Lusha alternative: the emails and phone numbers, as one free file
Lusha is a prospecting tool: a browser extension that reveals emails and phone numbers on LinkedIn and company sites, a database to search, enrichment, sequences and an API, paid in credits, 1 for an email and 5 for a phone number. If what you buy from it is the contacts themselves, by the thousand, you can get them another way.
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 Lusha's numbers from its pricing page and its credit rules in October 2026.
Lusha and Datacircle, side by side
| Lusha | Datacircle | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | up to 40 credits a month: 40 emails or 8 phone numbers | The 10M+ U.S. file, whole: 2,790,286 emails and 4,016,020 mobiles; $5 of API credit |
| Cheapest paid | Starter: $49.90 a month for 400 credits, or $37.45 a month billed yearly for 4,800 a year | No plan: a balance from $5 |
| An email | 1 credit | in the free file |
| A phone number | 5 credits | in the free file |
| 1,000 emails | $124.75 on Starter monthly; $79.50 on Premium billed yearly at 120,000 credits | free, in the file |
| 1,000 phone numbers | $623.75 on Starter monthly; $397.48 on Premium billed yearly at 120,000 credits | free, in the file |
| By API, per 1,000 | $121 in bulk, $233 one by one, on Pro monthly ($69.90 for 600 credits); $83 in bulk, $159 one by one, on Premium billed yearly ($9,539), for emails; at least 1 credit a request, even with no result | $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI. |
| Unused credits | monthly: roll over up to twice the monthly credits on Pro and Premium; yearly: reset at the end of the year | no plan: funds never expire, nor does the $5 signup credit |
| Seats | 1 on Free and Starter, 2 on Pro, 5 on Premium | none to buy |
| Extension, search, sequences, signals | yes | no |
| Coverage | its own database, revealed in its app, extension or API | U.S., companies of 11 to 500 employees in the free file (every size in the 50M+), an October 2026 snapshot |
The last two rows are Lusha's: a contact revealed where you are working, from its own database. Datacircle's free file is a U.S. snapshot, and its API answers the LinkedIn profile behind a URL, not an email or a phone.
Moving the data work
- Lists you build in Lusha and export: cut them yourself from the free file, by state, industry and title, in one query. Build a free B2B leads list with SQL.
- Enrichment in code: send each LinkedIn URL to the LinkedIn profile API, at $0.00125 a profile found and nothing for one Up2Data can't find. A script for a whole CSV: get LinkedIn profile data with Python.
- Every other vendor's price per 1,000 people, Lusha's included: B2B data API pricing compared; and 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 Lusha alternative?
Lusha's own free plan gives up to 40 credits a month: 40 emails or 8 phone numbers. 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, 2,790,286 with an email and 4,016,020 with a mobile phone, free with a work email.
How much does Lusha cost per contact?
An email is 1 credit and a phone number 5. On Starter, $49.90 a month for 400 credits, that is $124.75 per 1,000 emails and $623.75 per 1,000 phone numbers. The lowest without a sales call, Premium billed yearly at 120,000 credits ($9,539.40 a year): $79.50 and $397.48. From Lusha's pricing page in October 2026.
Do Lusha credits roll over?
Lusha's pricing page says: on monthly plans, unused credits roll over up to twice the plan's monthly credits (Pro and Premium; not on Free or Starter); on yearly plans, all credits come up front and what's unused is reset at the end of the year. Datacircle has no plan: you add funds to your balance and pay per call; funds never expire, nor does the $5 signup credit.
Does Datacircle replace Lusha's Chrome extension?
No. Datacircle sells data, not a prospecting tool: no browser extension, search, sequences or buying signals. Its API returns the LinkedIn profile behind a URL, not an email or a phone; the emails and mobile phones are in the datasets. If you reveal contacts one at a time on LinkedIn, Lusha does that; if you want them by the million, download them.
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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