Inrō's free plan is capped at 100 activated contacts a month and 3 active automations, after which it stops reaching new people until the month resets. MintLink's free plan has no contact counter and no automation limit. Inrō's paid plan is €12.99/month; MintLink's is ₹234.82/month.
Inrō is the most polished tool in this comparison and probably the most capable — an AI agent, a CRM, multimedia campaigns. The question is not whether it is good. It is what its free plan actually gives an Indian creator, and what the ceiling does when you hit it mid-month.
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This is the part worth understanding before you pick either. Inrō's free plan allows 100 activated contacts a month, read from inro.social/pricing on 11 November 2026. A contact is a person, not a DM — so one reel that brings 400 commenters uses four months of the allowance in an afternoon.
Their own page describes what happens next: at 100 contacts, automations and campaigns stop reaching new contacts until the count resets or you upgrade. The automation does not slow down or queue — it stops reaching anyone new. The post is still going, the comments are still arriving, and the DMs are not.
MintLink's free plan has no equivalent counter: none — no send limit, no rule limit, nothing metered, across unlimited rules on every post and every reel. Sends are paced and queued so a post that takes off stays inside Instagram’s own messaging limits, which is a queue rather than a ceiling — a slow send, not a stopped one.
The contact cap is the headline but it is not the only one. The free plan carries 3 active automations, 3 campaigns a month and 50 AI Agent credits. There is also a 14-day trial of Pro, after which an account that does not subscribe drops to the free plan.
MintLink has no automation limit on either plan. If you want a different rule on every post you publish, that is the free plan.
Inrō's Pro plan is €12.99/month, or €1,249 a year. Priced in euro — no rupee pricing on either page. For an Indian creator that means a card that works internationally, a conversion spread on every renewal, and a bill that moves with the exchange rate. MintLink is ₹199/month + 18% GST — ₹234.82/month all in — charged in rupees with the GST stated on the invoice.
That is not a criticism of their pricing, which is reasonable for the tool. It is a note about friction that a comparison written for Indian creators should make.
| MintLink | Inrō | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free, with no trial clock and no card | Free plan, no card — plus a 14-day trial of Pro |
| Cap on free | None | 100 activated contacts a month |
| What happens at the cap | No cap to hit | Automations stop reaching new contacts |
| Automations on free | Unlimited | 3 active automations |
| Comment-to-DM on free | Yes | Yes |
| Where a free DM can link | Links to your own MintLink products and pages | No stated restriction |
| Paid plan | ₹199/month + 18% GST (₹234.82/month) | €12.99/month, or €1,249 a year |
| Billing currency | Rupees, GST on the invoice | Priced in euro — no rupee pricing on either page |
| AI agent and CRM | No | Yes |
| Official Meta API | Instagram’s official Messaging API, as a Meta Tech Provider | Meta’s official API, as a Meta Tech Provider |
MintLink is not a DM tool with a store attached; it is a store with DMs attached, and that is the whole distinction. The same account sells digital downloads, tickets and memberships, takes the payment, and pays out to an Indian bank account. The Auto DM drops a tappable product card — or your whole shop as a carousel — into the conversation, and the conversation log tells you which keyword earned money.
Inrō will deliver a link more cleverly than we will. It will not take the payment, issue the invoice or run the payout. If what you need is the DM to end in a sale rather than a click, that gap matters more than the AI agent does.
The honest summary: Inrō is the better automation tool, MintLink is the better place for the thing you are selling, and the free plans are not comparable because one counts people and the other does not count at all.
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