A Lusha alternative without per-reveal credit math
Lusha meters reveals. This alternative meters market-wide lists more simply.
How much does Lusha cost?
Figures from lusha.com/pricing, checked July 27, 2026. Monthly billing shown; annual billing discounts each tier.
| Plan | Monthly | Credits / month | Annual rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 40 | $0 |
| Starter | $49.90 | 400 | $37.45 / month |
| Professional | $69.90 | 600 | $45.45 / month |
| Premium | $399.90 | 3,400 | $259.95 / month |
| Scale | Custom | Custom | Contact sales |
The meter is the part to read twice: revealing an email costs 1 credit, revealing a phone number costs 10 credits. Monthly plans roll unused credits over up to twice the allowance; annual plans reset at cycle end.
What does one contact cost?
Divide the plan by the credits and the per-contact price appears.
On Starter, $49.90 buys 400 credits, about 12.5 cents each. A phone reveal is ten credits, which is about $1.25 per phone number. That math suits high-value, person-level targets. It stops making sense when the job is every business in a market with its public phone attached.
A person's direct dial, about $1.25 at the Starter rate.
The business's public phone, website, address, and rating on one record. Standard Google Maps price; lower rates apply to qualifying deposits.
A 1,000-row call list, both ways
Person-level direct dials against business-level public phones. Different data, same call sheet.
What data do you get?
One request, and the phone is already on every record:
The businesses as CSV first, phone and website included on each row:
Sample rows as CSV, exactly as exported · phones unmasked in the API response
| name | category | address | phone | website | rating | reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persone NYC | Recruiter | 420 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249 | (929) 219-30•• | http://www.personenyc.com/ | 5 | 440 |
| Tiger Recruitment - New York | Recruiter | 750 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022 | (917) 970-06•• | https://tiger-recruitment.com/us/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NYC | 4.7 | 71 |
| Bernard Nickels & Associates | Employment agency | 1412 Broadway 21st floor, New York, NY 10018 | (212) 477-83•• | http://www.bnastaffing.com/ | 4.9 | 305 |
| Aerotek | Employment agency | 757 3rd Ave Suite 801, New York, NY 10017 | (212) 588-58•• | https://www.aerotek.com/en/locations/united-states/new-york/new-york?ecid=ls_aero_bizlist_091222_seo7123137 | 4.2 | 167 |
| KAS Placement | Employment agency | 147 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001 | (212) 348-76•• | http://www.kasplacement.com/ | 4.8 | 55 |
| Michael Page | Employment agency | 1156 Ave of the Americas 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036 | (212) 661-48•• | https://www.michaelpage.com/?utm_source=GMB&utm_medium=organic | 4.7 | 606 |
And one record as JSON:
Reveal charges and full-record prices
Two meters built for two different questions.
| Lusha | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | A specific person's direct contact info | Every business in a market, with contacts |
| Phone number cost | 10 credits, about $1.25 at Starter | Included in the returned business record |
| Entry buy | $49.90 / month for 400 credits | Deposits from $10; lower prices from $149 |
| Free tier | 40 credits / month | $6 of free usage each month |
| Person emails + direct dials | Yes, that is the product | No. Public business contact points |
| Unused paid funds / quota | Rollover capped at 2x; annual resets | Never expire |
Lusha is built for person-level prospecting: a named decision-maker's direct dial or work email, verified, inside your CRM flow. If that is the job, a reveal meter is fair. If the job is market coverage, thousands of businesses with their public phones and websites, paying per reveal is the expensive road.
How much does CrustAPI cost?
A search bills the Maps rate per business returned, and the phone number is a field on the record, not a purchase. Here is what real jobs cost:
| Deposit | Google Search / 1,000 requests | Maps / 1,000 businesses | LinkedIn reads / 1,000 requests | People, Jobs, Refresh / 1,000 units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10+ | $1.00 | $1.96 | $6.00 | $1.96 |
| $149+ | $0.76 | $1.49 | $4.50 | $1.49 |
| $549+ | $0.56 | $1.10 | $3.30 | $1.10 |
| $1,999+ | $0.41 | $0.80 | $2.45 | $0.80 |
| $6,500+ | $0.33 | $0.65 | $1.95 | $0.65 |
| $27,500+ | $0.28 | $0.55 | $1.65 | $0.55 |
| $50,000+ | $0.26 | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.50 |
| $100,000+ | $0.20 | $0.40 | $1.50 | $0.40 |
Every eligible account gets $6 of free usage monthly. Each deposit keeps its prices until spent; paid funds never expire. People and Jobs bill per successful search, Refresh per accessible profile. Full profiles in People use the read rate per full profile. See all billing details.
Larger deposits unlock lower endpoint prices. Each deposit keeps its prices until spent. See the full deposit table on the pricing page. Prices in USD, ex-tax.
Paid funds never expire. Empty searches cost nothing. Work email lookup is included in the profile request; monthly free usage resets separately.
How do you get started?
No code needed. From zero to a call list in about two minutes:
- 1
Create a free account. Try it free, no card needed.
- 2
Type a search in the playground. Something like recruiting agencies in new york. The businesses land in a table.
- 3
Click export. Download the CSV with phones and websites, or run the curl above for JSON.
Who uses CrustAPI?
- Cold calling teams. A 1,000-row call sheet with public phones for about $2, not $1,250 in reveals.
- Lead gen agencies. Every business in a client's market, with phone and website, exported as CSV.
- Local marketers. Ratings and review counts show which businesses in a niche need help.
- SDRs on a budget. The free tier covers three full call lists with no card at all.
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Common questions
Free is 40 credits a month; Starter is $49.90 a month for 400 credits; Professional is $69.90 for 600; Premium is $399.90 for 3,400; Scale is custom. Annual billing discounts each tier. Checked on lusha.com/pricing, July 27, 2026.
Revealing an email costs 1 credit and revealing a phone number costs 10 credits. Monthly plans roll unused credits up to twice the allowance; annual plans reset at cycle end.
Ten credits per reveal. At the Starter rate of about 12.5 cents per credit, that is roughly $1.25 per phone number.
The market-coverage kind: every business in a category and city as a complete record with its public phone, website, and address included, at the Maps rate per business. It does not sell person-level direct dials or emails.
When you need a specific named person's verified direct contact info inside a CRM prospecting flow. That is Lusha's actual product, and a business-listing API does not replace it.
Maps costs $1.96 per 1,000 businesses at standard prices, down to $0.40 for the largest deposit. Empty and failed searches are free. Every eligible account gets $6 of free usage monthly. Paid funds never expire.
Clay
Stop paying per phone number
Pull one market on the free tier and count the phones already on the records. No card, no reveals.
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