PhantomBuster alternatives compared: price and features
One row per tool from this page, PhantomBuster first for reference: who it suits, its entry price for the same need (LinkedIn) and what it does. The sections below explain each choice.
for reference
LinkedIn scraping, then LinkedIn and cold email in one plan
One person prospecting on LinkedIn
LinkedIn campaigns with an email step
White-label sender packs for agencies
LinkedIn sequences with native CRMs
Emailing the leads PhantomBuster scrapes
Multichannel sequences with enrichment per identity
Lead lists from a contact database
Enrichment tables fed by many data providersMonthly prices, billed monthly unless stated, excluding VAT, read on each publisher’s site (checked between October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026). Emelia’s prices follow your currency; tools billed in dollars only stay in dollars, and those billed in euros only stay in euros. –: not offered, or not checked for this need.
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.
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Best for: LinkedIn scraping, then LinkedIn and cold email in one planEmelia covers the two jobs PhantomBuster is often bought for on LinkedIn: it scrapes Sales Navigator and LinkedIn searches, then sends the sequence, LinkedIn and cold email together, which PhantomBuster leaves to another tool. Plans count mailboxes and LinkedIn accounts (1 and 3 on Start, 3 and 50 on Grow), and the finder charges a credit only when it finds an email. It does not scrape Google Maps or Instagram, which PhantomBuster does.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- from $37/month
- Who it’s for
- Teams that scrape LinkedIn to contact the leads right away, by LinkedIn and email.
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Best for: One person prospecting on LinkedInWaalaxy replaces PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn automations with a tool built for prospecting campaigns: one licence per LinkedIn account, about 300 invitations a month on Pro and 800 on Advanced. Cold email only comes with Business ($69). Its euro and dollar grids differ, and billing follows accounts rather than hours of execution.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- from $19/month
- Who it’s for
- One person prospecting on LinkedIn who wants campaigns rather than scraping scripts.
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Best for: LinkedIn campaigns with an email stepDripify turns what PhantomBuster does with separate LinkedIn automations into ready sequences: invitations, messages and an email step, per LinkedIn account on Pro or Advanced ($99). Each licence sends email from one Gmail or Outlook mailbox and includes 100 email finder credits a month. Execution time sets no limit: you pay per account, not per hour of automation.
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- from $79/month per account
- Who it’s for
- Small teams that want LinkedIn and email sequences without building automations.
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Best for: White-label sender packs for agenciesHeyReach is the PhantomBuster alternative for agencies sending from many LinkedIn accounts: $79 per sender, $59 from 10, then packs of 25 or 50 accounts with white label. It sends no email itself; an email step hands leads to Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison. Its bill follows LinkedIn accounts, where PhantomBuster’s follows hours of automation.
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail finder
- YesNative CRM integration
- Price
- $79/month per sender
- Who it’s for
- Agencies running LinkedIn outreach for clients from dozens of accounts.
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Best for: LinkedIn sequences with native CRMsExpandi swaps PhantomBuster’s separate automations for one LinkedIn plan per account, with a conditional campaign builder and native HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive. It sends email steps through any SMTP mailbox but has no email finder, where PhantomBuster sells email credits. A seat costs the same whatever the number of actions run.
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- NoEmail finder
- YesLinkedIn automation
- Price
- $99/month per account
- Who it’s for
- Growth teams that want fine-tuned LinkedIn sequences synced with their CRM.
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Best for: Emailing the leads PhantomBuster scrapeslemlist is where many PhantomBuster users send the leads they scrape: PhantomBuster can push a search straight into a lemlist campaign. On Multichannel, each user gets 1 LinkedIn account and up to 5 sending mailboxes, with warm-up and a contact database (650M+). That database replaces some scraped lists, but not PhantomBuster’s scrapers for other sites.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- $109/month per user
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want to email and message scraped leads from one tool.
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Best for: Multichannel sequences with enrichment per identityLa Growth Machine also takes PhantomBuster’s output, through a Phantom that sends a LinkedIn search into it, and runs LinkedIn and email in one sequence. An identity is one LinkedIn account plus 1 to 10 email addresses, with enrichment credits each month. It finds emails itself, so PhantomBuster’s email credits are no longer needed.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- YesLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail and LinkedIn in one sequence
- Price
- from $70/month per identity
- Who it’s for
- Sales teams that want enriched, multichannel sequences without a scraping tool.
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Best for: Lead lists from a contact databaseApollo.io replaces scraping with a ready database of 240M contacts and 30M companies, with a Google Maps search from its Basic plan. Credits come per licence, and email sequences are included. LinkedIn steps stay manual tasks, where PhantomBuster automates them.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- free, then from $65/month per licence
- Who it’s for
- Teams that would rather filter a database than scrape lists themselves.
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Best for: Enrichment tables fed by many data providersClay works next to PhantomBuster more than instead of it: its spreadsheet-like tables call data providers in a waterfall, with an AI research agent, and connect to PhantomBuster in both directions. It finds emails and phone numbers through those providers, paid in credits. It has no LinkedIn automation of its own.
- YesCold email from your own mailboxes
- NoLinkedIn automation
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- free, then from $185/month
- Who it’s for
- Growth teams that enrich scraped lists from several data sources.
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.
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.
Scraping beyond LinkedIn: what PhantomBuster covers
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. Those platforms are PhantomBuster’s own ground; Emelia extracts LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches. Other points in PhantomBuster’s plans:
- 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?
They do different things. Clay enriches lists in tables through many data providers and has a Sequencer for email from its Launch plan, but no LinkedIn automation of its own. PhantomBuster scrapes platforms and automates LinkedIn. They integrate both ways, and many teams use them together.
For lead lists, yes: Apollo sells access to its contact database (240M contacts), where PhantomBuster scrapes sources you choose. Apollo does not automate LinkedIn, and PhantomBuster connects to it only through Zapier, Make or n8n.
Yes. PhantomBuster pushes leads into lemlist through dedicated Phantoms, into HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive natively, and into other tools through Zapier, Make or n8n. You then pay both subscriptions.
Emelia: unlimited scraping of LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches from $37 a month, and 1 credit per email found, against $69 for PhantomBuster's Start. For Google Maps or Instagram, there is no like-for-like alternative on this list.
Emelia features: LinkedIn automation · Email finder · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a PhantomBuster competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about PhantomBuster comes from its own website or public review sites.
