Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) and Dropcontact both fill in B2B contacts you already hold, but you buy them in different ways. Clearbit is data enrichment inside HubSpot, with no price of its own. Dropcontact is a standalone email finder with a public API and a credit plan billed in euros. We do not convert between currencies.
Verdict
- Pick Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) if your contacts and companies already live in HubSpot and you want firmographic fields filled in without code. Enrichment uses no HubSpot Credits (HubSpot docs, September 2026).
- Pick Dropcontact if you hold names and companies and need a verified business email, with an API you can read before you sign up. It charges a credit only for an email found (Dropcontact API docs, September 2026).
- Pick neither if you need to build the list first, with title, seniority, industry and country filters, or if you need volume at one fixed price. Both tools start from a contact or domain you hold. LeadOcean searches 693M people for a flat $499 a month.
Side by side
Prices are list prices checked in September and October 2026. Monthly price first, billed-yearly figure after it.
| Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) | Dropcontact | |
|---|---|---|
| Data size | Not published. No people or company count on the homepage (Clearbit) | No contact database. Results come from its own algorithms (Dropcontact pricing) |
| Email coverage | Not published. Contacts enrich from a business email, and the default contact properties include no email (HubSpot docs) | Not published as a count. 54.9% usable in its own 20,000-contact test (Dropcontact benchmark) |
| Phone coverage | Not published (HubSpot docs) | phone and mobile_phone fields. Coverage not published (Dropcontact API docs) |
| API | Documented, but the docs sit behind a sign-in (Clearbit docs) | One endpoint, POST /v1/people/enrich/all, then a GET for the result (Dropcontact API docs) |
| MCP | None found for enrichment. HubSpot has an MCP server for CRM records (HubSpot MCP) | mcp.dropcontact.com/mcp, OAuth or bearer token. Enriches a contact or validates an email (Dropcontact API docs) |
| Rate limit | Not published (Clearbit docs) | 60 requests per second (Dropcontact API docs) |
| Bulk export | 100 records at a time from a HubSpot index page (HubSpot docs) | CSV, XLS or TXT enrichment in the app. API batches of 250 contacts (Dropcontact pricing, API docs) |
| Price model | Part of a HubSpot subscription. Enrichment uses no HubSpot Credits (HubSpot docs) | Monthly or yearly plan with a credit quota. One credit per email found (Dropcontact pricing) |
| Entry price | HubSpot Starter, $10 a seat a month, or $7 billed yearly, on a new-customer offer (list $20) (HubSpot Starter) | 50 free credits. Starter €29 a month for 500 credits, €24 billed yearly (Dropcontact pricing) |
| Cost at 1M records | No public 1M price (HubSpot docs) | No public 1M price. Top published tier is 150,000 credits, €2,245 a month (Dropcontact pricing) |
Data and coverage
Neither tool publishes a size you can compare. Clearbit's homepage gives no people, company or phone count (Clearbit, September 2026). Dropcontact says it works only with algorithms and uses no contact databases, so there is nothing to count (Dropcontact pricing, September 2026).
They fill in different things. HubSpot enriches a contact from a business email and a company from a domain, and personal addresses are skipped. The default contact fields are name, job title, role, seniority, location and a LinkedIn URL (HubSpot docs, September 2026). On the company side, Clearbit's homepage lists 6-digit NAICS, GICS and SIC codes and parent and subsidiary mapping (Clearbit, September 2026).
Dropcontact is built around the email. Given a first name, last name and company, it builds a business address and verifies it. Each address comes back with a qualification such as nominative@pro or catch_all (Dropcontact API docs, September 2026). It also returns company fields, including French SIREN and NAF data when you ask for them.
Phones are thin on both sides. Dropcontact returns phone and mobile_phone and says its mobile numbers come from signature extraction in email flows (Dropcontact pricing, September 2026). Its credits policy lists no phone charge and no coverage figure. HubSpot's enrichment docs state no phone coverage for Clearbit.
On hit rate, only Dropcontact gives a number. It reports 54.9% on 20,000 contacts, in a study it led and funded itself (Dropcontact benchmark, September 2026). Treat that as a claim to test. Run 200 of your own contacts before you commit.
API and developer experience
Dropcontact is a two-step batch. You POST up to 250 contacts and get a request ID. You then GET the result with that ID, or pass a custom_callback_url to receive a webhook instead (Dropcontact API docs, September 2026).
curl -X POST "https://api.dropcontact.com/v1/people/enrich/all" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Access-Token: $DROPCONTACT_API_KEY" \
-d '{"data":[{"first_name":"Jane","last_name":"Doe","website":"acme.com"}],"language":"en"}'The GET answers "Request not ready yet, try again in 30 seconds" until processing ends. That suits a nightly job. It is an extra moving part if you want one answer per call. Errors differ from what many teams expect: 429 means too many requests, and 403 means the token has exceeded its quota.
Clearbit is harder to judge from the outside. Its API documentation redirects to a sign-in page (Clearbit docs, September 2026). We cannot show a request, a rate limit or whether a new customer gets API access outside HubSpot.
What HubSpot does document is a no-code route. A Super Admin switches on automatic enrichment, which is off by default. Records are also enriched by hand, from a segment, from an import, or with an Enrich Record workflow action (HubSpot docs, September 2026). New Clearbit sign-ups need a HubSpot account (Clearbit release notes, September 2026).
On MCP, Dropcontact has a hosted server that enriches a contact from a name and company, a full name and company, or a LinkedIn URL, or validates an email. It does not search. We found no MCP server for Clearbit enrichment. HubSpot's own server gives read and write access to CRM records such as contacts and deals (HubSpot MCP docs, September 2026).
Pricing
Both tools price around a subscription, not a clean per-record rate, so each needs its own arithmetic.
At 10,000 records a month. Dropcontact bills one credit per email found. The nearest published tier is 11,000 credits: €199 a month on Starter, or €166 billed yearly. €199 / 10,000 = €0.0199 per email if you use 10,000 credits (Dropcontact pricing, September 2026). A miss is refunded. If 10,000 contacts hit its reported 54.9%, that is 10,000 x 0.549 = 5,490 credits, which still needs the 11,000 tier.
Clearbit has no per-record price. The cost is the HubSpot plan that runs it. Starter is $10 a seat a month, or $7 billed yearly, on a new-customer offer (HubSpot Starter, October 2026). A bulk run from an index page tops out at 100 records, so 10,000 records is 100 batches. A segment, an import or a workflow avoids that (HubSpot docs, September 2026).
At 1M records a month. Neither tool has a public price.
- Dropcontact: No public 1M price. The top published tier is 150,000 credits at €2,245 a month, and Enterprise starts at 200,000 credits on a custom quote. 1,000,000 credits is 6.7 times that top tier. We do not multiply a rate out to 1M (Dropcontact pricing, September 2026). In the API, 1,000,000 contacts at 250 per request is 4,000 POST calls.
- Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence): No public 1M price. HubSpot publishes no per-record rate and no monthly enrichment cap. From an index page, 1,000,000 records is 10,000 batches of 100, so it is a workflow job (HubSpot docs, September 2026).
The HubSpot plan is the real Clearbit cost, and HubSpot prices it by hub and seat. Ask HubSpot sales for the volume ceiling before you plan a large run. Ask Dropcontact for an Enterprise quote at your volume.
Where Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) wins
- Enrichment where your records live. Automatic enrichment fills new HubSpot contacts and companies with no code (HubSpot docs, September 2026).
- Firmographic depth. Industry codes, corporate hierarchy and normalized role and seniority (Clearbit, September 2026). Dropcontact's docs list headcount, turnover and French registry data instead.
- Visitor identification. The homepage advertises reverse-IP intent and form shortening. Dropcontact lists neither.
- Low marginal cost for a HubSpot team. If the plan is already paid for, enrichment adds nothing per record.
Where Dropcontact wins
- A real email finder. It builds and verifies a business email from a name and a company. HubSpot's default contact properties include no email.
- Pay on success. A credit is charged only for a verified email, and a miss is refunded (Dropcontact API docs, September 2026).
- A public API and MCP server. You can read the docs and test before you sign up. Clearbit's docs sit behind a login.
- No CRM required. It works from a file, an API call or a Google Sheets add-on, and also has native HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce connectors on a separate CRM plan (Dropcontact pricing, September 2026).
- A published rate limit. 60 requests per second, against nothing published for Clearbit.
If you need volume through an API
Both tools start from a contact or a domain you already hold. If you need to search by title, seniority, country or industry first, LeadOcean holds 693M people and 63M companies behind 50 people filters, and counts are free. 366M people have an email and 166M have a phone number. Free gives you 1,000 records one-off, no card. Pro is $499 a month flat, with no credits and no per-record price, over REST and a 12-tool MCP server. POST /v1/exports returns up to 50,000 rows per request at 100 requests per second per key. LeadOcean does not take a name plus a company: you search by domain, then enrich by person_id. At 10,000 records a month, a Dropcontact Starter plan or a HubSpot seat costs less than $499 on list price. See the Clearbit alternative page and LeadOcean pricing.
FAQ
Is Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) or Dropcontact cheaper?
At 10,000 records, Dropcontact lists €199 a month for 11,000 credits, and Clearbit rides on a HubSpot Starter seat from $10 a month, or $7 billed yearly. At 1M, neither publishes a price. Dropcontact's top tier is 150,000 credits at €2,245, and HubSpot publishes no enrichment cap.
Which has more data?
Neither publishes a count. Dropcontact says it holds no contact database, and Clearbit's homepage gives no people or company figure. Judge both on a sample of your own list.
Does either tool return phone numbers?
Dropcontact's responses carry phone and mobile_phone fields, and it publishes no coverage. HubSpot's enrichment docs state none for Clearbit. For phones at volume, look at a database built for it.
Do Clearbit and Dropcontact have an MCP server?
Dropcontact does, at mcp.dropcontact.com/mcp. It enriches a contact or validates an email. We found none for Clearbit enrichment. HubSpot's MCP server covers CRM records, not data enrichment.
Is Clearbit still a separate product?
Partly. Clearbit's site says it has joined HubSpot, and new sign-ups need a HubSpot account (Clearbit release notes, September 2026). HubSpot's docs call the feature data enrichment.
Can I use both together?
Yes. Let HubSpot enrichment fill firmographic fields on CRM records, and send rows that lack a business email to Dropcontact with a name and company. Dropcontact refunds a miss, so you pay only for emails found.
Related: Prospeo vs Dropcontact, FullEnrich vs Dropcontact, Findymail vs Dropcontact, the Clearbit alternative page and pricing. Back to the blog.
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