# PhantomBuster

> Cloud automations that collect and enrich leads from LinkedIn

PhantomBuster runs ready-made automations, which it calls Phantoms, that pull lead data from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and other social sites, and chains them into workflows that find emails, qualify leads with AI and send the results to a CRM or an outreach tool. Plans are priced by monthly running time, active automation slots and credits for email lookups and AI steps.

- **Category:** Lead & Email Finders
- **Made by:** PhantomBuster
- **Website:** https://phantombuster.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

PhantomBuster has a free plan. Paid plans start at $56 per month, billed annually.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 30 minutes of running time a month, 1 automation slot and 50 MB of storage, with no email or AI credits and exports capped at 10 rows.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required, with 2 run hours, 5 slots and small credit allowances.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 30 minutes of running time a month, 1 slot and 50 MB of storage; exports and API output limited to 10 rows. |
| Start | $56 per month, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | 20 run hours, 5 automation slots, 500 email credits, 10,000 AI credits and 1,000 URL Finder credits a month. |
| Grow | $128 per month, billed annually ($159 billed monthly) | 80 run hours, 15 automation slots, 2,500 email credits, 30,000 AI credits and 10,000 URL Finder credits a month. |
| Scale | $352 per month, billed annually ($439 billed monthly) | 300 run hours, 50 automation slots, 10,000 email credits, 90,000 AI credits and 20,000 URL Finder credits a month. |

Read from https://phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PhantomBuster before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **About 20% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): PhantomBuster's pricing guide gives Start at $56 a month billed yearly against $69 monthly, Grow at $128 against $159 and Scale at $352 against $439. Source: https://phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained/

## Key features

- **Phantoms:** Ready-made automations that collect data from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Facebook, X and Instagram, such as exporting the people in a search.
- **Multi-step workflows:** Chain steps that collect leads, filter them, find emails, qualify them with AI and send them on, all in one shared workspace.
- **Email discovery:** A built-in email finder, run on BetterContact's waterfall enrichment, or a connected Hunter, Snov.io or Dropcontact account using its own API key.
- **Chrome extension:** Shows emails, phone numbers and company details on a LinkedIn profile when clicked, and saves the lead to PhantomBuster or HubSpot.
- **HubSpot sync:** A two-way HubSpot connection that sends leads, enriches contacts, finds their LinkedIn profiles and tracks job changes.
- **Zapier, Make and API:** Launch automations and fetch their results from Zapier, Make, Google Sheets or the API, or send leads to lemlist for outreach.

## Good for

- Building lead lists from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches
- Growth and sales ops people who chain lead steps without writing code
- HubSpot users who want LinkedIn leads kept in sync with their CRM

## Worth knowing

- Prices come from PhantomBuster's July 2026 pricing guide on its own site; its pricing page could not be read when checked.
- An email credit is used for every lookup attempt, even when no email is found, and credits reset monthly without rolling over.
- The Free plan and the trial cap exports and API output at 10 rows.
- The Salesforce and Pipedrive connections are one-way, and Salesforce needs its Enterprise edition or above.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. PhantomBuster runs ready-made automations that pull leads out of LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and other social sites, then find emails, sort them with AI and send them to your CRM. Start is $56 a month billed yearly for one shared workspace. It's a builder's tool, though, and email credits go even when nothing's found.

- **Value for money: A.** Start is $56 a month billed yearly for one shared workspace, about $11.20 a head for five, under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter ($34). It buys 20 run hours, 5 automation slots, 500 email credits and 10,000 AI credits a month.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 30 minutes of running time and 1 slot a month, and a 14-day trial with no card. Both cap exports at 10 rows, which makes them a demo.
- **Features: C.** Phantoms for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Facebook, X and Instagram, multi-step workflows, an email finder, a Chrome extension and two-way HubSpot sync. The gaps: it pulls from other sites rather than a database, and Salesforce sync is one-way.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record, and this is a tool where you build the automations and chain the steps yourself. No code needed, but there's a learning curve.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a Chrome extension, with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, lemlist and Hunter, plus an API. No desktop or phone apps.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PhantomBuster's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among lead and email finders

- PhantomBuster's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 9 of the 19 other lead and email finders we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 13 of 19) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $56 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 12 of the 14 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/lead-finders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace PhantomBuster you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $672 a year.

- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- 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

HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, lemlist, Hunter

**Tags:** Workflow automation, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Clay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clay): Data enrichment tables that query 150+ data providers in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clay-vs-phantombuster)
- [Apollo.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apollo-io): B2B contact database with built-in email sequences and a dialer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apollo-io-vs-phantombuster)
- [Snov.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snov-io): Email finder, verifier and cold outreach suite with a small CRM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/phantombuster-vs-snov-io)
- [Kaspr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kaspr): Chrome extension for phone numbers and emails from LinkedIn profiles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kaspr-vs-phantombuster)
- [Lusha](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lusha): B2B contact data for verified emails and direct phone numbers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lusha-vs-phantombuster)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained/
- https://phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-integrations/
- https://phantombuster.com/blog/sales-prospecting/phantombuster-chrome-extension/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/phantombuster
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).