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40 credits/month
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B2B contact and company data API (about 515.5M contacts, 29M companies) for search-then-reveal email and phone enrichment, ICP prospecting, signals, lookalikes, buying groups, scoring and workspace tables, plus a 50-tool hosted MCP. Best for phone reveals at a flat 5 credits per number.
What a call costs
The actions you pay for, as Lusha prices them in credits.
| Action | Cost | Per |
|---|---|---|
| Verified email reveal | 1 credit | per email address |
| Phone number reveal | 5 credits | per phone number |
| Waterfall vendor email / phone (Data Waterfall) | 2 / 8 credits | per work email / per phone |
| API call (search/prospecting) | 1 credit | per 1-25 results |
| Company profile via API | 1 credit | per company |
| Signals and premium data enrichment | 1 credit | per data point |
| Buyer intent | 1 credit | per intent topic per company/contact |
| AI recommendations | 1 credit | per lead/account |
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| Action | Cost | Per |
|---|---|---|
| ICP Fit Score | 1 credit | per scored record |
| De-anonymized IP (website visitors) | 2 credits | per successful identification |
| Conversation intelligence | 8 credits | per recorded call |
| Export to CSV | 1 credit | per 1-25 results (company/contact) |
| Export to CRM | 1 credit | per result (company/contact) |
| AI search | 1 credit | per 5 prompts |
| Notetaker summary analysis | 1 credit | per 25 recorded meeting summaries |
| Notetaker transcript analysis | 1 credit | per recorded meeting full transcript |
| Signal Score (API) | 1 credit | per scored row (free until seeded on the account) |
| Buying group contact (API) | charged per contact returned (rate not stated) | per contact |
Pricing, plan by plan
US dollars, as Lusha's pricing page shows them on 25 Oct 2026. Monthly and annual billing are shown apart.
Free tier Free: $0, 40 credits per month, 1 seat, no credit card
Starter
$49.90/mo
billed monthly
$37.45/mo
billed annually ($449.10 a year)
400 credits/month (monthly) or 4,800/year upfront (annual); 1 seat
API included
Plan details
Buy credits anytime in account settings
Pro
$69.90/mo
billed monthly
$52.45/mo
billed annually ($629.10 a year)
600 credits/month (roll over up to 2x) or 7,200/year; 2 free seats; adds API, CSV enrichment, Signals, Webhooks
API included
Plan details
Buy credits anytime
Premium
$399.90/mo
billed monthly
$299.95/mo
billed annually ($3,599.10 a year)
3,400 credits/month or 40,800/year at the slider's default position (slider changes the price); 5 free seats; API Advanced
API included
Plan details
Buy credits anytime
Scale
Custom quote
Custom credits; '50%+ off price per credit'; SSO, credit allocation, DNC
API included
Rate limits
Account-level (not per key): 25 requests/second default on all endpoints; /account/usage 5/min; Webhooks API 100/min; webhook bulk create/delete 25 items per request.
| Limit | Free | Starter | Pro / Premium / Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Api | Strict rate limits | Strict rate limits | Default limits; higher hourly/daily quotas on higher tiers via account manager |
More on limitsLess
Hourly and daily quotas vary by plan and are returned in x-rate-limit-minute/hourly/daily and x-*-requests-left headers. Free and Starter API has 'Strict rate limits' per the pricing table.
How to get an API key
Lusha uses API key. The steps below follow Lusha's own docs.
- Create a Lusha account. The Free plan includes API access.
- Lusha API Dashboard dashboard.lusha.com/api/manage-api-keys (only admins and managers with API feature access can see it)
- Send it with every request: header
api_key(lowercase, underscore; other casings are rejected). MCP: OAuth for Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, orx-api-keyheader for other clients. - Make a first call: Find contacts by identifier; non-PII preview with has/canReveal. Keep the key in an environment variable, never in the command.
curl -X POST "https://api.lusha.com/v3/contacts/search" \ -H "api_key: $LUSHA_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{}'
Where the docs live
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Documentation | docs.lusha.com/index.md |
| API reference | docs.lusha.com/api-reference/overview.md |
| OpenAPI spec | docs.lusha.com/openapi.json |
| llms.txt | docs.lusha.com/llms.txt |
| Changelog | docs.lusha.com/changelog/overview.md |
| Base URL | https://api.lusha.com |
| MCP server | https://mcp.lusha.com |
Strengths and limits
Where it fits
- Phone (mobile/direct) reveals at a flat 5 credits per number
- Batch enrichment of up to 100 contacts or companies per call, synchronous
- Free previews first: search returns a canReveal cost per field so you only pay for fields that exist
- Signals: job changes, promotions, hiring, headcount, news, weekly intent topics; webhooks for monitored entities
- Agent workflows via the official MCP (OAuth for Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, x-api-key for others)
Where it falls short
- Teams on Free or Starter who need real API throughput: the pricing table marks API there as 'Strict rate limits'
- Field-scoped billing (email only or phone only) unless you are on the Unified Credits plan; otherwise every returned data point is charged
- Very large ICP pulls: prospecting pagination stops at page 1000 x size 100
Worth knowing
- Header is
api_keyexactly (lowercase, underscore). Not Bearer. - Two-step search then enrich: both steps bill. Search is charged per successful result (pricing page: 1 credit per 1-25 results).
- Docs disagree on misses: the Get Started page says minimum 1 credit per request even if no match; the Billing FAQ and Search page say NOT_FOUND is not charged.
- revealEmails / revealPhones (email-only or phone-only billing) are Unified Credits plan only; on other plans they return 403 and every returned data point is charged.
- Data Waterfall (if enabled in the dashboard) silently fills gaps from third-party vendors at higher prices (2 credits/email, 8/phone) and can return an async job; pass waterfallEnabled:false to keep Lusha-only.
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- Rate limits are per account, so every key and integration shares 25 req/s; /account/usage is only 5/min.
- 402 = out of credits, 429 = rate limited, 451 = legal/GDPR restriction.
- V2 is legacy and 'approaching deprecation'; V3 is current. Recommendations need a user-scoped key or OAuth (account-wide keys get 403).
- Annual plans grant credits upfront and reset unused at year end. Monthly rollover (up to 2x) is shown on the Pro and Premium cards and compare table; the Starter card shows no rollover although the FAQ says monthly plans roll over.
- Docs disagree on Buying Group billing: the API FAQ calls results 'free previews', the Buying Group overview and OpenAPI say charged per contact returned.
- Signal Score and Conversations endpoints are free until the action is 'seeded on your account's pricebook', then 1 credit per row / per 25 conversations; check billing.creditsCharged.
Our take
Lusha is the last step in the email chain of an enrichment service we built for a B2B data company, called through an enrichment orchestration platform with the email and phone reveals requested separately.
Who should use it
- Use Lusha for
- Phone (mobile/direct) reveals at a flat 5 credits per number
- Look elsewhere for
- Teams on Free or Starter who need real API throughput: the pricing table marks API there as 'Strict rate limits'
If Lusha is not the answer
Other Sourcing tools in this directory, each with its own review.
AI Ark
Sourcing
Free planOfficial MCP
Best for sizing an ICP for almost nothing: People Preview costs 1 credit per page of up to 100.
AI Ark API review
Apollo
Sourcing
Free planOfficial MCP
Best for people search at 0 credits on paid plans to size and pull prospect lists.
Apollo API review
BlitzAPI
Sourcing
From $99/moOfficial MCP
Best for high-volume list building at a flat monthly price.
BlitzAPI API reviewBefore you build
Four things to settle first, each read off Lusha's own pages.
- Confirm the API is on your planThe Free plan includes API access. Free tier: Free: $0, 40 credits per month, 1 seat, no credit card.
- Keep the key out of your codeAPI key. It is sent as: header
api_key(lowercase, underscore; other casings are rejected). MCP: OAuth for Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, orx-api-keyheader for other clients.. - Design around the rate limitAccount-level (not per key): 25 requests/second default on all endpoints; /account/usage 5/min; Webhooks API 100/min; webhook bulk create/delete 25 items per request.
- Know the catch before you scaleHeader is
api_keyexactly (lowercase, underscore). Not Bearer.
Want us to build it for you?
Tell us what you want Lusha to do in your stack. We will show you how we would wire it into your data, outbound or CRM, and what we would check first.
Read from lusha.com/pricing, docs.lusha.com/api-reference/overview.md and docs.lusha.com/rate-limiting.md. Verified 25 Oct 2026.
All 22 endpointsFor developers: method, path, what it does and what it costs.
| Method | Path | What it does | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /v3/contacts/search | Find contacts by identifier; non-PII preview with has/canReveal | Charged per successful result (api_search); NOT_FOUND not charged. Pricing page: API call 1-25 results = 1 credit |
| POSTasync | /v3/contacts/enrich | Reveal emails and phones for contact IDs from search | Per revealed data point: 1 credit per email, 5 per phone (Lusha data); Waterfall vendor match 2 per work email, 8 per phone; charged once per account |
| GET | /v3/contacts/jobs/{jobId} | Poll async Data Waterfall enrich job | Polling free; async data points billed on the job |
| POST | /v3/contacts/search-and-enrich | Find and reveal contacts in one call | Billing applies at both the search and enrich steps |
| POST | /v3/companies/search | Find companies by id, name or domain (preview) | Per successful result |
| POST | /v3/companies/enrich | Reveal firmographics, employees by department, competitors, intent | Per result (reveal_company; pricing page: 1 credit per company profile via API); extra fields (employeesByDepartment, competitors, intent) charged separately |
| POST | /v3/companies/search-and-enrich | Find and reveal companies in one call | Search + enrich charges |
| POST | /v3/contacts/prospecting | ICP filter search for net-new contacts | Search charge per results page (API call 1-25 results = 1 credit); signal filters charged per matched signal |
| POST | /v3/companies/prospecting | ICP filter search for companies | As contacts prospecting |
| GET | /v3/contacts/prospecting/filters and /v3/companies/prospecting/filters/{filterType} | Discover filter types and valid values | free |
| POST | /v3/contacts/signals and /v3/companies/signals | Signal events: job change, promotion; hiring, headcount, traffic, news, weekly intent changes | Per matched signal per result (no match, no charge) |
| POST | /v3/contacts/signal-score and /v3/companies/signal-score | Single [0,1] buying-signal score per record | 1 credit per scored row (signal_score_contact_reveal / company equivalent); limited availability: free (creditsCharged 0) until the action is seeded on the account's pricebook; NOT_FOUND / NO_SCORE never charged |
| POST | /v3/contacts/icp-fit-score and /v3/companies/icp-fit-score | Score records against 1-3 Target Profiles | 1 credit per scored record (score 0 still charged; NOT_FOUND/NO_SCORE free); GET /v3/icp/profiles free |
| POST | /v3/contacts/lookalike and /v3/companies/lookalike | AI lookalikes from seed records | Per result returned |
| POST | /v3/contacts/recommendations and /v3/companies/recommendations | Daily ranked recommendations from Target Profiles | Charged per result without an error (contactRecommendationsReveal / companyRecommendationsReveal); error rows (e.g. COMPLIANCE_RESTRICTED) not charged; filters endpoints free. Pricing page: 1 credit per lead/account. Requires OAuth or a user-scoped key (account-wide keys get 403). |
| POST | /v3/contacts/buying-group | Buying committee (decision_maker, potential_champion, end_user) at up to 25 companies | Charged per contact returned (buyingGroupContact action) per the Buying Group overview and the OpenAPI spec; revealing emails/phones via Enrich Contacts is charged separately. The API FAQ instead calls the results 'free previews' (docs contradict; the spec and overview are the more specific sources). |
| POST | /v3/companies/website-visits | Companies visiting your tracked domains | Pricing page: de-anonymized IP 2 credits per successful identification |
| POST/GET/PATCH/DELETEasync | /v3/contacts/tables..., /v3/companies/tables... (13 endpoints each) | Workspace Tables (Beta): create, add up to 500 entities, add up to 10 columns, run enrichment columns | Table management and Add Columns free (Add Columns 'free today'); adding contacts free; adding companies charged reveal_company per newly added company (deduped); reading rows charged per row returned; running a column charged per row by the column's tier |
| POST/GET | /v3/account/conversations/search, /v3/account/conversations/{id}/transcript | Search Lusha-recorded sales calls and fetch transcripts | Search: 1 credit per block of up to 25 conversations returned (ci_meeting_data_export), empty result free. Transcript: 1 credit per successful request (ci_transcript_analysis), 404 free. Free while the action is not seeded on the account's pricebook. Pricing page matches: Notetaker summary 1 credit/25, transcript 1 credit/1. |
| GET | /v3/account/usage | Credit balance, rate limits, plan details | free |
| POST/GET/PATCH | /api/subscriptions (+ /{id}, /{id}/test, /delete, /opt-out), /api/audit-logs, /api/account/secret | Webhook subscriptions for signal notifications, delivery logs, HMAC secret | Charged when signals are detected and delivered; retries free |
| GET/POST | /v2/person, /v2/company, /bulk/company/v2, /prospecting/*, /api/signals/* (V2 legacy) | Legacy V2 enrichment, prospecting and signals; revealEmails/revealPhones live here | Per data point |
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