ContactOut has built a solid reputation as a LinkedIn-focused contact finding tool, particularly popular among recruiters and individual sales reps who prospect directly on LinkedIn. Its Chrome extension overlays contact information — emails and phone numbers — directly on LinkedIn profiles, creating a frictionless "point and click" experience for finding contact details. ContactOut offers a free tier with 5 lookups per day, an Email plan starting at $25/month, and an Email+Phone plan from $49/month. The tool positions several of its plans as "unlimited," though in practice these come with fair-use caps of approximately 2,000 emails and 800 phone numbers per month. A significant limitation for teams is that most plans restrict access to 1 user per company, requiring enterprise-level conversations to add additional seats.
LeadMagic takes a different approach to contact data — one built for teams rather than individual users. With 97% email accuracy from real-time SMTP verification, LeadMagic delivers both verified emails and direct-dial mobile numbers in a single credit pool with no hidden caps. There are no per-seat fees, meaning your entire sales team shares the same credit allocation without multiplying costs. Credits roll over on Essential+ plans, eliminating the monthly use-it-or-lose-it pressure that ContactOut's reset policy creates. LeadMagic's native Clay integration makes it the preferred enrichment layer for teams building automated prospecting workflows, and full API access is available on every plan — not gated behind enterprise pricing. For teams that have outgrown individual Chrome extension lookups and need scalable, accurate data enrichment, LeadMagic provides the infrastructure that ContactOut's single-user model can't support.
Feature Comparison
The fundamental difference between ContactOut and LeadMagic is their design philosophy. ContactOut is built for individual users doing manual LinkedIn prospecting — its Chrome extension is its primary interface, and most plans are limited to a single user. LeadMagic is built for teams doing scalable enrichment — its API and native Clay integration are the primary interfaces, with unlimited team members on every plan. ContactOut's email accuracy of around 90% is adequate for one-off lookups but can produce meaningful bounce rates in volume campaigns. LeadMagic's 97% accuracy from real-time SMTP verification is designed for teams sending at scale where every bounce hurts sender reputation. The phone data gap is also significant: ContactOut requires a separate, more expensive plan tier for phone numbers, while LeadMagic includes mobile data in the standard credit pool.
Pricing
ContactOut's pricing is segmented by data type. The Email plan at $25-99/month covers email lookups only. To access phone numbers, you need the Email+Phone plan at $49-199/month. Both tiers market "unlimited" lookups, but fair-use caps restrict actual usage to approximately 2,000 emails and 800 phones per month. Most critically, these plans are limited to 1 user per company. If you need a second seat, you're pushed to enterprise pricing that isn't publicly disclosed. Credits reset monthly on all plans with no rollover.
LeadMagic eliminates these restrictions with transparent credit-based pricing starting at $59.99/mo (2,500 credits). Both emails and mobile numbers draw from the same credit pool — no separate plan tier for phone data. There are no per-seat fees, so a team of ten uses the same plan as a team of one. Credits roll over on Essential+ plans, and API access is included on every tier. For a growing team, the economics diverge quickly: two ContactOut Email+Phone seats already exceed LeadMagic's starting price, and you'd still face fair-use caps and monthly credit resets.