Clearbit vs Lusha: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison

Clearbit vs Lusha: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison

Lusha publishes its credit costs plainly: revealing a verified email address costs 1 credit and revealing a phone number costs 5. That ratio is the most useful number on either vendor's page, because it means a plan's headline credit allowance is worth five times less to a team that wants phone numbers than to one that wants email.

The Short Answer

Lusha is the only live subscription of the two. Its ladder runs Free with 40 credits a month, Starter at $49.90, Pro at $69.90 and Premium at $399.90, with 4,800, 7,200 and 40,800 credits a year granted upfront.

Clearbit carries no price on any of the three surfaces checked today: clearbit.com/pricing redirects to the homepage, and the homepage and clearbit.com/platform both answer with a Clearbit has joined HubSpot notice.

So the practical work on this page is credit arithmetic. Lusha's tiers are easy to compare once you decide whether the campaign needs email addresses, phone numbers, or both, and that decision changes the effective price of every tier by a factor of five.

Where They Actually Differ

Lusha is a reveal tool with a credit meter. The browser extension over LinkedIn, the CSV enrichment and the bulk reveal all draw on the same pool, and the pool is granted upfront for the year on the paid tiers rather than dripping monthly.

Clearbit was a real-time enrichment API. Records went in and fields came back, usually inside a form or a routing rule, with no human deciding which contact to reveal.

The upfront annual grant is the detail worth planning around. Lusha's own page says credits are granted upfront, so the risk is not running dry each month but spending the year's allowance in the first quarter, which is a different discipline entirely.

Pricing Comparison

$49.90Lusha Starter

4,800 credits a year, granted upfront

$69.90Lusha Pro

7,200 credits a year

$399.90Lusha Premium

40,800 credits a year

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 The tiers below were Clearbit's last published standalone ladder, recorded February 2026, and are listed for historical reference only.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.

Source: Clearbit

Lusha Pricing (as of mid-2026)

Source: Lusha Pricing

What The Ladders Actually Say

The Lusha figures in the table above are its list prices. The page currently shows discounts of 25%, 30% and 35% against them, so the numbers a visitor sees at checkout may be lower. A discount that is live today is not a price, so the list figures are what the table carries.

The credit ratio is what actually prices the plans. At 1 credit for a verified email and 5 for a phone number, Starter's 4,800 credits a year buys 4,800 email reveals or 960 phone reveals, and the tier that suits a team depends entirely on which of those two it needs.

Clearbit has no ladder to set against this. Its own site publishes a Clearbit has joined HubSpot notice and describes the data rather than a subscription, and the tiers in the table above are the last published standalone ones, recorded February 2026.

Working Out What You Would Pay

Three thousand email addresses over a year, no phone numbers. Invented volume, worked with Lusha's own published credit rules rather than with any invented rate. Every number below that is not a published price is invented.

At 1 credit per verified email, 3,000 reveals is 3,000 credits, which sits inside Starter's 4,800 a year with room to spare. Starter's list price is $49.90 a month, so the year is roughly $599 at list.

Change the requirement to 3,000 phone numbers and the same work costs 15,000 credits at 5 credits each, which is past Pro's 7,200 and into Premium's 40,800. Premium's list price is $399.90 a month, so the year is roughly $4,799 at list.

Identical contact counts, an eightfold difference in cost, decided entirely by which field is needed. That is the single most useful thing to work out before choosing a tier, and Lusha is unusually clear about it on its own page.

Feature Overlap, Honestly

The chart below claimed each column held capabilities the other lacked, which two marketing pages cannot establish and which is doubly awkward when one vendor no longer publishes a product page at all. The columns now record list membership.

Listed by Lusha

• Browser extension for LinkedIn
• CSV enrichment
• Bulk contact reveal
• Intent signal alerts
• Technology stack data
• Custom API
• Credits granted upfront for the year

Listed by Clearbit

• 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

Bulk reveal and CSV enrichment are the entries that decide whether Lusha fits a workflow. A team that works one prospect at a time in the browser extension will never notice the difference; a team enriching a thousand-row export needs both, and they sit at different points on the ladder.

Intent signals appear on the paid tiers with a published topic allowance, and they are the entry most worth testing rather than assuming. Intent data varies enormously in usefulness by market.

What Lusha Lists

Clearbit's list is API-shaped. Real-time scoring and routing, IP intelligence and form shortening all describe a system acting on a record without a person present, which is a fundamentally different workflow from revealing a contact in a browser.

Corporate hierarchy mapping is the entry with no Lusha counterpart, and it is the one that matters when a target list contains subsidiaries of the same parent and the routing rules need to know.

Integrations

Lusha publishes an unusually long list: Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Pipedrive, SalesLoft, Zoho CRM, Zapier, Make and n8n. The presence of Zapier, Make and n8n together means an unlisted system is usually reachable without waiting for a native connector.

Clearbit published HubSpot, Segment, Marketo and Salesforce, a shorter and more marketing-operations-shaped list. The HubSpot entry now describes the whole relationship.

Who Should Pick Which

Pick Lusha when contacts need revealing one at a time or in modest bulk, and work out the email-to-phone split before choosing a tier. That split moves the effective price more than any feature does.

Pick HubSpot's own enrichment when records exist already and the gaps are firmographic. That is what Clearbit became.

Pick Lusha's annual billing carefully. Credits are granted upfront for the year, which suits a steady programme and punishes a team that front-loads a campaign in January and then discovers in March that the year's allowance is gone.

Email addresses, phone numbers, or both?

• ✓Yes: Email addresses are the main requirement
• ~Depends: Phone numbers are needed at similar volume
• ✓Yes: Enriching CSV exports rather than one record at a time
• ✕No: Records already exist and need firmographic fields
• ✓Yes: Spend will be steady rather than front-loaded
• ✕No: Parent and subsidiary routing matters

Where Each One Sits In A Cold Outbound Stack

This is the data layer, and Lusha sits at the reveal end of it. What comes out has to be verified before it is mailed, whatever any vendor's accuracy claim says, because a bounce is charged against the sending domains rather than against the data supplier.

Enrichment sits beside it and answers a different question about records that already exist.

RevenueFlow campaigns send one message per campaign, with no bumps and no thread replies, which raises the cost of a bad address. There is no second touch to recover a contact from a bounce, so a credit spent on an address that does not verify is a credit and a prospect lost together. Verify before sending, and treat the credit meter as the real budget rather than the monthly fee.

Switching Between Them

There is no Clearbit subscription to leave, so the move is into or out of Lusha from some other data source.

Coming in, the thing to model is the credit ratio rather than the plan price. Three thousand contacts is 3,000 credits if email is enough and 15,000 if phone numbers are wanted, and those two requirements land on different tiers.

Going out, remember that upfront annual credits do not refund. A team switching mid-year has already paid for the remaining allowance, so the sensible cutover point is the renewal date rather than the day the decision is made.

Getting Started

1. Decide whether the campaign needs emails, phone numbers or both
2. Multiply the contact count by 1 for emails and 5 for phones to get credits
3. Match that total against 4,800, 7,200 and 40,800 credits a year
4. Test data quality on the free tier's 40 credits a month before paying
5. Note that annual credits are granted upfront, so plan the pace
6. Verify every address before sending, whatever the accuracy claim

The Bottom Line

Lusha is straightforward to price once the email-to-phone split is known, and that split changes the cost of the same list by a factor of five. Its own page publishes everything needed to do that arithmetic.

Clearbit has no price to compare, so the honest version of this comparison is Lusha against a HubSpot line item. If phone numbers are central, budget for Premium; if they are not, Starter goes a long way.

Related Reading

• Best Clearbit Alternatives in 2026
• Best Lusha Alternatives in 2026
• Clearbit vs ContactOut: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison
• 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.