Contact data, found from a profile
Primary sources checkedContactOut
Browser extension and search portal that returns an email address or phone number for a professional profile you are already looking at.
The short answer
- Best for
- A single recruiter who already sources elsewhere and needs the address
- Not ideal for
- Teams needing multiple seats — self-serve plans are limited to one user per company
- Price
- Free (5 a day), then USD 25 to 99 per month depending on data coverage
- Closest alternative
- Hunter.ioBetter when you work from a company domain rather than a profile, and no phone numbers are needed
At a glance
- Recruitment fitFair
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyWeak
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityWeak
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitFair
- Not recruitment software, but the extension works on the profile a recruiter is already reading, which is where the job actually happens.
- Ease of useUnknown
- What is verified is the setup shape: an extension over the profile, nothing to configure. That is adoption effort, not day-to-day usability, and there is no hands-on or independent evidence on file for the latter.
- ImplementationStrong
- Install the extension and start. The free tier gives five lookups a day to test coverage before paying.
- Price transparencyWeak
- The rendered plan table did not load, the same headline price means two different products depending on a data-coverage toggle, and fair-use terms behind the unmetered wording are not published.
- Value for moneyFair
- Unmetered emails and phones is generous against credit-based rivals, but exports cap at 300 or 600 a month and that is what a list-building workflow actually spends.
- ScalabilityWeak
- One user per company on every self-serve plan, so a second recruiter is a sales conversation rather than a second seat.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Contact
- Outreach
- ATS
The SourcrLab bottom line
Judge it as an enrichment layer, not as a sourcing system: it answers who to contact, not who to look for. Two things decide the bill. The price you see depends on a toggle for whether US and UK data is included, and the same USD 49 buys either emails with that data or emails plus phones without it. And where the plans say unlimited, the plan data agrees for emails and phones but caps exports at 300 or 600 a month, so exports are what you are really buying.
Best fit
The contactability layer on top of a search you run somewhere else. You have the profile, you need the address, and you want that answered in the browser rather than in another platform.
Think twice if
Teams. Every self-serve plan, the free one included, carries a stated limit of one user per company. A second recruiter is not a second seat you can buy on the page; it is a sales conversation.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose ContactOut?
It answers the question at the profile
A browser extension plus a search portal, so the lookup happens where you already are instead of in a separate database you have to context-switch into.
Emails and phones are not metered
On the paid plans the plan data records emails, and on Email + Phone also phone numbers, as unmetered. Against a credit-based competitor, where a phone number can cost eight times an email, that is a materially different way to buy.
A free tier that is a daily allowance
Five emails, five phone numbers and five exports a day, with the extension and the search portal. That is enough to test coverage in your own niche before paying, which is the only test that matters for contact data.
You can pay less by taking less data
The regional variant, which excludes US and UK data, halves the price: Email at USD 25 a month instead of 49, Email + Phone at USD 49 instead of 99. For a recruiter hiring only in Europe, that is a real saving rather than a downgrade.
Main trade-offs
The same price is two different products
USD 49 a month is the Email plan with US and UK data, and also the Email + Phone plan without it. Establish which coverage a quote refers to before comparing it with anything, including with your own memory of the price.
One user per company, on every self-serve plan
The limit is stated on the free plan, the Email plan and the Email + Phone plan alike. Team use, API access and the integrations that come with them sit behind a quote, so a growing desk changes buying route rather than plan.
Exports are the cap that binds
300 exports a month on Email and 600 on Email + Phone, against emails and phones the plan data records as unmetered. If your workflow ends in a list rather than in a message, the export number is your real plan size.
The headline prices are discounted prices
The plan data carries an original price beside each one: 99 against 49 on Email, 199 against 99 on Email + Phone. Whether that is a permanent position or a promotion is not stated, so budget for the possibility that renewal is not the price you signed at.
It finds nobody for you
This is the layer after discovery. The search still happens in LinkedIn, in your ATS or in a sourcing platform, and the shortlist quality is still your work. Priced against a full sourcing platform, it looks cheap; positioned as one, it disappoints.
Contact data you did not collect is a GDPR question
Approaching a candidate on an address you bought needs a lawful basis and a privacy notice from you, whichever coverage you picked. Excluding US and UK data changes the price, not that obligation.
Pricing and buying reality
Free, then from USD 25 per month
- Free: USD 0, 5 emails, 5 phone numbers and 5 exports per day, browser extension and search portal, one user per company
- Email, including US and UK data: USD 49 per month or USD 468 per year (USD 39 per month), unmetered emails, 300 exports per month, email campaigns and list builder
- Email + Phone, including US and UK data: USD 99 per month or USD 948 per year (USD 79 per month), unmetered emails and phone numbers, 600 exports per month, data enrichment and AI email writer
- Excluding US and UK data, advertised as 50% off: Email USD 25 per month (USD 228 per year), Email + Phone USD 49 per month (USD 468 per year)
- Every self-serve plan states a limit of one user per company
- Team and API: quoted, adds team management, API access, Salesforce and ATS integrations and an account manager
What we do not know
- Whether the discounted prices are permanent, since the plan data lists a higher original price beside each
- What fair-use terms apply to the unmetered emails and phone numbers. We found no published limit either way
- What the Team and API plan costs, and from how many users
- Coverage and accuracy for European mobile numbers specifically
- Where the contact data originates and under which lawful basis it is offered in the EU
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
How it fits your stack
Works with
- A browser extension over the profile you are already viewing
- Email campaigns and a list builder, from the Email plan
- Salesforce and ATS integrations plus an API, on the quoted Team plan
Likely replaces
- Guessing an address pattern and hoping the message lands
- A second contact-data subscription, if this one covers your market
May overlap with
- Apollo, Cognism and Lusha on contact data, at very different billing mechanics
- The InMail allowance you may already pay for inside LinkedIn Recruiter
Check before buying
- Which data coverage you actually need, since it halves or doubles the price
- How many exports a month your workflow really produces
- Whether a second user is coming, because that ends the self-serve route
- Coverage in your own niche, tested on the five-a-day free tier
ContactOut vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Apollo if you want search, contact data and sequencing on one bill and can model credit burn, where a phone number costs eight times an email.
Compare Cognism when mobile numbers in Europe are the deciding factor and you want one credit to return a full contact.
Consider Lusha for occasional lookups where a monthly subscription for unmetered volume would go unused.
Consider Hunter if you only need verified email plus outreach and no phone numbers, and would rather buy credits than a coverage tier.
ContactOut head to head
Pairs SourcrLab has looked at as a single buying decision, with the trade-offs written out.
Used ContactOut?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Plan prices, both billing cycles and both coverage variants — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- Free tier: 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports per day — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- Export caps of 300 and 600 per month — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- Emails and phone numbers recorded as unmetered on paid plans — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- One user per company on every self-serve plan — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- A higher original price is listed beside each current price — checked against a primary source: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- Team plan adds API, Salesforce and ATS integrations and an account manager — vendor claim, not independently verified: ContactOut pricing page, read from its own plan payload after the table failed to render, and reproduced on a second fetch the same day
- Fair-use terms behind the unmetered wording — not enough evidence
- European mobile coverage and accuracy — not enough evidence
- Data provenance and lawful basis for EU use — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab hands-on use — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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