Free Lusha alternatives: which free plans stay free

A list of free Lusha alternatives is easy to write: name every tool with a $0 plan. The harder questions are what a free month actually buys, what it costs to get the result out of the tool, and what happens to the bill when a second person joins. This page answers those three with each tool's own rate card. For the paid side of the field, see our comparison of Clay alternatives.

To test the comparison on your own list, start on the Free plan and run your first lookups: 200 credits a month on 1 seat, with 3 tables of 100 rows, and a lookup that finds nothing costs nothing.

What is Lusha

Lusha is a B2B contact database of more than 515 million contacts and 29 million companies, by its own count, that you can use through its browser extension: open a profile, reveal a verified email or phone number, and send it on. From the Pro plan, a waterfall checks Lusha's own data first and then the data partners an admin turns on, and a miss costs nothing.

Lusha strengths and limits

Lusha is open about how it charges: a per-operation rate card, its rollover caps, and accuracy figures for its own data.

Pros

• More than 515 million contacts and 29 million companies by its own count, 132 million of the contacts in the United States

• Published accuracy of 98% on email and 86% on phone (85% in the US), by Lusha's own figures

• A free plan that renews monthly with no credit card: 40 credits a month, with the browser extension and CRM integrations included

• A published rate card: 1 credit for a verified email, 5 for a phone number

• SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 on its data privacy page, and from Pro a waterfall where a miss costs nothing

Cons

• 40 credits a month on Free covers 40 email reveals or 8 phone numbers, on 1 seat

• Exports are metered: 1 credit per record to a CRM and 1 per 25 records to a CSV, in the plan data embedded in its pricing page

• 1 seat on Free and Starter and 2 on Pro, and each extra Pro or Premium seat is $49.90 a month billed monthly

• The full API, webhooks, signals, and CSV enrichment start on Pro, at $69.90 a month billed monthly, while Free and Starter get an API with strict rate limits

• Annual plans get every credit upfront and reset at the end of the annual cycle

Why people look for free Lusha alternatives

The reasons are mostly about the size and shape of the free plan, not the data in it:

• 40 credits a month is 40 email reveals or 8 phone numbers, and that is the whole allowance

• Getting the data out spends from the same 40. Twenty contacts revealed and sent to a CRM is the whole month

• The second person on the team needs a paid plan, because Free and Starter have one seat each

• Anyone who wants to build on Lusha, with the full API, webhooks, or CSV enrichment, needs Pro

• On Free and Starter every answer comes from Lusha's own database, since the waterfall to other data partners starts on Pro

That last point matters more than it looks on a free plan, where a contact Lusha does not hold simply comes back empty.

None of this makes Lusha a bad tool. Its free plan is a real one, sized for one person checking a handful of profiles a week. We make Oneprofile, so weigh the verdict on this page with that in mind.

Free Lusha alternatives compared on credits and export metering

Credit counts are not comparable across tools, so the fair test of any alternative to Lusha prices one job instead. Say you need 20 work emails for a first campaign, and you want them in your CRM, not in a spreadsheet. Here is the most each free plan can charge for that, by each tool's own pricing page:

On paper, Oneprofile's worst case uses the whole month, just as Lusha's does. Two things change the result. Each lookup is charged only the price of the data source that answered, so most runs cost less than the figure shown, and a lookup that finds nothing costs nothing. And the CRM step is free on the Free plan, inside its 3 integrations, so pushing those 20 contacts, or pushing them again next week with a new note, spends nothing.

Phone numbers are a different story, and not a flattering one for us. Lusha's 40 credits buy 8 phones at 5 credits each. Apollo's 75 buy 9 at 8 each, Bitscale's 200 buy 25 at 8 each by its FAQ, and Clay's Free plan has no phone enrichment. Find phone number in Oneprofile is up to 39.4 credits, so 200 credits cover at least 5. If free phone numbers are the whole job, Bitscale's numbers go furthest.

What happens to credits you did not spend

A free plan is worth more when a slow month is not a lost one:

• Lusha: its plan table shows rollover on Pro and Premium, up to twice the plan's limit on monthly billing

• Apollo.io: unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle

• Clay: actions reset every cycle, and data credits roll over up to 2x on Launch and Growth

• Bitscale: monthly plans roll credits over up to 3x the plan limit

• Oneprofile: credits never expire, on the Free plan as on paid ones, so after two quiet months the third starts with 600

When free Lusha alternatives turn paid: seats and API access

Every free plan above is built for one person. The bill changes shape when a second person joins, and again when someone wants to connect another system.

On Lusha, Starter is $49.90 a month billed monthly ($37.45 billed yearly) for 400 credits a month and one seat. Pro is $69.90 billed monthly ($52.45 billed yearly) for 600 credits a month and two seats, and it is where the full API, CSV enrichment, signals, and webhooks start. Three seats on Pro come to $89.85 a month billed yearly. Five seats come to $219.60 a month billed monthly, or $164.70 billed yearly.

Oneprofile prices the workspace, not the people in it:

• Team: $20 a month billed monthly for 1,000 credits, unlimited seats, unlimited tables and integrations, and up to 10,000 rows per table

• Pro: $200 a month billed monthly for 5,000 credits, with up to 250,000 rows per table

• Extra credits: $20 per 1,000 on every paid plan, and they never expire either

• API keys: a free workspace creates read only keys, and any paid plan creates read and write keys

• AI apps: Claude and ChatGPT connect through Oneprofile's MCP server, read only on Free and able to make changes on a paid plan

Say three people share prospecting. On Lusha Pro billed yearly, that is $89.85 a month. On Oneprofile Team billed yearly, three people cost the same $16 a month ($192 a year) as one, with 1,000 credits a month, and a fourth or a tenth adds nothing. A team that enriches more buys credits at $20 per 1,000 rather than moving up a plan.

Free Lusha alternatives: plans and features side by side

Every price below comes from the tool's own pricing page, checked on Oct 16, 2026, and says how it is billed.

If you are weighing data source coverage more than price, how waterfall enrichment works explains why several sources in order find more than one database alone.

Start free and run your first 20 lookups on the Free plan's 200 credits a month, with 1 seat and 3 tables of 100 rows.