# Autobound review (2026): is it worth $19? > B2B buying-signal data through an API, MCP server and file feeds Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Autobound sells company and contact signal data, such as funding, hiring, leadership changes, filings and news, from 35 feeds. The data is reached through a REST API, an MCP server for AI assistants, scheduled file exports or white-label licensing. Access is bought as credit packs rather than a monthly seat plan. - **Category:** Cold Outreach - **Made by:** Autobound (since 2019) - **Website:** https://www.autobound.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a tool that sends emails or LinkedIn messages, as it doesn't. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Autobound is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $19 one-time credit pack (1,900 credits). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 1,000 free credits on sign-up, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $19 one-time credit pack, used as you go | 1,900 credits at $0.01 per credit, meant for testing. | | Growth | $49 one-time credit pack, used as you go | 5,444 credits at $0.009 per credit. | | Scale | $149 one-time credit pack, used as you go | 19,867 credits at $0.0075 per credit. | | Pro | $499 one-time credit pack, used as you go | 83,167 credits at $0.006 per credit. | | Business | $1,299 one-time credit pack, used as you go | 288,667 credits at $0.0045 per credit. A larger Enterprise pack costs $4,999 for 1,249,750 credits. | | Custom volume | Custom | Beyond 11.5 million credits, with custom rates, SLA and SAML SSO. Sold through sales. | Read from https://www.autobound.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Autobound before buying. ## Key features - **Signal database:** The site describes 35 feeds and 700+ signal types, from SEC filings and earnings transcripts to hiring trends, news, patents and social activity. - **REST API:** Real-time search, enrich and subscribe endpoints that return every signal in one JSON schema. - **MCP server:** Connects the same signal data to Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients, on the same account and credit balance. - **Buyer intent data:** Company-level and contact-level intent across 38,000+ topics, priced per contact or per company-topic row. - **File delivery and OEM licensing:** Scheduled exports in JSONL, Parquet or CSV to cloud storage, plus white-label licensing for platforms that embed the data. ## Good for - Data and RevOps teams that want signals inside their own tools - Platforms that embed or resell signal data - Teams trying signal data in small amounts before committing ## Worth knowing - This is a data and API product, not a sequencing tool: the pages describe no email or LinkedIn sending. - Search costs 2 credits per result and enrich costs 2 credits per signal; buyer intent is 1 credit per contact. - Credits are bought as one-time packs, so the cost of a month depends on how many records are searched or enriched. - Flat-file bulk licensing and OEM use are priced by quote. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Autobound sells buying-signal data through an API, an MCP server and file feeds, with credit packs from $19 and 1,000 free credits. But it sends no email or LinkedIn messages, and what you spend depends on how many records you pull. - **Value for money: B.** Credit packs from $19 for 1,900 credits, falling to $0.0045 a credit at $1,299. That's inside the cheapest quarter, but the monthly cost depends on how much you search. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 1,000 free credits on sign-up with no card. That's a sample, not a plan. - **Features: D.** A signal database, REST API, MCP server and buyer intent data. The pages describe no sending, so you need another tool to do outreach. - **Ease of use: D.** It's an API and MCP product with file feeds, so someone writes the code that uses it. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and an MCP server, and Claude and Cursor listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Autobound's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among cold outreach tools - Autobound's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 29 of the 81 other cold outreach tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 56 of 81) and worst on features (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/cold-outreach ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Autobound you would be making a library of papers and sources to search. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $19, paid once. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude and Cursor among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude, Cursor **Tags:** Public API, AI features, Research ## Alternatives - [Amplemarket](https://toolgpa.com/tools/amplemarket): Sales platform with a B2B database, AI copilot and outreach sequences. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amplemarket-vs-autobound) - [LeadFuze](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lead-fuze): B2B lead database and intent data sold by the month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autobound-vs-lead-fuze) - [Salesfinity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/salesfinity): AI parallel dialer and sequencer for outbound sales reps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autobound-vs-salesfinity) - [Regie.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/regie-ai): AI prospecting with enrichment, drafting and a parallel dialer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autobound-vs-regie-ai) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.autobound.ai/pricing - https://www.autobound.ai - https://www.autobound.ai/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/autobound Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).