Best ContactOut Alternatives
Last updated By Victor Paraschiv
The main ContactOut alternatives are Kaspr and Apollo.io for sellers who prospect profile by profile, RocketReach and UpLead for larger exports or a phone with every contact, Snov.io for a cheap finder with campaigns, Cognism for a team contract with phone-verified mobiles, and BetterContact for phone-led teams. Clu, which we make, suits teams that enrich whole lists and want several people on one account, from $49 per seat a month with every seat's credits in one shared balance. For one recruiter exporting a few hundred contacts a month, ContactOut is still the better deal.
The 8 ContactOut alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.Clu | lean GTM teams that want one platform in place of 3 to 5 tools: AI agents | $49/mo | 50 credits/mo |
| 2.Kaspr | sellers who prospect on LinkedIn profile by profile and want more exports than ContactOut allows | $49/user/mo (annual) | 15 email and 5 phone credits/mo |
| 3.Apollo.io | sellers who want a database, sequences and a dialer in one account | $49/user/mo (annual) | 900 credits/seat/yr |
| 4.RocketReach | sellers who need more exports a year than ContactOut's self-serve cap | $329/yr (email only) | 5 free lookups |
| 5.Snov.io | small teams that want to find, verify and email leads from one cheap account | $39/mo | Trial, 50 credits every 30 days |
| 6.UpLead | teams that want a direct dial with every contact and buy fewer, chosen records | $99/mo, $74 annual | 7-day trial, 5 credits |
| 7.Cognism | teams that want a contract with phone-verified mobiles and will go through a sales process | Not published | No |
| 8.BetterContact | phone-led teams that want many data vendors behind one bill | $15/mo | 50 credits at signup |
8 best ContactOut alternatives in 2026
Ranked for a 10 to 300 person B2B team, with each vendor's own published price.
1. Clu: Best for lean GTM teams that want one platform in place of 3 to 5 tools: AI agents
Clu enriches whole lists and searches, with several people on one account. Each lookup runs through a waterfall of 25+ data providers and stops at the first verified result, returning a work email and a phone number on the same row, and a lookup that finds nothing costs nothing. On Pro and Enterprise, the finished list syncs both ways with HubSpot and Salesforce.
- Clu and agents that run on a schedule or a CRM trigger
- People and Company Search over 1B+ profiles at 0 credits
- Waterfall across 25+ providers with SMTP and catch-all verification
- Sequences with email and call steps
- HubSpot and Salesforce sync on Pro and Enterprise
- MCP server (30+ tools, from Starter) and REST API (from Pro)
Strengths
- A phone number is 10 credits from the same credit pool as the email
- A lookup that finds nothing costs nothing
- Search is free, so you pay only for the contacts you keep
- Every seat adds its credits to one shared balance: 750 on Starter, 1,500 on Pro
Limitations
- Costs more per phone number than ContactOut's Email + Phone plan for a single user under its export cap
- Built for work contacts in B2B sales, with no recruiting integrations
- The public API starts on the Pro plan
2. Kaspr: Best for sellers who prospect on LinkedIn profile by profile and want more exports than ContactOut allows
Kaspr, part of Cognism, is the closest match to ContactOut's way of working: a LinkedIn-first Chrome extension, with CRM integrations for Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive. Paid plans include unlimited B2B email credits within an export cap, plus phone credits.
- LinkedIn Chrome extension
- Unlimited B2B email credits within an export cap
- Phone credits on every paid plan
- Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive
- Free plan with email and phone credits
Strengths
- 12,000 exports a year on Starter, against ContactOut Email's 3,600
- Phone credits on every paid plan and a free plan with 5 phone credits a month
- Unlimited B2B email credits within the export cap
Limitations
- Phone credits are capped: 1,200 a year on Starter
- Priced per user, so a team costs a seat each
- Full API access starts on Business; Starter gets limited access on request
3. Apollo.io: Best for sellers who want a database, sequences and a dialer in one account
Apollo.io combines a large B2B database, email sequences and a dialer in one account, with a free plan and a Chrome extension. It prices per seat, and each seat carries its own credits: an email costs 1 credit to reveal and a phone number 8.
- B2B contact and company database
- Chrome extension
- Email sequences and a US dialer from Basic
- Published credit costs for every action
- Free plan at 900 credits per seat per year
Strengths
- $19.60 per 1,000 emails on Basic annual, far below ContactOut's export price
- Sequences and a dialer in the same account
- Seats can be added for a team
Limitations
- Per-seat pricing grows with the team
- A phone number is 8 credits
- Enriching a record costs 1 to 8 credits
4. RocketReach: Best for sellers who need more exports a year than ContactOut's self-serve cap
RocketReach is a people search and lookup tool that returns emails and phone numbers, priced by exports on annual plans. A lookup is used only if RocketReach finds and verifies an email or phone, and is otherwise refunded.
- People search and lookups
- Emails on every plan, phones from Pro
- Annual plans priced by exports
- An API that returns emails and phone numbers
- Free account with 5 lookups
Strengths
- Ultimate's 20,000 exports a year bring the cost to about $85 per 1,000
- A lookup that finds nothing is refunded
- Phones included from Pro
Limitations
- The entry plan is email only
- Priced by exports, like ContactOut
- Team plans start at $6,000 a year, per its pricing page
5. Snov.io: Best for small teams that want to find, verify and email leads from one cheap account
Snov.io puts an email finder, a verifier, warm-up and email campaigns on one credit plan with unlimited team seats. A saved prospect or an email verification costs 1 credit.
- Email finder and database search
- 7-tier email verifier
- Email and LinkedIn campaigns with warm-up
- Unlimited team seats
- Free Trial plan that renews every 30 days
Strengths
- Unlimited team seats on every plan
- About $39 per 1,000 emails on Starter, falling below $10 on Pro M
- Campaigns and warm-up included
Limitations
- Phone data is a separate token purchase
- Verifying what the finder returns costs a second credit
- Phone tokens are sold in packages that expire after 90 days
6. UpLead: Best for teams that want a direct dial with every contact and buy fewer, chosen records
UpLead is a B2B contact database in which one credit unlocks one contact, email and mobile direct dial together, with a Chrome extension, APIs and integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive and Dynamics.
- Verified emails and mobile direct dials
- One credit per contact, phone included
- Chrome extension
- Enrichment and Prospector APIs
- Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive and Dynamics
Strengths
- A mobile direct dial with every contact
- A wide list of CRM integrations
- Published self-serve prices
Limitations
- 170 credits a month on Essentials, or $435.29 per 1,000 on annual billing
- No free plan, only a 7-day trial with 5 credits
- One user on Essentials
7. Cognism: Best for teams that want a contract with phone-verified mobiles and will go through a sales process
Cognism is a sales intelligence platform sold on team contracts, known for phone-verified mobile numbers, with exports to Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive and data delivered by API. Its Standard and Pro packages show 5 seats included and no price.
- Phone-verified mobile numbers
- Team packages with 5 seats included
- Exports to Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive
- Data delivered by API
- 1 credit per revealed contact
Strengths
- Phone-verified mobiles
- Sold as a team package, so seats come with the contract
- CRM exports and an API
Limitations
- Publishes no price
- No free tier
- A sales process before you can start
8. BetterContact: Best for phone-led teams that want many data vendors behind one bill
BetterContact is a waterfall enrichment tool that sends each lookup to 20+ data vendors in sequence and charges only for valid results: 1 credit for an email and 10 for a mobile phone. Unused credits roll over, up to twice the monthly amount.
- Waterfall across 20+ data vendors
- Charged only for valid emails and mobiles
- Credit rollover up to twice the monthly amount
- API and integrations on every plan
- 50 free credits at signup
Strengths
- Charges only when a valid email or mobile is found
- Priced per valid result, with no export allowance on its pricing page
- About 40 cents a mobile from 5,000 credits a month up
Limitations
- Seat terms are not published on the pricing page
- Phone and catch-all verification start on Pro
- No recurring free plan
Why teams look for a ContactOut alternative
ContactOut is a browser extension and search portal for finding emails and phone numbers, used by recruiters and sellers. On its paid plans reveals are unlimited: the Email plan is $49 a month and Email + Phone is $99 a month, as read on October 1, 2026. What the plan meters is exports, 300 a month on Email and 600 on Email + Phone, and every self-serve plan carries a one-user-per-company limit.
Those two limits are why people look elsewhere. A team cannot share the self-serve plans, and the Team / API plan has no published price. Anyone enriching a whole list reaches the export cap quickly, at about 16 cents per exported contact. And the page lists each paid plan against a higher original price, which makes the renewal price a fair question to ask.
The right alternative depends on how you work. If you look people up one at a time, the other extension-first tools are the closest match. If you enrich lists, look at the tools that charge per contact found. If you need a team contract, look at the vendors that sell one.
We make Clu, and it is listed first because this is our page. Several email and phone finders that ContactOut users often compare it with supply data to Clu's waterfall; we buy from them, so they are left off this list. Every price below is the vendor's own published price. Prices checked October 1, 2026.
How we picked these ContactOut alternatives
Each tool here returns work emails, phone numbers or both for B2B prospecting, and we compared what each charges per contact, whether it limits exports, how it prices seats, and whether it publishes a price at all. ContactOut is also widely used for recruiting and personal emails; the tools here are compared on work contacts for sales, so check personal-email coverage separately if you recruit. Nothing here was tested by us on a shared input list, and the feature table marks anything a vendor does not publish as not published.
Which ContactOut alternative should you pick?
One pick per use case. Where another tool is the better choice, it gets the pick.
- ContactOut
Best for one recruiter or seller exporting a few hundred contacts
Unlimited reveals from $49 a month, and unlimited phones on the $99 plan, are hard to beat for one person under the export cap.
- Kaspr
Best extension-first alternative
The same LinkedIn-first way of working, with more exports a year on Starter and seats a team can buy.
- RocketReach
Best for more exports a year
Annual plans up to 20,000 exports, with lookups refunded when nothing is found.
- Cognism
Best for a team contract with mobiles
Phone-verified mobiles and team packages with seats included, at a price you get from sales.
- Clu
Best for enriching whole lists with a team
One credit balance shared by every seat, a waterfall of 25+ providers, 1 credit per verified work email and 10 per phone number, and nothing charged on a miss.
- Apollo.io
Best all-in-one with sequences
A database, sequences and a dialer in one account, priced per seat.
How much do ContactOut alternatives cost?
The entry price, free tier and contract of every tool on this list, from each vendor's own pricing page.
| Tool | Starting price | Free tier | Contract | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clu | $49/mo | 50 credits/mo | Monthly, or annual at 25% off | Per seat, and each seat adds 750 credits to one shared balance |
| ContactOut | $49/mo | 5 emails, 5 phones, 5 exports a day | Monthly or annual | 300 exports a month; 1 user per company |
| Kaspr | $49/user/mo (annual) | 15 email and 5 phone credits/mo | Monthly or annual | 12,000 exports a year on Starter |
| Apollo.io | $49/user/mo (annual) | 900 credits/seat/yr | Monthly or annual; Organization annual only | Per seat; phone number 8 credits |
| RocketReach | $329/yr (email only) | 5 free lookups | Monthly or annual | 1,200 exports a year on Essentials |
| Snov.io | $39/mo | Trial, 50 credits every 30 days | Monthly, or annual at 25% off | Unlimited seats; phone data sold as tokens |
| UpLead | $99/mo, $74 annual | 7-day trial, 5 credits | Monthly or annual | 170 credits a month on Essentials |
| Cognism | Not published | No | Quoted by sales | 5 seats included in each package |
| BetterContact | $15/mo | 50 credits at signup | Monthly, or annual with 2 months free | Pro from $49/mo for 1,000 credits |
Which features does each ContactOut alternative include?
Each row is a tool and each column a capability, checked against the vendor's own pricing or product page on September 1, 2026. If a vendor doesn't say, the cell reads “Not published”.
| Tool | Email data | Phone data | CRM integration | Chrome extension | API access | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kaspr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apollo.io | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RocketReach | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published |
| Snov.io | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UpLead | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Cognism | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| BetterContact | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | Yes | No |
Published and checkedNot offeredNot published by the vendor
How to switch from ContactOut
Export first. ContactOut meters exports, so the contacts you want to keep count against this month's cap, and its help article says the Cancel Subscription button cancels immediately. If you have more contacts than exports left, spread the export over the months you have paid for.
Re-verify before you send. Contacts revealed months ago may have changed jobs, so run the exported list through the new tool's verification before a campaign, and add direct dials in the same pass if phones were the reason you switched.
Check personal emails separately. If you used ContactOut for personal emails, for recruiting for example, confirm that the new tool returns them before you cancel.
Frequently asked questions
What teams ask before they move off ContactOut.
What is the best alternative to ContactOut?
For one person who looks people up on LinkedIn, Kaspr is the closest match, with more exports a year. For a database with sequences and a dialer, Apollo.io. For more exports, RocketReach. For a team contract with mobiles, Cognism. For enriching whole lists with several people on the account, Clu or BetterContact, which charge per result found.
Is there a free alternative to ContactOut?
Apollo.io's free plan is 900 credits per seat per year, Kaspr's is 15 email and 5 phone credits a month, and Snov.io's Trial is 50 credits every 30 days. Clu's Free plan is 50 credits a month, and every new workspace can start with a 14-day Pro trial with 250 credits and up to 3 seats.
Which ContactOut alternative works for a team?
ContactOut's self-serve plans allow one user per company. Kaspr, Apollo.io and UpLead sell seats per user, Cognism sells team packages with 5 seats included, Snov.io includes unlimited seats, and Clu prices per seat ($49 on Starter, $89 on Pro) and pools every seat's credits in one balance.
Which alternative is cheapest for phone numbers?
For one user under its 600-export cap, ContactOut's own Email + Phone plan is hard to beat at about $165 per 1,000 exports with phones. Among the alternatives, Apollo.io Basic works out to $156.80 per 1,000 phone numbers on annual billing at 8 credits each, per seat, and BetterContact to about $400 per 1,000 valid mobiles from its 5,000-credit tier.
How do I move my contacts out of ContactOut?
Export the contacts you want before you cancel, keeping within your plan's export cap, then import the CSV into the new tool. ContactOut's help article says clicking Cancel Subscription cancels immediately and does not state what happens to access or unused exports, so export first.
How much does Clu cost compared with ContactOut?
Clu Starter is $49 per seat a month, and each seat adds 750 credits to one shared balance, against $49 a month for one user and 300 exports on ContactOut's Email plan. A verified work email costs Clu 1 credit and a phone number 10, charged only when a result comes back, which is $65.33 per 1,000 verified emails on Starter billed monthly, against about $163 per 1,000 exports on ContactOut's Email plan. For phone numbers, ContactOut's $99 Email + Phone plan is cheaper per contact for one user under its 600-export cap. Clu's own 500-lead benchmark returned 98% verified work emails and 85% phone numbers, which is our own test on our own sample; it did not test ContactOut.
What Clu runs for you.
One sentence to Clu, our GTM agent, builds an agent. Every Monday it finds 500 new people who match your ICP in 1B+ profiles, gets their emails and phone numbers from 25+ providers, verifies them, adds them to your sequence and posts the run to Slack. All of it is in the 14-day Pro trial. The full feature list is on the pricing page.
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