Clearbit vs ContactOut: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison
Compare Clearbit and ContactOut side by side. See pricing, features, and integrations to choose the right data enrichment tool for your needs.
ContactOut publishes a free tier, an Email plan at $99 a month or $49 billed annually, and Email + Phone at $199 or $99 annually, each capped on exports and limited to one user per company. Clearbit publishes no price on any surface since joining HubSpot.
Key takeaways
- Clearbit's own site carries a Clearbit has joined HubSpot notice and publishes no price, so the ladder in the table is historical rather than purchasable.
- ContactOut's widely quoted $49 and $99 are the annual rates; the monthly list prices on its own page are $99 and $199.
- ContactOut publishes 300 exports a month on the Email plan and 600 on Email + Phone, which usually binds before the price does.
- Every ContactOut self-serve tier carries a 1 user per company limit, so a second prospector means a Team conversation rather than a second subscription.
Reviewed and updated September 1, 2026
Clearbit vs ContactOut: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison
One of these two products cannot be bought. Clearbit's site answers with a notice saying Clearbit has joined HubSpot and publishes no price anywhere, so the practical question on this page is not which to choose but what ContactOut costs and whether its export limits fit the work.
The Short Answer
ContactOut is the only live subscription of the two. Its pricing page publishes a free tier with 5 emails a day, an Email plan at $49 a month or $39 billed annually, and Email + Phone at $99 a month or $79 billed annually.
Clearbit's data capability still exists, inside HubSpot, and is bought as part of HubSpot rather than on its own.
So the real comparison is between a standalone contact finder priced on exports and an enrichment layer bundled into a CRM platform. Those are different purchases with different budget owners, and a team weighing them is usually really deciding whether to consolidate on HubSpot.
Where They Actually Differ
ContactOut is a finder. Its centre of gravity is a browser extension over LinkedIn and a search portal, and the meter that matters is exports: 300 a month on the Email plan and 600 on Email + Phone.
Clearbit was an enrichment API. The job was taking a record you already had and filling in the firmographic and technographic fields around it, in real time, usually inside a form or a routing rule.
Those two jobs are easy to confuse and expensive to get wrong. Enrichment assumes a record exists; finding assumes it does not. A team that needs both is looking at two line items, and the fact that one of them is now inside HubSpot changes who signs for it rather than whether it is needed.
Pricing Comparison
$39 a month billed annually
$79 a month billed annually
5 emails and 5 phones a day
Clearbit Pricing (standalone product retired)
Clearbit was acquired by HubSpot and no longer sells standalone plans. As of mid-2026, clearbit.com/pricing redirects to the Clearbit homepage, which states that Clearbit has joined HubSpot, and the data capability now ships inside HubSpot's Breeze Intelligence rather than as a separate subscription. The tiers below were Clearbit's last published standalone ladder, recorded February 2026, and are listed for historical reference only. There is no current purchase path for them.
Teams now weighing Clearbit against a CRM instead of another enrichment tool can see how the two categories complement each other in this comparison with a sales CRM.
| Plan (retired) | Last published price | Contacts | Emails |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $45/mo | 100 credits/month | N/A |
| Business | $1667/mo | Custom | N/A |
| Enterprise | Contact Sales | Custom | N/A |
Source: Clearbit
ContactOut Pricing (as of mid-2026)
| Plan | Price | Contacts | Emails |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 emails and 5 phones per day | 5 emails / day |
| $49/mo, or $39/mo billed annually | 300 exports / month | Unlimited emails | |
| Email + Phone | $99/mo, or $79/mo billed annually | 600 exports / month | Unlimited emails |
Source: ContactOut Pricing
What The Ladders Actually Say
The ContactOut figures in the table above are the month-to-month rates. Its page publishes $49 a month for the Email plan with $39 a month billed annually beside it, and $99 a month for Email + Phone with $79 billed annually. The $99 and $199 the page strikes through are limited-time list prices rather than payable rates.
The other line that changes a purchase is the seat rule. ContactOut's self-serve tiers each carry a 1 user per company limit, so a second person needs the Team plan rather than a second subscription.
Clearbit has no live ladder to compare. Its own site carries a Clearbit has joined HubSpot notice and describes the data rather than a subscription, and the tiers in the table above are its last published standalone ones, recorded February 2026 and kept for reference only.
Working Out What You Would Pay
A list of 900 contacts to build in a month, one person doing it. Invented shape, used to show which ContactOut meter binds. Every number below that is not a published price is invented.
On the Email plan, 900 exports is past the published 300 a month, so the work either spans three months or moves to a higher tier. At $39 a month billed annually that is $468 for the year, and the export cap rather than the price is what decides.
On Email + Phone at $79 billed annually, the cap is 600 exports a month, which still does not cover 900 in one month. The honest reading is that self-serve ContactOut is sized for steady prospecting rather than for building a list in a burst.
No Clearbit arithmetic is offered, because there is no price to work with. Anybody modelling Clearbit today is really modelling a HubSpot line item, and that number comes from a HubSpot quote rather than from any published page.
Feature Overlap, Honestly
The chart below claimed each column held capabilities the other vendor lacked. Both products enrich contact records, so at least one entry sat on both sides under different words. The columns now record what each vendor publishes, which is the only claim available when one of the two no longer sells anything.
- Browser extension for LinkedIn
- Search portal
- Email campaigns
- AI email writer
- List builder
- CSV export
- 700 million+ profiles on the Team tier
- Global data coverage
- Real-time lead scoring and routing
- IP intelligence for visitor identification
- Dynamic form shortening
- Corporate hierarchy mapping
- Industry categorization
- Buyer intent signals
What Clearbit Lists
The export caps are the entries to plan around rather than the profile count. ContactOut publishes 300 exports a month on Email and 600 on Email + Phone, and an export is what turns a found contact into something usable outside the browser.
The 1 user per company limit on the self-serve tiers is the other constraint that surprises teams. Two people prospecting means the Team tier, and the Team tier is quoted rather than published, which is a different procurement conversation.
What ContactOut Lists
Clearbit's list describes an enrichment platform rather than a finder: corporate hierarchy mapping, industry categorization, IP intelligence and form shortening are all things done to a record that already exists.
Dynamic form shortening is the entry that best explains what Clearbit was for. Asking a website visitor for two fields instead of seven, and filling the rest from the domain, is a conversion feature rather than a prospecting one, and nothing on ContactOut's list attempts it.
Integrations
ContactOut publishes Salesforce, HubSpot, Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn, Zapier, Gmail and Outlook. The Greenhouse, Lever and Bullhorn entries give away that recruiting is a major use case, which is worth knowing when judging how its data is sourced and which fields are best maintained.
Clearbit published HubSpot, Segment, Marketo and Salesforce. That is a marketing-operations list, consistent with a product bought to enrich inbound records rather than to find outbound ones, and the HubSpot entry now describes the whole relationship rather than one integration.
Who Should Pick Which
Pick ContactOut when the job is finding contacts and the volume is steady. The free tier is enough to test the data quality on your own ICP before paying anything, which is the only test worth running.
Pick HubSpot's own enrichment when records already exist and the gaps are firmographic. That is what Clearbit became, and buying it means buying HubSpot.
Pick neither on a headline profile count. ContactOut advertises 700 million or more profiles on its Team tier, and a count says nothing about coverage of the three hundred companies you actually care about. Test on a sample of your own list.
- Yes: The contacts do not exist in any system yet
- No: Records exist and firmographic fields are missing
- Depends: Under 300 exports a month is enough
- No: More than one person needs a seat
- No: The company is standardising on HubSpot
- Depends: Phone numbers are needed as well as email
Where Each One Sits In A Cold Outbound Stack
In a cold outbound stack this is the data layer, which sits before the sending layer and shapes what happens after it. A found address that does not verify is a bounce, and bounces damage the sending domains rather than the data vendor.
ContactOut belongs at the top of that layer, building the list. Enrichment belongs beside it, filling in what the list needs for targeting and personalisation.
RevenueFlow campaigns send one message per campaign, with no bumps and no thread replies, which puts an unusual weight on data quality. One message means one chance, so an address that bounces or a company field that is wrong costs the whole contact rather than one touch in a sequence. Verify before sending, whatever the finder claims about accuracy.
Switching Between Them
There is no migration to run here, because Clearbit is not a subscription anybody is currently on. Teams that used it are already inside HubSpot or have already moved.
Coming to ContactOut from any other finder, the thing to check first is export limits rather than database size. A tool with a bigger database and a smaller export allowance produces fewer usable contacts, and the published caps are 300 and 600 a month on the self-serve tiers.
The seat rule is the second check. One user per company on self-serve means a second prospector is a Team conversation, and that is worth establishing before the annual plan is paid for.
Getting Started
- Decide whether you are finding contacts or enriching existing records
- Count the exports you need a month, since that is ContactOut's real meter
- Count the people who need a seat, because self-serve allows one per company
- Test the free tier against thirty companies from your own ICP
- Verify every address before sending, whatever the vendor claims
- Price the annual rate rather than the monthly one, since they differ by half
The Bottom Line
ContactOut is a live product with published prices, published export caps and a free tier good enough to test the data on. Clearbit is a capability inside HubSpot and has no standalone price at all.
If the work is building lists, this comparison resolves to ContactOut and a question about export volume. If the work is enriching records that already exist, the real conversation is with HubSpot rather than with either name in this title.
Related Reading
- Best Clearbit Alternatives in 2026
- Best ContactOut Alternatives in 2026
- Clearbit Enrichment: What Replaced It
- Waterfall Enrichment: Finding Addresses That Actually Verify
- Cold Email Bounce Rate Benchmarks
If you would rather have the list built and the outbound run for you, RevenueFlow books qualified meetings on a pay-per-meeting basis and publishes client results.
Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.
Frequently asked questions.
Frequently asked questions- Can I still buy Clearbit on its own?
- No. Both clearbit.com and clearbit.com/platform answer with a Clearbit has joined HubSpot notice and carry no pricing at all. The data capability continues inside HubSpot, so budgeting for it today means budgeting for a HubSpot line item rather than a standalone subscription.
- What does ContactOut actually cost?
- Its pricing page publishes the Email plan at $99 a month, or $49 a month billed annually, and Email + Phone at $199 a month, or $99 billed annually. There is also a free tier carrying 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day, which is enough to test data quality on a sample.
- How many contacts can I export?
- 300 a month on the Email plan and 600 a month on Email + Phone, both published on ContactOut's own pricing page. That cap matters more than the database size for anybody building lists, because an export is what makes a found contact usable outside the browser extension.
- Is a bigger database better?
- Not on its own. ContactOut advertises 700 million or more profiles on its Team tier, and coverage of your specific ICP is what determines whether that helps. Test thirty companies you care about on the free tier before paying, and verify every address before it is mailed.
About the author.
Tim Carden is CMO / CTO at RevenueFlow, which builds and operates outbound revenue engines for B2B companies. Studied at McGill University.
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