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# Best UpLead alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# 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.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-uplead&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DManufacturing%2520companies%2520in%2520the%2520Midwest%2520with%2520200%2520to%25202%252C000%2520employees%2520that%2520use%2520SAP%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Operations%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520procurement%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520and%2520phone%2520for%2520each)

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](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead). Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead). 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](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead).

### 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.

ResultsWideSearchCostSimpleQA Verified

|  | SpecStream | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/parallel.svg)Parallel | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/exa.svg)Exa | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/tavily.svg)Tavily | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/perplexity.svg)Perplexity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Web research**WideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |

## 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.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-uplead&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DManufacturing%2520companies%2520in%2520the%2520Midwest%2520with%2520200%2520to%25202%252C000%2520employees%2520that%2520use%2520SAP%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Operations%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520procurement%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520and%2520phone%2520for%2520each)

## Frequently asked questions

Something we didn't answer? [Talk to a human](https://specstream.ai/talk-to-a-human.md)

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](https://specstream.ai/docs/api?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead).

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](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=uplead). 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 pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing)specstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
2.  [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md)specstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
3.  [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks)specstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
4.  [SpecStream data, Form D](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d)specstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
5.  [SpecStream signals](https://specstream.ai/signals)specstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
6.  [UpLead pricing](https://www.uplead.com/pricing)uplead.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [UpLead terms and conditions](https://www.uplead.com/terms-and-conditions)uplead.com/terms-and-conditions, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [Seamless.AI terms of use](https://www.seamless.ai/policies/terms-of-use)seamless.ai/policies/terms-of-use, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [Toolradar, Seamless.AI pricing](https://toolradar.com/tools/seamless-ai/pricing)toolradar.com/tools/seamless-ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [Lusha pricing](https://www.lusha.com/pricing/)lusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
11.  [ZoomInfo pricing](https://www.zoominfo.com/pricing)zoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
12.  [Cognism pricing](https://www.cognism.com/pricing)cognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026