ContactOut vs Datanyze: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison

ContactOut vs Datanyze: Cold Email Platform Comparison

ContactOut publishes its prices and its export caps on a page anyone can load. Datanyze does not, at least not to this comparison: both of its domains refused every request made for it. That difference is worth knowing before either one enters a budget.

The Quick Answer

ContactOut is a contact database and Chrome extension: Free at 5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day, Email at $49 a month or $39 billed annually with unlimited email lookups and 300 exports a month, Email plus Phone at $99 or $79 with 600 exports, and quoted team and API licensing above that.

Datanyze is a lightweight contact and technographic tool aimed at individual sellers. Its pricing page answered HTTP 403 to a plain request and to a headless browser alike, on both www.datanyze.com and datanyze.com, so this article states no Datanyze figure.

ContactOut is the one you can evaluate today.

Understanding the Core Difference

ContactOut is a contact database and Chrome extension for finding work emails and phone numbers, priced on monthly exports rather than on anything you send.

Datanyze is a lightweight contact and technographic data tool sold on small monthly credit packs, aimed at individual sellers rather than at teams.

ContactOut's meter is exports per month and its lookups are unlimited on the paid tiers, which is an unusual and useful split: searching costs nothing, taking a record away costs an export. That suits a workflow where a lot of browsing produces a small number of keepers.

Datanyze's model, as far as this comparison can responsibly describe it, is small monthly credit packs aimed at an individual seller rather than a team. The specific pack sizes and prices that circulate cannot be confirmed against the vendor's own page here, so they are not repeated.

The practical consequence is asymmetry rather than superiority. One vendor can be tested this afternoon on a free tier; the other requires a conversation before you know what it costs.

Pricing Comparison

$49/moContactOut entry plan

Email, month to month

Not publishedDatanyze entry plan

Pricing page could not be read

ContactOut pricing

The $49 and $99 figures that appear in most comparisons are the MONTH-TO-MONTH rates. Billed annually the same two plans work out at $39 and $79 a month, and the $99 and $199 also printed on the page are struck-through list prices behind a limited-time promotion rather than payable rates.

Source: ContactOut Pricing

Datanyze pricing

Datanyze's pricing page could not be read for this comparison. Both www.datanyze.com and datanyze.com answered HTTP 403 to a plain request and to a headless browser alike, on the same day and from two different approaches, so there is no snapshot behind any Datanyze figure here.

That is a failed fetch rather than evidence about Datanyze's prices, so this article states none. Figures for Nyze Lite, Nyze Pro 1 and Nyze Pro 2 circulate on third-party write-ups, and house policy is not to publish a number that exists only on somebody else's blog. Check the current plans and credit allowances with Datanyze directly before budgeting.

Source: Datanyze Pricing

What the two cost at a realistic volume

Take an invented but ordinary case: 300 contacts a month, one seller, taken steadily. The arithmetic is illustrative and uses ContactOut's published list prices only, since no Datanyze figure is available.

On ContactOut, 300 exports a month is exactly the Email plan's allowance: $49 a month billed monthly, or $39 a month billed annually. Email lookups are unlimited within that, so the search effort around those 300 keepers costs nothing extra.

Double the requirement to 600 and it becomes the Email plus Phone tier at $99 monthly or $79 on annual, which also adds phone numbers rather than only exports.

For Datanyze the equivalent arithmetic cannot be published here. Ask for the credit allowance per month, what a credit unlocks, and whether phone numbers cost the same as emails.

Reading the price ladders against each other

The correction worth carrying into any ContactOut comparison: the $49 and $99 figures that appear in most write-ups are the MONTH-TO-MONTH rates. Billed annually the same two plans work out at $39 and $79 a month, and the $99 and $199 beside them are struck-through list prices.

For Datanyze, treat every number you find in a comparison table, including the tiers that circulate widely, as unverified until the vendor confirms it. A failed fetch is not evidence about a vendor's prices, and it is also not permission to publish somebody else's guess.

The structural question to ask either vendor is the same: what does one unit unlock, and does it reset monthly or accumulate.

Features Breakdown

ContactOut lists

• 700 million+ professional profiles
• Browser extension for LinkedIn
• Email campaigns
• AI email writer
• Data enrichment
• List builder
• and 3 more listed below

Datanyze lists

• Technographic data and insights
• Chrome extension for LinkedIn
• Direct email and phone lookups
• Company and contact profiles
• Icebreaker conversation starters
• Google Chrome extension
• and 3 more listed below

ContactOut key features

• 700 million+ professional profiles
• Browser extension for LinkedIn
• Email campaigns
• AI email writer
• Data enrichment
• List builder
• Search portal
• Bulk license (700 million+ profiles on Team)
• CSV export

Datanyze key features

• Technographic data and insights
• Chrome extension for LinkedIn
• Direct email and phone lookups
• Company and contact profiles
• Icebreaker conversation starters
• Google Chrome extension
• Export to CSV
• Tag and note management
• Company technology stack tracking

ContactOut's list is a data list: search, the Chrome extension, verified emails, phone coverage, ContactSheets, an enrichment API and bulk licensing on the team tier, over a published 700 million+ professional profiles.

Datanyze's historical positioning combines contact data with technographics, which is a genuinely different emphasis: knowing what software a company runs is a targeting signal of a different kind from a contact record. Confirm the current feature set with the vendor rather than with a comparison page.

Integration Ecosystem

ContactOut connects with: Salesforce, HubSpot, Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn, Zapier, Gmail, Outlook.

Datanyze connects with: Google Chrome, Salesforce, HubSpot.

Both tools integrate with: Salesforce, HubSpot.

ContactOut integrates the way a database does: into a CRM, into a sequencer, through an API on the upper tiers.

For Datanyze, ask specifically about CRM export and API access at the tier you are considering, since lightweight tools often place both above the entry rung.

Neither sends anything, so a sequencer sits downstream of both.

Who Should Pick Which

Pick ContactOut if you want to evaluate before buying. A free tier, published prices and a Chrome extension make it testable this afternoon.

Consider Datanyze if technographic signals matter to your targeting. Knowing a company's stack is a real filter, and it is the historical reason people chose it.

Pick ContactOut if exports are the meter you care about. Unlimited lookups with a monthly export cap suits a browse-heavy workflow.

Pick neither on a comparison page alone. Data quality varies by segment more than by vendor, so test on a list you can verify yourself.

Where each one sits in a cold outbound stack

Both sit in the sourcing slot, upstream of the sender. Neither improves targeting on its own.

Our own doctrine keeps that slot deliberately thin: one message per campaign, no bumps and no thread replies, and volume spread across many low-volume mailboxes so no single address carries too much. LinkedIn runs as its own motion rather than as a step inside an email sequence, because a second LinkedIn message lands under the one that was ignored and reads as a bump whatever the campaign structure says.

Verification belongs between any data source and your sending tool, because a bounce costs your domain rather than the provider's accuracy claim.

Switching between them

Migration between contact databases is mostly an export exercise, since neither holds sending reputation.

Before cancelling either, export the contacts you own and the suppression list you have built, and check whether unused credits or exports expire at the end of the term.

Test the replacement on a segment you can verify independently before moving the whole workflow across.

Feature Comparison Summary

Getting Started Checklist

1. Check whether the ContactOut price you were quoted is monthly or annual.
2. Count exports a month rather than searches. That is ContactOut's meter.
3. Ask Datanyze what a credit unlocks and whether it resets monthly.
4. Ask whether phone numbers cost the same as emails on either tool.
5. Test both on a segment you can verify independently.
6. Keep verification between the data source and your sender.

Final Thoughts

ContactOut can be evaluated in an afternoon on published terms. Datanyze could not be read at all for this comparison, which is a fact about access rather than about quality.

Ask the vendor directly, and treat any number you find in a comparison table as unconfirmed until they say it.

Related Reading

• Best ContactOut alternatives
• Best Datanyze alternatives
• Apollo vs ContactOut
• ContactOut vs ZoomInfo
• Apollo vs Datanyze
• ContactOut vs Lusha

If you would rather have the sourcing and the sending 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.