LeadIQ vs SignalHire: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison

LeadIQ pricing starts at $15.00 a month on annual billing, or $20.00 month to month, for 200 credits a month with five users included. That is what the rendered slider on LeadIQ's pricing page shows; the page's raw HTML carries a $200 figure in the same price slot, which the slider script replaces as the page loads. SignalHire's cheapest paid card is $39 a month on yearly billing. At entry level the two are close. The gap opens on phone numbers: LeadIQ charges 10 credits for one, while SignalHire's FAQ says a lookup "subtracts 1 contact if at least 1 email address or phone number is returned".

LeadIQ Pricing: From $15 a Month, Metered in Credits

LeadIQ's pricing page prices its Pro plan on a credit slider, in US dollars with five users included: $15.00 a month billed annually for 2,400 credits a year, or $20.00 month to month for 200 credits a month, rising to $217.69 and $290.25 at 6,750 credits a month. The Free plan is $0 for one user and 50 credits, and any plan can be tried free for 30 days.

Source: LeadIQ Pricing

Annual billing is labelled 25% off, and in that state the slider counts credits per year: its first stop reads "I need 2,400 LeadIQ credits per year". Beyond 6,750 credits a month the slider hands over to Enterprise, which has no published price and is an annual plan only.

The credit table is where the real pricing lives. LeadIQ's page prices an email at 1 credit, a phone number at 10, an email and phone together at 11, and an account enrichment at 3. A phone number therefore costs ten times an email address on the same meter, so a team that dials is spending its allowance an order of magnitude faster than a team that only emails. At the opening position, 200 credits buy 200 emails or 20 phone numbers.

SignalHire Pricing: Three Cards, Three Slider Stops

SignalHire's pricing page sells three paid cards in US dollars: Emails, Phones, and a combined Emails & Phones card priced exactly like Phones. Each has a three-stop slider. On yearly billing, the default, the stops are $39 and $57 a month and an unlimited package at $63 for Emails or $83 for Phones. Month to month they are $49, $69 and $79 or $99. The free plan gives 5 or 10 credits.

The credit counts are not comparable across cards. On monthly billing $69 buys 1,000 email credits or 435 phone credits, and the $49 stop buys 600 or 300. Yearly billing grants the year's credits as one figure: 7,200 or 12,000 on Emails, 3,600 or 5,400 on Phones. The unlimited packages are bounded by the page's own tooltip, which says the fair usage policy limits spending to 2k credits per month. Unlimited users, unlimited exports and access to 850M+ profiles are on every paid card, and installing the browser extension adds 10 free credits every month.

Card	Yearly, a month	Monthly
Emails	$39 for 7,200 a year $57 for 12,000 a year $63 unlimited	$49 for 600 $69 for 1,000 $79 unlimited
Phones	$39 for 3,600 a year $57 for 5,400 a year $83 unlimited	$49 for 300 $69 for 435 $99 unlimited
Emails & Phones	Priced like Phones	Priced like Phones

Unlimited packages: the fair usage tooltip limits spending to 2k credits a month.

Source: SignalHire Pricing

What Each Tool Actually Is

LeadIQ is a prospecting platform metered on one credit pool, which its site now calls Universal Credits. Its pricing page lists people search for emails and mobile numbers, prospecting through its Chrome extension, an AI outbound message writer, champion job-change tracking, signals such as hiring and 10-K mentions, and CRM enrichment.

SignalHire is a contact finder sold as Emails, Phones or the combined card, with unlimited users and unlimited exports on every paid card. Its FAQ says "we do not charge per seat" and that all the contacts are shared between the team.

Unlimited users is the detail that surprises people. Five people can share a $57-a-month Emails plan and draw on the same 12,000-credit annual pool. LeadIQ's slider shows 5 users included at every position, and its plan table moves to a quoted Enterprise plan beyond that.

SignalHire is no longer only a lookup tool. Its site lists an email sequences product, run from Outlook or Microsoft 365 or a custom SMTP server, its integrations page lists 25+ tools including Salesloft and Reply, and its Scale plan lists job changes tracking. The weight still sits on the lookup: LeadIQ's page puts message writing, signals and enrichment in its plan features, where SignalHire's cards list exports, CSV enrichment and an ATS or CRM integration.

What 1,000 Emails and 400 Phones a Month Costs

This example is invented; every unit price in it is from the vendors' own pages, and the arithmetic is illustrative.

On LeadIQ the job is 1,000 credits for the emails plus 4,000 for the phones, or 5,000 credits a month, and the total is the same if the 400 phones belong to people whose email you also want, at 11 credits each. The slider prices 5,000 credits at $215.00 month to month, or $161.25 a month on annual billing for 60,000 credits a year.

On SignalHire it is two cards at the middle stop. The Emails card at $69 a month covers the 1,000 emails exactly, and the Phones card at $69 covers 435 credits against 400 phone numbers: $138 a month, or $114 a month on yearly billing, where the two cards grant 12,000 and 5,400 credits a year.

The combined Emails & Phones card may be cheaper still. It is priced like Phones, $99 a month for the unlimited package or $83 on yearly billing, and covers emails and/or phone numbers. If one lookup is one credit, as the FAQ describes it, 1,000 contacts is half the 2k-credit fair-usage ceiling. Confirm how the combined card meters a lookup that returns both before relying on it.

Who Should Pick Which

Start from seats. If more than five people need access, SignalHire lists unlimited users on every paid card, while LeadIQ's Pro plan includes five and moves to a quoted Enterprise plan beyond that.

With five or fewer, the question is phones. LeadIQ charges 10 credits for a phone number, so a team that dials heavily spends its pool ten times faster, while a SignalHire phone is one lookup. If the work is mostly emails, the entry prices are close: an email costs $0.075 at LeadIQ's $15.00 annual position and $0.065 on SignalHire's $39 yearly Emails card. LeadIQ then adds what happens next, capture from the Chrome extension, CRM enrichment and a push into Salesloft or Outreach, for $15.00 a month on annual billing.

Feature Breakdown

LeadIQ's pricing page lists people search for emails and mobile numbers, company search on technographics and firmographics, exporting, champion job-change tracking, prospecting through the Chrome extension and its database, an AI outbound message writer, signals, CRM and webform enrichment, and API access. Its Enterprise card adds AI account prospecting, CSV file enrichment, Salesforce duplicate detection, governance controls and team analytics.

SignalHire's cards list access to 850M+ profiles and 30M+ companies, unlimited exports, CSV enrichment, team management, the browser extension, an ATS or CRM integration and API access, with bulk licensing and job changes tracking on its Scale plan. Its FAQ says the extension works on Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, X and Meetup profiles, which matters for some recruiting and community-led motions.

Read both lists as list membership: a feature on one vendor's page and not the other's is a difference in what each chose to publish, and says nothing about whether the other tool can do it.

Integration Ecosystem

LeadIQ's integrations page lists Salesforce, HubSpot, Salesloft, Gong, Outreach, Clay, Nooks and Chili Piper. SignalHire's integrations page lists 25+ tools, most of them applicant tracking systems such as Workable, Ashby, JobAdder, Loxo and Recruitee, alongside Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Salesloft, Reply and ActiveCampaign.

That split points at the users each vendor builds for: SignalHire's list leans toward recruiting, LeadIQ's squarely toward outbound sales. HubSpot appears on LeadIQ's integrations page and not on SignalHire's, which matters to a HubSpot team; check SignalHire's API or CSV route before assuming a native sync.

Where Each One Sits In A Cold Outbound Stack

LeadIQ is a capture-and-enrich layer that sits between prospecting and whatever sequencer you already run. SignalHire is a cheap lookup layer with unlimited seats, exporting to a CSV or an integration, with its own sequences product beside it.

We send one message per campaign, never bump and never reply into a thread, so every address gets exactly one attempt. That raises the value of verification and lowers the value of raw volume, which is the strongest argument for testing SignalHire's fill rate on your own segment rather than buying on price alone. Sequences with automatic follow-ups are the vendors' products; none of them changes that rule.

Switching Between Them

SignalHire to LeadIQ is usually a decision about rep time rather than data. Run both for a month and measure how many contacts each rep actually gets into their workflow per day, because that is the number LeadIQ is meant to move.

LeadIQ to SignalHire means adding an export-and-import step back into the process unless SignalHire's integrations cover your stack. Make sure whoever owns the sequencer is happy with that handoff before cancelling, and choose the SignalHire card at signup with the email and phone split in mind.

Getting Started

1. Split your monthly need into emails and phone numbers, since SignalHire sells them as separate cards and prices its combined card like Phones.
2. Apply LeadIQ's 10-credit phone multiplier to the phone half and find the real slider position.
3. Check the 2k-credit fair-usage ceiling before treating SignalHire's unlimited packages as unlimited.
4. Count seats. SignalHire is unlimited on every paid card; LeadIQ Pro includes five.
5. Test 50 contacts from each on the same accounts and compare verified fill rate.

Final Thoughts

On emails alone the two are close at the entry positions, and LeadIQ adds the capture-and-push workflow for a team of up to five. On phone numbers SignalHire is far cheaper, because a phone is one lookup where LeadIQ charges ten credits, and it is the better tool for giving a whole team access.

Price them on the split you actually need rather than on headline entry prices.

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Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.