Lusha

🎯 Should you use Lusha?

Buy if: You need direct dials for LinkedIn profiles and hire fast enough to justify $36/month for 80 credits.

Skip if: You source under 20 people monthly or need emails for engineers in Europe (GDPR kills half the data).

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 3 minutes, Chrome extension only
• ●LinkedIn enrichment: Hit or miss on mobile numbers, emails at 70% fill rate
• ●Bulk enrichment: Works, but burns credits fast on bad matches

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●European profiles return half-empty results because of GDPR restrictions, especially in Germany and France.
• ●Credits expire monthly with no rollover, so quiet hiring months waste your subscription.

💸 Is it worth the money?

$36/month gets 80 credits (one credit per enrichment). That is $0.45 per contact if you use them all. ContactOut is $29 for 100 contacts and Phantombuster is $56 for unlimited scrapes, so Lusha only wins if you want the fastest one-click workflow and already live in LinkedIn.

🆚 If not this

• ●ContactOut -> Same price range, better Europe coverage, exports to CSV instead of requiring Salesforce
• ●Phantombuster -> Cheaper per contact if you scrape 200+ profiles monthly and can handle setup

🎯 Final verdict

Fine for US-focused agency recruiters who live in LinkedIn and need dials now, overpriced for everyone else.