Lead411 competitors in 2026: 10 alternatives for direct dials and intent

The main Lead411 competitors are UpLead, Apollo.io, Lusha, RocketReach, LeadIQ, ZoomInfo, Cognism, SalesIntel, Seamless.AI and Scalelist. Six of them publish a price you can pay today. Four make you ask for a quote.

Every list that ranks on Google for this search was written by a company selling a rival. We read the Cognism, ZoomInfo and UpLead lists on 16 October 2026, and each one puts its own product at number 1. Lead411’s own list of alternatives, also on page one, is dated 2022.

This page gives all ten the same fields, from their own pricing pages: price model and entry price, contract terms, direct dials, email verification and intent signals. We make Scalelist. It is listed last, and its entry says where it loses.

Lead411 competitors compared at a glance

Lead411 is the cheapest of the published prices per record, and its intent data comes only with an annual plan. Every alternative trades one of those two things for something else.

Tool	Price model and entry price	Direct dials	Intent signals	Contract terms
Lead411	Exports, 49 USD/mo for 1,000	Included in every plan	Annual plans only	Monthly cancellable, annual via support
UpLead	Credits, 99 USD/mo for 170	In the same credit	Professional, annual only	Monthly, no contract
Apollo.io	Per seat, 65 USD/mo, 2,500 credits	8 credits each	Organization, annual, 3 seats	Monthly or annual
Lusha	Credits, 49.90 USD/mo for 400	5 credits each	From Starter, 5 topics	Cancel any time
RocketReach	Lookups, 99 USD/mo for 250 with phones	Pro and Ultimate	Ultimate	No commitment
LeadIQ	Credits, 20 USD/mo for 200	10 credits each	Not published	Pro monthly or annual
ZoomInfo	Quote only	Paid plans	Paid plans, add-on	Annual, seat minimum
Cognism	Quote only	Phone-verified mobiles	Pro	Quoted, 5 seats included
SalesIntel	Quote only	Yes, 54M+ mobiles claimed	Yes, on a quote	Quoted
Seamless.AI	Quote only	In the same credit	Add-on	Annual credit packages
Scalelist	Credits, 29 USD/mo for 500	20 credits per mobile found	Not offered	Monthly, no annual commit

Which Lead411 competitor is the best alternative?

The best Lead411 alternative depends on what made you look: the intent data that only comes on an annual plan, the export caps, or numbers that do not connect. Each of those points to a different tool.

If you want intent signals without an annual plan, Lusha lists five buying intent topics on its 49.90 USD monthly Starter plan. If you mostly email and want the sequencer in the same tool, Apollo.io is the simpler buy.

If your reps live on the phone and want to pay only for numbers that come back, Scalelist charges 20 credits per mobile found and nothing on a miss. If you want one annual contract covering data, intent and services, ZoomInfo, Cognism and SalesIntel all sell that, on a quote.

How much does Lead411 cost?

Lead411 costs 49 USD a month for 1,000 exports on its Spark plan, or 490 USD a year for 12,000 exports with buyer intent data included. That is what its pricing page showed when we rendered it on 16 October 2026.

• Pilot Light trial: 0 USD for 7 days, 50 exports, direct phone numbers included.
• Spark: 49 USD a month for 1,000 exports, or 490 USD a year for 12,000. Intent comes only with the annual version.
• Ignite: “Starting At” 150 USD a month or 1,500 USD a year. Adds API access. Intent is an add-on on the annual plan. Lead411’s FAQ says Ignite “pricing varies based on team size and features”.
• Blaze: “Let’s Chat”. Unlimited exports a year, API access, intent optional. Annual only.

Two things on that page change the math in Lead411’s favor. Every plan says “Direct Phone Numbers Included”, so a phone number does not cost extra. And “All unused exports rollover to your next billing cycle”, so a quiet month is not wasted.

Why people look for Lead411 alternatives

Most teams look for Lead411 alternatives because of how the plans are cut, not because the price is high. The entry plan is cheap, and the features people buy Lead411 for sit on other plans.

• Intent needs an annual commitment. The pricing page says it in one line: “Buyer Intent and Unlimited Data is available on Annual Subscriptions.”
• Exports are capped. Spark monthly stops at 1,000 exports. Lead411’s homepage FAQ says it “offers unlimited lead searches and exports on most plans”, while the pricing page shows unlimited exports only on Blaze.
• API access starts at Ignite. If you want to pull data into your own tools, the entry price becomes at least 150 USD a month, then quoted.
• The miss rule is not published. Lead411 does not say whether an export that comes back without a phone number still counts against the 1,000.
• Cancelling annual plans is a conversation. “You can cancel a monthly plan at any time. For annual plans, reach out to the support team to review your options.”

To be fair to Lead411: no other published price on this page gets you a contact with an email and a direct dial for about 5 cents. Its emails are “verified using SMTP, human-verified, and email open validation” and “re-verified every 3-6 months”. Leaving costs you that.

How we picked these Lead411 alternatives

We started from the tools named on the lists that rank for this search, then kept the ones that sell the same thing Lead411 sells: a named person at a US company with a work email and a phone number.

• Same job: a verified work email plus a direct dial or mobile number. Company-only data and pure intent providers are out.
• Same fields: what it is, price model and entry price, contract terms, direct dials, email verification, intent signals, best for, where it falls short. No vendor gets a field it happens to win on.
• Published price only: every price was read from the vendor’s own pricing page in a browser. Quote only means “not published”, and we say so.
• Same unit for cost: one contact where the email and the phone number both come back, on the cheapest paid plan that includes phones, billed monthly.
• Evidence labeled: coverage numbers come only from our own published benchmark, and only for the tools that were in it. Everything else is a vendor claim and is written as one.

The 10 best Lead411 alternatives in 2026

Tools 1 to 5 publish a self-serve price. Tools 6 to 9 are sold on a quote. Tool 10 is ours.

1. UpLead

• What it is: UpLead is a B2B contact database where one credit unlocks one contact, with the email and the mobile direct dial together.
• Price model and entry price: Credits. Essentials is 99 USD a month for 170 credits and one user. Plus is 199 USD for 400. Extra credits cost 0.60 USD on Essentials.
• Contract terms: “Our monthly plans have no contract or long-term commitment. Our Professional plan is annual.”
• Direct dials: Yes. “A credit unlocks a contact for download or CRM export and gives you access to their email and mobile direct dial.”
• Email verification: Real-time verification at download, with AI risk scoring. Over the API, a credit is deducted only when the email comes back “Valid” or “Accept All”.
• Intent signals: Professional plan only, which is annual billing only.
• Best for: Small teams that want the closest thing to Lead411’s model, one unit of billing with both data points in it, and no annual plan.
• Where it falls short: About 12 times Lead411’s price per contact, one seat on the self-serve plans, and full API access and CRM sync only on Professional.
• Read next: UpLead competitors compared

2. Apollo.io

• What it is: Apollo.io pairs a B2B contact database with sequencing, a dialer and deal tools, sold per seat with a credit allowance.
• Price model and entry price: Per seat plus credits. Basic is 65 USD per seat a month with 2,500 credits, or 49 USD billed annually. A free plan gives 75 credits per seat a month.
• Contract terms: Monthly or annual on Basic and Professional. “Refunds will not be processed for downgrades mid-term.”
• Direct dials: Yes, at 8 credits per phone number against 1 credit for an email. Company switchboard numbers are free.
• Email verification: A seven-step process. If you send to an Apollo verified email from Apollo within 30 days of requesting it and it bounces, the credits come back.
• Intent signals: The Organization plan lists 12 intent topics, at 119 USD per seat a month billed annually, with a 3-seat minimum.
• Best for: Teams that mostly email, call selectively and want data and sequences on one invoice.
• Where it falls short: “Apollo doesn’t refund any credits for mobile numbers”, seats add up as the team grows, and in our benchmark it found a phone number for 50% of a North America list.
• Read next: Apollo.io alternatives

3. Lusha

• What it is: Lusha is a self-serve contact data platform with a web app, a browser extension and an API, sold on credit plans.
• Price model and entry price: Credits. Starter is 49.90 USD a month for 400 credits, or 37.45 USD a month billed yearly. A free plan gives 40 credits a month.
• Contract terms: “Yes, you can cancel your plan at any time!” Teams above 5 users go through sales.
• Direct dials: Yes, at 5 credits per phone number, up to 6 credits for the email and phone together. Lusha claims “117M+ direct dials”.
• Email verification: Plans list “Verified emails & phones”. The status labels a user sees are not published.
• Intent signals: Yes, 5 buying intent topics from the Starter plan, monthly or yearly.
• Best for: Reps who want intent signals and direct dials month to month, which is exactly the gap in Lead411’s monthly plans.
• Where it falls short: API requests cost at least 1 credit “even if no results are returned”, CSV export costs 1 credit per 25 rows, and unused annual credits reset at the end of the cycle.
• Read next: Lusha alternatives

4. RocketReach

• What it is: RocketReach is a self-serve contact lookup tool for individuals and small teams, with phone numbers on its two upper plans.
• Price model and entry price: Lookups. Pro, the first plan with phones, is 99 USD a month for 250 lookups, or 69 USD a month billed annually with 3,600 exports a year. Five lookups are free to start.
• Contract terms: “No commitment, cancel anytime.” Cancellation takes effect at the next term.
• Direct dials: Yes on Pro and Ultimate, “Verified mobile & direct phone numbers”. Essentials is email only.
• Email verification: “Verified on demand and in real time”, and the lookup is refunded when nothing is verified: “A lookup is used if we find and verify email or phone, otherwise it is refunded.”
• Intent signals: Ultimate only, at 209 USD a month or 142 USD a month billed annually.
• Best for: One rep who needs a few dozen numbers a week and wants misses refunded.
• Where it falls short: Phones need the 99 USD plan, every plan caps sending at 500 emails a day, and pooled team credits need a custom plan starting at 6,000 USD a year.
• Read next: RocketReach alternatives

5. LeadIQ

• What it is: LeadIQ is a prospecting tool for sales development teams that captures contacts into the CRM and the sequencer from one credit pool.
• Price model and entry price: Credits. Pro starts at 20 USD a month for 200 credits, or 15 USD a month billed annually for 2,400 a year, with up to 5 users. A free plan gives 1 user 50 credits.
• Contract terms: Pro is monthly or annual. Enterprise is annual only.
• Direct dials: Yes. “Email = 1 Credit”, “Phone number = 10 Credits”.
• Email verification: Multi-layer verification, with emails labeled “Verified” or “Verified-Likely”.
• Intent signals: Not published.
• Best for: SDR teams that want the cheapest way in and buy far more emails than phone numbers.
• Where it falls short: A phone number costs ten times an email, two plans list “Limited Access” to database search, and over its MCP server a returned work email is charged “whatever its verification status”.
• Read next: LeadIQ alternatives

6. ZoomInfo

• What it is: ZoomInfo is the enterprise B2B data platform, selling contacts, companies and intent on custom-quoted contracts, with a free ZoomInfo Lite tier.
• Price model and entry price: Quote only. ZoomInfo Lite gives 10 credits a month. Vendr, a software buying marketplace, reports a median contract of 33,500 USD a year. That is third-party data.
• Contract terms: “Most paid plans are billed annually upfront. Monthly billing is not standard.” Paid plans “include a minimum number of seats”.
• Direct dials: Yes, on paid plans. Its data page claims “135M+ Direct Dial Numbers”.
• Email verification: A “multi-source system combining machine learning, third-party partners, and 300+ human researchers”. Status labels are not published.
• Intent signals: Paid plans unlock “buyer intent signals”, which ZoomInfo’s own pricing article lists as an add-on to base plans.
• Best for: Larger teams that want contacts, companies and intent under one annual contract.
• Where it falls short: Credits expire at the end of the term, two users exporting the same record are charged twice, and “Renewal pricing can increase from the initial contract rate”.
• Read next: ZoomInfo competitors and alternatives

7. Cognism

• What it is: Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform built around phone-verified mobile numbers, sold as Standard and Pro packages.
• Price model and entry price: Quote only. “1 credit = 1 revealed contact”, and the same credits work across the platform, enrichment and the API.
• Contract terms: Not published. Both packages list “5 seats included”.
• Direct dials: Yes. Phone-verified mobiles are “premium records which go through additional layers of verification checks”. On-demand mobile verification is a Pro feature.
• Email verification: “Cognism’s AI scans metadata to verify email addresses and mobile numbers.” Status labels are not published.
• Intent signals: Pro, using “Bombora’s Company Surge” data, with up to 12 topics.
• Best for: Teams that call into Europe as well as the US and want numbers checked before a rep dials them.
• Where it falls short: No public price, no single-seat plan, and a revealed contact costs a credit again after a job change.
• Read next: Cognism alternatives

8. SalesIntel

• What it is: SalesIntel sells human-verified B2B contact data, including direct dials, with buying signals, advertising and sequencing around it, on quoted contracts.
• Price model and entry price: Not published. Its pricing page returned 403 Forbidden to our browser on 14 October 2026. Vendr reports a median buyer paying 17,599 USD a year, which is third-party data.
• Contract terms: Quoted. Vendr says contracts are “typically sold as 12-month agreements” with “Per-user licensing”.
• Direct dials: Yes. Its homepage claims “54M+ Verified Mobile Numbers”.
• Email verification: Three published tiers: human verified records rechecked by researchers every 90 days, email verified records rechecked every 6 months, and machine verified records.
• Intent signals: Yes, “SalesIntel PredictiveIntel + Bombora” across “60,000+ Intent Topics”.
• Best for: US teams that want a research team to go and find people nobody has listed yet.
• Where it falls short: No public price, and its Research on Demand queue takes 1 day for up to 50 contacts and 11 days for 1,001 to 2,000.
• Read next: SalesIntel competitors

9. Seamless.AI

• What it is: Seamless.AI researches contacts in real time and returns emails, cell phones and direct dials, sold as annual credit packages.
• Price model and entry price: Quote only. A free license gives 50 credits that do not replenish. One credit researches one contact, phone numbers included.
• Contract terms: Paid plans are “Annual Credit Packages”. A monthly paid option is not published.
• Direct dials: Yes. Its pricing lists “Cell Phones”, and the homepage claims “448M+ phone numbers”.
• Email verification: “Real-time verified data”, and the credit is refunded automatically for an email that fails.
• Intent signals: Buyer Intent is listed as an add-on.
• Best for: Teams that prefer one large annual credit pool with the email and the phone returned together.
• Where it falls short: No public price, intent and enrichment cost extra, and its pricing FAQ and help center disagree on whether Pro credits are annual or monthly.
• Read next: Seamless.AI alternatives

10. Scalelist

• What it is: Scalelist is an AI Lead Finder. You describe the people you want in one plain-English sentence, see how many match before you spend anything, then get them with verified work emails and mobile numbers. The same credits work over the API and the Scalelist MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.
• Price model and entry price: Credits, charged only on success. 29 USD a month for 500 credits up to 649 USD for 20,000, with custom plans above that. 1 credit per lead found, 1 per email found, 20 per mobile found. New accounts get 20 free credits, no credit card required.
• Contract terms: No seats and no annual contract. Yearly billing gives 2 months free. Unused credits roll over up to 2x the monthly allocation while you are subscribed.
• Direct dials: Mobile numbers, at 20 credits each, only when one is found.
• Email verification: Every email is verified before it is returned and labeled Valid or Risky. Not found costs nothing.
• Intent signals: Not offered. Scalelist does not sell intent data.
• Best for: Teams that call as much as they email and want the bill to follow results, not seats.
• Where it falls short: At the entry plan it is the dearest per contact on this page, about 1.28 USD against 5 cents on Lead411. It has no intent data, no sequencer and no dialer, and HubSpot is the only native CRM.

Which Lead411 alternatives include intent data?

Eight of the ten alternatives sell intent signals, and only two put them on a plan you can buy month to month: Lusha from its Starter plan and RocketReach on Ultimate. Everywhere else, intent means an annual plan, a quote or an add-on.

If intent is the reason you bought Lead411, compare like with like. Lead411’s annual Spark plan at 490 USD a year includes it. Lusha’s Starter plan billed yearly is 37.45 USD a month and lists 5 intent topics. Apollo.io asks for its Organization plan, with 3 seats on an annual contract. For what intent signals are and how teams use them, see our guide to B2B intent data.

What one contact costs on each Lead411 alternative

One US contact with a verified email and a direct dial costs about 5 cents on Lead411 and between 23 cents and 1.28 USD on the other published prices. Four tools do not publish a price at all.

The unit is the cheapest paid plan that includes phone numbers, billed monthly, at list price, counted only when both the email and the number come back. On Lead411, UpLead and RocketReach, one export or lookup carries both. On Apollo.io, Lusha, LeadIQ and Scalelist, the phone number costs extra credits.

The price per number you pay for is not the price per number you get. A cheap credit spent on a contact with no mobile is still spent, unless the vendor refunds it. Ask every vendor on your shortlist what a miss costs before you compare these bars.

Why Scalelist fits teams that call, and when it does not

Scalelist is the pay-for-what-is-found option. The credit price is fixed by the plan, and nothing is charged when there is no email or number to return.

That matters because coverage decides how many numbers you actually dial. We ran the same founder list through eight providers in four regions and published the raw data in our B2B data provider benchmark. Apollo.io is the only other tool on this page that was in it.

On the North America list, Scalelist found an email for 92% and a phone number for 87%. Apollo.io found an email for 77% and a phone number for 50%. It is our own test, so run your own before you sign anything. Our method for testing a data provider runs the same 100 contacts through every tool and counts connected calls, not rows.

Finding people works differently too. You do not set search criteria. You write one sentence, and the AI Lead Finder shows what it understood and how many people match, for free, before you reveal anyone.

Where Scalelist is not the right pick: if intent signals drive your list, Lead411, Lusha and the quoted platforms sell them and we do not. If you mostly need emails in volume, Lead411 is cheaper per record. If you want data, sequences and a dialer on one invoice, Apollo.io is the simpler buy.

Calling US mobile numbers comes with rules that apply to you, not to your data vendor. We cover them in B2B cold calling laws. This page is not legal advice.

How to choose a Lead411 alternative

Choose by the thing that made you leave. The feature lists on these ten tools look alike. The billing rules do not.

1. Count last quarter’s exports. Contacts actually exported, not searches. That number sizes the plan and makes every quote comparable.
2. Decide if intent is a must. If yes, your real choice is an annual plan (Lead411, Apollo.io, UpLead, ZoomInfo) or a monthly one at Lusha or RocketReach Ultimate.
3. Split emails from phone numbers. Lead411, UpLead and RocketReach bundle the two. Apollo.io charges 8 credits for a phone, Lusha 5, LeadIQ 10 and Scalelist 20.
4. Ask what a miss costs. RocketReach refunds the lookup, Scalelist charges nothing, UpLead’s API skips the credit for a bad email, and Lusha’s API takes a credit even with no result. Lead411 does not publish its rule.
5. Ask what happens to unused credits. Lead411 rolls exports over, Scalelist rolls over up to 2x the monthly allocation, Lusha resets annual credits, and ZoomInfo credits expire with the term.
6. Price seats apart from data. Apollo.io and ZoomInfo charge per seat and Cognism packages five. The rest let one person buy.
7. Run the same 100 contacts through your top two. Count calls that connect. The head-to-head pages on the Scalelist blog cover most pairs.

If what you actually need is company records and credit data rather than people to call, that is a different category. Our page on Dun and Bradstreet competitors covers it.

The full plan ladder is on the Scalelist pricing page.

FAQ

Who are Lead411’s main competitors?

Lead411’s main competitors are UpLead, Apollo.io, Lusha, RocketReach and LeadIQ, which publish self-serve prices, and ZoomInfo, Cognism, SalesIntel and Seamless.AI, which sell on a quote. Scalelist is the pay-per-found option for teams that call. UpLead is the closest match to Lead411’s model, because one credit returns the email and the mobile direct dial together.

How much does a subscription to Lead411 cost?

A Lead411 subscription starts at 49 USD a month for 1,000 exports on the Spark plan, or 490 USD a year for 12,000 exports with buyer intent data. Ignite starts at 150 USD a month or 1,500 USD a year and adds API access. Blaze, with unlimited exports, is quoted. There is a 7-day trial with 50 exports. Prices are from Lead411’s pricing page on 16 October 2026.

Is Lead411 good?

Yes, for a small US outbound team that wants cheap records. Lead411 includes direct phone numbers on every plan, rolls unused exports over, and costs about 5 cents per contact on Spark. The limits are structural: intent data only on annual plans, a 1,000-export cap on monthly Spark, API access from Ignite, and no published rule on whether an export without a phone still counts.

What is the cheapest Lead411 alternative?

Per contact, none of the published prices beats Lead411 itself at about 5 cents. Among the alternatives, Apollo.io is cheapest at about 23 cents for an email plus a phone on Basic billed monthly. LeadIQ has the lowest entry price at 20 USD a month. Scalelist starts at 29 USD a month and charges nothing when no email or mobile is found.

Which Lead411 competitors include intent data?

Eight of the ten do. Lusha lists 5 intent topics from its Starter plan, monthly or yearly. RocketReach includes intent on Ultimate. Apollo.io lists 12 topics on its annual Organization plan, UpLead on annual Professional, Cognism on Pro, ZoomInfo and Seamless.AI as add-ons, and SalesIntel on a quote. LeadIQ does not publish intent pricing, and Scalelist does not sell intent data.

What is the best B2B contact database right now?

There is no single best B2B contact database, and any vendor that names one is naming itself. For cheap US records with intent on an annual plan, Lead411. For email-led teams with a sequencer, Apollo.io. For enterprise contracts with intent, ZoomInfo or Cognism. For teams that call and want to pay only for mobiles found, Scalelist. Test two of them on your own accounts.

Can Scalelist replace Lead411?

For contacts with verified emails and mobile numbers, yes. Scalelist, an AI Lead Finder, charges 1 credit per lead, 1 per email and 20 per mobile, only when found, with no seats and no annual commitment, plus an API and an MCP server. It does not replace Lead411’s intent data, and on the entry plan it costs more per contact.

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