LeadIQ pricing starts at 15 USD a month billed annually for the Pro plan with 2,400 credits a year and up to 5 users, or 20 USD a month billed monthly for 200 credits, as of September 2026. Pro scales on a credit slider up to 217.69 USD a month billed annually, or 290.25 USD monthly, for 6,750 credits a month.
One email costs 1 credit and one phone number costs 10, so your phone volume decides which tier you need.
LeadIQ pricing at a glance (September 2026)
LeadIQ sells three plans: Free, Pro and Enterprise. Pro is one plan with 12 credit tiers, and annual billing is 25% off.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed annually, per month | Credits | Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 USD | 0 USD | 50 credits | 1 |
| Pro, entry tier | 20 USD | 15 USD | 200 a month (2,400 a year) | Up to 5 |
| Pro, top tier | 290.25 USD | 217.69 USD | 6,750 a month (81,000 a year) | Up to 5 |
| Enterprise | not offered (“Annual plan only”) | not published (“Contact us”) | Custom | Custom |
Every LeadIQ Pro tier
These are the 12 tiers on LeadIQ’s credit slider. The last column shows what one phone number costs on annual billing.
| Credits a month (a year) | Billed monthly | Billed annually, per month | One phone, annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 (2,400) | 20.00 USD | 15.00 USD | 0.75 USD |
| 500 (6,000) | 30.00 USD | 22.50 USD | 0.45 USD |
| 1,000 (12,000) | 50.00 USD | 37.50 USD | 0.38 USD |
| 1,500 (18,000) | 71.25 USD | 53.44 USD | 0.36 USD |
| 2,000 (24,000) | 94.00 USD | 70.50 USD | 0.35 USD |
| 2,500 (30,000) | 113.50 USD | 85.13 USD | 0.34 USD |
| 3,000 (36,000) | 135.00 USD | 101.25 USD | 0.34 USD |
| 3,500 (42,000) | 157.50 USD | 118.13 USD | 0.34 USD |
| 4,000 (48,000) | 180.00 USD | 135.00 USD | 0.34 USD |
| 4,500 (54,000) | 202.50 USD | 151.88 USD | 0.34 USD |
| 5,500 (66,000) | 236.50 USD | 177.38 USD | 0.32 USD |
| 6,750 (81,000) | 290.25 USD | 217.69 USD | 0.32 USD |
LeadIQ plans explained
LeadIQ’s plans differ in users, credits and admin features. Every plan, Free included, lists people and company search with emails and mobile numbers, the Chrome extension, CRM and webform enrichment, signals, job change tracking, the MCP integration and API access.
Free: 0 USD
Free gives 1 user 50 credits and the same feature list as Pro. Database search is listed as “Limited Access”.
- Who it fits: one rep testing the data on 5 phone numbers or 50 emails.
Pro: 15 to 217.69 USD a month billed annually
Pro shows “5 users included” at every tier, so you choose credits, not seats. Over Free, it adds up to 4 more users, more credits and LeadIQ’s Lando agent. Database search stays “Limited Access”.
- Who it fits: an SDR team of up to 5 that captures prospects while browsing and pushes them to Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft.
- Limit that matters: at 10 credits a phone, the 200-credit tier buys 20 phone numbers a month for the whole team.
Enterprise: custom quote
Enterprise is “Contact us” and “Annual plan only”. It adds custom users, full database search, AI account prospecting, file enrichment by CSV upload, Salesforce duplicate detection, custom field mappings, governance controls, team analytics and SSO.
- Who it fits: teams above 5 users, or RevOps teams that need CSV enrichment and admin controls.
How LeadIQ credits work
LeadIQ uses universal credits: one pool, shared by your team, spent across every feature. On the pricing page, an email costs 1 credit and a phone number costs 10.
- Email: 1 credit. Phone number: 10 credits. Email and phone number: 11 credits.
- Account enrichment: 3 credits per company.
- Repeat lookups: LeadIQ’s MCP docs say that if you revealed a data point in the past year, looking it up again is free.
- Misses: over MCP, “Paid tools bill for data that is actually returned”, and addresses that fail verification cost nothing. A returned work email is charged “whatever its verification status”. The GraphQL API “is billed on its own ratesheet”.
Before you compare phone data across tools, check how mobile numbers differ from direct dials.
What one LeadIQ phone number really costs
A LeadIQ phone number costs 0.32 to 0.75 USD on annual billing and 0.43 to 1.00 USD on monthly billing, at list price. The math is the tier price divided by its monthly credits, times 10.
An email costs a tenth of that: 3.2 to 7.5 cents on annual billing. So a team that mostly emails pays little for LeadIQ; a team that calls pays mostly for phones.
Worked examples: what a month of LeadIQ costs
Here is what three common workloads cost on LeadIQ at list price. Scalelist is shown under its own credit rules for reference.
Example 1: 500 emails and 100 mobiles a month. Marcus, an SDR at a logistics software company in Denver, emails 500 prospects and calls the 100 best fits.
- LeadIQ Pro: 500 + (100 x 10) = 1,500 credits: 71.25 USD monthly, or 53.44 USD a month billed annually.
- Scalelist: 500 leads (500 credits) + 500 emails (500) + 100 mobiles (2,000) = 3,000 credits, on the 5,000-credit plan at 199 USD a month.
Example 2: 300 mobiles a month to call.
- LeadIQ Pro: 300 x 10 = 3,000 credits: 135 USD monthly, or 101.25 USD a month billed annually.
- Scalelist: 300 leads + 300 mobiles = 6,300 credits, on the 10,000-credit plan at 349 USD a month.
Example 3: 8 SDRs on one account.
- LeadIQ: Pro stops at 5 users, so this is Enterprise: not published.
- Scalelist: the same credit plans, with no seats to add.
The honest read: at list price, LeadIQ is cheaper than Scalelist for both workloads, by 2 to 3 times. The trade-offs are the 5-user cap, limited database search on Pro, and how you build the list.
Hidden LeadIQ costs and contract terms
LeadIQ publishes its Pro prices, so the costs to watch are in the plan limits and billing rules. These come from its pricing page and developer docs.
- The phone rate. 10 credits a number. Size the plan in phones, not credits.
- The 5-user cap. Pro is “Up to 5 users”. A sixth user means Enterprise.
- Annual-only Enterprise. No monthly option above Pro.
- Limited database search. “Prospect via LeadiQ Database Search” is “Limited Access” on Free and Pro.
- CSV enrichment. File enrichment by CSV upload is listed under Enterprise.
- Rollover. Whether unused credits carry over is not published.
- Email status. Over MCP, a returned work email costs a credit whatever its verification status.
- API billing. The GraphQL API has its own ratesheet, not published on the pricing page.
Is LeadIQ worth it?
LeadIQ is worth it for SDR teams of up to 5 who capture prospects while browsing, push them into Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft, and mostly send email. It is a weaker fit for larger teams, heavy calling and CSV-first list building below Enterprise.
LeadIQ fits you if:
- Your team has 5 users or fewer.
- Most of your credits go to emails at 1 credit each.
- You work in Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft, which LeadIQ integrates with directly.
- You want a SOC 2 Type II audited vendor; LeadIQ says it completed that audit.
Look elsewhere if:
- You have 6 or more users and do not want an annual Enterprise contract.
- You call more than you email.
- You start from a description of your buyer or a CSV of names.
LeadIQ claims an “85 % global match-rate” on mobiles and a live dataset of “750 million+ professional profiles”. It was not part of our own provider benchmark, so test it on your own list. For LeadIQ against an enterprise database, read ZoomInfo vs LeadIQ.
Cheaper or better-fit LeadIQ alternatives
Three tools publish prices you can set against LeadIQ pricing: Scalelist for mobiles charged only when found with no seats, Apollo.io for the lowest list price per phone, and Lusha for a similar extension with seats bundled. For 500 emails and 100 mobiles a month, Apollo.io is the cheapest and LeadIQ is second.
| Tool | Entry price | Email / mobile cost | Charged on a miss | Seats and contract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalelist | 29 USD a month (500 credits) | 1 credit / 20 credits | No, only when found | Monthly or yearly, no seats |
| Apollo.io | 49 USD per seat a month, billed annually | 1 credit / 8 credits | No for Apollo’s own data | Monthly or annual, per seat |
| Lusha | 37.45 USD a month, billed yearly | 1 credit / 5 credits | Partly (API: 1 credit minimum) | Monthly or yearly; 1 to 5 seats by plan |
| LeadIQ | 15 USD a month, billed annually | 1 credit / 10 credits | No for data not returned (MCP rules) | Monthly or annual; up to 5 users on Pro |
Scalelist
- What it is: Scalelist, an AI lead finder. You describe the people you want in one sentence and get them back with verified work emails and mobile numbers.
- Pricing: 29 USD a month for 500 credits up to 649 USD for 20,000 credits, no seats, 2 months free on yearly billing, and unused credits roll over up to 2x while you are subscribed. See Scalelist plans and credits.
- Mobile numbers: 20 credits per mobile found (1.16 USD on the 500-credit plan down to 0.65 USD on the 20,000-credit plan), 1 credit per email, 0 on a miss. In our 8-provider benchmark, Scalelist found a phone number for 87% of a North American founder list.
- 500 emails + 100 mobiles a month: 199 USD.
- Best for: teams of any size that share one credit pool, and teams that work inside Claude or ChatGPT through the Scalelist MCP server.
- Where it falls short: at list price, a Scalelist mobile costs more than a LeadIQ phone number, and there are no signals or champion tracking.
Apollo.io
- What it is: a sales platform with a contact database, sequences and a dialer, sold per seat.
- Pricing: Basic is 49 USD per seat a month billed annually (65 USD monthly) with 2,500 credits per seat a month. Full breakdown: Apollo.io pricing and credits.
- Mobile numbers: 8 credits per phone number. In our benchmark, Apollo found a phone number for 50% of the North American list and 8% in APAC.
- 500 emails + 100 mobiles a month: 1,300 credits, inside one Basic seat: 49 USD a month billed annually, or 65 USD monthly.
- Best for: teams that want data, sending and a dialer in one per-seat tool.
- Where it falls short: every user needs a seat, and Apollo does not refund credits for mobile numbers.
Lusha
- What it is: a self-serve contact data tool with a browser extension, an API and an MCP server.
- Pricing: Starter is 37.45 USD a month billed yearly (49.90 USD monthly) for 400 credits a month. Full breakdown: Lusha plans and credit costs.
- Mobile numbers: 5 credits per phone number, half LeadIQ’s rate in credits.
- 500 emails + 100 mobiles a month: 1,000 credits, which needs Premium at 399.90 USD monthly or 299.95 USD a month billed yearly, with 5 seats.
- Best for: teams of up to 5 that want a self-serve extension and cheaper phones in credits.
- Where it falls short: API calls cost at least 1 credit even with no result, and plans jump from 600 to 3,400 credits a month.
Also worth pricing: FullEnrich plans and credits charges 10 credits per mobile found and costs 79.50 USD monthly for the same workload, with unlimited users. If you only need emails, see Hunter.io pricing; for quote-only enterprise data, ZoomInfo pricing. Other breakdowns in this series include ContactOut pricing.
Describe your buyer and see how many match before you spend a credit.
Get 20 credits to test itHow to buy LeadIQ smart
The right LeadIQ tier is the one your phone reveals fit into. These steps apply LeadIQ’s published rules.
- Use the 30 days first. Reveal phones for people whose numbers you already have and check them.
- Size the tier in phones. Phones a month x 10, plus emails. 100 phones and 500 emails = 1,500 credits.
- Pay annually once you know your volume. It is 25% off at every tier.
- Count your users. Five is the Pro ceiling. Plan the sixth before you sign.
- Ask about rollover and top-ups in writing. Neither is published.
- Use repeat lookups. Revealing the same data point again within a year is free over MCP, so do not re-buy old contacts.
- Test the data. Run the same 100 contacts through LeadIQ and one alternative with our data provider bake-off method. For how credit and seat models compare, see credits vs seats explained.
More vendor pricing breakdowns are on the Scalelist blog.
FAQ
How much does LeadIQ cost per month?
LeadIQ Pro costs 20 USD a month billed monthly for 200 credits, or 15 USD a month billed annually for 2,400 credits a year, as of September 2026. The top Pro tier is 290.25 USD monthly or 217.69 USD a month billed annually for 6,750 credits a month. Free is 0 USD; Enterprise is quoted.
How many credits does a phone number cost on LeadIQ?
10 credits. LeadIQ’s pricing page lists an email at 1 credit, a phone number at 10 and both together at 11. At list price, that puts one phone number at 0.32 to 1.00 USD depending on the Pro tier and whether you pay monthly or annually.
How many users does LeadIQ Pro include?
Up to 5. Every Pro tier shows “5 users included”, whatever credit volume you choose, and the users share one pool of universal credits. Teams with more than 5 users need Enterprise, which is sold on annual plans only and priced by quote.
Does LeadIQ have a free plan or trial?
Yes, both. The Free plan costs 0 USD for 1 user and 50 credits, with the Chrome extension, CRM enrichment, MCP and API access. The pricing page also says you can try any plan free for 30 days. Database search is limited on Free and Pro.
Does LeadIQ charge credits when it finds nothing?
Not over MCP, according to LeadIQ’s docs: paid tools bill for data that is actually returned, and addresses that fail verification cost nothing. A returned work email is charged whatever its verification status, and the GraphQL API has its own ratesheet. Rules for the extension are not stated separately.
Is LeadIQ cheaper on annual billing?
Yes. Annual billing is 25% off at every Pro tier: the entry tier drops from 20 to 15 USD a month and the top tier from 290.25 to 217.69 USD a month. Whether annual credits are granted upfront, and whether unused credits roll over, is not published.
Is LeadIQ pricing cheaper than Scalelist?
Yes, at list price. For 500 emails and 100 mobiles a month, LeadIQ Pro costs 71.25 USD monthly against 199 USD on Scalelist; for 300 mobiles, 135 USD against 349 USD. Scalelist has no user cap, charges only for what it finds and finds people from a one-sentence description.
