# Unipile > Canonical: https://www.yalc.ai/tools/unipile/ One messaging API for LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, and email. ## Categories - prospecting - content - intelligence **Website:** https://www.unipile.com/?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=Yalc ## Glance - Pricing: from $55/mo - Label: Trial - Value: 7 days - Channels: 7+ ## Pricing **Starting Usd:** 55 **Summary:** from $55/mo (10 accounts) ### Narrative Unipile prices per linked account. The first plan starts at €49 / $55 per month and includes up to 10 connected accounts. Beyond that, pricing is degressive: about $5.50 per account from 11 to 50 accounts, dropping further at higher volume. The example on their pricing page is concrete: 3 emails plus 2 LinkedIn plus 6 WhatsApp equals 11 accounts at €5 each, or €55 a month. What's included in every plan: full API access, unlimited usage (only the upstream provider limits apply), and a 7 day free trial with no credit card. That's a meaningful cost advantage versus per action pricing on PhantomBuster or per seat caps on HeyReach. ### Tiers - **Pay As You Go (10 accounts)** - Price: $55/mo - Note: Up to 10 linked accounts. Right for solo operators and small teams. - **Volume (11 to 50 accounts)** - Price: ~$5.50 / acct - Note: Per account from 11 to 50. Right for a 2 to 5 person team running parallel sequences across multiple LinkedIn or email accounts. - **Scale (50+ accounts)** - Price: Degressive - Note: Pricing drops further at 51 to 200, 201 to 1k, and 1k to 5k account brackets. Above 5k accounts is custom. **Yalc Fit Score:** 9 **Yalc Verdict:** Best in class for programmatic LinkedIn and multichannel messaging from Claude Code. One credential per workspace, full API access on the starter plan, webhooks instead of polling. ## Plain Description Unipile is a unified messaging API. One SDK, one credential per workspace, and you can send and receive on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, plus email through Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP, plus calendar through Google and Microsoft. Instead of wiring six different messaging APIs and writing six different webhook handlers, you authenticate once and call the same endpoints across channels. For Yalc that matters because the operating system is channel agnostic by design. The same prompt ("draft and send a follow up to everyone who didn't reply within 4 days") should run regardless of where the conversation lives. Unipile is the layer that makes that possible without writing per channel adapters. ## Yalc Framework **Workflow Step:** send **Workflow Narrative:** Unipile sits at the **send** node in Yalc's GTM topology. But unlike most send layer tools, it doubles as a **listen** node because the same API surface returns inbox state, reactions, and reply threads. That dual role is what makes it foundational rather than swappable. **Workflow Position:** Unipile is the messaging fabric for outbound. It receives drafts from upstream (your sequencer, your one off generator, your reply assistant) and pushes them to whichever channel the recipient prefers. Most commonly LinkedIn for cold outreach, WhatsApp for warm touchpoints, email for documents and meeting notes. ### Prompt Patterns - Yalc, send a LinkedIn invite to with this note: "". → Yalc resolves the profile via Unipile, validates the note is under 300 chars, sends the invite, logs the send to Notion. - Yalc, list every LinkedIn post on in the last 30 days with reactions > 50, then pull the top 100 reactors per post and tag them in the Unified Leads DB. → Yalc chains list-user-posts, list-post-reactions, enrichment, and Notion writeback in one prompt. - Yalc, for every prospect in the "Q2 outbound" campaign who hasn't replied in 4 days, draft a follow up DM in the client's voice and queue it via Unipile. Do not send unless I confirm. → Yalc respects the human in the loop gate, drafts via Claude, holds the queue until approval. ### Chaining **Upstream:** Crustdata or FullEnrich (lead source) → Claude (message draft) → Unipile (send) **Downstream:** Unipile (inbox listener) → Claude (intent classifier) → Notion or HubSpot (CRM writeback) ### Anti Patterns - Don't use Unipile for cold email when your prospect's email is already in Instantly. Unipile email is great for one off transactional sends. It is not a deliverability optimized cold email engine. - Don't poll the inbox on a tight loop. Unipile rate limits aggressively and a 30 second poll burns connections. Use webhooks for inbox events. - Don't connect 5 LinkedIn accounts to one Unipile workspace to bypass LinkedIn limits. LinkedIn correlates accounts by behavioral fingerprint and you'll get all five flagged together. One human, one account, one workspace. **Skill Narrative:** Yalc ships a first party Unipile skill that wraps the CLI and exposes high level verbs (send-invite, list-posts, list-reactors, send-dm). The skill handles credential rotation, per account rate limiting, and Notion writeback automatically. ### Yalc Skill **Url:** https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system ## Pros - One API for LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, and email. No per channel adapter code. - Predictable pricing per linked account. Not per action, not per message. - One credential per workspace. No OAuth dance or token refresh logic. - Webhook support for inbox events. No polling. - Active vendor. Ships features monthly. Responsive support. - 7 day free trial, no credit card. Easy to validate before committing. ## Cons - Documentation lags the API surface. Some endpoints are undocumented. - LinkedIn behavior is still subject to LinkedIn's TOS. No tool eliminates account risk. - No built in deliverability optimization for cold email. Pair with Instantly for that. - Pricing is per linked account. If you connect a lot of low usage email accounts, the bill scales linearly. ## Who For - GTM engineers building multichannel sequences from code. - Agencies running outbound for clients who need clean per account isolation. - Solo operators who want a single billing line instead of three channel tools. ## Alternatives - **PhantomBuster** - Rule: Switch when you need a no code visual workflow builder and don't mind per action pricing. - Url: # - **HeyReach** - Rule: Switch when you want a batteries included LinkedIn campaign UI without writing prompts. - Url: # - **La Growth Machine** - Rule: Switch when your team is non technical and needs templated multichannel sequences out of the box. - Url: # ## In Stacks - **AI native outbound stack** - Slug: ai-native-outbound-stack - Role: Send and listen layer for LinkedIn touchpoints - **Intent driven prospecting stack** - Slug: intent-driven-prospecting - Role: Multichannel send for warm prospects identified by signal ## Faq - Q: How much does Unipile cost? - A: Unipile starts at $55 per month, which covers up to 10 connected accounts across LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, and email. Beyond 10 accounts pricing is degressive, roughly $5.50 per account from 11 to 50 and dropping further at higher volume. Every plan includes full API access and unlimited usage, with only upstream provider limits applying, and there is a 7 day free trial that needs no credit card. For a solo operator or small team the effective cost is the $55 starter tier. - Q: Does Unipile work with LinkedIn Sales Navigator? - A: Unipile authenticates on behalf of the underlying LinkedIn account, so any view that account has access to is available via the API. If your LinkedIn login has Sales Navigator, Unipile can act on Sales Navigator queries. If not, it can't. - Q: Will Unipile get my LinkedIn account banned? - A: Not by itself. Account risk on LinkedIn comes from behavioral patterns (volume, timing, actions per day) regardless of which tool you use. Unipile respects safe send rates by default. The risk is when you push the volume past what a human could plausibly do. - Q: How does Unipile compare to PhantomBuster for LinkedIn scraping? - A: PhantomBuster runs per action "phantoms" and you pay per scrape. Unipile is API first with flat per account pricing and unlimited usage on every plan. For systematic recurring workflows, Unipile is meaningfully cheaper and faster. For one off scrapes, PhantomBuster's UI is easier. - Q: Can I use Unipile for WhatsApp Business outreach? - A: Yes, but check WhatsApp Business policies. WhatsApp restricts unsolicited business messaging more strictly than LinkedIn. Unipile is the right plumbing. The policy compliance is on you. - Q: How do webhooks work with Unipile? - A: You register a webhook endpoint per workspace. Unipile POSTs new messages, reactions, and connection events as they happen. Yalc's Unipile skill includes a webhook receiver that writes events to Notion or your CRM with no polling. - Q: What does the per account pricing actually mean? - A: Each Unipile plan counts one connected account as one billable unit. So 3 email accounts plus 2 LinkedIn accounts plus 6 WhatsApp accounts equals 11 accounts. The first 10 are bundled into the starter plan at $55 a month. Anything above is roughly $5.50 per account, dropping at higher volume. **Reviewer:** Othmane Khadri