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A catalogue of pre-built automations that extract and enrich leads live from 15+ platforms — billed per workspace in execution hours, automation slots and credit pools, not per seat.
The lead-supply layer, not the outreach tool: $56 billed annually buys 20 hours of live extraction and enrichment a month — powerful if your edge is fresh data, wasteful if a database search would do.
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PhantomBuster runs pre-built automations that extract and enrich leads live from 15+ platforms and route them to your CRM, billed per workspace in execution hours, slots and credits from $56 a month billed annually.
Your prospecting edge is fresh, niche or signal-based data — post engagers, job changes, platform activity — that a database cannot sell you, and you are comfortable configuring automations.
You want predictable per-lead pricing, a ready-made contact database, or the sending and reply handling done in the same tool — PhantomBuster supplies lists to that stack, it is not the stack.
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Starts A source — a LinkedIn search, a hashtag, a group's members — is worth re-checking weekly
You get A fresh lead list that did not exist in any database
Niche and fast-moving sources become a standing lead supply
Starts A raw extracted list needs emails and a reason to write
You get A segmented list with emails and engagement context
Outreach starts from evidence about each lead, not a name and a title
Starts Extracted leads show a live signal — a post, a job change, an interaction
You get Outreach timed to something the lead actually did
Approval You configure the flows and the accounts they run from
The same platform that found the signal acts on it
Starts A workflow finishes a refresh cycle
You get Current lists in the tools that send, without manual file handling
The extraction layer stays invisible inside a normal outreach routine
5 slots and 2 hours of execution in total, no card; exports are capped at 10 rows, enough to judge data quality.
Time it: the run's execution minutes are the number that sizes your plan.
Add email finding and the HubSpot sync or export so the workflow ends in a usable list.
20 hours a month on Start is the working budget; automations pause when it runs out rather than billing overage.
Time to first useful result: Same day — configure a first Phantom and schedule it · no-code 3/5
Per workspace (unlimited users, up to 100 members), metered in execution hours, concurrent automation slots and credit pools; every plan includes all Phantoms and Workflows. Start: $56/month billed annually ($69 monthly) — 5 slots, 20h/month, 500 email credits, 10k AI credits, 1k URL finder credits. Grow: $128 billed annually ($159 monthly) — 15 slots, 80h, 2,500 email, 30k AI, 10k URL. Scale: $352 billed annually ($439 monthly) — 50 slots, 300h, 10,000 email, 90k AI, 20k URL. Annual billing saves 20%. A permanent free plan follows the 14-day trial.
$0 — permanent plan after the trial
Custom / quoted · $0/mo for one person
$56/month billed annually, $672 a year ($69 billed monthly)
Custom / quoted · $56/mo for one person
$128/month billed annually, $1,536 a year ($159 billed monthly)
Custom / quoted · $128/mo for one person
$352/month billed annually, $4,224 a year ($439 billed monthly)
Custom / quoted · $352/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 — permanent plan after the trial | $0/mo | Custom / quoted | Exports limited (10 rows on free/trial validation) · No email credits included |
| StartSolo pick | $56/month billed annually, $672 a year ($69 billed monthly) | $56/mo | Custom / quoted | Capacity is shared across the whole workspace, not per user · Execution time consumed per lead varies by Phantom and platform |
| Grow | $128/month billed annually, $1,536 a year ($159 billed monthly) | $128/mo | Custom / quoted | Same catalogue as Start — you are buying capacity, not features |
| Scale | $352/month billed annually, $4,224 a year ($439 billed monthly) | $352/mo | Custom / quoted | Agency-scale capacity; a solo founder will not use it |
Capacity exhaustion, not seat growth: a workflow that runs longer or more often than planned burns execution hours until automations pause at zero, and the remedy is the next tier — Start $56 to Grow $128 billed annually is a 2.3x jump for the same features with more hours, slots and credits.
Price record · 2026-11-05: First listing check, 2026-11-05, on phantombuster.com/pricing — the fetched page shows the annual-billing state directly: Start $56/month ($672 billed annually), Grow $128 ($1,536), Scale $352 ($4,224), plus the trial card (5 slots, 2h execution total, 50 email credits, 1k AI credits, 100 URL finder credits, exports limited to 10 rows). The monthly-billing figures ($69 / $159 / $439) and the permanent free plan's limits (1 slot, 30 minutes/month) come from the vendor's own pricing guide on its support centre and its July 2026 pricing explainer on phantombuster.com, which state both billing states and the −20% annual discount explicitly. No seat selector exists — plans are per workspace with unlimited users.
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
PhantomBuster is not a database and not really a sequencer: it is a catalogue of pre-built automations — Phantoms, chained into Workflows — that pull live data from more than 15 platforms including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook and Slack, enrich it (the vendor cites 1,000+ data points for segmentation, from job changes to profile activity), and push it to your CRM or out as CSV and JSON. LinkedIn outreach automations exist too — personalised messages, connection requests and follow-ups driven by the signals you extracted — but extraction and enrichment are the centre of gravity. Every plan includes the whole catalogue; tiers differ only in capacity, which is metered three ways at once: execution hours (how long automations may run each month), automation slots (how many can run at the same time) and separate credit pools for email finding, AI steps and URL finding. Start is $56 a month billed annually ($69 monthly) for 5 slots, 20 execution hours, 500 email credits and 10,000 AI credits; Grow is $128 annually-billed ($159 monthly) for 15 slots and 80 hours; Scale is $352 ($439 monthly) for 50 slots and 300 hours. Users are unlimited — up to 100 workspace members share the same capacity pool. A 14-day trial (5 slots, 2 hours total, exports capped at 10 rows) drops afterwards to a permanent free plan with 1 slot and 30 minutes a month. The honest catch for a solo founder is predictability: how many leads an execution hour buys depends on the Phantom and the platform, so the meter to watch is time, not contacts. The second catch is platform risk: automations run through your own accounts on platforms whose terms restrict scraping and automation, so the accounts connected carry that exposure.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Phantoms are pre-built and no-code to launch, but choosing inputs, chaining workflows and budgeting execution hours is real configuration work; clarity is bounded because hours, not leads, are the unit sold.
The difference: Clay enriches lists you bring inside a table you operate, billed in actions and data credits; PhantomBuster goes and gets the raw leads live from platforms first, then enriches them.
The difference: Apollo is the ready-made database with predictable per-seat pricing; PhantomBuster is live extraction with unpredictable per-lead yield — fresher and more niche, harder to budget.
The difference: Persana sells AI prospecting and enrichment as a credit-priced service over its data partners; PhantomBuster sells you the automation capacity to pull platform data yourself.
Start is $56/month billed annually ($69 billed monthly) for one workspace with unlimited users: 5 automation slots, 20 execution hours a month, 500 email credits and 10,000 AI credits. Grow is $128 billed annually ($159 monthly). Checked on phantombuster.com/pricing on 2026-11-05, with the monthly figures from the vendor's own plan guide.
Capacity, shared by the workspace: execution hours (how long automations run), slots (how many run at once) and credit pools (email finding, AI, URL finding). Not seats — users are unlimited — and not leads: how many leads an hour produces depends on the Phantom and platform, so log run time during the trial before choosing a tier.
Yes, of a limited kind: a 14-day trial (5 slots, 2 hours total, exports capped at 10 rows, no card) drops to a permanent free plan with 1 slot and 30 minutes of execution a month and no email credits. That is enough to evaluate data quality, not to run a pipeline.
Automations extract data from, and act on, platforms such as LinkedIn through your own connected accounts. The vendor states it only automates actions through your own account and does not use fake profiles; the platforms' own terms nonetheless restrict scraping and automation, and enforcement against an account is the platform's decision. Keep volumes sensible and do not connect an account you cannot afford to have restricted.
PhantomBuster is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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