Lead411 alternative: U.S. emails and mobiles as one free file, not exports by the month
Lead411 sells B2B contacts by the export: a contact's verified email and direct dial, 1,000 exports a month for $49 on Spark. Its trial is 50 exports in 7 days. If the people you want work at U.S. companies of 11 to 500 employees, you can have them all at once.
Free: 10M+ U.S. B2B leads, as a flat file. Download it at datacircle.dev. 9,521,154 people at 1,748,139 U.S. companies, 4,016,020 with a mobile phone and 2,790,286 with an email. Below, side by side, with Lead411's numbers from its pricing page, its home page and its re-verification page in October 2026.
Lead411 and Datacircle, side by side
| Lead411 | Datacircle | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 50 exports in a 7-day trial | The 10M+ U.S. file, whole: 9,521,154 people, 4,016,020 mobiles, 2,790,286 emails; $5 of API credit |
| Billed monthly | Spark $49 for 1,000 exports a month; Ignite from $150 for 1,000+, with API access | No plan: a balance from $5 |
| Billed yearly | Spark $490 for 12,000 exports a year; Ignite from $1,500; Blaze, unlimited, in a call | nothing to renew: the file is a download |
| Per 1,000 contacts | $49.00 on Spark monthly, $40.83 on Spark yearly; unused exports roll over | free, and as many CSVs from it as you like |
| Emails verified | the whole database at least every 90 days; real-time verification, and its data team's in 24 hours on request | the date each was last verified, in EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT: 99.6% in the 90 days before October 1, 2026 |
| Phones | direct dials and mobiles, double verified; "Has Direct Mobile" as a search filter | 4,016,020 mobiles, MOBILE_PHONE |
| API | on Ignite and Blaze | The LinkedIn profile behind a URL, not an email or a phone: $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI. |
| Coverage | the world, with International Search in every plan | U.S., companies of 11 to 500 employees in the free file (every size in the 50M+), an October 2026 snapshot |
One export is one contact. A year of Spark, $490, exports 12,000 people at most. The free file holds 5,182,067 people with a mobile or an email.
A “Has Direct Mobile” list, as one query
On its direct dials page, Lead411 has you build a search, then tick “Has Direct Mobile” so every result comes with one. Its home page lists cybersecurity companies among those it serves; their buyers are the IT and security leaders of mid-sized companies. From the file, that list is one query. Unzip it into us_10m/, pip install duckdb, then
import duckdb
duckdb.sql("create view people as select * from 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_persons.parquet'")
duckdb.sql("create view companies as select * from 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_companies.parquet'")# IT and security leaders at U.S. companies of 51 to 500 employees, each with a mobile: Lead411's "Has Direct Mobile"
duckdb.sql(r"""
copy (
select p.FULL_NAME, p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, c.NAME as COMPANY, c.URL as WEBSITE, c.LINKEDIN_INDUSTRY as INDUSTRY,
c.EMPLOYEE_COUNT_RANGE as EMPLOYEES, p.MOBILE_PHONE, p.EMAIL, p.CITY, p.STATE_CODE, p.LINKEDIN_URL
from people p
join companies c on c.LINKEDIN_ID = p.CURRENT_JOB_COMPANY_LINKEDIN_ID
where c.EMPLOYEE_COUNT_RANGE in ('51-200', '201-500')
and regexp_matches(p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\b(cio|cto|ciso|chief (information|technology|information security) officer)\b|\b((?-i:IT)|information technology|information security|cyber ?security) (manager|director)\b|\b(director|manager|head),? (of )?((?-i:IT)\b|information technology|information security|cyber ?security)', 'i')
and not regexp_matches(p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\bassistant\b.*\b(to|for)\b|\bexecutive assistant\b', 'i')
and p.MOBILE_PHONE is not null
) to 'it_leaders.csv'
""")| People | |
|---|---|
| With a mobile | 10,142 |
| …and an email | 6,661 |
| Companies they work at | 9,515 |
| At companies of 51 to 200 employees | 6,579 |
| At companies of 201 to 500 employees | 3,563 |
It ran in 0.13 s. The pattern takes CIOs, CTOs and CISOs, IT, information security and cybersecurity managers and directors, and heads of IT, as their titles are written on LinkedIn; the second one leaves out an assistant to any of them. At Spark's 1,000 exports a month, these 10,142 people are 11 months of exports, $539. To cut it further, add and p.STATE_CODE = 'TX' or and c.LINKEDIN_INDUSTRY = 'Hospitals and Health Care' to the where.
57 job titles counted by state, industry and company size, each with the query that writes its list to a CSV: email lists by job title, IT managers and CIOs among them.
Lead411's 90 days, in the file
Lead411's re-verification page says its whole database is re-verified at least every 90 days (its pricing page says its emails are, every 3 to 6 months). The file is a snapshot, so it can't re-verify itself, but each of its 2,790,286 emails carries EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT, the date it was last verified:
# How many emails were last verified in the 90 days before the newest, October 1, 2026
duckdb.sql("""
select count(*) as emails,
count(*) filter (where EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT >= timestamptz '2026-07-03 00:00:00+00') as last_90_days
from people where EMAIL is not null
""").show()In the October 2026 file, 2,778,610 of them (99.6%) were last verified on or after July 3, 2026, in the 90 days before the newest, on October 1, 2026; the oldest on September 24, 2024. Sending to them weeks later, check them again with your email verifier, or keep only the latest with and p.EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT >= '2026-09-01'. How the file's people compare with their LinkedIn profiles today: B2B data accuracy.
What Lead411 does that the file doesn't
- Verification on demand: real-time verification, its data team's in 24 hours, catch-all emails verified mainly with BounceBan.
- The world: International Search in every plan, where the free file is 9,521,154 people at U.S. companies of 11 to 500 employees.
- Signals: companies currently hiring, lead scoring on funding and hiring trends, growth intent, Bombora intent, 30,000+ tracked technologies.
- The tool: a search app with an A.I. assistant, a Chrome extension for LinkedIn and company websites, CRM sync from Salesforce to Pipedrive, team accounts, exports that roll over.
A person as they are today rather than in October, their title and company, is the LinkedIn profile behind their URL: the LinkedIn profile API, at $0.00125 a profile found.
Moving the data work
- Lists by job title and a suppression list of the people you already have: UpLead alternative. Your list of accounts matched to the people at the top of each: RocketReach alternative. A list of LinkedIn URLs matched to their mobiles and emails: ContactOut alternative.
- The same file next to other tools' contacts: ZoomInfo alternative, Seamless.AI alternative, Apollo alternative. What each tool's free plan gives: free B2B database.
The free file is on your dashboard once you sign up with your work email, with the $5 credit and your API key.
Questions
Is there a free Lead411 alternative?
Lead411's free trial is 50 exports for 7 days. Datacircle's free offer is a whole file. Free: 10M+ U.S. B2B leads, as a flat file. Download it at datacircle.dev. 9,521,154 people at 1,748,139 companies, 4,016,020 with a mobile phone and 2,790,286 with an email, free with a work email.
How much does Lead411 cost?
Its pricing page, read in October 2026: billed monthly, Spark is $49 a month for 1,000 exports, and Ignite starts at $150 a month for 1,000+, with API access. Billed yearly, Spark is $490 for 12,000 exports a year and Ignite starts at $1,500; Blaze, unlimited exports, is priced in a call. One export is one contact, so Spark comes to $49.00 per 1,000 contacts billed monthly and $40.83 billed yearly. Unused exports roll over.
Does Lead411 have an API?
Yes, on Ignite, from $150 a month or $1,500 a year, and on Blaze; Spark has none. Datacircle's API is the LinkedIn profile behind a URL, not an email or a phone: $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI.
How fresh are the free file's emails?
Lead411 says it re-verifies its whole database at least every 90 days. Each email in the free file carries EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT, the date it was last verified: in the October 2026 file, 2,778,610 of its 2,790,286 emails (99.6%) were last verified in the 90 days before October 1, 2026, its newest. The file is a snapshot, so check the older ones again before you send.
Sign up at datacircle.dev with your work email: a $5 credit, that's 4,000 LinkedIn profiles at $1.25 per 1,000. Free: 10M+ U.S. B2B leads, as a flat file. Download it at datacircle.dev.
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