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PhantomBuster and five alternatives, compared
Prices, free tiers and verification as each vendor states them on its own site. The last column is our judgement.
| Tool | How it finds businesses | Cheapest plan and free tier | Emails and verification | Best for (our view) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhantomBusterSources: Maps export help, plans help, trial help, Maps contacts help, email help, pricing | Runs your Google Maps search in its cloud and exports the listings: up to 120 to 200 results a search, so a city means splitting searches by hand. | Start $69 ($56 billed yearly): 20 hours of run time, 5 automation slots and 500 email credits a month. Free tier: 14-day trial, no card, exports capped at 10 rows. Then a Free plan with 30 minutes of run time a month. | Its Maps-to-contacts workflow visits each business's website for emails, phones and social links. No mailbox check described: "verified" means the domain exists, the format is valid and it fits company patterns. Website emails aren't verified. | Building your own scraping and outreach automations, above all on LinkedIn. |
| Apify Google Maps ScraperSources: Maps scraper, Maps pricing, plans, Maps inputs | Splits the location you give it into many map screens (or a polygon you draw) to get past the 120-per-search limit, then merges the places. | Starter $19 a month of prepaid usage; the Maps scraper costs $3 per 1,000 places on Starter. Emails and verification are paid add-ons. Free tier: $5 of usage a month, no card: up to 1,250 places. The leads and verification add-ons cost $100 per 1,000 on Free. | Paid add-ons: company emails and social profiles from the business website, or employee names and work emails from a leads add-on. Paid add-on that checks the mailbox (ok, invalid, catch-all), but only for emails from the leads add-on, not website emails. | Developers who want automatic full-area Google Maps scraping behind an API and will assemble enrichment and qualification themselves. |
| OutscraperSources: API docs, app, Maps prices, email prices | One Google Maps search per query, up to 500 places. For dense areas it tells you to split the query; the app can split a city by zip code or neighbourhood. | No subscription. Google Maps places: first 500 free, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, then $1 per 1,000. Emails and contacts are priced separately, from $3 per 1,000 sites. Free tier: First 500 Google Maps places and 500 website email lookups free each billing period; a card or prepaid credits needed to start. | A separately billed Emails & Contacts service reads each business website for emails, phones and social links. A separate, billed Email Address Verifier checks the mailbox (SMTP). | Occasional or technical users who want cheap per-record extraction and pay only for what they switch on. |
| OctoparseSources: Maps template, listings template, pricing, free credits help, email template, home | Its Google Maps Scraper template splits the area into overlapping grid points, up to 120 results each, and merges them. Its free Listings template pages one search and leaves splitting to you. | Standard $83 billed monthly ($69 billed yearly). Google Maps templates need Standard, and the grid template adds $2 per 1,000 rows. Free tier: 10 tasks and local runs, but the Google Maps templates need Standard. 2,000 free records a week through its MCP and API. | Its Google Maps Email Finder template ($0.50 per 1,000 rows) reads emails off the Maps profile and the business website. No email verification product found on its site. | Non-developers who scrape many kinds of websites with point-and-click control. |
| Scrap.ioSources: guide, categories help, pricing, trial help, emails, API docs, home | Filters its own stored index (225,676,406 listings in 195 countries, by its count) by Google category and area, up to a whole country. No free-text keyword search. | Basic €49, priced in euros (€35 billed yearly): 10,000 export credits, one per place. Whole-country search needs the €499 Company plan. Free tier: No free plan; a 7-day trial with a card covers up to 50 searches and 100 export credits. | Up to 5 emails per business, found on its website, each with the page it came from. API documents mail-server checks only (MX record, provider, webmail, disposable). Its marketing calls the emails verified in real time. | Large exports of a whole Google category across a region or country, with the count shown before you spend. |
| Lyre Leads (ours)Sources: coverage test, pricing, how we verify, features | Live Google Maps search for any keyword. Complete coverage mode searches a city from many overlapping points and merges on place ID (median 2.2x one paged search in 24 US tests). | Growth $39: 7,500 leads (a lead is one new business, enriched and relevance-checked). Unused leads roll over up to three months. Free tier: 500 leads a month, no card. | Company email read off the business's own website, never guessed. Named contacts on request, 2 tokens each, charged only when one is found. Every address checked at the mailbox (SMTP, through MillionVerifier), included. Catch-all addresses are labelled, never counted as verified. | Selling to local businesses in cities over 200,000 people, when you want every business in the territory checked and its emails verified. |
Checked 14 October 2026. Each row links to the pages its facts were read on. Prices are in US dollars, per month on monthly billing, unless the cell says otherwise. "Best for" is our judgement, and we make Lyre Leads.
Which PhantomBuster alternative covers a whole city?
PhantomBuster's help centre is direct about the limit: "Each search only returns up to 120–200 results. To go beyond this, split your searches into smaller areas (e.g. Restaurant Camden, Restaurant Waterloo) and run the Phantom separately." It estimates about 7 to 8 minutes of run time per 100 results, which counts against the plan's monthly hours.
Apify's Google Maps Scraper splits a location into many map screens by itself, and Octoparse's Google Maps Scraper template splits an area into overlapping grid points. Outscraper scrolls up to 500 places per query and can split a city by zip code or neighbourhood. Scrap.io doesn't search at all; it filters a stored index of listings by category and area. Lyre Leads in complete coverage mode searches a city from many overlapping points and merges on Google's place ID, which found about 2.2 times as many businesses as one paged search in the median city of our 24-pair test (method and numbers). We haven't measured the other tools against that test.
Which gives verified emails?
PhantomBuster's Maps-to-contacts workflow visits each business's website for emails, phones and social links, and its docs describe no verification of those. Its email-finding automations call an address "verified" when the domain exists, the format is valid and it matches common company patterns, which is not a mailbox check.
Lyre Leads checks every address it finds at the mailbox, through MillionVerifier, inside the plan, and labels catch-all addresses rather than counting them as verified. Outscraper sells a separate SMTP verifier. Apify's verification add-on covers emails from its leads add-on only. Scrap.io's API documents mail-server checks, not a mailbox check, and Octoparse has no verification product we could find. In our study of 2,482 emails scraped from business websites, 14.2% of the addresses a mailbox check could decide were dead (the decay study).
How do the prices compare?
PhantomBuster's Start plan is $69 a month, or $56 billed yearly, for 20 hours of run time, 5 automation slots and 500 email credits; when the hours run out, automations pause until the reset rather than running up a bill. Apify's Maps scraper costs $3 per 1,000 places on its $19 Starter plan. Outscraper charges $3 per 1,000 places with no plan. Octoparse's grid template adds $2 per 1,000 rows to an $83 monthly plan. Scrap.io's Basic plan is €49 for 10,000 exported places. Lyre Leads is $39 for 7,500 leads, each enriched, checked against your keyword and with its email verified.
When is PhantomBuster still the better choice?
When LinkedIn is central to your prospecting, or you want one tool chaining automations across LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, Google Maps and more. Its AI enrichers fill custom fields, and its API, webhooks and MCP server come with every plan. One caution PhantomBuster gives itself: LinkedIn automations run through your own account and can get it restricted. Its Google Maps automations don't need a login.
When is Lyre Leads the wrong choice?
- Your prospecting runs on LinkedIn. We don't automate LinkedIn at all.
- You want custom multi-step automations across several platforms, wired your way.
- Your territory is small towns, where one search already reaches nearly every business.
Which one fits your campaign?
| If you need | Look at | Why |
|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn and multi-platform automations | PhantomBuster | Ready-made automations across 15+ platforms |
| A whole city scraped from Maps, behind an API | Apify Google Maps Scraper | Splits the location into map screens itself |
| Pay per place with no plan | Outscraper | Pay as you go, 500 places free each period |
| Point-and-click scraping with a Maps grid template | Octoparse | Visual workflows, no code |
| A whole Google category across a region | Scrap.io | Stored index, count first |
| Every business in a big city, checked against your keyword, emails verified | Lyre Leads | Nothing to configure, verification included |
How do you test them before you pay?
Pick one trade in a city over 200,000 people. Run it through PhantomBuster, splitting the city the way its help centre suggests, and through the alternative. Remove duplicates on Google's place ID or name and street address, count only businesses inside the city, and put every email through one mailbox verifier. Note the time each took, too: on PhantomBuster run time is part of the price.
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