The best email finder tools, compared credit by credit
How long your credits last, what you pay when nothing is found, who finds phone numbers too and who sends the campaigns from the same tool: 17 tools compared, with the price of 1,000 emails a month.
20 free credits at sign-up · 7-day trial · No credit card
Emelia is our product, and it is part of this comparison. Prices and credit costs come from each vendor’s pricing page, checked on October 18, 2026, on monthly billing; credit validity from their pricing page, help center or terms, read on October 19, 2026. Emelia’s prices exclude VAT. Kaspr and Icypeas publish a euro and a dollar grid: you see the one in your currency; Dropcontact bills in euros only.
Email finder tools compared: credits, phone numbers, campaigns and price
Four things that change the bill: how long your credits stay valid, whether the tool also finds phone numbers, whether it sends your campaigns, and what 1,000 emails found a month cost, in Emelia’s unit, the credit.
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Email finder tools compared: credits, phone numbers, campaigns and price
Tool
Credit validity
Phone numbers
Email and LinkedIn campaigns
1,000 emails found a month
How it is billed
Our product
12 months after purchase, even after you cancel
Waterfall across several providers: 50 credits per number found, refunded otherwise
Email and LinkedIn, in the same tool
$19, the 1,000-credit pack on its own
Credits: 1 per email, 50 per number, only when found; no per-user price
Reset every month; extra packs valid 3 months
No phone finder
Email only, from 3 mailboxes
$49 (Starter)
Team plan, unlimited users
Renewed each cycle, no roll-over; wiped after you cancel
8 credits a number
Email sequences, one mailbox per seat; LinkedIn as manual tasks
$65 (Basic, one seat)
Per seat, credits per seat
Roll-over up to 2× the quota on Pro and Premium per its pricing page; expire at the end of the term per its terms
5 credits a number
Engage sequences from Gmail or Outlook
$114.90 (Pro, 1,000 credits)
Credits, one seat on Starter
Monthly credits reset on the 1st; bulk credits lost at the end of the contract
In contact records, by contract
Engage, sold separately
On quote
Seats and credits on contract
Rolled over up to 12 months while subscribed per its help centre, expired at the end of the term per its agreement; lost after you cancel
In the same lookup on Pro and Ultimate, not guaranteed
Sequences from one Gmail or Outlook mailbox per user
$209 (Ultimate, one user)
Per user, one lookup per contact
Expire at the end of the period per its terms; lost when you cancel
100 phone credits a month per licence
No campaigns
$65 (B2B emails under fair use)
Per user, quotas by type
Roll over while the plan is active, expire when it ends per its FAQ and terms
Tokens: 10 to 22 per number
Cold email; LinkedIn per account, on top
$39 (Starter)
Team plan: credits and recipients
Data credits roll over up to 2× the monthly volume; actions never roll over
5 credits and 3 actions
Email campaigns from Launch
$185 (Launch)
Data credits and actions, unlimited seats
Reset at every billing date; lost at the end of the period after you cancel
1 phone credit per contact with a number, $0.35 past the quota
Pushes contacts to Outreach, Salesloft or Gong Engage
$174 (Email + $75 overage, one user)
Per user: quotas, then overage, billed in dollars
Not stated (cognism.com, October 19, 2026)
Mobiles in the revealed contact, some phone-verified
Exports to your CRM
On quote
Seats and credits on quote, 1 credit per contact
Reset at each renewal on its default pricing page and in its help center (a capped roll-over is being tested); lost when the plan reverts to Free
Mobiles: 10 credits each, email included
Pushes contacts to your CRM or sending tool
$49 (Starter, one user)
Per user, a plan plus at most one add-on tier, billed in dollars
Roll over 3 months on monthly plans, 12 on yearly ones; unused credits lapse at the end of the period after you cancel, per its help center
Mobiles: 10 credits each, landlines returned free
Hands the data to your sequencer or CRM
$55 (Pro, 1,000 credits)
Credits only, unlimited users, billed in dollars
Do not expire, even after you cancel
Not yet
No campaigns
$19 (Basic)
Credits only, no seats
Reset at each renewal on Starter; carried over on Growth while subscribed; balance reset when you cancel
Company switchboard only
No campaigns
€59 (Starter, 1,500 credits)
Credits only, billed in euros
Roll over while subscribed; lost at the end of the cycle after you cancel per its terms (30 days per its help center)
Through a partner
No campaigns
$49 for 1,000 leads, email found or not
Credits per Sales Navigator lead exported
Roll over while the subscription runs or renews; nothing refunded when you cancel
Mobiles: 30 credits each
Feeds your sequencer
$49 (Build, 3 credits an email)
Workspace credits, unlimited users
Monthly billing, prices as listed on October 18, 2026; credit validity read on October 19, 2026 on each vendor’s pricing page, help center or terms, and when those pages disagree, we keep the rule least favourable to the vendor. Credits offered once at sign-up are not counted in the 1,000-email column.
The 17 email finder tools, one by one
Each card gives the buyer a tool suits, its strong point and its weak spot, with a link to the tool’s own page when there is one.
Credits valid 12 months, even after you cancel; 20 free at sign-up with a work email
For: teams that find emails and phone numbers to contact the leads right away, from the same tool.
Strength: 1 credit per verified email and 50 per mobile number, found through a waterfall of providers and debited only when found; a Chrome extension that does the same from a LinkedIn profile.
Limit: no built-in B2B database: you bring the names (CSV, LinkedIn, Sales Navigator).
Two plans (Standard, Pro) with 5 seats included; no public price for them
For: sales, marketing and RevOps teams that want phone-verified mobiles and European contacts, and are fine with a quote.
Strength: phone-verified mobile numbers, 1 credit per revealed contact (email and mobile together), and exports to Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive.
Limit: no price published for the prospecting plans: cognism.com only offers a quote (pricing page checked on October 18, 2026), its one public figure being CRM Enrichment from $12,000 a year, with no free plan or self-serve trial, only a free data sample; no campaigns.
1 credit per work email, 10 per mobile, only when found; billed in dollars, unlimited users
For: teams that bring their own lists and want each work email and mobile looked up across several providers, without paying per seat.
Strength: nothing charged when nothing is found, unlimited users, and an API and an MCP server on every plan, the trial included.
Limit: no campaigns, no Chrome extension since June 2025, and monthly credits that roll over 3 months, then lapse at the end of the period once you cancel.
Credits only, billed in euros, on Starter or Growth tiers
For: teams that already have their lists and want each line completed with a verified email and company details.
Strength: 1 credit per email found, given back when none is, company fields added to the contact (registry data for French firms), a Google Sheets add-on and an MCP server.
Limit: no contact database, no personal mobile numbers on the file and API plans, Starter credits reset at each renewal, and no campaigns.
Emelia looks for a lead’s mobile number through a waterfall of data providers, from their name and company or their LinkedIn profile. A number costs 50 credits; when none is found, the credits are refunded. On the credit subscription alone, with no plan on top, a number comes to $0.95 with the 1,000-credit pack ($19 a month, 20 numbers) and down to $0.25 with the 100,000-credit pack (2,000 numbers).
For the same need, one person, monthly billing:
100 numbers a month: $49 with Emelia ($0.49 a number), $65 with Kaspr (Starter), $69.90 with Lusha (Pro).
1,000 numbers a month: $299 with Emelia ($0.30 a number), $353 with Kaspr (Starter plus a 1,000-number pack), $549.90 with Lusha (Premium).
What changes besides the price
The numbers you find go straight into your campaigns or your CRM, and unused credits stay valid 12 months, even if you cancel. Kaspr credits are lost when you cancel; Lusha’s expire at the end of the term per its terms. Emelia’s Phone Finder has its own page.
What 1,000 emails a month really cost
With Emelia, 1,000 emails found a month cost $19: the 1,000-credit pack on its own, debited only for the emails it finds, with credits valid for a year. What you pay for matters as much as the price: Evaboot charges every lead it exports, with or without an email, and an email found elsewhere still has to go to a sending tool, where Emelia drops it straight into a campaign.
That is less than the same volume, on monthly billing, with:
Snov.io: $39 (Starter), where an email of unknown status also costs a credit;
Hunter and Pipecorn: $49 each, Starter and Build;
Evaboot: $49 for 1,000 exported leads, email found or not;
Apollo: $65 for one seat, and Kaspr: $65 per user, B2B emails under fair use;
Dropcontact: €59 on its 1,500-credit Starter tier, billed in euros;
FullEnrich: $55 on its 1,000-credit Pro tier, billed in dollars;
Lusha: $114.90 on the Pro step, and Clay: $185 on Launch;
RocketReach: $209 on Ultimate, for one user.
ZoomInfo and Cognism
Neither publishes a price: both go through a quote, with seats and credits set in the contract. The table gives every tool’s price.
How to choose an email finder tool
Five questions make the difference, on the bill and on the time you spend.
1. How long do you keep your credits?
With Emelia, credits stay valid 12 months after purchase, even if you cancel: you spend them at your own pace. Elsewhere, they often reset every period (Hunter, Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha per its terms) or go with the subscription (Kaspr when you cancel, Snov.io when the plan ends).
2. Emails only, or phone numbers too?
Emelia finds both with the same credits: 1 per email, 50 per number, through a waterfall of providers, nothing charged when nothing is found. Lusha, Kaspr, Apollo, Prospeo, Pipecorn, FullEnrich, Clay and Cognism find numbers too, each at its own credit cost; Hunter, Icypeas and Dropcontact stick to emails (Dropcontact adds the company switchboard), and Snov.io sells numbers in tokens.
3. Do you start from names or from a database?
Enrichment tools (Emelia, Hunter, Pipecorn, FullEnrich, Clay, Icypeas, Dropcontact) find the email of people you already have: a CSV, a CRM, a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator list. Database tools (Apollo, ZoomInfo, RocketReach, Cognism, Lusha, Prospeo) let you search for the people first.
4. Where do the contacts go next?
If you contact the leads right after, a finder inside your sending tool saves an export: with Emelia, the emails and numbers you find go into an email or LinkedIn campaign without changing tools. Hunter, Snov.io and Apollo send email campaigns too; Kaspr, Prospeo, Icypeas, Dropcontact, Pipecorn, FullEnrich and Evaboot hand the data to another tool.
5. Seats or a team plan?
Emelia sells its credits as a subscription, with no per-user price; neither do Hunter, Snov.io, Pipecorn, FullEnrich, Clay, Icypeas or Dropcontact. Apollo, Kaspr and Prospeo bill each user, and Lusha’s Starter plan has one seat.
Emelia’s email finder
Emelia finds and verifies emails and mobile numbers inside the tool that sends your email and LinkedIn campaigns. An email costs 1 credit and a number 50, debited only when found; credits come as a subscription from $19 a month for 1,000, with no plan needed on top, and stay valid 12 months, even if you cancel. Emelia’s email finder has its own page.
What you get with Emelia:
20 free credits at sign-up with a work email, and a 7-day trial without a credit card;
phone numbers through a waterfall of providers, at 50 credits per number found, refunded otherwise;
a Chrome extension that finds the email and the number from a LinkedIn profile, then adds the person to a campaign;
sending in the same tool: email and LinkedIn campaigns, mailboxes and warm-up included in the plans from $37 a month.
Email finder tools: frequently asked questions
What is the best email finder tool?
The one that charges only for what it finds, keeps your credits and lets you contact the person without an export. Emelia does all three: 1 credit per email and 50 per number, debited only when found, credits valid 12 months even after you cancel, and email and LinkedIn campaigns in the same tool. The table compares the 17 tools on these points.
Is there a free email finder?
Emelia gives 20 free credits at sign-up with a work email, that is 20 emails found, plus a 7-day trial without a credit card. Hunter, Apollo, Snov.io, Lusha, Kaspr, Pipecorn, Clay and ZoomInfo Lite have a free plan capped every month, in their own credits. With Emelia, the credits you buy afterwards stay valid for a year, even if you cancel.
How do I find someone’s email from LinkedIn?
With Emelia’s Chrome extension, a button on the LinkedIn profile finds the person’s email and phone number, charged in credits only when found, then adds them to an email, LinkedIn or multichannel campaign. In a Sales Navigator search, its “Export with Emelia” button sends the whole search to Emelia, which extracts the leads and finds their emails. Kaspr and Lusha also add a panel to LinkedIn profiles, without LinkedIn invitations or messages afterwards.
Do email finders also give phone numbers?
Emelia does: it looks for the number through a waterfall of providers, at 50 credits per number found, refunded when nothing is found, which is $0.95 a number with the 1,000-credit pack and $0.25 with the 100,000-credit pack. Lusha, Apollo, Kaspr, Prospeo, Pipecorn, FullEnrich, Clay and Cognism find numbers too; Hunter, Icypeas and Dropcontact only find emails (Dropcontact adds the company switchboard).
How much does it cost to find 1,000 emails a month?
With Emelia, $19 a month: the 1,000-credit pack on its own, debited only for the emails found, with credits valid for a year. The table gives the price of the same volume in every other tool, up to $185 with Clay.
Is an email finder enough to start prospecting?
It gives you the address, not the campaign. You still need verified emails, warmed sending mailboxes and a tool to send and follow up; Emelia brings the three together, with email and phone finding in the same tool.
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
At Findcustomer.io, we aim to democratize growth marketing and make it available to all businesses at a low cost. Emelia is a highly effective cold mailing tool at an unbeatable price.
Julien GalloCEO
A simple and affordable solution for setting up cold emailing to these prospects.
Anne ChénéCEO
As the head of multiple businesses, using Emelia's cold mailing tool allows me to confidently manage my campaigns by combining performance and simplicity.
Xavier DelahayeCEO
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
It's not my profession - I'm a web developer and technical SEO specialist. I needed a simple and effective tool at a reasonable price. Look no further: Emelia meets all of these criteria.
Emile MoureauCo-founder
I was looking for a simple and effective tool to conduct my prospecting campaigns. Emelia is the perfect cold mailing tool!
Estelle KaraouniBusiness Development Manager
The tool is comprehensive, easy to use, and reasonably priced. No frills, just what I need to perform well on my cold mailing campaigns.
Thomas LucyGrowth Manager
Find emails where you send your campaigns
Emails and mobile numbers found with credits valid for a year, in the tool that runs your email and LinkedIn sequences, with 20 free credits at sign-up.
