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UpLead alternatives in 2026

Accounts by any trait with contacts, from 5¢.

UpLead costs $99 a month for 170 credits on Essentials and $199 for 400 on Plus, and Professional is annual only. One credit unlocks one contact, about 58¢ on Essentials, and unused credits do not roll over.

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 UpLead side by side

SpecStreamUpLead
What you get backStructured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every valueA contact with email and mobile direct dial, unlocked by one credit for download or CRM export
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: one contact. At Essentials' monthly price that is about 58¢ a contact
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 trial for 7 days with 5 credits. Essentials $99 a month for 170 credits and Plus $199 for 400. Professional is annual only, with custom seats and credits
Unused balanceA top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balanceCredits are use it or lose it and do not roll over into the renewal term
Contract and renewalMonthly plans at $19, $99 or $499, spent as credit at the same row rates, or $10 of credit to start with no cardMonthly plans have no contract. A plan renews automatically unless cancelled 60 days before renewal, and UpLead can raise fees with 90 days of notice
RefundsDuplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothingPayments are non-refundable and non-transferable
Email checksEach email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeledEmails verified at a stated accuracy rate of 95%

Why UpLead buyers move to SpecStream

Other UpLead alternatives

How SpecStream scores

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

How to switch from UpLead

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the contacts you exported from UpLead, 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": "Manufacturing companies in the Midwest with 200 to 2,000 employees that use SAP, with the VP of Operations, the head of procurement 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 UpLead cost?
UpLead costs $99 a month for Essentials with 170 credits and $199 a month for Plus with 400, and Professional is sold by quote on annual billing only. Its free trial lasts 7 days with 5 credits. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.
Do UpLead credits roll over?
No. UpLead's terms say credits are use it or lose it and do not roll over into the renewal term. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.
What is the best UpLead 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 UpLead per contact?
A person with an email and a phone costs 25¢ on SpecStream at the 5¢ row rate: 5¢ for the row, 5¢ for the email and 15¢ for the phone. An UpLead credit unlocks one contact, about 58¢ at Essentials' $99 for 170 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 Seamless.AI price comes from Toolradar.

  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. UpLead pricinguplead.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. UpLead terms and conditionsuplead.com/terms-and-conditions, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. Seamless.AI terms of useseamless.ai/policies/terms-of-use, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. Toolradar, Seamless.AI pricingtoolradar.com/tools/seamless-ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  10. Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
  11. ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  12. Cognism pricingcognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026