Tools for finding, identifying and enriching candidate data: sourcing platforms, contact-data providers, talent intelligence and candidate databases.
The front of the funnel. Everything here happens before a candidate has applied and usually before they know the role exists, which is why the output is a name and a way to reach it rather than an application.
Choosing a talent acquisition tool is mostly a question of which trade-off you can live with. The list below is ordered by how squarely each tool sits in this category, then by how much of its pricing and positioning we can back with a primary source.
Updated April 2026 · 3 tools in the catalogue
Build a list of people worth approaching, and get a working way to reach them.
| # | Tool | Pricing | Free Plan | Best for | Key Strength | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dux-Soup | Paidfrom From $14.99/month | No | Recruiters running repetitive LinkedIn outreach who accept the account risk | Profile visits, tagging, invitations and messages, from the Pro plan | Details |
| 2 | Waalaxy | Per Userfrom From EUR 19/user/month | No | Recruiters running steady LinkedIn outreach who accept the platform risk | Sequences of visits, invitations and messages on your own LinkedIn account | Details |
| 3 | PhantomBuster | Freemiumfrom Free trial tier, then from EUR 56/month billed annually | Yes | Sourcers turning searches into enriched candidate lists | A catalogue of prebuilt Phantoms, each performing one automation | Details |
3 tools in the catalogue
Finding people
Dux-SoupLinkedIn automation for profile visits, connection invitations and drip campaigns. Pro $14.99/month runs basic automation in your browser; Turbo $55 adds drip campaigns, a central inbox and CRM integrations; Cloud $99 runs the same on the vendor's infrastructure so campaigns continue with your browser closed.
LinkedIn does not permit automation and restricts accounts; compatibility with Recruiter is not endorsement
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Finding people
WaalaxyLinkedIn and email outreach automation, sold per user per month and built for prospecting rather than recruitment. Pro EUR 19 covers LinkedIn sequences with 300 invitations a month; Advanced EUR 49 raises that to 800 and opens the API plus Make, Zapier and n8n; Business EUR 69 adds cold email and multichannel campaigns. A 14-day trial, no free tier. It reads LinkedIn Search, Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite, and pushes to HubSpot and Pipedrive.
Automating LinkedIn is against LinkedIn's terms and accounts do get restricted
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Finding people
PhantomBusterAutomation platform of prebuilt Phantoms that extract profiles and lists and perform actions, chained into workflows and metered in execution hours and automation slots. A free trial tier gives 2 hours and caps exports at 10 rows. Start is EUR 56 a month billed annually with 20 hours and 5 slots, Grow EUR 128 with 80 hours and 15 slots, Scale EUR 352 with 300 hours and 50 slots; monthly billing is EUR 69, 159 and 439. Users are unlimited on every tier. Automating LinkedIn remains against LinkedIn's terms.
Automating LinkedIn is against LinkedIn's terms and extraction at volume is the behaviour most likely to be restricted
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