SignalHire ★ 3.4/5

Updated August 2026

B2B contact data

SignalHire Review: Is It Still Worth It in 2026?

SignalHire is a recruiter-focused B2B contact finder: strong on candidate sourcing for tech and sales roles, with ATS integrations and bulk LinkedIn-list extraction. Paid plans start at $69 a month, or $57 a month billed annually, and at that same price you get either 1,000 email credits or 435 phone credits. Best for in-house recruiters and agencies sourcing senior tech talent, less compelling for general sales prospecting.

✓ Buy if

You're a tech recruiter sourcing engineers from GitHub + LinkedIn + AngelList
Your team operates inside an ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Bullhorn)
You source 100-500 candidates/month with email-first outreach

✕ Skip if

Your primary use case is sales prospecting (Apollo, Lusha, or Cognism fit better)
Phone outreach is critical (Lusha or Cognism have stronger mobile data)
You bill monthly and need credit rollover for spiky workloads

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Starting price

$69/month

Best for

Tech + sales recruiters

Free plan

5 credits (10 with the extension)

Setup difficulty 2/10 Easy to onboard

Account safety 8/10 Safe for your accounts

On this page What is Pricing Pros & Cons vs Derrick Best for Alternatives FAQ Verdict

Overview

What is SignalHire?

SignalHire is a contact data platform headquartered in London and trading since 2015, originally positioned for sales prospecting and gradually refocused around recruiter workflows from 2020 onwards. The 2026 product is a candidate-sourcing tool: find email and phone for a prospect through a Chrome extension on LinkedIn, GitHub, AngelList and Stack Overflow, bulk-extract from LinkedIn lists, and sync directly to ATS systems such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workable and Bullhorn. Its Scale tier advertises a bulk licence to a database of 850M+ profiles. Where Lusha and Apollo target sales SDRs, SignalHire targets in-house recruiters and recruiting agencies sourcing tech and sales talent.

Sources 🌐 Official site ↗ in LinkedIn page ↗ ★ G2 / Capterra listing ↗

Pricing

SignalHire pricing 2026

Pricing read directly from signalhire.com/pricing on 3 August 2026. The page is JS-rendered, so the figures were fetched twice and matched on both passes. We publish what the vendor's own page states, and we say explicitly what it does not state.

Plan	Price	Typical use	Key limits
Free	$0	Evaluation	5 credits, 10 with the browser extension · no card required
Emails	$69/mo · $57/mo annual	Email-only sourcing	1,000 credits/mo · 12,000 on annual billing
Phones	$69/mo · $57/mo annual	Phone-led outreach	435 credits/mo · 5,400 on annual billing
Emails and Phones	$69/mo · $57/mo annual	Both channels on one plan	Bundles email and phone reveals at the same headline price
Scale	Quote only	Bulk licence, multi-seat, API	No published price · bulk licence to a database advertised at 850M+ profiles

What the pricing page doesn't show

The pricing page publishes no credit rollover or expiry policy, so treat unused credits as non-guaranteed rather than assuming they carry over. Phone credits are the real cost driver: the same $69 buys 435 of them against 1,000 email credits. Scale carries no published price at all, so any multi-seat, API or bulk-licence requirement means a sales conversation rather than a self-serve checkout. One thing to watch when you compare write-ups: several third-party reviews still circulate a $39 entry tier and a $169 top tier, and neither appears on the vendor's own pricing page as of 3 August 2026.

Where SignalHire is fair value

If you're an in-house tech recruiter or recruiting agency sourcing 100-500 candidates/month from LinkedIn + GitHub + AngelList, SignalHire's combination of platform coverage + ATS integrations + reasonable per-credit cost is competitive with Lusha and AmazingHiring (recruiter-focused tools). For pure sales prospecting workflows, Apollo (free tier 10K credits) or Hunter ($49) will deliver more for less. The platform's recruiter-first positioning is genuinely different from sales-first tools: it's the right fit only if recruiting is your use case.

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Compare SignalHire pricing to Derrick Derrick enriches in Google Sheets on a credit model: 100 free credits a month at €0, paid plans from €9. The same email-versus-phone asymmetry applies here, an email costs 5 credits and a phone number 150, and both are billed only when a result actually comes back.

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Verdict in detail

SignalHire Pros & Cons - Summary That Actually Helps You Decide

Pulled from G2 + Capterra verified-buyer reviews (Q1 2026), filtered for substance. SignalHire's strongest signals : GitHub + AngelList + Stack Overflow coverage, ATS integration depth, and the recruiter-first product surface.

✓ Pros

Multi-platform coverage beyond LinkedIn

GitHub, AngelList, Stack Overflow, and personal websites are all supported in the Chrome extension. For technical recruiters sourcing engineers, this materially expands the addressable pool: most candidates' best public signal lives outside LinkedIn.

ATS integrations actually handle candidate stages

Native bidirectional sync to Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, and Bullhorn that handles candidate stage transitions, not just contact-record creation. For recruiters whose pipeline lives in the ATS, this removes a real friction line.

Bulk LinkedIn extraction with reasonable rate limits

Sales Nav and LinkedIn Recruiter searches can be bulk-exported up to 2,000 candidates per query. Most recruiter-focused alternatives cap at 500-1,000 or require enterprise commits. The ceiling matters for campaign-driven sourcing.

✕ Cons

Phone coverage is the scarce resource, and the pricing says so

The vendor's own grid prices the gap: at an identical $69 a month you get 1,000 email credits but only 435 phone credits. Mobile-fill percentages for SignalHire circulate widely across review sites without a published methodology, so we do not repeat them. Where phone outreach is the primary channel, budget for that ratio rather than for the headline price.

No published rollover or expiry policy

As of 3 August 2026 the pricing page says nothing about what happens to unused credits, in either direction. That is a planning problem for recruiters with spiky workloads, three active searches one month and one the next, because you cannot tell from the public page whether unused capacity survives the cycle. Confirm it in writing before committing to annual billing.

Sales prospecting workflows feel bolted-on

Although SignalHire technically supports sales-style prospecting, the product UX is recruiter-first: candidate stages, ATS-style pipelines, hiring-funnel metrics. Sales SDRs running outbound outreach often find the recruiter framing more friction than help.

The honest comparison

SignalHire vs Derrick - Side by Side

We're biased - Derrick is our product. So this table is the version we'd want our prospects to see before they sign elsewhere.

	SignalHireB2B contact data	DerrickGoogle Sheets add-on
Pricing entry	$69/month (1,000 email credits)	Free plan · from €9/month
Platform coverage	LinkedIn + GitHub + AngelList + Stack Overflow	Via integrated providers
ATS integrations	Greenhouse + Lever + Workable + Bullhorn	Via Sheets bridge
Phone-number coverage	1,000 email credits vs 435 phone credits at $69	Via integrated providers
Credit rollover	No published policy as of 3 August 2026	Credits roll over on paid plans
Sales workflow fit	Recruiter-first UI	Spreadsheet-native

SignalHire wins on technical-candidate sourcing across multiple platforms and on ATS integration depth. Sales-focused tools (Apollo, Lusha) win on UX fit for outbound prospecting. Derrick is the Sheets-native data layer for hybrid recruiting + sheets workflows.

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Decision tree

Should You Use SignalHire?

A short, opinionated guide. We'll tell you when SignalHire is the right pick - and when it isn't.

✓ Use SignalHire if you are…

You source engineers from GitHub + LinkedIn SignalHire Recruiter Pro

Your hiring pipeline lives in Greenhouse, Lever, or Workable SignalHire Recruiter Pro or Scale

You run 100-500 sourcing lookups/month on technical roles SignalHire Scale (annual for rollover)

✕ Skip SignalHire if you are…

Your primary use case is sales prospecting Apollo (free tier covers most cases)

Phone outreach is mission-critical Lusha (best mobile coverage)

You bill monthly with spiky workloads Scalelist (rollover by default)

Alternatives

B2B contact data alternatives to SignalHire

Tools we'd recommend instead, depending on your stack and budget. Derrick first because it's the only one that lives where you actually prospect.

Tool	Typical use	Starting price	What it does differently
D Derrick Recommended	Sheet-native enrichment layer	from €9/month	Pairs with SignalHire for sourcing workflows · No credit caps · MCP-ready	→
ContactOut	Recruiter-focused Chrome extension	$49/mo+	Similar recruiter positioning, weaker GitHub coverage	→
RocketReach	Recruiter + sales hybrid	$49/mo+	Broader DB, less recruiter-specific UX	→
Lusha	Phone-first SDR tool	$49.90/mo+	Better phone coverage, sales-focused UX	→
Apollo.io	Database + sender + dialer	$49/user/mo	Free tier 10K credits, sales-focused	→
Hunter	Domain-first email search	$49/mo	Cheaper for non-recruiter use cases	→

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Head-to-head: SignalHire vs 1 competitor

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to the questions buyers ask us most often about SignalHire.

Is SignalHire free?

SignalHire gives 5 free credits on signup, or 10 once the browser extension is installed, with no card required. Beyond that the platform requires a paid plan, which starts at $69 a month, or $57 a month billed annually.

Does SignalHire work outside LinkedIn?

Yes. The Chrome extension also supports GitHub, AngelList, Stack Overflow, and personal websites. This multi-platform coverage is one of SignalHire's biggest differentiators versus sales-focused tools like Lusha and Apollo (which are LinkedIn-only).

What's the difference between SignalHire and Lusha?

SignalHire is recruiter-first: ATS integrations, coverage of GitHub, AngelList and Stack Overflow alongside LinkedIn, and candidate-stage workflows. Lusha is sales-first: LinkedIn-centric, built around mobile-phone data, without ATS workflows. For technical recruiting, SignalHire. For sales outbound, Lusha. Check each vendor's current pricing page directly, since both change their tiers regularly.

Does SignalHire integrate with Greenhouse and Lever?

Yes. Native bidirectional ATS sync to Greenhouse, Lever, Workable and Bullhorn, handling candidate stage transitions rather than only contact-record creation. Which plan unlocks ATS integrations is not stated on the pricing page, so confirm it before buying on that basis.

Do SignalHire credits roll over?

The pricing page publishes no rollover or expiry policy as of 3 August 2026. Treat unused credits as non-guaranteed and confirm the terms before committing to annual billing. Note that annual billing does change the allocation substantially: the Emails plan moves from 1,000 credits a month to 12,000 across the year.

Can I use SignalHire for sales prospecting?

Technically yes: the contact-finder side works the same regardless of use case. Practically, the product UX is recruiter-first (candidate stages, hiring-funnel metrics, ATS-style pipelines) and feels out of place for SDR outbound workflows. Most sales teams find Apollo or Lusha a better UX fit.

The verdict

Who should skip SignalHire

SignalHire is the right tool for technical recruiters and recruiting agencies sourcing engineers across LinkedIn + GitHub + AngelList + Stack Overflow. The multi-platform coverage and deep ATS integrations are genuinely differentiated versus sales-focused tools: for technical recruiting, no major sales-prospecting alternative does what SignalHire does. The platform fails as a sales-prospecting tool (the recruiter UX is friction for SDRs) and as a phone-first solution (mobile coverage lags Lusha + Cognism). For its core ICP (in-house tech recruiters and recruiting agencies operating inside an ATS), SignalHire is one of the cleanest recruiter-specific contact tools in 2026.

3.4/5

Overall verdict