DATAMAGNET VS DROPCONTACT

Dropcontact Finds the Email. Datamagnet Reads the Profile.

Dropcontact computes and tests verified B2B email addresses, then tidies the record in your CRM. Datamagnet returns the live profile behind a URL — work history, company, posts, engagement and job-change signals — as JSON your code can use. Different outputs, and frequently used together.

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Datamagnet
Dropcontact
Verified email addresses
Full profile data
URL + current job
Post & engagement data
ICP & Sales Navigator search
Native CRM apps & deduplication
Dropcontact Starter, 500 credits
€29/moDropcontact Starter, 500 credits
Datamagnet Starter, 1,000 credits
$39/moDatamagnet Starter, 1,000 credits
Datamagnet credits, no card required
10 freeDatamagnet credits, no card required

Datamagnet vs Dropcontact: the short answer

Dropcontact and Datamagnet solve different halves of the same problem, so most teams pick by output. Dropcontact is a GDPR-first email finder: give it a name and a company, or a LinkedIn URL, and it computes and tests a verified B2B email, then cleans and deduplicates the record inside HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, a spreadsheet or its API. Datamagnet returns no email addresses at all. It returns the live profile behind a URL, plus posts, engagement, ICP search and job-change signals. Choose Dropcontact for deliverable contact details in a CRM; choose Datamagnet when your code needs profile and activity data.

Our verdict

Dropcontact is the better product for the job it does, and Datamagnet does not do that job. If you need a verified, deliverable B2B email address — especially starting from a name and a company, especially with a European DPO reading the contract — Dropcontact is a clean answer, and its native CRM apps mean you may never write a line of code. What it will not give you is depth. It returns a LinkedIn URL rather than what is on the profile behind it, and it has no prospecting, no post or engagement data, and no way to watch a person over time. Datamagnet fits when the question is who this person is and what they are doing, and when the caller is code.

Which one should you pick?

Straight guidance, including the cases where we're the wrong answer.

Choose Datamagnet if

  • You need what is on the profile — full work history, education, tenure, current role — not only a cleaned job title
  • Your input is a LinkedIn URL or a search query, and the consumer of the data is your product, pipeline or agent
  • You want post content, commenters, reactors and reposters as structured data
  • You need net-new prospects: ICP search, the people search database, or a Sales Navigator search URL
  • You want job-change and engagement signals delivered by webhook to any system, not alerts confined to a CRM
  • You want one request and one JSON response rather than submitting a batch and polling for it

Choose Dropcontact if

  • You need email addresses. Datamagnet does not return them at any price, and Dropcontact exists to find them
  • You need email validation and catch-all verification before you send — Datamagnet has no equivalent
  • Enrichment has to land on HubSpot, Pipedrive or Salesforce records with no engineering work
  • GDPR posture is a procurement gate and your DPO wants a vendor that holds no contact database and processes in the EU
  • Your starting point is a name and a company name, not a LinkedIn URL
  • Non-technical users need to drag a CSV in or work from a Google Sheet
  • You need duplicate detection and merge across an existing CRM database

Datamagnet vs Dropcontact, feature by feature

What each tool actually returns, how fresh it is, and what it costs to run.

Data & API coverage

Data & API coverage: Datamagnet compared with Dropcontact, feature by feature
FeatureDatamagnetDropcontact
Verified B2B email addresses No Yes
Email validation & catch-all verification No Yes
Phone / mobile numbers NoCRM Integration Suite
Enrich from a LinkedIn URL YesGrowth plan
Full profile: work history, education, tenure Yes No
Company profile & Crunchbase funding history YesFirmographics only
Post content, comments, reactions, reposts Yes No
ICP search & people search database Yes No
Sales Navigator URL search Yes No
Job-change detection6 signal types, webhookCompany change detection
API shapeOne call, JSON backAsync batch, poll request_id
CSV / XLS file enrichment & Google Sheets add-on No Yes
Native HubSpot, Pipedrive & Salesforce apps No Yes
Duplicate detection & merge No Yes
French SIREN / SIRET / NAF / VAT data No Yes

Dropcontact capabilities are summarized from their public documentation and pricing pages, last checked July 2026. Products change — verify against their current offering before you buy.

Both compute in real time. The difference is what they compute.

The usual live-versus-database argument does not apply on this page. Dropcontact holds no contact database either — it generates candidate addresses from a name and a domain and tests them on its own servers when you ask. So both products answer at request time. What separates them is the answer. Dropcontact returns an email address and a tidy contact row. Datamagnet returns the profile itself: full work history, education, current role and tenure, the company record behind it, and the posts and engagement that person has generated. If your gap is deliverability, Dropcontact closes it. If your gap is context, it does not.

  • Input — Dropcontact accepts name + company, full name + company, a LinkedIn URL, or an email; Datamagnet accepts a LinkedIn URL or a search
  • Output — Dropcontact returns a verified email plus firmographics; Datamagnet returns the profile, the company, the posts and the people engaging with them
  • Shape — Dropcontact takes up to 250 contacts per request and hands back a request_id to poll; Datamagnet answers one call at a time
1 credit
A full live Datamagnet profile from a LinkedIn URL. Dropcontact returns the URL, not what is on the page behind it.

Pricing, side by side

What you pay Dropcontact versus what you pay us, for the same work.

Dropcontact

Euro-priced monthly subscriptions on the Files & API plan, sized by a credit slider from 500 to 150,000 credits a month. A credit is spent when a verified email is returned or an email is submitted for verification, and refunded when no email is found. CRM enrichment is a separate subscription — Files & API credits cannot be used inside a CRM.

Free trialOn signup
50 credits
Starter500 credits · €79/mo at 4,000 credits
from €29/mo
Growth500 credits · adds LinkedIn URL enrichment
from €35/mo
Growth, 4,000 creditsLinkedIn + company data enrichment
€120/mo
EnterpriseFrom 200,000 credits/month
Custom

Datamagnet

Credits, not seats. Charged only on successful requests, and 10 free credits to test before you pay anything.

FreeOn signup, no card
10 credits
Starter1,000 credits/mo
$39/mo
Pro10,000 credits/mo
$99/mo
Scale25,000 credits/mo · webhooks + bulk export
$199/mo
Pay-as-you-go200 credits $10 → 100,000 credits $2,000
from $0.02/credit

Dropcontact prices in euros and bills annual plans 20% below monthly. LinkedIn URL enrichment — the closest overlap with Datamagnet — sits on the Growth plan, from €35/month. Competitor pricing is taken from their public pricing page and was last checked July 2026; list prices change and negotiated rates differ. See Datamagnet pricing for our current plans.

Where each tool genuinely wins

No tool wins everywhere. Here's the honest split.

Where Dropcontact wins

  • Verified B2B email addresses, which Datamagnet does not return at all — for most Dropcontact buyers that is the entire purchase
  • Native email validation and catch-all verification, so you know what is safe to send before you send it
  • A GDPR posture that survives procurement: no contact database, EU-based processing, and a public commitment that no personal data is stored or resold
  • Native apps for HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce that enrich, deduplicate and merge records in place with no engineering work
  • Works from a name and a company name — no LinkedIn URL required, which matters when your list came from a form or a conference
  • Drag-and-drop CSV and XLS enrichment plus a Google Sheets add-on for people who do not write code
  • French entity data — SIREN, SIRET, NAF codes and VAT numbers — at a depth very few vendors match
  • Mobile numbers in its CRM Integration Suite, sourced from email-signature extraction; Datamagnet returns no phone numbers

Where Datamagnet wins

  • The full professional profile — work history, education, tenure and current role — not just a cleaned job title
  • Company profiles from a LinkedIn URL, with company insights and Crunchbase-sourced funding history
  • Post content plus commenters, reactors and reposters as structured data
  • Net-new prospecting: ICP search, the people search database, and Sales Navigator URL search
  • Six signal types — job change, new post, keyword, industry, company and person engagement — delivered by HMAC-signed webhook
  • One request, one JSON response, instead of submitting a batch and polling a request_id
  • Per-endpoint credit costs in dollars, charged only on successful requests, with 10 free credits to test
  • No seats, and no separate subscription for each surface you use it on

Datamagnet vs Dropcontact: FAQ

Yes. Dropcontact finds and verifies B2B email addresses, including catch-all domain checks, and that is its core product. Datamagnet does not return email addresses at all — it returns live profile, company, post and engagement data from a LinkedIn URL or a search query. Teams that need both usually run Datamagnet for profile and activity data and Dropcontact for the deliverable contact details.

No. Dropcontact accepts a LinkedIn URL as an input key and returns a cleaned contact record: name, civility, current job title with an AI-assigned level and function, the LinkedIn profile URL, and company firmographics. It does not return work history, education, follower counts, posts or engagement. Datamagnet fetches the profile itself at request time and returns those fields as structured JSON for 1 credit per person.

Dropcontact's Files & API subscription starts at €29 a month for 500 credits on the Starter plan, and €35 a month for 500 credits on Growth, which is the plan that adds LinkedIn URL enrichment and company data. A credit slider runs up to 150,000 credits a month, annual billing is 20% cheaper than monthly, and Enterprise starts at 200,000 credits a month. CRM enrichment is billed as a separate subscription.

Dropcontact's stated position is that it holds no contact database at all: it computes candidate email addresses algorithmically, tests them on its own verification servers in the EU, and says no personal information is stored or resold. That posture is why many European buyers choose it, and it is a genuine difference from database vendors. Datamagnet also fetches at request time rather than serving stored records, but it retrieves public professional profile data and returns no email addresses, which is a different compliance conversation.

Yes, and it is a common setup. Datamagnet handles discovery and depth — ICP search, Sales Navigator search, the live profile behind a LinkedIn URL, post engagement, and job-change signals. Dropcontact then takes the name, company and LinkedIn URL from those records and returns a verified email address. Neither replaces the other: one tells you who someone is and what they are doing, the other tells you how to reach them.

No. Dropcontact enriches records you already have — from a CSV, a Google Sheet, a CRM object or an API call — and needs a name plus company, a full name plus company, a LinkedIn URL, or an email address to work from. It has no people search, no ICP filters and no Sales Navigator import. Datamagnet ships ICP search, a people search database and Sales Navigator endpoints that return net-new matches you did not already hold.

Sources

Every competitor claim on this page traces back to one of these.

  1. 1.Dropcontact — Pricing (Starter and Growth credit tiers, free trial, Enterprise threshold) — checked July 2026
  2. 2.Dropcontact — API documentation (enrich endpoint, input keys, response fields, batch limits) — checked July 2026
  3. 3.Dropcontact Knowledge Base — How the Files & API subscription and credits work — checked July 2026
  4. 4.Dropcontact — Product overview (GDPR claim, CRM integrations, data returned) — checked July 2026

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