Icypeas vs Prospeo
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 assessmentIcypeas compared with Prospeo
Prospeo sells mobile numbers as a separate credit type and has stronger LinkedIn and Sales Navigator extraction, so it covers a channel Icypeas cannot address at all. Icypeas is cheaper for pure email volume and much cheaper for verification. Any team that needs phones should not be shortlisting Icypeas; teams that only email should compare on price, where Icypeas usually wins.
Choose Icypeas if
Price-sensitive European teams, agencies, and GTM engineers who want the cheapest usable email finding and bulk verification credits available, who consume data through an API or a waterfall rather than through a polished interface, and who do not need phone numbers.
Choose Prospeo if
Cost-conscious founders, outbound agencies, and small-to-mid sales teams that want a genuine searchable database with verified emails and mobile numbers, plus AI-assisted list building, at the lowest credible price in the category, especially US and EU targeted motions.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Icypeas | Prospeo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $19 per month (Basic, 1,000 credits) (free plan available) | $0 (Free, 100 credits/mo); paid from $37/mo per user billed yearly (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription across four published credit tiers, with different operations consuming different fractions of a credit and unused credits rolling over indefinitely. | Credit-based freemium subscription: 1 credit per verified email revealed or exported (0 if no email is found), 10 credits per mobile number, 1 credit per full company record. Monthly or yearly per-user billing, with yearly discounted 25% and the full annual credit pool deposited upfront. Credits reset each cycle with no rollover; top-up add-ons start at 1,000 credits for $10. |
| Free plan | No permanent free plan; signup credits are one-time. | 100 credits/month with no time limit, 28 search filters, 3 intent topics, AI Search, 5 AI Lookalike searches, Personas, and the Chrome extension. |
| Free trial | Free credits on signup for evaluation, no card required | No |
| Best for | Price-sensitive European teams, agencies, and GTM engineers who want the cheapest usable email finding and bulk verification credits available, who consume data through an API or a waterfall rather than through a polished interface, and who do not need phone numbers. | Cost-conscious founders, outbound agencies, and small-to-mid sales teams that want a genuine searchable database with verified emails and mobile numbers, plus AI-assisted list building, at the lowest credible price in the category, especially US and EU targeted motions. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes for the web app and about an hour for an API or Make integration. There is nothing to configure beyond an API key and a choice of operation. | Minutes to first list on the free plan; the extension is a Web Store install and CRM sync on Growth is an OAuth flow. No deployment project exists at any tier. |
| Learning curve | Low on the interface, moderate on cost modelling. The per-operation credit table is the thing to learn: teams that assume every action costs one credit are surprised by reverse email lookup at ten, and teams that do not realise verification costs 0.1 leave a large saving on the table. | Low for basic search and reveals; moderate to exploit the full filter set, intent topics, and ICP detection well. AI Search flattens the curve for non-specialists. |
| Platforms | Web application, Chrome extension, Google Workspace add-on, REST API, Bulk upload | Web app, Chrome extension, REST API, Google Sheets add-on, MCP server |
| Compliance | GDPR as an EU-established data processor and controller, CNIL as supervisory authority, Data subject erasure and objection requests handled | GDPR, CCPA opt-out and do-not-sell handling |
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (French-founded, incorporated in Canada) |
| Ownership | Privately held and unfunded | Privately held, founder-led; no institutional funding disclosed |
Strengths and limitations
Icypeas
Strengths
- Among the lowest per-credit prices in the category, at roughly 0.9 cents per found email at ten thousand a month.
- Credits never expire and stacking is uncapped, which is the most generous rollover term any vendor here publishes.
- Verification at 0.1 credits makes bulk list cleaning about ten times cheaper than paying finder rates, and catch-all verification is included rather than upsold.
- Per-operation pricing means you are not paying an email-find price for a company scrape or a validation.
Limitations
- No phone numbers. Phone Finder has been listed as coming soon rather than shipped, which is a long-standing gap and rules the product out for any team that calls.
- Coverage skews European; US mid-market and enterprise coverage is thinner than what RocketReach or ContactOut return.
- Seven employees, no outside funding, and no published revenue means real continuity risk for a business that would be materially disrupted if the service stopped.
- No SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO, or audit logging, so a buyer with a security review process will not be able to complete it.
Prospeo
Strengths
- The best price-to-database ratio in the category: a genuine 280M-record, 41-filter database with intent topics and technographics at prices that undercut even fellow challengers.
- Honest reveal economics: 1 credit per verified email, 0 for misses and duplicates, with a permanent 100-credit free plan that lets buyers verify accuracy in their own ICP before paying.
- Independent finder benchmarks repeatedly place Prospeo's coverage and accuracy at or near the top for US and EU contacts, consistent with its 98% claim there.
- AI Search, Lookalikes, and Personas make the database usable by people who will never learn a 41-filter query builder, and they ship on the free tier.
Limitations
- No credit rollover on monthly plans; unused credits expire every cycle, the harshest expiry policy among its direct competitors.
- Accuracy is region-skewed: excellent in the US and EU, but independent testing reports APAC accuracy falling to roughly 60%, and niche non-tech verticals are thinner.
- Bulk jobs against low-match segments burn budget on the 10-credit mobile side and can disappoint on match rates; third-party tests of large cold Sales Navigator lists have reported very low bulk match rates, so test your segment on the free tier before industrial runs.
- Support is a recurring complaint in user reviews, slow and inconsistent under load, which is the predictable cost of the price point and team size.
Pricing compared
Icypeas
Monthly or annual subscription across four published credit tiers, with different operations consuming different fractions of a credit and unused credits rolling over indefinitely.
- Basic$19
- Premium$39
- Advanced$89
- Hypergrowth$499
At 1,000 lookups a month Basic costs 19 dollars, about 1.9 cents per found email; at 10,000, Advanced costs 89 dollars, about 0.9 cents. That is roughly a third of Hunter's rate and half of Anymail Finder's, and the verification price of 0.1 credits makes bulk hygiene almost free by comparison with a dedicated verifier. Credits that never expire remove the usual pressure to right-size the plan. The offsetting risks are real and should be priced in: no phone data, thinner US coverage, no security certifications, and a seven-person unfunded company standing behind the service. For a waterfall step or a bulk verifier it is close to unbeatable value; as a sole primary data vendor for a business that depends on outbound, it is a cheaper bet with more variance.
Prospeo
Credit-based freemium subscription: 1 credit per verified email revealed or exported (0 if no email is found), 10 credits per mobile number, 1 credit per full company record. Monthly or yearly per-user billing, with yearly discounted 25% and the full annual credit pool deposited upfront. Credits reset each cycle with no rollover; top-up add-ons start at 1,000 credits for $10.
- Free$0
- Starter$49/mo monthly, or $37/mo billed yearly ($441/yr)
- Growth$99/mo monthly, or $74/mo billed yearly ($888/yr)
- Pro$249/mo monthly, or $187/mo billed yearly ($2,241/yr)
On raw price per verified email, Prospeo is close to unbeatable among tools with a real database: about 1.8 cents on yearly Starter and 1.2 cents on yearly Pro, versus roughly 44 cents and up per credit at UpLead, and it charges nothing on misses. The full-year upfront credit deposit makes yearly plans quietly more flexible than the no-rollover policy suggests. The discipline required is knowing the discounts' edges: mobiles are 10x, expired credits are gone, APAC accuracy drops off, and a $10-per-1,000 top-up culture can mask overspend on low-match bulk jobs. For US/EU email-led motions, capability per dollar is the category benchmark; for phone-led, APAC, or enterprise-governed motions, the cheap credits are answering the wrong question.
Editorial verdict on each
Icypeas
Icypeas is the value play in this category. Roughly a cent per found email at volume, verification at a tenth of a credit, LinkedIn scraping priced in fractions, an API on the cheapest plan, and credits that never expire add up to the best unit economics anyone here publishes. Buy it as the first step in a waterfall, as a bulk verifier, or as the data layer behind your own automation, where a miss costs you nothing and the savings compound. Be more careful about making it your only vendor: there are no phone numbers, US coverage is thinner than an aggregator's, there are no security certifications, and seven unfunded people are standing behind the uptime. Cheap and flexible, with the variance that usually comes with both.
Read the full Icypeas profileProspeo
Prospeo is the price-performance benchmark of the new B2B data generation: a real database with intent, technographic, and AI-assisted search at one to two cents per verified email, a permanently free on-ramp, and reveal economics that never charge for a miss. Against ZoomInfo-class contracts the value gap is absurd; even against fellow challengers it usually wins on pure cost per record. The bill for that positioning is paid in edges: expiring credits, 10x mobile costs, APAC accuracy that falls off a cliff, thin support, and no enterprise security story. Buy Prospeo as the high-volume, US/EU email-data engine of a cost-disciplined stack, verify your specific segment on the free plan first, and pair it with a deliverability-first verifier when your lists skew toward hard catch-all domains.
Read the full Prospeo profileIcypeas profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Prospeo last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.