ContactOut vs Wiza
 ContactOut |  Wiza | |
|---|---|---|
| Sentiment | ||
| Score | 44/100 | 32/100 |
| Rank in category | #3 | #8 |
| Rated comments | 18 | 21 |
| Best for | Recruiters who need personal email addresses; Pulling emails for contacts found on LinkedIn | Turning LinkedIn and Sales Navigator lists into emails; Solo sellers replacing ZoomInfo or Lusha on a budget; Teams using it as one source inside a Clay stack |
| Skip it if | Sending to its emails without a separate verification step; Users who only want a simple LinkedIn lookup | High-volume teams watching cost per contact; Cold-calling teams that need the best mobile number coverage |
| 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 20 emails and 5 phone numbers. Monthly plans per user: Starter $49, Email $99, Email + Phone $199, with per-reveal overage fees. Annual plans with unlimited reveals: Email $83/mo ($990/yr) and Email + Phone $166/mo ($1,990/yr) per user. Team plan (3+ users) is custom and annual. |
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]
About half of the 100 Reddit comments mentioning Wiza were promotional, including a cluster of accounts in early 2025 repeating the same Sales Navigator talking points and many comments plugging rival tools, so those are excluded. Among roughly 20 independent opinions, Wiza is seen as a sensible way to turn LinkedIn and Sales Navigator lists into emails, and a few users report lower bounce rates or better hit rates than Apollo, ZoomInfo or Lusha. The trade-off is cost and consistency: several users call email accuracy hit or miss, others say credits get expensive at volume, and waterfall tools reportedly find more contacts, especially mobile numbers.
Users like
- A natural fit when LinkedIn or Sales Navigator is the main prospect source[1][2][3]
- Some users report the lowest bounce rate among tools they tested, or a better hit rate than ZoomInfo, Lusha or Apollo[1][2][3]
- Much cheaper than paying for ZoomInfo when you are a solo seller[1][2]
- Holds up as one data source in a Clay-based stack[1][2]
Users complain about
- Email accuracy is inconsistent: users report hit-or-miss results, bouncing emails, and addresses at companies the prospect no longer works for[1][2][3][4]
- Gets expensive at volume: credits cost more per contact than Findymail, and pulling thousands of verified emails at once adds up[1][2][3]
- Waterfall tools that query many providers find more contacts, and reportedly hit better on mobile numbers[1][2]
- Its own prospect database is seen as static profile data that lags LinkedIn[1][2]