Data Axle pricing and review

Reachkit sells a cold email platform with lead data built in, so it competes with part of what Data Axle does. Every price below was checked on October 15, 2026, on Data Axle’s and Salesgenie’s own pages.

Data Axle pricing starts at $99 a month for Salesgenie Basic, its lead app for small businesses, and you commit to 12 months. There is no single price list: four product lines publish prices, and the rest go through sales.

Salesgenie (buying options):

The Team card shows no billing period; third-party pages read it as monthly. Salesgenie’s feature list includes in-app access to 19.5 million businesses and 255 million consumers. Exports and email reveals are marked “Uses credits”, at a price Salesgenie doesn’t publish, and third-party pages disagree on whether Basic exports at all. Buyer Intent adds $50 a month: Salesgenie’s page shows it on all three plans, ZoomInfo’s pricing summary on Team only. After 12 months, plans renew month to month.

Developer Hub APIs (rates), per 1,000 records at 3,001 to 100,000 a month: business $50 (Standard) or $75 (Enhanced), consumer from $25 or $50, add-ons such as email from $30. So 10,000 business contacts with emails start at $800.

Credit Solutions (plans): $17.95 per business credit report, or $195 a month ($179 billed yearly). Google ranked it first for “data axle pricing” in October 2026, but it’s a credit check, not prospect data. Inboxable, an email deliverability platform and service, lists managed plans from $1,250 a month.

Quote only: list rental, data licensing, Audience360, SignalFuse, and Local Listings beyond 10 free listings. The “$3,200 to $150,000” range quoted elsewhere comes from a small Vendr sample of Infogroup deals, and “$79 to $209 a month” dates from Salesgenie’s 2019 prices.

Data Axle collects and sells data on U.S. and Canadian businesses, and on consumers. Founded in 1972, it has traded as American Business Information, infoUSA and Infogroup, and took the Data Axle name in 2020.

The database size depends on the page. Data Axle’s business data page claims 90M+ business profiles, 19.5M+ of them premium verified, and 183M+ business contacts; consumer counts run from roughly 255 to 310 million. More than 300 data experts make 25 million verification calls a year, Data Axle says.

In Salesgenie you filter by firmographics, demographics and intent, and spend credits to export records or reveal emails. It adds lead management, email and direct mail campaign tools. The APIs cover search, record matching, change updates and file delivery, with pre-built integrations for Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics.

SignalFuse, launched in April 2026, is a quote-only AI layer that lets teams ask plain-language questions across their own data and Data Axle’s. No Data Axle MCP server (a standard way for AI assistants like Claude to use other apps) was found as of October 2026.

Strengths

• Small-business coverage. Data Axle calls its small and mid-sized business coverage “the industry’s most complete”, backed by phone verification at scale (business data).
• Consumers and businesses in one place, with direct mail tools in the same Salesgenie app.
• Published API rates. Per-1,000 rates and package contents are public, so you can price a project before a sales call.
• People you can reach. Salesgenie includes an account strategist by phone, chat and email, and Trustpilot reviewers often thank reps by name.
• Track record. In business since 1972, and a Forrester Wave Leader among B2B data providers in Q1 2026.

Drawbacks

• A 12-month commitment. Salesgenie’s first subscription “lasts for 12 months”, billed monthly, and you can cancel only after it.
• Credits priced off the page. You can add “any number of monthly credits”, but no rate is published.
• The guarantee skips email. Salesgenie refunds $0.40 per bad record above 8%, but “Lists purchased for fax and email purposes are not covered” (terms).

Ratings are split by brand. On Trustpilot, Data Axle USA holds 4.3 from 971 reviews and Salesgenie 4.1 from 564 (October 2026). Data Axle has claimed both profiles on a paid Trustpilot plan, and both invite reviews. On G2, Salesgenie by Data Axle shows 4.3 from more than 300 reviews, and the separate Data Axle listing 4.1 from 22.

Praise centers on helpful reps, often named, and the depth of the data. Three complaints repeat. Accuracy: on Data Axle USA’s Trustpilot page, a July 2026 reviewer put “the inaccuracy rate” on educational data at “about 80 to 90%” (and says they were refunded), and an April 2026 reviewer said most emails bounced. Contracts: an August 2026 reviewer objected to only “renting” the data and buying it again each year. Extra costs: G2 reviewers say downloads and the email feature cost extra beyond the monthly fee.

Data Axle fits small businesses selling to local companies or households by mail, phone and email, who want one vendor for lists and campaigns and accept a yearly commitment. Developers who need U.S. business or consumer records can buy through the API at published rates.

Look elsewhere if you mainly want B2B decision-maker emails, month to month. If you do export Salesgenie emails for cold email, verify them before the first send: the list guarantee excludes email, and bounces damage the inbox you send from.

• ZoomInfo: company, contact and intent data for larger sales teams, quoted by sales; Vendr puts the median buyer at $33,500 a year. See the ZoomInfo profile or ZoomInfo alternatives.
• Apollo: a B2B contact database with sequences, a free plan, and Basic at $49 per seat a month billed yearly. See the Apollo profile or Reachkit vs Apollo.
• People Data Labs: person and company APIs that bill per matched record, with a free plan and Pro from $98 a month. See the People Data Labs profile.
• UpLead: self-serve B2B contacts that verify each email on reveal, from $99 a month. See the UpLead profile.
• Reachkit (our product): if you’re buying contacts to email them, Lead Finder searches 500M+ B2B profiles at 1 credit per verified lead and adds them to a campaign, and lists you import are verified by default. Growth is $39 a month per workspace with 1,000 credits, cancel anytime. No consumer data or direct mail. See Reachkit pricing.