The Expandi
alternative.
Marno is the simpler, cheaper alternative to Expandi. If you don’t need dynamic image personalization or a $99/account price tag and you’d rather spend that budget on prospects, the math is straightforward.
Flat $29 per month. Built around plain-text personalization, conservative defaults, and a replies inbox — not around dynamic image gimmicks that draw LinkedIn’s attention.
Cloud-based LinkedIn outreach platform with smart sequences, dynamic image/GIF personalization, and integrations. Per-account monthly pricing.
Side-by-side, honestly.
| Feature | Marno | Expandi |
|---|---|---|
Multi-step sequences with smart branching | ||
Flat single-operator pricing Expandi is priced per LinkedIn account. | ||
Replies inbox with auto-triage Based on public documentation. | ||
Dynamic image/GIF personalization Intentionally omitted on Marno — flags LinkedIn detectors disproportionately. | ||
Cross-sequence lead dedupe Based on public documentation. | ||
Per-user dedicated proxy Based on public documentation. | ||
AES-256-GCM credential encryption Based on public documentation. | ||
Conservative defaults out of the box | ||
CRM/Zapier integrations On Marno roadmap; not shipped. | ||
7-day free trial, no credit card |
Information about Expandi compiled from publicly available marketing and documentation; correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of writing. Tell us if we got something wrong: hello@marno.io.
Less than a third of the price
Expandi starts at $99 per account per month. Marno is $29 flat. If you run outreach on one or two accounts and don’t need the integrations Expandi is famous for, the cost difference is significant — and compounds month after month.
Plain-text personalization, on purpose
Marno deliberately doesn’t do dynamic image/GIF personalization. Those tricks light up LinkedIn’s automation detectors faster than the conversion lift is worth.
Conservative defaults, transparent limits
Marno’s daily caps are documented and tunable; the defaults sit well below the upper edge of what real accounts seem to survive. No “turn it up to 100/day, the cloud session will protect you” — because no cloud session will.
You need dynamic image/GIF personalization
If your strategy actually depends on per-prospect generated images or GIFs in the connection request, Expandi is one of the few tools that does that natively.
You need deep CRM/Zapier integrations today
Expandi has a mature integration ecosystem (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier). If your pipeline writes to a CRM the same hour the lead replies, that’s closer to Expandi’s shape than Marno’s today.
Try it on your account.
7-day free trial. No credit card. Cancel anytime. The fastest way to compare two tools is to plug both into the same prospect list and see which one earns the replies.