ContactOut vs FullEnrich
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 FullEnrich
FullEnrich aggregates twenty-five sources with verified-or-free billing, personal emails at three credits, mobiles at ten, an MCP server, and no seat charge. ContactOut owns its data, has a real interface and a recruiting workflow, and holds SOC 2. Engineering and GTM teams enriching records programmatically should take FullEnrich; sourcers working LinkedIn profiles by hand all day should take ContactOut.
FullEnrich compared with ContactOut
ContactOut owns a 300 million profile database with recruiter tooling, ATS integrations, and separate email and phone credit pools, sold per seat on annual terms with monthly fair-use caps. FullEnrich owns nothing and aggregates twenty-five sources, sold by credit with no seat charge. Recruiters working LinkedIn all day take ContactOut; engineering and GTM teams enriching records programmatically take FullEnrich.
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 FullEnrich if
Teams that need high coverage on both emails and mobile numbers from one vendor and want to consume enrichment programmatically, especially developers and GTM engineers building pipelines or wiring data into an AI assistant through MCP.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ContactOut | FullEnrich |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then about $99 per month per seat on annual billing (email plan) (free plan available) | $0 (Free, 50 starter credits), then $55 per month (Pro, 1,000 credits) (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 subscription with a published entry plan and quoted volume above it, priced from a single credit pool where different data types consume different credit amounts and unverifiable results cost nothing. |
| Free plan | Five emails, five phone numbers, and five exports per day at no cost. | 50 starter credits with waterfall enrichment and MCP server access, extendable through referral credits. |
| Free trial | The free plan serves as the evaluation path rather than a time-limited trial | 50 credits on signup with no credit card required |
| 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. | Teams that need high coverage on both emails and mobile numbers from one vendor and want to consume enrichment programmatically, especially developers and GTM engineers building pipelines or wiring data into an AI assistant through MCP. |
| 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 a CSV run or a Clay column, under an hour for the API, and a few minutes for the MCP server, which is the fastest path to useful for anyone already working in an AI assistant. |
| 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, provided the team learns the credit table. The ten-to-one mobile rate and the three-to-one personal email rate mean a plan's usable size depends entirely on the mix, and teams that assume every output costs one credit will exhaust an allowance in days. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, Web search portal, Gmail integration, ContactSheets bulk enrichment, REST API on the Team tier | Web application, Chrome extension, CSV upload, REST APIs, MCP server, Clay integration |
| Compliance | SOC 2 certified, GDPR with opt-out and suppression support, CCPA | GDPR, CCPA, Data processing agreement available |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Francisco, United States (founded in France) |
| Ownership | Privately held, lightly funded | Venture-backed (seed) |
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.
FullEnrich
Strengths
- Twenty-five plus providers in one waterfall, available on every tier including free, which is broader than most competitors and not gated behind an upgrade.
- Verified or it is free is the strongest available billing guarantee, and the granular credit table lets you model a month's spend precisely before committing.
- An MCP server on all tiers, including the free plan, is the most complete answer in this category to how enrichment plugs into an AI assistant.
- Three separate APIs, for enrichment, search, and reverse email lookup, rather than a single endpoint bolted onto a web app.
Limitations
- Only the 1,000 credit step is publicly priced. Anything above it requires a quote, which is a real transparency gap in a category where competitors publish ladders to 100,000 credits.
- At 5.5 cents per verified work email the entry rate is among the most expensive here, several times what a single-source vendor charges.
- Bring-your-own provider keys, the feature that fixes the unit economics at volume, is Enterprise-only, as are custom rate limits and SSO.
- The waterfall abstracts which of twenty-five providers supplied a given record, which will not satisfy a strict data provenance policy.
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.
FullEnrich
Freemium subscription with a published entry plan and quoted volume above it, priced from a single credit pool where different data types consume different credit amounts and unverifiable results cost nothing.
- Free$0
- Pro$55
- EnterpriseCustom
At 1,000 lookups the Pro plan costs 55 dollars, or 5.5 cents per verified work email, which is roughly six times Icypeas and slightly more than BetterContact's entry rate. At 10,000 the price is not published, so the honest answer is that you cannot model it without a quote, and that opacity is the main weakness of an otherwise transparent product. What the premium buys is coverage from twenty-five sources, a floor on waste because unverified results are free, personal emails and reverse lookup as distinct priced outputs, company data at a quarter credit, and an MCP server on every tier. For an international list or an agentic workflow that is a genuinely differentiated package. For a well-covered domestic list, you are paying waterfall prices for a problem you do not have.
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 profileFullEnrich
FullEnrich is the most technically ambitious of the small waterfall vendors. Twenty-five sources on every tier including free, a granular published credit table, a verified-or-free billing rule, personal emails and reverse lookup as distinct outputs, company data at a quarter credit, and an MCP server that lets an AI assistant call enrichment directly. With roughly two million dollars of seed funding behind it and Mastercard and DocuSign on the customer list, it is also better capitalised than most of its peers. Buy it if you work international lists, if you consume data programmatically, or if you want enrichment available to an agent rather than to a person. The two things to weigh are the price, at 5.5 cents per verified work email on the only published plan, and the fact that everything above 1,000 credits a month, including bring-your-own keys and SSO, requires a quote you cannot see in advance.
Read the full FullEnrich profileContactOut profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; FullEnrich last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.