SignalHire review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Contact lookup for recruiters and sales, with unlimited seats
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SignalHire report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for contact lookups for recruiters and sales
SignalHire looks up contacts for recruiters and sales, with unlimited seats and a free plan. The free plan is 5 credits, or 10 a month with the extension, and paid starts at $57 a month on yearly billing.
Who SignalHire is for
- Fits if you recruit and want unlimited seats
- Works for sales or hiring teams sharing one credit pool
Who SignalHire is not for
- Tight if you're staying free: 5 credits, or 10 with the extension
- Skip it if you want unlimited to mean unlimited, as fair use caps it at 2,000 credits a month
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $69 against $57 yearly
- Watch out: the credit counts differ between the monthly and annual views
Why SignalHire gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$57 a month billed annually, $69 monthly. That's in the dearer half of lead-finding tools, below the $74 dearer quarter.
- CFree plan and trialA free plan of 5 credits, or 10 a month with the extension. It's a taste, not a plan to live on.
- CFeaturesBrowser extension, a profile database, unlimited users, ATS and CRM export and an API. Unlimited packages are held to a fair-use 2,000 credits a month.
- BEase of useA browser extension you install and use. No store rating on record.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb and a browser extension, with five integrations, an API and MCP.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SignalHire's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/signalhire#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/signalhire.svg" alt="SignalHire: 2.4 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where SignalHire stands among lead and email finders
SignalHire's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 21 of the 49 other lead and email finders we grade, and level with 12.
It stands best on ease of use (B, above 34 of 49) and worst on features (C, above 1).
Its paid plans start at $57 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 26 of the 39 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 50 lead and email finders we grade, cut by the letter each got. SignalHire’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 6 of 49, level with 27
- CFree plan and trialAbove 11 of 49, level with 37
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 49, level with 34
- BEase of useAbove 34 of 49, level with 15
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 9 of 49, level with 40
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 40 lead and email finders. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep SignalHire, or make your own?
Your call
SignalHire sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either.
What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $684 a year.
What you could make
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- Checking that an address exists without writing to it.
- It plugs into other products, Salesforce, Zoho Recruit and Pipedrive among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. SignalHire’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is SignalHire?
SignalHire finds emails and phone numbers from a database of profiles, and from a Chrome and Firefox extension that works on social sites. It does not charge per seat; contacts are shared across a team. Plans are credit packages for emails, phones or both.
Worth knowing
- The pricing page lays out two packages per plan; the credit counts differ between monthly and annual views.
- Unlimited packages are limited by a fair-use policy of 2,000 credits a month.
- A credit is used only when a contact detail is returned, per the FAQ.
Key features
- Browser extension
- Reveals contacts on social sites and most web pages; the vendor names Chrome and Firefox.
- Profile database
- Searches a database of 900M+ profiles by name, title, company and location.
- Unlimited users
- The vendor says it does not charge per seat, and contacts are shared across the team.
- ATS and CRM export
- Sends contacts to Salesforce, Zoho Recruit, Pipedrive, Recruitee and ActiveCampaign, among others.
- Unlimited packages
- Each plan has an Unlimited package option, with a fair-use cap of 2,000 credits a month.
- API and MCP server
- API access is listed on paid plans, with an MCP server in the navigation.
SignalHire pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, SignalHire has a free plan, and paid plans start at $57 per month for the Emails plan, billed annually ($69 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $57 per month for the Emails plan, billed annually ($69 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- 5 credits, or 10 a month with the extension installed.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 5 credits, no card needed; 10 credits every month with the browser extension. |
| Emails | $57per month, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | 1,000 credits a month on monthly billing; annual shows 12,000 credits. |
| Phones | $57per month, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | 435 credits on monthly billing; annual shows 5,400 credits. |
| Emails & Phones | $57per month, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | Same credit amounts as Phones: 435 monthly, 5,400 on annual. |
| Scale | Custom | Bulk license and custom contact details; sold through sales. |
Read from signalhire.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SignalHire before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountYearly billing saves up to 74%
The pricing page tags yearly billing with savings of up to 74% against the crossed-out list prices.
Stated on signalhire.com
Works with
- Salesforce
- Zoho Recruit
- Pipedrive
- Recruitee
- ActiveCampaign
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Common questions
Does SignalHire have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. SignalHire is listed for Web.
Does SignalHire have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. SignalHire is listed for Web.
Is SignalHire open source?
SignalHire is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does SignalHire have an API?
Yes. SignalHire offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.