Evaboot vs PhantomBuster
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 assessedEvaboot compared with PhantomBuster
PhantomBuster can do everything Evaboot does plus a hundred other automations, on scheduled cloud execution, from $69 a month with expiring hours. Evaboot does one job at $9 to $79, cleans the output far better, filters out non-matching results, rolls credits over, and includes unlimited seats. If Sales Navigator export is your requirement, Evaboot wins on price, cleanliness, and speed. If you need scheduling, chaining, or non-LinkedIn sources, only PhantomBuster qualifies.
PhantomBuster compared with Evaboot
Evaboot does one job (export a Sales Navigator search cleanly, filter out the junk, find verified emails) and does it in a Chrome extension for as little as $9 a month. PhantomBuster does that job plus a hundred others in the cloud for $69 and up. If Sales Navigator export is your whole requirement, Evaboot is cheaper, faster, and cleaner; if you need scheduling, chaining, non-LinkedIn sources, and an API, PhantomBuster is the only one of the two that qualifies.
Choose Evaboot if
Anyone who already has an outreach tool and needs a clean, filtered, email-enriched list out of Sales Navigator without paying platform prices, and teams who want the extraction step to carry no messaging risk at all.
Choose PhantomBuster if
Operators and technical marketers who want raw LinkedIn and Sales Navigator data on a schedule, feeding a pipeline they assemble themselves, and who are comfortable configuring their own rate limits rather than buying an opinionated campaign tool.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Evaboot | PhantomBuster |
|---|---|---|
| Category | ||
| Starting price | $9 per month for 100 credits (free trial) | $69 per month (Start), or $56 per month billed annually (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Credit-based subscription across eight published tiers plus a custom option, with unlimited seats and unlimited Sales Navigator accounts on every plan. Credits are consumed per exported lead and per email found or verified. | Metered subscription: each tier bundles a monthly allowance of execution time, configured automation slots, AI credits, and email credits. Allowances reset monthly and do not roll over. |
| Free plan | No | A permanent free plan after the trial with roughly 30 minutes of execution time per month, one slot, 50 MB of storage, no AI or email credits, and the 10-row export cap still in force. It is a demo, not a working tier. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial; you can subscribe to any plan, cancel immediately, and retain one month to spend the credits | 14 days, no credit card, all features unlocked with 2 hours of execution time, 5 slots, 1,000 AI credits, and 50 email credits, but exports capped at 10 rows per file |
| Best for | Anyone who already has an outreach tool and needs a clean, filtered, email-enriched list out of Sales Navigator without paying platform prices, and teams who want the extraction step to carry no messaging risk at all. | Operators and technical marketers who want raw LinkedIn and Sales Navigator data on a schedule, feeding a pipeline they assemble themselves, and who are comfortable configuring their own rate limits rather than buying an opinionated campaign tool. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension, open Sales Navigator, run a search, click export. There is no account provisioning, no proxy, and no campaign to configure. | About an hour to a first useful result. Sign up, install the extension, capture the LinkedIn session cookie, pick a Phantom, paste a search URL, and launch. Building a Flow that chains three Phantoms and fires a webhook is a half day. |
| Learning curve | Very low on the interface and moderate on the economics. Using the tool is trivial; understanding that an enriched lead costs two credits, that verification alone costs half, and that credits roll over is what determines whether you buy the right plan. | Moderate and genuinely the main barrier. You have to internalize four concepts (Phantom, slot, execution time, container) before the pricing page makes sense, and the difference between a Phantom that finishes in four minutes and one that eats four hours is not obvious until you have run both. |
| Platforms | Google Chrome extension, Web dashboard for credits, exports, and account management, Requires an active LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscription | Web application, Chrome extension (session cookie capture only), Cloud execution, nothing runs on your machine, REST API, Webhooks |
| Compliance | GDPR, with published guidance on compliant use of scraped personal data (French company subject to EU law) | GDPR (French company subject to EU data protection law), Data processing agreement available |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | France | Paris, France |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped, founder-owned | Privately held, lightly venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Evaboot
Strengths
- The cleaning is genuinely better than anyone else's: emoji stripping, name capitalization, and company suffix removal quietly fix the defects that make automated personalization look automated.
- Filtering against your actual search criteria catches Sales Navigator's well-known habit of returning results that do not match your filters, materially raising the usable yield of an export.
- Unlimited seats and unlimited Sales Navigator accounts on every plan, so team size and client count do not affect what you pay.
- Credits roll over while you remain subscribed rather than expiring monthly, which is the opposite of PhantomBuster's model and better for lumpy workloads.
Limitations
- It does not send. Evaboot is half a stack, and you must pair it with an outreach tool, which means two subscriptions and two vendors.
- Sales Navigator is a hard prerequisite at roughly $99 per user per month, and that subscription typically costs more than Evaboot itself.
- The two-credit true cost of a lead with a verified email is not prominent in the plan names, and buyers routinely purchase half the volume they thought they were getting.
- Chrome extension only, so exports run while your browser is open and there is no scheduled or unattended extraction the way PhantomBuster offers.
PhantomBuster
Strengths
- The broadest automation catalogue in the category by a wide margin, covering LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, X, Facebook, Google Maps, and generic web scraping in one subscription.
- Genuinely excellent data plumbing: CSV and JSON results retained per run, webhooks on completion, a real REST API, Google Sheets sync, and Flows for chaining steps.
- Post engagement, group, and event extraction produce higher-intent audiences than filter-based search, and few competitors do all three well.
- Cloud execution means Phantoms run on a schedule with your machine off, unlike extension-based tools that only work while a browser is open.
Limitations
- No dedicated country-matched residential IP per LinkedIn account. Your session cookie is used from PhantomBuster's cloud, which is a weaker location story than Expandi, Closely, SalesRobot, or LinkedCamp offer, and it is the main reason experienced operators keep PhantomBuster for scraping and send from something else.
- Safety is your responsibility. Rate settings are configurable and the vendor does not enforce a hard ceiling or a warm-up ramp, so an inexperienced user can quite easily configure their way into a restriction.
- The session cookie breaks. Logging out, changing password, or a LinkedIn security event kills your Phantoms until you refresh the cookie, and this is a recurring operational chore.
- No unified inbox, no reply detection, and no conversation view. Sending is possible, managing the conversation that follows is not.
Pricing compared
Evaboot
Credit-based subscription across eight published tiers plus a custom option, with unlimited seats and unlimited Sales Navigator accounts on every plan. Credits are consumed per exported lead and per email found or verified.
- 100 credits$9
- 500 credits$39
- 1,500 credits$79
- 4,000 credits$139
- 8,000 credits$239
- 20,000 credits$399
- 50,000 credits$699
- 100,000 credits and aboveCustom
Evaboot is one of the clearest value propositions in this category because it is priced against the job rather than against the seat. Unlimited users and unlimited Sales Navigator accounts on every tier means a five-person agency and a solo consultant pay identically for the same volume, and credits rolling over removes the use-it-or-lose-it waste built into most competitors. Against PhantomBuster, which charges $69 to do this plus a hundred other things on expiring execution hours, Evaboot at $39 is cheaper, cleaner, and faster for this specific task. The caveat is the two-credit true cost of an enriched lead, which makes the headline plan sizes misleading, and the hard Sales Navigator prerequisite, which usually costs more than Evaboot itself.
PhantomBuster
Metered subscription: each tier bundles a monthly allowance of execution time, configured automation slots, AI credits, and email credits. Allowances reset monthly and do not roll over.
- Start$69
- Grow$159
- Scale$439
Priced as a data platform, PhantomBuster is fair: $159 a month for eighty hours of scheduled extraction plus 2,500 email credits undercuts buying scraping and enrichment separately, and the export, webhook, and API surface is better than anything else in this category. Priced as a LinkedIn outreach tool it is poor value, because at $159 you could have Expandi's safety architecture or HeyReach's multi-account inbox instead, and PhantomBuster gives you neither. Judge it on the data pipeline, not the sending, and the arithmetic works. For a single user running one account it is expensive relative to Dux-Soup or Octopus CRM; for a five-account agency it is cheap per account but offers nothing built for agency operations, which is exactly the wrong trade.
Editorial verdict on each
Evaboot
Evaboot is the best Sales Navigator export tool available and it earns that on the unglamorous work: cleaning the emojis and capitalization and legal suffixes that make automated messages look automated, and re-checking every row against the filters you actually searched for so you stop paying to message people who do not match. Priced from $9, with unlimited seats, unlimited Sales Navigator accounts, and credits that roll over, it is cheaper per useful lead than PhantomBuster and better at this specific job than any of the all-in-one platforms. It also carries far less account risk than anything else in this category, because it never sends a message, and close to zero exit risk, because everything it produces has always lived in your files rather than in its dashboard. Two things to keep straight before buying: an enriched lead costs two credits, not one, so halve every advertised plan size, and Sales Navigator at roughly $99 a month is a hard prerequisite that usually costs more than the tool. Buy it as the front end of a stack, not as the stack.
Read the full Evaboot profilePhantomBuster
InnovationPhantomBuster is the best data-extraction tool in this category and a mediocre outreach tool, and buyers get into trouble by not deciding which one they are buying. The Phantom catalogue, the Flows, the webhooks, the API, and the retained CSV and JSON results make it the obvious choice for anyone whose real requirement is a scheduled supply of clean LinkedIn and Sales Navigator data feeding something else. Post, group, and event extraction alone justify the subscription for many teams. But it does not run your account from a dedicated country-matched IP, it enforces no warm-up ramp or hard daily ceiling, and it has no inbox, so using it as your primary sender means accepting more account risk than a purpose-built vendor imposes, in exchange for features you would not use anyway. Buy it for the data. Send from something built for sending.
Read the full PhantomBuster profileEvaboot profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; PhantomBuster last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.