ContactOut's Self-Serve Plans Allow One User per Company

ContactOut's pricing page, checked on November 11, 2026, prints the same line under the Free, Email, and Email + Phone plans: "1 user per company limit." For a solo recruiter, that does not matter. For a boutique with three recruiters who each planned to buy their own $99 plan, it does. The self-serve plans are built for one person at one company. Teams are sent to a "Team / API" plan that has no public price.

Primary source: ContactOut pricing page, accessed November 11, 2026.

The plans as displayed

Free is $0 a month with 5 emails, 5 phones, and 5 exports per day, the browser extension, the search portal, and a trial of premium features. It carries the one-user limit.

Email shows a struck-through $99 and a current price of $49 a month, labeled "Limited time only." It includes unlimited emails, 300 exports a month, email campaigns, a list builder, and everything in Free. It carries the one-user limit.

Email + Phone shows a struck-through $199 and a current price of $99 a month. It includes unlimited emails, unlimited phones, 600 exports a month, data enrichment, an AI email writer, and everything in the Email plan. It carries the one-user limit.

Team / API is "Contact us." It lists 20% more data coverage, a bulk license to 700 million+ profiles, "Works with recruiter Pro," Salesforce and ATS integrations, team management and reports, and a dedicated account manager.

ContactOut's Free, Email, and Email + Phone plans each carry a "1 user per company limit." Teams are routed to an unpriced Team plan.

What the one-user limit means for an agency

The page does not define "company" or say how the limit is enforced. The plain reading is that one company gets one self-serve seat. If three recruiters at the same firm sign up separately with company email addresses, expect the limit to apply. That pushes any firm with more than one recruiter toward the Team plan, which has no listed price.

Before you plan around self-serve pricing, ask ContactOut how the limit is applied and what the Team plan costs for your headcount. Get both answers in writing.

"Limited time only" has no end date

The Email plan's $49 price and the Email + Phone plan's $99 price both sit next to struck-through prices of $99 and $199. The page labels the offer "Limited time only" but gives no end date. If you budget on $99 a month for Email + Phone, also budget for the $199 list price, in case the offer ends.

Exports are the real limit

Emails and phones are listed as unlimited on Email + Phone, but exports are capped at 600 a month. On Email, exports are 300 a month. If your workflow pushes contacts into a spreadsheet or another tool, the export cap is what you will hit first. The page does not say whether unused exports roll over. Assume they do not until ContactOut says otherwise.

By our arithmetic, Email + Phone at $99 for 600 exports is about 16.5 cents per exported contact if you use all of them. At the $199 list price, it would be about 33 cents.

ATS and Recruiter integration are on the Team plan

The Team / API card is the only one that lists "Salesforce + ATS integrations" and "Works with recruiter Pro." If your desk needs contacts to land in your ATS automatically, or you source inside a LinkedIn recruiter product, the self-serve plans do not list that support. Confirm before buying.

Daily caps on the Free plan

The Free plan's limits are daily, not monthly: 5 emails, 5 phones, and 5 exports per day. That is useful for a recruiter who checks a handful of candidates each morning. Over a working month of about 22 days, that is up to 110 of each, though the page does not promise that unused daily allowances carry forward. If your volume is steady and small, Free may cover more than its headline suggests. If your volume is lumpy, the daily cap will block you on busy days.

Questions to send before buying

1. How is the one-user-per-company limit enforced, and what counts as a company?
2. When does the limited-time price end, and does it lock in for existing subscribers?
3. Do unused monthly exports roll over?
4. What is the Team plan price for two, three, or five recruiters?
5. Which ATS integrations are included on the Team plan?

Who should skip this

Boutique firms with two or more recruiters should not assume they can each buy Email + Phone. Desks that need ATS sync should go straight to the Team plan conversation. Solo recruiters who mainly need phone numbers and export a few hundred contacts a month are the audience the self-serve plans fit best.

Budget fields

Record plan, current price and list price, the "limited time" note with the date you saw it, monthly export cap, the one-user limit, integration needs, and the access date. If you are a team, leave the price field blank until the Team quote arrives.