# Valley review (2026): is it worth $149 a month per seat? > AI outbound platform for signal-based LinkedIn and email outreach Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Valley is an outbound platform that finds prospects from buying signals such as hiring, job changes, funding and LinkedIn post engagement, researches them, writes personalized messages in your voice and sends them on LinkedIn and, on higher plans, email. Drafts can be reviewed before they go out, and replies land in a unified inbox. Plans are priced per seat. - **Category:** Cold Outreach - **Made by:** Valley - **Website:** https://www.joinvalley.co - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you add email, because Starter at $149 is LinkedIn only and Plus is $249 a seat. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Valley is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $149 per seat / month, billed quarterly ($199 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day trial for eligible new subscribers; a payment method is required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $149 per seat / month, billed quarterly ($199 billed monthly) | LinkedIn only: prospecting, research, messages in your voice, campaigns, unified inbox, ICP scoring and a copilot. Email sending is an add-on. | | Plus | $249 per seat / month, billed quarterly ($299 billed monthly) | LinkedIn and email: 1,000 email messages a month, priority Slack support, an onboarding call, a customer success manager and email waterfall enrichment. | | Growth | $499 per seat / month, billed monthly | Everything in Plus with $300 in extra credits every month for prospect discovery and enrichment. A quarterly price was not shown. | | Scale | Custom | Custom pricing for teams of five seats or more, through sales. | Read from https://www.joinvalley.co/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Valley before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save with quarterly billing** (Annual discount): Starter drops from $199 to $149 a seat a month and Plus from $299 to $249 when billed quarterly. Source: https://www.joinvalley.co/pricing ## Key features - **Buyer signals:** The site lists hiring signals, job-change alerts, funding rounds, and LinkedIn post and profile engagers, including those of competitors. - **Research and personalized messages:** Valley researches each prospect and writes messages in your voice; drafts can be reviewed and edited before sending. - **LinkedIn and email sequences:** LinkedIn campaigns and follow-ups run on every plan; email can be combined in the same sequence from a connected Gmail or Microsoft inbox. - **Unified inbox and analytics:** Replies are managed in one inbox, with campaign analytics, ICP scoring and a copilot called Scout. - **CRM, API and MCP:** Integrations include HubSpot and Claude through MCP, plus an API. ## Good for - Sales teams and founders prospecting from buying signals - Agencies and recruiters running LinkedIn outreach - Teams that want to review AI drafts before they send ## Worth knowing - A banner on the pricing page says the $199 Starter price runs until 8 Nov and returns to $395 a seat from 9 Nov, yet the plan cards still showed $199 on 13 Nov. - Credits pay for finding prospects, verifying emails and upgraded message writing; the credit price is not shown. - Email sending is an optional add-on on Starter; Plus and Growth include 1,000 email messages a month. - Valley Done-For-You, a managed service at $1,499 a month, was not accepting new users and had a waitlist. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Valley is an outbound platform that finds prospects from buyer signals and writes LinkedIn and email messages. Starter is LinkedIn only, email starts at $249 a seat, and a banner and the plan cards disagree about what Starter costs. - **Value for money: D.** $149 a seat a month on quarterly billing for LinkedIn only, $249 once email is added. The category's dearest tenth starts at $120. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A 7-day trial that asks for a payment method. No free plan. - **Features: C.** Buyer signals, research, LinkedIn and email sequences and a shared inbox. Email sending is an add-on on Starter, and credits for finding and verifying prospects cost extra. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect LinkedIn, email and a CRM, and credits need managing. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with HubSpot, Claude, Gmail, Microsoft 365 and Slack plus an API and MCP. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Valley's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among cold outreach tools - Valley's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 18 of the 81 other cold outreach tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 17 of 81) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $149 a month for each person, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 67 of the 73 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 17 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/cold-outreach ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Valley you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 53 of the 81 other cold outreach tools grade higher. It costs $1,788 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: One mailbox that several people work at once. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, HubSpot, Claude and Gmail among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with HubSpot, Claude, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Slack **Tags:** AI agents, AI features, Shared inbox, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Gojiberry](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gojiberry): AI prospecting agent that finds buyers from signals and contacts them. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gojiberry-vs-valley) - [Kakiyo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kakiyo): AI agent that runs LinkedIn outreach conversations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kakiyo-vs-valley) - [HeyReach](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heyreach): LinkedIn outreach across many sender accounts, billed per sender. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heyreach-vs-valley) - [Amplemarket](https://toolgpa.com/tools/amplemarket): Sales platform with a B2B database, AI copilot and outreach sequences. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amplemarket-vs-valley) - [AiSDR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aisdr): AI sales agent that finds leads and runs email and LinkedIn outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aisdr-vs-valley) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.joinvalley.co/pricing - https://www.joinvalley.co Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/valley Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).