The LeadIQ alternative with one flat price

LeadIQ is a prospecting platform built around a Chrome extension, a CRM sync and a credit balance. LeadOcean is a data API and MCP server at one flat price. For a small team that prospects by hand, LeadIQ is cheaper. For code, agents and volume, LeadOcean is the better fit.

Why teams switch from LeadIQ

Every person costs 1 to 11 credits

LeadIQ charges 1 credit for an email, 10 for a phone number, 11 for both and 3 for a company (LeadIQ pricing, September 2026). The bill follows what you reveal, so a phone-heavy list costs eleven times an email-only list.

Self-serve stops at 6,750 credits a month

The Pro plan slider runs from 200 to 6,750 credits a month, then jumps to Enterprise (LeadIQ pricing, September 2026). Enterprise is annual only, with a custom quote. A pipeline that needs millions of records cannot self-serve.

The API and MCP bill on different rates

The MCP connector charges per data point, and the GraphQL API runs on its own ratesheet. LeadIQ says exact rates vary by plan (LeadIQ developer docs, September 2026). Budgeting across both takes a question to sales.

Built for a rep in a browser

LeadIQ centres on the Chrome extension, Salesforce and HubSpot sync, and an AI message writer (LeadIQ, September 2026). Pro includes up to 5 users. If you pull data in a script, the seat model is overhead you do not use.

LeadOcean vs LeadIQ

LeadIQ figures come from the pages linked in each cell, checked in September 2026. LeadIQ changes plans often, so check the pricing page before you buy.

What 1M, 5M and 25M records cost

LeadIQ sells data per credit, so cost scales with volume. LeadOcean Pro stays at $499 a month. The LeadIQ columns use the lowest self-serve rate on LeadIQ's pricing page, which is list price. LeadIQ does not sell these volumes self-serve, so a real quote will differ.

LeadIQ arithmetic: $290.25 for 6,750 credits is $0.043 per credit. Records x 1 credit (email) or 11 credits (email and phone) x $0.043, at list price and before any Enterprise discount (LeadIQ pricing, September 2026).

LeadIQ publishes no price above 6,750 credits a month and no Enterprise credit rate.

Small volumes flip the result. At $0.043 a credit, $499 buys about 11,600 email credits, or about 1,050 people with email and phone. Up to 6,750 credits, LeadIQ's published prices are lower than LeadOcean Pro. Beyond that, LeadIQ needs a quote, and the flat fee wins as volume grows.

Where LeadOcean wins

A flat bill at any volume

Pro is $499 a month. Every person or company returned counts as a record, but there is no credit balance to watch and no overage invoice. A very large month is paced down to one request a minute until the reset, not cut off, and one email to support gets you more headroom.

Phones cost the same as emails

LeadIQ prices a phone number at ten times an email. LeadOcean has one dataset with 166M people that have a phone number, and GET /v2/people/phone counts as one record like any other call. On a flat plan, a phone-heavy list does not raise the bill.

Built for code and agents

The same data is reachable over REST and over MCP, and the Free plan includes both. Send one request and get a profile, email status and, with reveal_email, every email and phone number we hold, for one record.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/enrich" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"linkedin_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe","reveal_email":true}'

For Claude or Cursor, add the MCP URL https://api.leadocean.io/mcp and sign in with OAuth. Ask it to count VPs of Sales in Canada and count_leads answers for free. On 30 September 2026 it returned 5,066 mailable people.

Search and export at database scale

Search people with 50 filters and companies with 34, across 254 countries and 534 industries. Counts are free. Export up to 50,000 rows per request with POST /v1/exports, so a 1M-row pull is 20 calls over two days. Email status comes back on every record, with 13 values.

Where LeadIQ wins

Cheaper at small volume

LeadIQ starts at $20 a month for 200 credits and reaches 6,750 credits for $290.25 (LeadIQ pricing, September 2026). That is below LeadOcean Pro at $499. A team that reveals a few thousand emails a month pays less at LeadIQ.

A larger contact database

LeadIQ states 749M+ contacts, with 60% or more refreshed in the last 6 months (LeadIQ Enterprise page, September 2026). LeadOcean holds 693M people. LeadIQ is bigger on people, and on mobile match rates it publishes a number we do not.

A rep workflow out of the box

LeadIQ ships a Chrome extension, champion tracking, an AI message writer and sync to Salesforce, HubSpot and Outreach (LeadIQ pricing, September 2026). Its MCP connector also writes to lists and exports to Salesforce. LeadOcean has none of that UI. A rep who lives in LinkedIn should stay on LeadIQ.

Use both: LeadIQ for reps, LeadOcean for volume

You do not have to choose. Keep LeadIQ seats for reps who prospect in the browser, and send list building, enrichment and agent work to LeadOcean. Two MCP connectors can sit side by side in one assistant.

1. Keep the LeadIQ extension and its Salesforce sync for one-by-one prospecting. Its MCP server is at https://mcp.leadiq.com/mcp (LeadIQ developer docs).
2. Create a free LeadOcean key at app.leadocean.io/register. The free plan needs no card.
3. Add https://api.leadocean.io/mcp to the same assistant. Use count_leads to size an audience and export_leads for the bulk pull, then hand the best accounts to reps in LeadIQ.

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