Dropcontact Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and What 1M Records Cost

The cheapest plan is Starter at €29 a month for 500 credits, or €24 a month billed yearly. The page flags Growth as Best Value, so our read is that most teams land there, at €120 a month for 4,000 credits (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026).

One credit buys one verified email. Dropcontact publishes no price for 1M records. The biggest self-serve tier is 150,000 credits a month, and Enterprise starts at 200,000 on a custom quote.

Dropcontact charges only when it finds a verified email. A miss is refunded. The bill still climbs with every email you find, and anything above 150,000 credits needs a sales call.

Plans

Dropcontact sells two self-serve plans, Starter and Growth, plus Enterprise. Each self-serve plan has a credit selector from 500 to 150,000 credits a month. Prices are in euros. The page lists no seat limit, so seats are not a billing line (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026).

The credit selector sets the price. This is the full ladder, in euros a month, with the yearly figure billed annually.

Source: Dropcontact pricing, October 2026. The yearly toggle shows a -20% badge, but the yearly figures are two months free, which is 16.7% off. Starter at 150,000 credits is €2,245 monthly and €1,871 a month billed yearly (€22,452 a year).

The pricing page also sells a separate CRM enrichment subscription for Pipedrive, Salesforce and HubSpot. Email Finder credits cannot enrich a CRM.

What a credit buys

A credit is consumed in two cases, and the credits policy lists nothing else (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026).

One caveat sits in the docs. If you fetch results early with forceResults=true, unfinished contacts come back unchanged, and you may not be re-credited when Dropcontact finds the email later.

Hidden costs

The per-credit price is the visible part. The rest sits in the details.

• Euro prices. The page does not say whether VAT is included. Convert and add tax before you compare against a dollar price.
• The yearly badge overstates the saving. It says -20%. The numbers are 16.7% off.
• Carry-over costs extra. Credits carry over only on Growth. At the same credit count, Growth is 21% to 63% more than Starter.
• Small tiers are pricey per credit. Starter at 500 credits is €0.058 a credit. At 150,000 it is €0.01497.
• Verification is not free. Checking an existing email costs one credit, so cleaning a 100,000-row CRM export is 100,000 credits.
• You must bring the contact. The API needs a name and a company or website, a LinkedIn URL or an email. It does not search for prospects.
• Batches and polling. One request takes up to 250 contacts. You POST, then GET the result by request ID (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026). A million contacts is 4,000 requests.
• Rate limit. 60 requests per second. The docs list a 403 when a token exceeds its quota.
• Nothing public above 150,000 credits. Larger volume means Enterprise and a custom price.

Worked examples

All three examples assume one credit per email found, at list price. Dropcontact reports a 54.9% real usable email rate in its own 2025 benchmark of 20,000 contacts (Dropcontact benchmark, October 2026). The CEO of Dropcontact ran that test and says so on the page. A lower hit rate means fewer credits used.

10k records a month

• Credits needed: 10,000, or about 5,490 at a 54.9% hit rate.
• Both need the 11,000-credit tier. 4,000 is too small.
• Starter: €199 a month, or €166 a month billed yearly (€1,992 a year).
• Growth: €303 a month, or €253 billed yearly.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 a month flat. At this volume Dropcontact is cheaper, in a different currency.

1M records a month

• Credits needed: 1,000,000. That is 6.7 times the biggest self-serve tier of 150,000.
• No public 1M price. Enterprise starts at 200,000 credits and the price is custom.
• The reference point is 150,000 credits: €2,245 on Starter, €3,652 on Growth.
• Ask Dropcontact for a quote at 1M. We do not multiply a rate out to a figure it has not published.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 a month flat.

25M records a month

• Credits needed: 25,000,000. That is 167 times the biggest self-serve tier, and 100,000 batches of 250.
• No public 25M price. Enterprise only, on a custom quote.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 a month flat. A very large month is paced down to one request a minute past the fair-usage line rather than cut off. One email to support gets more headroom.

The units differ. A LeadOcean record is a person or company returned. A Dropcontact credit is a verified email found for a contact you send. LeadOcean also lets you search for the people first, which Dropcontact does not.

Is it worth it

Dropcontact is worth it when you already hold a list and need clean, verified business emails. You pay per email found and a miss costs nothing.

• Solo founder or freelancer: Starter at €29 to €79 a month covers a small list. Use the 50 free credits first.
• SDR team with a messy list: Growth at 4,000 to 11,000 credits adds carry-over and LinkedIn URL enrichment. Seats are not a billing line.
• European buyer with a data-protection review: Dropcontact says processing runs on its own algorithms on EU-based servers and cites a CNIL audit (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026). That is its claim, so ask for the paperwork.
• RevOps or data engineer: The API and MCP server are on Starter and up. Expect batches of 250, polling and a 60 requests per second ceiling.
• High volume, 1M or more: There is no public price. A flat fee is easier to forecast.

For a wider comparison, see the Dropcontact alternative page and Dropcontact alternatives.

Alternatives with a different price model

These three charge by found-email ladder, by one-time pack or by flat fee.

Icypeas: a published ladder to 10M credits. The 1,000,000-credit tier is $3,992 a month, or $3,326.67 a month billed yearly. One credit buys one found email from a name and a domain (Icypeas pricing, September 2026). See Icypeas pricing.

Anymail Finder: one-time packs. The 1,000,000-credit pack is $4,990 once, valid 12 months, at $0.0050 a credit. A credit buys one valid email, and searches that find nothing are free (Anymail Finder pricing, September 2026). See Anymail Finder pricing.

LeadOcean: flat fee. Free is 1,000 records one-off with no card. Pro is $499 a month with unlimited searches, enrichments and lookups, 100 requests per second per key and 5 API keys. There are no credits and no overage invoice. It covers 693M people and 63M companies over REST and MCP, and the app has an Exports page with a filter builder and CSV download. It has no sequencer, dialer or CRM. See pricing.

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