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Emailchaser finds 1,000 new leads a month for $604.80 a year, against $1,378.80 on Lusha.
Lusha bills by the credit: 400 a month on its $49.90 Starter plan, and more credits or a second seat move you to Pro and Premium, where each extra seat is $49.90 a month. People look for an alternative when the credits run out mid-month, when the team grows, or when they need work emails for cold outreach rather than phone numbers. Below are four tools priced for the same job, 1,000 new leads a month for one person, from each tool's own pricing page or dated buyer reports.
Emailchaser includes 1,500 lead credits and unlimited seats from $47 a month, and sends the emails too.
Starter is $47 a month with 1,500 lead credits, and one credit adds one person with a work email. Every plan has unlimited team seats, so a second person searching costs nothing, where Lusha charges $49.90 a month for each. 1,000 new leads a month comes to $604.80 a year with verification, against $1,378.80 on Lusha.
Here are the four Lusha alternatives, ranked, with what 1,000 new leads a month costs on each.
Each price is a year for one person finding 1,000 new leads a month, on the cheapest plan that covers it. Emailchaser's includes checking every address at the most it can bill.
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Emailchaser Our pickLead Finder with 1,500 to 10,000 lead credits a month, every address checked, and the cold email sending in the same account, month to month.
Best for: Founders, sales teams and agencies who find leads and cold email them from one account.
$604.80a year, Starter $47 a month x 12 + verification $40.80Start my free trial7-day free trial · Cancel anytime - 2
RocketReachEmails, and phone numbers from Pro up, sold by the seat with 100 to 1,000 exports a seat a month.
Best for: One person who needs a few hundred emails or phone numbers a month.
$2,508a year, Ultimate, 1 seat, $209 a month x 12 - 3
Seamless.AIEmails and phone numbers with buyer intent, sold by quote on yearly contracts; Basic reported at $147 a user a month.
Best for: Teams of five or more that want phone numbers and can sign a yearly contract.
$4,740a year, Pro, 5 users at $79 a month x 12 - 4
ZoomInfoContact and company data with direct dials and intent signals, sold as an annual contract from about $14,995 a year (reported).
Best for: Large sales teams that call as much as they email and can budget for an annual contract.
$18,395a year, Professional $14,995 + 7,000 extra credits $3,400 - vs
Lusha, for comparisonEmails and mobile numbers from a browser extension and web app, billed by the credit, from a free plan to $977.40 a month.
Best for: Reps who want mobile numbers from a browser extension, with a free plan to start.
$1,378.80a year, Pro at 1,000 credits, $114.90 a month x 12
Sources: Emailchaser, our own plans. RocketReach, rocketreach.co/pricing, 6 October 2026. Seamless.AI, Costbench, 11 July 2026; Hack'celeration, June 2026. ZoomInfo, Tropic, 6 August 2026. Lusha, lusha.com/pricing, 6 October 2026. Each rival's pricing guide, linked above, shows every plan and how its total is worked out.
These are the reasons people look for a Lusha alternative.
- Starter's 400 credits run out fast: 1,000 emails a month takes Pro at $114.90 a month.
- A phone number costs 5 credits, so lists with phones use credits five times as fast.
- Every seat past the plan's own is $49.90 a month.
- Above 10,000 credits a month there is no listed price, only the Scale plan by quote.
Move the two sliders to see your yearly bill on each tool.
One Emailchaser lead credit adds one person with a work email, and checking the address costs $0.0017 to $0.0034 more, counted here at the most. Lusha is priced from its pricing page on 6 October 2026, monthly billing, at one credit per email, with each seat past the plan's own at $49.90 a month. Emailchaser adds credit top-ups only when a plan's included credits run out: $33 per 1,000 credits, or $20 per 1,000 when you buy 5,000 or more at once. Every plan has unlimited team seats.
That is $0.11 a lead on Lusha and 5.0 cents on Emailchaser.
Lusha bills each seat past the plan's own. Emailchaser gives every teammate a seat and includes 5,000 or more emails a month to send to these leads.
These are the questions people ask about Lusha alternatives.
What is the cheapest alternative to Lusha?
Of the four priced here, Emailchaser: 1,000 new leads a month costs $604.80 a year on Starter, verification included, against $1,378.80 on Lusha's monthly plans. Every Emailchaser plan has unlimited seats and starts with a 7-day free trial.
Is there a free alternative to Lusha?
Lusha's own free plan gives 40 credits a month, and ZoomInfo has a free Lite plan too. Emailchaser's free email finder gives 3 searches a day with no signup, and every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
Which Lusha alternative is best for cold email?
Emailchaser, because the leads and the sending live in one account, with 5,000 to 500,000 emails a month on its plans and unlimited mailboxes. The other three are data tools first, priced for finding contacts.
Do Lusha alternatives charge per seat?
RocketReach prices every seat on its monthly plans, and ZoomInfo and Seamless.AI are reported to price per user too. Emailchaser includes unlimited team seats on every plan.
Get 1,000 new leads a month with unlimited seats and the cold email included.
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Partner at Emailchaser, and CTO & Head of Growth at Momentum Labs, the B2B SaaS studio behind it.
I also run Prymatica, a done-for-you cold email agency, so most of my weeks are spent inside real outbound campaigns.
Self-taught: I started as a frontend developer in 2012 and have been building B2B SaaS ever since.
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