# Bardeen review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Lead scraping, enrichment and qualification with AI agents Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Bardeen is a credit-based platform for sales and go-to-market teams. Agents scrape leads from websites, run web searches, add verified contact details, and use AI to qualify each lead before exporting rows to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable or Notion. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Bardeen Inc. - **Website:** https://www.bardeen.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you scrape at volume: 1 credit a row, 3 for enrichment, and unused credits expire each period. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Bardeen has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for 100 credits, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Every account gets 100 credits free; the pricing page does not say whether they refill each month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $10 per month for +100 credits, billed monthly | Adds 100 credits a month; steps up to +500 credits for $50. Includes custom scrapers, premium scrapers and enrichment. | | Premium | $50 per month for +1,000 credits, billed monthly | Adds 1,000 credits a month; steps up to +10K credits for $500. Adds Teams. Annual billing starts at $480 per year for +12,000 credits. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom bulk credits on annual billing, with custom scrapers built and maintained by Bardeen and premium support. | Read from https://www.bardeen.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Bardeen before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% on annual Premium billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page offers Premium on yearly billing at a 20% saving, starting at $480 per year for 12,000 credits. Source: https://www.bardeen.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Web scraper:** Build your own scraper or use premium ones to pull leads from sites such as Product Hunt, Zillow and GitHub, at 1 credit per row. - **Web search:** Researches or generates leads at scale with AI and web search providers, or finds answers on a given website, at 1 credit per row. - **Contact enrichment:** Looks up validated emails and phone numbers for leads. Enrichment costs 3 credits per row. - **AI qualification:** You describe the ideal lead and AI marks each row as qualified or not, with a short reason, at 1 credit per row. - **Exports:** Results download as CSV or go to Google Sheets, Airtable and Notion. Importing and exporting data is free. ## Good for - Sales teams building lead lists from public websites - Solo founders who want scraping and enrichment without a data-tool budget - Recruiters and researchers pulling structured rows from web pages ## Worth knowing - Pricing is by credit: 1 per scraped row, 1 per search or AI row, 3 per enrichment row. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period. - The pricing page shows paid plans only as add-on credit amounts per month; the free 100 credits are described without a refill date. - The product is aimed at lead sourcing and go-to-market work, not general-purpose personal automation. - The pages read list no desktop or mobile apps; the product is described as an app used in the browser. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Bardeen scrapes web pages, searches, enriches contacts and qualifies rows with AI, all paid in credits. Every account gets 100 free credits, Basic adds 100 a month for $10, and unused credits expire. It is aimed at lead sourcing, not general automation. - **Value for money: B.** $10 a month for 100 credits is inside the cheapest quarter, but 100 credits is 100 scraped rows or about 33 enrichments. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 100 free credits on every account, and the page does not say if they refill, so you will run out fast. - **Features: C.** Scraper, web search, enrichment, AI qualification and exports, but it is aimed at lead sourcing and not general automation. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build scrapers and credit usage by row, with a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, no desktop or mobile apps on the pages read, with four named integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Bardeen's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Bardeen's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 61 of the 101 other AI agents we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 74 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $22.13 for the category: 1 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Bardeen you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $120 a year. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, CSV **Tags:** AI agents, Workflow automation, No-code, AI features ## Alternatives - [Clay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clay): Data enrichment tables that query 150+ data providers in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bardeen-vs-clay) - [PhantomBuster](https://toolgpa.com/tools/phantombuster): Cloud automations that collect and enrich leads from LinkedIn. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bardeen-vs-phantombuster) - [Apollo.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apollo-io): B2B contact database with built-in email sequences and a dialer. 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