Lusha Alternatives: Credit Math for Emails and Phones Compared

Choose a Lusha alternative by what you actually pull: if it's mostly phones, compare cost per phone; if it's mostly emails for people you've already picked, compare a lookup tool that charges only on a find; if it's search and filters, compare databases. Then test the shortlist on the same contacts, and check every email before it's sent.

Lusha's published plans

From Lusha's pricing page, read 3 November 2026:

Plan	Monthly	Annual	Credits
Free	$0	—	40/month
Starter	$49.90	$449.10 ($37.45/mo)	400/month
Pro	$69.90	$629.10 ($52.45/mo)	600/month
Premium	$399.90	$3,599.10 ($299.95/mo)	3,400/month
Scale	Contact sales	Contact sales	Custom

• Credits: 1 per verified email, 5 per phone number.
• Rollover: monthly plans roll unused credits over, up to twice the plan's limit, while you stay subscribed. Annual plans issue all credits up front and reset unused ones at year end.
• Teams: over five users, Lusha says to contact sales.

So Starter is 400 emails, or 80 phones, or any mix. That's the number to compare.

Alternatives on the same points

Vendor	Entry price	What a credit buys	Not found	Rollover
UpLead	$99/mo for 170 credits ($74/mo yearly)	1 contact, email and mobile	Not stated	Not stated
FullEnrich	$55/mo for 1,000 credits	Work email 1, personal email 3, mobile 10	Not charged	3 months (12 yearly)
Apollo	Free plan; Basic and Professional paid	Pooled team credits	Not stated	None; reset each cycle
Cognism	Quote only	1 revealed contact; re-viewing free	Not stated	Not stated

All pages read 3 November 2026. Apollo's prices didn't render when we read its page. We haven't tested any vendor's data; the table is what their pages say.

Cost per phone, on published terms

Vendor	Entry plan	Phones if you spend it all on phones
Lusha Starter	$49.90	80
UpLead Essentials	$99	170 contacts, each with a mobile where UpLead has one
FullEnrich Pro	$55	100 mobiles found (not-found costs nothing)

These aren't like-for-like. UpLead's credit covers the contact whether or not a mobile exists. FullEnrich only charges when it finds a number. And none of them publishes how often its numbers connect. That's what your test is for.

Which type fits

You mostly...	Look at	Why
Reveal phones for calling	Lusha, UpLead, FullEnrich side by side	Cost per phone differs most here
Need emails for names you already have	Lookup tools (FullEnrich, Hunter, Findymail)	Pay per find, not per seat
Search and filter for new accounts	Apollo, UpLead, Cognism	Databases with search
Work from LinkedIn in the browser	Lusha's extension, Kaspr, Wiza	Built around the profile page

Our best email finder tools post compares the lookup tools, and ZoomInfo alternatives covers the bigger databases.

Test on your own contacts

1. Pick 200 to 300 contacts you sell to, with a mix of regions and seniority.
2. Pull them from Lusha and from each trial.
3. Tidy each export (the Lusha export to email list tool keeps work emails, drops private ones unless you ask, and sets aside role addresses), then check the emails at /verify. Record valid, risky and invalid per vendor.
4. Dial 20 mobiles per vendor and count connects.
5. Divide each plan's price by usable emails and connected phones, not by credits.

Where SimpleVerifier fits

SimpleVerifier doesn't sell contacts or phone numbers. It checks the emails you export from Lusha or any other source before you send. The first 100 checks are free with a Google sign-in on the verify page. Pro is $39 a month with the first 100,000 checks a month at full speed, then slower, never cut off, and one-time packs of 10,000 checks for $15 never expire. See pricing.