Pay as you grow • From $0.0002 per validation
LeadMagic alternative
LeadMagic (leadmagic.io) is a popular Clay and Apollo enrichment step that charges $8.49 to $25 per 1,000 found emails on a monthly subscription. On the same 288 contacts, every result re-verified live, OrbiSearch found 79.2% to LeadMagic's 47.9%, at $1.28 to $18.94 per 1,000 found on credits that never expire. Every email OrbiSearch returns is already verified, so nothing needs a second pass.
Same 288 contacts, same live re-verification: OrbiSearch 79.2%, LeadMagic 47.9%. LeadMagic returned 50.0% before verification, so about one in 24 of the emails it handed back did not verify. OrbiSearch results are verified before they are returned.
LeadMagic's credits are monthly: Basic credits lapse at month end and higher plans bank at most two months. OrbiSearch sells one-time packs that never expire, plus unlimited finder plans for teams, and is cheaper per found email on every pack.
OrbiSearch alone found 79.2% of the benchmark; OrbiSearch and LeadMagic together found 80.6%. A 1.4-point gain rarely justifies a second subscription. Open this scenario in our waterfall calculator and edit any number.
Both tools were run on the same 288 real B2B contacts in August 2026, alongside Apollo, Hunter, Icypeas, Prospeo and People Data Labs. Every returned address was re-verified live at benchmark time, so these are deliverable emails, not source-sheet hits.
OrbiSearch
79.2%
live-verified find rate
Highest of the 7 tools. Next best: Apollo 71.5%, Icypeas 60.4%, Hunter 53.5%. Full data.
LeadMagic
47.9%
live-verified find rate
50.0% returned before verification. By region: 45.3% North America, 55.6% EMEA, 42.6% APAC. LeadMagic's own site claims 97%+ accuracy on the emails it does return.
The gap is coverage, not accuracy: LeadMagic's returned emails mostly verify, it simply returns them for half as many contacts. Per-contact outcomes are in the benchmark download.
LeadMagic at its benchmark 47.9% find rate on the Essential plan (the cheapest whose credits cover the result), OrbiSearch at 79.2% on the 100,000-search pack. Our waterfall calculator lets you change every input.
LeadMagic alone
~4,790 emails
for $99 a month
10,000 contacts × 47.9% = 4,790 credits, inside Essential's 5,000. About $0.021 per found email; the 210 unused credits bank for two months.
OrbiSearch
~7,920 emails
for about $21
10,000 searches × $0.00207 = $20.70 from the Enterprise pack, 65% more emails for 79% less. About $0.0026 per found email. Adding LeadMagic on the 2,080 left would find about 140 more.
Rates from the OrbiSearch email finder benchmark and LeadMagic's published pricing. Change the volume, packs or find rates to match your lists.
LeadMagic sells one credit pool on a monthly or annual subscription and spends it only on successful results. Prices taken from leadmagic.io/pricing, checked September 2026.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $49.99/month, or $490/year | 2,000 credits a month ($0.025 per credit), 1 seat, no rollover. |
| Essential | $99/month, or $990/year | 5,000 credits a month ($0.0198 per credit), 3 seats, credits bank up to 2 months. Adds People, Company and Jobs Search. |
| Growth | $249/month, or $2,490/year | 20,000 credits a month ($0.01245 per credit), 5 seats, 2-month banking. |
| Professional | $499/month, or $4,990/year | 50,000 credits a month ($0.00998 per credit), 5 requests per second account-wide. |
| Ultimate | $849/month, or $8,490/year | 100,000 credits a month ($0.0085 per credit), 10 requests per second account-wide. |
| Enterprise | From $2,490 per quarter | Custom volume, credit price lock, dedicated SLA. |
| Credit costs | Per successful result | Found work email 1 credit, email validation 0.25 credits (valid or invalid; 'unknown' is free), mobile number 5, profile or company search 1, social-to-email 5, job change 3. Annual billing is 10x monthly (two months free). |
For comparison, OrbiSearch sells one-time credit packs from $30 (2,000 finder searches) to $2,023 (2 million), 1 credit per search, credits never expire, plus unlimited email finder plans from $249 per month.
LeadMagic charges per found email; OrbiSearch charges per search. To compare like with like, this table shows cost per 1,000 found emails, converting OrbiSearch at its 79.2% benchmark find rate and matching each volume to the cheapest LeadMagic plan that covers it at 47.9%.
| OrbiSearch pack | OrbiSearch $/1K found | LeadMagic plan | LeadMagic $/1K found | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter ($30, 2,000 searches) | $18.94 | Basic | $25.00 | 24% |
| Professional ($62, 10,000 searches) | $7.83 | Essential | $19.80 | 60% |
| Business ($103, 20,000 searches) | $6.50 | Growth | $12.45 | 48% |
| Enterprise ($207, 100,000 searches) | $2.61 | Professional | $9.98 | 74% |
| Premium ($311, 200,000 searches) | $1.96 | Ultimate | $8.49 | 77% |
| Ultra ($2,023, 2,000,000 searches) | $1.28 | Ultimate | $8.49 | 85% |
| Unlimited Starter ($249/mo, 10K searches/day) | ~$1.05 | Ultimate | $8.49 | 88% |
LeadMagic: 1 credit per found work email, $0.025 (Basic) to $0.0085 (Ultimate) per credit on monthly billing; annual billing is roughly 17% less. OrbiSearch: 1 credit per search, converted at 79.2% found; the Unlimited Starter row assumes the full 10,000 searches per day for a month. Prices checked September 2026.
Both tools verify what they find, so this only matters for lists from anywhere else. LeadMagic charges 0.25 credits per valid or invalid result, which is $0.0021 to $0.00625 depending on plan; the table uses the $0.002 rate its product page advertises. OrbiSearch: one-time packs, 1 credit = 5 validations.
| Emails | LeadMagic (at $0.002) | OrbiSearch | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $20 | $30 | LeadMagic cheaper |
| 25,000 | $50 | $39 | 22% |
| 50,000 | $100 | $62 | 38% |
| 100,000 | $200 | $103 | 49% |
| 500,000 | $1,000 | $207 | 79% |
| 1,000,000 | $2,000 | $311 | 84% |
| 10,000,000 | $20,000 | $2,023 | 90% |
The $0.002 rate needs LeadMagic's $849-a-month Ultimate plan; on Basic the same checks cost three times as much. Unresolved catch-alls come back from LeadMagic as 'unknown' at no charge, per its API docs. OrbiSearch resolves catch-all, secure-email-gateway and greylisted addresses to a verdict; it stopped 96.3% of bounces on a 538 hard-bounce test with a 3.7% false positive rate. See the catch-all domains research.
OrbiSearch offers private dedicated infrastructure with white glove support for customers on the 5M and 10M packs: no queues, no file splitting, and we handle data cleaning and quality monitoring. LeadMagic's Enterprise plans start at $2,490 per quarter with a shared 25+ requests-per-second gateway.
| Feature | OrbiSearch | LeadMagic |
|---|---|---|
| Work email finder by name + domain | ||
| Live-verified find rate (same 288 contacts) | 79.2% | 47.9% |
| Found emails returned already verified | Yes, every result, no second pass needed | Yes, '5-layer validation'; docs advise against re-validating |
| Standalone email verification | From $0.0002 per email | 0.25 credits per valid or invalid result |
| Catch-all resolution | Resolved to valid or invalid | Marketed as resolved; API docs return 'unknown' (free) when a mailbox cannot be verified |
| SEG-protected and greylisted email resolution | Claimed for Proofpoint, Mimecast, Barracuda | |
| Mobile phone numbers | 5 credits each | |
| People, company and jobs search database | From Essential ($99/mo) | |
| Company enrichment, job-change detection | ||
| Billing | Per search (any outcome), or unlimited plans | Per found email, on a monthly subscription |
| Pay-as-you-go (no subscription required) | ||
| Credits expire | Never | Monthly; no rollover on Basic, 2 months banked above |
| Free tier | 500 validations or 100 searches | Not listed on pricing page |
| Published benchmark with downloadable data | Yes, 7 tools, Aug 2026 | Own accuracy claims (97%+) |
| Clay integration | Via HTTP API | Native |
| Apollo, Smartlead, Instantly tiles | ||
| Zapier / Make / n8n | Via HTTP API | Zapier native; Make and n8n via HTTP |
| Native HubSpot sync | "Coming soon" | |
| REST API on every plan | ||
| MCP server and terminal client | ||
| Private dedicated infrastructure |
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Where OrbiSearch fits: data platforms validating millions of contacts per month, and cold outreach agencies running Clay-based prospect workflows.
Find rates are live-verified figures from the OrbiSearch August 2026 benchmark where available.