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LeadIQ alternatives in 2026

An email and a phone for 20¢ on each row.

LeadIQ's Pro plan shows $200 a month for 200 credits, for up to 5 users. An email takes 1 credit, a phone number 10 and both 11, and paid credits expire at the end of each term.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the accounts you want by any trait, and each one reaches your CRM with its buying committee at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ an email and 15¢ a phone.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and LeadIQ side by side

SpecStreamLeadIQ
The unit you pay forA delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every planA credit: 1 for an email, 10 for a phone number, 11 for both and 3 for an account enrichment
An email and a phone20¢ on a delivered row: 5¢ for the email and 15¢ for the phone11 credits. Pro shows $200 a month for 200 credits
Plans$10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more creditFree for 1 user with 50 credits. Pro shows $200 a month for 200 credits, with 25% off billed annually. Enterprise is custom. Any plan can be tried free for 30 days
SeatsNo seats. People and agents spend from one balancePro covers up to 5 users. Enterprise is custom
Unused balanceA top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balancePaid credits expire at the end of each subscription term, so monthly credits expire each month. Free credits expire after 1 year
Refunds and renewalDuplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothingFees and payments for credits are non-refundable, and plans renew automatically
A list you already haveImport a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown alongside their evidence. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢File enrichment by CSV upload is listed on Enterprise

Why LeadIQ buyers move to SpecStream

Other LeadIQ alternatives

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

How to switch from LeadIQ

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the contacts you exported from LeadIQ, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Cybersecurity companies in North America with 200 to 2,000 employees that are hiring SDRs, with the VP of Sales, the head of sales development and a work email and phone for each", "count": 25}'

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.

Frequently asked questions

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How much does LeadIQ cost?
LeadIQ's Pro plan shows $200 a month for 200 credits, with 25% off billed annually, and covers up to 5 users. Free gives 1 user 50 credits, and Enterprise is custom. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.
How do LeadIQ credits work?
An email takes 1 credit, a phone number 10, both 11 and an account enrichment 3. Paid credits expire at the end of each subscription term, and LeadIQ's terms say payments for credits are non-refundable. On SpecStream each row has a price in cents, and a top-up never expires.
What is the best LeadIQ alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the accounts in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get each account that meets every condition with its buying committee, an email for 5¢ more and a phone for 15¢ more. The rows land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or your sheet, and stay up to date on your schedule.
Is there a cheaper alternative to LeadIQ for phone numbers?
A phone adds 15¢ to a SpecStream row, and an email and a phone together add 20¢. On LeadIQ a phone number takes 10 credits, and Pro shows 200 credits for $200 a month. SpecStream bills only delivered rows, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Can SpecStream fill in a list I already have?
Yes, up to 20,000 rows from a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base. Importing is free. Each row that matches your request pays its row rate, and a row that does not match costs a 5¢ check.
Does SpecStream have an API?
Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search returns rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 each. All three run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, the CLI and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The docs start at specstream.ai/docs/api.
How accurate is SpecStream?
SpecStream's Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. It is the most accurate web search API in the world, and the scores and method are on benchmarks. In a row, each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  3. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
  4. SpecStream data, Form Dspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
  5. SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
  6. LeadIQ pricingleadiq.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. LeadIQ termsleadiq.com/terms, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. Cognism pricingcognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
  10. ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026