One licence with phones included, or one pot of credits
Kaspr bills each user and gives each licence its own quotas by type. Lusha bills a plan by its number of credits, with licences included, and every action draws on the same pot.
Billing unit
Paid plans, monthly
Phone numbers
Work emails
Exports
Extra licence
Currencies
Beyond LinkedIn: Lusha works on any site and in the CRM, and sends sequences
Kaspr’s extension is built for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite, in Chrome only. Lusha’s runs in Chrome and Edge and also works on Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail and B2B company websites. Lusha also has a database you can search by filters and an MCP server on every plan. Who gets its API depends on the page: the pricing table and the API documentation list it on every plan, with tight limits on Free and Starter, whereas another help-centre article says “Scale plan only”. Kaspr’s API is on request from Starter.
Lusha’s Engage sends email sequences from each user’s Gmail or Outlook, on every plan; Kaspr runs no email campaigns and exports to lemlist and Brevo. Neither automates LinkedIn invitations or messages.
Free tiers, Trustpilot scores and notice periods
Free plan
Chrome Web Store
Trustpilot
Notice before renewal
Terms
Kaspr’s free row follows its pricing page; its help centre says work emails become unlimited once 3 colleagues have signed up. Kaspr’s notice periods come from its terms, and for yearly plans its help centre asks for at least 30 days instead of one month. One caveat on the Trustpilot row: the Kaspr listing was claimed not by Kaspr but by an account called “X company”, registered as a shipping company in New Delhi.
Emails: free to reveal at Kaspr, one credit at Lusha, and the export catch
Kaspr’s work emails cost nothing to reveal on paid plans, but each lead taken out of Kaspr spends an export credit. At Lusha, each email costs a credit and a CSV export costs 1 more per 25 rows. Below: emails found and exported as a file, one person, billed monthly, in dollars.
1,000 emails, exported
5,000 emails, exported
Kaspr’s export quota per licence: up to 12,000 (Starter) or 30,000 (Business) a year says the pricing page, 1,000 or 2,500 a month on monthly plans says the help centre. Emelia uses the emails it finds in its own campaigns, with no export credit.
Two data protection authorities, two decisions
Kaspr and France’s CNIL. Decision SAN-2024-020, dated December 5, 2024, cost Kaspr 240,000 euros, with an order to comply. The CNIL found four failings: contact details of LinkedIn members who had limited their visibility were collected anyway; data were kept 5 years from each update; people were only told from 2022, and in English; access requests were answered with “publicly available sources”. The order was closed on March 4, 2026 (decision SAN-2026-004): Kaspr had chosen to erase its database and stop collecting data on LinkedIn, dropped the automatic renewal of its retention period, and now informs people in every official EU language.
Lusha and Italy’s Garante. The Italian authority opened an investigation into Lusha on April 8, 2025 and, on July 14, 2026, fined Lusha Systems Inc. 2 million euros. It refused legitimate interest as a legal basis and ordered Lusha to stop processing, and erase, the data on people in Italy gathered without an adequate basis. Lusha is contesting the decision before the Rome court, and since a court order of September 8, 2026 the Garante has taken it off its website for the time being.
100, 200, 1,000 or 1,200 numbers a month: the bill in dollars
Same need on all three, billed monthly: Kaspr’s cheapest plan and packs on its dollar price list, Lusha’s cheapest step for 5 credits a number, Emelia’s Start plan and the pack that covers 50 credits a number.
One person
100 numbers
200 numbers
1,000 numbers
1,200 numbers
2 people
100 numbers each
All three columns are in dollars, the only currency Lusha bills in; Emelia’s figure is the same in euros, so nothing is converted. Kaspr is counted at its dollar prices ($65 for Starter, not €59), numbers called from Kaspr without export, one monthly pack when the licence is not enough. For one person, Kaspr wins at 100, 200 and 1,200 numbers and Emelia at 1,000. With 2 people at 100 numbers each, Lusha wins, because Pro includes 2 licences where Kaspr bills two; with 200 numbers each ($198 against $227.40) or 3 people ($195 against $232.30), Kaspr costs less again.
Kaspr or Lusha: which one to choose once you count licences?
- One person who mostly needs numbers: Kaspr. At 100 and 200 numbers a month, it costs less than Lusha in dollars.
- 2 people with about 100 numbers each: Lusha. Pro includes 2 licences; Kaspr bills each person. With more numbers or more people, compare again: the table note shows Kaspr ahead.
- Lots of work emails that stay in the tool: Kaspr, unlimited on paid plans; but count an export credit per lead you take out.
- Contacts outside LinkedIn, or sequences from Gmail and Outlook: Lusha.
- Finding the contacts and then reaching them, by email and on LinkedIn: neither. Emelia finds emails (1 credit) and numbers (50 credits), then sends the campaign from €37 a month, not per user; at 1,000 numbers a month, it costs the least of the three.
Kaspr and Lusha, side by side
No. Kaspr says it shares data with its parent company, Cognism, and lists LinkedIn, business directories and data partners as sources; according to the CNIL, it erased its database and stopped collecting data on LinkedIn to comply with the order of December 5, 2024. Lusha draws on a community of users who share their email headers, affiliates and public sources. On brokers, Lusha contradicts itself: its FAQ claims it buys nothing from them (“does not buy from data brokers”), while the notice addressed to people in its database cites “trusted data brokers” as a source.
For one person, Kaspr costs less than Lusha on every line of this page ($65 against $69.90 for 100 numbers). For 2 people with 100 numbers each, Lusha ($114.90 against $130 at Kaspr); with 200 numbers each, $198 at Kaspr against $227.40. Both bill monthly here; Lusha also sells yearly plans, Kaspr no longer shows them.
Emelia is a Kaspr competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Kaspr comes from its own website or public review sites.
