ContactOut Pricing 2026: Real Cost vs Listed $0-$99 Plans

For a small sales team (2-5 people), ContactOut offers two options:

1. Individual plans: Each user subscribes to their own Email ($25-$49/month) or Email+Phone ($49-$99/month) plan, depending on the US/UK/Canada data toggle. For 3 users, this represents $75-$297/month, or approximately $900-$3,564/year.
2. Custom Team plan: Quote-based, with volume pricing depending on number of users. ContactOut doesn’t publish a precise pricing grid for this plan.

In comparison, alternatives like Hunter or Derrick price by plan and credits rather than per seat, which can be more economical than per-seat pricing.

Yes, ContactOut offers a free plan limited to 5 emails, 5 phones, and 5 exports per day (approximately 150 of each per month). This plan allows testing the Chrome extension and search portal, but advanced features (email campaigns, CRM integrations, advanced search) are only accessible with paid plans.

For continuous professional use, the free plan will quickly become insufficient and you’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan starting at $25/month (excl. US/UK/Canada data) or $49/month (incl.).

ContactOut doesn’t publish a rollover policy. Its Terms set monthly fair-use caps (2,000 emails and 1,000 phones per account per month), so don’t assume unused capacity carries over to the next month.

If you only use 1,000 emails out of the 2,000 available in January, ask ContactOut whether the rest is kept before relying on it. The uncertainty can create waste for teams whose activity fluctuates.

With Derrick, credits never expire while you stay on a paid plan, which gives you flexibility to manage your activity peaks.

Yes. On contactout.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-15), plans are shown with monthly prices by default : Email $25/month (excl. US/UK/Canada data) or $49/month (incl.), Email + Phone $49/month or $99/month. No annual toggle is visible on the page.

The free plan (5 lookups/day) remains the only option without a card, but it is very limited for professional use.

No, despite the marketing. ContactOut markets its Email and Email+Phone plans as offering “unlimited” emails and phones, but its terms of service impose fair-use limits:

• Email Plan: 2,000 emails/month maximum
• Email+Phone Plan: 2,000 emails + 1,000 phones/month maximum

These caps appear in the Terms rather than on the pricing page, so buyers who subscribe expecting truly unlimited access can be surprised mid-campaign.

This “unlimited with asterisk” marketing practice contrasts with tools that clearly display their quotas from the pricing page.

For 500 enrichments per month (emails only), the Email plan ($25/month excl. US/UK/Canada data, $49/month incl.) is more than sufficient since it offers up to 2,000 emails/month.

Real cost: $25-$49/month for 500 emails = $0.05-$0.098/email.

Alternative: Derrick Standard (€20/month, 10,000 credits) covers 2,000 emails at 5 credits each, i.e. €0.01/email at full use. 500 emails use 2,500 credits, about €5 of credits at the €0.002 STANDARD rate, while the plan itself costs €20/month (€240/year).

Yes, ContactOut’s Chrome extension works on standard LinkedIn profiles and also on LinkedIn Sales Navigator. However, unlike some scraping tools that absolutely require Sales Navigator to function, ContactOut can extract data from free LinkedIn profiles.

If you’re looking for a tool that works without a LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscription ($1,200/year saved), Derrick enriches your B2B prospecting data autonomously via its web app or its Google Sheets integration, with no dependency on LinkedIn.