The LeadMagic alternative with one flat price

LeadMagic is an email finder that sells credits. LeadOcean is a people and company database you call over REST or MCP at one flat price. If you buy fewer than 20,000 valid emails a month, LeadMagic is cheaper. If you pull at volume in code or through an agent, LeadOcean costs less and does not meter.

Why teams switch from LeadMagic

Every valid email is a credit

LeadMagic charges 1 credit per valid email, 5 per mobile number and 3 per job change check. Credits cost from $0.0198 on Essential down to $0.00849 on Ultimate (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). Cost grows in a straight line with volume.

The self-serve plans stop at 100,000 credits

Ultimate is $849 a month for 100,000 credits. Past that you need Enterprise, which starts at $2,490 a quarter with custom volume pricing (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). LeadMagic publishes no price at 1M credits a month, so that volume is an Enterprise negotiation.

Enrichment is paced at 600 requests a minute

The email finder allows 600 requests a minute, about 10 a second (LeadMagic docs, September 2026). Search runs at 5 requests a second on Professional and 10 on Ultimate. The Search API returns up to 50 rows per page, or 25 on the zero-credit Professional and Ultimate lane (LeadMagic agent guide, September 2026). A bulk pull is a long queue.

A smaller dataset

LeadMagic lists 400 million people and 25 million companies on its homepage (LeadMagic, September 2026). LeadOcean holds 693M people and 63M companies in one database. More records means fewer lookups that come back empty.

LeadOcean vs LeadMagic

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

What 1M, 5M and 25M records cost

LeadMagic charges by the credit, so cost scales with volume. LeadOcean Pro stays at $499 a month. LeadMagic publishes no price at these volumes. Its top public tier is Ultimate, $849 a month for 100,000 credits, or $0.00849 a credit. The LeadMagic column extrapolates that rate at 1 credit per valid email. It is arithmetic, not a public plan.

LeadMagic arithmetic: records x 1 credit x $0.00849 per credit, an extrapolation of the Ultimate rate (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). Mobile numbers cost 5 credits each, so a 1M mobile pull extrapolates to about $42,450 at the same rate.

LeadMagic publishes no Enterprise credit price. Enterprise starts at $2,490 a quarter paid upfront, with custom volume pricing (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026).

Enterprise volume pricing is not public, and you only pay for valid emails. Ask LeadMagic for a quote at your volume.

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.

More people, more companies, status on every record

LeadOcean holds 693M people and 63M companies in a single database. 366M people have an email and 166M have a phone number. Email status comes back on every record, with 13 values from verified and catch_all_valid to risky and spam_trap.

Built for volume and pace

The rate limit is 100 requests per second per key on every plan, against 600 a minute on LeadMagic's email finder. Search pages hold up to 100 rows. POST /v1/exports returns up to 50,000 rows per request, so a 1M-row pull is 20 calls over two days.

Built for code and agents

The same data is reachable over REST and 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. No key gets pasted into a chat. The server has 12 tools, and count_leads sizes an audience for free before you pull a row.

Where LeadMagic wins

Cheaper below about 20,000 emails a month

LeadMagic Growth is $249 a month for 20,000 credits, and Essential is $99 for 5,000 (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). You pay only for valid emails, and failed lookups are free. LeadOcean has no plan between Free and $499, so at low volume LeadMagic costs less.

Job posts, job changes and ads

LeadMagic lists 46M+ job posts, a job change detector at 3 credits a request, and Google, Meta and B2B ad search (LeadMagic, September 2026; pricing). LeadOcean is people and company data. It has no job-post or ad dataset, so hiring and ad signals are a reason to keep LeadMagic.

Upload a CSV and get it back enriched

LeadMagic accepts a CSV or list, enriches it and returns the result, through the dashboard or MCP bulk tools (LeadMagic MCP docs, September 2026). It also plugs into Clay, Smartlead, Instantly, Zapier and Make. LeadOcean has no upload-and-enrich screen. Non-technical teams should stay in LeadMagic.

Use both: LeadOcean for volume, LeadMagic for checks

You do not have to pick one. Pull and enrich at volume with LeadOcean, and spend LeadMagic credits only where its extra checks earn them. Essential's 5,000 credits cover 20,000 validations at 0.25 credits each.

1. Create a free LeadOcean key at app.leadocean.io/register. The free plan needs no card.
2. Search with POST /v1/people/search and export the rows you want. Keep the email_status field on every row.
3. Send only the catch_all and risky rows to LeadMagic validation, and run its job change detector on your top accounts.

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