Prospeo

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   You search the database by stacking filters, from standard firmographics (title, location, headcount, revenue) up to technographics, job postings, funding events, website traffic, and intent topics on higher tiers, or you skip manual filtering and describe your ICP to AI Search, which interprets meaning rather than exact keywords. AI Lookalikes expands a handful of good-fit accounts into a scored list of similar companies, and saved Personas keep repeat targeting consistent.

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   Browsing and previewing results is free; credits are spent only at export or reveal. A people export costs 1 credit per verified email found and 0 when no email comes back, a mobile number costs 10 credits, and a company record with full firmographic, technology, revenue, and funding data costs 1 credit. Exports carry 30+ additional data points per contact, with 50+ AI-derived fields available.

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   The Chrome extension works LinkedIn and Sales Navigator directly, revealing verified emails and mobiles from profiles and search results, while CSV enrichment and the public API handle bulk workflows; a Google Sheets add-on and an MCP server extend the same lookups into spreadsheets and AI-agent tooling. Every plan connects to Clay, Zapier, Outreach, and lemlist; Growth and Pro add native HubSpot and Salesforce sync with CRM enrichment, automatic enrichment, job-change tracking, and CRM deduplication and health scans.

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   Verification runs at reveal time through a multi-step process covering catch-all handling, spam-trap and honeypot filtering, and returns valid, catch-all, or invalid statuses; the database itself refreshes weekly. Prospeo's verification bias is conservative, preferring to flag a risky address over passing a future bounce.

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.

Value assessment: 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.

Setup time

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 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.

Onboarding

Fully self-serve with a helpdesk and API/MCP documentation; there is no assigned onboarding on published tiers, and higher-touch arrangements go through sales.

Migration notes

Exported data lives in your CRM and files, so switching in or out is trivial. Moving from monthly to yearly (or between tiers) is instant with proration; the main thing to time is credit expiry, since balances reset at each renewal.

Platforms

Web appChrome extensionREST APIGoogle Sheets add-onMCP server

API

Public REST API for search and enrichment from the Starter tier, with published rate limits that scale by plan (highest on Pro); MCP server documentation is public for AI-agent integration.

Compliance

GDPRCCPA opt-out and do-not-sell handling

Data residency

Not publicly specified; data is refreshed weekly.

SSO

Not offered on published tiers; 2FA via SMS from the Starter tier.

Security notes

A public trust center covers privacy and opt-out processes; no SOC 2 report is publicly referenced as of this review, so security-conscious buyers should request documentation directly.

Channels

In-app chatHelpdeskSales-assisted support for high-volume accounts

Documentation

Helpdesk articles plus public API and MCP documentation; a large SEO library covers competitor pricing and prospecting topics.

Community

No formal community; the founders and team are active in outbound and GTM circles on LinkedIn.

Founded

2022

Headquarters

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (French-founded, incorporated in Canada)

Ownership

Privately held, founder-led; no institutional funding disclosed

Founders

Hugo Fredon, Jon Condouret

Employees

Not disclosed (small team; well under 100 by all public signals)

Funding

No outside funding disclosed; grown to a claimed 40,000 users and 15,000+ companies on product-led revenue.

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.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.