# Best lead finder API: ranked by live price

The best lead finder depends on the filters you need and what comes back. For a long list of names, titles and companies, the cheapest price per lead wins, and this page ranks the looot catalog providers by that live price. Most of these searches return no work email, so plan an email finder step.

## Live prices

Prices read on 2026-10-16 from the live looot catalog. They change when a provider changes its price.

Cheapest today for people who match a title, company or location: Anysite at $0.00036 per lead.

| Rank | Provider | Price per lead | Per 1,000 leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anysite (anysite) | $0.00036 per lead | $0.36 |
| 2 | Icypeas (icypeas) | $0.00038 per lead | $0.38 |
| 3 | Limadata (limadata) | $0.0020 per lead | $2.00 |
| 4 | Lusha (lusha) | $0.0050 per lead | $5.00 |
| 5 | AI Ark (ai-ark) | $0.005391 per lead | $5.39 |
| 6 | FullEnrich (fullenrich) | $0.0160 per lead | $16.00 |
| 7 | Findymail (findymail) | $0.0198 per lead | $19.80 |
| 8 | Enrichlayer (enrichlayer) | $0.0792 per lead | $79.20 |
| 9 | People Data Labs (people-data-labs) | $0.2800 per lead | $280.00 |

## Providers

- anysite: Searches LinkedIn people and lists a company's employees on LinkedIn. The results are profile records, with no email in the same call. Also: Email finder, LinkedIn profile.
- icypeas: Searches its people database by job title, location, skills and company size, and returns name, headline, profile link, current role and company. It returns no email. Also: Email finder, Company search.
- limadata: Searches its people database from filters, a filter expression or a plain-language prompt, and finds a company's employees. The catalog has no stored output format for the search yet, so run one to see the fields. Also: Email finder, Phone finder.
- lusha: Searches people by title, seniority and company. Phone numbers and contact details come from its separate enrich and phone endpoints. Also: Phone finder, Enrich.
- ai-ark: Searches people by contact or company filters and returns a full profile with the company's headquarters, funding and tech. It bills by the page size you ask for, not by the rows that come back. Also: Email finder, Phone finder.
- fullenrich: Filters by company domain or name, title, seniority and location, and returns name, headline, skills, education and work history. Contact details come from its enrich endpoint, not the search. Also: Enrich, Company search.
- findymail: Finds the employees of a company, from a company name or from a domain. It does not search across companies by title alone. Also: Email finder, Verify email.
- enrichlayer: Searches people and lists a company's employees, and has a separate endpoint that finds the person in a given role. Emails come from its email finder, not the search. Also: Email finder, Find by role.
- people-data-labs: Searches its person dataset with a query or SQL, which gives the most control over the filters. Writing that query takes more work than filling a few fields. Also: Enrich, Company search.

## How we rank

Every provider here has a people search endpoint in the looot catalog, billed per lead returned.

We rank by the price per lead of that endpoint, read live from the catalog. A cheaper lead ranks higher.

Search endpoints billed per call are left out, because a call can return one lead or a hundred, so the units do not compare.

Searches that return masked records at no charge are left out, because a masked record is not a lead yet.

The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints, so this page does not rank by one and quotes none.

Providers outside the looot catalog are not ranked.

## Lead finder cost per 1,000 leads

Each row in the ranking shows the live price per lead and the price per 1,000 leads next to it. A search page bills for the rows on it, so a page size of a hundred costs a hundred leads.

A lead from a search is a name, a title and a company. To email them, add an email finder step, which is billed on its own. The total per contacted lead is the search price plus the email price.

Find professional emails for the leads you found: /use-cases/find-professional-emails

## Lead scraper or lead database

A lead scraper reads a public page, such as a LinkedIn search, and turns it into rows. A lead database answers from records the provider already holds. Anysite reads LinkedIn, and database providers such as Icypeas and People Data Labs answer from records they keep.

A database answers faster and takes more filters. A scraper sees changes sooner. Running the same filters on one of each and merging the lists covers both.

## Choosing one

- Filter by skills, company size and past roles: icypeas
- People as LinkedIn shows them today: anysite
- Leads with the company's funding and tech in the same row: ai-ark
- Everyone at one company you already picked: findymail
- Describe the people you want in plain words: limadata
- Query or SQL control over every filter: people-data-labs

## Prompt

Use looot to find 50 heads of marketing at US software companies with 50 to 200 employees: call the cheapest people search endpoint, list name, title, company and profile link, then tell me the total cost before you look up any email. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost.

## What is the best lead finder?

It depends on your filters. This page ranks the looot catalog providers by live price per lead for people search. Pick the cheapest for long lists, or the provider with the filters you need, such as skills, company size or one company's employees.

## What is the cheapest lead finder?

The first row of the ranking above, read live from the catalog. Prices can change, so the page reads them on each refresh and shows no number when the catalog is unreachable.

## Is there a free lead finder?

This page ranks priced endpoints. Some searches in the catalog return masked records at no charge, and they are left out here because a masked record has no name to contact.

## What are the best ZoomInfo alternatives for finding leads?

ZoomInfo is not in the looot catalog, so this page does not rank it. The providers above search people by title, company and location, and your agent calls any of them with one key, billed per lead.

## What does a lead finder return?

A list of people who match your filters, usually with a name, a title, a company and a profile link. Some add the company's size, industry or headquarters. Most of the searches here return no work email.

## How do I get emails for the leads?

Run an email finder on each lead with the name and the company domain. Most providers here also have one, shown as an email finder tag in the ranking, and each lookup is billed on its own.

## What is a lead scraper?

A tool that reads a public page, such as a LinkedIn search, and turns it into rows. On this page Anysite reads LinkedIn, and database providers such as Icypeas and People Data Labs answer from records they keep.

## How do I find leads at one company?

Use a company employees endpoint. Findymail, Anysite, Limadata and Enrich Layer list a company's people, and your agent can filter the result by title.

## How do I refresh a lead list every week?

Run the same search again and keep the new names. Doing it on a timer needs scheduled runs, not available yet, so run it by hand when you want a fresh list.

## How does an agent call a lead finder API?

Paste the prompt on this page into your agent. It sets up looot, finds the people search endpoints, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits.

## Why does this page not show success rates?

The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints. We would rather rank by a number we can read than quote one we cannot.

## Do I pay while my agent is idle?

No. looot bills per call, and nothing runs while your agent is idle.

## Related pages

- /best/b2b-data-api
- /best/linkedin-api
- /best/serp-api
- /best/news-api
- /best/tiktok-api
- /best/reddit-api
- /best/web-scraping-api
- /use-cases/people-search-api
- /use-cases/find-professional-emails
- /use-cases/company-list-builder
- /recipes/local-leads-from-google-maps
- /recipes/engineer-sourcing-list
- /recipes/ceo-emails-for-fintechs

## Last reviewed

2026-10-16. The ranking by price per lead is read live from the catalog on the web page.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/best/lead-finder/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below.

## For agents

### Give this to your agent

```text
set up looot for Best lead finder API - https://looot.ai/best/lead-finder/skill.md
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