ContactOut pricing and review

Reachkit makes a competing cold email tool with its own lead search. ContactOut’s plan cards stayed blank when we read its pricing page on October 16, 2026, so the self-serve prices here come from third-party checks that agree.

ContactOut pricing starts at $49 a month for the Email plan and $99 for Email + Phone, one user each, for US and UK contact data. The cards on contactout.com/pricing load by script, so these figures come from write-ups by three vendors of related tools, Supered, Overloop and FullEnrich (September and October 2026).

“Unlimited” has a ceiling. ContactOut’s terms cap its unlimited plans at 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month under a fair-use policy. Exports are a separate, smaller meter. A “Limited time only” label the write-ups saw has no end date.

Region changes the price. Per the write-ups, a toggle shows lower prices if you leave out US and UK data (Canada too, per FullEnrich).

Other offers. The site menu says “Unlimited sales users for $299”; the sales page says “less than $299 monthly”, work emails only, conditions apply. ContactOut’s FAQ says it prices per user. The API is sold “at the Enterprise level”, though a free account gets 600+ credits for its MCP server.

What a typical setup costs: one recruiter who needs emails and phones for US candidates pays $99 a month or $948 a year (about 13 cents per export at all 7,200).

Cancelling: monthly plans can be cancelled before the next billing date. Annual plans are refundable in the first 30 days if you’ve used under 100 credits, minus one month’s price. Rollover isn’t published.

ContactOut finds contact details for people you’ve picked. Open a LinkedIn profile or a company website with the Chrome extension, or search its portal with 20+ filters. Details stay masked until you reveal them, which uses a credit only when something is found. The free plan works on standard LinkedIn profiles; Sales Navigator and Recruiter need a paid plan.

From there you export people, push them to Salesforce, HubSpot or an ATS such as Greenhouse (the Team card lists these integrations, so check your plan), call them from a browser dialer, or email them in multi-stage campaigns with an AI writer and open and reply tracking. ContactOut’s pages don’t describe inbox warmup or sending limits.

ContactOut says its data comes from public websites and profiles, partner datasets and its users. Its figures vary by page: 300 million to 800 million profiles, “99% confidence” on the homepage and “97% email accuracy” on its MCP page. MCP is a way for AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to use other apps; there’s also an API with batch lookups.

Strengths

• Personal emails, not just work ones. ContactOut advertises 150M personal emails, and one G2 reviewer credits it with “a 90% hit rate where other tools fail”.
• Quick to learn. The extension lists 700,000 Chrome users, and G2 reviewers rank ease of use among its best points.
• No charge on a miss. Email and phone credits go only on found details (API docs).
• Open to builders. An API, an MCP server and Zapier.

Drawbacks

• “Unlimited” stops at 2,000 emails a month, and exports at 300 or 600. G2 reviews quoted by Supered complain about the cap and credit limits.
• One user per self-serve plan. Team and API prices, and the $299 offer’s conditions, aren’t published.
• Phone numbers are less reliable than emails, say some G2 reviews from 2024 and 2026.

ContactOut has 4.4 to 4.5 out of 5 on G2 as of October 2026: G2’s pages show 4.4 from 109 reviews or 4.5 from 113. On Capterra it has 4.4 from 15 reviews, with customer service its lowest score at 3.8. Praise centers on accurate personal emails and ease of use; complaints on credit limits and phone accuracy.

Trustpilot shows 1.2 from 134 reviews, 88% one star, mostly from people who found their own details in ContactOut rather than customers. Nine of the ten newest are about consent.

ContactOut fits a recruiter or solo rep who works from LinkedIn and wants a personal email or phone number for each person at a flat monthly price.

Look elsewhere if several people need logins without a sales call, if you export more than 600 contacts a month, or if you need warmed sending inboxes too. For cold email, I’d count your monthly exports before paying for a year: that meter runs out long before “unlimited” does. See lead scraping for cold email.

• SignalHire: recruiter roots and ATS integrations, with unlimited users listed on paid plans; the default plan is $69 a month. See the SignalHire profile.
• RocketReach: personal and work emails on every plan, $69 a month for Essentials and $119 for Pro + Phone. See the RocketReach profile.
• Wiza: emails and mobiles for people you pick on LinkedIn, from $49 a month per user. See the Wiza profile.
• Lusha: 40 free credits a month, then Starter at $49.90. See the Lusha profile.
• Apollo: a database with email sequences and a free plan; Basic is $49 per seat a month billed yearly. See Reachkit vs Apollo.
• Reachkit (our product): if you look people up to email them, Lead Finder searches 500M+ profiles and adds verified emails to a campaign at 1 credit each, then sends from your own or done-for-you inboxes, each warmed by AI and capped at 20 campaign emails a day by default. Growth is $39 a month per workspace with 1,000 credits and no per-user fees. No phone numbers or browser extension.