ContactOut vs Kaspr
 ContactOut |  Kaspr | |
|---|---|---|
| Sentiment | ||
| Score | 44/100 | 39/100 |
| Rank in category | #3 | #7 |
| Rated comments | 18 | 14 |
| Best for | Recruiters who need personal email addresses; Pulling emails for contacts found on LinkedIn | LinkedIn-based lookups of European prospects, one profile at a time; A secondary source for emails and mobile numbers behind a larger database |
| Skip it if | Sending to its emails without a separate verification step; Users who only want a simple LinkedIn lookup | Building large lists with advanced search filters; Calling campaigns that need reliably connected mobile numbers |
| Starting price | $39/mo | $49/user/mo |
| Pricing (vendor-stated) | Limited-time free tier (5 emails, phones and exports a day, one user). Email plan $49/mo monthly or $39/mo billed annually; Email + Phone $99/mo monthly or $79/mo billed annually; both single-user. Cheaper regional plans exclude US data (from $19/mo billed annually). Team and API plans are sales-led. | Free plan with 15 B2B email, 5 phone and 5 direct email credits a month. Paid plans are per user per month: Starter shown at $49 or $65 and Business at $79 or $99 (the page does not label which is annual and which is monthly), Enterprise and Organization on request. Unused paid credits roll over; extra phone credits are sold separately. |
About 18 first-hand, non-promotional comments, many from recruiters, give a mixed but mostly favourable picture: ContactOut is rated for personal emails and for pulling contacts from LinkedIn profiles, while several senders report that not every email is verified and bounces follow, and views on its phone numbers are split. Promotion is heavy: the corpus filter already dropped 81 repeat-promoter comments, an Apollo employee called out astroturfing for ContactOut in one r/coldemail thread where several accounts praised it within days in February 2026, a September and October 2025 burst of 'tried it, tech team was great' testimonials was excluded, and many criticisms came only inside pitches for Prospeo, FullEnrich and other tools, so those are not counted either.
Users like
- Strong on personal email addresses; a tech recruiter who tried it alongside RocketReach found it the stronger of the two for personal emails[1][2]
- Works well for LinkedIn-sourced lists; one user who has used a dozen data tools says it stands out across almost every vertical when starting from LinkedIn[1][2][3]
- Email accuracy is rated well by some users, including one team reporting under 2% bounces on LinkedIn-sourced lists[1][2]
- Helps recruiters find hard-to-reach passive candidates[1]
Users complain about
- Not every email it returns is verified; several users report bounces and say results need a separate verification pass[1][2][3]
- Phone coverage was poor for SaaS contacts in one user's experience, and another found its numbers less accurate than ZoomInfo's (other users rate its mobiles well)[1][2]
- Has grown from a lookup tool into a broader sales platform; a user who only needed LinkedIn lookups found it overkill and left, and another barely used it because the interface was confusing[1][2]
- You are locked into its credit-based pricing model, which one user cites as a reason to build their own sourcing instead[1]
Independent discussion is modest: about 14 first-hand, non-promotional comments. Users mostly like it as a quick LinkedIn extension for pulling emails and mobiles one profile at a time, especially for European and French prospects, and as a cheaper alternative or backup to bigger databases; the trade-offs are a narrower database and weaker search than Apollo and phone numbers that are sometimes wrong or disconnected. A large share of the remaining mentions were promotional, mostly accounts steering Kaspr users to Datagma, FullEnrich or other tools, and the complaints about Kaspr's pricing at volume appeared only inside those pitches, so they are not counted here.
Users like
- Rated well for European contacts, including the French market; one user calls it their favourite for the EU while admitting they have no view on US quality[1][2][3][4]
- The Chrome extension pulls an email or mobile straight from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator profile, which suits prospecting one person at a time[1][2][3]
- Works as a backup source for emails and phones behind a broader database such as Apollo[1][2][3]
- Seen as more affordable than ZoomInfo or Cognism for EU contact data[1][2]
Users complain about
- Smaller database and weaker list-building filters than Apollo; a solo founder switched to Apollo after two months[1][2][3]
- Phone numbers can be wrong: one tester found it returned more mobiles than Prospeo but half were disconnected[1][2]
- One user prospecting in Europe ranks it behind Lusha and SalesPort for phone data quality[1]
- Requires installing its LinkedIn browser extension; a privacy-minded tester called the extension shady and found his never-published personal mobile in Kaspr's data[1]