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Lusha alternatives in 2026

Accounts by any trait with the buying committee, at 5¢ to $1 a row.

Lusha costs $49.90 a month for 400 credits on Starter, $69.90 for 600 on Professional and $399.90 for 3,400 on Premium. An email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5, so a phone on Starter costs about 62¢. A credit reveals a contact, and Lusha's terms give no refund for a used credit.

SpecStream is the best alternative to Lusha for sales and RevOps teams that need the accounts as well as the contacts. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents: describe the accounts you want in plain words, by the tools they run, the roles they hire for or the markets they entered, and each one that meets every condition reaches your CRM as a row with its buying committee. A row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, and you see the most a run can cost before it starts.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and Lusha side by side

SpecStreamLusha
What you sendThe accounts or people you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meetFor the Person API, an identifier for each person: an email, a LinkedIn URL, a full name with a company name, or a company domain
What you get backStructured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every valueContact records in JSON. Revealing a contact is the step that spends credits
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¢The Bulk Person API takes up to 100 people per request
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, 5 for a phone number. At Starter's monthly price that is about 12¢ an email and 62¢ a phone
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 with 40 credits a month. Starter $49.90 a month for 400 credits, Professional $69.90 for 600, Premium $399.90 for 3,400. Billed yearly they are $37.45, $52.45 and $299.95 a month. Scale is sold by quote. Vendr reports a median Lusha buyer pays $15,999 a year
SeatsNo seats. People and agents spend from one balanceSelf-serve plans cover up to 5 users. A larger team goes to Sales
Unused balanceA top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balanceMonthly plans roll unused credits over up to twice the plan's credit limit. Yearly plans give all credits up front and reset what is unused at the end of the year
Empty results and refundsDuplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothingIts terms say a used credit cannot be revoked, and no replacement credits or refunds are given
Spending controlThe most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overagesA Credit Usage API reports the credits used and remaining by credit type, at 5 requests a minute. Credits can be added at any time in account settings
API and deliveryMCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. Rows go to Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooksAPI and MCP, on one credit balance with its Workspace and extension. Up to 25 requests a second per endpoint, with the key in the api_key header

Why Lusha buyers move to SpecStream

Other Lusha alternatives

How SpecStream scores

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

How to switch from Lusha

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the contacts you exported from Lusha, 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": "B2B software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees that use HubSpot and are hiring account executives, with the VP of Sales, the head of RevOps and a work email 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 Lusha cost?
Lusha costs $49.90 a month for Starter with 400 credits, $69.90 for Professional with 600 and $399.90 for Premium with 3,400, and its Free plan gives 40 credits a month. Billed yearly, the three paid plans are $37.45, $52.45 and $299.95 a month. Scale is sold by quote, and Vendr reports a median Lusha buyer pays $15,999 a year. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.
How do Lusha credits work?
An email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. On monthly plans unused credits roll over up to twice the plan's credit limit, and on yearly plans they reset at the end of the year. Lusha's terms say a used credit cannot be revoked and is not refunded. On SpecStream each row has a price in cents, and a top-up never expires.
What is the best Lusha 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 Lusha for phone numbers?
A phone adds 15¢ to a SpecStream row. On Lusha a phone number takes 5 credits, about 62¢ at Starter's monthly price of $49.90 for 400 credits. 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, and the two contract medians come from Vendr.

  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. Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. Lusha API fundamentalsdocs.lusha.com/tutorials/api_fundamentals.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. Lusha API reference overviewdocs.lusha.com/api-reference/overview.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. Lusha terms and conditionslusha.com/terms_and_conditions, read Nov 9, 2026
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