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SignalHire Review: Contact Data With a Recruiting Slant

SignalHire suits teams that reveal contact details from the browserAcross SignalHire reviews, credits and quotas draw 6 negative mentions, all of its mentions, and price level draws 6, all of its mentions.

100+ public reviews as of Sep 2026 · scored on 14 tagged reviews · same 5-dimension grid for every scored tool · Scores last recalculated on Oct 16, 2026

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7.7
OUR SCORE / 10
lead databases tools we score
$69 /mo Free plan: 5 contact details, then asked to upgrade Read on the vendor's pricing page between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026
SignalHire in three sentences

SignalHire describes itself as a real-time contact finder for recruiters, sales professionals and marketers, per its home page read on Sep 26, 2026. Scores rest on 14 tagged reviews, and ease of use has 13 favourable mentions. Credits and quotas draw 6 negative mentions, all of its mentions.

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Price

What it costs

Five plans. Every figure read on the vendor's pricing page between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026.

SignalHire pricing in US dollars, monthly billing
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Free
$0 /mo
Credits
5 or 10
Choose Free
Emails
$69 /mo
$57 /mo billed annually
Credits
1000
Choose Emails
Phones
$69 /mo
$57 /mo billed annually
Credits
435
Choose Phones
Emails & Phones
$99 /mo
$83 /mo billed annually
Credits
Unlimited
Choose Emails & Phones
Scale
Quote
Annual price not published
Credits
Not published
Choose Scale
What changed since we last lookedOnly what we read ourselves, dated
Oct 3, 2026
Prices read

Prices read on the vendor's page: Emails $69 a month, billed monthly; Emails & Phones $99.

Oct 16, 2026
Scores recalculated

Scores calculated on 14 tagged reviews; global score 7.7.

Features

What you get, what you don't

Six things SignalHire does. None of the six is missing on the vendor's pages; the weak spots are in what reviewers say, below.

Contact searchName, title, locationFilters by name, title, company, location
Browser extensionChrome, FirefoxFree monthly credits
Email sequencesBuilt inMulti-step outreach from the user's mailbox
CRM/ATS syncNative + CSV fallbackNo duplicates; CSV fallback if not native
APIREST, API keyCredit-aware; documented rate limits
Bulk enrichUp to 1,000/runEnrich or export up to 1,000 at once
Does it fit your stack?Read on the vendor's public pages between Sep 27 and Oct 3, 2026 · "Not published" means the vendor does not say
Integrations
What connects, and how
  • SalesforceNative
  • PipedriveNative
  • Zoho CRMNative
  • Zoho RecruitNative
  • ActiveCampaignNative
Security & compliance
What your IT team will ask
  • Data hostedNetherlands
  • GDPR data processing agreementNot published
  • SOC 2 reportNot published
  • Single sign-onNot published
Support
Channels, hours, and what reviewers say
  • ChannelsEmail and phone
  • HoursNot published
  • Phone+12094373846
  • Read as negative2 of 3 tagged reviews
Evidence

The data behind the score

Our five scores against the average of the tools we score.

Tagged reviews from Jul 2024 to Sep 2026
SignalHireAverage of the tools we score
DimensionScorevs averageRead as positive
Ease of setup
8.7
+0.3
3 of 4
Feature depth
6.1
−1.4
3 of 9
Value for money
8.4
+0.1
10 of 14
Support quality
6.6
−0.7
1 of 3
Data qualityCategory dimension
8.5
+1.4
9 of 11
What reviewers talk aboutCounts are mentions as of Sep 2026
Praised most
Ease of use
13
Integrations
7
Interface
3
Email accuracy
2
Criticised most
Credits and quotas
6
Price level
6
Data coverage
4

How we score

Fit

Should you buy it?

Name your dealbreaker. No profile is scored on its own yet: too few tagged reviews per profile, so the page shows the overall score.

Your dealbreaker
7.7all reviewers

Buy it if You want contact details revealed from the browser, with CRM sync, for sales or recruiting. Skip it if You need subscription fees refundable on termination, or more than 2,000 credits a month at a published price.

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Questions to ask the vendor

  1. Which plan covers the credits I need each month?Emails lists 1,000 credits a month, Phones 435; Emails & Phones is capped at 2,000 by fair usage.
  2. Do unused credits carry over to the next month?Credits and quotas draw 6 negative mentions; remaining credits stay usable until the cycle ends.
  3. How complete is the contact data for my target market?Data coverage draws 4 negative mentions, all of its mentions.
  4. What would I pay for a volume above the listed plans?Price level draws 6 negative mentions; Scale is on quote with a bulk license for 900M+ profiles.
Alternatives

If SignalHire isn't it

Three tools we score in this category. Each card names where the tool is weaker. The highest-scored tool that covers a dealbreaker above is always among them. Data coverage has no card: we hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better. Click a card, or a name below, to put it next to SignalHire.

Tomba
If you want to buy credits as a one-time purchase
8.6+0.9 vs SignalHire
$89 /moNo free trial stated
Read on the vendor's pricing page between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026
  • Credits sold monthly or once; Growth lists a phone finder
  • Free plan and trial draws 3 negative mentions
Our review Try
Hunter
If credits and price level are the dealbreakers
8.5+0.8 vs SignalHire
$49 /moNo free trial
Read on the vendor's pricing page between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026
  • Starter lists 2,000 credits a month for $49 per month, billed monthly
  • Price level draws 18 negative mentions
Our review Try
Findymail
If you want credits that roll over
8.5+0.8 vs SignalHire
$99 /moFree trial (length not stated)
Read on the vendor's pricing page between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026
  • Credits roll over, up to 2x your plan
  • Price level draws 4 negative mentions
Our review Try
Side by side

SignalHire vs Tomba

Compare SignalHire with
SignalHire Tomba Hunter Findymail
Our score
7.7
8.6
8.5
8.5
Price and plan
Entry price$69 /mo$89 /mo$49 /mo$99 /mo
Free planFree planFree planFree planFree plan
Free trialNo free trial statedNo free trial statedNo free trialFree trial (length not stated)
Four dimensions, same grid
Ease of setup
8.7
9.3
9.3
8.7
Feature depth
6.1
8.6
7.5
7.7
Value for money
8.4
7.6
7.8
8.8
Support quality
6.6
7.9
9.1
8.7
Fit
CRM integrationSalesforce, Pipedrive, ZohoHubSpot, PipedriveHubSpot, SalesforceHubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive
Support channelsEmail and phoneChat, emailChat, emailIn-app chat, email
Main strengthReal-time contact verificationEmail finder with verificationEmail finder and domain searchEmail finding with catch-all verification

Tomba lists a 14-day money-back guarantee on a first subscription, under conditions, read on Oct 3, 2026. Tomba scores 8.6 on 19 tagged reviews.

Same five-dimension grid for every tool; the fifth dimension changes with the category and stays out of this table. Prices and integrations read on each vendor's public pages between Sep 26 and Oct 18, 2026.

In depth

What the reviews say, in depth

Setup

Ease of use draws 13 favourable mentions

Ease of use has 13 favourable mentions and no negative one; interface has 3 favourable mentions. Ease of setup scores 8.7, and 3 of the 4 tagged reviews that discuss setup read as favourable.

The vendor lists a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that reveals contacts on social media platforms and most websites in one click, read between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026. Installing it gives 10 free credits a month, read on Sep 26, 2026.

Features

Feature depth scores 6.1 on 9 tagged reviews

Feature depth scores 6.1, and 3 of the 9 tagged reviews that discuss it read as favourable. Integrations has 7 favourable mentions and no negative one.

For a sales buyer rather than a recruiter, the vendor lists native Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM and ActiveCampaign connections, plus cold email sequences sent from your own mailbox, read between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026. Zoho Recruit and Recruitee, two recruiting tools, are listed alongside them. Bulk enrichment covers up to 1,000 profiles at a time, read on Sep 26, 2026.

Limits

Fair usage caps the unlimited plan at 2,000 credits

Emails lists 1,000 credits a month and Phones 435, while Emails & Phones lists unlimited credits, read on Oct 3, 2026. Its terms limit spending to 2,000 credits per month, read on Oct 3, 2026. The Free plan lists 5 or 10 credits, read on Oct 3, 2026.

Credits and quotas draw 6 negative mentions, all of its mentions, and data coverage draws 4, all of its mentions. The terms state that subscription packages are not refundable on termination, and remaining credits stay usable until the end of the billing cycle, read on Oct 3, 2026.

Support

Support quality scores 6.6 on 3 tagged reviews

Support quality scores 6.6, and 1 of the 3 tagged reviews that discuss support reads as favourable. Customer support has 1 favourable mention and 2 negative.

The vendor lists email and a phone line on its pricing page, read on Oct 3, 2026. Support hours are not published.

Value

The Emails plan is $69 a month, billed monthly

Emails and Phones are each $69 a month, billed monthly, or $57 a month on yearly billing; Emails & Phones is $99 a month, or $83 on yearly billing, read on Oct 3, 2026. Scale is on quote.

Value for money scores 8.4, and 10 of the 14 tagged reviews that discuss value read as favourable; price level draws 6 negative mentions, all of its mentions. The plans list unlimited users, read on Sep 26, 2026.

Questions

Before you commit

The Emails, Phones and Emails & Phones plans list unlimited users, read on Sep 26, 2026, so the plan price is the price for one user. Emails and Phones are each $69 a month, billed monthly, and Emails & Phones is $99 a month, read on Oct 3, 2026. The Free plan costs nothing and lists 5 or 10 credits.

The site holds no reason from the vendor. Its pricing page lists Emails and Phones at $69 a month each, billed monthly, with 1,000 credits a month on Emails and 435 on Phones, read on Oct 3, 2026. The page shows no price per credit, and the site does not calculate one.

The vendor says contact details are checked with third-party verification tools before they are shown, read on Sep 26, 2026; that is a vendor claim, not a measure by the site. The site holds no fact on whether results come from a cache.

Data quality scores 8.5, and 9 of the 11 tagged reviews that discuss it read as favourable. Email accuracy has 2 favourable mentions and phone accuracy 2, with no negative one on either, while data coverage draws 4 negative mentions, all of its mentions.

The vendor lists a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that reveals contacts on social media platforms and most websites in one click, read between Sep 26 and Oct 3, 2026. The site does not rule on LinkedIn profiles specifically.

The vendor names recruiters, sales professionals and marketers as users, read on Sep 26, 2026. For a sales team, it lists native Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zoho CRM connections and cold email sequences; Zoho Recruit and Recruitee serve recruiting. Teams account for 11 of the 14 tagged reviews.

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