Comparison · Data and intelligence
Lusha vs hubsell
Lusha is a lightweight contact-lookup tool with no outreach layer. hubsell sources contacts live for your search, validates them, then runs email and LinkedIn as one flow, billed per contact. Here's how the two differ.
TL;DR
Lusha is a lightweight contact-lookup tool, a Chrome extension that reveals emails and phone numbers, popular with smaller teams for quick one-off lookups. It is credit based, a phone reveal costs up to ten times an email, it is charged per seat with a free tier, and its database skews heavily to North America. There is no outreach layer at all. hubsell sources contacts live for your search, validates them, and runs email and LinkedIn as one flow, billed per contact.
Lusha makes sense if you want a simple, cheap way to grab a contact off LinkedIn now and then, and you do your outreach elsewhere. hubsell makes sense if you want fresh data plus coordinated outreach in one tool, especially outside North America where Lusha's coverage thins out.
The core difference
Lusha is a lookup utility, fast and simple, built partly on community-contributed data where users share contacts in exchange for credits, and skewed toward the US. It does the find-a-number job and stops there: no sequencing, no LinkedIn automation, no email outreach. hubsell sources live and runs the whole flow.
Credit for credit, Lusha is cheap to start and easy to use, which is the real reason teams pick it up. The trade is coverage and accuracy: independent tests return a usable contact far less often than the headline numbers suggest, and the gap widens outside North America.
Feature by feature
| Capability | hubsell | Lusha |
|---|---|---|
| Data model | Sourced live at search time, validated at point of use | Pre-built, and partly built from community-contributed contacts |
| Database and coverage | Sourced per search, no fixed database | 280M+ claimed, but skews heavily US, 60%+ |
| Data verification | Validated at point of use, pay per verified contact | Claims 98% email and about 85% phone, but independent tests run lower and weaker outside North America |
| Searchable database with filters | Sourced live for each search | Limited, it is lookup first |
| Email sequencing | Yes automated | No |
| LinkedIn outreach | Yes in the flow | No |
| Email and LinkedIn in one flow | Yes | No |
| CRM sync | Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive after every touch | Salesforce, HubSpot |
| Pricing model | Per user, plus pay per contact sourced | Per seat plus credits, and a phone reveal costs about ten times an email |
| Commitment | Month to month | Monthly or annual, annual credits do not roll over |
| Free to start | Free trial of the full platform | Yes 40 to 70 credits a month |
Data quality
Lusha markets 98 percent email deliverability and around 85 percent phone accuracy. Independent tests and user reports put usable coverage and accuracy well below that, with one March 2026 test returning emails for about 31 percent of lookups and accuracy dropping further outside North America. The database is partly community sourced, which is part of why quality varies. hubsell sources and validates at the point of use.
Pricing
Lusha pricing: a free tier of 40 to 70 credits a month, Pro about $29 to $30 per user per month on annual billing, Premium about $52 to $70 per user per month, and Scale custom. It is per seat, phone reveals cost about ten times an email, and annual credits do not roll over.
hubsell is €120 per user per month plus €0.10 per LinkedIn contact and €0.50 per enriched and validated contact.
Which should you choose?
Choose hubsell if
Teams that want fresh data plus coordinated email and LinkedIn outreach in one place, billed per contact, with better coverage outside North America and no per-seat credit bottleneck.
Choose Lusha if
Smaller teams and individuals who want a fast, low-cost Chrome extension for occasional, US-centric contact lookups and do not need outreach, accepting thinner coverage outside North America and usable hit rates that independent tests put well below the headline claims.
Why teams switch to hubsell
We have tried several different tools and services, but only hubsell delivers both the functionality and the qualitative data to truly automate the lead generation process.
hubsell’s automation has enabled us to reach and convert more partners and clients than any other platform or channel I’ve ever used. Our company simply wouldn’t have scaled without it.
An excellent product for B2B selling. I have always found that the content the hubsell is able to locate is accurate and fit for purpose for my prospects. It’s easy to use, and it fast-tracks the research aspect of prospecting for my team.
Last fact-checked June 13, 2026. Competitor details change; tell us if anything here is out of date.
Sources
Competitor details verified June 2026. Key sources:
- Pricing and credit model: pipeline.zoominfo, cleanlist, prospeo, syncgtm, sera.
- Database, coverage, accuracy, no outreach layer: cleanlist, prospeo, syncgtm, sera.