RocketReach alternatives: how to choose a contact lookup tool

By Keencrest · 2026-11-01

Prices checked 2026-11-01 on each vendor's own pricing page or Apify Store listing. Prices change; check the linked page before you buy. We have not tested the competitors' output quality, so this guide compares price, billing unit and limits only. We make the Data Gleaner Actors and the Keencrest lead packs, and say where they lose.

Demand check: about 210 US searches a month for "rocketreach alternatives", with a $34.57 suggested bid (DataForSEO Google Ads data, 2026-11-01). The bid is high, so the people searching are mostly buyers comparing paid tools, and this page is written for them.

What we could and could not verify

When we tried to read rocketreach.co's pricing page on 2026-11-01 it returned a Cloudflare "performing security verification" page instead of its content. We do not work around bot challenges, so this guide quotes no RocketReach prices. Check rocketreach.co/pricing yourself and put its figure next to the ones below, using the same arithmetic: price divided by credits gives cost per lookup, and a lookup that returns nothing may still use a credit.

Alternatives with prices we read

Option	Price (source)	Pick it when	Catch
Apollo	Free plan (900 credits a year); Basic $49 per seat a month billed annually, $65 billed monthly	You want a large database plus sequencing	Per seat; credits expire
Lusha	Free 40 credits a month; Starter $37.45 a month billed yearly for 4,800 credits a year (about 9.4 cents a credit)	You want verified emails and phones for named people	Credits are modest on small plans
Snov.io	Trial 50 credits a month; Starter $39 a month list for 1,000 credits (3.9 cents a credit per its FAQ)	You want finder, verifier and outreach in one	Bulk search and export not on the trial
Hunter	Free 50 credits a month; Starter $49 a month ($34 billed yearly) for 2,000 credits	You start from a company domain	1 credit per email found, 0.5 per verification
Data Gleaner Website Contact Details Scraper (ours)	$0.002 per website where an email is found, nothing otherwise (Apify listing)	You already have company domains and need the addresses the companies publish	No named people, no job titles, no verification, no phones for large firms; 56 users on its listing
Keencrest lead packs (ours)	$19 for 250 leads, $49 for 1,000, $99 for 2,500; free 25-lead sample	You want a finished CSV of local businesses for a trade and city	Ordered by email, paid by PayPal invoice; local businesses only, not a people database

Questions that choose the tool for you

Do you need a named person? Then you need a people database (RocketReach, Apollo, Lusha); a scraper cannot give you one.
Do you start from a list of company websites? A domain tool (Hunter, Snov.io) or a pay-per-result scraper is cheaper per address.
Are your targets small local businesses? Database coverage is thin there; the address the business publishes is usually the useful one.

Everything here compares published prices and stated limits. We have not tested any of these tools' data quality, so we say nothing about whose contacts are more accurate; test a sample of your own contacts on the free tier before paying anyone.

Try it: Website Contact Details Scraper on Apify. $0.002 per site with an email, nothing for sites without one. The Apify free plan includes monthly credit, so a test run costs nothing out of pocket.

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