THE LEADIQ ALTERNATIVE
LeadIQ Is Built for Reps. Datamagnet Is Built for Code.
LeadIQ turns a LinkedIn tab into a Salesforce record: a Chrome extension, a verified email, a mobile number, a plan with a seat cap. Datamagnet is an API — POST a LinkedIn URL, get the profile as it exists at that moment. Different jobs, and only one of them returns a phone number.
- Profiles in LeadIQ's database, refreshed monthly
- 750M+Profiles in LeadIQ's database, refreshed monthly
- LeadIQ's stated global mobile match rate
- 85%LeadIQ's stated global mobile match rate
- Datamagnet cost per live profile
- 1 creditDatamagnet cost per live profile
Datamagnet vs LeadIQ: the short answer
LeadIQ is a seat-based B2B prospecting platform: reps capture verified emails and mobile numbers from LinkedIn through a Chrome extension and push them into Salesforce, Outreach or Salesloft, drawing on a database of 750 million+ profiles refreshed monthly. Datamagnet is a pay-as-you-go API that fetches a public LinkedIn profile live at request time and returns JSON — it returns no emails and no phone numbers. Pick LeadIQ if the buyer is an SDR team that needs dialable contacts inside a CRM. Pick Datamagnet if the caller is your product, pipeline or agent.
Our verdict
LeadIQ is the better tool for an SDR team and the wrong tool for a codebase. Contact data is the product — emails at 1 credit, mobile numbers at 10, a claimed 85% global match rate — and Datamagnet returns neither, ever. What LeadIQ does not sell is the LinkedIn layer around the contact: post content, commenters and reactors, ICP and Sales Navigator search as JSON, six signal types on a signed webhook. If your bottleneck is reach, buy LeadIQ. If it is current, structured LinkedIn data flowing into systems you own, that is us.
Which one should you pick?
Straight guidance, including the cases where we're the wrong answer.
Choose Datamagnet if
- The caller is your product, a data pipeline or an agent, and a five-seat plan is the wrong shape for it
- You need the profile as it is right now, not a record from a database refreshed on a monthly cycle
- You want post content, commenters, reactors and reposters as structured data
- ICP search, live people search and Sales Navigator URL search should return JSON, not a list in a UI
- Job-change and engagement signals should arrive on an HMAC-signed webhook you route yourself
- You want to start today on 10 free credits, with no seat count to agree and no annual commitment
Choose LeadIQ if
- Your reps need verified email addresses and mobile phone numbers — Datamagnet returns neither, and never will
- The workflow is a Chrome extension capturing from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator tab; we have no extension at all
- You want prospects written straight into Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft or Gong without an engineer
- You need AI-written outreach copy sitting next to the data — Scribe drafts messages, Datamagnet does not
- Buying triggers beyond LinkedIn matter: company news, funding announcements, G2 research and third-party intent
- Your coverage requirement includes people with no meaningful LinkedIn presence, which no profile-keyed API reaches
Datamagnet vs LeadIQ, feature by feature
What each tool actually returns, how fresh it is, and what it costs to run.
Data & API coverage
| Feature | Datamagnet | LeadIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Data collected at the moment of request | Yes | Database, refreshed monthly |
| Person enrichment from a LinkedIn URL | 1 credit, live | Extension or GraphQL API |
| Company / account enrichment | 1 credit, live | 3 credits |
| Verified business email addresses | No | 1 credit each |
| Mobile phone numbers | No | 10 credits each |
| Chrome extension for reps | No | Yes |
| CRM & sequencer writeback (Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong) | No | Yes |
| Third-party intent data and G2 research signals | No | Yes |
| AI-written outreach copy | No | Scribe |
| Post content, comments, reactions and reposts | Yes | No |
| Sales Navigator search by URL, returned as JSON | Yes | Capture from the open tab |
| People search returning JSON | 25/page live, 50/page database | Advanced Search via GraphQL |
| Funding-round history from a domain | 5 credits | Surfaced as a buying trigger |
| Job-change detection | job_change signal | Champion Tracking |
| HMAC-signed webhooks for signals | Yes | Daily in-app and email alerts |
Freshness, billing & limits
| Feature | Datamagnet | LeadIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Update model | Fetched live per request | Database refreshed monthly |
| Job-change detection | Continuous signals + webhook | Daily in-app and email alerts |
| New-post detection | new_post signal | No |
| Billing unit | Per successful API call | Per result returned |
| Credit expiry | PAYG credits valid 12 months | Not published on the pricing page |
| Seat limits | None | 1 user free, up to 5 on Pro |
LeadIQ 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 products start at a LinkedIn profile, then diverge immediately
LeadIQ looks at a profile and answers one question: how do I reach this person? Email, mobile number, confidence score, straight into Salesforce. Datamagnet looks at the same profile and answers a different one: what is true about this person right now? Current title, tenure, full work history, what they posted this week, who engaged with it. Neither answer substitutes for the other. The expensive mistake is buying one while expecting the other.
- Find — ICP search, live people search, or a Sales Navigator search URL returns matches as JSON
- Enrich — one call returns the live person or company profile at 1 credit, with funding history from the Company API
- Watch — six signal types push job changes and engagement to an HMAC-signed webhook
Pricing, side by side
What you pay LeadIQ versus what you pay us, for the same work.
LeadIQ
Universal Credits inside seat-capped plans. Credits are spent per result: 1 for an email, 10 for a mobile number, 11 for both, and 3 for account enrichment. API access is listed on every plan.
- Free1 user, 50 credits
- $0
- ProUp to 5 users; credit slider runs 200 → 6,750
- from $200/mo
- EnterpriseCustom credits and users, annual plan only
- Contact us
- Annual billingAdvertised against monthly
- 25% off
- TrialOn any paid plan
- 30 days free
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
At its entry rung LeadIQ Pro works out at $1.00 per credit, and one mobile number costs ten of them. Higher rungs price through an on-page slider we could not read without interacting with it, so only the 200-credit rung is quoted here. The two credit systems are not comparable units: a LeadIQ credit buys a contact detail, a Datamagnet credit buys an API call. 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 LeadIQ wins
- Verified email addresses and mobile phone numbers are the entire product — Datamagnet returns neither
- A claimed 85% global mobile match rate, 70% in EMEA, with over 90% accuracy on Verified numbers — the figure SDR teams actually buy on
- A Chrome extension that captures a prospect from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator tab in one click; we ship no extension
- A native Salesforce managed package plus HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong and Groove — CRM writeback we do not do at all
- Scribe drafts personalised outreach copy from the profile; Datamagnet returns data and stops there
- Champion Tracking follows former customers and champions into new roles, with daily alerts a seller reads without engineering
- Buying triggers we do not source: company news, funding announcements, G2 research activity and third-party intent
- 750M+ profiles, including people with no meaningful LinkedIn presence — coverage no profile-keyed API can reach
- An official MCP connector and the Lando in-browser agent, so non-engineers can drive prospecting from an AI assistant
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-aligned and CCPA-compliant, with SSO and governance controls on Enterprise
Where Datamagnet wins
- Every profile fetched live at request time rather than read from a database refreshed monthly
- Post content, commenters, reactors and reposters as structured data — LeadIQ sells no equivalent
- Sales Navigator search by URL, returned as JSON rather than captured a tab at a time
- Six job-change and engagement signal types delivered by HMAC-signed webhook, routable anywhere
- Credits, never seats — the price does not change because more people or more services use it
- Published per-endpoint credit costs; a person or company profile is 1 credit
- Charged only on successful requests, with 10 free credits and no card to start
- No annual commitment and no seat count to negotiate: $39/mo, or pay-as-you-go from $0.02 a credit
Datamagnet vs LeadIQ: FAQ
Sources
Every competitor claim on this page traces back to one of these.
- 1.LeadIQ — Pricing (plans, seat limits, Universal Credit costs per result, trial, annual discount) — checked July 2026
- 2.LeadIQ — FAQ (750M+ profiles refreshed monthly, 85% global / 70% EMEA mobile match rate, >90% Verified-phone accuracy) — checked July 2026
- 3.LeadIQ — Products (Prospector, Scribe, Champion Tracking, CRM Enrichment, Data API, Lando, MCP integration) — checked July 2026
- 4.LeadIQ Developer Docs — GraphQL API at api.leadiq.com/graphql, contact, company and advanced search — checked July 2026
- 5.LeadIQ — Chrome extension (capture email, mobile and location; Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Gong sync) — checked July 2026
- 6.LeadIQ — Track sales triggers (job changes, company news, funding, G2 research, intent; daily in-app and email alerts) — checked July 2026
- 7.LeadIQ — Our data (sources, verification approach, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR aligned, CCPA compliant) — checked July 2026
- 8.LeadIQ — Enterprise (+749M contacts, SSO and governance, Data Hub, API access) — checked July 2026
- 9.LeadIQ — Lando (AI agent inside the extension, rolling out to existing customers) — checked July 2026
- 10.Datamagnet — Pricing (plans, credit allowances, per-endpoint credit costs, success-only billing) — checked July 2026
Try Datamagnet against LeadIQ on your own data
10 free credits, no credit card. Run the same lookups through both and compare the JSON yourself.
- Live data at request time
- Charged only on success
- No seats, no annual contract
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