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LeadMagic Pricing, and How to Find More Emails for Less
LeadMagic (leadmagic.io) is a popular Clay and Apollo enrichment step sold on subscriptions from $99 a month, which works out at $8.49 to $103 per 1,000 found emails depending on volume. 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.
Reviewed by Alex Loughlin, founder of OrbiSearch, on
LeadMagic pricing and features checked against LeadMagic's own website and docs.
How much does LeadMagic cost?
LeadMagic sells credit subscriptions: Essential at $99 a month for 5,000 credits, Growth $249 for 20,000, Professional $499 for 50,000 and Ultimate $849 for 100,000. Annual billing is ten times the monthly price. A found work email costs 1 credit and a validation 0.25 credits, credits are spent only on successful results, and there is no free trial. Prices taken from leadmagic.io/pricing, checked October 28, 2026.
Essential$99/month, or $990/year
5,000 credits a month ($0.0198 per credit, $0.0165 on annual). Email finder and validation at 300 requests a minute each. The entry plan; there is no free trial.
Growth$249/month, or $2,490/year
20,000 credits a month ($0.0124 per credit). 600 requests a minute. Adds Slack support.
Professional$499/month, or $4,990/year
50,000 credits a month ($0.0100 per credit). 1,000 requests a minute, plus free browsing of the Search API.
Ultimate$849/month, or $8,490/year
100,000 credits a month ($0.0085 per credit, $0.0071 on annual). 1,500 requests a minute, integration consulting and SLA.
Enterprise SecurityFrom $10,000 a year
Annual plans only, quoted on your security requirements. Team access is by request on every plan.
Credit costsPer 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. In-app people, company and jobs search is included on every plan. Annual billing is 10x monthly (two months free).
Credit rolloverCapped
Monthly subscription credits bank up to 2x the monthly allowance. Annual credits refresh yearly and do not roll over. Paid top-ups last 12 months.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | $99/month, or $990/year | 5,000 credits a month ($0.0198 per credit, $0.0165 on annual). Email finder and validation at 300 requests a minute each. The entry plan; there is no free trial. |
| Growth | $249/month, or $2,490/year | 20,000 credits a month ($0.0124 per credit). 600 requests a minute. Adds Slack support. |
| Professional | $499/month, or $4,990/year | 50,000 credits a month ($0.0100 per credit). 1,000 requests a minute, plus free browsing of the Search API. |
| Ultimate | $849/month, or $8,490/year | 100,000 credits a month ($0.0085 per credit, $0.0071 on annual). 1,500 requests a minute, integration consulting and SLA. |
| Enterprise Security | From $10,000 a year | Annual plans only, quoted on your security requirements. Team access is by request on every plan. |
| 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. In-app people, company and jobs search is included on every plan. Annual billing is 10x monthly (two months free). |
| Credit rollover | Capped | Monthly subscription credits bank up to 2x the monthly allowance. Annual credits refresh yearly and do not roll over. Paid top-ups last 12 months. |
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.
Why do teams move their email step from LeadMagic to OrbiSearch?
A third more of the list, found
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.
Credits you keep, not a subscription
LeadMagic sells subscriptions from $99 a month; banked credits are capped at twice the monthly allowance and annual credits do not roll over. OrbiSearch sells one-time packs that never expire, plus unlimited finder plans from $249 a month, and is cheaper per found email on every pack, by 62% to 88%.
Almost nothing left for LeadMagic to add
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.
Find rate
Which finds more emails, LeadMagic or OrbiSearch?
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 only returns an email for about half the contacts. Per-contact outcomes are in the benchmark download.
Worked example
What do 10,000 contacts a month cost?
LeadMagic at its benchmark 47.9% find rate on the Essential plan (its cheapest), 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 carry over, up to a cap of twice the monthly allowance.
OrbiSearch
~7,920 emails
for about $21
10,000 searches × $0.00207 = $20.70 of the $207 Enterprise pack (credits never expire), 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.
Finder pricing
Is OrbiSearch cheaper than LeadMagic for finding emails?
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 | Essential ($99/mo) | $103.34 | 82% |
| Professional ($62, 10,000 searches) | $7.83 | Essential ($99/mo) | $20.67 | 62% |
| Business ($103, 20,000 searches) | $6.50 | Growth ($249/mo) | $25.99 | 75% |
| Enterprise ($207, 100,000 searches) | $2.61 | Professional ($499/mo) | $10.42 | 75% |
| Premium ($311, 200,000 searches) | $1.96 | Ultimate ($849/mo) | $8.86 | 78% |
| Ultra ($2,023, 2,000,000 searches) | $1.28 | Above Ultimate, at its rate | $8.49 | 85% |
| Unlimited Starter ($249/mo, 10K searches/day) | ~$1.05 | Above Ultimate, at its rate | $8.49 | 88% |
LeadMagic: 1 credit per found work email, $0.0198 (Essential) to $0.0085 (Ultimate) per credit on monthly billing; annual billing is roughly 17% less. OrbiSearch: 1 credit per search, found or not, converted at 79.2% found, so the searches that find nothing are already priced in. Each LeadMagic row is the full monthly price of the cheapest plan that covers the emails found, divided by those emails, so the smallest row reflects the $99 minimum you pay for about 960 emails. Rows above Ultimate's 100,000 credits a month use its per-credit rate. OrbiSearch is 62% to 88% cheaper per found email on every pack. The Unlimited Starter row assumes the full 10,000 searches a day for 30 days; larger unlimited plans cover 30,000 a day for $499 and 75,000 a day for $999. Prices checked October 28, 2026.
Is OrbiSearch cheaper than LeadMagic for email verification?
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 $0.0018 (Ultimate, annual) to $0.00495 (Essential, monthly) depending on plan. Up to 100,000 emails the table shows the monthly price of the cheapest plan that covers them; above Ultimate's 400,000 checks a month it uses the $0.002 rate LeadMagic's product page advertises. OrbiSearch: one-time packs, 1 credit = 5 validations.
| Emails | LeadMagic | OrbiSearch | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $99 (Essential) | $30 | 70% |
| 25,000 | $249 (Growth) | $39 | 84% |
| 50,000 | $249 (Growth) | $62 | 75% |
| 100,000 | $499 (Professional) | $103 | 79% |
| 500,000 | $1,000 (at $0.002) | $207 | 79% |
| 1,000,000 | $2,000 (at $0.002) | $311 | 84% |
| 10,000,000 | $20,000 (at $0.002) | $2,023 | 90% |
LeadMagic sells validation only inside its subscriptions, so verifying 10,000 emails means paying for at least the $99 Essential plan. Unresolved catch-alls come back from LeadMagic as 'unknown' at no charge. OrbiSearch checks catch-all, secure-email-gateway and greylisted addresses at the mailbox level and resolves them to valid or invalid wherever the mailbox can be checked. In our test on 538 emails that had already hard-bounced, OrbiSearch caught 96.3% and let 3.7% through as safe. See the catch-all domains research.
How do LeadMagic and OrbiSearch features compare?
| Feature | OrbiSearch | LeadMagic |
|---|---|---|
| Work email finder by name + domain | ||
| Work email finder by LinkedIn profile URL alone | 1 credit per search | 5 credits per found email |
| 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 | Resolved 'when possible'; inconclusive results return 'unknown' (free) |
| SEG-protected and greylisted email resolution | Claimed for Proofpoint, Mimecast, Barracuda | |
| Mobile phone numbers | 5 credits each | |
| People, company and jobs search database | Included on every plan | |
| Company enrichment (firmographics) | 1 credit per company, by LinkedIn URL or domain | |
| Job-change detection | 3 credits each | |
| Billing | Per search (any outcome), or unlimited plans | Per found email, on a subscription from $99/mo |
| Pay-as-you-go (no subscription required) | ||
| Credits expire | Never | Banked credits capped at 2x the monthly allowance; annual credits do not roll over |
| Free tier | 500 validations or 100 searches, no card | None; a paid plan is required at signup |
| Published benchmark with downloadable data | Yes, 7 tools, Aug 2026 | Own accuracy claim (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 | Not advertised |
Should you choose LeadMagic or OrbiSearch?
Choose OrbiSearch when you want:
- The highest live-verified find rate of 7 tools tested, 79.2% against LeadMagic's 47.9% on the same contacts
- $1.28 to $18.94 per 1,000 found emails instead of $8.49 to $103: 62% to 88% less on every pack
- Credits that never expire with no subscription required, or unlimited finder plans from $249 a month for heavy use
- Found emails that arrive already verified, plus standalone validation that resolves catch-alls at the mailbox level
Keep LeadMagic for:
- Mobile phone numbers, 5 credits each
- People, company and jobs search, and job-change detection
- Native Clay, Apollo, Smartlead, Instantly and Zapier tiles, an MCP server and a terminal client
Frequently Asked Questions
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Do OrbiSearch found emails need re-verifying?
Does OrbiSearch find phone numbers?
Compare OrbiSearch with other email finders:
And with email verifiers:
Where OrbiSearch fits: data platforms validating millions of contacts per month, and cold outreach agencies running Clay-based prospect workflows.
What are other LeadMagic alternatives?
Find rates are live-verified figures from the OrbiSearch August 2026 benchmark where available.
- Apollo - Database-first finder, 71.5% live-verified in our benchmark, sold as a seat-based sales platform.
- FullEnrich - Waterfall across 25+ sources at $0.032 to $0.058 per found email; the broader safety net for the contacts a single engine misses, plus mobiles and personal emails.
- Icypeas - Finder plus verifier, 60.4% live-verified, from $19 per month, charges per found email.
- Hunter.io - The best-known finder, 53.5% live-verified, strongest on domain search and public web sources.
- Prospeo - B2B contact database and email finder, 39.6% live-verified.
- Kitt AI - Free for individuals, $0.005 per found email on pay-as-you-go, own 2024 benchmark only.
- Clay - Build your own waterfall from individual providers, including OrbiSearch via HTTP API and LeadMagic's native tile. More control, more setup, Clay credits on top.
- OrbiSearch - Finder and verifier. 79.2% live-verified find rate (highest of 7 tools tested), $1.28 to $18.94 per 1,000 found by pack, credits never expire, unlimited finder plans from $249 per month, verification from $0.0002 per email.