Lusha vs UpLead: which is right for you?
Features, pricing and fit, compared from a cold calling point of view. Not affiliated with either tool.
Lusha and UpLead are both B2B contact databases that sell phone numbers and emails for credits, and both publish most of their prices. Lusha charges separate credit amounts for emails and phones and has a free plan. UpLead sells monthly credit plans with a short trial. This page sets out what each vendor says on its own site, and where the pages we read say little.
- From
- Credits
- $99 a month ($74 a month billed annually)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Yes
The short answer
Here is who each of Lusha and UpLead suits best, from what each vendor says on its own site.
- You want a permanent free plan to test the data, since Lusha lists 40 credits a month at no cost.
- You want to see the cost of a phone number up front, since Lusha's pricing page puts a phone reveal at 5 credits and an email at 1.
- You hand contacts to calling and engagement tools, since Lusha's integrations page lists Nooks, Outreach, Salesloft, Clay and Gong, plus an API and MCP.
- You want to filter a database before spending anything, since UpLead lists more than 50 search filters.
- You prefer a one-user monthly plan with a stated credit allowance, such as Essentials at 170 credits or Plus at 400.
- You want emails checked when you search and again when you export, which UpLead's site describes.
Side by side
| FEATURE | Lusha | UpLead |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Startups, SMBs | Not listed |
| Starting price | Credits | $99 a month ($74 a month billed annually) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Credits | Credits |
| Works with | Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, monday CRM | Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive |
Key features
- Reveal credits for emails and phones
- Direct dial database
- Buying signals
- Chrome extension, API and MCP
- CSV export
- Prospector search
- Mobile and direct dials
- Email verification
- Chrome extension
- API
Pricing
Free plan with 40 credits a month. Paid plans are Starter ($49.90 a month for 400 credits), Professional ($69.90 for 600) and Premium ($399.90 for 3,400), as listed monthly. Billed yearly, the page shows them as $37.45, $52.45 and $299.95 a month. An email reveal costs 1 credit and a phone reveal costs 5 credits.
See Lusha pricingCredit-based plans: Essentials at $99 a month (170 credits) and Plus at $199 a month (400 credits), or $74 and $149 a month billed annually. Professional is annual only and priced by talking to sales.
See UpLead pricingWhere each fits in your calling
Lusha and UpLead sit at the same step of a calling day, so most teams choose one rather than both.
- STEP 1Find the numberBuild the list and fill in mobilesLushaUpLead
- STEP 2See who will pick upCheck the list before you dial
Will This Person Answer - STEP 3DialCall the high chance contacts
- STEP 4Log the callRecord the outcome and follow up
Frequently asked questions
Both sell contact data for credits. Lusha prices a phone reveal at 5 credits and an email at 1, with a free plan of 40 credits a month. UpLead sells Essentials and Plus plans with a set number of credits a month and a 7-day trial. Neither page says how likely a number is to be answered.
It depends on how many phone numbers you need. Lusha's Starter is $49.90 a month for 400 credits, and at 5 credits a phone that is 80 numbers. UpLead's Essentials is $99 a month for 170 credits, and the pages we read do not say how many credits a phone number takes. Ask UpLead before comparing.
Yes, in different ways. Lusha lists a Free plan with 40 credits a month, which does not expire into a paid plan. UpLead lists a 7-day free trial for one user with 5 credits, which is enough to test a handful of contacts.
Mostly. Lusha lists Free, Starter, Professional and Premium prices. UpLead lists Essentials at $99 and Plus at $199 a month, but Professional is annual only and its price is not published, and buyer intent data and full API access sit on that plan.
Both say they supply phone numbers. UpLead's site names mobile and direct dial numbers. Lusha's site names direct dials, and its CSV export has Phone 1 and Phone 2 columns with a phone type. Check a sample from each before you buy a large list.
Lusha's export guide says only revealed contacts appear in a CSV, and a search export is limited to 150 contacts at a time. We did not find an export limit on the UpLead pages we read, so confirm it with UpLead if you export big lists.
Lusha lists a long set including Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Outreach, Salesloft, Nooks, Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n and Gong. UpLead's Chrome extension page names Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive, followed by and more. Neither is a dialer.
Both do. Lusha offers an API and MCP. UpLead's API covers company enrichment, person enrichment, a combined lookup and a prospector endpoint, at one credit per result, though full API access is on the unpriced Professional plan.
No, neither has a native link. You export the contacts as a CSV, check the phone column, then load the High chance contacts into your dialer. US phone numbers only, and the first 250 contacts are free with no card required.
Keep them out of the dial list. A paid reveal or credit tells you a number exists, not that it reaches a person. Send Bad data contacts to email or LinkedIn, call High chance first, and use multi-channel steps for Low chance.
Know who’ll answer
before you call.
Ask your AI tool who on your list will pick up. Every contact comes back High chance, Low chance or Bad data, with the best way to reach them.
No card required. US phone numbers only.