichment from many sources	Clay: Free $0, Launch $185, Growth $495 monthly	Actions and data credits, flat per tier
An agent that writes, answers and books	Sellinger: LinkedIn $198 per agent per month for 1 to 2 agents, $168 at 10 or more agents	Per agent per month
A cheaper LinkedIn search seat	Core at US$119.99 a month is LinkedIn's own entry plan	Per license per month

Sources: heyreach.io, read 19 October 2026; apollo.io, read 19 October 2026; lusha.com, read 19 October 2026; clay.com, read 19 October 2026. Sellinger from the pricing page, checked 19 October 2026.

Where Sellinger fits, and where it does not

Sellinger fits when

You want a LinkedIn agent that writes the invitation, every follow up and the replies, and books the meeting, not a search tool you work by hand.
You connect your own LinkedIn account through a hosted login, and Sellinger stores no LinkedIn password. Default limits are 20 invitations a day and 150 a week, with a quiet window at night. No tool can guarantee against a restriction.
You want approval control: A campaign can run in approval mode, where every message waits for a person to approve it, or send automatically. A person can take over any conversation, and the agent stops on its own when it cannot answer, for example a price it has no answer for.
You want to price per agent, not per license, with 30 days free on a messaging module and no card.

Sellinger is the wrong choice when

You want LinkedIn's own lead alerts, relationship maps and TeamLink across a sales team. Those are Sales Navigator features, and Sellinger does not replace them.
You cannot accept any third party working on your LinkedIn account. A native Sales Navigator seat is the lowest risk option under LinkedIn's rules.
You need Salesforce connected today. Sellinger lists Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho as coming soon, with a two way HubSpot sync today.
You only need to search and message a few dozen people a month by hand. A license at US$119.99 costs less than an agent at $198.

Switching notes

Export saved lead lists and your search URLs before ending a license, and note which accounts you saved as leads.
A Sales Navigator subscription and an agent can run side by side for a month, so you can compare what each produces for your list before you cancel one.
If you move to an agent, start a campaign in approval mode and read the first messages before they send.
Check the member ids in an exported list. Some ids come from Sales Navigator and are not usable by every connected account.

Common questions

How much is LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

LinkedIn lists Core at US$119.99 a month or US$1,079.88 a year and Advanced at US$159.99 a month or US$1,799.88 a year, read 19 October 2026. Advanced Plus is by quote.

Does Sales Navigator send messages automatically?

The pages checked describe search, alerts, InMail and AI drafts. They list no scheduled sequences or autonomous agents.

Is there a free Sales Navigator trial?

Yes for Core and Advanced, for members not on a paid subscription and with no LinkedIn trial in the past 365 days. A payment method is required.

Is a Sales Navigator alternative allowed by LinkedIn?

LinkedIn's help page says it does not permit third party software that automates activity. Tools that work in that area carry that risk, and none can guarantee against a restriction.

Sources and method

Sales Navigator cells read from LinkedIn's own pages on 19 October 2026: business.linkedin.com, read 19 October 2026; business.linkedin.com, read 19 October 2026. Other vendors as linked in the table. Sellinger from the facts page.