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Cleanlist People Search exposes about 24 distinct filter fields, which the rest of this site rounds to 20+. They fall into seven groups: person and identity (first name, last name, LinkedIn URL, company name), job title and seniority (title contains, exact or similar, plus exclusions, and the seniority ladder Owner-Partner, CXO, VP, Director, Manager, Senior, Entry), years in role, company headcount in eight bands from 1-10 up to 10,001+, contact and company-HQ location by country, state and city with exclusions, industry on the LinkedIn taxonomy with exclusions, skills, years of experience, connections, recently changed jobs and certifications, and finally education (degree, school, field of study) and past titles and past companies.

No. Running a people search in Cleanlist costs 0 credits, so you can search, refine the filters and search again without spending anything. Credits are only charged when you keep something: 0.5 credits to save a newly added lead to a list, 1 credit for a verified email, 10 for a phone number, 11 for a full contact record with both, 1 for a company enrichment, and 0.2 per lead to sync to a CRM. Every new account gets 30 credits a month on the free plan, no card required.

Charging at export rather than at search is the norm in this category. Apollo's own pricing page, fetched August 7 2026, says export credits are consumed “whenever you export a contact outside of Apollo” (apollo.io/pricing). The Cleanlist difference is that the exploration in front of that is free and metered at zero.

In the Cleanlist app there is no credit cost per search, so the practical ceiling is your own time rather than a quota. The limits that do exist are on the volume you keep and on the public API. Free accounts hold 100 leads per list, Starter and Pro hold 2,500 per list, and Scale is unlimited. On the REST API, each API key is capped at 60 People Searches per UTC day, your organisation is limited to 60 requests per minute, and any single key to 30 requests per minute. If you are running a large sweep, filter down in the app first and reserve API calls for the searches you intend to enrich.

A Cleanlist search returns the profile side of each match for free: name, current job title, current company, the company industry on the LinkedIn taxonomy, the company headcount band, location, and the LinkedIn profile the record is keyed to. That is enough to judge fit, count your addressable set and decide which slice is worth buying. What you do not get for free is the reachable contact data. The verified work email (1 credit), the direct-dial phone (10 credits) and the full record (11 credits) are resolved at enrichment time through the waterfall, not held in advance. Cleanlist does not own or resell a contact database, so nothing is sitting in a table waiting to be unlocked.

Four steps, and only the last two cost anything. First, filter until the result set is the shape you want, which is free. Second, select the matches and save them to a lead list at 0.5 credits per newly added lead. Third, run bulk enrichment across the whole list in one job and pick the mode: email only (1 credit), phone only (10) or both (11). Fourth, export to CSV or JSON, or sync to HubSpot, Salesforce or Outreach at 0.2 credits per lead. The enrichment job is asynchronous, so you dispatch it and collect results rather than watching row by row. Bulk enrichment is the step that turns a search into pipeline, and it is the step most first-time searchers skip.

Sales Navigator is a search and messaging surface that lives inside LinkedIn. Cleanlist People Search is a search surface that hands off to a bulk enrichment run and a CRM export. LinkedIn's own plan comparison, fetched August 7 2026, lists Sales Navigator Core at $119.99 per month per licence and Advanced at $159.99 per month, with 50+ advanced search filters and 50 InMail credits a month (business.linkedin.com). That page lists no verified work email addresses and no direct-dial phone numbers among plan features. Cleanlist Starter is $79 a month, search costs 0 credits, and the output is a deliverable email or phone number. Cleanlist also imports an existing Sales Navigator list, so the two are commonly used together rather than swapped.

Yes in the Cleanlist app, no on the REST API. AI Search in the app takes a plain-English description such as “VPs of Sales at software companies in the United States with 201 to 500 employees” and translates it into the same structured filter fields you would have set by hand. AI Search is gated to Starter ($79/mo) and above; the free plan uses the filter form directly. The public REST API has no natural-language endpoint at all: POST /search/people takes structured filters only. Through the Cleanlist MCP server, Claude reads your request and calls the structured search tool for you, which is natural language by delegation rather than a natural-language endpoint.

Cleanlist queries a licensed live people index at search time rather than serving rows from a database Cleanlist owns, and every email is re-verified through the waterfall at the moment you enrich rather than at the moment the record was collected. That ordering matters because B2B records rot fast: Cognism, citing HubSpot, puts the rate at 22.5% of B2B data going bad each year (cognism.com/blog/data-decay, updated May 20 2026). You can filter for people who recently changed jobs, but that is a query-time filter. Cleanlist does not monitor a saved list and alert you when someone in it moves.

You are not charged for them. Cleanlist enrichment is pay-for-results: the credits shown when a job is dispatched are a maximum reservation, and the actual charge can be lower or zero if no new data comes back. A lead the 15+ provider waterfall cannot resolve stays in your list with the profile fields the search already returned, so it is still usable for LinkedIn touches or account mapping. From there you have three options: try a phone number instead (10 credits), run an AI column to research something specific about that person or company, or drop the row. Nothing is silently billed for a blank.

Cleanlist syncs enriched lists natively to HubSpot, Salesforce and Outreach, and to Lemlist on the sequencer side, at 0.2 credits per lead. For anything else, export the list to CSV or JSON and import it on the other end; that path costs nothing beyond the enrichment itself. The same sync endpoints are available on the REST API, so a nightly job can search, enrich and push without anyone opening the app. Cleanlist does not send email, hold an inbox or dial numbers, so the CRM or the sequencer stays the system of record for outreach and Cleanlist stays the layer that fills it with deliverable contact data.

Yes, and no, the filter sets are different. Company Search is a separate surface with a smaller set of dimensions than People Search. It filters on firmographics that are actually indexed: industry, headcount band, HQ location, company name, domain, company type and year founded. It does not filter on revenue, tech stack, funding stage or intent, because those are not in the index. Company Search costs 0 credits like people search, and enriching a single company from its domain costs 1 credit. The usual pattern is to build the account list first, then run People Search filtered by company name and seniority to pull the buying committee inside each account.

Yes. POST /search/people on the Cleanlist REST API v2 takes the same structured filter fields as the app and costs 0 credits, and GET /search/people/filters returns the current allowlist so you never have to guess a key name. Each API key is capped at 60 People Searches per UTC day. Enrichment is asynchronous: dispatch to /enrichment/bulk, then poll /enrichment/status. There are no v2 webhooks, so polling is the only delivery mechanism. There is no natural-language endpoint. API access starts on the Pro plan at $229 a month. Full endpoint list on the Cleanlist API page.

Cleanlist owns no contact database, so there is no headline record count to quote and nothing to license in bulk. There is no revenue filter, no funding-stage filter, no tech-stack or technographic filter and no intent data of any kind, because none of those are indexed fields. There is no department or job-function picker; job title is the proxy. Recently changed jobs is a filter you can query, not an alert you can subscribe to. And Cleanlist does not send email, run an inbox, dial phones or hold a sequencer. It finds people, verifies how to reach them, and pushes them into the tool that does the outreach.

Cleanlist Free is $0 with 30 credits a month, 1 seat and 100 leads per list, no card required. Starter is $79 a month with 1,500 credits and adds AI Search. Pro is $229 a month with 5,000 credits and adds REST API access. Scale is $599 a month with 15,000 credits. Annual billing is 25% off. Search itself costs 0 credits on every plan that includes People Search, which is Starter and above, so the plan you pick is a function of how many leads you intend to save and enrich, not how much you intend to look. A sitewide sale is running until August 31 2026: code 33FOREVER takes 33% off for life, new customers only.