A Lusha alternative is worth a look when most of your credits go to one job: getting the work email of a person whose name and company you already have. Lusha does that, but it is priced as a contact database with phone numbers, filters and CRM enrichment. An email finder does the email part for less. Everything about Lusha below comes from its pricing page, FAQ and credits documentation, checked October 10, 2026.
Disclosure: we make emailvalidation.io, one of the alternatives on this page. Lusha’s strengths are listed in their own section, and the sources are at the end.
Quick verdict
- Stay with Lusha if you need mobile and direct phone numbers, search for prospects by filters, or enrich Salesforce, HubSpot or another CRM automatically.
- Choose emailvalidation.io if you already know who you want to reach and need their verified work email: 500 searches a month for $9.99, and every address is checked with the company’s mail server before it is returned.
- Combine a cheaper finder for known contacts with Lusha’s free plan or a small plan for the phone numbers you actually call.
Lusha pricing in 2026
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | Credits | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 40 a month | 1 |
| Starter | $49.90 / month | $37.45 / month | 400 a month (4,800 a year on yearly billing) | 1 |
| Pro | $69.90 / month | $52.45 / month | 600 a month (7,200 a year) | 2, up to 10 |
| Premium | $399.90 / month | $299.95 / month | 3,400 a month (40,800 a year) | 5, up to 25 |
| Scale | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Premium’s credits are adjustable; the table shows its default. How credits are spent:
- 1 credit reveals a verified email, 5 credits a phone number.
- A lookup with no match costs nothing, and re-opening a contact you have already revealed is free.
- On monthly Pro and Premium plans, unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance. Starter’s credits are granted each month; on yearly plans all credits are granted up front and reset at the end of the year.
- API access is on every plan, “with strict rate limits on Free and Starter and full access from Pro” (Lusha FAQ). CSV export is a paid feature.
Lusha vs. emailvalidation.io side by side
| Row label | Lusha | emailvalidation.io |
|---|---|---|
| What you start with | A name, a LinkedIn profile, a company website or search filters | First name, last name and company domain, or a LinkedIn profile |
| What you get | Verified email, phone numbers, company data | One work address, checked with the company’s mail server; on catch-all domains the most common pattern, marked as risky |
| About 400 emails a month | $49.90 / month (Starter) | $9.99 / month (Small: 500 searches) |
| About 600 emails a month | $69.90 / month (Pro) | $34.99 / month (Medium: 2,500 searches) |
| Cost per email, entry plan | About 12.5 cents (Starter, monthly) | About 2 cents (Small) |
| Free tier | 40 credits a month (40 emails) | 100 credits a month (10 searches, or 100 verifications) |
| Phone numbers | Yes, 5 credits each | No |
| Browser extension | Chrome extension for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and company websites | LinkedIn email finder for profiles, Sales Navigator and Groups |
| Export | CSV export on paid plans; CRM export | Save leads to lists and download them as CSV |
| API | Every plan; strict rate limits on Free and Starter | Every plan, plus an MCP server |
| CRM integrations | Salesforce, HubSpot, Bullhorn, Pipedrive, Outreach, Salesloft, Zoho, Dynamics, Capsule | Zapier |
Our search numbers assume every credit goes to searches (10 credits each). Validation uses the same credits at 1 per address.
Where Lusha is stronger
- Phone numbers. Lusha reveals mobile and direct numbers. We return work email addresses only.
- You can search for people. Lusha has prospecting filters, lookalikes and buying-intent signals. emailvalidation.io has no database: you need the person’s name and company domain first.
- No charge without a result. A lookup with no match costs nothing on Lusha.
- CRM enrichment. Native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics and six more sales tools, with real-time enrichment and scheduled refreshes. The free plan includes CRM integrations and the extension.
- Compliance paperwork. Lusha names its data sources, says it “does not scrape professional networks or social platforms”, and lists GDPR certification by ePrivacyseal, CCPA validation by TrustArc and SOC 2 Type II.
Where emailvalidation.io is the better Lusha alternative
Lower price per email. On our Small plan an email search costs about 2 cents; on Large ($94.99 for 10,000 searches) about 0.95 cents. On Lusha, an email costs about 12.5 cents on Starter with monthly billing and about 8.7 cents on Pro with yearly billing. See email validation API pricing for every plan.
Every result is checked first. The email finder checks each address with the company’s mail server before it returns it. On catch-all domains, which accept any address, it returns the most common pattern (first.last@) and marks it as risky.
Verification on the same credits. Lists from any source, including exports from Lusha, go through the email validation API or the bulk API (up to 100,000 addresses per job) at 1 credit per address, with 15 result fields such as state, reason and a score from 0 to 1. The free bulk email verifier on our site checks up to 50 addresses per run; without an account it checks a few addresses an hour.
LinkedIn without copy and paste. The Chrome extension finds addresses for people on LinkedIn profiles, in Sales Navigator and in Groups, and saves them to lists in your account. It works on the free plan, which includes 100 credits a month; a LinkedIn email search uses 10 credits.
What you give up compared with Lusha: phone numbers, prospect search, intent signals and native CRM enrichment. Lusha also charges nothing for lookups without a match.
If you prefer to work it out by hand first, our guide on how to find someone’s email address covers the methods step by step.
Other Lusha alternatives
- Apollo: a sales platform with a contact database, sequences and a free plan with 75 credits per seat a month. Compared on our Apollo alternative page and head to head in Apollo vs Lusha.
- RocketReach: emails and phone numbers from a database of 700 million professionals; 5 free lookups, paid plans from $39 a month for 100 lookups. See the RocketReach alternative page.
- Snov.io: an email finder with cold email campaigns; 1 credit per email found, from $39 a month for 1,000 credits. See the Snov.io alternative page.
Sources
Checked October 10, 2026: Lusha pricing (plans, monthly and yearly prices, credits, plan comparison); Lusha FAQ (credit costs, API, export, extension, integrations, data sources, compliance); How credits work in Lusha (reveal costs, rollover); Apollo pricing; RocketReach pricing; Snov.io pricing; emailvalidation.io pricing, email finder and LinkedIn email finder.