Kaspr vs RocketReach
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 assessmentKaspr compared with RocketReach
RocketReach sells access to a 700 million profile database you search directly, with mobiles on its upper tiers, and like Kaspr it declines to state publicly whether a failed lookup burns a credit. RocketReach is the better tool when you need to find people you cannot already see on LinkedIn; Kaspr is better when LinkedIn is already your list and you only need the number attached to a profile in front of you.
Choose Kaspr if
Individual salespeople, recruiters, and founders who prospect inside LinkedIn, need mobile numbers rather than just emails, want to pay by card without a demo call, and can live inside an allowance of 100 to 200 phone reveals a month.
Choose RocketReach if
Recruiters and individual sales professionals who need to search a very large people database rather than enrich a list they already have, who need phone numbers alongside emails, and who can justify a per-seat annual subscription.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Kaspr | RocketReach |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | 0 euros (Free), then 45 euros per user per month on annual billing (Starter) (free plan available) | $329 per seat per year (Essentials, about $27 a month), or $49 a month billed monthly (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription with three separate credit meters (B2B email, phone, and direct email), quoted in euros, dollars, or pounds, with monthly or annual billing. | Per-seat subscription across three published tiers, with lookup and export volume caps, phone numbers gated to Pro and above, and full API access gated to Ultimate; advertised low prices assume annual billing. |
| Free plan | 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits, and 5 direct email credits per month, with a 100-lead export cap and no credit rollover. | A small monthly lookup allowance for evaluation; not workable for production use. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path | A limited free tier with a small number of lookups is available for evaluation |
| Best for | Individual salespeople, recruiters, and founders who prospect inside LinkedIn, need mobile numbers rather than just emails, want to pay by card without a demo call, and can live inside an allowance of 100 to 200 phone reveals a month. | Recruiters and individual sales professionals who need to search a very large people database rather than enrich a list they already have, who need phone numbers alongside emails, and who can justify a per-seat annual subscription. |
| Setup time | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in, and open a LinkedIn profile. Connecting a CRM adds another ten to fifteen minutes of field mapping. | Fifteen minutes: create the account, install the browser extension, run a search. CRM integration takes another hour, and API integration is only available once you are on Ultimate. |
| Learning curve | Very low for the extension itself. The part that trips people up is the credit model: three separate meters with different allowances means users burn direct email credits without realising they were the scarce resource, then conclude the product is broken. | Low for the extension, moderate for the search filters, which reward learning. The genuinely confusing part is the metering: lookups and exports are separate counters with different caps depending on whether you chose monthly or annual billing, and most new users do not realise this until they hit a limit. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, Web dashboard, REST API | Web application, Browser extension, Bulk lookup, REST API on Ultimate and above |
| Compliance | GDPR with a documented legitimate interest basis and public objection form, CCPA with a do-not-sell route | GDPR, CCPA, Published individual opt-out process |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France, within the Cognism group (Cognism is headquartered in London, United Kingdom) | Bellevue, Washington, United States |
| Ownership | Owned by Cognism, which acquired Kaspr in 2022 | Venture and growth-equity backed after nearly a decade bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
Kaspr
Strengths
- Unlimited B2B email credits on every paid plan removes the cost of work email entirely, which no credit-metered competitor matches.
- Mobile phone numbers at a published self-serve price, from a vendor group whose enterprise product only sells through a rep, is a genuinely useful gap in the market.
- The LinkedIn extension covers profiles, Sales Navigator results, groups, events, and post engagement, which is broader page coverage than most extraction tools.
- Compliance documentation is unusually concrete: named sources, a stated legitimate interest basis, a public opt-out form, and an automatic five-year deletion of profile data.
Limitations
- Phone credit ceilings are low and hard: 200 a month on the top published plan, which is under ten dials a working day and nowhere near a full-time caller's volume.
- Pricing is per seat, so team economics degrade quickly compared with Hunter or CUFinder, both of which include unlimited users.
- Direct email is capped at 5 a month on Starter, which is a feature listed on the plan rather than a feature you can use.
- Kaspr does not publish whether a failed reveal consumes a credit, which is the single most consequential unknown in this category and the one thing a buyer most needs answered.
RocketReach
Strengths
- One of the largest owned contact databases available self-serve, at roughly 700 million professionals and 60 million companies, with real-time coverage on 430 million.
- It is a genuine search tool, not only an enrichment tool, so it answers who to contact rather than only how to reach them.
- Phone numbers are drawn from the same lookup allowance rather than costing a ten or thirty credit multiplier, which is unusually favourable at volume once you are on Pro.
- Personal emails alongside work emails on Pro and Ultimate make it genuinely useful for recruiting, which is a large share of its user base.
Limitations
- Per-seat pricing is the dominant cost factor for any team, and it compounds: five people on Pro is over 4,000 dollars a year before anyone looks anything up.
- The advertised prices assume an annual commitment; monthly billing costs 45 to 80 percent more for the same plan.
- Essentials is email-only, so the cheapest tier is a non-starter for anyone who needs to call, and there is no add-on to fix it.
- Full API access is gated to Ultimate at 1,699 dollars a year per seat, which is an expensive way to obtain an endpoint compared with Enrich, Icypeas, or Hunter, all of which include an API far lower down.
Pricing compared
Kaspr
Freemium per-seat subscription with three separate credit meters (B2B email, phone, and direct email), quoted in euros, dollars, or pounds, with monthly or annual billing.
- Free0 euros
- Starter45 euros
- Business79 euros
- EnterpriseCustom
Judge Kaspr on phone credits and ignore everything else, because that is what you are buying. Business at 79 euros for 200 mobile numbers is roughly 0.40 euros per mobile, which is competitive with Datagma and cheaper than FullEnrich's waterfall for phones, and the unlimited work email allowance is genuinely free money next to a credit-metered competitor. The problem is scale. At 1,000 mobiles a month the published tiers do not reach, and you are buying add-on packs or negotiating Enterprise, at which point the transparent pricing that made Kaspr attractive is gone. At 10,000 you were never a Kaspr customer. So the value is real and it is bounded: for one or two people making a few hundred calls a month it is one of the best deals available, and for anything larger it is a false start.
RocketReach
Per-seat subscription across three published tiers, with lookup and export volume caps, phone numbers gated to Pro and above, and full API access gated to Ultimate; advertised low prices assume annual billing.
- Essentials$329 per year
- Pro$829 per year
- Ultimate$1,699 per year
- Team and customQuoted
At the published caps, Essentials works out at about 27 cents per export annually and 49 cents per lookup monthly, Pro at about 23 cents and 40 cents, and Ultimate at about 8.5 cents annually and 21 cents monthly. Those are five to twenty times the per-contact cost of Hunter, Anymail Finder, or Icypeas. What you are buying for the difference is a searchable owned database of around 700 million people, phone numbers at no extra credit multiplier, and a ten-year-old vendor with a support organisation. For a recruiter who lives in the product all day and needs to find people rather than enrich them, that is defensible. For a small team enriching known lists, it is poor value, and the per-seat structure makes it worse with every person you add.
Editorial verdict on each
Kaspr
Kaspr is a good deal inside a narrow box and a bad deal the moment you step outside it. If you are one person prospecting on LinkedIn who needs a few hundred mobile numbers a month, unlimited work email at 45 to 79 euros a seat is hard to beat, and the compliance documentation is more concrete than almost anything else in this category. If you are a team, the per-seat pricing punishes you where Hunter and CUFinder do not. If you need volume phones, the ceilings are low enough that you will be back in a sales conversation within a quarter, which defeats the point of buying a self-serve tool. And the fact that Kaspr will not say in public whether a failed reveal costs you a credit is a real mark against it, because in this category that single rule determines what you actually pay. Buy it as a one-seat phone allowance. Do not buy it as a data platform.
Read the full Kaspr profileRocketReach
RocketReach is a proper database business rather than a lookup utility, and it should be evaluated as one. Roughly 700 million people, real search filters, personal emails, and phone numbers that do not carry a credit multiplier make it genuinely valuable to recruiters and to individual sellers building a territory from nothing. It is also the most expensive way to buy contact data in this batch: prices are per seat, the advertised numbers assume an annual commitment, the cheapest tier has no phone numbers, the API is locked to a 1,699 dollar tier, and the volume caps are small enough that any real enrichment workload needs a quote. Buy it if finding people is the job. If you already know who you want and simply need their details, almost everything else in this category will do that job for a fraction of the money.
Read the full RocketReach profileKaspr profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; RocketReach last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.