LeadIQ Pricing 2026: Free, Pro From $15/mo, Credit Costs

Last updated: October 1, 2026. Prices checked on October 1, 2026 against LeadIQ's pricing page at leadiq.com/pricing. LeadIQ replaced its per-seat Essential and Pro tiers with a single Universal Credits slider after this guide first published in March 2026. The page's HTML carries an unrendered "$200" placeholder next to Pro. Ignore it: the rendered price at the slider's first stop is $20.00 a month.

LeadIQ built its name as the Salesforce-native prospecting tool, and the CRM integration still deserves the reputation: duplicate detection that works, one-click sync that does not break, a managed package Salesforce admins like.

The pricing model underneath it changed completely. LeadIQ used to charge per user with a fixed monthly credit allowance per seat. It now sells one pool of Universal Credits on a slider, with up to five users included in the Pro price. That is a better deal for small teams, and it changes the comparison most articles are still running.

What does LeadIQ cost in 2026?

LeadIQ costs $0 on Free, $20 a month on Pro with monthly billing (200 credits a month) or $15 a month billed yearly (2,400 credits a year), and a custom quote on Enterprise, per leadiq.com/pricing on October 1, 2026. Pro is sold on a credit slider: monthly stops run from 200 to 6,750 credits a month, and annual billing, which LeadIQ labels "Annual billing (25% off)", takes a quarter off every stop. LeadIQ says you can try any plan free for 30 days.

The Essential plan at $39 per user per month with 500 credits, and the old Pro at $79 per user per month with 1,000 credits, are not on LeadIQ's price list. If an article still quotes those, it is describing LeadIQ's 2024 to 2025 packaging.

How do LeadIQ credits work?

LeadIQ runs on a single pool of Universal Credits spent across every feature, and it publishes exactly what each action costs: email = 1 credit, phone number = 10 credits, email and phone together = 11 credits, and account enrichment = 3 credits. LeadIQ describes Universal Credits as "a single pool of credits you can use across every LeadIQ feature, prospecting, enrichment, AI tools, champion tracking, and more". Credits are consumed when you reveal data. The pool is shared across the users on the plan rather than allocated per seat, which is the change that most affects team math: a rep who barely prospects no longer strands an unused allowance.

How does the LeadIQ credit slider work?

LeadIQ's Pro price follows the credit volume you pick, and the price per credit falls as you move up. Here are the published stops, read from leadiq.com/pricing on October 1, 2026. Annual billing is the monthly figure less 25%.

Above 6,750 credits a month (81,000 a year) the page routes you to Enterprise. There is no single "LeadIQ price", only a price for your volume. Before you compare it to anything, count your phone reveals, multiply by 10, add your email reveals, and read the slider at that number.

What does LeadIQ cost per contact?

LeadIQ costs $100 per 1,000 emails at the bottom of the Pro slider on monthly billing and $75 billed yearly, falling to $43 and $32.25 at 5,000 credits a month. Phone numbers cost ten times that. Because LeadIQ's per-credit price drops with volume, compare it with other tools at the volume you will buy, not at its entry price.

At the same credit volume, LeadIQ's list price is about 6 to 9% lower than Cleanlist AI's. What the difference buys on Cleanlist AI is a 25+ provider waterfall behind each lookup, free search and no charge for a missed email or phone number. Whether that is worth it depends on how often one source comes back empty for your market.

Is LeadIQ still priced per user?

No. LeadIQ Pro includes up to 5 users at the plan price as of October 1, 2026, and the Free plan is 1 user. What scales now is credit consumption: five reps sharing 200 credits a month are sharing 200 email reveals or 20 phone reveals between them. If you built a LeadIQ budget on "$79 per rep per month", rebuild it on credits per rep per month.

What does LeadIQ cost for a team?

Take five reps who each reveal 100 emails and 10 phone numbers a month. That is 200 credits per rep and 1,000 credits for the team, which LeadIQ Pro prices at $50.00 a month, or $37.50 billed yearly, with all five users included. The same 1,000 credits fit two Cleanlist AI Starter seats ($49 a seat, 750 credits each), but Cleanlist AI prices per seat, so five users cost 5 × $49, or $245 a month, with 3,750 credits in one shared balance. Five Cleanlist AI Pro seats are $445 a month with 7,500 credits.

At ten reps the picture changes. LeadIQ Pro stops at 5 users, so a 10-person team moves to Enterprise, which is quote-only and annual. Cleanlist AI at ten seats is $490 a month on Starter (7,500 credits) or $890 on Pro (15,000 credits). For a team of five or fewer, LeadIQ is the cheaper buy.

Does LeadIQ have a free plan?

Yes. LeadIQ's Free plan is $0 for 1 user with 50 Universal Credits, and LeadIQ says setup takes less than 5 minutes. Fifty credits is 50 email reveals, or 5 phone reveals, or one contact with both plus 39 emails. That is enough for a product tour, which is normal for the category. LeadIQ also says you can try any plan free for 30 days, one of the longer trial windows in B2B contact data. Cleanlist AI's 14-day Pro trial includes 250 credits and 3 seats, the Free plan after it keeps 50 credits a month, and every lookup runs through the full 25+ provider waterfall.

What are the hidden costs of LeadIQ?

The line items that do not show on LeadIQ's plan cards are the phone multiplier, the annual-only Enterprise tier, and the fact that the differentiated features are Salesforce-shaped.

1. The 10:1 phone multiplier

This is the whole ballgame. A 200-credit month is 200 emails or 20 phones. If your SDRs dial, price the plan against dials times ten. Two teams with identical contact volume and different channel mixes will land on slider positions an order of magnitude apart.

2. Enterprise is annual only

LeadIQ's pricing page marks Enterprise as "Annual plan only" with a "Contact us" price. Anything above the top of the self-serve slider comes with a contract and a sales conversation.

3. Salesforce-centric feature depth

LeadIQ's best features, the native managed package, the duplicate detection, the point-of-capture sync, are Salesforce-specific. On HubSpot or Pipedrive the integration is functional but generic. If your CRM is not Salesforce, you are paying for engineering you will not use.

4. Single-source enrichment

LeadIQ does not describe its lookups as a multi-provider cascade. If the contact is not in its data, the lookup comes back empty. Waterfall enrichment platforms query providers in sequence so a miss at provider one is covered by provider two. That is how Cleanlist AI returned 98% verified work email and 85% phone numbers in our own 500-lead benchmark.

5. No catch-all detection published

LeadIQ does not publish catch-all email detection as a feature. Catch-all domains accept every incoming message regardless of whether the mailbox exists, so a standard SMTP check returns "valid" for an address that may be a black hole. Without catch-all handling, part of a clean-looking list is unverifiable by construction.

Is LeadIQ worth the price?

LeadIQ is worth it for Salesforce-native teams of up to five people who prospect mostly by email, because $15 a month on annual billing with five users included is one of the cheapest published entry points in the category. It gets expensive on phone-led motions. A direct dial costs 10 credits, so 1,000 dials a month need 10,000 credits, which is above the top of the self-serve slider (6,750 a month) and into Enterprise.

LeadIQ is a strong choice if:

• Your team lives in Salesforce and you want the best CRM integration in the category
• CRM data hygiene is a priority and duplicate detection matters
• You have five or fewer users and can share one credit pool
• Your motion is email-first, where 1 credit per reveal is efficient
• You want a 30-day trial before committing

LeadIQ gets expensive when:

• Your SDRs dial, because every number is 10 credits
• You are on HubSpot, Pipedrive or any non-Salesforce CRM
• You need broad coverage across niche verticals where one source runs thin
• You need catch-all detection or multi-step verification
• You need more than five users, which pushes you toward Enterprise and an annual contract

How LeadIQ compares on price

All three vendors publish their credit ladders, which makes this one of the few genuinely comparable corners of the market. The ratios differ (Apollo prices a phone at 8 credits, LeadIQ and Cleanlist AI at 10), so the honest comparison is cost per verified record for your own channel mix, not the headline subscription.

What are the best alternatives to LeadIQ?

We compare two below. For the full field, see our LeadIQ alternatives page.

Cleanlist AI, best for broad enrichment on a shared credit pool

Cleanlist AI uses waterfall enrichment across 25+ data providers, so each lookup falls through to the next source instead of returning empty. Search costs 0 credits, so reps can explore an ICP before anything is spent.

If Salesforce depth or the lowest list price for a team of five is what you are buying, LeadIQ wins. If you want a 25+ provider waterfall behind every lookup and free search, Cleanlist AI costs a little more per credit. Compare Cleanlist AI and LeadIQ side by side.

Before you commit to an annual LeadIQ position, try Cleanlist AI. The 14-day Pro trial includes 250 credits and three seats. Run both tools against the same contacts and keep the data you trust.

Apollo.io, best for all-in-one prospecting and outreach

Apollo publishes $49 per seat per month for Basic on annual billing ($65 monthly) with 30,000 credits per seat per year, and $79 for Professional ($99 monthly) with 48,000 credits per seat per year, per apollo.io/pricing on August 7, 2026. Apollo also publishes its credit ladder on the same page: 1 credit for an email, 8 for a phone number.

Apollo bundles sequences, a dialer and CRM sync, and its published cost per email credit is the lowest of the three vendors in the table above. It is per seat, with a 3-seat minimum on the Organization tier. See the full Apollo pricing breakdown.

Lusha (supplier credit)

Disclosure first: Lusha is one of the providers inside the Cleanlist AI waterfall, so this entry is a supplier credit. It is unranked, and Cleanlist AI is not scored against Lusha anywhere on this page.

Lusha publishes $49.90 per month for Starter with 400 credits per month, $69.90 for Pro with 600 and $399.90 for Premium with 3,400, per lusha.com/pricing on August 7, 2026. A phone number costs 5 credits and an email 1.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does LeadIQ cost per month?

LeadIQ Pro starts at $20.00 a month on monthly billing for 200 credits a month, or $15.00 a month billed yearly for 2,400 Universal Credits a year, with up to 5 users included. The slider tops out at $290.25 a month for 6,750 credits. Free is $0 for 1 user with 50 credits. Enterprise is quote-only and annual plan only. Prices checked on leadiq.com/pricing on October 1, 2026.

Does LeadIQ still have an Essential plan?

No. LeadIQ publishes three plans as of October 1, 2026: Free, Pro and Enterprise. The Essential plan at $39 per user per month with 500 credits is not on the price list, and neither is the old $79 per user Pro tier with 1,000 credits. LeadIQ replaced both with a single Universal Credits slider.

Does LeadIQ have a free plan?

Yes. LeadIQ's Free plan gives one user 50 Universal Credits, and LeadIQ says setup takes less than five minutes. Fifty credits is 50 email reveals or 5 phone reveals. LeadIQ also says you can try any plan free for 30 days, so the trial is the more useful evaluation path.

How do LeadIQ credits work?

LeadIQ publishes the rates on its pricing page: 1 credit for an email, 10 for a phone number, 11 for both together and 3 for an account enrichment. Universal Credits are one pool spent across prospecting, enrichment, AI tools and champion tracking, shared across the users on the plan rather than allocated per seat.

Is LeadIQ worth the price?

For a Salesforce-native team of five or fewer running an email-first motion, yes: $15 a month on annual billing with five users included is one of the cheapest published entry points in the category, and the CRM integration is genuinely differentiated. For a phone-heavy motion the picture changes, because a direct dial costs 10 credits and the slider price climbs with it. Price your dial target first.

What is the cheapest LeadIQ alternative?

LeadIQ's own Pro slider is hard to undercut at the same volume: 1,500 credits a month cost $71.25 on LeadIQ against $98 on two Cleanlist AI Starter seats. Apollo's Basic plan publishes a lower cost per email credit than either, on per-seat pricing. Cleanlist AI costs a little more per credit and adds free search, no charge for a missed email or phone number and waterfall enrichment across 25+ providers. The 14-day Pro trial includes 250 credits and 3 seats, and the Free plan after it is 50 credits a month.

LeadIQ has earned its reputation as a Salesforce-native prospecting tool, and the 2026 repackaging made it cheaper to start with than almost anything else in the category.

Price the phone credit carefully. At 10 credits a dial, LeadIQ's slider moves fast for calling teams. If your motion is email-led, Salesforce-shaped and five users or fewer, LeadIQ is a strong buy. If it is dial-led, CRM-agnostic or bigger than five users, run the slider math above before you commit to an annual position.

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