Instoly vs LinkDM: Instagram auto DM compared

LinkDM and Instoly both have a free plan that sends DMs from Instagram activity. LinkDM's free plan includes story automations and Facebook, and its Pro plan adds public comment replies, lead generation and reminder DMs. Instoly's free plan includes public comment replies, and its paid plans cost less in rupees.

How do LinkDM and Instoly compare at a glance?

How do LinkDM and Instoly prices compare?

LinkDM Pro is $19 a month for 25,000 DMs. Instoly Pro is ₹149 a month for 40,000 credits.

One thing to read carefully on any plan: Instoly counts a DM and a public comment reply as one credit each. A flow that replies in the comments and sends a DM uses two credits per comment, so 1,000 free credits cover 500 comments handled that way, or 1,000 if you only send the DM.

Does LinkDM have a store or link-in-bio page like Instoly?

No. LinkDM says it doesn't offer link-in-bio services like Linktree.

Instoly includes one on every plan. You get instoly.store/<your name> to put in your Instagram bio, where followers see each post with the products used in it, and a tap goes straight to the product through a tracked link. The same products can go out as cards inside the auto DM, so someone who comments gets the products in their DMs. Free shows up to 6 posts; Pro and Business add unlimited posts, your own look, categories and Featured. The store links out to where you sell; it doesn't take payments itself.

Where is LinkDM stronger?

• Story automations and Facebook on the free plan.
• Lead generation, reminder DMs, IG Live auto-reply and a follower growth tool on Pro.
• More accounts per plan: 3 on Pro, 10 on Platinum+.

Where is Instoly stronger?

• Low prices, billed in rupees (or US dollars outside India): Pro is ₹149 a month or ₹999 a year for 40,000 credits, and Business is ₹399 a month for 3,50,000.
• Rich DMs and public replies on every plan: up to 3 buttons, carousels of up to 10 cards, product cards from your store, and public comment replies from your own list or a rotating pool.
• Auto DM analytics on every plan, per flow: comments matched, DMs sent and opened, top keywords and failures.
• Every link is tracked: see clicks and click-through rate for each Auto DM, store post and product, on every plan, with Instagram's own link scanners filtered out.
• A link-in-bio page on every plan: instoly.store/<your name> shows your posts with the products used in them, and each tap goes straight to the product through a tracked link. Free shows up to 6 posts; Pro and Business add unlimited posts, your own look, categories and Featured.
• More than auto DM: invoices with GST or UAE VAT in six currencies, and AI that writes captions, scripts and flows.
• AI writes your DMs and custom comment replies in 12 languages on Pro and Business, including Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Arabic.
• Credit packs you buy never expire and work on the free plan too, so a viral week doesn't force an upgrade.

What doesn't Instoly do?

Instoly doesn't lock a link behind a follow (you can add an optional follow request to the DM), and it has no email or phone capture inside the DM, no follow-up sequences, no Instagram Live triggers and no Facebook automation today. If one of those is the reason you are choosing a tool, pick a tool that has it.

Should you choose LinkDM or Instoly?

Pick LinkDM if you need Facebook, Live replies or reminder DMs, or manage several accounts. Pick Instoly if you want public comment replies on the free plan, rupee pricing, invoices, a store or DMs in Indian languages.

Instoly is free to start, with 1,000 DM and comment credits a month and no card. Set up your first comment-to-DM flow in a few minutes and see how it fits.