# ContactOut

ContactOut finds email addresses and phone numbers for professionals through a browser extension and search portal, with list building, email campaigns and enrichment on paid plans. Website: contactout.com. Category: [B2B Data & Enrichment](https://gtmranked.com/best/b2b-data-enrichment/). Not enough independent evidence to rank (7 rated comments).

**Verdict:** Independent discussion is thin, with about seven first-hand comments, mostly from recruiters. They credit ContactOut with accurate emails, personal addresses in particular, and use it to reach hard-to-find candidates; phone coverage is weaker, at least for SaaS contacts, and one user who only needed LinkedIn lookups found it had grown into more than they wanted. ContactOut draws heavy promotion: the corpus filter had already removed 18 repeat-promoter comments, and a burst of similar 'ContactOut beats Lusha and Cognism' replies in one recruiting thread in September 2025 was also excluded.

**What users like:**
- Email results are rated accurate, with personal email addresses a particular strength [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recruiter_Advice/comments/1n7n8o6/_/ood5tqe/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/1jo7ozq/_/nm5vsyc/)
- Helps recruiters find hard-to-reach passive candidates [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/salestechniques/comments/1gb5u54/_/o75t41c/)
- Finds an email for roughly 70 to 75 percent of contacts, which one user calls typical for the category [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/work/comments/1wd4bvn/_/p9zpyaq/)

**What users complain about:**
- Phone coverage was poor for SaaS contacts in one user's experience (another user's early mobile trial was positive, so this is unsettled) [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/work/comments/1wd4bvn/_/p9zpyaq/)
- Has grown from a lookup tool into a broader sales platform; a user who only needed LinkedIn lookups found it overkill and left [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/b2bmarketing/comments/1sl0ip0/_/og32x51/)
- People listed in its database report opt-out requests being ignored twice before an escalated email got them removed [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/1ndbfae/_/ndm5n90/)

**Best for:** Recruiters who need personal email addresses; Reaching hard-to-find passive candidates.
**Skip it if:** Phone-first outbound into SaaS companies; Users who only want a simple LinkedIn lookup.
**Pricing (vendor-stated, checked 2026-10-14):** 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.

Full review: https://gtmranked.com/tools/contactout/