ContactOut vs Datagma
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedContactOut compared with Datagma
Datagma includes ten seats on every plan, publishes a thirty-credit mobile rate at roughly 33 to 49 cents, and charges 49 dollars a month with no commitment or export quota. ContactOut costs about 199 dollars per seat per month on annual terms but adds personal emails, a search portal, campaigns, a dialler, ATS integration, and SOC 2. Cost-led teams that already know their targets take Datagma; recruiting teams that need to pass a security review take ContactOut.
Datagma compared with ContactOut
ContactOut sells a 300 million profile database with separate email and phone credit pools, strong recruiter tooling, and ATS integrations, but its advertised prices assume annual billing and it charges per seat with monthly fair-use caps. Datagma has no database and no recruiter workflow, but ten seats are included, the price is monthly, and a mobile costs a published thirty credits. Recruiters take ContactOut; small sales teams that just need numbers take Datagma.
Choose ContactOut if
Recruiters and talent sourcing teams who work inside LinkedIn all day, need personal email addresses and mobile numbers to reach passive candidates, and value SOC 2 certification and ATS integration enough to accept per-seat annual pricing.
Choose Datagma if
Small sales teams that need mobile phone numbers at a published price without a sales call or a per-seat contract, and European teams that want a single credit pool covering both email and phone enrichment inside HubSpot or an automation tool.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ContactOut | Datagma |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then about $99 per month per seat on annual billing (email plan) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $49 per month (Regular) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription across published tiers with separate email and phone credit pools, separate export quotas, monthly fair-use caps set in the terms of use, and advertised prices that assume annual billing. | Freemium monthly or annual subscription drawing on a single credit pool, where one credit buys a verified email and thirty credits buy a verified mobile number, with ten team seats included on every tier. |
| Free plan | Five emails, five phone numbers, and five exports per day at no cost. | 90 verified emails or three mobile numbers per month, with API access and ten team seats included. |
| Free trial | The free plan serves as the evaluation path rather than a time-limited trial | No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path |
| Best for | Recruiters and talent sourcing teams who work inside LinkedIn all day, need personal email addresses and mobile numbers to reach passive candidates, and value SOC 2 certification and ATS integration enough to accept per-seat annual pricing. | Small sales teams that need mobile phone numbers at a published price without a sales call or a per-seat contract, and European teams that want a single credit pool covering both email and phone enrichment inside HubSpot or an automation tool. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes: install the extension, sign in, open a LinkedIn profile. ATS or CRM integration takes an hour or two and is where the value of the paid tiers actually lands. | Ten minutes for the web app, the Chrome extension, or a Zapier flow. Around an hour for the native HubSpot integration, mostly spent deciding which fields Datagma may write to. |
| Learning curve | Low on the extension, but the metering deserves an hour of attention before anyone starts working. Teams that do not understand that exports are a separate and much smaller quota than lookups will hit a wall in the first fortnight and conclude the product is broken. | Low. The only concept to internalise is the thirty-to-one exchange rate, because a team that starts pulling mobiles without adjusting its mental model will exhaust a monthly allowance in a few days. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, Web search portal, Gmail integration, ContactSheets bulk enrichment, REST API on the Team tier | Web application, Chrome extension for LinkedIn and Sales Navigator, HubSpot app, Bulk file upload, REST API |
| Compliance | SOC 2 certified, GDPR with opt-out and suppression support, CCPA | GDPR as a French-established company under CNIL supervision, Published data rights request route, Exclusion list opt-out for individuals, Thirty day deletion of retrieved phone data |
| Founded | 2015 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Paris, France |
| Ownership | Privately held, lightly funded | Privately held and bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
ContactOut
Strengths
- Personal email coverage at roughly 150 million addresses is the standout asset and the reason recruiters choose it over sales-oriented vendors.
- Separate email and phone credit pools are more flexible than a single shared allowance, since running out of one does not block the other.
- SOC 2 certification, which no other vendor in this batch publishes, is frequently the deciding factor in a corporate security review.
- GDPR and CCPA compliance with opt-out and suppression support means objections can be applied as a list rather than handled record by record.
Limitations
- Three separate meters, lookups, phone credits, and exports, with only one of them prominent on the pricing page; the export quota is usually the binding limit and it is much smaller than buyers expect.
- The terms of use cap fair use at 2,000 email and 1,000 phone credits per account per month unless separately agreed, which is a real ceiling on any high-volume plan.
- Advertised prices assume annual billing, so monthly buyers pay a premium the pricing page does not lead with.
- Per-seat licensing makes it expensive for teams, at several times the cost of unlimited-seat vendors for the same volume.
Datagma
Strengths
- The published thirty-credit exchange rate for a mobile number is the clearest phone pricing in this category, and it is buyable without a sales call.
- One shared credit pool for email and phone means you can flex between channels rather than stranding two separate allowances.
- Ten team seats on every plan including Free removes the per-seat multiplier that dominates the cost of RocketReach and ContactOut.
- Twelve month credit rollover on monthly plans is unusually generous at this price point.
Limitations
- No published match rate for phones or emails, and because lookups are brokered to partner providers at request time, coverage varies by geography and over time in ways the vendor cannot commit to.
- The vendor does not state clearly whether a failed lookup consumes a credit, which is the most consequential unanswered question on the pricing page.
- Annual billing is cheaper per credit but resets the balance at cycle end, so the discount comes at the cost of the rollover that makes the monthly plan attractive.
- No prospecting database, so it cannot tell you who to contact, only how to reach someone you have already identified.
Pricing compared
ContactOut
Per-seat subscription across published tiers with separate email and phone credit pools, separate export quotas, monthly fair-use caps set in the terms of use, and advertised prices that assume annual billing.
- Free$0
- EmailAbout $99
- Email plus PhoneAbout $199
- Team and APIQuoted
At the email plus phone tier, roughly 199 dollars a month per seat against 600 exports gives an effective cost near 33 cents per exported contact, and considerably more if you never approach the quota. That is an order of magnitude above Hunter, Anymail Finder, or Icypeas. The premium buys three things those vendors cannot supply: personal email addresses at scale, direct dial numbers, and a SOC 2 certification that lets a security team say yes. For a full-time recruiter whose placements depend on reaching passive candidates, the arithmetic works easily. For a sales team enriching known accounts, it does not, and the per-seat structure plus the export quota make it worse as the team grows.
Datagma
Freemium monthly or annual subscription drawing on a single credit pool, where one credit buys a verified email and thirty credits buy a verified mobile number, with ten team seats included on every tier.
- Free$0
- Regular$49
- Popular$99
- Expert$249
- EnterpriseCustom
For email alone Datagma is competitive but not exceptional, at roughly 1.6 cents per verified address at 1,000 to 3,000 a month and about 1.1 cents at 22,500. Icypeas is cheaper and Anymail Finder is comparable. The reason to buy is the phone number: at 30 credits a mobile costs about 49 cents on Regular and 33 cents on Expert, published openly and buyable without a call, where FullEnrich and BetterContact charge ten credits that work out similar or higher and where RocketReach and ContactOut wrap phones in per-seat annual plans. Add ten included seats and twelve month rollover on monthly billing and Datagma is the cheapest legitimate way for a small team to get dialable numbers. The risk you are pricing is coverage variance and a three-person vendor.
Editorial verdict on each
ContactOut
ContactOut is a recruiting tool that happens to sell contact data, and it should be judged on that basis. Personal emails at scale, direct dials in a separate credit pool, an extension that works everywhere a sourcer works, campaigns and a dialler included, ATS and Recruiter Pro compatibility, and a SOC 2 certification no other vendor here publishes make it a straightforward purchase for a full-time sourcing desk. The pricing is where care is required: three separate meters, an export quota far smaller than the lookup allowance, a fair-use ceiling buried in the terms of use, advertised prices that assume an annual commitment, and per-seat licensing that compounds with every hire. Buy it for recruiting, buy the phone tier because the email tier misses the point, and read the quota clauses before you sign. For sales teams enriching known accounts, this is several times the market rate for capabilities you will not use.
Read the full ContactOut profileDatagma
Datagma exists to solve one problem cheaply: getting a mobile phone number without signing an annual contract or sitting through a demo. Thirty credits per mobile, published openly, works out at 33 to 49 cents a number, with ten seats included, twelve month rollover on monthly plans, and an API on every tier including the free one. For a small sales team that has decided to start calling, that is the least painful entry point in this market. The offsetting realities are that Datagma is a broker rather than a database, publishes no match rate, does not say clearly whether a failed lookup burns credits, and is run by about three people. Use it as a cheap phone source inside a waterfall or as a two-person team's dialling budget. Do not make it the single dependency underneath a revenue-critical outbound machine.
Read the full Datagma profileContactOut profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Datagma last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.