Icypeas vs Tomba
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 assessmentTomba compared with Icypeas
Both compete on being conspicuously cheap. Icypeas is 19 dollars for 1,000 and 89 for 10,000 with credits that never expire, but it will not state publicly whether a failed lookup consumes a credit. Tomba is 8.90 per thousand and says plainly that failures and duplicates are free, which makes its cheaper headline number also the more trustworthy one. On price and disclosure together, Tomba is the better deal; Icypeas keeps the edge only on credit permanence.
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 Tomba if
Developers and technical small teams building email finding, verification, or enrichment into their own product or internal tooling, and high-volume buyers who want a flat per-thousand price with twelve-month credit validity rather than a tier ladder.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Icypeas | Tomba |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $19 per month (Basic, 1,000 credits) (free plan available) | $0 (25 free searches per month, plus 75 free API credits on signup), then $8.90 per 1,000 credits (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. | Usage-priced credits at a flat rate per thousand, bought as a monthly subscription or as a one-time block, with twelve-month credit validity and no conventional tier ladder. |
| Free plan | No permanent free plan; signup credits are one-time. | 25 searches per month with no credit card required, plus 75 API credits granted on signup. |
| Free trial | Free credits on signup for evaluation, no card required | 75 free API credits on signup with no card required, alongside a permanent free tier of 25 searches a month |
| 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. | Developers and technical small teams building email finding, verification, or enrichment into their own product or internal tooling, and high-volume buyers who want a flat per-thousand price with twelve-month credit validity rather than a tier ladder. |
| 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. | Fifteen minutes to a first API call: sign up, take the 75 free credits, pull an SDK, authenticate with the key and secret pair. The browser extension takes five. A production integration is a day or two depending on how many endpoints you use. |
| 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 a developer and moderate for anyone else. The endpoint set is well enumerated and the SDKs are conventional. The concept that needs learning is the credit multiplier: emails cost one and phones cost five, so a phone-heavy workload burns a budget four times faster than the headline rate suggests. |
| Platforms | Web application, Chrome extension, Google Workspace add-on, REST API, Bulk upload | REST API, Browser extension, Web application, Ten official SDKs |
| Compliance | GDPR as an EU-established data processor and controller, CNIL as supervisory authority, Data subject erasure and objection requests handled | GDPR stated by the vendor |
| Founded | 2022 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France | Claymont, Delaware, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held and unfunded | Privately held and independent |
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.
Tomba
Strengths
- A flat 8.90 dollars per thousand credits at every volume, which removes tier guessing entirely and is the cheapest published per-email rate in this batch.
- Explicit and correct billing rules: no charge for a failed search, no charge for a duplicate search inside the same month, and one credit per valid email.
- Twelve-month credit validity plus a one-time purchase option, so a finite project does not need a subscription it will forget to cancel.
- Ten official open-source SDKs across Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, Dart, Lua, R, and Elixir, which is broader language coverage than any competitor here.
Limitations
- The interface is a secondary concern; non-technical sales users will find Skrapp, SalesQL, or GetProspect better places to work.
- Phone lookups at five credits are poor value against SalesQL's single-credit pool if calling is your main channel.
- No searchable people database to filter by title and seniority, so Tomba answers questions about people you can already name rather than helping you decide who to contact.
- No per-second or per-minute API rate limits are published, only an uptime figure and a response-time claim, which is a real gap for a product sold primarily on its API.
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.
Tomba
Usage-priced credits at a flat rate per thousand, bought as a monthly subscription or as a one-time block, with twelve-month credit validity and no conventional tier ladder.
- Free$0
- Growth$89
- Custom volume$8.90 per 1,000 credits
Tomba is the cheapest published per-unit price in this batch and one of the cheapest anywhere self-serve. At 1,000 verified emails a month you spend 8.90 dollars in finder credits, roughly 0.0089 per address, against Skrapp at 0.0145, GetProspect at 0.034, and Hunter's Starter at about 0.025 euros. At 10,000 emails a month you spend 89 dollars, well under Hunter's Growth tier at 149 euros for the same volume and better than any tier-laddered competitor here. Phone numbers are the weak point: at five credits, 1,000 mobiles costs 44.50 dollars and 10,000 costs 445, which is respectable in absolute terms but four to five times SalesQL's single-credit pool. The honest summary is that Tomba is the best price per email in this batch and a middling price per phone, and it is worth the switch mainly if you are calling the API rather than clicking a button, because the interface does not justify the move on its own.
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 profileTomba
Tomba is the best-value email lookup in this batch and the only one in it genuinely built for developers. Eight dollars ninety per thousand credits at every volume, with failed and duplicate searches free and credits valid for twelve months, gives an honest cost of under a cent per verified address, and ten open-source SDKs across fourteen endpoints is more API surface than anyone else here offers. The Author Finder endpoint and the Clearbit-compatible person and company endpoints are real differentiators rather than list padding. What is missing is everything around the API. There are no published rate limits, no seat terms, no searchable people database, no sequencer, a thin interface, and almost nothing disclosed about who runs the company. Phone lookups at five credits are middling value. Buy Tomba if code is calling it and price per verified email is the number that matters. Do not buy it as the tool a salesperson opens in the morning, and do not buy it as your phone data provider.
Read the full Tomba profileIcypeas profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Tomba last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.