Free ZoomInfo alternative: the U.S. contacts as one file
ZoomInfo's free plan, ZoomInfo Lite, downloads 10 verified contacts a month (25 with Community Edition). Past that, its plans are quoted by its sales team and, by ZoomInfo's own pricing guide, mostly billed annually upfront, with a minimum number of seats. If what you want from it is U.S. contacts, by the thousand, you can have 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, 2,790,286 with an email and 4,016,020 with a mobile phone, 5,182,067 with one or the other. Below, side by side, with ZoomInfo's terms from its own pages in October 2026.
ZoomInfo and Datacircle, side by side
| ZoomInfo | Datacircle | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | ZoomInfo Lite: 10 credits a month, 25 with Community Edition; a credit downloads one verified contact | The 10M+ U.S. file, whole: 2,790,286 emails and 4,016,020 mobiles; $5 of API credit |
| A year of the free plan | 120 contacts, 300 with Community Edition | 9,521,154 people, in one download |
| Price | not published: quoted per contract | No plan: a balance from $5 |
| Billing | most paid plans annually upfront; monthly billing not standard | No. You add funds to your balance and pay per call; funds never expire. |
| Seats | a minimum number on paid plans | none to buy |
| API | at higher capability levels; credits bought in bulk each year, 1 per new contact record, the same record again free for a year, searches free | $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI. |
| Intent data, technographics, website visitors, Chrome extension | yes; WebSights Lite reveals up to 10 visiting companies a day free | no |
| Coverage | 500M+ contacts and 100M+ companies, by its own count | 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 ZoomInfo's: a platform around its own database, checked by machine learning, partners and 300+ researchers, its guide says. Datacircle's free file is a U.S. snapshot, and our API answers the LinkedIn profile behind a URL, not an email or a phone.
What the free file holds
| Count | |
|---|---|
| People | 9,521,154 |
| Companies | 1,748,139 |
| People with an email | 2,790,286 |
| People with a mobile phone | 4,016,020 |
| People with either | 5,182,067 |
Two Parquet files, people and companies, every column with its fill rate on the dataset's page. How true it is: we drew 3,000 people of our U.S. dataset at random and checked each on LinkedIn on 2026-10-08; of the 665 in the free file, 88% had the same company and the same title (B2B data accuracy, the method and every count).
Moving the data work
- Lists you build in ZoomInfo's search and export: cut them yourself from the file, by state, industry, size and title, in one query. Build a free B2B leads list with SQL; why a file answers what a search can't: the benefit of flat files.
- 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.
- What every other tool's free plan gives: free B2B database; every vendor's price per 1,000 people: B2B data API pricing compared.
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 ZoomInfo alternative?
ZoomInfo's own free plan, ZoomInfo Lite, gives 10 credits a month (25 with Community Edition), and a credit downloads one verified contact record. 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, 2,790,286 with an email and 4,016,020 with a mobile phone, free with a work email.
How much does ZoomInfo cost?
ZoomInfo doesn't publish a price. Its own pricing guide says paid plans "are not published at a fixed price", that "Most paid plans are billed annually upfront. Monthly billing is not standard.", and that they include a minimum number of seats. Is there a subscription? No. You add funds to your balance and pay per call; funds never expire.
Does ZoomInfo have an API?
Yes: its pricing guide says "direct API access" comes "at higher capability levels". Its API docs: credits bought in bulk each year, 1 per new contact record, the same record again free for a year, searches free. Datacircle's API has no plan to buy: $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI.
Is Datacircle's data as complete as ZoomInfo's?
No. ZoomInfo says it covers 500M+ contacts and 100M+ companies, checked by machine learning, partners and 300+ researchers. The free file is U.S. companies of 11 to 500 employees, an October 2026 snapshot. We checked 3,000 people of our U.S. dataset at random on LinkedIn on 2026-10-08: of the 665 in the free file, 88% had the same company and title.
Is each request live, or cached?
Live. Each request goes to the provider and gets the profile as it is today.
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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