DropContact is an RGPD compliant B2B email finder because the solution doesn't store any data. In real time and using algorithms, dropcontact retrieves data, tests and verifies it in order to provide it to their customers. To launch the search and make it work, Dropcontact's robots need a first name, a last name and the company's website to search and find the prospect's e-mail address. In general, only 60-75% of prospect files are enriched with Dropcontact.
Dropcontact features :
Simple search only to enrich essential contact information
API key enabling Dropcontact to be integrated with other tools such as Captain Data, Phantombuster, Lobster, Lemlist, Waalaxy, La Growth Machine, Leadjet...
Email verifier
Dropcontact charges by the number of searches performed in a month, not by the number of emails found or enriched. This billing technique isn't always very fair, and you may end up spending money without even having obtained a lead.
Also note that it deletes credits already paid carried over from one month to the next if you stop your subscription.
Emelia, the Best Dropcontact Alternative
Since 2021, Emelia has been developing itself as THE cold-emailing platform that's accessible in every way, aiming to make cold-emailing easy to use for everyone at an unbeatable price. When all other cold-emailing solutions were very expensive, and only allowed you to connect one email box (with each additional email box you had to pay for out of your own pocket), Emelia.io also included multi-sender, an essential feature for ensuring the deliverability of your campaigns.
Emelia.io presents itself as the most honest and transparent solution on the market, with the ambition of simplifying your B2B prospecting as much as possible at prices accessible to all, Emelia is constantly working to evolve its platform, to offer you the best cold email features with its email finder, Linkedin Sales Navigator scraper, email warmup and multi-sender.
Did you know that Emelia only deducts your credits when it actually finds the prospect's email address?
This is a key differentiator between Emelia and many other email finders. Unlike other services (as seen with Dropcontact above) that charge per search. Because, yes, we don't consider it right to charge you a credit for a result you don't get! Isn't logic?
Usually, concurrent email finder finds between 30% and 70% of the addresses on the list, depending on the type of list = that's a lot of potential lost credits.
1000 searches : $19 (versus $29 for Dropcontact)
10k searches : $99 (versus $179 for Dropcontact)
100k searches : $449 (versus $799 for Dropcontact)
So, if we compare Emelia.io to Dropcontact, the cost of Emelia's email finder is 19$ per 1000 credits and Dropcontact's cost is 29$ per 1000 credits. A significant price difference.
With Dropcontact, if you import a list of 2,000 and only 900 are found, for example, you'll see your credit balance drop by 2,000. With Emelia, if you import a list of 2000 and 900 emails are found, you can keep your remaining 1100 credits to find other new prospects!
The quality of the emails found is the second big difference. No two email finders achieve the same results, depending on the techniques they use. Emelia's ability to guarantee high-quality emails is due to the fact that it uses both email finder technology and data from its customers' previous cold emailing campaigns.
As you can see, the email addresses found by Emelia are 100% reliable, which is the number 1 rule for good deliverability of your mailboxes. In fact, a high bounce rate will damage the reputation of your email address and risk reducing the number of your emails arriving in the main inbox of your potential future customers. Emelia email finder benefits in a few words:
Transparent, lower rates
Credits debited only if successful
Superior email address quality
Integration with your cold-emailing tool
Presence of a LinkedIn Sales Navigator scrapper
Reactive customer support, provided directly by the founders.
ALL-IN-ONE cold emailing platform (from email finder to campaign dispatch)
Apollo.io
Apollo.io has an advanced B2B database with over 272 million contacts. The Apollo solution enables you to find emails and build your prospect lists. You can choose from over 65 data filters to refine your selection, so you can find and contact qualified prospects. To easily find e-mails in Apollo.io, simply search directly in the navigation bar of your dashboard. Alternatively, you can download Apollo's Google Chrome extension for even greater simplicity.
Non-exhaustive list of advanced filters offered by apollo.io :
Persona
Name
Company name
Business sector
E-mail status
Number of employees
Location
Email status
Apollo.io features
Marketing Automation
E-mail research: reliable data
Tracking
Data search engine
Enrichment
Email verifier
Virtually unlimited lead generation thanks to this tool's extensive database
Apollo.io pricing
Apollo offers a free trial subscription with unlimited email credits (at 10,000/month) and 10 export options.
Disadvantages :
Limits to data export (which may entail additional costs).
Data export can be time-consuming
Apollo is not an easy-to-use solution Credits will be lost if you decide to pause or stop your subscription with apollo.io
Hunter.io
The Email Finder in the hunter.io complete solution adapts to your own workflow. You get verified contact details for your leads en masse, in just a few minutes. Hunter.io's Email Finder can enrich your data list with accurate, validated information in a matter of minutes. This fresh data comes from over 78 million websites consulted live to provide the most up-to-date data possible. So you get a highly accurate list of e-mail addresses!
Hunter.io features
Email Verifier
Email Finder API for integrating Hunter with other solutions
Google Sheets add-on
Hunter.io pricing
1 search credit is counted for 1 to 10 emails found per domain
1 search credit is counted for each email found (verification is included)
1 verification credit is counted for each email processed by the Email Verifier (unless the emails are unknown, in which case they are ignored).
This is the same principle for counting requests associated with an API call.
Disadvantages :
You can report your emails from one month to the next, but if you want to suspend or stop your Hunter.io subscription, you'll lose the credits you've already paid for.
Anymailfinder
Anymailfinder, like dropcontact and in contrast to the previous solutions introduced, is essentially a tool for finding and enriching emails. To achieve this, Anymailfinder uses the prospect's name and the name of the website. Anymailfinder also matches the lead's LinkedIn profile to export data directly from LinkedIn Sales Navigator using its Google Chrome extension.
Anymailfinder features
Email Finder API Tool: possibilities for integrating Anymailfinder with another tool
Data export from LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Individual email extraction
CSV export
Anymailfinder Price
Starter at €14/month with 50 credits/month
Standard: 39€/month with 1000 credits/month
Scale at 129€/month with 5000 credits/month
Ultimate at €259/month with 25k credits/month
7-day free trial available
Disadvantages :
No email checking
No integration possible with other tools
Deferred credits lost if you wish to pause your subscription
Contactout
Contactout is a tool that enables you to find the right emails through LinkedIn SalesNavigator by connecting your linekdin salesnavigator account to the solution. As with many other Saas solutions, you can also download the Google Chrome extension to retrieve your prospects' emails and phone numbers. Contactout is almost an all-in-one tool, from the creation of your data base, through the creation (AI available) of the email, to its dispatch to your new prospect.
ContactOut features
Web scanning for emails and phone numbers
Powerful servers to crawl a maximum number of sites
Use of AI
Triple-checking of emails and phone numbers
ContactOut Prices
Disadvantages :
If you don't need to use your account for a while, you continue to pay or you lose all credits already paid and carried over.
There may be several general errors in the emails found
ContactOut does not correct false e-mail addresses.
Does not detect duplicates
You can try Emelia.io's Email Finder solution today and let us know what you think !