ContactOut pricing and alternatives: email finder API, GET /v1/people/linkedin, Contact Info API - Single, real-time work email

ContactOut's site llms.txt Best email finder API in 2026

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20% complete: 2 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields

found livenothing charged when not found

Contact us, Team / API, GET /v1/people/linkedin, Contact Info API - Single, real-time work emailWe rank 1,285 plans by price. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 emails: as little as $0.00074. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan covers up to 4,320,000 emails a month at no extra cost.ClearBounce's $4 pack covers any number of emails. ClearBounce's $4 pack costs more to start than ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan.GetProspect, OrbiSearch and DataForB2B are the best email finder API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Team / API ContactOut's only plan

Contact us, Team / APITeam / API

Call: GET /v1/people/linkedin, Contact Info API - Single, real-time work email one of ContactOut's 10 calls for this API

API: Email finder API one of ContactOut's 9 APIs

About this item

Live. The provider finds the email when you call.
2 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification, LinkedIn URL.
No public price. You ask ContactOut for one.
One call. You send profile to GET /v1/people/linkedin. You set email_type to "work". You can also send include_phone. The call returns the email.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

ContactOut: email finder API alternatives

We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	This planContactOut, contact us, Team / API, GET /v1/people/linkedin, Contact Info API - Single, real-time work email	Sealch, contact us	ZeroBounce, contact us	BetterEnrich, contact us, Enterprise, 250K credits, POST /api/v1/find-personal-email	MyEmailVerifier, contact us, Custom Quote, POST /leads/search/{apikey}
Completeness	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Enough for	not published	not published	not published	62,500 calls a month	not published
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone, for their internal business purposes only, not a resident of a country the US OFAC sanctions or on its restricted lists	anyone, for lawful business purposes only	anyone

Every email finder API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Verification
Confidence, not in the answer
Catch-all domain, not in the answer
Where found, not in the answer
Personal email, not in the answer
Name, not in the answer
Job title, not in the answer
Company, not in the answer
LinkedIn URL
Location, not in the answer

Price
Per	call
Billing	contact

Strengths
Strengths	found live, nothing charged when not found

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Extra fields	phones

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Automatically get verified personal and work emails [...] Add verified personal and work emails for all prospects automatically.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	governed by the subscription agreement and subscription order form entered into between you and ContactOut, they prevail over its Terms of Use
Use data	governed by the subscription agreement and subscription order form entered into between you and ContactOut, they prevail over its Terms of Use

Rate limit
Per second	16.67
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	profile, email_type "work". Optional: include_phone
Method	GET
Path	/v1/people/linkedin

About the plan
Plan	Team / API
Who can get it	anyone

The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

status code, message, LinkedIn URL, GitHub, emails, work email, work email status