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
| SpecStream | UpLead | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | A contact with email and mobile direct dial, unlocked by one credit for download or CRM export |
| The unit you pay for | A 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 plan | A 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 credit | Free 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 balance | A top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balance | Credits are use it or lose it and do not roll over into the renewal term |
| Contract and renewal | Monthly plans at $19, $99 or $499, spent as credit at the same row rates, or $10 of credit to start with no card | Monthly plans have no contract. A plan renews automatically unless cancelled 60 days before renewal, and UpLead can raise fees with 90 days of notice |
| Refunds | Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing | Payments are non-refundable and non-transferable |
| Email checks | Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled | Emails verified at a stated accuracy rate of 95% |
Why UpLead buyers move to SpecStream
Accounts by a trait no filter lists
Your best accounts share a trait no filter lists. Describe it, and every account that has it reaches your CRM with its buying committee and a link to where the trait shows.
The trait can be the tools a company runs, the roles it hires for or the markets it entered. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit before anything runs, then checks each account against each condition on the live web. An account that fails one is not delivered and not billed.
The committee and its contacts come on the row
1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150 on SpecStream, plus 5¢ for each email and 15¢ for each phone. On UpLead, 1,000 contacts take 1,000 credits, nearly six months of Essentials at 170 credits a month.
Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled. Source URL and read time on every value.
The price is set before the run
Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. UpLead's terms say payments are non-refundable and unused credits do not roll over.
Signals that say who to call this week
SpecStream reads public databases every morning. In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, and each one is a row on specstream.ai/data/form-d. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of them.
The same account runs the Search API, the most accurate web search API in the world: 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. The scores and method are on benchmarks.
The accounts stay up to date in your CRM
Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, a changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches and changes land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.
Other UpLead alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition, with the buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Lusha
A contact database sold in credits. The Free plan gives 40 credits a month, an email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ to a row and a phone adds 15¢, on every plan.
Seamless.AI
A contact platform sold on annual subscriptions that renew for 12 more months unless cancelled 60 days ahead. Toolradar reports Pro at $99 per user a month. SpecStream plans are monthly, and a row costs the same on every plan.
ZoomInfo
A go-to-market platform priced by licenses and credit usage, with credits priced by the depth of information you need and one tier showing 75K included credits. On SpecStream, 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, and you see the price before the run.
Cognism
Sold on credits, where 1 credit is 1 revealed contact and viewing a contact already revealed costs nothing. Its pricing page sends you to a Cognism expert for a price. SpecStream's rates are on its pricing page, and sign-up comes with $10 of credit.
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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Can SpecStream fill in a list I already have?
Does SpecStream have an API?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The docs start at specstream.ai/docs/api.How accurate is SpecStream?
Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, and the Seamless.AI price comes from Toolradar.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream data, Form Dspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
- UpLead pricinguplead.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- UpLead terms and conditionsuplead.com/terms-and-conditions, read Nov 9, 2026
- Seamless.AI terms of useseamless.ai/policies/terms-of-use, read Nov 9, 2026
- Toolradar, Seamless.AI pricingtoolradar.com/tools/seamless-ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
- ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Cognism pricingcognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026




