FullEnrich vs Dropcontact (2026): Data, Pricing and API Compared

Dropcontact is the cheaper way to find and verify work emails on a list you already own. FullEnrich is the pick when you also need mobile numbers, or want to search for people first. Neither publishes a price at 1M records.

Verdict

• Pick FullEnrich if you need mobile numbers as well as work emails, or you want to search 800M people before you enrich. It charges only for what it finds and its API, MCP and bulk CSV are on every plan (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026).
• Pick Dropcontact if work email is the job and your contacts are in Europe or your CRM. Pay on success, EU-hosted processing and a lower price at 10,000 a month (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026).
• Pick neither if you build whole audiences by filter and pull them by API at volume. LeadOcean is one option, covered below.

Side by side

Data and coverage

FullEnrich is a waterfall over 25+ sources with a search index on top. Dropcontact is a cleaner that builds the email itself. The two data-size cells are not the same kind of count.

FullEnrich lists 800M people and 50M companies for search. Search results carry no emails or phones, so you pay again to enrich the people you pick (FullEnrich docs, September 2026). Its 1.6B figure is a customer quote about coverage, not a database size (FullEnrich MCP page, September 2026). Dropcontact says it works only with its own algorithms and holds no contact database (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026). You cannot ask it how many VPs of Sales exist in Canada.

Email quality is where the vendors disagree. FullEnrich states about an 80% find rate on work emails and that about 30% of raw data is removed by verification (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026). Dropcontact ran a benchmark of 20,000 contacts and reports a 54.9% effective rate for itself against 48.3% for FullEnrich (Dropcontact benchmark, October 2026).

Read both numbers with care. Dropcontact funded and ran its own study, and the input was only first name, last name and company. FullEnrich's docs say a LinkedIn URL lifts email enrichment by 5 to 20% (FullEnrich docs, September 2026). We have not tested either claim. Send 200 rows of your own list to both before you commit.

Phones are the clearer gap. FullEnrich sells mobiles at 10 credits and charges nothing for a miss or a landline. Dropcontact lists phone and mobile_phone fields, but its credit policy charges only for emails and it publishes no phone coverage (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026). Its own benchmark page names only FullEnrich and BetterContact as returning phones among the tools compared. Treat Dropcontact phones as unproven until you test them.

Dropcontact returns more company and job fields than the table shows. A response can carry headcount, turnover, job_level, job_function and French SIREN and NAF data when you ask for it (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026).

API and developer experience

Both APIs are asynchronous. FullEnrich starts a job and returns the result to a webhook. Dropcontact queues a batch and you poll or use a callback. Placeholders below stand in for real people.

FullEnrich, start a bulk enrichment for one contact. It takes up to 100.

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://app.fullenrich.com/api/v2/contact/enrich/bulk" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $FULLENRICH_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "webhook_url": "https://example.com/webhook",
    "data": [{
      "first_name": "Jane",
      "last_name": "Doe",
      "domain": "acme.com",
      "enrich_fields": ["contact.work_emails", "contact.phones"]
    }]
  }'

You get the result on your webhook, or you poll the bulk endpoint with the enrichment id. An over-limit call returns HTTP 429 with the code error.rate.limit (FullEnrich docs, September 2026). Authentication is a Bearer key (FullEnrich docs, September 2026).

Dropcontact, queue one contact. It takes up to 250, each under 15 kB.

DC_API="https://api.dropcontact.com/v1"
curl --request POST \
  --url "$DC_API/enrich/all" \
  --header "X-Access-Token: $DROPCONTACT_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "data": [{"first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Doe", "website": "acme.com"}],
    "language": "en"
  }'

The reply carries a request_id. You then call GET /all/{request_id} on the same path, and it tells you to retry in 30 seconds until the batch is done. Add custom_callback_url to the POST to get a webhook instead. A contact with a name but no company context is rejected (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026).

On MCP, both servers sign in with OAuth. FullEnrich's covers search, enrichment and export. Search is a free preview of the first 10 results plus the total, and an export costs 0.25 credits per contact (FullEnrich help, September 2026). Dropcontact's enriches a contact from a name and company or a LinkedIn URL, or validates an email. It does not search (Dropcontact MCP page, October 2026; API docs).

Rate limits differ in shape. Dropcontact allows 60 requests a second. FullEnrich allows 60 calls a minute, so the ceiling is 6,000 contacts a minute at 100 contacts a call.

Pricing

Both charge only for a hit. FullEnrich credits roll over for 3 months on monthly plans and 12 on annual ones (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026). Dropcontact carry-over is a Growth feature (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026). FullEnrich prices in dollars and Dropcontact in euros. We do not convert.

The worked example is work-email lookups only, one credit each, at list price.

At 10,000 a month Dropcontact Starter costs €199 and FullEnrich costs $499. That is about €0.020 an email against $0.050 a credit (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026; Dropcontact pricing, October 2026). Dropcontact's 11,000 credits are the next tier above 10,000, so a few go unused.

Add mobiles and the picture shifts. A mobile costs FullEnrich users 10 credits, so 10,000 mobiles is 100,000 credits, a $3,500 tier on monthly billing. Dropcontact publishes no per-mobile price, so there is nothing to put beside it.

At 1M, neither tool publishes a price. FullEnrich's top monthly tier is 100,000 credits for $3,500, and above that the page says contact sales. The yearly toggle stops at 1,200,000 credits a year for $37,800 (FullEnrich pricing, September 2026). FullEnrich does not say whether yearly credits arrive upfront or month by month, so that tier is not a confirmed path to 1M lookups in one month. A million lookups in one month needs a quote.

Dropcontact's slider stops at 150,000 credits: Starter €2,245 and Growth €3,652 a month. Enterprise starts at 200,000 credits a month on custom pricing (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026). We do not multiply a tier rate out to 1M, because neither vendor sells at that rate.

Plan against hit rate. Both bill only found data, so real cost per contact sits below list rate. Dropcontact's rate depends on the company context you send, and FullEnrich's on the LinkedIn URLs you hold.

Where FullEnrich wins

• Mobile coverage. A waterfall over 25+ sources finds numbers that one engine misses, and a miss costs nothing.
• Search. 800M people and 50M companies, with a free 10-result preview through MCP.
• Profile data. Pass a LinkedIn URL and you also get a person and company profile.
• Unlimited users on every plan, with API, MCP and bulk CSV from the free trial up.
• Integrations with Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n and HubSpot (FullEnrich integrations, September 2026).

Where Dropcontact wins

• Price per email at 10,000 a month. €199 for 11,000 credits against $499 for 10,000.
• European compliance posture. It states EU-based processing and a CNIL audit on its pricing page (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026).
• Verification on its own terms. It qualifies each address, such as nominative@pro or catch_all, and charges only when it finds an email (Dropcontact API docs, October 2026).
• CRM work. Native HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce enrichment, company change detection and duplicate merging (Dropcontact pricing, October 2026).
• Looser rate limit. 60 requests a second, with 250 contacts a call.

If you need volume through an API

LeadOcean is a data layer, not a cleaner: 693M people and 63M companies over REST and MCP. Pro is $499 a month flat with no credits and no per-record price, and Free gives you 1,000 records, one-off, with no card. You filter first with 50 people filters, then pull through POST /v1/exports at up to 50,000 rows per request. The limit is 100 requests per second per key. LeadOcean takes no name and company as input, so it does not replace either tool for cleaning a list. See pricing.

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