7 Best BlitzAPI Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)

People leave BlitzAPI over the plan ladder, not the price model. Core is $399 a month without emails or phones. Plus adds emails at $499, and Full adds US phone numbers at $599 (BlitzAPI pricing, September 2026). The 50 requests per second on that page is a lifetime offer for accounts opened by September 30, against 5 for standard accounts. Its MCP server gives an assistant the API documentation, not the data (BlitzAPI docs, September 2026).

This page ranks seven BlitzAPI API alternatives for buyers who pull records in code, through an agent or at volume. LeadOcean is first because it is the other flat-price option, with emails and phones in one plan. For a two-column view, see LeadOcean vs BlitzAPI.

TL;DR

"1M records" means 1M work-email lookups that return a result, one credit each where the vendor uses credits. Figures are list-price arithmetic. Where a vendor sells no plan at that volume, the cell says so. Enterprise quotes differ. For reference, BlitzAPI is Core $399, Plus $499 and Full $599 a month (BlitzAPI pricing, September 2026).

What we evaluated

• API access: which plan opens it, and the default rate limit.
• MCP: whether an agent can search and enrich, or only read docs.
• Price model: flat, credits or seats, and the cost of 1M records.
• Data: email, phone and job fields.
• Limits that bite: plan gates, expiring credits and fair-use clauses.

We read each vendor's pricing page and docs in September 2026. We ran no find-rate test, so we quote no quality numbers.

1. LeadOcean: best for API, agent and volume buyers

LeadOcean holds 693M people, 366M with an email and 166M with a phone number, plus 63M companies. Enrichment is POST /v1/people/enrich, phones are GET /v2/people/phone, and exports run up to 50,000 rows per request. Counts are free.

Pro is $499 a month with unlimited searches, enrichments and lookups and 100 requests per second per key. There are no credits and no tiers by data type. The MCP server at https://api.leadocean.io/mcp signs in with OAuth 2.1 and exposes 12 tools, from search_leads to find_phone.

Pros

• Flat $499 a month with emails and phones included.
• REST and MCP on every plan, including Free.
• Free counts, and a miss on POST /v1/people/enrich is a free 404.
• Email status on every record, from verified to spam_trap.

Cons

• No job postings or hiring-signal dataset.
• Plain REST and MCP, with no typed SDK or waterfall.

Best for: engineers, RevOps and agents that need volume and a fixed bill.

Pricing: Free is 1,000 records, one-off, no card. Pro is $499 a month, flat (LeadOcean pricing, September 2026).

2. FullEnrich: best for waterfall emails and mobiles

FullEnrich queries 25+ sources per contact and you pay only for data it finds. Pro lists API access, search and an MCP server (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026).

A work email costs 1 credit, a mobile 10 (FullEnrich docs, September 2026). Pro starts at $29 a month for 500 credits, and the 1,000-credit tier is $55. The top monthly tier is 100,000 credits for $3,500 a month, or $0.035 each (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026). The API allows 60 calls a minute (FullEnrich docs, September 2026). The MCP server searches, enriches and exports, and asks before it spends credits (FullEnrich help, September 2026).

Pros

• Waterfall across 25+ sources in one call.
• Search, enrichment and export over MCP.
• Pay only for data it finds.

Cons

• Mobiles cost 10 credits, so phone pulls get expensive.
• 60 calls a minute by default.

Best for: teams that want waterfall contact data through an API or an agent.

Pricing: Pro from $29 a month for 500 credits, $55 for 1,000, up to $3,500 for 100,000. Above that, contact sales. Enterprise custom (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026).

3. LeadMagic: best for a low per-credit price on valid emails

LeadMagic is a credit-based enrichment API with 400M+ people profiles, REST, CSV and a hosted MCP server (LeadMagic, September 2026). Failed lookups cost nothing.

Essential is $99 for 5,000 credits, and Ultimate is $849 for 100,000, or $0.00849 a credit (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). Email Finder allows 600 requests a minute, and a sustained find rate below 10% can lead to throttling (LeadMagic docs, September 2026). The MCP server previews cost before large jobs (LeadMagic docs, September 2026).

Pros

• The lowest per-credit list price here.
• No charge when an email is not found.
• Hosted MCP with a cost preview.

Cons

• The top self-serve plan is 100,000 credits, so 1M needs a quote.
• A find-rate policy can throttle poor lists.

Best for: teams that enrich a few hundred thousand valid emails a month.

Pricing: Essential $99, Growth $249, Professional $499, Ultimate $849 a month (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026).

4. Crustdata: best for live company and people data in agents

Crustdata sells real-time company and people data through search, enrichment, jobs and watcher APIs (Crustdata, September 2026). Like BlitzAPI, it covers job signals. It fits signal work better than bulk lists.

Pricing is credit based, with no dollar price per credit on the public page (Crustdata pricing, September 2026). Person search is 0.03 credits per result and person enrichment 1 to 7 (Crustdata docs, September 2026). Search and enrich default to 15 to 30 requests a minute (Crustdata docs, September 2026). The MCP server signs in with OAuth (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Live data, job data and change watchers.
• Cheap search at 0.03 credits per result.
• MCP server that returns company, people and job data.

Cons

• No public price per credit, so you cannot price 1M records.
• Low default rate limits.

Best for: AI SDR and signal workflows that need fresh data more than volume.

Pricing: Credit based, with no public price list (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

5. People Data Labs: best for data licences and per-match enrichment

People Data Labs (PDL) is a long-running person and company API with bulk licences. It is ISO and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (PDL pricing, September 2026). A match costs one credit and a miss costs none.

Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 credits, or $0.28 each. PDL puts it at about $0.20 to $0.28 a profile, and above about 100,000 profiles a year it is quote only (PDL docs, September 2026). Enrichment allows 1,000 calls a minute on paid plans (PDL docs, September 2026). Its docs index lists no MCP server (PDL docs, September 2026).

Pros

• 1,000 calls a minute on paid plans.
• Bulk enrichment and dataset licences.
• Per-match billing, so misses are free.

Cons

• $0.28 a record at the entry rate.
• No MCP server in the docs, so agents need your own wrapper.

Best for: teams that license data or need compliance paperwork.

Pricing: Free up to 100 records a month. Pro from $98 a month for 350 credits (PDL pricing, September 2026).

6. Coresignal: best for job postings and raw profile volume

Coresignal sells employee, company and job records on credits. Plans run from Mini at $49 a month for 2,500 credits to Elite at $5,000 for 10,000,000 (Coresignal pricing, September 2026). A person record costs 10 to 20 credits and a job posting 1.

It is the closest match to BlitzAPI's job data. Multi-source employee records carry professional emails and a four-level email status, and no phone field appears in the employee dictionaries (Coresignal docs, September 2026). The MCP server at https://mcp.coresignal.com/mcp/v2 signs in with OAuth 2.1 and checks in before a large spend (Coresignal docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Job postings at 1 credit each.
• MCP server with consent before large spends.
• Elasticsearch DSL and webhooks on every plan.

Cons

• 10 to 20 credits per person record, and no phone numbers.
• Pro is 35,000 credits at 10 requests per second.

Best for: teams that need job postings or licensed profile volume.

Pricing: Mini $49, Pro $499, Premium $1,500, Elite $5,000 a month, with four more tiers between (Coresignal pricing, September 2026).

7. Apollo: best for reps who want a database and a sequencer

Apollo is a sales platform with a contact database. It also has sequences, a dialer and a Chrome extension (Apollo MCP page, September 2026). It ranks last because pricing is built around seats, not volume.

Basic is $49 per seat a month with 30,000 credits a year, billed annually (Apollo pricing, September 2026). An email costs 1 credit and a phone number 8. Enrichment allows 1,000 requests a minute on paid plans (Apollo docs, September 2026). The API and the MCP server work on any plan, including Free. Apollo says its plans are for internal business use only.

Pros

• Database, sequences and dialer in one tool.
• MCP server on every plan.
• A free plan.

Cons

• Seats and credits both scale the bill.
• Internal use only, so you cannot build a product on it.

Best for: sales reps who prospect and send from one workspace.

Pricing: Free. Basic $49, Professional $79, Organization $119 per seat a month, billed annually (Apollo pricing, September 2026).

Comparison table

Sources are linked in each tool section, all checked in September 2026. Confirm on the pricing page before you buy. The 1M column is list-price arithmetic on email lookups. Apollo is 250 Professional seats at $99 on monthly billing, or 400 Basic seats at $49 on yearly billing. PDL sells no public plan at 1M. Coresignal is derived at 20 credits a contact enrichment and the Elite rate. FullEnrich and LeadMagic sell no plan at 1M, so their cells name no price. Each top public tier is in its tool section.

How to choose

• You pull data in code or with an agent, at volume: LeadOcean, with emails and phones on one price.
• You need waterfall emails and mobiles: FullEnrich, and budget 10 credits per mobile.
• You buy valid emails by the hundred thousand: LeadMagic.
• Your trigger is hiring signals: Coresignal for job postings, Crustdata for live signals.
• You need compliance paperwork or a licensed dataset: People Data Labs.
• Your reps live in the tool: Apollo.
• You want tech-stack data: see Wappalyzer alternatives.

Verdict

LeadOcean wins for API, agent and volume buyers. It keeps BlitzAPI's flat price, puts emails and phones in one plan and has an MCP server that returns records. Keep BlitzAPI if job postings are your main signal. FullEnrich wins for waterfall mobiles and LeadMagic for cheap valid emails. Coresignal wins for job data, Crustdata for live signals, PDL for licensed datasets and Apollo for reps. Start on the free plan and compare the same lookups.

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