Kairon vs Origami
the honest comparison.
Both turn a description of your buyer into a list. Only one of them then runs the outreach on your LinkedIn seat. Checked directly against both products, dated, and linked so you can verify it yourself.
These solve different halves of the same problem.
- The bottleneck is sending, not finding: you want invitations and messages actually going out on your LinkedIn seat, paced and logged
- You want a cited-evidence ICP verdict per company, not a list you still have to read
- You want a veto window before anything sends, rather than discovering the copy afterwards
- You want to drive the whole thing from Claude or ChatGPT, because the product is an MCP server and a CLI, not a screen you log into
- The bottleneck is finding: your buyers are hard to reach and not cleanly described by LinkedIn filters
- You need people who barely exist on LinkedIn, sourced from Google Maps, job boards and company sites
- You want verified emails and phone numbers, run through waterfalls of 5 and 9 providers respectively
- You want to start at $0, or at $29/mo, and export to CSV into a stack you already have
What each one actually costs.
Feature by feature.
What Origami is genuinely better at.
Finding people who are hard to reach through LinkedIn filters. Each prompt searches 50+ sources in real time, including Google Maps, job boards and company sites, which is where a lot of real businesses actually live.
origami.chat · 2026-08-05Contact data depth: emails run through a waterfall of 5 providers and phone numbers through 9, with the first verified result winning.
origami.chat · 2026-08-05A real free tier with no card required, and a $29/mo paid entry point below Kairon’s $49.
origami.chat/pricing · 2026-08-05Breadth across verticals it names itself: healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, biotech, proptech, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing and nonprofit.
origami.chat · 2026-08-05It fits an existing stack rather than replacing it: free CSV export on every paid tier, and it positions itself squarely against Apollo, ZoomInfo and Clay.
origami.chat · 2026-08-05What Kairon does differently.
The messages actually go out: invitations and messages send from your own LinkedIn account, it waits for them to accept, and it stops the moment someone writes back
A verdict per company against your ICP, with the evidence behind it, so you can see why a lead was kept or dropped
A veto window before anything sends, rather than reading the copy after it went out
The whole product is reachable from an assistant: a hosted MCP server with OAuth and a CLI, listed in the Official MCP Registry as com.heykairon/kairon since August 2026
Flat per-seat pricing, so a heavy month costs the same as a light one
Every action on every campaign is recorded, so months later you can still answer who was contacted, with what, and when
What to actually expect.
Origami scales with how well you can describe a buyer. Give it a precise profile and it returns a verified table with contact data, sourced live rather than from a static database. The work it removes is research; the work it leaves you is deciding who to contact and doing it.
Kairon scales with timing and restraint. It reaches out where a public signal fired and the evidence supports the ICP match, on a real LinkedIn seat, with a veto window before each send. Expect fewer sends, aimed at people more likely to already be in-market.
Our own numbers, because we are asking you to judge ours too. Kairon used Kairon for a month: 444 invitations sent, 169 accepted (38.1%), and 59 of those 169 people wrote back (34.9%). They come straight out of our own database, not from a survey. It is one account and one month, so take it as a reference point, not a promise. The query that produces it is published, in case you want to run it yourself. We do not invent numbers, ours or theirs.
What we could not confirm about Origami.
We found no documented LinkedIn sending path. The Sequencer is listed as unlimited on paid tiers, but neither the pricing page nor the product page we read said it sends on LinkedIn. If you need invitations and LinkedIn messages specifically, confirm this with them before buying.
origami.chat/pricing · 2026-08-05We found no MCP server or public API documented on their site, so we cannot say whether an assistant can drive it directly.
origami.chat · 2026-08-05Credit pricing means cost moves with usage. Their own pricing page offers pay-as-you-go beyond the plan allowance with a limit you set, which is honest, but a heavy prospecting month will not cost the same as a light one.
origami.chat/pricing · 2026-08-05When to actually pick Origami instead.
If your problem is that you cannot find your buyers in the first place, pick Origami. It searches the live web rather than a database, it reaches people who barely exist on LinkedIn, and it hands you verified emails and phone numbers. If your list is already fine and nothing is going out, that is a different problem and Origami is not aimed at it.
Fair questions.
Is this comparison biased?
We built it, so read it with that in mind. Every price and feature claim above links to Origami's own pages so you can check it yourself, and where we could not confirm something we said so instead of guessing.
How often is this updated?
Whenever we notice something has changed. Prices and features are marked with the date we last checked them.
Can I use Kairon and Origami together?
Yes, and it is the pairing that makes most sense of the two. Origami finds and enriches the people; Kairon qualifies them against your ICP and runs the LinkedIn outreach. They overlap far less than they appear to.
Origami is cheaper. Why is Kairon $49?
Origami starts free and at $29/mo for credits you spend on searching. Kairon is $49/mo per seat, flat, for a seat that sends. If you only need lists, Origami is the better value and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.