SignalHire Pricing: Two Meters and a Usage Ceiling

SignalHire sells two products from one pricing page, and almost every guide that ranks for its price treats one of them as if it were both. Emails and phone numbers are separate plans with separate credit pools. A quote of SignalHire from sixty nine dollars is half a bill for any team that needs a mobile number as well as an address. What follows is the ladder as it stood on signalhire.com/pricing on 2 September 2026, the ceiling written into the word unlimited, what the free tier actually hands you, and why the independent breakdowns disagree with it and with each other.

The published ladder

The page opens with "Explore and choose the right plan for your team", renders a monthly column and a yearly column side by side, headlines a claim of saving up to 74 percent on annual billing, and shows on each card the active rate beside a struck through list rate.

Free is published at $0 a month with no credit card, described as 5 or 10 credits. The asterisk resolves in a line under the card: "By installing the extension, you will receive 10 free credits every month".

Emails on SignalHire sits at $69 a month billed monthly for 1,000 credits, against a struck list rate of $82 labelled a saving of 16 percent. Billed annually, SignalHire's yearly column gives $57 a month for 12,000 credits, against the same $82 list rate at a labelled saving of 30 percent.

Emails unlimited is published at $79 a month billed monthly and $63 a month billed annually, both against a struck list rate of $163.

Phones on SignalHire sits at $69 a month billed monthly for 435 credits, against a struck list rate of $71. Billed annually, SignalHire's yearly column gives $57 a month for 5,400 credits, against a struck list rate of $74.

Phones unlimited is published at $99 a month billed monthly and $83 a month billed annually, both against a struck list rate of $327.

Scale carries no rate. Its card reads "Ideal for prospecting at large scales" and routes to a contact form, adding a bulk licence, custom contact details and job change tracking to the feature list.

Every paid plan on that page carries unlimited users, unlimited exports, access to a database the page describes as 850M+ profiles and 30M+ companies, CSV enrichment, team management, a browser extension, applicant tracking and CRM integration, and API access, with the answers adding that "all the contacts are shared between the team". The seat position is genuinely unusual for this category and the page states it twice, once on each card and once in its own answers: "you can invite an unlimited number of users" and "we do not charge per seat".

The two meter design, and the card that duplicates another card

The credit counts are the part a price comparison flattens. On monthly billing, the published $69 buys 1,000 email credits or 435 phone credits. That is not a rounding difference. It is roughly a factor of two in cost per contact between the two channels at the same headline rate, and it is the reason a team that needs both is looking at two subscriptions rather than a bigger one.

There is a third card, labelled Emails and Phones, and reading it carefully is worth the minute. Its published figures are byte identical to the Phones card: $69 a month billed monthly against a $71 struck rate for 435 credits, $99 a month for the unlimited package against a $327 struck rate, and $57 and $83 respectively on annual billing, all as published. A combined product priced exactly like the phones only product, with exactly the phones only credit count, is either a genuinely bundled deal or a page that is repeating a card. Either reading changes the purchase, so it is the first thing to confirm in writing before a card goes in.

EmailsOne meter, one channel

• A monthly credit pool for email discovery only
• The larger of the two credit allowances at the same headline rate
• An unlimited package sits above it at a higher rate
• No phone access on this plan

PhonesA separate plan with its own pool

• A separate monthly credit pool for phone numbers
• A materially smaller allowance at the same headline rate
• Its own unlimited package, priced above the email one
• A team needing both channels buys both plans

Unlimited means two thousand credits a month

Both unlimited packages carry an information icon, and the tooltip behind it is where the real ceiling lives. The page states that a "fair usage policy restricts excessive data extraction" and that under it "your spending is limited to 2k credits per month".

Ceilings living somewhere other than the pricing card are common, and HighLevel's metered sending and calling rates sit in the vendor's help centre rather than on its plan page.

That is not a small footnote. It is the number that decides whether the unlimited package is the right purchase, and the card itself omits it entirely. Two thousand credits a month is twice the metered email plan's allowance and roughly four and a half times the metered phone plan's, so the unlimited packages are best read as high volume tiers with a stated cap rather than as an absence of one. Knowing the number in advance is the difference between planning a quarter and discovering a wall in week three.

The same discipline applies to the struck through rates. Every card shows two figures, and only one of them is what a card is charged. On SignalHire's phones card the two are $69 and $71, close enough that a scraper reading the higher one changes very little; on the phones unlimited card they are $99 and $327, where reading the wrong one triples the number. The active rate is the one the page presents as current and the struck rate is a list price, so a figure lifted out of these bytes without reading the styling is a coin flip.

What the free tier actually gives you

The free plan is the most searched thing about this vendor's pricing, and the page answers it in three places rather than one.

The card publishes $0 a month, no credit card needed, and 5 or 10 credits. The asterisk under the plan grid states that installing the extension earns ten free credits every month, so the ten is a recurring monthly grant conditional on the extension rather than a one off. The answers section describes the same thing from the trial side, stating that "The free trial plan allows you to retrieve 5 contact details" before an upgrade prompt.

Two mechanics matter more than the number. First, the credit rule is result conditional. The page states that "Clicking the button subtracts 1 contact if at least 1 email address or phone number is returned", so a search that finds nothing costs nothing. That is a better free tier than a fixed lookup allowance, because the misses are free. Second, the free plan sits below the feature line that every paid plan shares, so the unlimited users, unlimited exports and integrations listed across the paid cards are not what you are testing.

The honest use for five or ten credits a month is therefore narrow and still worth doing. Run them against contacts you already have verified addresses for, in your own segment and at your own seniority, and measure whether the returns match. That is the only test that predicts anything, and it is the reason the free tier of any contact database is a coverage experiment rather than a trial of the product.

The free tier, honestly scoped

• ✓Yes: No credit card is required to start
• ✓Yes: The monthly grant rises when the browser extension is installed
• ✓Yes: A credit is spent only when a contact detail is actually returned
• ✕No: It tests the paid plans' unlimited seats, exports or integrations
• ✕No: It gives a sample large enough to measure a match rate on
• ~Depends: It includes phone data on the same terms as email

The guides ranking for this query do not agree with the page

Search the vendor's name and the word pricing and the results are review aggregators and competitor blogs. That is normal. What is not normal is how far apart they are.

FullEnrich publishes a SignalHire pricing guide that ranks near the top of that result set. Read on 2 September 2026, it states that "SignalHire pricing kicks off at $39 per month" billed annually for the Phones plan, with the Emails plan at $57 a month and the combined plan at $167 a month with unlimited credits, and its table gives the Phones plan 3,600 credits a year. SignalHire's own page on the same day publishes the annual Phones plan at $57 a month with 5,400 credits a year, and no card anywhere on it reads $167.

Neither page is lying. Vendor ladders in this category move, and a guide dated to its own reading is doing the honest thing. The lesson is about how to use them: an independent breakdown is a prompt to check a rate, never a substitute for the rate. Anything you carry into a purchase decision should come off the vendor's page with the date you read it attached, and the same applies to this page.

That gap also explains a recurring confusion about which product this is. Two software directories file SignalHire under recruiting rather than sales, and the vendor's own navigation carries a recruiting solution beside a sales one under the same heading, "Explore and choose the right plan for your team". It sells to both. A go to market team evaluating it is buying the same database a sourcing team is buying, which is worth knowing when a review's complaints turn out to be about applicant tracking workflows.

Confusion of that kind has a sharper version elsewhere, since two separate Tavus ladders on one page price a consumer companion product and a developer product together.

1. Step 1Name the channel

   Email and phone are separate plans with separate pools, so decide whether you actually need mobile numbers before comparing any rate.

2. Step 2Convert the allowance

   Divide the annual rate by the annual credit count for each channel. The two answers are far apart at the same headline price.

3. Step 3Check the ceiling on unlimited

   The unlimited packages carry a stated monthly credit cap in a tooltip. Compare that cap against your intended volume, not against the word.

4. Step 4Test before the card goes in

   Spend the free grant on contacts you can already verify, in your own segment, and measure the return rate yourself.

What to take into the decision

Three questions settle this purchase and none of them is the headline rate.

Which channel is binding. If a campaign runs on email alone, the metered email plan is a low cost per address and the seat position makes it cheaper still across a team. If mobile numbers are the constraint, the phone meter is the one to price, and it is the more expensive of the two per contact at the same monthly figure.

Whether unlimited fits under its own cap. Two thousand credits a month is a real number and it is knowable before signing.

And whether the combined card is a bundle or a repetition. Confirm in writing what the Emails and Phones plan grants, because as published it grants exactly what the phones plan grants.

Seats are the one place this vendor is straightforwardly generous. Unlimited users on every paid plan removes the seat arithmetic entirely, and the page states that "all the contacts are shared between the team" rather than locked to the person who revealed them. When the constraint is deliverability rather than data, the tool choice matters less than the sending discipline behind it, and a contact database comparison will not fix a list that was never the problem.

Where the shortage is qualified conversations rather than a thin list, the purchase is a different one. RevenueFlow builds and runs the campaigns and charges per attended qualified meeting, against criteria agreed in writing before launch, one message per campaign with no bumps and no thread replies. You can see what a campaign against your own market looks like before buying any database at all, and the wider field of contact data vendors is worth reading first if scale is the requirement.

The short version

SignalHire publishes two products on one page. Emails is published at $69 a month billed monthly for 1,000 credits or $57 a month billed annually for 12,000. Phones is published at $69 a month billed monthly for 435 credits or $57 a month billed annually for 5,400. The unlimited packages are published at $79 and $99 monthly, $63 and $83 annually, and the page's own tooltip caps them, stating that "your spending is limited to 2k credits per month". Free is zero, five credits a month, ten with the extension installed, and a credit is spent only when a contact detail comes back.

Every paid plan carries unlimited users and unlimited exports, and the answers add "we do not charge per seat", which is rare enough at these rates to be the reason a whole team gets access. Read the credit count beside the rate rather than the rate alone, confirm what the combined card actually grants, and note the date you read the page.

Plan rates, credit counts, the fair usage ceiling and the free tier terms above are taken from signalhire.com/pricing, fetched 2 September 2026, with a dated snapshot retained. The third party figures are from fullenrich.com, fetched the same day and attributed to it. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.