Coresignal vs LeadMagic
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 assessmentCoresignal compared with LeadMagic
LeadMagic is a lean, credit-priced API for contact and company enrichment including job-change detection, aimed squarely at small teams who want one call and one answer. Coresignal is a broader and deeper dataset with warehouse delivery and far more fields, at more setup cost. Pick LeadMagic for simple enrichment on a budget; pick Coresignal when you need the underlying graph rather than a lookup.
Choose Coresignal if
Technical go-to-market operators building their own account scoring or job-change alerting, recruiting and HR tech builders, investment analysts screening private companies at scale, and anyone already running Clay who wants a cheaper, deeper source behind their enrichment waterfalls.
Choose LeadMagic if
Small teams that want champion job change tracking without a five-figure contract, Clay users who want signals and verified contact data from the same credit pool, and technical go-to-market operators who would rather call an API than log into another application.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Coresignal | LeadMagic |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Signals | Signals |
| Starting price | $49 per month (Mini, 2,500 credits) (7 days trial) | $49.99 per month (Basic) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Credit-based API subscriptions billed monthly or annually, with credits consumed per record retrieved; bulk datasets are quoted separately by contract length and scope. | Self-serve credit subscription with one shared pool across more than fifteen endpoints, charged per successful result, with monthly or discounted annual billing. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 7 days with 2,000 credits | Trial credits are offered at sign-up rather than a fixed-length free trial |
| Best for | Technical go-to-market operators building their own account scoring or job-change alerting, recruiting and HR tech builders, investment analysts screening private companies at scale, and anyone already running Clay who wants a cheaper, deeper source behind their enrichment waterfalls. | Small teams that want champion job change tracking without a five-figure contract, Clay users who want signals and verified contact data from the same credit pool, and technical go-to-market operators who would rather call an API than log into another application. |
| Setup time | A day for a working API integration if you have an engineer, and about an hour if you are consuming it through Clay or the self-service dashboard. The trial credits are enough to validate coverage on your specific segment before you commit. | An hour to a first successful call. Sign up, take an API key, and hit an endpoint. Building a scheduled job change sweep across a contact list and writing results back to a CRM is a day of work, or an afternoon inside Clay. |
| Learning curve | Moderate to steep depending on your route in. The Elasticsearch DSL filtering is powerful and not immediately obvious, and understanding the credit model well enough to avoid a surprise bill takes a careful read of the documentation. | Low for anyone technical and steep for anyone else. The endpoints are conventional and well described, but there is no interface to fall back on, so a team without engineering or Clay capability has no path to value. |
| Platforms | REST APIs for companies, employees, and jobs, Agentic Search API, MCP server, Self-service dashboard, Flat files in CSV, JSONL, and Parquet | REST API, lm-tui command line client, Hosted MCP server, AI go-to-market chat in beta, CSV bulk enrichment |
| Compliance | GDPR aligned, CCPA aligned, Certified by the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative | GDPR obligations apply to the personal contact data returned, No publicly advertised SOC 2 attestation |
| Founded | 2016 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Vilnius, Lithuania | United States, operating as a remote-first team |
| Ownership | Privately held | Bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
Coresignal
Strengths
- Genuine scale across three datasets with history back to 2016, which makes change detection possible rather than just snapshots.
- Job posting records at 1 credit each are the cheapest hiring signal in this category by a wide margin.
- Developer surfaces are unusually complete: Elasticsearch DSL filtering, webhooks, an Agentic Search API, and an MCP server, all included on the $49 plan rather than gated to enterprise.
- Delivery options span the full range from an API call to Parquet files landing in Snowflake, so the same vendor works for a two-person team and a data platform.
Limitations
- This is infrastructure, not a product. There is no scoring, no routing, no sequencing, and no CRM integration, so a go-to-market team needs either engineering support or Clay sitting on top.
- Credit costs differ by an order of magnitude between datasets, and the pricing page's headline credit counts make plans look far more generous than they are for people data.
- No website technographics or storefront data at all, so it complements rather than replaces the crawler-based tools in this category.
- Employee profile freshness depends on people updating their own public profiles, which means a job change can be weeks or months old before it becomes detectable, and some never surface.
LeadMagic
Strengths
- Job change detection at three credits a request, which puts the champion-moves signal within reach of companies that cannot spend five figures a year on it.
- Failed and empty lookups cost zero credits, which is a genuinely fairer meter than the pay-on-attempt model most enrichment vendors use.
- One credit pool across more than fifteen endpoints, so signals, contact data, and validation do not each need their own subscription and forecast.
- A hosted MCP server included on every tier, so an AI assistant can call signal and enrichment lookups as tools without an integration project.
Limitations
- There is no application. No dashboard, no alerts, no scoring, and no routing, so the entire workflow around a signal is yours to build.
- The signal set is narrow relative to dedicated platforms: job changes, hiring, growth, account changes, and funding, with no social listening, no website visitors, and no product usage.
- The job change detector answers a question about a contact you supply; it does not maintain a champion list or watch it for you, which is most of what packaged job change vendors actually sell.
- Accuracy and uptime figures are vendor claims rather than independently audited numbers, and match rates in practice vary by region and seniority.
Pricing compared
Coresignal
Credit-based API subscriptions billed monthly or annually, with credits consumed per record retrieved; bulk datasets are quoted separately by contract length and scope.
- Free trial$0
- Mini$49
- Starter$199
- Pro$499
- Growth and above$1,000
Model it at two volumes. A small team on Mini at $49 pulling 2,500 job postings a month is paying about 2 cents a posting for hiring signal, which is excellent; the same $49 spent on employee profiles buys around 150 people, or roughly 33 cents each, which is expensive against a general contact database. That asymmetry is the whole story. At Pro, $499 for 35,000 credits gets you around 2,000 enriched people or 35,000 job postings a month at 1.4 cents a credit. Coresignal is outstanding value for hiring and company data and merely competitive for people data, and the right way to buy it is to be very deliberate about which dataset you are actually consuming.
LeadMagic
Self-serve credit subscription with one shared pool across more than fifteen endpoints, charged per successful result, with monthly or discounted annual billing.
- Basic$49.99
- Essential$99
- Growth$249
- Professional$499
- Ultimate$849
Measured on the signal alone, LeadMagic is the cheapest route to job change detection by an enormous margin: three credits a check on a $49.99 plan against vendors quoting $40,000 a year for the packaged version. Measured as a whole, it is good value because the signals and the contact data share one pool and failed lookups are free, which removes the two most common ways credit-metered vendors quietly overcharge. What you are not buying is any of the workflow: no champion list that maintains itself, no alert, no scoring, no play. If your team can write a scheduled job or drive a Clay table, that trade is heavily in your favour. If it cannot, the $49.99 buys you nothing usable and you should pay more for a product with an interface.
Editorial verdict on each
Coresignal
Coresignal is the best-documented raw data source a small technical team can buy in this category, and it is priced so that job posting and hiring signal work is genuinely cheap while people data is merely fair. The developer surfaces are the giveaway about who it is for: Elasticsearch queries, webhooks, an MCP server, and Parquet files in your warehouse are not features aimed at a sales rep. Buy it if you are building something, whether that is a job-change alerting job, an account growth score, or a product with a talent graph underneath it. Buy it through Clay if you want the depth without the pipeline. Do not buy it expecting a tool that tells you who to call today, and do not size a plan on headline credit counts without checking that an employee record costs twenty times what a job posting does.
Read the full Coresignal profileLeadMagic
LeadMagic is the answer to a specific unfairness in this category: the job change signal, which is one of the highest-converting triggers in B2B sales, is normally sold only in five-figure annual packages behind a demo. Here it is three credits a request on a $49.99 plan, sharing a credit pool with verified emails, mobiles, validation, and company data, with failed lookups costing nothing. Buy it if you or your Clay table can turn an API response into a task, because on that basis the value is hard to beat and the pay-per-result meter is genuinely fairer than the norm. Do not buy it expecting a product: there is no dashboard, no champion list that maintains itself, no scoring, and no alert, and the signal set is narrow. It is infrastructure for a motion you design, not a motion you can switch on.
Read the full LeadMagic profileCoresignal profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; LeadMagic last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.