ContactOut alternatives, sorted by why you are leaving
ContactOut prices every plan except the one with the API. Most teams comparing ContactOut competitors want a number they can put in a budget before the sales call. 4 replacements below, each one matched to a specific reason.
If you want personal emails from LinkedIn profiles at a published price, RocketReach and Wiza both carry them: RocketReach with API and MCP access on every paid tier, Wiza from a $50 credit balance with no plan. If ContactOut misses too much of your list, FullEnrich runs a 25-source waterfall and charges only on a find. If the rows are going into your own product, People Data Labs is the one whose standard terms cover showing its data there.
Prices and limits for every option below are read off the vendor's own page. These are the ContactOut competitors that each answer a named problem.
The 3 reasons people actually leave
If none of these is your situation, the honest answer is that you should probably stay. The 23 providers in the Enrichment APIs listing are where these replacements come from.
1 · No published API price
Free, Email and Email + Phone are priced to the dollar, at $0 and $49 and $99 a month, and none of them lists the API. API access sits on the Team plan, which is quote only, and the docs say to request a key by booking a meeting. You cannot cost a pipeline from the website.
2 · Unlimited has a number
ContactOut's terms put its unlimited plans under a fair use policy: 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month, unless an order form says otherwise. That is a generous allowance for one recruiter and a ceiling for any automated workflow.
3 · A miss on a profile lookup still costs
The LinkedIn profile endpoint spends an email credit and a phone credit when it finds them, and a search credit when there is no contact information for the profile. The input has to be a standard LinkedIn URL; Sales Navigator and Recruiter URLs are not accepted.
4 ContactOut alternatives, and what each one fixes
Ordered by how closely each one answers the reasons above, not by price.
| Provider | Entry price | Unit cost | Free tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ContactOut | Quote only | Not sold by the unit | Free plan with 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day in the extension and search portal, for a limited time. The plan lists no API access. | Baseline |
| RocketReach | $33/mo annual | $0.25 per export on Pro, the first plan with phones | A free account gets 5 lookups, no card. No ongoing free tier. | API and MCP on the cheapest paid tier |
| Wiza | $50 one-time | $0.05 per email, 2 credits | Free seat plan with 20 valid emails and 5 phone numbers in the app. The API needs purchased credits; trial credits are on request. | LinkedIn URLs in, verified emails and mobiles out, paid per hit |
| FullEnrich | $29/mo | $0.055 per credit, 1,000-credit plan | 50-credit trial, no card. Then from $29 for 500 credits a month. | Best waterfall without Clay |
| People Data Labs | $98/mo | $0.28 per record | Free plan, up to 100 credits per month with contact data obfuscated | Best for building on top of |
Read from each vendor's own pricing page on 24 October 2026.
The case for each one
Each one below is matched to a reason rather than scored, and each one names what you give up by taking it. A replacement with no downside is a replacement nobody has actually run.
RocketReach
Personal and professional emails at a published price, with API and MCP access on every paid plan from $33 a month billed annually.
RocketReach is the closest match for the reason people use ContactOut: personal emails as well as work ones. Even Essentials, the email-only plan at $399 a year, includes verified personal and professional emails, and API and MCP access come with it rather than through a sales call.
The limits are published per plan, from 15 person lookups a minute and 500 a day on Essentials to 100 a minute and 3,000 a day on Ultimate. A lookup that finds neither an email nor a phone is refunded, the same find-only rule ContactOut applies to its credits.
Exports are annual allowances and the price per export falls with volume: about $0.33 on Essentials, $0.25 on Pro, $0.085 on Ultimate. Phones arrive on Pro, at $899 a year for 3,600 exports.
What you give up
Volume at the entry price, and some of the endpoint range. ContactOut's API covers people search, decision makers, company search and email verification under one token, and its MCP server exposes 15 tools. RocketReach's Essentials plan is 1,200 exports a year, about 100 a month.
When it is the wrong answer
A team already on a ContactOut Team contract with a negotiated credit limit. Below Ultimate, RocketReach's per-export price is a real number but not a small one, so compare it with the quote you already hold.
Wiza
Work and personal emails from LinkedIn URLs, including Sales Navigator and Recruiter ones, from a $50 balance with no plan and no charge on a miss.
Wiza publishes its API price, which is the thing ContactOut does not: $0.025 a credit, with a 2,000-credit minimum of $50 and no subscription. A verified email is 2 credits and a phone 5, so $0.05 and $0.125, and a lookup that returns nothing costs nothing.
Email options select work, personal or both on each request, and the input can be a LinkedIn URL, a name and a company domain, or an email. Unlike ContactOut, Wiza accepts Sales Navigator and Recruiter profile URLs.
Each reveal is asynchronous: a POST returns an id, and the result comes from a GET or a signed webhook. Individual Reveal accepts 15 requests a second, with 5 running at once on the Starter API tier and 15 or more on Enterprise API.
What you give up
The MCP server and the throughput. ContactOut hosts one at contactout.com/mcp and allows 1,000 requests a minute on most endpoints; Wiza has no MCP server and runs only 5 reveals at once on its Starter API tier.
When it is the wrong answer
An agent-first workflow. If the thing calling the API is an assistant, ContactOut's MCP server is a configuration line and Wiza is a build.
FullEnrich
A waterfall across 25 sources, charged only when it finds a result, with a published personal email price of 3 credits.
FullEnrich puts 25 sources behind one call and charges per result: 1 credit for a work email, 3 for a valid personal email and 10 for a mobile. A credit is $0.055 on the $55 plan for 1,000 credits, with a $29 rung for 500 below it. A personal email is $0.165 and a lookup that finds nothing is free.
The use is coverage. A single-source provider can only return what its own database holds, and a waterfall tries the next source when the first one misses. It suits the rows ContactOut does not resolve, priced per find rather than per attempt.
The limits are published: 60 API calls a minute, 100 contacts per bulk request and 100 concurrent jobs per workspace. Credits roll over three months on monthly billing and twelve on annual.
What you give up
Price on easy rows. Waterfall rates paid on contacts a single source would have found are money spent for nothing, and at $0.55 a mobile FullEnrich is the dear way to buy phones.
When it is the wrong answer
A recruiter who needs a personal email on the profile in front of them. That is an extension job, and a waterfall API is the wrong tool for one lookup at a time.
People Data Labs
A dataset with a published price and standard terms that cover showing its data inside your product. The pick when ContactOut's bulk license was the reason you were talking to sales.
ContactOut's Team plan offers a bulk license, quote only. People Data Labs is a dataset vendor with a price on its page: a free plan of up to 100 credits a month with contact data obfuscated, and Self-Serve from $98 a month for 350 credits.
The reason to choose it is the contract rather than the endpoint. Its standard subscription agreement licenses you to show its data to your own customers inside your product, which few other self-serve plans here grant by default, and that is the question legal asks once contact data reaches your customers. It is not a resale license: you may not resell the data, give your users programmatic access to a substantial part of it, or build anything that competes with PDL, and those terms must flow down to your customers.
Person, company, job title and school datasets sit under one key, and the bulk and search endpoints are built for warehouse loads. Rate limits are per key and per endpoint, reported in the response headers rather than published as one number.
What you give up
Price and the GTM tooling. At about $0.28 a record it is among the dearest per-record rates here, and there is no extension, no sequencer and no MCP server. Nobody moves here to save money.
When it is the wrong answer
A sales or recruiting team enriching its own lists. If the rows never leave your CRM, you are paying for a right to show data in a product you will not build, and RocketReach or Wiza is the cheaper answer.
What you would actually pay, on each one
Every provider on this page publishes a rate card, so the real numbers can sit next to each other rather than behind a summary. The plan you want is the one whose included volume covers a normal month for you, not the cheapest one on the page.
ContactOut
ContactOut publishes 4 tiers, one of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $99, with a quoted tier above it.
Free
- 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day
- Browser extension and search portal
- No API access
- "Unlimited" emails, capped at 2,000 a month by the fair use terms
- 300 exports a month
- One user per company, no API
Email + Phone
- "Unlimited" emails and phones, capped at 2,000 and 1,000 a month
- 600 exports a month
- One user per company, no API
Team / API
- API access, which the MCP server also needs
- Bulk license and Salesforce and ATS integrations
- Credits metered per email, phone and search
RocketReach
RocketReach publishes 3 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $33 to $141.58.
Essentials
- 1,200 exports a year, email only
- Unlimited verified personal and professional emails
- MCP and API access
Pro
- 3,600 exports a year, email and phone
- Technographics, news and org charts
- Salesforce, Outreach, HubSpot and Salesloft integrations
Ultimate
- 20,000 exports a year, email and phone
- Intent data and healthcare data
- Salesforce custom mapping
Wiza
Wiza publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $199, with a quoted tier above it.
API credits
- $0.025 a credit, no API plan required
- About 1,000 verified emails or 400 phones
- Bought from a slider in Settings, API
API credits, larger
- The same $0.025 a credit
- Wiza's own worked example, not a discount tier
- About 100,000 verified emails
Enterprise API
- Larger credit plans with volume discounts
- 15 or more reveals running at once
- Trial credits for a proof of concept, on request
Seat plans
- Starter, Email and Email + Phone
- $0.15 an extra email, $0.35 an extra phone
- No API access listed on any of them
FullEnrich
FullEnrich publishes 9 tiers, one of them a free trial, and the paid ladder runs from $29 to $3,500.
Free trial
- No credit card required
- Earn more credits by inviting team members
- Enough to measure your own match rate
Pro 500
- $0.058 a credit
- $26 a month billed yearly, 6,000 credits upfront
Pro 1,000
- $0.055 a credit
- 1,000 work emails, or 100 mobiles, or 333 personal emails
- Credits roll over 3 months on monthly billing
Pro 5,000
- $0.051 a credit
Pro 10,000
- $0.050 a credit
Annual
- Rollover extends from 3 months to 12
- The option that suits lumpy agency volume
3 steps between the fifth and the last are not drawn here. The cost model below reads all 9.
People Data Labs
People Data Labs publishes 3 tiers, one of them free.
Free
- Full access to the Person APIs for testing
- Contact data is obfuscated, so emails and phones are masked
- No commitment, sign up and go
Self-Serve
- Contact data included and unmasked
- Access to premium fields
- Monthly or annual subscription
- CSV enrichment and email support
Enterprise
- Custom volumes and annual contracts
- Access to all APIs, plus Data License Feeds
- Formal data testing before you commit
- Additional field bundles
Read the included volume before the headline price. A plan that costs twice as much and carries five times the credits is the cheaper plan, and on this page that is the usual case rather than the exception.
What each one costs at your volume
ContactOut first, then every replacement. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers your volume on each one, which is the comparison a row of entry prices cannot make.
ContactOut
Publishes no price, so there is nothing here to model and the lines below say what to ask for.
RocketReach
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Wiza
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
FullEnrich
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
People Data Labs
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Plans are read from each vendor's own pricing page and the model picks the cheapest one that covers you, so these are list prices on the billing term each vendor publishes, annual where that is how it prices, before any discount you negotiate. ContactOut publishes no price, so nothing is modeled there and the panel says what to ask for instead.
What a year costs at three volumes
The same plan-fit arithmetic as the model above, run out to a year, because an annual number is what a budget actually asks for.
The priced columns move with volume, through a bigger plan or more seats.
| A year at | ContactOut | RocketReach | Wiza | FullEnrich | People Data Labs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | Quoted | $1,699 Ultimate | $600 API credits | $660 Pro 1,000 | $3,360 Self-Serve |
| 10,000 a month | Quoted | Quoted | $6,000 API credits | $5,988 Pro 10,000 | $33,600 Self-Serve |
| 50,000 a month | Quoted | Quoted | $30,000 API credits | $23,400 Pro 50,000 | $168,000 Self-Serve |
ContactOut does not publish enough to price a year, so that column is marked rather than filled. These are list prices on the published plan that covers each volume, on the billing term each vendor publishes, so they are the number before you negotiate.
Which replacement is yours
Answer what matters most and the lean appears below. Every option is read from the records on this page, and staying on ContactOut is one of the possible answers.
Each answer leans one way. The recommendation appears here once you have picked at least two.
A tool like this can only weigh what is on the page. It does not know your workload, and the one test that does is the bake-off on this page: your own rows, queries or records, run on the cheapest entry each side offers.
Where an answer leans on a certification or an integration, it means that vendor publishes it on the pages this directory read, which is not the same as the other one lacking it. The sources are listed at the foot of the page.
Where the data comes from, and what you may do with it
The question that arrives late and expensively is who is allowed to hold the data. A migration is the moment to check it, because you are signing a new contract anyway.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ContactOut | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, LinkedIn profile, Firmographics | Global | GDPR CCPA | Not stated |
| RocketReach | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, Technographics, Intent and news | Strongest in NA | CCPA | Not stated |
| Wiza | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, LinkedIn profile, Firmographics | Global | None published | Not stated |
| FullEnrich | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| People Data Labs | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA SOC 2 Type II CCPA | Not stated |
None of these states a redistribution position on its pricing or docs pages. Internally that never matters. Put the rows in something your customers can see and it becomes the question your legal team asks first.
Two practical notes that apply to every provider on this page. A compliance badge describes the vendor rather than your use of it, so a GDPR DPA does not give you a lawful basis for the outreach you send. And every one of these vendors runs its own opt-out, which means a person who asks you to delete their record has to be removed from your copy as well as from theirs.
Moving off ContactOut
Written against RocketReach, the first pick above, because the steps are the same whichever one you take and the specifics are what make them useful. Swap the name and the order still holds.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Run 500 rows you already have through ContactOut and record the match rate, the fields that came back populated and the cost. Without that number a migration cannot be judged, because every provider looks cheaper per unit than the one you are paying for today.
Check which fields change
RocketReach does not return LinkedIn profile, which ContactOut does. If anything downstream reads that field, the switch changes your pipeline as well as your vendor.
Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order
ContactOut authenticates with an API token in a header named token, issued by ContactOut after a sales meeting. RocketReach uses an API key from Account Settings; the MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE.
The limits are the part that bites later. ContactOut's limits: 60 requests a minute on People Search, 150 on the Contact Checker endpoints and 1,000 on every other endpoint.
RocketReach's limits: per plan: 15 person lookups a minute and 500 a day on Essentials, to 100 and 3,000 on Ultimate, under 10 requests a second. A loop tuned to the first will either crawl or get throttled on the second.
Run both for one billing cycle
Keep the old key live and route a slice of real traffic to the new one. A month is the shortest honest test, because credit expiry, rollover and the overage rate only show up at renewal and those are where the surprises live.
Cancel on the renewal date
Credits on most of these plans do not survive a downgrade. Check what happens to the balance you have already paid for, and time the switch so you are not buying the same records twice.
The step people skip is the first one, and it is the only one that cannot be done after the fact. Once the old key is off you have nothing to compare the new match rate against, so a provider that is quietly worse on your segment looks like a provider that is fine.
What practitioners say about People Data Labs
Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page.
The accuracy spread between vendors is smaller than the one inside your own list
it's nearly all the same at the end of the day... there's a marginal 5-10% difference between the vendors but overall 55-65% data accuracy / validity overall. [...] have a team of 20+ (or however many) outsourced data integrity workers through fiver or whatnot... it's what the rich tech companies like AirBnB and Uber do to have the most up to date data...
r/SalesOperations · November 2024 · 3 points
The range here lands on the assumption the waterfall stack on this site is modeled with, which is a 55% first pass. That figure is labeled as modeled on every page that uses it, because no provider in this category publishes a match rate you can hold it to, so an independent practitioner arriving at 55 to 65% is the closest thing to corroboration available. It also makes the case for the waterfall itself: if the best single source clears about 60%, the second provider is not a luxury.
The 5 to 10% spread between vendors is this commenter's estimate and nothing here verifies it, and the thread it comes from is a request for benchmarks that were never published. Read it as a reason to run your own test on your own rows rather than as a reason to skip one. It argues against paying a premium for coverage claims, which is a different question from paying a premium for a redistribution license.
14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page.
Should you actually switch?
The short answer is at the top of this page. Before you act on it, run the test below, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether that answer holds for you.
No provider in this category publishes a match rate you can hold them to, so run the same 500 rows through a free tier, a trial or a small paid top-up on each, verify every result set, and divide spend by survivors. Your own list is the only evidence worth acting on, it takes half a day, and it changes the decision often enough to be worth it.
Head to head, and in a stack
Before you switch, try the waterfall in Clay.
Clay runs a waterfall across 150+ data providers from one table, without a separate contract with each. A lookup that finds nothing costs no data credit, and the free plan includes 500 actions a month.
Frontal is a Clay Elite Studio Partner.
Switching from ContactOut, answered
What is the best ContactOut alternative?
It depends on why you are leaving, which is how this page is organized rather than ranked. The first pick here is RocketReach, which this directory sums up as "API and MCP on the cheapest paid tier", at $33/mo annual. The case for it, and what you give up, is in the section above.
Is there a free alternative to ContactOut?
Yes, one: People Data Labs. Free plan, up to 100 credits per month with contact data obfuscated.
How were these alternatives chosen?
By the reason teams leave, not by a score. The page opens with the reasons teams leave and matches a replacement to each one.