ContactOut vs HireEZ

Summary

ContactOut is a contact enrichment tool built for speed: you're on LinkedIn, you see someone, you click, you get their email and phone. It's a Chrome extension first, a database second. Most teams use it to shortcut the manual hunt for contact details on profiles they've already identified. HireEZ is a full sourcing platform: AI boolean builders, aggregated candidate data from 45+ sources (not just LinkedIn), diversity filters, and engagement workflows. It's built for recruiters who need to discover candidates from scratch, not just grab contact info for people they've already found. The real split: ContactOut assumes you know who you want to reach. You're scrolling LinkedIn, you spot a solid backend engineer at Stripe, you extract their details, you move on. It's fast, it's narrow, it's $79/month per seat. HireEZ assumes you're starting from zero: you need to build a pipeline of 50 diverse backend engineers across multiple sources, rank them by fit, and sequence outreach. It's $169/user/month because it's doing the sourcing work, not just the contact lookup. ContactOut works for teams with strong manual sourcing chops who just need the last-mile contact data. HireEZ works for teams that need the platform to do the heavy lifting upfront. Pricing reflects scope. ContactOut's freemium model lets solo recruiters or small teams test before committing, but enterprise seats still hit $79/month without negotiation. HireEZ starts at $169/user/month with no free tier, and smaller teams (under 5 recruiters) often find the cost hard to justify unless they're hiring volume roles or prioritizing diversity sourcing where the filters genuinely save hours per search.