UpLead alternative: Arihaan People vs UpLead

UpLead: B2B contact database with verified emails and direct dials. Arihaan People: business contacts with work email, phone and LinkedIn, as lists, by API and by MCP, from $35 a month. Facts about UpLead are from its own pages on 2026-10-21.

Side by side

	Arihaan People	UpLead
Free	Live counts and list pages for every role, industry and place; a free sample list on request	7-day trial, 5 credits
Entry price	$35 a month	$74 a month, billed yearly ($99 monthly)
Entry plan buys	1,000 work emails a day, about 30,000 a month	2,040 credits a year; 1 credit a contact
Per 1,000 work emails at entry	About $1.17; about $0.67 at 10,000 a day	$435.29
Coverage, as each states it	66,960,592 contacts, 40,294,092 work emails, 3,964,270 companies in 47 countries	200M+ contacts, 19M+ companies
Phones	About 1 in 6 people, mostly mobile; an add-on	Yes, in the same credit
API	REST API on every plan, with free counts	Professional plan (custom price)
MCP server	Yes, every plan: people-api.arihaan.ai/mcp	Not stated
Delivery	Files, REST API and MCP on every plan; into your CRM as an add-on	Download, CRM export, Zapier, Chrome extension, 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 $435
API and MCP on every plan
Job data from employers’ own career sites

Choose UpLead if

You want a phone with every contact you buy and their larger database

Sources: UpLead 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.