UpLead
UpLead is a B2B contact and company database built for small and mid sized sales teams. Users search more than 200 million contacts with over 50 filters, including technographics across thousands of technologies, and unlock emails and mobile numbers verified in real time at the moment of download, with invalid emails and not charged. From the Plus plan up, uploaded lists can be enriched with more than 50 fields. A Chrome extension finds contacts on LinkedIn profiles and company websites, a bulk email verifier costs from $0.003 a check, and a done for you cold email service is offered alongside.
Data comes from public documents, direct submissions and licensed third parties and passes an eight step pipeline that combines AI labeling, anomaly detection and risk scoring with human review, with accuracy promised at 95 percent and credits back when it falls short. Intent data and two way CRM sync come with the quoted Professional plan, while lower plans push records one way into HubSpot, Zoho, Dynamics 365, Pipedrive, Outreach, Salesloft and a dozen other tools. An API returns company and person records at 500 requests a minute.
A seven day trial includes five credits. Essentials costs $99 a month for 170 credits, or $74 a month billed annually with 2,040 credits for the year, and Plus costs $199 for 400 credits, or $149 a month annually with 4,800. Overage runs $0.50 to $0.60 a credit, and a $2 a month plan keeps credits while an account is paused. UpLead, LLC was founded in California in 2017 by Will Cannon, is registered as a data broker in California, Oregon and Texas, and handled more than four million deletion requests in 2024.
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AI works inside the data pipeline, labeling records, spotting anomalies, scoring risk at download and flagging records for human review, and search results carry an AI verified label and rank by freshness. The product customers use, a searchable database with real time verification, enrichment and CRM export, works as before without that label, and search itself is keyword and filter based.
Nothing acts on the customer's behalf beyond verification at unlock and Salesforce Connected Lists, which import contacts and export matches automatically at a credit per contact. How those syncs are limited or reviewed is not described.
The data pipeline's AI steps are named, from labeling to anomaly detection and risk scoring, but the models behind them and how a record is scored or ranked for freshness are not explained. No privacy commitment covers the AI steps.
Case studies cover more than ten customers, among them Kyber Security, which reports $400,000 in pipeline and $50,000 closed over seven months, and others such as Fastsigns, Staffing Future and TBM Consulting. Returns such as Kyber's 1,800 percent come without a basis, and the 97 percent valid email rate and 95 percent accuracy guarantee carry no stated method. Database size itself moves around, from 16 to 19 million companies and from 16,000 to 27,000 tracked technologies.
UpLead is registered as a data broker in California, Oregon and Texas, runs an opt out form covering California, Virginia, Oregon, Texas and EU rights, and handled more than four million deletion requests in 2024, all honored with a median of 15 days. Users can switch on an exclude EU contacts setting. California's privacy agency fined UpLead LLC $34,400 in November 2024 for failing to register as a data broker for part of 2024, and UpLead has not acknowledged the fine publicly.
UpLead, LLC rests prospect data on legitimate interests, with a balancing test available on request, honors the full set of GDPR rights within a month, treats customers as independent controllers, uses standard contractual clauses for transfers and names EDPO as its EU and UK representative. A standalone DPA and a named subprocessor list are not offered.
Records come from millions of public documents, direct submissions and licensed third parties, are hand checked rather than simply scraped, and pass an eight step pipeline with human review. Intent data comes from proprietary sources collected with consent. The licensors behind contacts, phones, technographics and intent are not named, and the terms disclaim any warranty of accuracy.
The Chrome extension finds contact details on LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn people search and company websites. How it reads LinkedIn pages, and how that fits LinkedIn's terms, is not addressed, while UpLead's own terms bar customers from using its API for LinkedIn scraping or automation.
Whether customer data or searches train any AI model is not addressed. Data is kept for as long as there is an ongoing legitimate business need, with no fixed periods, and records are seeded to detect misuse.
The database itself sends nothing, but a done for you cold email service is offered alongside it. Whether that outreach is written with AI and disclosed as such, and any position on Article 50 of the EU AI Act, are not addressed.
Salesforce syncs both ways on the Professional plan, with Connected Lists importing contacts and exporting matches, while HubSpot receives one way pushes of contacts, companies and leads, and Zoho, Dynamics 365, Pipedrive, Copper, Insightly, Close, Outreach, Salesloft, lemlist and others connect alongside Zapier. The API covers company, person, prospector, list and logo lookups with key authentication and 500 requests a minute. Webhooks are not offered and intent data has no API endpoint.
The service runs on AWS with servers in the United States. Specific regions and any residency choice for EU customers are not stated.
No security certification, audit report, trust center or statement of security practice is available. UpLead holds customer lists and connected Salesforce and HubSpot accounts alongside a database of more than 200 million people.
Essentials costs $99 a month for 170 credits, or $74 a month billed annually with 2,040 credits a year, and Plus costs $199 for 400 credits, or $149 a month annually with 4,800. Overage runs $0.50 to $0.60 a credit, a $2 a month plan holds credits while an account is paused, and a seven day trial includes five credits. Intent data, full API access, two way CRM sync and team management sit in the quoted Professional plan, and intent credits are unpriced.
Plans renew automatically unless cancelled 60 days before renewal, prices can rise with 90 days' notice, fees are non refundable and credits are use it or lose it. On termination customers must destroy all UpLead data within seven days and confirm in writing, and closing an account loses unused credits and downloaded lists. How completely lists and enrichment can be exported before leaving is not described.
Emails are verified in real time when unlocked and marked valid, accept all or invalid, with invalid emails and not charged, and valid emails are put at more than 97 percent deliverable. Credits back for bounces and poor data are promised, but no claim window or procedure is set out, and the terms disclaim any warranty of accuracy.
Small and mid sized sales teams are the stated buyers, and UpLead counts more than 4,000 customers, with case studies spanning security, safety, staffing, consulting, signage, construction and logistics firms. The data spans more than 200 countries, and an exclude EU contacts setting is available, while coverage depth by country is not given.
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Pricing
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- ›UpLead's Essentials plan costs $99 a month for 170 credits, or $74 a month billed annually with 2,040 credits for the year, and Plus costs $199 a month for 400 credits, or $149 a month annually with 4,800. Professional, which adds intent data, the full API and two way CRM sync, is quoted and annual only. A $2 a month plan keeps credits while an account is paused, and a seven day trial includes five credits.
How the price works
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Monthly or annual plans with credit allowances and per credit overage; Professional quoted
What the contract says about your data
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No BAA tier listed; no standalone DPA.
Getting started
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No setup fee listed.
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Overage costs $0.60 a credit on Essentials and $0.50 on Plus. Intent data, full API access and two way CRM sync require the quoted Professional plan, and intent credits are unpriced. Plans renew automatically unless cancelled 60 days ahead, fees are non refundable and credits do not roll over. A seven day trial includes five credits.