# Sales Navigator vs Zevari, or both: search and research, or a full outbound department URL: https://zevari.ai/vs/sales-navigator > LinkedIn Sales Navigator finds and tracks prospects with advanced search, lists, alerts and InMail. Zevari is your AI SDR team for LinkedIn and email, and it runs on a Sales Navigator seat. Train it on your ideal customer and your voice, then switch it to Autopilot and it runs on its own. Sales Navigator vs Zevari Looking for a Sales Navigator alternative, or a way to get more from it? Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's own sales tool: advanced search, lead lists, alerts, AI drafting help and 50 InMail credits a month, from $119.99 a month billed monthly ($1,079.88 a year on annual billing). Its pages describe no sequences or automated sending. Zevari is a full outbound department, running today, and it works on a Sales Navigator seat: it runs your saved searches, scores, writes and follows up. Train it on your business, then switch it to Autopilot. [Build my AI team](https://zevari.ai/auth/signup?redirect=/app) [Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex](https://zevari.ai/quickstart) ## What Sales Navigator is and what Zevari is What Sales Navigator is Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's sales product for individual sellers and teams. It adds more than 50 search filters across LinkedIn's members, saved searches with lead alerts, lead and account lists, relationship mapping, Account IQ and Lead IQ summaries, Message Assist for AI drafts, and 50 InMail credits a month on every plan. Advanced adds team features and Buyer Intent; Advanced Plus adds two-way CRM sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle. Outreach is written and sent by you. What Zevari is A full outbound department, running today. Your AI SDR (AI sales development representative) team for LinkedIn and email: six specialists, Prospecting, Signals, ICP Scoring, Voice Writer, Follow-up and Reply Qualifier, take a prospect from first signal to a qualified conversation. You train them on your ideal customer and your voice and approve their work while they learn; then you take the training wheels off, switch them to Autopilot, and they run your outbound on their own. Side by side ## Sales Navigator and Zevari, row by row We describe Sales Navigator only in terms we could source; anything we could not check is left out rather than guessed. | | Sales Navigator | Zevari | | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | LinkedIn's own search, research and messaging tool for sellers | A full outbound department: six AI specialists for LinkedIn and email | | Working together | A Sales Navigator seat can be the LinkedIn account Zevari runs on | Prospecting runs saved Sales Navigator searches; the weekly connection ceiling is 200, against 150 on Premium | | MCP access | No MCP server on its product or plans pages | Hosted LinkedIn MCP for Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and any MCP client, plus a REST API | | Finding prospects | More than 50 search filters, saved searches, lead alerts and lists | Prospecting and Signals find people; ICP Scoring rates each one with reasons | | Writing messages | Message Assist drafts messages for you to send | Voice Writer drafts each message in your voice for you to approve | | Sending | You send each message and InMail; 50 InMail credits a month | Specialists stage sends and follow-ups; they wait for your approval while you train the team, then Autopilot sends on its own | | Price | Core is $119.99 a month or $1,079.88 a year; Advanced is $159.99 a month; Advanced Plus on request | $87 a month or $497 a year with one LinkedIn account; each extra LinkedIn account $37 a month; extra users free | | Connecting your AI | No MCP server | A browser sign-in, or an MCP access token locked to one workspace and one LinkedIn sender, with no OAuth step | Which one fits ## When Sales Navigator is the better call, and when Zevari is ### Choose Sales Navigator if - You want to stay entirely inside LinkedIn's own product, researching and messaging by hand. - You need LinkedIn's deepest search filters, saved-search alerts and CRM sync on Advanced Plus. - You want InMail credits to reach people outside your network. ### Choose Zevari if - You want the prospects your saved searches turn up scored, written to and followed up for you. - You want LinkedIn and email in one sequence, trained on your ideal customer and your voice, then run on Autopilot. - You want replies sorted into qualified conversations instead of an inbox to work by hand. - You already pay for Sales Navigator: Zevari's weekly connection ceiling is 200 on it, against 150 on Premium and 100 on a free account, and it uses InMail. Training, then Autopilot ## You train the team on your business. Then it runs on its own. 1. Step 1 **Train it on your ideal customer** ICP Scoring learns who your ideal customer is from the leads you approve and reject. 2. Step 2 **Train it on your voice** Voice Writer builds a Voice DNA from your own writing and learns from every message you approve or edit. 3. Step 3 **Approve while it learns** Every connection request, message, comment and post waits for your approval while the team is in training. 4. Step 4 **Take the training wheels off** Once a specialist has earned it, switch it to Autopilot on the AI team page and it runs your outbound on its own. ### Built for teams and agencies Yes. Zevari users are free, so you can invite your whole team and your clients. A workspace holds many LinkedIn accounts, one per person: each person connects their own LinkedIn on their own free Zevari login, and your team can then run outbound across every LinkedIn account in the workspace, including another person's. Agencies keep one workspace per client, each with its own ideal customer, Voice DNA and approvals. You pay only for LinkedIn sender accounts: the plan includes one, and each extra LinkedIn account is $37 a month. Approval and limits ## What stays the same whichever way you run Zevari Run it from the Zevari app or from your AI over MCP: the same approvals and the same limits apply. If Zevari is the only tool running outbound on your LinkedIn account and you use it lightly yourself while Zevari works, we guarantee the account will not be restricted. The Safety Center paces and counts every action against these limits. [Read how the safety model works](https://zevari.ai/safety) - While you train the team, a human approves every send: messages, connection requests, comments and posts wait in a queue until you approve them. Once a specialist has earned it, such as Follow-up after ten approved sends in 30 days, switch it to Autopilot and it sends on its own; switch it back at any time. - A hosted connector. No browser extension to install and no cookie injected into a headless browser. - Connection requests are capped at 100 a week on Free* LinkedIn accounts, 150 on Premium and 200 on Sales Navigator. - * Free accounts: LinkedIn caps connection requests that carry a note at 3 a month. The weekly ceiling covers requests sent without a note, and Premium and Sales Navigator accounts get a far larger allowance for requests with a note. Most outreach uses a note, so Premium or Sales Navigator is the practical choice for real outbound - the full explanation is on /safety. - All actions are capped at 400 a day on Free, 1,000 on Premium and 2,000 on Sales Navigator, with burst limits and working hours on top. - Email through Instantly or Smartlead: no Zevari limit, those tools apply their own sending limits. Email from your own domain (Resend or Brevo): up to 300 a day and 1,500 a week per mailbox, to keep deliverability healthy. - When a limit is reached the action waits for the window to reset. It is not skipped, retried in a burst, or routed around. Run it from your AI ## Works with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and any MCP client The Zevari LinkedIn MCP gives your AI the same six specialists, the same plan and the same approval queue. In Claude Code, run the command below, then /mcp to sign in. In Codex, run codex mcp add zevari --url https://mcp.zevari.ai/mcp, then codex mcp login zevari. Every client uses the same server and the same browser sign-in, and technical teams can also call the REST API. ``` claude mcp add --transport http zevari https://mcp.zevari.ai/mcp ``` [See every supported client](https://zevari.ai/linkedin-mcp#clients) Pricing ## One plan: $87 a month, or $497 a year All six specialists and one LinkedIn account are included. The yearly rate saves 52%. Another LinkedIn account is $37 a month. First-time accounts get a 7-day free trial, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee after the first charge. [See pricing](https://zevari.ai/pricing) FAQ ## Sales Navigator vs Zevari: common questions ### Do I need Sales Navigator to use Zevari? No. A free or Premium LinkedIn account works. On a Sales Navigator account, Zevari's weekly connection ceiling is 200, against 150 on Premium and 100 on a free account, InMail is unlocked, and Prospecting can run your saved Sales Navigator searches to land new people on your lists. ### Does Sales Navigator automate outreach? Its product and plans pages describe search, lists, alerts, AI drafting help and InMail, but no sequences, scheduled follow-ups or automated sending. Zevari adds that layer: specialists find, score, write and follow up, and every send waits for your approval until you switch a trained specialist to Autopilot. ### Is Zevari a Sales Navigator alternative? For outbound, Zevari does the work Sales Navigator leaves to you: scoring prospects against your ideal customer, writing in your voice, following up across LinkedIn and email, and sorting replies. For search depth, saved-search alerts and CRM sync, Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's own product, and many teams use both. Zevari is independent and is not affiliated with LinkedIn. ### How much does Sales Navigator cost compared with Zevari? Sales Navigator Core is $119.99 a month or $1,079.88 a year, and Advanced is $159.99 a month or $1,799.88 a year; Advanced Plus is priced on request. Every plan includes 50 InMail credits a month. Zevari is one plan at $87 a month, or $497 a year (save 52%), with all six specialists and one LinkedIn sender account included. Each extra LinkedIn sender account is $37 a month, and extra Zevari users are free. ### Do messages go out without my approval? Yes, once you switch a specialist to Autopilot, and not before. First you train your team: you teach ICP Scoring who your ideal customer is by reviewing the leads it scores, and Voice Writer drafts in your voice from a Voice DNA learned from your own writing, sharpened by every message you approve or edit. While you train them, every connection request, message, comment and post waits for your approval. When a specialist has earned it, such as Follow-up after ten approved sends in 30 days, switch it to Autopilot on the AI team page and it runs on its own, in your voice and to your ideal customer. You can switch it back to Reviews with you at any time. ### Will Zevari get my LinkedIn account restricted? No. If Zevari is the only tool running outbound on your LinkedIn account, and you use the account lightly yourself while Zevari is working, we guarantee it. Zevari's Safety Center paces every action like a person and counts every action the account takes against its limits: 100 connection requests a week on Free* accounts, 150 on Premium and 200 on Sales Navigator, daily caps, working hours and burst limits. Anything that would cross a limit waits for the window to reset. If another automation tool runs on the same account, or you use it heavily by hand at the same time, those actions fall outside Zevari's count, and we cannot guarantee it. The weekly figure covers connection requests sent without a note: LinkedIn caps requests that carry a note at 3 a month on a free account, and gives Premium and Sales Navigator a far larger allowance, so Premium or Sales Navigator is the practical choice for real outbound (see /safety). ### How do I train Zevari on my business? During onboarding you train the six specialists on your business. ICP Scoring learns who your ideal customer is from the leads you approve and reject. Voice Writer builds a Voice DNA from your own writing and learns from every message you approve or edit, so drafts sound like you. You approve their work while they learn, and once a specialist has earned it you take the training wheels off: switch it to Autopilot and it runs your outbound on its own. ### Does Zevari work for teams and agencies? Yes. Zevari users are free, so you can invite your whole team and your clients. A workspace holds many LinkedIn accounts, one per person: each person connects their own LinkedIn on their own free Zevari login, and your team can then run outbound across every LinkedIn account in the workspace, including another person's. Agencies keep one workspace per client, each with its own ideal customer, Voice DNA and approvals. You pay only for LinkedIn sender accounts: the plan includes one, and each extra LinkedIn account is $37 a month. ### Can I connect Zevari's MCP with an access token instead of an OAuth sign-in? Yes. Besides the browser sign-in, Zevari offers MCP access tokens, which you create under Settings → Developers. A token needs no OAuth sign-in, so it suits automations, agents and servers that cannot open a browser. Each token is locked to one LinkedIn sender account and to one workspace (or, if you confirm it, to all your workspaces), expires after 30, 90 or 365 days, and can be revoked at any time. Agencies and teams with several workspaces or senders make one token per client and sender, so an automation never has to switch workspace or sender mid-run. ## Sources, method and limits Competitor details come from Sales Navigator's public site and documentation. Zevari details come from our published pricing and safety pages, which mirror the limits enforced in the product. LinkedIn changes its product and pricing over time; if a detail here is out of date, tell us at support@zevari.ai and we will correct it. - [LinkedIn Sales Navigator](https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/sales-navigator) - [Sales Navigator plans and prices](https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/compare-plans) - [LinkedIn help: Sales Navigator InMail credits](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a101030) - [Zevari pricing](https://zevari.ai/pricing) - [Zevari safety model](https://zevari.ai/safety) - [Zevari for GTM engineers](https://zevari.ai/for/gtm-engineers) Related: [All alternatives](https://zevari.ai/alternatives) · [LinkedIn MCP](https://zevari.ai/linkedin-mcp) · [Pricing](https://zevari.ai/pricing) · [Safety](https://zevari.ai/safety) ## A full outbound department. Train it, then let it run. LinkedIn and email, run by six specialists. Direct it from the Zevari app, or from Claude, ChatGPT or Codex. 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