What does ContactOut do?
- Finds personal emails, work emails and mobile numbers for a profile through a Chrome extension, a search portal, Gmail enrichment or the API.
- Sells 'unlimited' Email and Email + Phone plans under a fair use policy in its terms: 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month unless contracted otherwise.
- Meters exports separately: 300 a month on Email, 600 a month on Email + Phone (3,600 and 7,200 a year on annual plans).
- Searches 20+ attributes including job title, company, revenue, skills, location, company size, department and technologies used.
- Saves contacts to Salesforce and HubSpot, and candidates to Lever, Bullhorn and Greenhouse, with custom fields to avoid overwriting data.
- Includes email campaigns, an AI email writer and a cloud phone dialler in the product.
Where does ContactOut fit in a GTM engineering stack?
ContactOut is the personal-email and mobile lookup in a GTM engineering stack: given a LinkedIn URL, it returns the contact routes that work-email finders miss.
- 1Clay finds the decision maker's LinkedIn URL at each target account
- 2Work-email providers such as Findymail run first in the waterfall
- 3Rows still empty, or flagged for calls, run ContactOut's mobile or personal email action
- 4Contacts with phones go to a HubSpot call task; others to a HeyReach LinkedIn sequence
See how every layer connects in Clay integrations: how the GTM engineering stack fits together.
How do you use ContactOut?
ContactOut's official walkthrough, from the ContactOut YouTube channel.
How much does ContactOut cost?
Prices as shown on ContactOut's pricing page on 17 October 2026 (USD). Free plan: Yes. Free: 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day, browser extension and search portal, a trial of premium features, 1 user per company. ContactOut labels it 'limited time only'.
Free
$0
Free
5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports per day.
$49/month (monthly) or $39/month ($468 billed annually)
Monthly or annual
Unlimited emails under the fair use policy, 300 exports a month (3,600 a year), email campaigns, list builder, 1 user per company. Struck-through list prices of $99 monthly and $79 annual are shown.
Email + Phone
$99/month (monthly) or $79/month ($948 billed annually)
Monthly or annual
Unlimited emails and phones under the fair use policy, 600 exports a month (7,200 a year), data enrichment, AI email writer, 1 user per company.
Team / API
Contact sales
Custom
Bulk licence, Salesforce and ATS integrations, team management and reports, dedicated account manager, API access.
Prices are taken from the plan data embedded in ContactOut's pricing page for global (US) coverage. ContactOut also publishes regional plans for coverage outside the US: Email $25/month or $19/month billed annually ($228), Email + Phone $49/month or $39/month billed annually ($468). ContactOut's Terms of Use set the fair use limit for unlimited plans at 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month unless a separate order form says otherwise.
Who is ContactOut best for?
A good fit if you
- Reaching people through personal email when work addresses bounce or are unknown, such as founders, recruits and job changers.
- Recruiting teams pushing candidates into Lever, Bullhorn or Greenhouse.
- Clay tables that need personal email or mobile from a LinkedIn URL, using ContactOut's three Clay actions.
- Individual users outside the US, where ContactOut shows lower regional prices ($25 a month for Email).
Look elsewhere if you
- EU outbound programmes that need a documented basis for using personal email addresses; ContactOut relies on 'manifestly public' data and legitimate interest, which you should assess with counsel.
- Large list building: exports cap at 300 or 600 a month on self-serve plans.
- Teams wanting self-serve multi-seat accounts, as the Email plans are limited to 1 user per company and the Team plan is quoted by sales.
- Work-email-only waterfalls where per-found-credit providers cost less at high volume.
Does ContactOut integrate with Clay and your CRM?
- Clay
- Native Clay integration. Clay lists a Clay-built ContactOut integration with three actions: find mobile number from LinkedIn, find personal email from LinkedIn, and find professional URL from personal email. Each runs on Clay credits or your own ContactOut account. Available on all Clay plans. (source)
- Integrations
- ContactOut lists native Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, ATS integrations with Lever, Bullhorn and Greenhouse, and Zapier for apps such as Google Sheets, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and Airtable. It also offers an API and an MCP server. Its pricing page lists Salesforce and ATS integrations under the Team plan. (source)
- GDPR
- ContactOut's privacy policy says it complies with GDPR, CCPA and US privacy laws, citing data 'manifestly public' by the data subject (Article 9.2(e)) and legitimate interest (Article 6.1(f)) as legal bases. It supports access, erasure, portability and rectification requests and removes data when the source page removes it. It runs on AWS and refers to AWS's ISO 27001 and SOC attestations; its integrations page separately says ContactOut is SOC 2 certified. (source)
- Data coverage
- ContactOut claims 800M people profiles, 150M personal emails, 200M work emails, 100M direct dials and 40M company profiles, and a counter of over 1.2 billion email addresses on its data page. It says it crawls billions of web pages daily and that emails and phones are 'triple verified with 99% confidence'. These are vendor claims. (source)
What are the best ContactOut alternatives?
Other data providers that do the same job in a GTM engineering stack, with their own trade-offs.
Self-serve B2B contact and company data with a Chrome extension, API, MCP server and buying signals, priced in credits.
- Pricing
- Free plan; paid from $37.45/mo (annual)
- Free trial
- None listed
Developer-first person, company, job posting and IP data via API or bulk licence, billed per match.
- Pricing
- Free plan; Pro from $98/mo
- Free trial
- None listed
Email finder and verifier with a sub-5% bounce guarantee, EU hosting, non-EU mobile lookup, signal-based prospecting plans and Clay actions.
- Pricing
- $99/mo
- Free trial
- 10 free credits on sign-up, no credit card required.
Waterfall contact enrichment across 25+ data sources for verified work emails, personal emails and mobile numbers, pay per result.
- Pricing
- $26/mo (annual)
- Free trial
- Free trial: $0, 50 credits, no credit card, full Pro feature set; extra credits by inviting team members.
ContactOut FAQs
Is ContactOut really unlimited?
No, ContactOut's Terms of Use say its unlimited plans run under a fair use policy of 2,000 email credits and 1,000 phone credits per account per month, unless a separate order form sets a different limit. Exports are capped separately at 300 or 600 a month.
Should I send cold email to personal addresses from ContactOut?
ContactOut returns personal emails, but whether you may cold email them depends on your jurisdiction and lawful basis. ContactOut itself cites legitimate interest and 'manifestly public' data under GDPR. Get legal advice before cold emailing EU individuals at personal addresses, and consider keeping them for recruiting or warm follow-up.
Can ContactOut find a LinkedIn URL from an email?
Yes, Clay lists a ContactOut action that finds a professional profile URL from a personal email. This helps when inbound sign-ups use Gmail addresses and you need to identify the person's company and role.
Does ContactOut integrate with an ATS?
Yes, ContactOut saves candidate contact data to Lever, Bullhorn and Greenhouse in one click, with custom contact fields to avoid overwriting data. Its pricing page lists ATS integrations under the Team plan. Other tools connect through Zapier.
Why are ContactOut prices lower outside the US?
ContactOut publishes separate regional plans for data coverage outside the US. The regional Email plan is $25 a month against $49 for global coverage, and Email + Phone is $49 against $99. Check which coverage you need before buying.
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Sources
Checked on 17 October 2026.
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