Kairon vs Trigify · honest comparison

Kairon vs Trigify
the honest comparison.

Trigify finds the buying signal across eleven-plus platforms. Kairon acts on it, on your LinkedIn seat. Both are reachable from an agent over MCP. Prices, feature by feature, dated and linked.

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One finds the signal. One acts on it.

pick kairon if
  • You already know which signals matter and the gap is that nothing goes out afterwards
  • You want the outreach to run on a real LinkedIn seat: invitation, wait for the accept, message, stop on reply
  • You want a cited-evidence ICP verdict per company before anyone is contacted
  • You want a flat seat price rather than credits that move with how much you search
pick trigify if
  • Your buyers are active well beyond LinkedIn: X, Reddit, YouTube and more
  • You want signal provenance: every signal tied to the exact post that triggered it
  • You already own the sending layer and what you are missing is what to react to
  • You want to feed signals into a stack you already have, through workflows into CRM, Slack and outreach tools

What each one actually costs.

Trigify prices credits consumed by signals, enrichments and engagement. Kairon prices a seat that sends. The entry prices are close; what they buy is not comparable.

Kairon
7-day trial · $0 today · card required · charges day 7
Basic$49/moPer seat · all features included
CustomTalk to usEverything in Basic, configured and run with you
app.heykairon.com/choose-plan ↗
Trigify
14-day trial on every plan · overages billed at $0.012 per credit
Starter$40/mo4,000 credits/mo · 50 signal profiles · 25 listening searches · 7-day history
Max$199/mo40,000 credits/mo · 5,000 profiles · unlimited searches · 12-month history
EnterpriseCustomUnlimited credits · all-time history · SSO/SAML · dedicated CSM
trigify.io/pricing ↗

Feature by feature.

These two overlap on signals and on MCP, and diverge completely on what happens next. Checkmarks would hide exactly the part that matters.

KaironTrigify
What it is built to doKaironAct on the signal: run the sequence on your LinkedIn seat and stop it when someone repliesTrigifyFind the signal and route it: detect across platforms, enrich, score intent, push into your stack
Where signals come fromKaironLinkedIn: a job change, a new post, a profile view, a new follower, engagement on a rival’s postTrigifyA genuine strength: 11+ social platforms including business networks, X, Reddit and YouTube
Signal provenanceKaironThe ICP verdict carries the evidence it was based onTrigifyEvery signal is tied to the exact post that triggered it, so you can read what set it off
SendingKaironIt sends from your own LinkedIn account, at a pace that respects the platform’s own limitsTrigifyNot a sender. It pushes qualified people into CRM, Slack and outreach tools, which is a deliberate design, not a gap
ICP qualificationKaironA written verdict per company against your ICP, with the evidence behind itTrigifyWorkflows enrich each person and score their intent before pushing them on
Approval before sendKaironEverything booked stays editable until it sends: change the message or drop the person from the runTrigifyNot applicable: whatever sends is your downstream tool, and its rules apply
Driving it from an agentKaironHosted MCP server with OAuth, plus a CLI. Listed in the Official MCP Registry as com.heykairon/kaironTrigifyAlso a hosted MCP server, at api.trigify.io/mcp, plus a REST API and a CLI. No advantage to either of us here
How you payKaironFlat per seat: $49/mo, nothing meteredTrigifyCredits for signals, enrichment and engagement, with overages at $0.012 per credit
TrialKairon7 days, card required, $0 todayTrigify14 days on every plan

What Trigify is genuinely better at.

They are further along than us on the half of the problem they chose, and they picked a bigger half.

Coverage. Signals across 11+ social platforms including X, Reddit and YouTube, where Kairon watches LinkedIn and nothing else. If your buyers complain about tools on Reddit, we never see it and they do.

trigify.io · 2026-08-05

Provenance on every signal: each one is attached to the post that triggered it, so you can read the actual sentence before deciding whether to reach out.

trigify.io · 2026-08-05

They are agent-native too, and by the same architecture: a hosted MCP server added with `claude mcp add --transport http`, plus a REST API and a CLI. We are not the only MCP option in this category and we will not imply otherwise.

trigify.io · 2026-08-05

A lower entry price and a longer trial: $40/mo against $49, and 14 days against our 7.

trigify.io/pricing · 2026-08-05

It composes with what you already run instead of replacing it, pushing qualified people into CRM, Slack and outreach tools through workflows.

trigify.io · 2026-08-05

What Kairon does differently.

Not "Trigify has no MCP" and not "Trigify has worse signals". It has both, and broader coverage than ours. The difference is the last step.

It sends. The signal ends in an invitation and a message on your own LinkedIn seat, not in a webhook to a tool that then has to send

A written ICP verdict per company with the evidence behind it, before anyone is contacted

Everything booked stays editable until it fires, so a bad message is a click away from being fixed or dropped

Flat per-seat pricing, so a month of heavy searching costs the same as a quiet 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.

No invented percentages here, for either product. Judge the mechanism, not a marketing stat.

Trigify

Trigify rewards teams who already send well and are guessing about timing. It widens the aperture: more platforms watched, every signal traceable to a post, everything reachable by an agent. What it hands you is a qualified person and a reason; the sending stays your problem.

Kairon

Kairon rewards teams whose sending is the bottleneck. It watches a narrower surface, judges each company against your ICP with evidence, and then actually runs the sequence with a veto before each send. Narrower input, finished output.

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 Trigify.

Stated as what we looked for and did not find, on the date we looked. Not as claims about what Trigify cannot do.

Their docs host returned a 522 to us on 2026-08-05, so we read the marketing site and the pricing page but could not read the API or MCP reference. We cannot tell you which tools their MCP server exposes beyond the three their homepage shows: list_searches, get_search_results and create_search.

trigify.io · 2026-08-05

Credit pricing means the bill moves with usage. Overages are stated openly at $0.012 per credit, which is honest, but a heavy month of listening will not cost what a quiet one does.

trigify.io/pricing · 2026-08-05

The Starter plan holds only 7 days of search history and 50 signal profiles. If you need to look back across a quarter, the real entry price is the $199 Max plan, not $40.

trigify.io/pricing · 2026-08-05

When to actually pick Trigify instead.

If your sending already works and what you lack is a reason to reach out today, pick Trigify. It watches more of the internet than we do and it hands every signal to you with the post that caused it. Pick it too if your buyers live on Reddit or X, where Kairon sees nothing at all. The two are more complementary than competitive: Trigify plus a sender is the same shape as Kairon, assembled from parts you choose.

Fair questions.

Is this comparison biased?

We built it, so read it with that in mind. It is also the page where we say Trigify has the same MCP architecture we do and watches more platforms than we do. Every claim links to Trigify's own pages.

Does Trigify support MCP?

Yes, and by the same method as Kairon: a hosted MCP server added with `claude mcp add --transport http`, plus a REST API and a CLI. If you were choosing between us on "which one an agent can drive", that is not a real difference.

Can I use Kairon and Trigify together?

Yes, and it is the most sensible pairing on this site. Trigify covers signal sources we do not watch; Kairon turns a signal into an invitation and a conversation on a real seat. Both expose MCP, so an agent can hold both ends.

How often is this updated?

Whenever we notice something has changed. Prices and features are marked with the date we last checked them.

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Prices and features as of August 5, 2026.Trigify's pricing page