Evaboot vs Surfe
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 Surfe
Both are Chrome extensions that turn LinkedIn into data and neither sends anything, but the shape differs completely. Evaboot exports thousands of Sales Navigator rows cleaned and filtered, from $9 with unlimited seats, and requires a Sales Navigator subscription. Surfe enriches one profile at a time with verified emails and mobile numbers, writes it straight into the CRM, and needs no Sales Navigator, at $49 to $89 a seat with ISO 27001 behind it. Take Evaboot for bulk list building, Surfe for CRM hygiene and per-record depth.
Surfe compared with Evaboot
Both are Chrome extensions that turn LinkedIn into structured data with verified emails, and neither sends anything. Evaboot is a bulk exporter: thousands of Sales Navigator rows, cleaned and filtered, from $9 a month with unlimited seats, but it requires a Sales Navigator subscription and stops at the CSV. Surfe is a per-profile depth tool with CRM writing, mobile numbers, buying signals, and ISO 27001, at $49 to $89 a seat with no Sales Navigator needed. Take Evaboot for volume, Surfe for CRM hygiene and data quality per record.
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 Surfe if
Sales teams who write their own LinkedIn messages and want verified contact data and clean CRM records without any automation risk, and revenue operations teams who need LinkedIn-sourced contacts landing in Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive correctly the first time.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Evaboot | Surfe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | ||
| Starting price | $9 per month for 100 credits (free trial) | $0 (Free), then $49 per user per month (Essential) (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. | Per-user seat subscription with monthly email and mobile credit pools, plus a genuinely free tier and a separately priced CRM connector for teams that only want the sync. |
| Free plan | No | Free includes 20 email credits and 5 mobile credits per month, company and people search limited to roughly 1,000 per week, email validation, and basic integrations. It is a demonstration rather than a working plan. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial; you can subscribe to any plan, cancel immediately, and retain one month to spend the credits | The free tier serves as the evaluation path; no fixed-length trial is published |
| 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. | Sales teams who write their own LinkedIn messages and want verified contact data and clean CRM records without any automation risk, and revenue operations teams who need LinkedIn-sourced contacts landing in Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive correctly the first time. |
| 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. | Fifteen minutes. Install the Chrome extension, authorize the CRM connection, map a couple of fields, and open a LinkedIn profile. There is no infrastructure, no proxy, and no campaign to configure because there is no automation. |
| 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. | Very low for the sidebar workflow, which reps understand immediately. The parts that take thought are CRM field mapping, done once by an operations person, and credit budgeting, since email and mobile pools are separate and mobile is scarce. |
| Platforms | Google Chrome extension, Web dashboard for credits, exports, and account management, Requires an active LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscription | Google Chrome extension, Web application, API, MCP server for AI agents |
| Compliance | GDPR, with published guidance on compliant use of scraped personal data (French company subject to EU law) | ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, CCPA compliant |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | France | Paris, France, with offices in New York and Barcelona |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped, founder-owned | 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.
Surfe
Strengths
- It automates nothing on LinkedIn, so it carries no messaging-related account risk at all, which no other tool in this category can claim.
- Waterfall enrichment across more than fifteen data providers rather than one source, which keeps match rates usable on European and non-technology profiles.
- Native Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive connectors that write correctly shaped records with the LinkedIn profile attached, plus duplicate detection at the point of entry.
- ISO 27001 certified with GDPR and CCPA compliance, SSO and SCIM on Enterprise, and published security logs. Nothing else in this category will pass a security review.
Limitations
- It sends nothing. No campaigns, no sequences, no inbox, no LinkedIn messaging, so Surfe is always half a stack and must be paired with a sender or with reps writing by hand.
- The Essential tier at $49 for 150 email credits is poor value per record, and the pricing structure effectively pushes serious users straight to $89.
- Mobile credits are scarce (5, 50, and 100 a month across the tiers), so any team that runs a genuine calling motion will exhaust them and need Enterprise volume.
- Value depends heavily on being on Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive. Teams on other CRMs lose the core of the product.
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.
Surfe
Per-user seat subscription with monthly email and mobile credit pools, plus a genuinely free tier and a separately priced CRM connector for teams that only want the sync.
- Free$0
- Essential$49
- Pro$89
- EnterpriseCustom
Judged purely on cost per email address, Surfe is not the cheapest option and does not try to be. Judged on what a sales team actually loses to bad data, it is priced sensibly: at $89 a seat on Pro you get roughly a thousand verified emails, a hundred mobile numbers, two-way CRM sync, buying signals, lookalikes, and a list builder, with no Sales Navigator seat required and no automation risk attached. The free tier lets you test match rates on your own market before committing, which is the only honest way to evaluate a data vendor. The Essential tier is the weak spot, offering only 150 credits for $49, and most teams should either stay free while evaluating or go straight to Pro.
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 profileSurfe
Surfe belongs in a LinkedIn outreach shortlist precisely because it refuses to do outreach. It is the sidebar that finds a verified email and mobile number, tells you whether the person is already in Salesforce, and writes a clean record with the LinkedIn profile attached, all while your rep does the actual selling. That makes it the only tool in this category with no automation risk, no session credential in vendor hands, and no daily limits to get wrong, and it is also the only one holding an ISO 27001 certification, which is what your security review will ask for. The waterfall across more than fifteen data providers keeps match rates honest outside the United States, the buying signals catch job changes that are worth more than any volume increase, and the free tier lets you test coverage on your own market before spending anything. Buy it if your team writes its own messages and your CRM is a mess, or buy it alongside a sender as the data half of the stack. Skip the $49 Essential tier, which is thin at 150 credits, and go straight to Pro at $89 where the per-record economics actually work.
Read the full Surfe profileEvaboot profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Surfe last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.