PhantomBuster alternative when your leads are websites, not LinkedIn profiles
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Short answer: PhantomBuster is a cloud automation platform for lead lists and outreach across 15+ platforms such as LinkedIn and Sales Navigator, run through your own accounts. Its pricing page lists a free Trial (5 automation slots, 2 hours of execution time, 50 email credits, exports limited to 10 rows), then Start $56/month, Grow $128/month and Scale $352/month, each shown as billed annually ($672, $1,536 and $4,224 a year). If your list is company websites and you want the emails, phones, WhatsApp and social links each site publishes, our Website Contact Scraper on Apify does that one job, free during launch, and you pay only Apify platform usage. If your workflow lives on LinkedIn, PhantomBuster is the better pick.
The pain this page is about
Many lead lists are just company websites — from Google Maps, a directory or a trade fair. Social automation tools are built around profiles and accounts. The question is which kind of tool your list actually needs.
Side by side (from public pages)
| PhantomBuster | Unadhi Website Contact Scraper (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Automations (“Phantoms”) and workflows to extract, enrich and act on data from 15+ platforms; LinkedIn and Sales Navigator outreach campaigns | Read each company website you list and return its public contact details |
| Accounts needed | Runs through your own accounts on those platforms (per its FAQ) | No social account; it visits public websites only |
| Output | Profiles, company details, enriched emails; unlimited exports on paid plans (10 rows on Trial) | One row per site: role emails (MX-checked), phones in E.164, WhatsApp/Telegram numbers, social links, the page each was found on |
| Usage unit | Automation slots, execution hours per month, email credits, AI credits, URL finder credits | Apify compute used by the run; skipped and blocked sites not charged |
| Price (public, read 20 Oct 2026) | Trial free · Start $56/mo ($672 billed annually; 20h, 500 email credits) · Grow $128/mo ($1,536; 80h, 2,500) · Scale $352/mo ($4,224; 300h, 10,000). The page has a monthly toggle; annual is shown as saving 20% | Actor fee: free during launch. Apify platform usage only; Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage a month |
| When time runs out | Automations pause until reset or upgrade; no automatic overage charges (per its FAQ) | You see the usage of each run in Apify billing |
| Users | Unlimited users on all plans | Your Apify account |
| Cancel | Cancel any time; plan stays active to the end of the billing period | No subscription with us |
Function summary in our own words, not a review.
Who should pick PhantomBuster instead
- Your prospects are LinkedIn or Sales Navigator searches, post engagers or profiles, and you want outreach from your own account.
- You want many ready-made automations and workflows across several platforms, scheduled in one place.
- You need email enrichment of people's profiles, with credits included in the plan.
Who our Actor fits better
- Your list is websites, and you want shared inboxes, phones and WhatsApp from each site, with the source page as proof.
- You do not want to connect a personal social account to an automation tool.
- You want to start at zero developer cost and keep a test inside Apify's free $5 monthly usage.
Building from a trade fair list? See the trade fair exhibitor contact sheet. From Google Maps? See add emails and phones to a Google Maps export.
Try it on five of your own websites first
Actor fee: free during launch · you pay only Apify platform usage
The Website Contact Scraper: Emails, Phones & WhatsApp is a pay-per-usage Actor on Apify. Apify's own docs explain the model: you pay only for the platform resources the run uses, with no extra charge from the developer (Apify docs). Apify's free plan is $0 and includes $5 of platform usage a month, with no credit card (apify.com/pricing). We do not quote a cost per 1,000 sites, because it depends on the sites; Apify suggests a small test run to measure it. Sites that block bots, disallow crawling or forbid scraping in their terms are skipped and not charged. Built and published by Unadhi (disclosure).
Free gift: copy-paste input for a five-site test
Replace the five domains with real ones from your list. Check the rows by hand against two of the sites before you run hundreds. More walk-throughs: find public role emails on a company website · add emails and phones to a Google Maps export.
Frequently asked questions
How much does PhantomBuster cost?
Its pricing page (read 20 Oct 2026) shows Start at $56 a month ($672 billed annually), Grow at $128 a month ($1,536) and Scale at $352 a month ($4,224), with a free Trial. A monthly billing option is shown with a toggle.
Does PhantomBuster have a free plan?
It has a free Trial with 5 automation slots, 2 hours of execution time, 50 email credits and 1,000 AI credits; exports are limited to 10 rows.
Does the Unadhi Actor scrape LinkedIn?
No. It only visits the public company websites you list. It does not log in anywhere and does not read social profiles; it returns links to a company's social pages when the website publishes them.
What does the Unadhi Actor cost?
No Actor fee during launch. You pay Apify only for the platform usage of each run; Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month.
Not legal advice. Work emails and phone numbers of identifiable people are personal data under India's DPDP Act 2023 and the EU/UK GDPR; you decide what to do with the output and you stay responsible for it. Competitor prices and plans change; re-check their pricing pages before you decide. Spotted an error about any product on this page, including ours? Write to mininglife7@gmail.com and we correct it.
Sources
- PhantomBuster pricing (plans, credits, FAQ on execution time, cancel) — https://phantombuster.com/pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Unadhi Website Contact Scraper on Apify Store — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/contact-details-scraper-half-price (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Apify pricing (Free plan, $5 monthly usage) — https://apify.com/pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
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