ContactOut vs Juicebox (PeopleGPT)

Summary

ContactOut is a contact extraction tool built for LinkedIn workflows. You're on a profile, you click the extension, you get verified email and phone. It's fast, purpose-built, and trusted by three-quarters of Fortune 500 recruiting teams because it does one thing reliably: unlock direct contact info so sourcers can skip InMail. The bulk export matters if you're building lists at scale. It doesn't search candidates for you-it enriches the ones you already found. Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is an AI search engine that replaces Boolean strings with plain English queries across 800M+ profiles. You describe your ideal candidate-"backend engineer in Austin with Rust experience, open to remote"-and it returns matches, then enriches them with contact data. It's search-first, enrichment-second. The AI scoring layer helps prioritize who to reach first. Where ContactOut assumes you're already on LinkedIn clicking through profiles, Juicebox assumes you're starting from scratch and need the system to surface candidates before you contact them. Both hit the same $79/month entry point and free tier, but ContactOut is Chrome-native while Juicebox is a standalone platform. If you source heavily on LinkedIn and have your own search process locked in, ContactOut accelerates the extraction step. If you want the search itself automated and don't want to write Boolean, Juicebox does the heavy lifting upfront.