6 Best ScrapIn Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)

People leave ScrapIn when the credit meter and the move to Reverse Contact stop fitting their pipeline. ScrapIn has no free plan. Its cheapest entry is a $30 seven-day trial, then pay-as-you-go credits from $500 (ScrapIn pricing, September 2026).

ScrapIn joined Reverse Contact in March 2026, and the live plans are now Go at $249, Plus at $449 and Max at $699 a month. A phone number costs 20 credits, and the base rate limit is 100 requests a minute (Reverse Contact pricing, September 2026). At that pace 1M calls take about 6.9 days. ScrapIn's old API spec bills 2 credits for a profile lookup that finds nothing (ScrapIn API spec, September 2026).

This page ranks six alternatives for buyers who pull data in code or through an agent, with a list price and a 1M-record cost for each. For the full ScrapIn price breakdown, read ScrapIn pricing.

TL;DR

"1M records" means 1M person records, one credit each where the vendor uses credits. Where a vendor publishes no price at 1M, we say so and do not multiply a rate out. Figures are list prices and Enterprise quotes are lower.

What we evaluated

• API access: which plan opens it, how you look a person up (LinkedIn URL, email, name and company) and the default rate limit.
• MCP: whether an agent can search and enrich through the server, or only read documentation.
• Price model: flat, credits or per seat, and what 1M records a month costs at list price.
• Data: stated coverage, email and phone fields, and how fresh the records are.
• Limits that bite: rate ceilings, 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 or accuracy test for this page, so we quote no quality numbers.

1. LeadOcean: best for contact data by API or agent at volume

LeadOcean is one dataset behind one REST API and one MCP server. It holds 693M people, 366M with an email and 166M with a phone number, plus 63M companies. You search with 50 people filters and 34 company filters. Counts are free.

Enrichment is POST /v1/people/enrich with exactly one of linkedin_url, email, phone or person_id. Phones are GET /v2/people/phone. Exports run up to 50,000 rows per request.

The price does not move with volume. Pro is $499 a month with unlimited searches, enrichments and lookups, 5 API keys and 100 requests per second per key. There are no credits and no overage invoice. A very large month is paced down to one request a minute until the reset, not cut off.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/enrich" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"linkedin_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe","reveal_email":true}'

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 and export_leads. Claude, Cursor or your own agent can pull records directly. Every person or company returned counts as one record, and count_leads is free.

Pros

• Flat $499 a month at any volume, with no credit meter.
• Phone numbers for 166M people, and GET /v2/people/phone to fetch one.
• An email status on every email, from verified to spam_trap.
• A person we hold nothing for is a free 404 on POST /v1/people/enrich.
• REST and MCP on every plan, including Free.

Cons

• The dataset is refreshed monthly. It is not a live profile fetch like ScrapIn's real-time lookups.
• No name plus domain lookup. You search by domain first, then enrich by person_id.
• No job postings and no flat-file dataset licence.
• No sequencer, dialer or CRM. The app has an Exports page, not a rep workspace.

Best for: engineers, RevOps and agents that need contact data at 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. BlitzAPI: best for flat-price people, company and job search

BlitzAPI sells B2B data as an API on flat monthly plans. Its docs list 550M+ contacts tied to LinkedIn profiles, 65M+ companies and 100M+ job postings (BlitzAPI docs, September 2026). It is the nearest swap for a ScrapIn buyer who wants one monthly bill and still resolves people from LinkedIn.

The plan ladder has three steps. Core is $399 a month and leaves out emails and phones. Plus is $499 and adds verified work emails. Full is $599 and adds US phone numbers (BlitzAPI pricing, September 2026).

The headline limits belong to the launch offer. Accounts opened by September 30, 2026 keep 50 requests per second and a fair-use line of 15,000,000 results a month. The standard rate is 5 requests per second per endpoint, and plan prices and volume for later accounts are set at subscription (BlitzAPI pricing, BlitzAPI Terms, section 9.1).

The MCP server gives an assistant the API documentation, not the data (BlitzAPI docs, September 2026). An agent still has to call the REST API itself.

Pros

• Flat monthly price. One result is one person, company, email, phone or job posting, and a call that finds nothing counts nothing.
• Job postings, company and people search under one key.
• A free start of 1,000 credits with no card.
• 50 requests per second on accounts opened by September 30, 2026, against ScrapIn's 100 a minute base.

Cons

• Three paid tiers, and phones need the top one.
• Phone numbers are US only.
• The MCP server reads docs. An agent cannot search or enrich through it.
• The fast rate limit and the flat price depend on when the account opened.

Best for: teams that want one flat-price API for people, companies and job signals and run their own code.

Pricing: Core $399, Plus $499, Full $599 a month (BlitzAPI pricing, September 2026).

3. People Data Labs: best for person data, licences and a large dataset

People Data Labs (PDL) is the largest like-for-like person dataset on this list. Its full dataset lists 2.47 billion person profiles, 592M with an email and 470M with a mobile number (PDL docs, September 2026). It also sells annual licences that deliver files, which ScrapIn offers only through its sales team.

Pricing is per match. One credit buys one person, and a request that finds nothing is not billed (PDL docs, September 2026). Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 credits, or $940 a year billed yearly. PDL says a Pro profile costs about $0.20 to $0.28 by volume (PDL blog, September 2026).

Self-serve is meant for volumes below roughly 100,000 person profiles. Above that, PDL sends buyers to Enterprise and publishes no 1M price. Enrichment allows 1,000 requests a minute on paid plans, but Person Search defaults to 10 a minute (PDL docs, September 2026). We found no official MCP server in PDL's docs index (PDL docs, September 2026).

Pros

• The largest stated person dataset on this list, with separate email and phone datasets.
• Dataset licences and bulk files from the same vendor.
• A miss on enrichment is not billed.
• 1,000 enrichment requests a minute on paid plans.

Cons

• $0.20 to $0.28 a profile on self-serve, and volume needs a sales call.
• Contact data is hidden on the Free plan, which gives up to 100 credits a month.
• Person Search defaults to 10 requests a minute.
• No official MCP server, so agents need a wrapper you host.

Best for: teams that license data or need the biggest stated person dataset and accept per-record pricing.

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

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

Crustdata is the closest like-for-like to ScrapIn's real-time pitch. It sells live company and people data through APIs for search, enrichment, jobs and watchers that alert you to changes. It lists 1 billion+ people (Crustdata, September 2026). Pick it when freshness matters more than raw volume.

Pricing is credit based and the public page shows no dollar price per credit (Crustdata pricing, September 2026). The docs list costs per call. Search is 0.03 credits per result, person enrichment is 1 to 7 credits, and a work-email lookup is 2 credits on /person/enrich (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

Volume is the catch. Person and company enrichment default to 15 requests a minute and search to 30 (Crustdata docs, September 2026). The cheaper contact endpoint needs an enterprise plan (Crustdata docs, September 2026). The MCP server at install.crustdata.com/mcp signs in with OAuth, or an API key for code (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Live data and change watchers, which fit ScrapIn's real-time use case.
• Cheap search at 0.03 credits a result, so you narrow before you enrich.
• A hosted MCP server that returns company, people and job data.

Cons

• No public price per credit, so you cannot price 1M records from the site.
• Low default rate limits on standard endpoints.
• The contact endpoint sits behind an enterprise plan.

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

Pricing: Credit based, with no public price list. Per-call credit costs are in the docs (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

5. Coresignal: best for employee, company and job records

Coresignal sells employee, company and job-posting records by API and as flat-file datasets. Its homepage lists 907M+ employee records, 70M+ company records and 482M+ job postings (Coresignal, September 2026). It suits teams that want structured professional records more than contact details.

Credits are the meter. A Base or Clean record costs 10 credits, a multi-source record 20 and a contact enrichment 20 (Coresignal docs, September 2026). Pro is $499 a month for 35,000 credits, which is 3,500 Base records (Coresignal pricing, September 2026).

There is no public 1M price. 1M email lookups is 20,000,000 credits, and the largest listed plan, Elite, is $5,000 a month for 10,000,000. Rate limits climb with the plan, from 5 requests a second on Starter to 100 on Scale (Coresignal docs, September 2026). The MCP server has 5 tools and signs in with OAuth 2.1, and it excludes EEA and UK employees from email lookups (Coresignal MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Large stated employee, company and job datasets.
• Datasets from $1,000 a month for teams that want files.
• An MCP server that fetches records, not just docs.
• Rate limits that scale with the plan, up to 100 a second.

Cons

• Every record costs 10 to 20 credits, so the plan buys fewer records than it sounds.
• Employee records list no phone field.
• No public price at 1M.
• Email lookups through MCP exclude EEA and UK employees.

Best for: teams that need employee, company and job records in volume and can budget credits.

Pricing: Free trial 2,000 credits for 7 days. Mini $49 to Elite $5,000 a month (Coresignal pricing, September 2026).

6. Prospeo: best for email and mobile lookups by LinkedIn URL

Prospeo is an email and mobile finder with a REST API and an MCP server. POST /enrich-person takes a LinkedIn URL, an email, or a name plus a company, and returns person data, company data and a verified email (Prospeo docs, September 2026). That makes it the simplest swap for ScrapIn's URL-to-profile calls when the goal is an email or a mobile.

One credit buys a verified email, and a mobile costs 10 credits with the email included. A lookup that finds nothing is free, and re-enriching the same record within 90 days is free (Prospeo docs, September 2026). Plans are priced per user: Starter $49, Growth $99 and Pro $249 a month, with 2,000, 5,000 and 15,000 credits (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

Volume means more seats. No single tier reaches 1M credits, and the cheapest public path on monthly billing is 44 Pro seats plus the largest add-on, $14,456 a month. Enrichment runs at 5 requests a second on Starter and 30 on Pro (Prospeo rate limits, September 2026). The hosted MCP server at mcp.prospeo.io has 8 tools (Prospeo MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Enrich by LinkedIn URL, email, or name plus company.
• A miss costs nothing, and the same record twice within 90 days costs nothing.
• Hosted MCP server with 8 tools.
• A Chrome extension, if reps also prospect by hand.

Cons

• Priced per seat, so volume needs many seats.
• $14,456 a month at 1M on monthly billing.
• Credits do not roll over.
• A mobile is 10 credits, ten times an email.

Best for: small teams that look up emails and mobiles from LinkedIn URLs and want an extension beside the API.

Pricing: Free 100 credits a month. Starter $49, Growth $99, Pro $249 per user a month (Prospeo pricing, September 2026).

Comparison table

Sources are linked in each tool section, all checked in September 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on the pricing page before you buy. The 1M column is a published price or a published add-on path. Where a vendor lists no price at that volume, we write "No public 1M price".

How to choose

• You pull contact data in code or with an agent, at volume: LeadOcean. One flat price, emails and phones, REST and MCP on every plan.
• You want a second flat-price API with people and jobs: BlitzAPI Plus, if a docs-only MCP server is fine.
• You want the biggest person dataset or a data licence: People Data Labs, and budget per record.
• You need live data and change alerts: Crustdata, after a rate-limit conversation.
• You need employee records and job postings: Coresignal, and budget credits.
• You look up a few thousand emails a month from LinkedIn URLs: Prospeo, on one or two seats.
• You need a live profile fetch of one named person: keep ScrapIn or Reverse Contact, or use Crustdata.

Verdict

LeadOcean wins for API and agent buyers who need contact data at volume. It has a flat price, emails and phones in one plan, and an MCP server that returns records. It is a monthly-refreshed database, not a live fetch, so keep ScrapIn or add Crustdata when a profile must be fetched as it stands today. BlitzAPI is the flat-price pick with job postings. People Data Labs wins for dataset size and licences, Crustdata for live signals, Coresignal for employee and job records and Prospeo for small teams that work from LinkedIn URLs. Start on the free plan and run the same lookups you run on ScrapIn.

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