UpLead Pricing 2026: Plans, Cost per Credit and Is It Worth It?

UpLead costs $99 per month for the Essentials plan (170 credits a month) or $74 per month billed annually (2,040 credits a year), and $199 per month for Plus (400 credits a month) or $149 per month billed annually. Professional is custom-priced. One credit unlocks one contact, and you can test the data with a 7-day free trial that includes 5 credits (a card is required, and the trial converts to a paid annual plan unless you cancel). Prices below are as of October 2026, from UpLead's pricing page.

UpLead pricing plans in 2026

Extra credits cost $0.60 each on Essentials and $0.50 on Plus. Professional pricing is negotiated with sales.

What each UpLead plan includes

• Free Trial: verified emails, mobile phone numbers and the Chrome extension, limited to 5 credits over 7 days.
• Essentials: everything in the trial plus CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Dynamics 365, Outreach, lemlist and others, plus Zapier) and company news. Mobile direct dials are included on all plans.
• Plus: adds data enrichment (upload a list and fill in the missing fields), technographics, advanced filters, suppression lists and email pattern intelligence.
• Professional: adds buyer intent data, full API access, two-way CRM sync, competitor intelligence, team management, a dedicated success manager, an onboarding specialist and priority phone support.

The practical takeaway: Essentials is a single-user contact finder. If you need to enrich an existing CRM or filter by technology stack, you need Plus. Intent data and the API are only on Professional.

What does an UpLead credit cost?

Because each plan bundles a fixed number of credits, the useful number is the price per contact:

A credit gives you the contact's details for download or CRM export. UpLead says it refunds credits for bounces and poor data through what it calls "Friendly Credits", so a bad email shouldn't cost you a credit, but check the conditions in your account before relying on it.

For outbound volume, these numbers add up quickly: 1,000 new contacts a month would take you past Plus and into extra credits or a Professional quote.

Does UpLead have a free trial?

Yes. UpLead's free trial lasts 7 days and includes 5 credits for one user, with access to verified emails, mobile numbers and the Chrome extension. That's enough to check data quality on a handful of contacts in your market, not to build a list. There is no permanent free plan.

Read the conditions before you start. According to UpLead's sign-up guide, you enter your card details to unlock the trial, and if you don't cancel by day 7, the account is billed $890 for a year of Essentials. To stop it, go to your profile, open Billing and click "Cancel Plan" before the trial ends.

To make 5 credits count, pick contacts you can verify yourself (existing customers or people you've already emailed) and compare the email, phone and job title UpLead returns with what you know.

Can you cancel UpLead at any time?

Per UpLead's help center, all plans renew automatically. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time and stay active until the end of the billing cycle. Annual plans require a cancellation request 60 days before the renewal date. If you're not sure you'll use it for a year, start monthly.

UpLead review: what it does well

UpLead is a B2B contact database with real-time email verification. On its website it claims:

• 200M+ leads, verified as you search,
• a 95% data accuracy guarantee,
• 50+ search filters (industry, location, company size, job title, technologies on Plus),
• direct exports to CRMs and outreach tools.

Strengths we'd point out:

• Transparent pricing. Unlike ZoomInfo or Cognism, you can see the price before talking to anyone, and monthly billing is available.
• Email verification at the moment of export, which matters more than database size for cold email deliverability.
• Mobile numbers on every plan, including the trial.
• Simple interface: search, filter, unlock, export.

UpLead limits to know before you buy

• Small credit volumes for the price. At $0.37 to $0.58 per contact, UpLead is more expensive per lead than tools that sell credits in bulk, such as Apollo or Snov.io.
• One user per plan on Essentials and Plus. Teams need Professional or several subscriptions.
• Key features are gated: enrichment and technographics start at Plus, intent data and API at Professional.
• No outreach. UpLead finds and verifies contacts; you still need a separate tool to send emails or LinkedIn messages.
• Coverage varies by market. Test the contacts you actually target during the trial, especially outside the US.

UpLead vs alternatives: price comparison

Prices as of October 2026 from each vendor's pricing page. Annual prices are per month, billed yearly.

• If you want data plus sequences in one tool, Apollo gives more credits per dollar; see our Apollo.io review.
• If you need enterprise data and intent, compare UpLead Professional with ZoomInfo: our ZoomInfo pricing guide explains what buyers really pay.
• If you mostly look up emails one by one, start with the free tiers listed in our guide to free email finders.
• If your prospects are on LinkedIn, extracting them from Sales Navigator and enriching them is often cheaper than buying contacts: see how to export leads with emails from Sales Navigator.

useArtemis as an UpLead alternative

useArtemis covers the same "find and verify" step, then goes further. You can search Discover, our B2B lead database with verified emails, export leads from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches with the LinkedIn scraper, and find and verify professional emails with the email finder. Then you contact those leads in multichannel sequences that mix LinkedIn steps and emails, with AI-written messages and a unified inbox. The Starter plan is $69 per month (2 LinkedIn accounts, 500 verified emails, 2,500 Discover leads), credits roll over, and there's no free trial.

Is UpLead worth it?

UpLead is worth it if you're one person who needs a few hundred accurate, verified B2B contacts a month, wants monthly billing and doesn't want a sales call. It's less attractive if you need thousands of contacts, several seats or built-in outreach: in those cases the cost per contact and the single-user plans become the limit.

Our advice: run the 7-day trial on contacts you can check (and cancel before day 7 if you're not convinced), calculate the cost per contact you'll really use, and compare it with one database that includes outreach before committing to an annual plan.

FAQ

How much does UpLead cost per month?

UpLead Essentials costs $99 per month with monthly billing (170 credits) or $74 per month billed annually (2,040 credits per year). Plus costs $199 per month (400 credits) or $149 per month billed annually. Professional is custom-priced, as of October 2026.

Does UpLead offer a free trial?

Yes. The free trial lasts 7 days and includes 5 credits for one user, with verified emails, mobile numbers and the Chrome extension. UpLead asks for a card to activate it and bills $890 for an annual Essentials plan if you don't cancel by day 7. There's no permanent free plan.

How big is UpLead's database?

UpLead says it gives access to 200M+ leads, verified in real time as you search, with a 95% data accuracy guarantee. As with any database, coverage depends on your country and industry, so test your own segment during the trial.

What is UpLead used for?

UpLead is used to find B2B contacts (verified emails and mobile numbers) by filtering on industry, company size, job title, location and, on Plus, technologies. Sales and marketing teams export those contacts to their CRM or outreach tool.

Is UpLead cheaper than ZoomInfo?

Usually, yes. UpLead publishes its prices, starting at $74 per month billed annually, while ZoomInfo only sells quote-based annual contracts that Vendr estimates at a median of $33,500 per year. ZoomInfo includes more features (intent, org charts, Copilot), so compare what you'd actually use.