The LinkedIn Sender Calculator. What One Sender Actually Produces.
One sender sends 20 connection requests a day. Some get accepted, some of those reply, and a slice of those buy. Set your own rates and deal size below and see the pipeline, the credit cost and how many senders your goal actually needs.
Run the numbers
| Senders, 250 credits per 30 days each | 250 |
| Openers, one per accepted connection | 0 |
| Replies, 6 per conversation | 0 |
| Total credits | 250 |
| Included on Business at $97.00 | 250 |
| Extra credits to buy at $0.10 each | 0 for $0.00 |
Where these defaults come from
Volume. A sender sends 20 connection requests a day on weekdays by default, and will not go past 25. A brand new account starts at 5 a day and works up to the full pace over its first two weeks, so month one comes in lower than the number above. The calculator does not model that ramp.
Accept and reply rates. The 40 to 60 percent accept range is the published benchmark from people sending by hand, with the warning that automated requests land 10 to 15 percent lower. Of the requests our own senders have actually sent, about half have been accepted so far, and 64 percent of the people who accepted have replied. That is a small sample over a few weeks, and a request nobody has answered yet still counts against us, so treat both as early numbers rather than a rate card.
Booking and closing. Around 1 in 10 conversations booking a call, and 20 to 30 percent of qualified calls closing, are the published figures for cold prospects. For closing straight in the DM we default to 5 percent. Numbers like 15 percent get advertised, but that is someone else's marketing claim, not a rate we have measured.
Costs. A sender costs 250 credits per 30 days, charged up front the moment it connects and again each time it renews, whether or not it sends every day. That charge is not refunded if you disconnect part way through a period. The AI replies themselves are free on LinkedIn, including the opener and the actions the AI takes inside a conversation, so the seat is the whole running cost. LinkedIn messages carry no extra per message charge either. Credits beyond your plan cost $0.10 each. If you would rather plan on a cautious number anyway, put one in the credits per reply box in the cost assumptions and the whole model updates.
This is an estimate, not a promise. It assumes a steady month, so it does not model the first two weeks of warm up. What you actually get depends on your profile, your offer and who you are targeting.
Frequently Asked.
Volume Is Easy. The Replies Are The Job.
Connection requests are cheap. What decides the outcome is what happens after someone accepts, and whether every reply gets answered properly instead of three days later.
