LeadIQ Pricing [2026]: $39/User + the Credit Cliff

Last updated: September 1, 2026. Prices verified on 2026-08-07 against LeadIQ's published pricing page at leadiq.com/pricing. LeadIQ replaced its per-seat Essential and Pro tiers with a single Universal Credits slider since this guide first published in March 2026. Every number below reflects what LeadIQ shows today.

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 plan price. That is a materially better deal for small teams and a materially different comparison than the one most articles are still running.

What does LeadIQ cost in 2026?

LeadIQ costs $0 for Free, from $15.00 per month for Pro on annual billing, and a custom quote for Enterprise, per leadiq.com/pricing on August 7, 2026. Pro is sold on a credit slider: the default position is 2,400 Universal Credits per year at $15.00 per month with annual billing, which LeadIQ labels "Annual billing (25% off)". Switch the toggle to monthly and the same default becomes 200 credits per month at $20.00 per month. The slider runs from 2,400 up to 81,000 credits per year before it hands you to Enterprise. Every plan carries a 30-day free trial.

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 a comparison article still quotes those, it is describing LeadIQ's 2024-2025 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.

What does LeadIQ cost per contact?

LeadIQ costs $75.00 per 1,000 verified emails on Pro annual and $100.00 per 1,000 on Pro monthly, using LeadIQ's published prices and its published 1-credit-per-email rate. Phone numbers cost ten times that. Here is the arithmetic in full.

Read that table the right way round. LeadIQ's entry subscription is cheaper in absolute dollars: $15 a month buys you in the door where Cleanlist's Starter is $79. What you get for it is 200 credits a month against 1,500. Per credit, Cleanlist is roughly 30% cheaper at monthly list and roughly half the price on annual billing.

Is LeadIQ still priced per user?

No. LeadIQ Pro includes up to 5 users at the plan price as of August 7, 2026, and the Free plan is 1 user. The per-seat model that defined LeadIQ's cost curve, where every SDR, AE and manager needed a paid seat, is gone from the published pricing. What scales now is credit consumption, not headcount: 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 instead.

How does the LeadIQ credit slider work?

LeadIQ's pricing page is a slider rather than a fixed tier list. You set the credit volume you need and the price follows. On the annual view the stops run 2,400, 6,000, 12,000, 18,000, 24,000, 30,000, 36,000, 42,000, 48,000, 54,000, 66,000 and 81,000 credits per year, after which the page routes you to Enterprise. On the monthly view the same slider starts at 200 credits per month. The practical consequence is that there is no single "LeadIQ price": there is a price for your volume. Before you compare it to anything, decide how many phone reveals you need, multiply by 10, add your email reveals, and read the slider at that number.

Does LeadIQ have a free plan?

Yes. LeadIQ's free plan is $0 for 1 user with 50 Universal Credits and no credit card, and LeadIQ says setup takes under 5 minutes. Fifty credits is 50 email reveals, or 5 phone reveals, or one contact with both plus 39 emails. It is a product tour rather than a working tier, which is normal for the category. LeadIQ also offers a 30-day free trial on any plan, which is one of the more generous trial windows published in B2B contact data. Every new Cleanlist workspace opens on Scale for 14 days with 250 credits and 3 seats, also with no card, then keeps 30 credits a month on the Free plan, 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 resolves contacts from its own data rather than cascading across external providers. If the contact is not there, the lookup returns nothing. Waterfall enrichment platforms query providers in sequence so a miss at provider one is covered by provider two, which is the architecture behind Cleanlist's 98% verified email and 85% direct-dial product specs.

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.

“Single-source data providers will always have coverage gaps. The shift to waterfall enrichment isn't about having more data, it's about having the right data for each specific contact. Different providers excel in different segments.”

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 seats included is one of the cheapest published entry points in the category. It gets expensive on phone-led motions, where the published 10-credit dial pushes cost per contact to roughly $750 per 1,000 direct dials on the same plan.

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 four 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, Lusha at 5, LeadIQ and Cleanlist 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 three below. For the full field, see our LeadIQ alternatives page.

Cleanlist, best for broad enrichment on a shared credit pool

Cleanlist 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 is what you are buying, LeadIQ's integration is still better and that is worth paying for. If cost per verified record is what you are buying, Cleanlist's credits are cheaper and searching is free. Compare Cleanlist vs LeadIQ side by side.

Before you sign an annual LeadIQ contract, test Cleanlist free. 14 days on Scale with 250 credits and three seats, no credit card, no per-user fees. Run both tools against the same 250 contacts and see which data you would actually trust. Start the 14-day trial →

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 four 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, best for quick LinkedIn prospecting

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.

Good fit for individual reps or small teams who prospect one contact at a time through the Chrome extension. See the full Lusha pricing breakdown.

“Per-seat pricing made sense when data tools were used by individual reps. Now that RevOps, marketing, and customer success all need access, per-seat models create artificial barriers. The market is shifting to usage-based pricing for good reason.”

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does LeadIQ cost per month?

LeadIQ Pro starts at $15.00 per month on annual billing for 2,400 Universal Credits per year, or $20.00 per month on monthly billing for 200 credits per month, with up to 5 users included. Free is $0 for 1 user with 50 credits. Enterprise is quote-only and annual plan only. Prices verified against leadiq.com/pricing on August 7, 2026.

Does LeadIQ still have an Essential plan?

No. LeadIQ publishes three tiers as of August 7, 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. Fifty Universal Credits for one user, no credit card, and LeadIQ says setup takes under five minutes. Fifty credits is 50 email reveals or 5 phone reveals. LeadIQ also offers a 30-day free trial on any paid plan, 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 seats 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?

On absolute subscription, LeadIQ's own $15 Pro is hard to undercut. On cost per verified record, Cleanlist is cheaper: $52.67 per 1,000 emails at monthly list against LeadIQ's $75.00 on annual billing, plus free search, 1-credit company enrichment against LeadIQ's 3, and waterfall enrichment across 25+ providers. Every new workspace opens on Scale for 14 days with 250 credits and 3 seats, no card, and the Free plan after it is 30 credits a month.

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

The thing to price carefully is the phone credit. At 10 credits a dial, LeadIQ's slider moves fast for calling teams, and the cheap headline stops being the relevant number. If your motion is email-led and Salesforce-shaped, LeadIQ is a strong buy. If it is dial-led or CRM-agnostic, run the cost-per-record math in the table above before you commit to an annual position on the slider.

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