LinkedIn inside Claude or ChatGPT
for the people who sell.
Kairon is a hosted LinkedIn MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. You paste one URL into Claude or ChatGPT, sign in once, and ask for what you want: a Sales Navigator search, the work email of the people who fit, an invitation with a note. Nothing runs on your computer.
What you ask, and what comes back
The assistant runs the search from your LinkedIn account and saves the people to a list in Kairon. You don’t need a Sales Navigator seat for it.
Each person gets a pass or a fail, with the reason. Before it looks up any email, the assistant shows you the price and waits for your yes.
Kairon builds a campaign on your account and books each send on your Tasks page, where you can edit a send before it goes out or end that person’s sequence. If you’d rather approve sends yourself, switch the campaign to manual approval. By default the sequence stops when someone replies.
The assistant reads your LinkedIn conversations and gives you the replies, so you can answer from the same chat.
Set up in three steps
Create an account and connect LinkedIn
Sign up, then connect your LinkedIn account once in Kairon. Every tool acts as that account.
Add Kairon to your assistant
In Claude, open Settings, then Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste https://app.heykairon.com/mcp. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds it first. ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor take the same URL. You sign in to Kairon once to approve it.
Ask in your own words
Describe the job. The assistant reads Kairon’s playbook for that job before it starts.
Kairon or an open-source server
| Kairon | stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Hosted by Kairon. You paste a URL into your assistant. | On your computer or in your own Docker container. |
| Claude on the web and ChatGPT | Yes, as a custom connector with OAuth sign-in. | We found no hosted endpoint. Its own HTTP mode “still has no authentication”. |
| How it reaches LinkedIn | Your LinkedIn account, connected once in Kairon. | Your own browser session, driven by a Chromium browser on your machine. Sessions expire, and you sign in again. |
| Search people and companies | Yes, including Sales Navigator search, with or without a Sales Navigator seat. | Yes, classic LinkedIn search. We found no Sales Navigator tool. |
| Invitations and messages | Yes. | Yes. |
| InMail | Yes, when your account has InMail credits. | Reads InMail threads. We found no tool that sends one. |
| Work email and phone | Yes, paid per lookup from your usage balance, at the price shown before each lookup. | We found no email or phone tool. |
| Campaigns that keep running after the chat ends | Yes. Sequences run on a schedule and, by default, stop when someone replies. | We found no campaign or sequence tool. Each action runs when the assistant calls it. |
| Daily pacing | Yes. Invitations and messages have a daily cap per account, and a campaign adds new people at a daily pace you can change. | We found no daily caps. Its README says “You are responsible for the volume of automation you run”. |
| More than one LinkedIn account | Yes. A campaign can send from several accounts. | We found no multi-account feature. Its README says to keep “only one active LinkedIn session at a time”. |
| Price | $49 a month per LinkedIn account. | Free, under the Apache-2.0 license. |
Where the open-source server is the better pick
It is free, and the code is yours to read and change under Apache-2.0.
stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server · 2026-10-10It runs on your machine, so your LinkedIn session never passes through a company like ours.
its README · 2026-10-10It reads LinkedIn well: profiles, companies, jobs, posts, your feed and your inbox, across 20 tools.
its tool table · 2026-10-10Its last commit was on 2026-10-10, the day we read it.
its commit history · 2026-10-10What it costs
Kairon costs $49 a month per LinkedIn account, with $10 of usage balance included. It starts with a 7-day trial. You pay for work emails and phone numbers per lookup from your usage balance, and the assistant shows you the price first. Two other hosted LinkedIn MCP servers cost less per account: gtm-api has a free plan and paid accounts from $39 a month, and Cadenza charges €29 a month for one account. We read both prices on 2026-10-10. See every Kairon price
Questions about LinkedIn MCP servers
What is a LinkedIn MCP server?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard way to give an AI assistant new tools. A LinkedIn MCP server gives Claude or ChatGPT tools for LinkedIn: search people, read profiles, send invitations and messages, all from your own account.
Does it work in ChatGPT?
Yes. Kairon works in ChatGPT, in Claude on the web and on desktop, in Claude Code and in Cursor. All of them use the same URL: https://app.heykairon.com/mcp.
Do I need Sales Navigator?
No. The assistant can run Sales Navigator searches from any LinkedIn account connected to Kairon. To send an InMail, the account needs InMail credits.
Is Kairon the same as the open-source linkedin-mcp-server?
No. That project runs on your machine and drives your browser session. Kairon is a hosted service with its own code. It adds Sales Navigator search, InMail, email and phone lookups, and campaigns that run on a schedule.
Are there other hosted LinkedIn MCP servers?
Yes. On 2026-10-10, gtm-api had a free plan and paid accounts from $39 a month, and Cadenza, built on the open-source server, cost €29 a month for one account. Both cost less per account than Kairon. On Cadenza’s page we found no email or phone lookup and no campaign feature, which Kairon has.