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ContactOut

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ContactOut provides contact data for recruitment and sales prospecting through a browser extension, search portal, API, email campaigns and AI-assisted personalization. Its public API reference documents email and phone lookup, person/company search, enrichment, verification and campaign operations.

From official docs
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Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Email and phone lookup from LinkedIn profiles
  • People and company search
  • People, company and contact enrichment
  • Email, work-email and phone-number checking and verification
  • Bulk contact lookup and enrichment
  • Campaign creation, recipient management, start and stop operations
  • Chrome extension, search portal and API access

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
API key supplied in the token request header.
Base URL
https://api.contactout.com
Rate limits
People Search: 60 requests/minute; Contact Checker APIs: 150 requests/minute; other APIs: 1,000 requests/minute.
Notable endpoints
  • LinkedIn Profile API from LinkedIn URL
  • People Enrich API
  • Contact Info API (single and bulk)
  • People Search and People Count APIs
  • Company Search and company information from domains
  • Email-to-LinkedIn and contact-checker APIs
  • Email Verifier (single and bulk)
  • Campaign listing, recipient management, start and stop
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

What is ContactOut

Vendor's own claim

ContactOut is a prospecting-data provider with browser, search-portal and API interfaces. Its retrieved API reference documents workflows for enriching LinkedIn profiles, looking up contact information, finding and checking emails, searching people/companies and managing campaigns; the marketing site serves both recruiters and sales teams.

Ideal customer profile

From official docs

Recruiting and sales teams that need email and phone contact-data workflows in a Chrome extension, search portal or API, and can manage token-based programmatic access through a team/API commercial plan.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

Buyers who need transparent self-serve API pricing or instant API access should look elsewhere: the retrieved API docs say an API key is requested by booking a meeting, and the public pricing page shows Team/API as contact-us only. Teams with strict data-governance requirements should also validate permitted data sources, coverage and use before running bulk prospecting workflows.

Tools in the same layer

Our read

No curated rival set covers this tool yet, so these are simply other tools in the same architectural layer and product form. Treat it as a starting point, not a shortlist.

ContactOut FAQ

What is ContactOut used for?

ContactOut provides email and phone contact data for prospecting and recruiting, through a Chrome extension, a search portal and a public API reference.

From official docs
Can I find a contact from a LinkedIn profile URL?

Yes. The API reference documents a LinkedIn Profile API that accepts a regular LinkedIn profile URL and can return profile, email, phone, work-experience, education and skill information. It does not accept Sales Navigator or Talent/Recruiter URLs according to the docs.

From official docs
Does ContactOut offer bulk enrichment?

Yes. Its API reference lists bulk Contact Info and Bulk ContactInfo endpoints, as well as bulk email-verifier coverage.

From official docs
Can ContactOut search people and companies?

Yes. The API reference lists People Search, People Count, Company Search and company-information-from-domain endpoints.

From official docs
What are ContactOut's API rate limits?

The published API reference states 60 requests/minute for People Search, 150 requests/minute for Contact Checker APIs and 1,000 requests/minute for other APIs.

From official docs
How do I get a ContactOut API key?

The retrieved API reference says to request an API key by booking a meeting. API calls use a token request header.

From official docs
Can ContactOut manage outreach campaigns through the API?

The API reference lists campaign operations to list/get campaigns, add or remove recipients, and start or stop a campaign.

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Does ContactOut have an MCP integration?

The API reference includes headings for ContactOut MCP, available tools and setup, but this evidence pass did not retain the configuration details or tool names. Confirm the current MCP setup directly with ContactOut.

Our read
Does ContactOut publish self-serve API pricing?

The retrieved pricing page presents Team/API as contact-us and does not publish an API price figure or plan limits. Ask ContactOut for current commercial terms.

From official docs
Is ContactOut's service currently operational?

Its public status page reported website, API service, email verification, search service and data sync as operational when this evidence was gathered.

From official docs

Verify before you buy

  • Self-serve pricing figures, endpoint costs, MCP server configuration/tool names and a machine-readable OpenAPI specification
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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