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LinkUnity vs Akountify - LinkedIn Account Rental Comparison
- Obelisk Ventures
- 14 hours ago
- 5 min read
Renting LinkedIn accounts allows companies to scale their cold outreach and book more appointments in the process. In this article, we will be comparing two players in the LinkedIn account renting space, LinkUnity and Akountify. The idea is to go over key information including pricing, account quality, replacement guarantees, and more, to determine who is ultimately the better LinkedIn account rental provider.
Type of LinkedIn Account Rental Model
When it comes to LinkedIn outreach and accounts you can use to scale it, you have two main categories: fake and real accounts. Fake ones can’t be ID verified while real ones can, as they are backed by real people. In this case, both Akountify and LinkUnity provide real and ID verified LinkedIn accounts that are actually backed by government issued documents. This is beneficial for your peace of mind, knowing you can always bring back an account in case of restrictions or temporary suspensions, which happen quite often on LinkedIn.
When it comes to LinkedIn account rental business models, these two companies are night and day.
Akountify has a safer and much more ethical way to connect you with these accounts, which works just like hiring an SDR for a minimal fraction of the cost, ensuring compliance with LinkedIn’s terms. Through Akountify, rather than accessing a third party’s account, which goes against LinkedIn’s terms of service, you fractionally hire the outreach agent and his verified LinkedIn account to run outreach campaigns from your setup and as your own sales rep would.
LinkUnity, on the other hand, provides access via proxies and multi-login software, which is against LinkedIn’s terms and can lead to restrictions, considering these extra tools are not allowed by LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Account Rental Prices
As for the pricing, this is where things start to take a turn.
The price to account quality ratio LinkUnity offers is underwhelming compared to other solutions in the space. At LinkUnity, prices for renting a LinkedIn account start at $115 for accounts with barely any connections (under 99 connections) and $125 for accounts with 100 connections or a little bit more. LinkUnity offers bulk prices that can have you eventually paying around $100 for every account, contingent on you renting 50 at once from them.
As for Akountify, the price is very affordable both for big and small companies. They also don’t charge you more based on location and their prices start at $85 every month for US based LinkedIn accounts, making them $40 cheaper than LinkUnity.. Akountify also offers LinkedIn accounts with Sales Navigator licenses for $135 a month, these licenses are activated by the real account owners, leveraging LinkedIn’s free trials. To put things into perspective, renting 50 accounts from Akountify would have you paying around $60 per account, which is still $40 cheaper than LinkUnity, both starting and at scale.
So, while both companies offer bulk discounts, Akountify has a better price point, being 30% cheaper for LinkedIn accounts based in the same location.
Age of Rented LinkedIn Accounts
The age of a LinkedIn account is incredibly important. As a general rule, the older the LinkedIn account, the more stable it is and the higher social selling index it has. Going for older LinkedIn accounts will always be beneficial for your outreach than using newer ones. Besides their higher social selling indexes, older LinkedIn accounts can bypass restrictions easier whereas fresher LinkedIn accounts will often have to be verified multiple times throughout.
Akountify’s profiles have at least one year of age and come with a one year warm up. This helps keep the account stable while minimizing restrictions.
On the other hand, LinkUnity delivers freshly created accounts that are often less than 3 months old. These accounts tend to be highly unstable and can lead to bans considering their low social selling indexes, but more on that below.
Social Selling Indexes
The social selling index, mentioned earlier in the post, is ultimately what determines how strong an account is for outreach. The higher the social selling index, the more activity you’re often allowed to do in LinkedIn, such as sending more messages, Inmails, or connection requests. Naturally, Social Selling Indexes are one of, if not the most important element to consider when renting a LinkedIn account.
In Akountify’s case, the social selling index ranges between 20 - 30, and these gradually go up to 30 - 40 as the outreach agent runs campaigns from his own account.
For LinkUnity, since they have fresh and newly created accounts, the social indexes tend to be lower, ranging between 10 - 20. This is problematic, considering this is not an optimal range to run outreach campaigns on.
ID Verification
Both Akountify and LinkUnity provide ID verified LinkedIn accounts.
This means that, in the case of an account restriction, the account owner will try to verify his identity using his real government issued IDs and documents, something fake accounts clearly can’t accomplish for obvious reasons.
Renting ID verified LinkedIn accounts is generally safer than opting for fake ones. In this case, Akountify and LinkUnity are on the good side.
Delivery Times
Akountify has a quick turnaround time to match you with an outreach agent with a real LinkedIn account, usually taking 1 - 7 business days depending on the size of the order.
LinkUnity has a longer turnaround time and often a waitlist. Delivery times could take up to 2 weeks.
Support Channels
Support is extremely important when choosing the right LinkedIn account rental company. After all, chances are, you will be reaching out to them on quite a few occasions, whether it is to fix a restriction or anything similar.
Akountify is the LinkedIn account rental company with the most support channels, all with 24/7 availability. You get live support via Whatsapp, website’s chat, email, phone, and even have a shared channel in Slack where you have direct one-to-one access with the team.
LinkUnity has a smaller support system and only provides support via email and their website, often leading to longer turnaround times for solving issues.
Payment Methods and Security
Payment protection is as important as every other point we’ve mentioned thus far. What if you’re unhappy with the service or, worse, never got it delivered in the first place? What avenues do you have, if any, to fight for your funds? This is why opting for reputable vendors with safe payment methods is important.
Akountify uses world renowned payment processors like Paypal and Stripe to bill clients recurrently. They also accept ACH wires directly to US bank accounts. In exceptional cases where clients would rather pay with crypto, Akountify also supports that option.
LinkUnity bills clients using cryptocurrency exclusively, so claiming back your money in case anything happens would be impossible.
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