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Database seat, or prospects delivered
The short answer
There are four practical ways to fill an outbound pipeline: buy a database seat and build lists yourself, have matched prospects delivered to you every business day, pay someone to book meetings, or retain a team to run the whole motion. If you already have reps making calls, delivered prospects cost the least per conversation. If you do not, pay for dials or appointments until you hire.
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What each option costs and who it suits
Prospecting database seat
$99 to $1,500 per seat per month, usually billed annually · Teams with someone who genuinely enjoys building and cleaning lists
You rent search access to a large contact database and do the work yourself: filters, exclusions, exports, cleanup and phone checking. The per record price on the invoice looks low, but the real cost includes the hours your team spends producing a callable list each week.
Read the full breakdownProspects delivered daily
From $75 a month · Teams whose reps should be calling, not researching
You describe your ideal customer once. From then on a set number of matched prospects arrive every business day, each with a work email and a mobile or direct dial, already checked against your exclusions and everything you have been sent before. Your reps open the list and start dialing.
Read the full breakdownAppointment setting
$100 to $800 per booked meeting, often with a monthly minimum · Teams with closers but nobody prospecting
An outside team dials and emails on your behalf and puts meetings on your calendar. It is the fastest way to create conversations when you have no one to make calls, and the most expensive per outcome. You are usually buying the meeting, not the list behind it.
Read the full breakdownManaged outbound
$3,000 to $12,000 a month, usually on a three to six month term · Teams building an outbound motion from zero
A retained team builds the target list, writes the sequences, sends the email, makes the calls and reports on it. You are buying a playbook and the people to run it. Useful when nobody in house has done outbound before, expensive to keep running once you have.
Read the full breakdownNamed platforms
How we stack up against the tools you know
We are asked about these platforms constantly, so we wrote honest head-to-head pages. The short version: they sell you a seat and a search bar. We deliver matched prospects with a personal mobile or direct dial, verified email, LinkedIn, best local call time and event context on every record, replaced free if one falls short.
LeadNumbers vs Apollo
Prospecting database
Apollo is a capable self-serve database with a large index and built-in sequencing. The trade-off is the work: you filter, you verify, you clean bounce lists, and the phone numbers skew toward company main lines. LeadNumbers is built for teams who would rather spend that time talking. Every prospect we deliver carries a personal mobile or direct dial, a verified work email, a LinkedIn profile, the best local time to call and the event context that makes the first line easy.
Read the head-to-headLeadNumbers vs ZoomInfo
Enterprise data platform
ZoomInfo is the established enterprise platform, priced like one: annual contracts that commonly run into five figures, with direct dials and intent data tiered behind higher plans. LeadNumbers is built for teams who want the outcome, conversations with the right people, without the contract. Every prospect we deliver carries a personal mobile or direct dial, verified work email, LinkedIn, the best local call window and event context, starting at $99 a month with no annual commitment.
Read the head-to-headLeadNumbers vs Lusha
Contact lookup tool
Lusha built its name on a browser extension that reveals contact details one profile at a time. It is convenient for ad-hoc lookups, but building a calling list that way means hundreds of manual reveals, credit limits on direct numbers, and no timing or context on the records. LeadNumbers does the building for you: matched prospects with personal mobiles or direct dials, verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, best local call windows and event context, delivered to your inbox and CRM every business morning.
Read the head-to-headLeadNumbers vs Cognism
Enterprise data platform
Cognism positions itself on phone-verified mobile data, and it is a genuine strength, but it comes as an enterprise platform with annual pricing to match. LeadNumbers holds the same phone standard, personal mobiles and direct dials only, and adds what Cognism does not ship: the best local time to call each prospect and the event context that makes the opener land. Delivered to your inbox and CRM every business morning, monthly, from $99.
Read the head-to-headLeadNumbers vs Seamless.AI
Real-time contact search
Seamless.AI pitches real-time contact search: type a name or filter, get a record. The catch is familiar: you still build, export and clean the list yourself, phone quality is inconsistent, and the records arrive with no timing or context. LeadNumbers is for teams who want the list already built. Matched prospects with personal mobiles or direct dials, verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, best local call windows and event context land in your inbox and CRM every business morning, deduped against everything we have ever sent you.
Read the head-to-headA fair test
How to judge any option in one week
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Use your real profile
Titles, company size, geography and the exclusions that actually matter, not a broad industry.
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Dial the same volume
Take the same number of records from each option and call them yourself.
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Count conversations
Connects and booked meetings decide it. Database size and feature lists do not.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
Is it cheaper to buy a database seat or have prospects delivered?
A seat looks cheaper per record until you count the hours spent building and cleaning lists. Delivery starts at 10 cents per contact with a mobile or direct dial on every record, and nobody on your team spends a morning filtering.
Do I keep the contacts you deliver?
Yes. Every prospect delivered to you is yours to keep, export and load into your CRM. There is no seat to lose access to.
What happens when a record is wrong?
Flag it and we replace it free. That is the fairest test of any provider: ask what happens when the number does not reach a human.
How do I compare two options fairly?
Run both against your own ideal customer for a week, dial the same number of records from each, and count how many reached a human and how many booked. Judge on conversations, not on database size claims.