UpLead's pitch is simple: one credit unlocks one contact, with a verified email and a mobile direct dial when it has one. Teams look for an UpLead alternative when 170 or 400 credits a month is not enough, when a second user needs access, or when contacts without a mobile make the real price per number climb. This guide compares 9 alternatives on how they source data, what an entry plan costs, and what one phone number costs in dollars.
Publisher disclosure: Overloop publishes this guide and is our first recommendation for SMB teams that want contact data and outreach in one tool. The other 8 options address specific requirements, and several beat Overloop on raw phone volume per dollar. Recommendations use public vendor sources read on September 28, 2026; we did not run a comparative product trial. Method and dated sources.
Quick comparison: UpLead and 9 alternatives
Prices read on each vendor's official pricing page on September 28, 2026. The price per phone number is our arithmetic from those pages.
| Tool | Phone data approach | Entry price | Price per phone number | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UpLead | Proprietary database with real-time verification | $74 per month, yearly | $0.44 per contact (Essentials yearly), $0.58 monthly | Small teams wanting email and mobile per credit |
| Overloop | Several sources queried in sequence, one prospect or a whole list | $69 per user per month | 5 credits, only on a match (see pricing) | SMB teams wanting data plus email and LinkedIn sequences |
| Apollo.io | Proprietary database plus enrichment | $49 per seat per month, annual | $0.16 (Basic, 8 credits per number) | Volume prospecting with sequences and a US dialer |
| Lusha | Proprietary database, extension and platform | $37.45 per user per month, yearly | $0.47 (Starter yearly, 5 credits per number) | A like-for-like extension with a free tier |
| Seamless.AI | Real-time search engine, extension | Free with 50 credits; paid plans on quote | Not published | US teams that want search plus engagement on one contract |
| RocketReach | Proprietary database, person lookups | $19 per month, annual, email only | About $0.17 per export (Pro annual) | Searching people by name outside LinkedIn |
| Cognism | Proprietary database with mobile verification on Pro | Custom, 5 seats included | Not published (1 credit per contact) | Mid-market teams with procurement |
| FullEnrich | Waterfall across 25+ sources, pay on success | $29 per month for 500 credits | $0.55 per mobile found (1,000 credits), $0.35 at 100,000 | Bulk enrichment of lists you already own |
| Kaspr | LinkedIn extension reveal | $49 per month, annual | $0.49 (Starter annual), $0.65 monthly | Solo sellers living in LinkedIn |
| ContactOut | Proprietary database, extension | $49 per month, promotional (US and UK data included) | Unlimited phones; about $0.17 per export at $99, $0.08 without US and UK data | Solo recruiters and researchers |
Entry price and price per phone number are computed from the vendor pricing page as read on September 28, 2026: plan price divided by the phone numbers it includes, or pack price divided by credits multiplied by credits per number. Annual prices require an annual commitment. Taxes, seat minimums and add-ons change the total. The Overloop cell stays in credits: 5 per revealed number, charged only when a number is found.
What changes when you leave UpLead
- UpLead prices per contact, about $0.44 on Essentials yearly; the price per phone number is higher on every segment where a contact has no mobile.
- Pay-per-found models (FullEnrich, Overloop) and refunds on empty lookups (RocketReach) remove that gap.
- Apollo gives far more credits per dollar, about $0.16 per number, and includes sequences.
- UpLead's Free, Essentials and Plus plans are single-user; Lusha, Kaspr, Apollo and Overloop sell team seats at published prices.
- Seamless.AI and Cognism publish no paid price.
- Every price was read on the vendor page on September 28, 2026 and will move.
UpLead today: what an alternative must replace
On September 28, 2026 the UpLead pricing page listed these plans. One credit unlocks one contact for download or CRM export and gives access to its email and mobile direct dial.
| UpLead plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | Credits | Price per contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free trial | $0 for 7 days | n/a | 5 | n/a |
| Essentials | $99 a month | $74 a month | 170 a month, or 2,040 a year | $0.58 monthly, $0.44 yearly |
| Plus | $199 a month | $149 a month | 400 a month, or 4,800 a year | $0.50 monthly, $0.37 yearly |
| Professional | Custom | Custom | Custom | Not published |
Source: UpLead pricing, read September 28, 2026.
Additional credits cost $0.60 or $0.50 each depending on plan. Free, Essentials and Plus are single-user accounts; Professional is the team account with seat management. The page states email verification with a 95 percent accuracy rate, a vendor claim we cannot check from a pricing page. So an alternative has to replace a searchable database, email and phone in one unlock, and a verification step, and ideally fix the allowance and the single-user limit.
1. Overloop: best for teams that want the number, the email and the sequence in one tool
Best for: SMB sales teams that want to find phone numbers and emails and then run email and LinkedIn sequences from the same prospect record, at a published per-seat price.
Overloop is our first recommendation, and we publish this guide, so weigh that. UpLead sells a contact per credit and stops at the export. Overloop finds the email and the phone number on the prospect record, charges for a phone number only when one is found, and runs the email and LinkedIn sequence from the same seat.
Overloop finds a phone number from the prospect record. You click Find phone on one prospect, or run it in bulk on a list, and Overloop checks several phone-data sources in sequence and stops at the first match. It charges 5 credits per revealed number, and only when a number is found; an empty search uses no phone-search credits. The number stays on the prospect and exports to CSV. Overloop documents the flow on its phone number finder page.
Overloop pricing is per user. Starter is $69 per user per month with 250 credits and 1 connected email account. Growth is $99 per user per month with 500 credits and 3 connected email accounts. The same credits source prospects from Overloop's advertised 450M+ B2B contact database and find emails, and the seat also runs email and LinkedIn sequences and a Chrome extension that adds LinkedIn profiles as prospects. We do not quote a dollar price per phone number for Overloop in this guide; the credit rule and plan prices are on Overloop pricing.
Limits to know: there is no built-in dialer, so revealed numbers go to your calling tool or a CSV. The lookup works best when the prospect record carries a LinkedIn profile; a name alone may not be enough. Finding a number does not confirm that it is current or a mobile. LinkedIn steps in sequences stay subject to LinkedIn's rules, and CRM integration scope varies by plan. We publish no match rate for Overloop, because a rate measured on our lists would not predict yours.
Choose it over UpLead when: you pay for contacts that then need a sequence, and you would rather pay for found numbers than for unlocked contacts. Stay with UpLead when: you want email and mobile in one flat credit with a verification step, and outreach already lives in another tool. Source: Overloop pricing, read September 28, 2026.
2. Apollo.io: best for more contacts per dollar with sequences included
Best for: teams that outgrew UpLead's 170 or 400 credits a month and want a database plus email sequences.
Apollo combines a large contact database with email sequences, a US dialer and deal management. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page listed Free at $0 with 900 credits per seat per year, Basic at $49 per seat per month billed annually with 30,000 credits per seat per year, Professional at $79 with 48,000 credits, and Organization at $119 with a 3-seat minimum and 72,000 credits. Accessing a phone number uses 8 credits and enrichment uses up to 9 credits per record. The page shows a 14-day trial on paid plans and a 24 percent saving on annual billing.
Price per number: Basic is $588 a year for 30,000 credits, which is 3,750 phone numbers at 8 credits each, so about $0.16 per phone number. That is the lowest credit-metered phone rate in this guide, provided you use the credits within the year.
Limits to know: a US-only dialer, no native LinkedIn sequence channel, credits granted per year.
Pick it when: you need thousands of phone numbers a year at about $0.16 each. Source: Apollo pricing, read September 28, 2026.
3. Lusha: best for a like-for-like database with a cheaper entry seat
Best for: small teams that want a searchable database, an extension and CRM integrations under $40 a month.
Lusha is a contact database with a browser extension, a web platform and CRM integrations. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page, on yearly billing, listed Free at $0 with 40 credits a month, Starter at $37.45 per month with 4,800 credits a year, Pro at $52.45 per month with 7,200 credits a year, and Premium at $299.95 per month with 40,800 credits a year. An email reveal costs 1 credit and a phone number costs 5 credits.
Price per number: Starter costs $449.40 a year for 4,800 credits. Spent only on phones, that is 960 numbers, so about $0.47 per phone number. Every email you reveal comes out of the same pool. The Free plan now lists automated email sequences among its features.
Limits to know: emails and phones share one pool, and a phone costs 5 credits where UpLead includes it in the contact credit.
Pick it when: you want a free tier and a cheaper annual seat. Source: Lusha pricing, read September 28, 2026.
4. Seamless.AI: best for US teams that want search and engagement on a contract
Best for: US teams that want a real-time search engine, intent and job-change add-ons and an engagement layer.
Seamless.AI is a US-centric contact search engine with a Chrome extension, CRM enrichment, buyer intent and job-change add-ons, and an engagement layer it calls Connect. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page listed Free for 1 user with 50 credits, Pro per user with annual credit packages behind a contact-sales button, and custom Enterprise with unlimited users. The FAQ says Pro plans start at 10,000 annual credits and that a credit is used when Seamless.AI researches a contact to find emails, phone numbers and insights. A banner said all plans now include Connect for email, calls and tasks, labelled limited time.
Price per number: not published. No Pro or Enterprise price appears on the page, so you only learn the cost per contact on a sales call.
Limits to know: no published paid price and annual credit packages. See our Seamless.AI alternatives.
Pick it when: you are ready for a quote and want more than contact data. Source: Seamless.AI pricing, read September 28, 2026.
5. RocketReach: best for person search with refunds on empty lookups
Best for: users who search people by name and company and want unlimited phones within an export cap.
RocketReach meters lookups and exports rather than credits. On September 28, 2026 the annual-billing view listed Essentials at $19 per month, billed $229 a year, for email only and 1,200 exports a year; Pro at $52 per month, billed $619 a year, with unlimited verified mobile and direct phone numbers and 3,600 exports a year; and Ultimate at $115 per month, billed $1,379 a year, with 20,000 exports a year. On monthly billing the plans carry 100, 250 and 1,000 lookups a month, and the page says annual billing saves 50 percent, which is exact only on Essentials; on Pro and Ultimate it saves about a third. A lookup is used only when a verified email or phone is found, otherwise it is refunded. Free accounts get 5 lookups, and team plans start at $6,000 a year.
Price per number: on Pro, $619 a year for 3,600 exports is about $0.17 per exported contact with a phone included when one is found.
Limits to know: phones start on Pro, and team plans start at $6,000 a year. See our RocketReach alternatives.
Pick it when: you want 3,600 exports a year with phones for $619. Source: RocketReach pricing, read September 28, 2026.
6. Cognism: best for mid-market teams that want a contract and European data
Best for: teams with 5 or more sellers that want one credit per contact, CRM enrichment and an API.
Cognism sells prospecting, CRM enrichment and data-as-a-service packages. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page described 2 Sales Prospecting packages, Standard and Pro, each with 5 seats included, and a credit model where 1 credit reveals, enriches or exports 1 contact, shared across the platform, Enrich and the API. Pro adds what the page calls advanced prospecting workflows. No price is shown.
Price per number: not published. A credit covers a whole contact, so the per-number cost depends on your quote and on how many revealed contacts carry a mobile.
Limits to know: no published price, no self-serve, 5-seat packages. See our Cognism alternatives.
Pick it when: UpLead's Professional quote is the comparison and you sell into Europe. Source: Cognism pricing, read September 28, 2026.
7. FullEnrich: best for paying only for found mobiles
Best for: ops teams that enrich lists and want mobiles and emails from 25+ sources, charged only on success.
FullEnrich is a waterfall enrichment engine: you upload a list, call the API or use its MCP server, and it queries 25+ sources in turn. On September 28, 2026 the pricing page showed a Free trial with 50 credits and no card, Pro from 500 credits a month, and a custom Enterprise plan. The page displayed euros to our European visitor (€55 a month for 1,000 credits, €0.055 per credit); FullEnrich's machine-readable pricing summary, which states that it mirrors the public page, gives the USD tiers: $29 a month for 500 credits, $55 for 1,000, $499 for 10,000 and $3,500 for 100,000, with annual plans from $26 a month. A mobile number costs 10 credits, a work email 1 and a personal email 3. Credits are spent only when data is found and verified, and a landline returned instead of a mobile costs nothing. Users are unlimited, and credits roll over for 3 months on monthly plans and 12 months on annual plans.
Price per number: $55 buys 1,000 credits, or 100 mobiles, so $0.55 per mobile found on the 1,000-credit tier, $0.49 on the 12,000-credit annual tier ($588 a year), and $0.35 on the 100,000-credit monthly tier. FullEnrich states its email and phone find rate averages around 80 percent, and that it depends on industry and geography.
Limits to know: no database search in the UpLead sense beyond its people search, and no outreach.
Pick it when: too many UpLead credits unlock contacts without a mobile. Source: FullEnrich pricing and its machine-readable summary, read September 28, 2026.
8. Kaspr: best for LinkedIn-first sellers
Best for: sellers who build lists on LinkedIn and want unlimited B2B emails plus a phone allowance.
Kaspr is a LinkedIn extension that reveals phone numbers and emails from profiles, Sales Navigator lists and searches. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page listed Free at $0 with 5 phone credits a month, Starter at $49 per month billed annually or $65 monthly with 100 phone credits a month, Business at $79 annually or $99 monthly with 200 phone credits a month, and a custom Enterprise plan. Paid plans include unlimited B2B email credits. Extra phone credits cost $0.36 each for a pack of 250, $0.31 for 500 and $0.28 for 1,000.
Price per number: Starter is $588 a year for 1,200 phone credits, so $0.49 per phone number on annual billing and $0.65 on monthly billing. Business on annual billing works out at about $0.40.
Limits to know: phone credits are capped at 100 or 200 a month per plan.
Pick it when: LinkedIn, not a database, is where you find prospects. Source: Kaspr pricing, read September 28, 2026.
9. ContactOut: best for unlimited reveals for one user
Best for: solo users who want unlimited emails and phones for a low promotional price.
ContactOut is a LinkedIn extension and search portal with a large recruiter user base. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page listed Free at $0 with 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day; an Email plan shown at $49 per month struck through from $99 and labelled limited time only, with unlimited emails and 300 exports a month; and an Email + Phone plan shown at $99 per month struck through from $199, with unlimited emails, unlimited phones and 600 exports a month. Both paid plans state a limit of 1 user per company. Team and API plans are quoted. Those are the prices with US and UK data included; a toggle that excludes US and UK data halves them, to $25 and $49.
Price per number: phones are unlimited, so the export cap is the real meter. At the promotional $99 with US and UK data, 600 exports a month is about $0.17 per exported contact, or about $0.08 at $49 without US and UK data; at the struck-through $199 it would be about $0.33.
Limits to know: promotional prices, 600 exports a month and 1 user per company.
Pick it when: you are one person and UpLead's 170 credits a month run out. Source: ContactOut pricing, read September 28, 2026.
Other UpLead alternatives worth a look
Other roundups for this query also list the tools below. We did not price them here, because we could not read and date a public plan for each on September 28, 2026.
- ZoomInfo: the enterprise contact and company database. Its pricing page could not be read by our automated check on September 28, 2026, so we list no price.
- Lead411: a B2B contact database with intent data and sales-led buying.
- SalesIntel: a B2B contact and company database that markets human-verified contact data.
- Snov.io: an email finder and verifier with its own email sequences, a fit if emails matter more than mobiles.
How to choose an UpLead alternative
| If your priority is... | Shortlist | What to verify before buying |
|---|---|---|
| More credits per dollar | Apollo | Credits per phone number, credit expiry |
| A cheaper seat, same database habit | Lusha | Shared email and phone pool, seat limits |
| Pay only for contacts with a number | FullEnrich, Overloop, RocketReach | No-charge or refund rule, credits per mobile |
| Team seats at a published price | Lusha, Kaspr, Apollo, Overloop | Seat price, shared credits |
| Contract with procurement | Cognism, Seamless.AI | Quote, seats, contract term |
| Data plus outreach | Overloop, Apollo | Sequence channels, CRM scope by plan |
Price 100 phone numbers a month. At UpLead that is 100 credits if every contact has a mobile, and more if some do not. At Apollo it is 800 of 30,000 annual credits. At Lusha it is 500 credits. At FullEnrich it is $55 of credits, spent only on found mobiles. At Overloop it is 500 credits, charged only on found numbers, inside the seat that also runs the sequences.
Frequently asked questions
How much does UpLead cost?
On September 28, 2026 UpLead listed a 7-day free trial with 5 credits, Essentials at $99 a month or $74 a month yearly with 170 credits a month, Plus at $199 or $149 yearly with 400 credits a month, and a custom Professional team plan. Extra credits cost $0.60 or $0.50 each.
Is UpLead free?
No permanent free plan: UpLead offers a 7-day free trial with 5 credits. Free tiers elsewhere: Lusha 40 credits a month, Apollo 900 credits per seat per year, ContactOut 5 emails and 5 phones a day, RocketReach 5 lookups.
Does an UpLead credit always include a phone number?
A credit unlocks a contact and gives access to its email and mobile direct dial. If UpLead has no mobile for that contact, you still spent the credit on the contact, so your real price per phone number depends on mobile coverage in your segment.
What is better than RocketReach and UpLead for phone numbers?
It depends on volume. Apollo is the lowest credit-metered rate at about $0.16 per number. FullEnrich and Overloop charge only when a number is found. Our RocketReach alternatives guide covers the RocketReach side in detail.
What is UpLead?
UpLead is a B2B contact database with real-time email verification. One UpLead credit unlocks one contact, email and mobile direct dial included. On September 28, 2026 its pricing page listed Essentials at $99 a month for 170 credits, or $74 a month billed yearly, and Plus at $199 a month for 400 credits, with a 7-day free trial of 5 credits.
What is the best UpLead alternative?
Overloop is our first recommendation when the contacts go into email and LinkedIn sequences; Overloop publishes this guide. Apollo is best for volume, at about $0.16 per number, Lusha for a cheaper seat, and FullEnrich for pay-on-success mobiles.
How we compared UpLead alternatives
This is desk research on documented capabilities and public pricing, not a lab test. On September 28, 2026 we opened each vendor's official pricing page as a logged-out visitor in a browser and recorded the entry price, the phone allowance or credit cost, and the plan structure. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say so rather than estimate one. We excluded star ratings, modelled savings and third-party price estimates, and we quote match or find rates only as the vendor's own statement. The criteria, in order of weight:
- Phone data approach. A single proprietary database, a waterfall across several providers, or an extension that reveals one profile at a time?
- Price per phone number. Plan price divided by the phone numbers it includes, or pack price divided by credits and multiplied by the credits one number costs. Where a vendor meters exports or contacts instead, we say so.
- What happens after the reveal. Does the number stay in the tool, export to CSV, sync to a CRM, or feed a sequence?
- Buying friction. Card and 5 minutes, or demo, quote and annual contract?
| Vendor | Official source | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| UpLead | UpLead pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| Overloop | Overloop pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| Apollo.io | Apollo pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| Lusha | Lusha pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| Seamless.AI | Seamless.AI pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| RocketReach | RocketReach pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| Cognism | Cognism pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| FullEnrich | FullEnrich machine-readable pricing (USD) | September 28, 2026 |
| Kaspr | Kaspr pricing | September 28, 2026 |
| ContactOut | ContactOut pricing | September 28, 2026 |
Prices move often, and several pages above show promotional or struck-through prices. Open the source link before you buy. Taxes, seat minimums and add-ons change the total. Where a page showed euros to our European visitor, we give the USD figure from the vendor's own USD source and name it.
Bottom line
UpLead is predictable: one credit, one contact, email and mobile when it has one, from $0.37 to $0.58 per contact. The trade-offs are a small allowance, single-user plans below Professional, and a price per number that rises with every contact that lacks a mobile. Apollo fixes the allowance, Lusha the seat price, FullEnrich the pay-for-misses problem.
If the contacts go into outreach, Overloop finds the email and the phone number on the prospect record, charges 5 credits per number only when one is found, and runs the email and LinkedIn sequence from the same seat. Overloop lists its plans on its pricing page and explains the lookup on its phone number finder page.