Lead411 vs UpLead
Lead411
The email and the direct dial on one export, with unused exports rolling over $49/UpLead
One credit for the email and the mobile together $99/In Lead411 vs UpLead, both sell a unit that buys the email and the direct dial together, so the difference is which half of the API story each one publishes. Lead411 prints a starting price for a plan with API access, Ignite from $150 a month for 1,000 exports, and publishes no API reference; UpLead documents its API with a 500 requests a minute limit and quotes the only plan that carries it. Pick Lead411 if a published price and the lower rate per contact decide it, and UpLead if your engineers need to read the docs before anyone signs. Run both 7-day trials on the same rows: Lead411 gives 50 exports and UpLead 5 credits.
Where they actually differ
Every value comes from the same record that drives the Enrichment APIs listing, so this table cannot disagree with the cards. Accented tags are data one provider returns and the other does not.
| Compare | Lead411 | UpLead |
|---|---|---|
| What sets it apart | One export buys the whole contact, and the API starts at Ignite | A credit buys the whole contact, but the API is quote only |
| Entry price | $49/mo | $99/mo |
| Unit cost | $0.15 per export, at Ignite's starting price | $0.582 per contact |
| Billing model | Subscription Credit packs | Credit packs Subscription Per seat |
| Free tier | 7-day free trial with 50 exports. No ongoing free tier, and the trial lists no API access. | 7-day free trial with 5 credits. No ongoing free tier. |
| GTM motion covered | Source Enrich | Source Enrich |
| Data returned | Work emailMobile phoneFirmographicsTechnographicsIntent and newsJob postings | Work emailMobile phoneFirmographicsTechnographicsIntent and news |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Interfaces | REST API | REST API Bulk or async |
| Auth | Not published. Lead411 has no public API reference; access is set up with Lead411 on the Ignite or Blaze plan | API key, per the UpLead API docs |
| Rate limits | Not published. Lead411 says there are no data caps or daily limits, which describes exports rather than request rates | 500 requests a minute, reported in X-RateLimit headers |
| Coverage | Global | Strongest in NA |
| Compliance | CCPA | GDPR DPA CCPA |
| Best for | The email and the direct dial on one export, with unused exports rolling over | One credit for the email and the mobile together |
The same workload, priced both ways
Computed from each provider's published entry-plan rate. The monthly floor is shown separately, because at low volume the floor is the bill.
| Workload | Lead411 | UpLead | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 verified work emails | $1,500 $0.15 per email |
$5,820 $0.582 per email |
Lead411, 3.9x cheaper |
| 2,000 mobile numbers | $300.00 $0.15 per mobile |
$1,164 $0.582 per mobile |
Lead411, 3.9x cheaper |
| Monthly floor at entry | Ignite, the first plan with the API, $150/mo and up | Essentials, the first plan with the API, $99/mo | UpLead is lower |
| Charged on a miss | No | No | Neither |
Rates read from each vendor's own pricing page on 24 October 2026. Bulk figures assume the entry-plan rate holds at that volume, which in practice means moving up a plan tier.
Pick each one when
Lead411
- You want a published starting price for the API plan: Ignite from $150 a month.
- Cost per contact decides it, and $0.15 an export beats UpLead's published $0.498 to $0.582.
- You want a trial large enough to test a sample, and 50 exports is ten times UpLead's 5 credits.
UpLead
- Your engineers need documented endpoints, auth and a published 500 requests a minute before anyone signs.
- You are on an annual budget anyway, and the quote for Professional is a conversation you were going to have.
- Your list is North American, which is where UpLead says its data is.
Neither vendor publishes a match rate you could hold them to, so the rate card only tells you half the story. Take 500 rows from the segment you actually sell into, run them through a trial on each side, verify both result sets, and divide spend by survivors. Half a day and about $20, and on a close pair it changes the answer often enough to be worth it.
What each one costs, tier by tier
Both publish a full rate card, so this comparison runs on numbers rather than on adjectives. Lead411 lists 4 tiers and UpLead lists 4. Every figure is read off the vendor's own pricing page, and the pages they came from are listed at the foot of this one.
| The short version | Lead411 | UpLead |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan with the API | Ignite, $150 | Essentials, $99 |
| Tiers published | 4 | 4 |
| Free tier | 7-day free trial with 50 exports. No ongoing free tier, and the trial lists no API access. | 7-day free trial with 5 credits. No ongoing free tier. |
| Unit cost at entry | $0.15 per export, at Ignite's starting price | $0.582 per contact |
The cheapest paid plan is rarely the plan you end up on, because what moves you up a tier is usually volume rather than a feature. The two rate cards below are what you are choosing between.
Lead411
Lead411 publishes 4 tiers, one of them a free trial, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $150, with a quoted tier above it.
Free trial
- Verified emails and direct dials
- Chrome extension
- No API access listed
Spark
- $490 a year billed annually, for 12,000 exports and buyer intent
- $0.049 an export at the monthly rate
- CRM customizations and the Chrome extension, no API
Ignite
- The cheapest plan that lists API access
- $0.15 an export at the published starting price
- $1,500 a year billed annually, flexible exports, intent as an add-on
- Multiple users with admin control
Blaze
- Unlimited exports a year
- API access, custom onboarding, optional buyer intent
UpLead
UpLead publishes 4 tiers, one of them a free trial, and the paid ladder runs from $99 to $199, with a quoted tier above it.
Free trial
- Verified emails and mobile direct dials
- Chrome extension
- No ongoing free tier
Essentials
- $74 a month billed annually
- $0.582 a credit at the monthly rate
- CRM integrations, no API
Plus
- $149 a month billed annually
- $0.498 a credit
- Data enrichment, technographics, advanced filters
- Still no API access
Professional
- The only tier with full API access
- Custom seats and custom credits
- Buyer intent and bi-directional CRM sync
What Lead411 and UpLead cost at your volume
Put your own volume in. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers it on each side, which is the question a rate card cannot answer and the one that decides the bill.
Lead411
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
UpLead
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.
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 | Lead411 | UpLead |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | $1,800 Ignite | Quoted |
| 10,000 a month | Quoted | Quoted |
| 50,000 a month | Quoted | Quoted |
UpLead 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.
How this plays out once it is running
Lead411 and UpLead both sell the contact rather than the field. One UpLead credit unlocks the email and the mobile direct dial together, and one Lead411 export does the same. On a motion that needs the phone on every row, that bundle is worth more than any difference in coverage claims.
Where they split is the API. UpLead publishes docs, an API key scheme and a 500 requests a minute limit reported in X-RateLimit headers, then puts full API access on Professional, an annual, quote-only tier. Its published plans, Essentials at $99 for 170 credits and Plus at $199 for 400, carry no API at all.
Lead411 does the reverse. Spark at $49 has no API, but Ignite lists API access from $150 a month for 1,000 exports, which is $0.15 a contact at the published starting price. What Lead411 does not publish is anything about the API itself, so the Lead411 vs UpLead choice is a choice between knowing the price and knowing the integration.
What each one is genuinely good at
These are the things that keep somebody paying after the first month, which is a different question from what the marketing page leads with.
Lead411
A published price for a plan with the API
Ignite starts at $150 a month on monthly billing and $1,500 a year on annual, and it is the first Lead411 plan that lists API access. UpLead publishes no price for any plan that carries its API. That makes Lead411 the only one of the two with a published starting price for programmatic use, though its FAQ says Ignite is quoted by team size and features.
The lower rate per contact
At Ignite's starting price an export costs $0.15, email and direct dial included. UpLead's published rates are $0.582 a credit on Essentials and $0.498 on Plus, for the same two fields, on plans without the API. Even Lead411's app plan, Spark, is $0.049 an export.
Rollover and a larger trial
Unused exports roll over to the next billing cycle on every Lead411 subscription. The free trial is 50 exports over 7 days, against UpLead's 5 credits over the same week, which is the difference between seeing a record and testing a sample of your own list.
UpLead
The API is documented
UpLead publishes its API reference, takes an API key, and documents a ceiling of 500 requests a minute reported in X-RateLimit headers. An engineer can estimate the build and size a backfill before anybody signs. Lead411 publishes none of that.
Technographics and intent in the same unit
Plus adds data enrichment and technographics, and Professional adds buyer intent and bi-directional CRM sync. Lead411 covers technographics on every subscription and Bombora intent on annual plans, so this is closer than it looks; the difference is that UpLead's tiers say plainly which plan carries what.
A clear, single gate
The UpLead rule is one sentence: full API access is on Professional. Lead411's is spread across a feature list and an FAQ that says there are no data caps while Spark and Ignite list monthly exports. One gate you dislike is easier to plan around than two you have to reconcile.
Where each one falls down
Every provider on this site has a case it handles badly, and the people who find out are the ones who bought it for that case. These are the ones worth knowing before you sign rather than after.
Lead411
No public API reference
Lead411 publishes no endpoints, no authentication method and no rate limits, and its homepage link to the enrichment API goes to the pricing page. Until Lead411 sends the reference, you cannot estimate the build. There is no MCP server either.
Unlimited means Blaze, and Blaze is quoted
The FAQ promises no data caps or daily limits, but Spark and Ignite both carry monthly export allowances, and Ignite's 1,000 is a floor with a starting price. Unlimited exports are on Blaze, which is annual and quoted, so above the published tier both vendors end in the same conversation.
UpLead
The published plans do not include the API
Essentials at $99 and Plus at $199 are the numbers on the page, and neither carries API access. Professional is the only tier that does, annual billing and quote only, so UpLead's visible price is not the price of the product this directory is about.
North American coverage, and no MCP
UpLead is a North American database in this directory, so an international list belongs elsewhere; Lead411 says it searches globally. Neither side runs an MCP server, so an agent integration is REST and your own glue on both.
Using Lead411 and UpLead together
Teams comparing these two often end up running both, and the arrangement below is the one they settle on.
Running both is hard to justify, because they sell the same bundle. Two databases that each return the email and the direct dial together are a waterfall only if one is reliably missing what the other has, and neither publishes a match rate that would tell you that. Measure it on the trials before you assume it.
Where both do make sense is a sequence of decisions rather than a stack. Start on Lead411 Ignite, where the starting price is published and works out at $0.15 a contact, while you ask Lead411 for its API reference. If the reference does not arrive in a form your engineers can build against, UpLead's documented API is the fallback, and you go into the Professional quote knowing what a contact is worth to you.
The trials make that cheap to set up. Run the same rows through Lead411's 50 exports and UpLead's 5 credits, compare which records came back with a direct dial, and let that decide whether you need a second vendor at all.
Lead411 or UpLead, for you
Four questions, answered from the same records as the rest of this page. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no result to email yourself.
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. These are the fields each one returns, the coverage it claims and the compliance it publishes.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead411 | Work email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, Technographics, Intent and news, Job postings | Global | CCPA | Not stated |
| UpLead | Work email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, Technographics, Intent and news | Strongest in NA | GDPR DPA 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 between Lead411 and UpLead
Most readers of this page are already on one of these two, and the order below catches the expensive mistakes while they are still free.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Run 500 rows you already have through Lead411 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
UpLead does not return job postings, which Lead411 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
Lead411 publishes no authentication method. Lead411 has no public API reference; access is set up with Lead411 on the Ignite or Blaze plan. UpLead uses an API key, per the UpLead API docs.
The limits are the part that bites later. Lead411's limits: not published. Lead411 says there are no data caps or daily limits, which describes exports rather than request rates.
UpLead's limits: 500 requests a minute, reported in X-RateLimit headers. 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.
The wider field for both
Sometimes the answer is neither, and the reason you are comparing these two points somewhere else entirely: Lead411 alternatives and UpLead alternatives both start from the reason people leave.
Lead411 alternatives
4Lead411 prints a price for its API plan and nothing about the API itself. Most teams weighing Lead411 competitors want an API they can read before they pay, and a price they can see without a call.
See the alternatives →UpLead alternatives
4UpLead prints a price on its pricing page and then puts the API on the one plan that does not have one.
See the alternatives →Everything in Enrich
23The full category these two sit in, filtered by data returned, billing model and entry price.
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Lead411 and UpLead, answered
Read from the same records that drive the table above.
Is Lead411 or UpLead cheaper?
They are priced on different bases, Lead411 at $150 a month on Ignite and UpLead at $99/mo, so the cost model above is the comparison, not the headline. Per verified work email it is $0.15 on Lead411 against $0.582 on UpLead.
Can I try Lead411 and UpLead for free?
Lead411: 7-day free trial with 50 exports. No ongoing free tier, and the trial lists no API access. UpLead: 7-day free trial with 5 credits. No ongoing free tier.
What are the rate limits on Lead411 and UpLead?
Lead411: Not published. Lead411 says there are no data caps or daily limits, which describes exports rather than request rates. UpLead: 500 requests a minute, reported in X-RateLimit headers.
Do Lead411 and UpLead both have MCP servers?
Neither documents one, at the time of writing. Both are REST APIs you call directly.
Which is better, Lead411 or UpLead?
In Lead411 vs UpLead, both sell a unit that buys the email and the direct dial together, so the difference is which half of the API story each one publishes. Pick Lead411 if a published price and the lower rate per contact decide it, and UpLead if your engineers need to read the docs before anyone signs.
What are the downsides of Lead411 and UpLead?
Lead411: no public API reference; unlimited means Blaze, and Blaze is quoted. UpLead: the published plans do not include the API; north American coverage, and no MCP. The Limits section above has each one in full.
Can you use Lead411 and UpLead together?
Running both is hard to justify, because they sell the same bundle. Two databases that each return the email and the direct dial together are a waterfall only if one is reliably missing what the other has, and neither publishes a match rate that would tell you that.
Can I migrate from Lead411 to UpLead without losing data?
Not without losing a field. UpLead does not return job postings, which Lead411 does, so anything downstream that reads it has to change. Either way, measure your match rate on 500 rows before you switch, because that number is the one you cannot recover afterwards.