PhantomBuster alternatives: which tool replaces which job

PhantomBuster competitors, sorted by what you used it for

List prices per month, billed monthly, as published by each vendor. PhantomBuster itself starts at €69 a month per workspace.

1. 1

   Emelia

   Best for: LinkedIn scraping, then LinkedIn and cold email in one plan

   1 LinkedIn account and 3 mailboxes on Start, 3 and 50 on Grow, 10 and unlimited mailboxes on Scale, €29 per extra account. Scrapes Sales Navigator and LinkedIn searches, finds emails (a credit only when found) and sends the sequence. No Google Maps or Instagram.

   from €37/monthEmelia pricing
2. 2

   Waalaxy

   Best for: One person prospecting on LinkedIn

   One licence per LinkedIn account, about 300 invitations a month on Pro and 800 on Advanced; cold email only with Business (€139). Its euro and dollar grids differ.

   from €39/monthPhantomBuster vs Waalaxy
3. 3

   Dripify

   Best for: LinkedIn campaigns with an email step

   Per LinkedIn account, three plans ($59, $79, $99), with emails sent from one Gmail or Outlook mailbox and 100 email credits a month per licence.

   from $59/month per accountDripify
4. 4

   HeyReach

   Best for: Agencies rotating many LinkedIn senders

   Per LinkedIn account ($59 from 10), then packs of 25 or 50 accounts with white label. Sends no email itself: an email step goes to Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison, with an account there.

   $79/month per sender
5. 5

   Expandi

   Best for: LinkedIn sequences with native CRMs

   One plan per LinkedIn account, native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, any mailbox through SMTP, but no email finder.

   $99/month per accountExpandi
6. 6

   lemlist

   Best for: Email-first teams that add LinkedIn

   Multichannel: 1 LinkedIn account and up to 5 sending mailboxes per user, warm-up included, a 650M+ contact database. PhantomBuster can push leads straight into a lemlist campaign.

   €109/month per userlemlist
7. 7

   La Growth Machine

   Best for: Multichannel sequences with enrichment per identity

   An "identity" is one LinkedIn account plus 1 to 10 email addresses, with enrichment credits each month.

   from €60/month per identity
8. 8

   Apollo.io

   Best for: Lead lists from a contact database

   A database of 240M contacts and 30M companies, a Google Maps search from Basic, credits per licence, email sequences; LinkedIn steps stay manual tasks.

   free, then from $65/month per licence
9. 9

   Clay

   Best for: Enrichment tables fed by many data providers

   Spreadsheet-like tables that call data providers in a waterfall, with an AI research agent. It connects to PhantomBuster in both directions rather than replacing its scrapers.

   free, then from $185/month

To scrape LinkedIn and Sales Navigator: unlimited scraping instead of execution hours

Most people buy PhantomBuster to extract leads. For LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches, Emelia does the same job with no hour meter: scraping is unlimited on every plan, and an email costs a credit only when it is found.

If you used PhantomBuster for its LinkedIn Outreach workflow (invitation and follow-ups), Waalaxy, Dripify, HeyReach and Expandi are built for that job and bill each LinkedIn account; their prices are in the list above. Excluding VAT, billed monthly; details on PhantomBuster pricing.

• 10,000 leads a month, no emails: €37 at Emelia (Start), €69 at PhantomBuster (Start).
• 2,500 leads and ≈ 1,500 emails found: €86 at Emelia (Start + 5,000 credits), €159 at PhantomBuster (Grow, one credit per attempt, 60% found).
• Then Emelia sends the cold emails and LinkedIn steps from the same plan. What it does not do: Google Maps, Instagram and the other platforms PhantomBuster scrapes.

To send the emails PhantomBuster finds: LinkedIn and cold email in one subscription

PhantomBuster finds emails but "does not send emails directly". If your set-up ends with a cold email campaign, you need a sending tool on top. These do LinkedIn and email in the same sequence, so the second subscription disappears:

We do not price "PhantomBuster plus a sending tool": that bill depends on the tool you add and on how many mailboxes it charges for.

• Emelia: 3 mailboxes on Start, 50 on Grow, unlimited on Scale, with warm-up and sender rotation; its email finder charges 1 credit only when an email is found.
• lemlist: up to 5 mailboxes per user on Multichannel. PhantomBuster has Phantoms that send LinkedIn searches or profiles straight into a lemlist campaign, so some teams keep both.
• La Growth Machine: 5 addresses per identity on Pro. PhantomBuster has a "LinkedIn Search to La Growth Machine" Phantom, and La Growth Machine lists the integration from its Pro plan.

To build lead lists with emails: Apollo and Clay

PhantomBuster builds lists by scraping sources you choose, and it "does not sell, resell, or provide pre-built databases". Apollo does the opposite: you filter its database of 240M contacts and spend credits to reveal emails (1 credit each), from 75 credits a month on Free to 2,500 per licence on Basic.

Clay sits in between: tables where each column calls a data provider, in a waterfall, plus an AI research agent. PhantomBuster has a direct integration with it in both directions: Clay pulls PhantomBuster's results and can push data back into it.

On cost per email, the units differ: PhantomBuster spends a credit per attempt, found or not; Emelia spends one per email found. PhantomBuster calls a match rate of about 60% good (the FAQ of the same article says 30-50%), so the 500 credits of Start are about 300 emails found. The detailed comparison with Emelia is on PhantomBuster pricing.

A free plan or a lower bill: Apollo, Clay and Emelia against PhantomBuster's Free tier

• PhantomBuster Free: after the 14-day trial, 30 minutes of execution a month, 1 slot, no credits, 10 rows per export. Enough to test a Phantom, not to work.
• Apollo Free: 75 credits a month, 1 mailbox and 2 sequences, on its own database.
• Clay Free: 100 data credits and 500 actions a month, with a row limit per table (Clay's pages give two different figures).
• Waalaxy: no free plan on its pricing page since April 2026. A free "Freemium" account still exists: according to its help center it has no automation and cannot run campaigns, while its blog still mentions a few actions a day.
• Emelia: a 7-day trial without a card, then €37 a month to extract 10,000 LinkedIn leads, against €69 at PhantomBuster.

Scraping beyond LinkedIn: where PhantomBuster still wins

Apollo offers a Google Maps search from its Basic plan; none of the tools above extracts Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, GitHub, Reddit, Slack or the Pages Jaunes. If that is what you use PhantomBuster for, keep it: there is no like-for-like replacement on this list. The same goes for a few other points where PhantomBuster comes out ahead:

• One extraction spread over up to 4 LinkedIn accounts.
• A 14-day trial without a card, then a permanent Free plan.
• AI credits included (10,000 to 90,000 a month).

The one head-to-head people search: PhantomBuster vs Waalaxy

Two French tools that are often weighed against each other, although they do different jobs: PhantomBuster scrapes and automates across platforms, Waalaxy runs LinkedIn prospecting sequences per licence. Prices, invitation limits, email and trials side by side: PhantomBuster vs Waalaxy.

Clay, Apollo, or PhantomBuster plus a sending tool?