ContactOut alternative: Arihaan People vs ContactOut

ContactOut: Email and phone finder for sales and recruiting. Arihaan People: business contacts with work email, phone and LinkedIn, as lists, by API and by MCP, from $35 a month. Facts about ContactOut are from its own pages on 2026-10-21.

Side by side

	Arihaan People	ContactOut
Free	Live counts and list pages for every role, industry and place; a free sample list on request	5 emails, 5 phones and 5 exports a day
Entry price	$35 a month	$49 a month
Entry plan buys	1,000 work emails a day, about 30,000 a month	Unlimited emails, 300 exports a month
Per 1,000 work emails at entry	About $1.17; about $0.67 at 10,000 a day	$163.33 per 1,000 exports
Coverage, as each states it	66,960,592 contacts, 40,294,092 work emails, 3,964,270 companies in 47 countries	350M professionals stated
Phones	About 1 in 6 people, mostly mobile; an add-on	From $99 a month
API	REST API on every plan, with free counts	Team or API plan, through sales
MCP server	Yes, every plan: people-api.arihaan.ai/mcp	Yes
Delivery	Files, REST API and MCP on every plan; into your CRM as an add-on	Chrome extension, exports, CRM and ATS integrations, API
Hiring signals from job postings	Yes: Arihaan Jobs reads millions of open jobs a day from employers’ own career sites	Not stated

Per 1,000 work emails is our arithmetic from each entry plan: its price over the emails it includes. Coverage is as each provider states it.

Choose Arihaan People if

About $1.17 per 1,000 work emails against $163 per 1,000 exports
API and MCP on every plan
Job data from employers’ own career sites

Choose ContactOut if

You recruit from LinkedIn profiles in the browser

Sources: ContactOut pricing. Checked 2026-10-21.

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Build a list with filters and see how many people match, then build your plan: 1,000 work emails a day for $35 a month. Need job postings too? Arihaan Jobs has live jobs from employer career sites, in ChatGPT and Claude through MCP.