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ContactOut pricing leads with the most generous word in B2B data: unlimited. The Email plan prints $49 a month with unlimited email lookups, Email + Phone prints $99, and the fine print takes the headline back. The 2026 coverage we reviewed reports that ContactOut’s own Terms of Use cap those unlimited plans at 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month under a fair-use policy, with exports metered separately at 300 or 600 a month. This guide prints the 2026 numbers with their sources, names every cell where the coverage disagrees, and runs the per-contact math ourselves, because under the asterisk ContactOut is arguably the cheapest contact data in the category, right up until the month you hit the ceiling.
We read pricing pages as operators, not reviewers. Our parent agency, Referral Program Pros, has booked over 7,000 meetings across more than 4,000 outbound campaigns, and GTM Bud is that agency playbook turned into software, backed by a written guarantee: 5 percent positive replies on LinkedIn or 1.5 percent on email, or a full refund. Enough of those campaigns were fed by contact data tools that we know the difference between a price and a ceiling. If your real question is whether ContactOut fits outbound at all, start with our ContactOut alternatives roundup; this article is for decoding the bill.
One honest note on sourcing. ContactOut’s site was not directly reachable from our research environment, so the figures here rest on ContactOut’s pricing page and Terms of Use as reported by named 2026 coverage: dedicated pricing guides from Overloop, Cleanlist, Enrich.so, Fullenrich, Prospeo, LeadHaste, and UpLead, plus listings on Capterra and G2. Nearly all of those publishers sell competing email finders or data products, and the coverage itself notes that ContactOut renders its plan figures client side, so static page captures can show placeholders instead of dollar amounts. We flag provenance wherever we lean on it, and where two named sources print different numbers, we print both rather than quietly picking one.
How much does ContactOut cost in 2026?
ContactOut costs $0 on the free tier, $49 per month for the Email plan, and $99 per month for Email + Phone, per 2026 pricing guides from Cleanlist, Overloop, and Prospeo, with a Team and API tier above them that has no published price. Cleanlist reports annual billing at $39 and $79 per month, or $468 and $948 per year. The Email plan carries unlimited email lookups capped by fair use and 300 exports per month; Email + Phone adds phone numbers and 600 exports, per the UpLead and Cleanlist guides. Every self-serve plan is limited to one user per company, per Prospeo. There is no classic trial beyond the free tier itself, which Overloop reports at 5 emails, 5 phones, and 5 exports per day. All of it sits under the fair-use ceiling the next section decodes.
| Plan | Monthly price | Annual billing | Published caps | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | n/a | 5 emails, 5 phones, 5 exports per day; G2 listing differs | Overloop, G2 listing |
| $49 | $39/mo ($468/yr), per Cleanlist | Unlimited email views under fair use; 300 exports/mo | Cleanlist, Overloop, UpLead guide | |
| Email + Phone | $99 | $79/mo ($948/yr), per Cleanlist | Email plus phone reveals under fair use; 600 exports/mo | Cleanlist, Overloop, Prospeo |
| Team / API | Not published, sales quote | Custom | Custom credit volumes set by order form | Prospeo, Enrich.so |
One more variable sits under the table: a data toggle. Overloop’s capture of the pricing page from September 28, 2026 shows the $49 and $99 stickers with US and UK data included, struck through from $99 and $199, and the same plans at $25 and $49 per month with US and UK data excluded. Apollo’s third-party listing prints $25 and $49 on annual billing, which reads like the same page with the toggle off. The sticker you see depends on a switch most of the coverage never mentions, which is reason enough to screenshot the checkout you actually buy from.
What does unlimited actually mean at ContactOut?
Unlimited, at ContactOut, is a browsing allowance, not a data allowance. Per ContactOut’s Terms of Use as reported by Fullenrich, Overloop, Enrich.so, and Prospeo, plans marketed as unlimited operate under a fair-use policy of 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month unless a separate order form says otherwise, and LeadMagic’s comparison puts the practical phone ceiling lower, near 800. Exports are a second, tighter meter: 300 contacts per month out of the Email plan and 600 out of Email + Phone, per UpLead’s guide and Cleanlist. Credits do not roll over, and none of the coverage we reviewed prints an overage rate, which means the cap is not a meter you can pay your way past. Hit it, and the choices are waiting for the reset or calling sales about the Team tier.
That structure is the opposite of the top-up meters that dominate this category, a pattern we map vendor by vendor in our B2B data providers comparison. A per-credit vendor lets volume scale your bill linearly; ContactOut holds the bill flat and hard-stops the volume instead. Neither design is dishonest, but they fail differently: the meter surprises you with an invoice, the ceiling surprises you with a locked export button in week three. Which failure you can live with depends entirely on how many contacts your pipeline actually consumes, and that is a number worth computing before the word unlimited does your budgeting for you.
Where the ContactOut pricing coverage disagrees
Four disagreements in the printed record are worth naming before you buy. First, the annual prices. Cleanlist’s October 2026 guide prints annual billing at $39 per month for Email and $79 for Email + Phone, while Enrich.so’s breakdown reports roughly $79 and $99 per month on annual billing for the same ladder. Those are different bills for the same year, and the gap is too wide to average away. Second, the strike-through. Overloop’s capture shows the current stickers struck down from $99 and $199, and Cleanlist flags that the lower figures may be limited-time sale prices with no stated end date, so the price you lock today may not be the price the page shows next quarter.
Third, the phone ceiling. Most of the coverage, citing ContactOut’s Terms of Use, prints the fair-use phone cap at 1,000 credits per month, while LeadMagic’s comparison describes practical usage limits near 800 phone numbers. Fourth, the free tier itself: Overloop reports 5 emails, 5 phones, and 5 exports per day, while the G2 listing describes unlimited email viewing with 5 mobile credits and 10 export credits per month. The structural cause behind all four wobbles is the same client-side rendering the coverage flags: scrapers and reviewers capture different states of a dynamic page. Treat every figure in this article as a reported claim with a name attached, and verify the live checkout, logged out, with the billing and data toggles set the way you will actually buy.
A recruiter-first product priced like a sales tool
The product shape explains the pricing shape. ContactOut’s core surface is a Chrome extension that sits on top of a LinkedIn profile and reveals the person’s contact details one profile at a time, with a search portal alongside it, per Prospeo’s 2026 review and the UpLead guide. Its signature asset is personal email coverage: third-party directories repeat a self-reported breakdown of 150 million personal emails, 200 million work emails, and 100 million direct dials, while Prospeo’s capture of the pricing page prints a 700 million profile claim, and no independent party audits either figure. Personal emails are a recruiter’s currency, because candidates answer their Gmail long after they stop answering work addresses. For a recruiter working a shortlist profile by profile, 2,000 reveals a month genuinely feels infinite, and the fair-use cap never surfaces.
Reviewers largely back that use case: ContactOut holds a 4.4 out of 5 rating across roughly 109 reviews on G2’s ContactOut listing, with ease of use and email accuracy as recurring strengths and the usage caps as a recurring complaint. The review themes consistently describe email data as stronger than phone data, and the pricing page itself publishes no accuracy rate per Prospeo’s capture, unlike rivals that lead with accuracy guarantees. Add the one-user-per-company limit that Prospeo reports on every self-serve plan, and the shape is unambiguous: this is a single-seat lookup tool for working individual profiles, not a list-building engine. How that shape compares with tools built for bulk sourcing is exactly what our best email finder tools roundup ranks.
Where does the per-contact math land at full cap?
Divide the sticker by the ceiling and ContactOut briefly looks unbeatable. All arithmetic in this section is our own, run on the caps and prices the coverage publishes. At the full fair-use allowance, the $99 Email + Phone plan covers 2,000 email reveals plus 1,000 phone reveals, about 3.3 cents per reveal, and on Cleanlist’s $79 annual figure about 2.6 cents. Per-credit rivals meter the same reveal at ten to twenty times that: UpLead’s base plan works out to roughly 58 cents per contact by the same kind of division we ran in our UpLead pricing decode. But a reveal is not take-home data. Meter by what you can export into a sequencer and the real unit price is about 16 cents per contact on either plan: $49 across 300 exports, or $99 across 600, by our own division.
Now run a sending cadence against it. Our agency targets 200 LinkedIn connection requests per week per Sales Navigator sender, based on the cadences Referral Program Pros runs across its campaigns, which consumes roughly 870 fresh contacts per month by our own arithmetic. The Email + Phone export ceiling of 600 covers about two thirds of one sender’s month, and the Email plan’s 300 covers just over a third. With no published overage rate, there is nothing to buy when the export button locks: the self-serve ladder simply ends, and the next rung is a custom Team quote. ContactOut at full cap is the cheapest take-home contact in this article, and it is also the only plan here that cannot be scaled with money. At that point the honest comparison is no longer tool versus tool but input versus pipeline, which is where an automated lead generation system that treats sourced leads as an included input starts to price differently.
Frequently asked questions about ContactOut pricing
How much does ContactOut cost per month?
ContactOut runs a free tier, an Email plan at $49 per month, and an Email + Phone plan at $99, per 2026 pricing guides from Cleanlist, Overloop, and Prospeo, with a custom-priced Team and API tier above them. Cleanlist reports annual billing at $39 and $79 per month, while Enrich.so prints higher annual figures for the same plans, and Overloop captured a toggle that drops the stickers to $25 and $49 when US and UK data is excluded. Verify the live checkout, because the page reportedly renders prices client side and the stickers move.
Is ContactOut really unlimited?
No. The 2026 coverage from Fullenrich, Overloop, Enrich.so, and Prospeo reports that ContactOut’s terms apply a fair-use policy of 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month to plans marketed as unlimited, with LeadMagic reporting a lower practical phone ceiling near 800. Exports are capped separately at 300 or 600 per month per the UpLead and Cleanlist guides. Unlimited describes browsing in the extension, not the data you can take with you.
Does ContactOut have a free plan?
Yes. Overloop reports the free tier at 5 emails, 5 phone numbers, and 5 exports per day for one user, roughly 150 of each per month by our own multiplication, with no rollover for skipped days. The G2 listing describes the free tier differently, with unlimited email viewing and small monthly mobile and export allowances, so the printed record disagrees. Either way, treat it as a data sample for checking coverage in your niche, not a volume that can feed a campaign.
Can a team share one ContactOut plan?
Not on the self-serve plans. Prospeo reports that the Free, Email, and Email + Phone plans each carry a one-user-per-company limit, which pushes any team to the custom-priced Team and API tier available only through sales. None of the self-serve stickers in this article apply to that tier, so get the quote, the credit volumes, and the fair-use terms for it in writing before budgeting.
Is ContactOut worth it for a 200-connection-per-week outbound cadence?
Not on its own. That cadence consumes roughly 870 fresh contacts per month by our own arithmetic, which overruns the 600-export ceiling on Email + Phone, and none of the coverage we reviewed prints an overage rate to fill the gap, so volume senders are pushed to the custom Team tier. Even at the cap you are buying raw contact data only, with copy, sending, and follow-up still on you, which is why an AI outbound sales tool that prices the whole pipeline is the fairer comparison at that volume.
Price the lookup, then price the reply
The ContactOut pricing decode reduces to three findings. First, the anchors are soft: $49 and $99 stickers that Cleanlist, Overloop, and Prospeo agree on, surrounded by a disputed annual rate, a strike-through promotion, and a US/UK data toggle that can halve or double the number on screen, so nothing here is settled until you see your own checkout. Second, unlimited is a browsing word: the coverage consistently reports a 2,000-email, 1,000-phone fair-use cap from ContactOut’s own terms, a 300-or-600 export meter underneath it, and no overage path, which makes this the rare data plan that hard-stops instead of upselling. Third, the shape is recruiter-first: one seat, one profile at a time, personal emails as the crown jewel, and a per-reveal cost at full cap, about 3 cents by our own math, that no per-credit rival touches. If you work candidates or accounts one profile at a time, ContactOut is honestly cheap. If you feed a real outbound cadence, the ceiling lands below one sender’s monthly burn, and the data line is still only the first line item: the sourcing, the copy, the sending, and the follow-up remain unbought. That full pipeline is what GTM Bud prices instead: done-for-you outbound across LinkedIn and email at $600 per month per LinkedIn account, or $1,500 quarterly, with a minimum of 1,000 leads sourced for you every month, a 14-day trial, and a guarantee written against outcomes, 5 percent positive replies on LinkedIn or 1.5 percent on email, or a full refund. ContactOut caps the lookups. We would rather guarantee the replies.