RocketReach Pricing [2026]: All 4 Plans + 6 Hidden Costs

Last updated: August 10, 2026. RocketReach prices verified on 2026-08-07 against RocketReach's published pricing page at rocketreach.co/pricing. The profile-removal route was re-checked against RocketReach's privacy policy on 2026-08-10. RocketReach lowered its published prices and doubled the Ultimate export cap since this guide first published in March 2026, and it now shows a working monthly billing toggle. Every figure below reflects what the page showed on those capture dates.

RocketReach has built one of the largest contact databases in B2B. Its own pricing page describes searching "from 700 million professionals and 35 million companies" with "100+ filters".

Having a big database and having affordable access to it are two different things. With RocketReach the number that decides your bill is the export cap. The database size and the lookup count do not price the plan. Cleanlist has no export cap at all: search costs 0 credits on every plan including the free tier, and the meter only starts when a record is enriched.

Cleanlist sits on the other side of that trade. Cleanlist charges $79, $229 or $599 a month for a shared credit pool and bundles seats into the plan (2 on Starter, 5 on Pro, 10 on Scale, $20 a month for each seat beyond that), runs each record through a waterfall of 9 external data providers rather than one database, and charges only when a verified result comes back. On the Cleanlist 500-Lead Enrichment Benchmark, 500 stratified B2B leads, that waterfall returned a verified email for 98% of leads and a direct dial for 85%, against 70-80% email and 30-60% phone for single-source providers on identical input. Here is the full RocketReach price list with the Cleanlist number next to each part of it.

What does RocketReach cost per month?

For the searcher who just wants the number: RocketReach costs $27 per month for Essentials (email only), $69 per month for Pro (email and phone) and $142 per month for Ultimate, all billed annually at $329, $829 and $1,699 per year. The free tier is 5 lookups with no credit card. Monthly billing is available: RocketReach's own FAQ says you can "upgrade your account at any time to billing that is either monthly or annual", and the pricing page carries a Monthly/Annually toggle.

For a 5-person team, the annual cost lands at:

RocketReach publishes a seat discount on the pricing page ("Add 1 Seat - Save 5%"), so multi-seat teams will land slightly below those straight multiples. Cleanlist's equivalent for that same 5-rep team is $1,668 per year on the Starter plan: $79 a month for 1,500 credits shared by everyone in the workspace, plus $20 a month for each of the three seats past the two Starter includes, with email and phone drawn from the same balance and no annual contract. Cleanlist Pro at $229 a month includes five seats outright and 5,000 credits, which is $2,748 a year for the same headcount.

How much does RocketReach cost in 2026?

RocketReach costs $27 per user per month for Essentials (email only, 1,200 exports per year), $69 per user per month for Pro (email and phone, 3,600 exports per year) and $142 per user per month for Ultimate (email and phone, 20,000 exports per year), each billed annually. The free tier gives 5 lookups per month with no credit card required. Cleanlist prices the credit pool and bundles seats into it: $79 a month on Starter with 2 seats, $229 on Pro with 5 and $599 on Scale with 10, each extra seat $20 a month, 25% off on annual billing, with a permanent free tier of 30 credits a month and no card. Four RocketReach Pro seats run $276 a month, which is more than Cleanlist Pro at $229 with five seats already included.

RocketReach publishes three self-serve plans plus a free tier and a custom team plan.

These prices are per user. Monthly billing is available through the toggle on the same page, where the plans meter 100, 250 and 1,000 lookups and exports per month instead of unlimited lookups against an annual export pool. Cleanlist prices seats in bundles rather than per head: $79, $229 and $599 a month carry 2, 5 and 10 seats, extra seats are $20 a month each, and the usage meter is credits alone, at 0 for a search, 1 for a verified email with LinkedIn, title and company, 10 for a phone number alone and 11 for both.

Does RocketReach offer monthly billing?

Yes. RocketReach's pricing page has a Monthly/Annually toggle and its FAQ states that after signing up you can "upgrade your account at any time to billing that is either monthly or annual". This corrects a claim that circulated widely in 2026 comparison content, including an earlier version of this guide, that RocketReach was annual-only. On monthly billing the plans are metered differently: Essentials gives 100 lookups and 100 exports per month, Pro gives 250 and 250, and Ultimate gives 1,000 and 1,000. RocketReach's cancellation FAQ notes that because you prepay for a term, "cancellation takes effect the following term", so a monthly plan is cancellable at the end of the month rather than mid-term. Cleanlist bills monthly by default at $79, $229 or $599 with no contract and no minimum term, and takes 25% off for annual payment, which puts Starter at $59.25 a month equivalent.

How do RocketReach lookups and exports work?

RocketReach meters two separate things, and only one of them binds. On annual billing the plans advertise unlimited lookups, so the number that actually caps your usage is the export allowance: 1,200 per year on Essentials, 3,600 on Pro and 20,000 on Ultimate. A lookup reveals a contact in the app; an export is what puts that contact into your CSV or CRM. RocketReach's own FAQ also states that "a lookup is used if we find and verify email or phone, otherwise it is refunded", so an empty result does not consume the credit. Cleanlist meters one thing instead of two: search costs 0 credits on every plan, and enrichment is charged per result at 1 credit for a verified email with LinkedIn, title and company, 10 credits for a phone number alone and 11 credits for both.

How many lookups do you get on RocketReach?

On annual billing RocketReach advertises unlimited lookups on all three paid plans, so the number that matters is the export allowance: 1,200 a year on Essentials, 3,600 on Pro and 20,000 on Ultimate, per rocketreach.co/pricing captured on August 7, 2026. Switch to the monthly toggle and lookups become metered at 100, 250 and 1,000 a month. The free tier is 5 lookups. Cleanlist does not meter lookups at all. Searching in People Search costs 0 credits on every plan including the free tier, and the meter only starts when you enrich a record. Starter is $79 a month for 1,500 credits shared across the whole team, which is 1,500 verified emails at 1 credit each.

What does RocketReach cost per 1,000 contacts?

The spread inside a single vendor's own price list is 3.2x. Ultimate is competitively priced per record, Essentials is expensive per record, and Essentials is the tier most solo buyers land on. Cleanlist Starter works out to $52.67 per 1,000 verified emails at list ($79 a month for 1,500 credits at 1 credit per email) and $39.50 per 1,000 on annual billing with the 25% discount. Records that also need a direct dial cost 11 credits each, so Starter's 1,500 credits cover 136 contacts a month with both email and phone.

Is RocketReach free to use?

Yes, at 5 contacts a month. RocketReach's free tier gives 5 lookups with no credit card, email only, and no bulk lookups, per its pricing page captured on August 7, 2026. Five lookups is enough to see the interface and too few to test match rates on your own list, which is the only test that predicts your bill. Cleanlist's free tier is 30 credits a month with no credit card and no sales call, which covers 30 verified emails at 1 credit per record, and search costs 0 credits on the free tier as well, so searching and filtering never touches the balance. Free lists hold up to 100 leads and Starter at $79 a month raises that to 2,500 per list. That is six times the free sample at the same price of $0.

Does RocketReach have a free trial?

RocketReach publishes a free tier rather than a time-limited trial of a paid plan. Its pricing page shows a $0 plan with 5 lookups, and its FAQ describes creating an account with 5 free lookups that you can upgrade "to billing that is either monthly or annual" at any time. We found no published time-boxed trial of Essentials, Pro or Ultimate on rocketreach.co/pricing when we captured it on August 7, 2026, so treat any article promising a 7-day or 14-day RocketReach trial as unverified. Cleanlist answers the same question with a permanent free tier: 30 credits a month, no credit card, and paid plans that start at $79 a month with no annual commitment, so a full month of Starter costs $79 to test.

What are the hidden costs of RocketReach?

1. The export cap is the real price, not the lookup count

"Unlimited lookups" reads generous and prices nothing. The binding constraint on every annual plan is exports, and RocketReach publishes both numbers side by side without saying which one you will hit first. You will hit exports: 1,200 a year on Essentials is 100 records a month. Cleanlist publishes one number instead of two, 1,500 credits a month on Starter at $79, and search never touches it.

2. Email-only on the entry plan

Essentials at $27 per month provides email addresses only. Phone numbers start at Pro. If your SDRs need direct dials, that is a 2.6x jump from $27 to $69 before any other consideration. On Cleanlist every plan from Starter at $79 can pull phone numbers, priced per result at 10 credits for a phone alone or 11 for email and phone together, so phone access is a line item rather than a tier upgrade.

3. Per-user pricing compounds

Every team member needs a seat. Here is what a typical sales team pays at annual-billing rates.

RocketReach's "Add 1 Seat - Save 5%" discount takes a little off those numbers. It does not change the shape of the curve. Cleanlist charges per workspace with seats bundled into the plan: 2 on Starter at $79, 5 on Pro at $229, 10 on Scale at $599, and $20 a month for each seat past the bundle. Those same 10 people cost $599 a month on Scale with no seat add-ons, or $329 a month on Pro ($229 plus five extra seats), so the curve flattens instead of multiplying.

4. Accuracy you cannot check at meaningful volume before you pay

RocketReach's pricing page states "Verified on demand and in real time. 98% Accuracy." That is a vendor-stated figure measured on its own data, the same class of claim every vendor in this category publishes, us included. Cleanlist's 98% verified email and 85% direct dial come from the Cleanlist 500-Lead Enrichment Benchmark, 500 stratified B2B leads run through the waterfall, and they remain company-stated until a third party re-runs the test. RocketReach's free tier is 5 lookups, which is not enough volume to check either claim against your own list. Cleanlist's 30 free credits a month get you a 30-record sample. Treat published accuracy percentages as marketing until you have run your own.

5. Single-source coverage

RocketReach searches its own database. If a contact is not in those 700 million profiles, the lookup returns nothing (and, per their refund policy, does not cost you a credit, but it also does not get you the contact). Cleanlist runs waterfall enrichment across 15+ providers, so a record that comes back empty at the first provider is passed to the next one in the cascade, and nothing is charged for a record where no provider returns verified data. That architecture is the reason the Cleanlist benchmark returned 98% verified email against 70-80% for single-source providers on identical input.

6. Prepaid terms and the following-term rule

RocketReach lets you cancel at any time, but because you prepay for a month or a year, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current term. On an annual plan bought in January, a cancellation in March still runs to December. Cleanlist monthly plans at $79, $229 and $599 carry no minimum term, and the 25% annual discount is optional rather than the default price.

Is RocketReach legit?

RocketReach is a real, contactable company. Its privacy policy, checked on August 10, 2026, lists a US mailing address at 144 N 7th St, PO #421, Brooklyn, NY 11211, a phone line on (833) 212-3828, a privacy contact at privacy@rocketreach.co and a working profile-removal form. It also publishes its prices in public, which ZoomInfo does not: four separate attempts to capture ZoomInfo's pricing page on August 7, 2026 ended at a bot challenge. The question buyers usually mean by "legit" is whether the data is accurate, and there the honest answer is that RocketReach's published "98% Accuracy" is measured on its own data, exactly like Cleanlist's 98% verified email and 85% direct dial from our own 500-lead benchmark. Both need a test against your list.

Can I remove my profile from RocketReach?

Yes. RocketReach's privacy policy, checked on August 10, 2026, states "to remove your data please submit a request" and points to rocketreach.co/remove-profile. The same page carries its Do Not Sell or Share My Info tool, the policy routes erasure and anonymization requests through that form, and privacy@rocketreach.co is the fallback contact. The request goes to RocketReach because the profile sits inside RocketReach's own database of, by its own count, 700 million professionals. Cleanlist does not operate a contact database of its own. Each record is assembled at request time across 15+ providers and delivered into one customer's list, so removal means a deletion request under the rights set out in the Cleanlist privacy policy alongside a request to the original source.

How much does the RocketReach API cost?

RocketReach does not publish a per-tier API price. Its plan comparison lists API access in the Data Integrations section and links to its API documentation for rate limits rather than naming a plan gate, as captured on August 7, 2026. Treat any article that names a specific tier as the API minimum with caution and confirm with RocketReach before you buy. Cleanlist publishes the opposite arrangement. Programmatic access to the public Cleanlist API v2 and API-key creation sit on the Pro plan at $229 a month and above (or an AppSumo Tier 5+ license), self-serve from the dashboard with no approval queue and no sales call. The Cleanlist MCP server is gated by account type rather than plan tier, so it runs on self-serve accounts including the $0 free tier. Both draw on the same credit balance as the app: search 0 credits, a verified email 1, a phone 10, both 11. The MCP server's estimate_cost call returns a quote and your remaining balance before a bulk job spends anything. The API v2 takes structured filters. There is no natural-language endpoint on it, and no v2 webhooks: enrichment jobs are polled.

Is RocketReach worth it?

RocketReach is worth it on Ultimate, where $1,699 a year for 20,000 exports works out to $84.95 per 1,000 records and includes phone data. It is poor value on Essentials, where $329 a year for 1,200 email-only exports works out to $274.17 per 1,000, which is one of the higher per-record prices in the category for the narrowest data. The flat-rate comparison: Cleanlist Starter is $79 a month with two seats included and $20 a month for each extra one, so five reps run $1,668 a year against $4,145 for five reps on RocketReach Pro, with email and phone drawn from one shared balance.

RocketReach is a solid choice if:

• You export at volume and can justify the Ultimate tier
• You want a large single database with strong search filters
• You value the refund-on-empty-result policy over per-search billing
• Only one or two people need access

RocketReach gets expensive when:

• You are on Essentials, where the per-record cost is highest
• You need phone numbers, which forces the jump from $27 to $69
• Your team has 3+ people who each need a seat
• You want waterfall enrichment across multiple data sources rather than one database

How does RocketReach compare with Cleanlist and Apollo on price?

Apollo is the cheapest per credit at list, though which of its two published email rates applies decides whether that is $19.60 or $39.20 per 1,000. RocketReach Ultimate is competitive at volume. Cleanlist is the only row in that table where seats come bundled with the plan rather than billed per head, and the seat multiplier is what decides the total: five RocketReach Pro seats cost $4,145 a year against $1,668 for five seats on Cleanlist Starter, or $2,748 on Cleanlist Pro where five seats are included. The comparison that matters for most buyers is total spend at their real volume, seats included.

What is a cheaper alternative to RocketReach?

The strongest alternative on total team cost is Cleanlist at $79 a month for 1,500 credits covering email, phone and free search, with two seats included and $20 a month for each seat after that, against RocketReach Pro at $69 per user per month. For a 5-rep team that is $1,668 a year against $4,145 a year. Per record, Cleanlist Starter is $52.67 per 1,000 verified emails at list against RocketReach Pro's $230.28 per 1,000 exports, with 98% verified email coverage on the Cleanlist 500-lead benchmark drawn from a 15+ provider waterfall rather than a single database. See the full Cleanlist vs RocketReach comparison.

Is there a free RocketReach alternative?

Free means two different things in this category. RocketReach's free tier is 5 lookups a month, email only, no bulk. Cleanlist's free tier is 30 credits a month with no credit card and no sales call, which is 30 verified emails at 1 credit each, and search costs 0 credits so building and filtering the list beforehand is unmetered. No free tier in this category is sized to run an outbound program. The useful thing to do with one is a match-rate test: take 25 contacts whose email you already know is correct, run them through each tool, and count what comes back verified. RocketReach's 5 free lookups cap that test at five contacts. Cleanlist's 30 credits cover all 25 with change left over, and the same test at 500 leads returned 98% verified email and 85% direct dial.

How do Cleanlist credits compare to RocketReach exports?

RocketReach meters exports. Cleanlist meters results. On RocketReach Pro at $829 a year you get 3,600 exports, and an export is spent on any record you pull down, useful or not. Cleanlist Starter is $79 a month for 1,500 credits shared by the whole team, priced by what actually comes back: 1 credit for a verified email with LinkedIn, title and company, 10 credits for a phone number on its own, 11 credits for both. Search costs 0 credits, and a record where the 15+ provider waterfall finds no verified data costs nothing. In practice 1,500 credits is 1,500 verified emails a month, or 136 contacts with both email and a direct dial.

What are the best alternatives to RocketReach?

How does Cleanlist compare to RocketReach on price?

Cleanlist uses waterfall enrichment across 9 external data providers to find email and phone data for each contact. Seats come bundled with the plan instead of billed per head, and searching costs 0 credits. Search by name, title or company in People Search, then export to your CRM.

Both vendors publish a 98% figure and both measure it on their own data. The difference worth arguing about is architecture: one database against a cascade of 15+ providers. Compare Cleanlist vs RocketReach in detail, or explore RocketReach alternatives.

Worth testing before you commit: Cleanlist's free tier is 30 credits a month, no credit card, no sales call, no annual contract. Enrich 30 leads free →

Is Apollo cheaper than RocketReach?

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, per apollo.io/pricing on August 7, 2026. Apollo publishes two different email rates on that same page. The plan table and FAQ say an email reveal costs 1 credit (a company record 1, a phone number 8), while the enrichment calculator further down the page says "Email: 2 credits per record (enrichment + waterfall verification)". At 1 credit that is $19.60 per 1,000 emails on Basic annual; at the calculator's 2 credits it is $39.20. Both figures are Apollo's own, and a bulk enrichment budget should assume the higher one. Cleanlist Starter is $79 a month for 1,500 credits, which works out to $52.67 per 1,000 verified emails with no per-seat multiplier on the first two seats and $20 a month for each one after.

Apollo's strength is the all-in-one workflow with sequences and a dialer bundled in. Its weakness is per-seat pricing and the same single-database ceiling on coverage that RocketReach has. Cleanlist sits between the two on price at $79 a month with two seats included and takes a different route to coverage, querying 15+ providers per record. See the Cleanlist vs Apollo comparison or the full Apollo pricing guide.

When is Hunter a better fit than RocketReach?

Hunter is a focused email finder and verifier with domain-based search and built-in cold email campaigns. It is a good fit when business email addresses are the entire requirement and phone data is out of scope. We put it head to head with rivals in our best email finder tools guide, and directly against RocketReach in RocketReach vs Hunter. For options that add phone coverage, see Hunter alternatives. Cleanlist covers both jobs on one balance, at 1 credit for a verified email and 11 for email plus direct dial.

Database size is the wrong first question. What decides the outcome is coverage for your specific ICP and accuracy on the contacts you actually email. That is why Cleanlist queries 15+ providers per record and charges only when verified data comes back.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does RocketReach cost per month?

RocketReach Essentials costs $27 per month billed annually ($329 per year) for 1,200 email-only exports per year. Pro costs $69 per month billed annually ($829 per year) and adds phone numbers with 3,600 exports per year. Ultimate costs $142 per month billed annually ($1,699 per year) with 20,000 exports per year. All prices are per user, verified against rocketreach.co/pricing on August 7, 2026. Cleanlist's comparable monthly prices are $79, $229 and $599, carrying 2, 5 and 10 seats respectively with extra seats at $20 a month.

Does RocketReach have a free plan?

Yes. RocketReach's free tier gives 5 lookups with no credit card required. It is email-only and does not include bulk lookups. RocketReach's own FAQ describes it as free to create an account with 5 free lookups, upgradeable to monthly or annual billing at any time. Cleanlist's free plan is 30 credits a month, also with no credit card, and search costs 0 credits on it.

Can you pay for RocketReach monthly?

Yes. RocketReach's pricing page carries a Monthly/Annually toggle, and its FAQ states you can upgrade "to billing that is either monthly or annual". On the monthly toggle the plans meter 100, 250 and 1,000 lookups and exports per month for Essentials, Pro and Ultimate respectively, instead of unlimited lookups against an annual export pool. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current prepaid term. Cleanlist is monthly by default at $79, $229 and $599 with no minimum term, and 25% cheaper if you pay annually.

Is RocketReach worth the price?

It depends entirely on the tier. Ultimate at $1,699 a year for 20,000 exports is $84.95 per 1,000 records including phone, which is competitive. Essentials at $329 a year for 1,200 email-only exports is $274.17 per 1,000, which is expensive for the narrowest data in the lineup. For teams, per-user pricing means a 5-rep Pro deployment costs $4,145 a year, against $1,668 for five seats on Cleanlist Starter, where two seats are included and each extra one is $20 a month.

What is the cheapest RocketReach alternative?

Cleanlist at $79 a month for 1,500 credits including verified emails and phone numbers, with two seats included, $20 a month for each seat after that, and no annual contract. Per record that is $52.67 per 1,000 verified emails at list, or $39.50 on annual billing. The free tier is 30 credits a month with no credit card.

Does RocketReach charge for lookups that fail?

No. RocketReach's pricing FAQ states that "a lookup is used if we find and verify email or phone, otherwise it is refunded". An empty result does not consume the credit. Cleanlist bills the same way: enrichment is pay-for-results, so a record where the 15+ provider waterfall returns nothing verified costs 0 credits, and search costs 0 credits whether it finds anyone or not. This matters more than the sticker price, because it changes the effective cost per usable record.

Is RocketReach more accurate than Apollo?

Both publish accuracy claims measured on their own data, so neither number tells you much about your list. RocketReach's pricing page states "98% Accuracy" and describes searching "from 700 million professionals and 35 million companies". Apollo does not publish an accuracy percentage on its pricing page. Database size does not correlate directly with accuracy for your specific contacts. Both are single-database tools, which is the structural difference against waterfall enrichment platforms like Cleanlist, which checks 15+ providers per record and returned a verified email for 98% of leads on the Cleanlist 500-lead benchmark.

Does RocketReach provide phone numbers?

Phone numbers are available on Pro ($69 per month billed annually) and Ultimate ($142 per month). The entry-level Essentials plan at $27 per month is email-only. RocketReach's plan cards describe Pro and Ultimate as including "unlimited mobile and direct phone numbers", metered against the same export cap as emails. On Cleanlist phone is priced per result on every plan from $79 a month, at 10 credits for a phone number alone or 11 for email and phone together, with 85% direct dial coverage on the 500-lead benchmark.

Why is RocketReach expensive for teams?

Because pricing is per user and the entry tier is email-only. A 5-person team that needs phone data is on Pro, which is $4,145 a year at annual-billing rates. Cleanlist shares one credit pool across the workspace and bundles seats into the plan: $79 a month on Starter with 2 seats, $229 on Pro with 5, $599 on Scale with 10, and $20 a month for each seat past the bundle. A 5-person team on Cleanlist Pro is $2,748 a year with every seat included.

Can an AI agent pull B2B contact data directly?

Yes, through MCP. Cleanlist runs an MCP server that exposes people search, company search and enrichment to Claude and other MCP clients on the same credit balance as the app: search 0 credits, a verified email 1, a phone number 10, both 11, and an estimate_cost call that returns a quote and your remaining balance before a bulk job spends anything. Cleanlist is not alone in this. ZoomInfo shipped native Claude and OpenAI Codex MCP integrations and now trades as NASDAQ: GTM (ZoomInfo Q2 2026 results, filed August 5, 2026). The practical difference is the entry point: Cleanlist is self-serve with no annual contract, and the MCP server is gated by account type rather than plan tier, so it works on the $0 free tier with its 30 credits a month. For CRM integrations or outbound automation, the Cleanlist API v2 takes structured filters and runs on the same per-result pricing, with API keys available from the Pro plan at $229 a month.

How does RocketReach pricing compare to Apollo?

Apollo publishes $49 per seat per month on annual billing for Basic (or $65 monthly) with 30,000 credits per seat per year, against RocketReach Essentials at $27 per month with 1,200 email-only exports per year. Apollo publishes two email rates: 1 credit per reveal in its plan table and FAQ, which works out to roughly $19.60 per 1,000 emails on Basic annual, and 2 credits per record in its enrichment calculator, which works out to $39.20. Either figure sits well under RocketReach Essentials at $274.17. Apollo also bundles sequences and a dialer. RocketReach's advantage is the refund-on-empty-result policy and a larger published profile count. Both bill a full license per rep, while Cleanlist bundles 2, 5 or 10 seats into the plan and charges $20 a month for each seat after that.

Is RocketReach cheaper than ZoomInfo?

RocketReach publishes a price and ZoomInfo does not, which makes a direct comparison impossible from public information. When we tried to capture ZoomInfo's pricing page on August 7, 2026, four separate attempts (curl with a browser user agent, curl with a Googlebot user agent, a server-side fetch, and a real headless Chromium session) all failed, the last one rendering only a "Press and hold to confirm you are a human" challenge. What ZoomInfo does disclose is financial: GAAP revenue of $310.4M, up 1.2% year over year, a $650.5M goodwill impairment, a GAAP operating loss of $622.0M, net revenue retention of 89% and 1,891 customers at $100K or more in annual contract value, down 9 quarter over quarter (ZoomInfo Q2 2026 results, filed August 5, 2026). Any ZoomInfo seat price you see quoted comes from a third party. RocketReach's most expensive published plan is $1,699 per user per year and its Custom Team plans "start at $6K annually". Cleanlist publishes every tier: $79, $229 and $599 a month, carrying 2, 5 and 10 seats, with any extra seat listed at $20 a month.

What is the real cost of RocketReach for a small team?

At annual-billing rates: a solo founder on Essentials pays $329 a year for 1,200 email-only exports. A 2-rep team needing phone data pays $1,658 a year on Pro. A 5-rep SDR team on Pro pays $4,145 a year, and most teams add a sequencer and a verifier on top of that. A 10-rep team on Pro pays $8,290 a year. At that scale the comparison is usually against consolidating onto a bundled-seat plan: Cleanlist Pro is $229 a month with five seats included, so ten seats on Pro is $329 a month ($229 plus five extra seats at $20), or $3,948 a year.

RocketReach's database is genuinely large, the refund-on-empty-result policy is better than most of the category, and Ultimate is priced sensibly at volume.

The structural problem is the shape of the entry tier. Essentials is email-only, capped at 1,200 exports a year and priced at $274.17 per 1,000 records, which is the most expensive per-record position on RocketReach's own price list. If you are an individual doing 100 lookups a month, that is fine. If you are building an SDR team and need verified email and phone without paying a full license per head, Cleanlist's bundled-seat pricing delivers more records per dollar.

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