At the time of writing, Dux-Soup (STACKED) costs $55 a month per seat on STACKED local and $99 a month on STACKED cloud. On yearly billing for 1 to 10 seats, that works out to about $41.25 a month for local and $74.17 for cloud. One seat runs one LinkedIn profile. Dux-Soup is LinkedIn automation software: it visits profiles and sends connection requests, messages and InMails as drip campaigns.
The seat is the cheap part. A local seat on yearly billing is about $495 a year. Now compare it with people. Take a German company that hires one SDR to run the outreach instead. Skipcall, citing RepVue data from May 2026, puts the German SDR median base at €48,387, with median OTE of €71,729. That is salary only, before lists, tools and your own time managing it.
This review is built from the vendor's published pages and LinkedIn's own rules, not from a hands-on test of the app. Read the safety section before you buy: it matters as much as the price.
How much does Dux-Soup cost per month?
The vendor's fixed seat pricing article, last updated 15 October 2026, lists these prices:
| Plan | Monthly, per seat | Yearly, per seat (1-10 seats) |
|---|---|---|
| STACKED local | $55 / €49 / £44 | $495 / €435 / £389 |
| STACKED cloud | $99 / €88 / £77 | $890 / €790 / £690 |
Yearly billing saves 25% at this size. Seats are prepaid, from 1 seat with no further minimum. USD covers the rest of the world, EUR the euro zone, GBP the UK. The page does not mention tax, so ask before you budget.
Will a Dux-Soup subscription bring you clients on its own?
Put the seat next to a real funnel. My team worked with a US business consultant. Month 1 brought 27 sales calls. Month 2 brought 35. Month 3 brought 64. The founder's profile was rebuilt before the first message went out.
Which tool sent those messages is beside the point: no seat setting produces a ramp like that by itself.
Your prospects never see which automation you pay for. They see your profile, your offer and your message. Switching on a new campaign and changing nothing else usually means zero clients and a lost month. I fix the foundations first: the offer, the profile, the list and connection requests that get accepted. Only then does a seat have anything to speed up.
On larger campaigns my team assigns one person to the inbox and nothing else. A reply is where automation hands over to a human, the same working day.
What do the yearly seat tiers do to a team's total bill?
| Team | Monthly billing, 12 months | Yearly billing (1-10 tier) | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 local seat | $660 | $495 | $165 |
| 1 cloud seat | $1,188 | $890 | $298 |
| 2 local seats | $1,320 | $990 | $330 |
| 2 cloud seats | $2,376 | $1,780 | $596 |
| 5 local seats | $3,300 | $2,475 | $825 |
| 5 cloud seats | $5,940 | $4,450 | $1,490 |
Break-even is 9 months: 9 months of local on monthly billing equals the yearly price, and 9 months of cloud is $891. If you doubt the seat will last that long, pay monthly.
The deep discount needs volume. The pricing article lists yearly bands of 10 seats: $450 local and $801 cloud per seat at 11 to 20 seats, falling with each band to $250 and $445 at 51+ seats. That is the vendor's "up to 50%", and a 5-seat team never reaches it.
The article does not say whether a large team gets the lower rate on every seat or only inside each band, so get the total in writing before you buy for 20 or 60 people.
What happened to Dux-Soup Pro, Turbo and Cloud?
According to the vendor, the old Chrome extensions (Pro, Turbo and Cloud) are retired (Meet STACKED). What you buy today is a desktop app for Windows and macOS called STACKED. So any review still quoting a Pro or Turbo monthly price is out of date.
How does Dux-Soup's price compare with similar LinkedIn tools?
Entry prices on each vendor's own pricing page, at the time of writing:
| Tool and plan | Monthly billing | Longer billing |
|---|---|---|
| Expandi Business | $99 a month | $79 a month on annual billing |
| HeyReach Growth | $79 per sender a month | $759 a year on yearly billing |
| Dripify Pro | $79 per user a month | $59 a month on annual billing |
| Waalaxy Pro | €19 per user a month | yearly billing advertised at up to 50% off, no yearly price shown |
Each vendor counts seats, senders or users its own way, so compare the cost per LinkedIn profile you send from.
Should you buy a local seat or a cloud seat?
A local seat only runs while your computer is switched on and awake. A cloud seat keeps running whatever your device's power, sleep or connection status.
| Your situation | Seat |
|---|---|
| One founder at a desk, computer on through the working day | Local |
| You travel or close the laptop for half the day, so a local seat would stop sending | Cloud |
| A team deciding per seat | Weigh $44 more a month, or $395 more a year on yearly billing, for cloud |
Decision rule: pay the cloud premium only if a local seat would stop on most working days.
How safe is Dux-Soup for your LinkedIn account and your prospects' data?
Start with the platform's own rule. LinkedIn's help center says LinkedIn does not permit third-party software, browser extensions included, that scrapes, changes the look of or automates activity on its website. Members who use such tools can see their accounts restricted or shut down, and the tools can stop working without notice.
The rule covers what software does, so a desktop or cloud app falls under it as much as the old extension did. Every seat is a bet against it, made with a profile your sales depend on.
Inside that risk, the vendor publishes its own default daily limits:
| LinkedIn account | Recommended profile visits a day | Recommended messages a day |
|---|---|---|
| Free | up to 50 | 25 |
| Premium | up to 100 | 50 |
| Sales Navigator | up to 250 | 125 |
| Recruiter | up to 400 | 200 |
By default Dux-Soup sends 20 connection requests a day, new users may start at around 5 to 10, and its limits page admits that no setting can guarantee your account's safety. Defaults lower the risk. They do not remove it. For platform-wide numbers, see LinkedIn's official and observed limits.
The second risk is data. France's regulator fined KASPR, a paid Chrome extension that collected contact details from LinkedIn profiles, EUR 240,000 on 5 December 2024 (CNIL).
The fine was against KASPR, not Dux-Soup. If you export or enrich contact data from LinkedIn with any tool, ask the two questions that decision turned on: did the person make this visible to you, and how long will you keep it? This is not legal advice.
How do you scale beyond one seat without profiles competing?
Scale by adding LinkedIn accounts to a campaign that already works. Each extra account is one more seat on the bill. Before a second seat goes live, I split territories per account so no two profiles reach the same person. If you would rather have my team run the seats, see the LinkedIn outreach agency service. The setup is covered in running outreach from several team profiles.
Every sending profile is a page buyers read before they reply. A buyer who finds an empty profile behind a good message usually stops reading there. So turn each profile into a sales page before it starts sending.
Who should buy Dux-Soup, and who should not?
| Condition | Verdict |
|---|---|
| A message and a list already convert at small volume | Buy |
| You can name the one audience your profile speaks to | Buy |
| Someone answers replies the same working day | Buy |
| Your profile holds up when a buyer checks it | Buy |
| No tested offer yet | Do not buy |
| You expect the tool to create demand | Do not buy |
| Revenue has to show inside the first 90 days | Do not buy yet |
| You pause campaigns when the team gets busy | Do not buy |
The 90-day row matters most. Replies and calls come first. Revenue follows your sales cycle, often months later. If every Buy row is true, one local seat is a cheap way to add volume. If any Do not row is true, fix that before you buy a seat: a funnel that does not convert at small volume will not convert at big volume.
Thinking about buying a LinkedIn automation seat? Book a call and tell me how many profiles you would run, and I will say what I would check before paying.
Questions buyers ask before paying
How long is the Dux-Soup free trial?
The vendor advertises a 14-day free trial on its account safety page. That is enough to see acceptance and reply patterns on one profile, but too short to see deals. Run it with a list and a message you already trust, so a weak result points at the tool settings rather than an untested offer.
Can you get a refund on Dux-Soup?
Yes, within a fixed window. The refund policy returns the full amount if you terminate and ask in the first 31 days after you first buy, for Dux-Soup or STACKED subscriptions. Partial refunds are not available, so canceling a yearly plan in month three returns nothing. Send requests to info@dux-soup.com.
Are seats added later refundable?
No. The same policy treats extra seats or usage that are calculated after use and billed on a later invoice as post-paid, and post-paid charges are not refundable. Settle your seat count before checkout.
Is messaging UK prospects through Dux-Soup legal under PECR?
The UK ICO's business-to-business marketing guidance counts direct messages via social media as electronic mail. It also says that messaging someone who uses a professional networking site in a personal capacity is not B2B marketing. The ICO marks that page as under review, so recheck it before a UK campaign. This is not legal advice.