LinktoDM signs your automated DMs with "sent using linktodm.com" and charges its top tier to remove it. Inrō never puts its name on your messages, and its AI agent keeps the conversation going after the link lands. A bigger free plan buys less than it looks like when every message on it tells your audience the conversation was automated.
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LinktoDM is an Instagram and Facebook DM automation tool built around comment-to-DM, chat automation, Story replies, and an ask-to-follow gate. Its free plan covers 2,000 contacts, unlimited automations, 3 creator accounts, and no AI. Pro, listed at $10 a month, removes the contact limit and adds AI auto-reply, an AI intent trigger, Backtrack for comments from the past seven days, DM queue control, Story mention auto-reply, and email and phone capture with CSV export. Every automated DM it sends carries a "sent using linktodm.com" footer, visible to the recipient. Removing that footer requires the top tier, which also raises creator accounts to 8 and team seats to 10. There is no conversational AI agent on any plan.
Inrō is an Instagram-first DM automation and AI agent platform for businesses that treat Instagram as a real sales channel. It captures intent from comments, Story replies, Lives, mentions, inbound DMs, and click-to-DM ads, then qualifies each lead, answers questions, and books or sells through an AI agent that speaks in your brand voice. Every conversation feeds a full Instagram CRM with tags, segments, and DM campaigns, plus 8,000+ integrations through Make. Inrō is a Meta-approved Tech Provider with built-in pacing and safety. Where most tools stop at a single auto-reply, Inrō runs the whole funnel from first touch to paying customer.
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Unlimited contacts in the CRM on every plan. You pay only for contacts activated in automations. Pro includes a 14-day free trial.
See full pricing →Compare like for like. Sending a DM in your own brand voice, with no vendor footer, costs nothing on Inrō's free plan and requires LinktoDM's top tier. A conversational AI agent that qualifies and books is included in Inrō's Pro plan at €12.99 and is not available on LinktoDM at any price.
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Rebuild your comment-to-DM and Story flows in Inrō, then layer on the AI agent, DM campaigns, and the CRM. The footer disappears on your first message, because Inrō does not add one. Instagram's API does not allow contact lists to be imported into any tool, so your Inrō CRM rebuilds as people engage, though you can export your LinktoDM leads to CSV for your email tool in the meantime. You stay on Meta's official API throughout the move.
For businesses that want Instagram DMs to qualify and convert, Inrō is the better choice in 2026. Its AI agent works from your knowledge base, asks qualifying questions, handles objections, and books the call, every contact lands in an Instagram CRM you can segment and re-engage with DM campaigns, and it connects to Shopify, Stripe, Calendly, and 8,000+ apps through Make. Decisively, Inrō never puts its name on your messages, while LinktoDM signs automated DMs with "sent using linktodm.com" on both its free and Pro plans and charges its top tier to remove that footer. LinktoDM's free plan is larger, at 2,000 contacts with unlimited automations, and it also automates Facebook, but it has no conversational agent on any plan, no DM campaigns, and no CRM beyond a CSV export. Choose Inrō if Instagram is a revenue channel, and LinktoDM if a branded comment-to-DM tool is enough.
LinktoDM automates comment-to-DM, chat, and Story replies across Instagram and Facebook, and signs each automated DM with its own footer unless you buy the top tier. Inrō adds an AI agent that qualifies leads and books calls inside the DM, an Instagram CRM with tags and segments, outbound DM campaigns, and 8,000+ integrations, with no vendor branding on any plan.
It is an attribution footer LinktoDM appends to the automated DMs it sends on your behalf, and the person receiving the message can see it. Their pricing table lists branding removal on the top tier only, so free and Pro users carry it on every message. Inrō never appends an automation label, so your DMs arrive in your brand voice.
No. It has AI auto-reply and an AI intent trigger on paid plans, which answer a comment or route a message. It has no conversational agent that qualifies a lead, handles objections, and books a call inside the DM. Inrō includes one on Pro at €12.99, working from your knowledge base.
It is larger and it is branded. LinktoDM's free plan reaches 2,000 contacts with unlimited automations, and every one of those DMs carries the "sent using linktodm.com" footer, with no AI and no way to segment or re-engage the contacts beyond a CSV export. Inrō's free plan covers 100 active contacts, 3 automations, 3 DM campaigns, and 50 AI agent credits, sends in your brand voice, and keeps every contact in a CRM you can campaign to later.
The free plan covers 2,000 contacts and 3 creator accounts. Pro is listed at $15 a month on LinktoDM's own comparison page and removes the contact limit while keeping the footer. The top tier raises creator accounts to 8 and team seats to 10, and is the only plan that removes LinktoDM's branding from your DMs.
No. Instagram's API does not allow contact lists to be imported into DM automation tools. Your Inrō CRM rebuilds automatically as people engage with your automations. LinktoDM can export leads to CSV for your email tool.
Inrō. It covers comment-to-DM, Story replies, and past comments, then adds a conversational AI agent that qualifies and books, an Instagram CRM, DM campaigns, and deep integrations, with no vendor footer on your messages at any price.
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