ContactOut vs LinkedIn Sales Navigator
A side-by-side comparison of ContactOut and LinkedIn Sales Navigator — two options for lead & contact data. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
Lead & Contact Data
Lead & Contact Data
Rating
4.2 / 5
4.3 / 5
Pricing
From $79/mo
From $89.99/mo (annual)
Best for
Reaching owner-operators via personal emails
Relationship mapping and founder prospecting
Key features
- Chrome extension over LinkedIn profiles
- Personal and work email coverage
- Phone number lookup
- Search portal independent of LinkedIn
- Email campaigns and CRM export
- Advanced lead and account search filters
- Saved searches with change alerts
- TeamLink warm-intro mapping (Advanced)
- InMail credits and Smart Links
- Job-change and buyer-intent signals
Pros
- Best-in-class personal email coverage
- Works directly inside LinkedIn workflows
- Triple-verified data claims hold up well in reviews
- First-party data is fresher than any scraped database
- Best tool for mapping executives and warm paths
- Alerts surface job changes and company events
Cons
- Fair-use caps undercut the 'unlimited' marketing
- Overkill pricing for purely work-email use cases
- No email/phone export — needs a companion enrichment tool
- CRM sync locked behind expensive Advanced Plus tier