LeadMagic vs Prospeo (2026): Data, Pricing and API Compared

LeadMagic is the better fit for code, agents and mobile numbers. Prospeo is the better fit for reps who want a database, a Chrome extension and a cheap first plan. Past 100,000 lookups a month, neither publishes a simple plan, and only Prospeo prints a 1M price.

Verdict

• Pick LeadMagic if engineers or agents need verified emails and mobiles from an API or MCP server on one shared credit pool. A mobile costs 5 credits, half of Prospeo's price (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026).
• Pick Prospeo if reps will search a database and work leads in an extension. The entry plan is $49 a user against LeadMagic's $99, and Prospeo has a Free plan (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).
• Pick neither if you pull millions of records a month through an API at a fixed bill. LeadOcean is flat at $499 a month, covered below.

Side by side

Data and coverage

The two sell different things. LeadMagic is an enrichment layer: you bring a name and a domain, it returns a validated email or mobile. Prospeo is a database with enrichment on top, so you can search first and enrich after.

Sizes are hard to compare. LeadMagic states 400M+ people, 25M+ companies and 46M+ job posts on its homepage (LeadMagic, September 2026). Prospeo's own pages disagree with each other: the homepage says 280M leads and companies, while the API docs say 200M+ contacts and 30M+ companies (Prospeo, September 2026; API docs). Treat both as marketing counts.

Neither publishes an email find rate or a phone coverage rate. Both charge only for a result. LeadMagic validates every email before returning it, and a miss costs nothing (LeadMagic docs, September 2026). Prospeo charges 1 credit per verified email, nothing on a miss, and nothing for re-enriching the same record within 90 days (Prospeo enrich docs, September 2026).

Phones are the big gap. A Prospeo mobile costs 10 credits and includes the email. A LeadMagic mobile costs 5 credits. Run 200 of your own contacts through both before you commit to either.

LeadMagic also sells job posts, job change checks and ad search. Prospeo has job change tracking from Growth and intent topics on every plan (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

API and developer experience

Both have one call per person. LeadMagic finds a work email with POST /v1/people/email-finder. Prospeo enriches with POST /enrich-person. Placeholders below stand in for real people.

LeadMagic, find a work email from a name and domain.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadmagic.io/v1/people/email-finder" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $LEADMAGIC_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"first_name":"Jane","last_name":"Doe","domain":"acme.com"}'

The response carries the email and its status, and a miss spends no credit (LeadMagic docs, September 2026). An email found on an unrelated domain comes back as a free not-found unless you set allow_domain_mismatch.

Prospeo, enrich a person by name and company website.

curl -X POST "https://api.prospeo.io/enrich-person" \
  -H "X-KEY: $PROSPEO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"only_verified_email": true, "data": {"first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Doe", "company_website": "acme.com"}}'

Prospeo's docs recommend the bulk endpoint, up to 50 people per request, for speed (Prospeo enrich docs, September 2026). only_verified_email and enrich_mobile decide when credits are spent.

Search works differently on each. A Prospeo search request returns up to 25 people and costs 1 credit when it returns results. It carries no email or mobile, so you pay again to enrich (Prospeo help, September 2026). LeadMagic search is zero-credit only on Professional and Ultimate. On Essential and Growth it bills about 1 credit per returned person (LeadMagic docs, September 2026).

Limits favour LeadMagic for a steady job. The email finder takes 600 requests a minute on standard plans. Prospeo's enrich API allows 5 a second on Starter and Growth, but caps the day at 2,000 and 5,000 requests. Pro lifts that to 30 a second and 500,000 a day (Prospeo rate limits, September 2026).

Free plan API access is the one place Prospeo's own pages disagree. The pricing table shows none, while the help center lists limited access at 50 requests a day (Prospeo help, September 2026). The API docs intro says free API access for all users (Prospeo API docs, September 2026). Test a free key before you plan around it.

On MCP, LeadMagic states 130+ hosted tools and accepts OAuth only, with no static API key (LeadMagic MCP, October 2026). Prospeo has 8 tools and accepts OAuth 2.0 or an API key (Prospeo MCP docs, September 2026).

Pricing

Both sell credits, so cost grows with volume. The worked examples use work emails only, one credit each, every lookup a hit. Prices are monthly list first, billed-yearly after.

10,000 records a month

• LeadMagic: 10,000 credits needs Growth, $249 a month for 20,000 credits. Billed yearly it is $208 a month ($2,490 a year). The spare 10,000 credits roll over on monthly plans, up to 2x the allocation (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026).
• Prospeo: one Growth seat gives 5,000 credits for $99. The 5,000-credit add-on is $90. That is 10,000 credits for $189 a month. Billed yearly, 2 Growth seats at $74 give 10,000 credits a month for $148 (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

Prospeo wins at 10,000 emails by $60 a month. At 20,000 the order flips. LeadMagic Growth is $249. The cheapest Prospeo mix we find is one Pro seat ($249, 15,000 credits) plus the 5,000-credit add-on ($90), which is $339.

Mobiles. 10,000 mobiles is 50,000 LeadMagic credits, which is Professional at $499 a month. On Prospeo it is 100,000 credits: one Starter seat at $49 plus the 100,000-credit add-on at $1,200, which is $1,249 a month.

1M records a month

• LeadMagic: no public 1M price. The top self-serve plan is Ultimate, $849 a month for 100,000 credits. Top-up prices are not published, and Enterprise starts at $2,490 a quarter with no per-credit price (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026). We do not multiply a rate out to 1M, because no plan sells it.
• Prospeo: no single tier reaches 1M. The cheapest public path is (1,000,000 - 350,000 add-on credits) / 15,000 per Pro seat = 44 seats x $249 = $10,956, plus the 350,000-credit add-on at $3,500. That is 1,010,000 credits for $14,456 a month. Billed yearly, 3 Pro seats at $2,241 plus the 500,000-credit yearly add-on at $4,500 is $11,223 once, with 1,040,000 credits upfront (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

Prospeo publishes nothing above 350,000 add-on credits a month or 500,000 a year. Extended pricing is enabled on request (Prospeo help, September 2026). Credits expire each cycle on Prospeo. At 1M a month, ask both vendors for a quote.

Where LeadMagic wins

LeadMagic is cheaper per mobile and easier to share. A mobile is 5 credits against 10. Plan credits sit in one pool for the whole team, with 3 seats on Essential up to 20 on Ultimate (LeadMagic pricing, September 2026).

It is also better for hiring and agent workflows. It sells 46M+ job posts and job change checks, and its MCP server states 130+ tools. Monthly plans roll unused credits over up to 2x the allocation, while Prospeo's credits expire each cycle.

Where Prospeo wins

Prospeo is cheaper to start and easier for a rep to use. Free gives 100 credits a month, and Starter is $49 a user. A Chrome extension is on every plan, and HubSpot and Salesforce sync arrive on Growth and Pro (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

It is the only one of the two with a published 1M path, and it is cheaper at 10,000 emails. You can also search the database first and spend credits only on people you pick. Re-enriching a record within 90 days is free.

If you need volume through an API

LeadOcean is a people and company data API with a hosted MCP server and no credits. Free gives 1,000 records one-off with no card, and Pro is $499 a month flat with whole-database access over REST and MCP. Export up to 50,000 rows per request with POST /v1/exports, and call count_leads first because counts are free. It is the data layer only, with no rep workspace or extension, so reps who prospect all day should stay on Prospeo. See pricing.

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