Prospeo Review

Prospeo sells B2B contact data: verified work emails, direct mobile numbers, and a searchable people-and-company database with intent, hiring, and job-change filters on top. It began as a lean email finder and plenty of older write-ups still describe it that way — the current product and price list are both bigger. This review covers what the plans include, what a lookup really costs, and what we could confirm from outside the vendor's marketing.

Verdict at a glance

What kind of platform Prospeo is

A data vendor with a search interface. You describe an audience — by title, headcount, technology, revenue, funding, hiring activity, or intent topic — and Prospeo returns matching people whose details you reveal on demand. Searching and previewing cost nothing; credits are consumed only on reveal or export.

Prospeo advertises 300M+ contacts and 125M+ verified mobiles on its pricing page, while the homepage cites 280M contacts and 143M verified emails. Those are vendor figures, they don't agree with each other, and neither is auditable from outside — as with the claimed 98% accuracy and 30% mobile pick-up rate, treat them as marketing until your own bounce logs say otherwise. Emails reportedly pass three checks: SMTP probing, observed sending outcomes, and BounceBan filtering.

How the credit system works

One credit unit covers everything: a verified email is 1 credit, a direct mobile is 10 credits with the matching email included, and a company export is 1 credit. Credits are allocated per user per month and pooled across seats. Annual buyers get the full year upfront — the vendor's example is a Pro subscriber receiving 180,000 credits on day one.

Prospeo pricing (2026)

The numbers that bite are the ones outside the sticker:

• Seats multiply the sticker. Growth is per user, so a three-person team is $297 a month, not $99. Pooled credits soften that, but budget from seat count first.
• Mobiles cost ten times an email. A Growth seat's 5,000 credits is 5,000 emails or 500 phone numbers — roughly $0.20 per number on Growth, $0.17 on Pro.
• Add-on credits beat Starter's included rate. Top-ups run about $0.01 per credit at 10,000 and slide toward half a cent at seven-figure volume, so heavy users should price a cheap seat plus add-ons against a bigger plan.
• Credits don't roll over. The pricing FAQ is explicit that unused credits expire at renewal, yet the pricing interface is currently running a variant advertising rollover on paid plans. Confirm which terms apply before prepaying for a year.

Also worth checking at checkout: the shipped pricing configuration is inconsistent about Starter, listing 1,000 credits in one field and 2,000 in another. We used the conservative figure above.

What we could and couldn't verify

Plan structure, prices, credit allowances, consumption rates, add-on tiers, and the feature split across the four plans all came directly from Prospeo's live pricing data.

Independent sentiment is another matter. G2, Trustpilot, and Capterra all blocked automated access, and we found no accessible discussion threads with meaningful volume. Prospeo displays a 4.8 G2 badge on its own site, but with no review count attached that figure tells you little, and the homepage testimonials are reposted LinkedIn content the vendor selected — positioning, not evidence.

So, plainly: there is no independent review base we can point you to. That is not a criticism, and not a reason to avoid the tool — it is a reason to use the free plan first. A hundred credits is enough to run known-good contacts through the finder and count how many come back correct.

Pros and cons

Pros

• One credit currency across search, email, and mobile — simple to forecast
• Free tier with no expiration, and search and preview cost nothing; you pay to reveal
• Intent topics, job-change tracking, and hiring filters are unusual at this price
• Real developer surface: public API, Google Sheets add-on, MCP server, Chrome extension

Cons

• Per-seat pricing on top of credits gets expensive for teams needing viewer access
• Mobile numbers at 10 credits apiece drain an allowance fast
• Accuracy and coverage claims are unverifiable, and headline contact counts disagree between pages
• Effectively no independent review base to sanity-check against
• CRM enrichment and job-change tracking are gated to Growth and above

Prospeo alternatives

• Apollo.io — the volume incumbent: bigger database, bundled sequencer, free tier, and a well-known reputation for stale records.
• Clay — an orchestration layer rather than a database, querying many providers in sequence; better coverage, far more setup.
• Findymail — narrower email-finder focus with a bounce guarantee, if you never needed the search database.
• Hunter — domain-centric discovery and verification with a mature API and minimal firmographic filtering.
• Cognism — strongest on phone-verified mobiles and European compliance, priced for enterprise and sold through a sales cycle.
• Lusha — comparable self-serve positioning, Chrome-extension-first workflow.

Who should use Prospeo — and who shouldn't

Good fit: small outbound teams wanting one vendor for list building, email, and dials without stitching a waterfall together; RevOps people enriching a CRM on a schedule; developers who want a credit-metered API rather than a seat-based enterprise contract.

Poor fit: teams needing heavy phone coverage at scale, where the 10-credit multiplier makes a phone specialist cheaper; organizations needing many read-only seats, since everything is priced per user; and anyone who requires published, independently reviewed performance data before signing — that evidence doesn't currently exist here, and no amount of vendor copy substitutes for your own test on the free plan.