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.
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The short answer
Both sides assessedContactOut compared with Datagma
Datagma adds seats at 5 dollars a month, 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 99 dollars a month for one user on the email plus phone plan 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 extra seats cost only 5 dollars a month, 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 a premium over email finders.
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 $49 per month (Email, global data), or $39 per month billed annually | $0 (Free), then $49 per month (Regular) |
| Pricing model | One-user subscription tiers with separate email and phone credit pools, separate export quotas, monthly fair-use caps set in the terms of use, monthly or annual billing, and a toggle that halves the price if you exclude US and UK data. | 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 seats that scale by plan (1, 1, 3, and 5) and extra seats at 5 dollars a user a month. |
| 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 one seat. |
| 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 a premium over email finders. | 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 is frequently the deciding factor in a corporate security review, and ContactOut is one of the few data providers here that states it.
- 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.
- The live prices sit under struck-through list prices of 99 and 199 dollars with no stated end date, so the cost could rise at renewal.
- 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.
- Seats cost 5 dollars a month beyond the ones included, far below the per-seat pricing 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.
- No prospecting database, so it cannot tell you who to contact, only how to reach someone you have already identified.
- No SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO, or audit logging, so a buyer with a formal security review will not get through it.
- Roughly three staff and modest disclosed revenue means genuine continuity risk for a business that would be disrupted if the service stopped.
Pricing compared
ContactOut
One-user subscription tiers with separate email and phone credit pools, separate export quotas, monthly fair-use caps set in the terms of use, monthly or annual billing, and a toggle that halves the price if you exclude US and UK data.
- Free$0
- Email$49
- Email plus Phone$99
- Team and APIQuoted
At the email plus phone tier, 99 dollars a month against 600 exports gives an effective cost near 16.5 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 (Enrich and FullEnrich also state SOC 2). 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 seats that scale by plan (1, 1, 3, and 5) and extra seats at 5 dollars a user a month.
- 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 cheap extra seats, twelve month rollover on paid 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, 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 2026-09-26; Datagma last reviewed 2026-09-26. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between ContactOut and Datagma?
Datagma adds seats at 5 dollars a month, 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 99 dollars a month for one user on the email plus phone plan 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.
Is ContactOut or Datagma cheaper?
ContactOut starts at $0 (Free), then $49 per month (Email, global data), or $39 per month billed annually. Datagma starts at $0 (Free), then $49 per month (Regular). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. ContactOut pricing model: One-user subscription tiers with separate email and phone credit pools, separate export quotas, monthly fair-use caps set in the terms of use, monthly or annual billing, and a toggle that halves the price if you exclude US and UK data. Datagma pricing model: 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 seats that scale by plan (1, 1, 3, and 5) and extra seats at 5 dollars a user a month.
Does ContactOut or Datagma have a free plan?
ContactOut has a free plan. Five emails, five phone numbers, and five exports per day at no cost. Trial terms: The free plan serves as the evaluation path rather than a time-limited trial. Datagma has a free plan. 90 verified emails or three mobile numbers per month, with API access and one seat. Trial terms: No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path.
Who should choose ContactOut?
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 a premium over email finders.
Who should choose Datagma?
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.
What are the best alternatives to ContactOut and Datagma?
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