ContactOut vs Kaspr
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
Editorial assessmentKaspr compared with ContactOut
ContactOut is the recruiter's default, with deeper personal email coverage and a large candidate-oriented search, but its advertised prices assume an annual commitment and it charges per seat. Kaspr's direct email allowance of 5 a month on Starter makes it useless for the personal-address workflow recruiters depend on. Recruiters should take ContactOut; salespeople chasing work contacts should take Kaspr.
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 Kaspr if
Individual salespeople, recruiters, and founders who prospect inside LinkedIn, need mobile numbers rather than just emails, want to pay by card without a demo call, and can live inside an allowance of 100 to 200 phone reveals a month.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ContactOut | Kaspr |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then about $99 per month per seat on annual billing (email plan) (free plan available) | 0 euros (Free), then 45 euros per user per month on annual billing (Starter) (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 per-seat subscription with three separate credit meters (B2B email, phone, and direct email), quoted in euros, dollars, or pounds, with monthly or annual billing. |
| Free plan | Five emails, five phone numbers, and five exports per day at no cost. | 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits, and 5 direct email credits per month, with a 100-lead export cap and no credit rollover. |
| Free trial | The free plan serves as the evaluation path rather than a time-limited trial | No fixed-length 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. | Individual salespeople, recruiters, and founders who prospect inside LinkedIn, need mobile numbers rather than just emails, want to pay by card without a demo call, and can live inside an allowance of 100 to 200 phone reveals a month. |
| 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. | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in, and open a LinkedIn profile. Connecting a CRM adds another ten to fifteen minutes of field mapping. |
| 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. | Very low for the extension itself. The part that trips people up is the credit model: three separate meters with different allowances means users burn direct email credits without realising they were the scarce resource, then conclude the product is broken. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, Web search portal, Gmail integration, ContactSheets bulk enrichment, REST API on the Team tier | Chrome extension, Web dashboard, REST API |
| Compliance | SOC 2 certified, GDPR with opt-out and suppression support, CCPA | GDPR with a documented legitimate interest basis and public objection form, CCPA with a do-not-sell route |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Paris, France, within the Cognism group (Cognism is headquartered in London, United Kingdom) |
| Ownership | Privately held, lightly funded | Owned by Cognism, which acquired Kaspr in 2022 |
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.
Kaspr
Strengths
- Unlimited B2B email credits on every paid plan removes the cost of work email entirely, which no credit-metered competitor matches.
- Mobile phone numbers at a published self-serve price, from a vendor group whose enterprise product only sells through a rep, is a genuinely useful gap in the market.
- The LinkedIn extension covers profiles, Sales Navigator results, groups, events, and post engagement, which is broader page coverage than most extraction tools.
- Compliance documentation is unusually concrete: named sources, a stated legitimate interest basis, a public opt-out form, and an automatic five-year deletion of profile data.
Limitations
- Phone credit ceilings are low and hard: 200 a month on the top published plan, which is under ten dials a working day and nowhere near a full-time caller's volume.
- Pricing is per seat, so team economics degrade quickly compared with Hunter or CUFinder, both of which include unlimited users.
- Direct email is capped at 5 a month on Starter, which is a feature listed on the plan rather than a feature you can use.
- Kaspr does not publish whether a failed reveal consumes a credit, which is the single most consequential unknown in this category and the one thing a buyer most needs answered.
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.
Kaspr
Freemium per-seat subscription with three separate credit meters (B2B email, phone, and direct email), quoted in euros, dollars, or pounds, with monthly or annual billing.
- Free0 euros
- Starter45 euros
- Business79 euros
- EnterpriseCustom
Judge Kaspr on phone credits and ignore everything else, because that is what you are buying. Business at 79 euros for 200 mobile numbers is roughly 0.40 euros per mobile, which is competitive with Datagma and cheaper than FullEnrich's waterfall for phones, and the unlimited work email allowance is genuinely free money next to a credit-metered competitor. The problem is scale. At 1,000 mobiles a month the published tiers do not reach, and you are buying add-on packs or negotiating Enterprise, at which point the transparent pricing that made Kaspr attractive is gone. At 10,000 you were never a Kaspr customer. So the value is real and it is bounded: for one or two people making a few hundred calls a month it is one of the best deals available, and for anything larger it is a false start.
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 profileKaspr
Kaspr is a good deal inside a narrow box and a bad deal the moment you step outside it. If you are one person prospecting on LinkedIn who needs a few hundred mobile numbers a month, unlimited work email at 45 to 79 euros a seat is hard to beat, and the compliance documentation is more concrete than almost anything else in this category. If you are a team, the per-seat pricing punishes you where Hunter and CUFinder do not. If you need volume phones, the ceilings are low enough that you will be back in a sales conversation within a quarter, which defeats the point of buying a self-serve tool. And the fact that Kaspr will not say in public whether a failed reveal costs you a credit is a real mark against it, because in this category that single rule determines what you actually pay. Buy it as a one-seat phone allowance. Do not buy it as a data platform.
Read the full Kaspr profileContactOut profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Kaspr last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.