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ContactOut API

contactout.com

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VerifiedResearched, not yet routed
Personal and work contact details from profile URLs. Buying direct: Sales plan from $299 (unlimited users); API on request. Listed .
Capabilities
4
From
$0.010 / call
Calls, 30 days
53.5K
Ranked first
0 of 4

Overview

Researched from the vendor's own pages; every fact links to its source and the day we checked it.

Personal and work emails and phones from professional profile URLs, plus people search. Token-authenticated REST API with published per-endpoint rate limits.

Company

Legal name
Not confirmed
Headquarters
Not confirmed
Founded
Not confirmed
Employees
Not confirmed
Ownership
Not confirmed
Kind
Not confirmed
Website
Not confirmed

API

Access
Sales-led API
Style
Not confirmed
Auth
API key (header)
Base URL
https://api.contactout.com/v1
Features
Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
Rate limit
People Search 60 req/min; Contact Checker 150 req/min
Docs
ReferenceRate limits

Pricing

Model
subscription
List prices
  • Sales $299, unlimited sales users (as listed)
Currency
USD
Free tier
Not confirmed
Checked
Sep 29, 2026

Compliance

SOC 2
Not confirmed
GDPR
Not confirmed
CCPA
Not confirmed
DPA
Not confirmed
Resale / storage
Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise

Relationships

Integrations
Not confirmed
Alternatives
None named by the vendor
Sources (2)

Placement in the Grid

Where this vendor sits on the GridRouter Grid in each category it serves. No vendor pays for placement.

Placement in the GridRouter Grid by category
CategoryPlacementExecuteCoverageCallsReport
People & ContactsSpecialists69.853.812.8KView Grid
EmailSpecialists67.733.822.8KView Grid
PhoneSpecialists67.553.89.1KView Grid
SocialSpecialists66.438.78.8KView Grid

Endpoints

What ContactOut does through GridRouter, and how each endpoint ranks against the other providers of that capability.

CapabilityRankPriceFill rateAccuracyp50Per verified hitLeader
Find work emailpeople.email.find · n=22.8K
Verified Benchmarked BYOK
Rank 7of 9$0.012per hit64.0%94.7%1.9 s$0.013LeadMagic
Enrich a personpeople.enrich · n=12.8K
Verified Benchmarked BYOK
Rank 7of 8$0.016per hit70.0%89.0%1.7 s$0.018Coresignal
Find mobile numberpeople.phone.find · n=9.1K
Verified Benchmarked BYOK
Rank 4of 5$0.055per hit44.0%84.0%2.1 s$0.065LeadMagic
Social profiles from emailsocial.profile.find · n=8.8K
Verified Benchmarked BYOK
Rank 3of 3$0.010per hit58.0%91.0%1.5 s$0.011People Data Labs

Pricing

The price per call you pay through GridRouter, and what one verified hit costs once misses are counted. Failed calls are free; calls on your own vendor key are never metered.

CapabilityList priceUnitPer verified hitYour own key
Find work emailpeople.email.find$0.012per hit$0.013Free, not metered
Enrich a personpeople.enrich$0.016per hit$0.018Free, not metered
Find mobile numberpeople.phone.find$0.055per hit$0.065Free, not metered
Social profiles from emailsocial.profile.find$0.010per hit$0.011Free, not metered

Performance

Fill rate is the share of calls that found what was asked for; accuracy is the share of hits confirmed correct; latency is measured at the gateway. Trailing 30 days.

CapabilityFill rateAccuracySuccessp50p95Samples
Find work emailpeople.email.find64.0%94.7%98.7%1.9 s5.2 s22.8K
Enrich a personpeople.enrich70.0%89.0%98.6%1.7 s4.6 s12.8K
Find mobile numberpeople.phone.find44.0%84.0%98.5%2.1 s5.6 s9.1K
Social profiles from emailsocial.profile.find58.0%91.0%98.7%1.5 s4.2 s8.8K

Uptime

Share of calls without a vendor-side failure (errors, timeouts, capacity). Caller mistakes and refusals don't count against a vendor. Last 30 days, daily.

Sample dataIllustrative figures from the catalog's quality samples until live traffic is published

  • ContactOutpeople.email.find
    Uptime
    98.7%
    p50 / p95
    1.9 s5.2 s
    Calls
    27K
  • ContactOutpeople.enrich
    Uptime
    97.3%
    p50 / p95
    1.7 s4.6 s
    Calls
    10.6K
  • ContactOutpeople.phone.find
    Uptime
    98.2%
    p50 / p95
    2.1 s5.6 s
    Calls
    10.1K
  • ContactOutsocial.profile.find
    Uptime
    98.1%
    p50 / p95
    1.5 s4.2 s
    Calls
    7.6K

Apps

Public apps that identify themselves with X-Grid-App or HTTP-Referer and X-Title, over the last 30 days.

All apps

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Activity

Routed calls per day over the last 30 days.

Calls per day by capability55.3K calls
  • Find work email
  • Enrich a person
  • Find mobile number
  • Social profiles from email
Calls per day by capability
DayFind work emailEnrich a personFind mobile numberSocial profiles from email
Aug 28, 20261069444432297
Aug 29, 2026607192189142
Aug 30, 2026531240173146
Aug 31, 20261006491355262
Sep 1, 2026935496359252
Sep 2, 20261030417404290
Sep 3, 20261121467332251
Sep 4, 20261061365399352
Sep 5, 2026477203220156
Sep 6, 2026519220177138
Sep 7, 2026969398428276
Sep 8, 20261157407437290
Sep 9, 2026890417445278
Sep 10, 20261170440350353
Sep 11, 20261177415442284
Sep 12, 2026445212224145
Sep 13, 2026500218171151
Sep 14, 20261179438344326
Sep 15, 2026954410434287
Sep 16, 2026954393417354
Sep 17, 2026995371395286
Sep 18, 2026980429449346
Sep 19, 2026595195205150
Sep 20, 2026543214224140
Sep 21, 20261035363384273
Sep 22, 20261157460358301
Sep 23, 20261078374394311
Sep 24, 20261185359378336
Sep 25, 20261115366384289
Sep 26, 2026592220168132

API

One request shape for every vendor: call people.email.find and let GridRouter route it, or pin ContactOut with the provider route.

Inputs for people.email.find
InputDescription
first_name*Given name (required)
last_name*Family name (required)
domain*Company domain, e.g. acme.com (required)
Request
curl https://api.gridrouter.io/v1/call/people.email.find \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRID_KEY" \
  -d '{"first_name":"Dana","last_name":"Whitfield","domain":"northwind.dev","route":"best_value"}'
Reconstructed · low confidenceOpenAPI 3.1.0 · 4 operations · checked Sep 29, 2026 Spec (YAML)

Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.

Operations in the contactout spec
MethodPathSummaryParamsSource
GET/linkedin/enrichLinkedIn profile enrich0Docs
POST/people/enrichPeople enrich0Docs
GET/email/enrichEmail enrich0Docs
POST/people/searchPeople search0Docs

Rate limits

Published rate limits for contactout
LimitScopePlanEndpointBurst / concurrency
60 / minuteendpointAllPeople Search API— / —
150 / minuteendpointAllContact Checker APIs— / —
1,000 / minuteendpointAllOther APIs— / —

GridRouter never paces above these and backs off on 429, honoring Retry-After. Source, checked Sep 29, 2026

ContactOut questions

How much does the ContactOut API cost through GridRouter?

find work email at $0.012 per hit, enrich a person at $0.016 per hit, find mobile number at $0.055 per hit, and social profiles from email at $0.010 per hit, charged from prepaid credits at the provider's rate. Buying direct is Sales plan from $299 (unlimited users); API on request.

Where does ContactOut rank?

ContactOut doesn't rank first for any capability this month; see each table below for where it leads on individual metrics.

Can I bring my own ContactOut key?

Yes. Add it once in the vault; calls on your key are never metered and still count toward the quality scores.

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