B2B contact data
Primary sources checkedLusha
Contact data platform that returns work and personal email addresses and phone numbers for people you have already identified, through a browser extension, the platform or an API.
The short answer
- Best for
- Recruiters who know who they want to reach and need a way to reach them
- Not ideal for
- Finding candidates by skill or experience — that is a sourcing tool's job
- Price
- Credit-based. We could not verify a single plan price
- Closest alternative
- CognismOne credit reveals a whole contact there, mobile number included, if you call more than you email
At a glance
- Recruitment fitWeak
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationFair
- Price transparencyWeak
- Value for moneyUnknown
- ScalabilityUnknown
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitWeak
- B2B contact data built for sales prospecting. Nothing in it knows what a candidate or a vacancy is.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not used it, and we found no independent account of coverage or of the extension in practice.
- ImplementationFair
- A browser extension in the flow of work, and searching costs nothing until you reveal — but the API charges for empty answers.
- Price transparencyWeak
- We could not verify the prices, and the credit rules include a rollover cap and annual credits that expire.
- Value for moneyUnknown
- You do not pay twice for the same person, but a phone number costs five times an email and we could not establish what a credit costs.
- ScalabilityUnknown
- Team plans and how a credit budget is shared across seats are not published.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Contact
- Outreach
The SourcrLab bottom line
A contact-details layer, not a sourcing layer. The number that decides your bill is not the plan price but the credit table: a phone number costs five credits where an email costs one, so a plan sized in credits shrinks by a factor of five the moment you want to call people.
Best fit
Outreach-heavy desks that already have a name and a company and lose time hunting for a phone number or a personal email address.
Think twice if
Anyone who expects to find candidates by skill or experience, which is a sourcing tool's job, and anyone whose compliance posture requires knowing the origin of every personal contact detail.
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 Lusha?
One job, done in the flow of work
The same credit balance works across the platform, the browser extension and the API, so the tool sits where you already are instead of asking you to switch screens.
Searching is free, revealing is not
Lusha documents that searches inside the platform cost nothing and that company data is free in the platform and the extension. Credits go only on the data points you actually reveal.
You do not pay twice for the same person
A revealed data point is charged once. Viewing that contact again later, even in another session, costs nothing.
Main trade-offs
A phone number costs five times an email
Lusha's documentation prices an email at 1 credit, a phone number at 5 and company information at 1. Any plan quoted in credits should be read as a fifth of that number if calling is your channel.
The API charges for empty answers
There is a documented minimum of one credit per API request even when nothing is returned, plus one credit per batch of up to 25 results on top of the data points themselves.
Rollover is capped, and annual credits expire
On monthly plans unused credits roll over to a maximum of twice the monthly allowance. On annual plans the credits are a yearly pool that does not carry past renewal, and free plans do not roll over at all.
We could not verify the price
The vendor's pricing page did not serve plan details to us on 12 August 2026 and the documentation carries no prices. We removed the figure our catalogue used to show rather than repeat a number from a third-party review site.
Compliance is a question you have to ask yourself
Personal contact data on European candidates raises questions about origin, lawful basis and opt-out handling. Our record used to list GDPR and CCPA compliance as a feature; that was a vendor claim, and we have not verified it.
Pricing and buying reality
Not verified
- Lusha runs on credits: you buy a balance and spend it on the data points you reveal
- Documented credit costs: email 1, phone number 5, company information 1
- A free plan exists, and free plans do not roll credits over
- We did not capture the plan prices, so this page does not state one
What we do not know
- The price of each plan, and what a seat costs
- How many credits each plan includes
- Contact coverage for the Benelux market specifically
- How the vendor handles data subject requests in practice
Checked August 2026. We do not list a price we have not verified ourselves. Lusha documentation: the credit system
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Your browser, through the extension, while you work in LinkedIn
- Your ATS or CRM, through integrations and the API
Likely replaces
- Manual hunting for direct dials and personal email addresses
May overlap with
- Cognism, ContactOut and similar contact data providers
- Enrichment credits bundled into recruitment systems, such as the Recruit CRM enterprise plan
Check before buying
- Coverage on a sample of real target profiles in your market, before you commit to a term
- Your own credit maths: model a month of real outreach at 5 credits per phone number
- What the vendor can tell you about data origin and opt-out handling, in writing
Lusha vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Cognism if you call more than you email: one credit reveals a whole contact there, mobile included, where a phone number costs five here. It is sold in five-seat packages, so it suits a team rather than a single recruiter.
Consider ContactOut if your work runs almost entirely inside LinkedIn and you want personal email addresses there.
Consider RocketReach when you need occasional lookups rather than a team-wide credit budget.
Lusha head to head
Pairs SourcrLab has looked at as a single buying decision, with the trade-offs written out.
Used Lusha?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Credit costs per data point — checked against a primary source: Lusha documentation: the credit system
- Rollover and expiry rules — checked against a primary source: Lusha documentation: how credits work
- API charging behaviour — checked against a primary source: Lusha documentation: the credit system
- Product scope and delivery surfaces — checked against a primary source: Lusha product site
- Plan prices — not enough evidence
- Data coverage in the Benelux — not enough evidence
- GDPR and CCPA compliance — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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