Tomba.io or an Apify Actor? Finding the emails, phones and WhatsApp numbers a business publishes
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Short answer: Tomba.io is an email finder and verifier: it finds a person's work email from a name and domain, lists the addresses it holds for a company domain with the public pages where each was found, verifies addresses, and finds phone numbers. Its pricing page (checked 25 Oct 2026) shows a Free plan with 25 searches every 30 days and domain search capped at 10 addresses, then Basic $49 a month (2,500 searches + 2,500 verifications), Growth $89 (5,000 + 5,000), Pro $199 (20,000 + 20,000) and Pro Plus $449 (50,000 + 50,000), with 25% off billed yearly. Searches that find nothing cost nothing. Our Website Contact Scraper on Apify does not hold a database or guess addresses: it visits each company's own website now and returns the role emails, phones, WhatsApp numbers and social links published there, with the page each came from. It is free during launch; you pay only Apify platform usage. If you need named people's verified emails or an API at high volume, pick Tomba. If you want what each business publishes on its own site today, including WhatsApp, try ours.
The pain this page is about
“I need to contact 200 local businesses. Half of them list a WhatsApp number on their website and never read email.” An email finder answers “what is this person's address?”. A website contact scraper answers “how does this business ask to be contacted?”.
Side by side (function and price, from public pages)
| Tomba.io | Unadhi Website Contact Scraper (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Email finder (name + domain), domain search, email verifier, enrichment, phone finder, API and extensions | Read a company's own website and collect the contact details it publishes |
| Where data comes from | Tomba's own index of addresses found on public web pages, with source pages and first/last-seen dates | A live visit to each site you list, up to the page limit you set; foundOn shows the page |
| Phones and WhatsApp | Phone finder: 5 search credits per number (1 when the request includes a domain); phone validator 1 credit | Phones in E.164 and WhatsApp/Telegram numbers with ready links, when the site publishes them |
| Personal addresses | Yes, a main use | Off by default: role mailboxes only unless you switch personal addresses on |
| Price (public, checked 25 Oct 2026) | Free $0 (25 searches) · Basic $49/month · Growth $89 · Pro $199 · Pro Plus $449 · yearly 25% off (from $37/month) · pay-as-you-go packs valid 365 days | Actor fee: free during launch. Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage a month, no card |
| What is charged | Searches that return nothing are free; duplicate requests in the same window are free; verifications use a separate allowance | Apify platform usage per run; skipped sites (blocked or disallowed) are not charged |
| Refunds and cancel | Cancel any time; refund only for the latest payment within 72 hours and under 10% or 1,000 credits used | Nothing to cancel with us |
A function-and-price summary in our own words, not a review. Tomba's pricing page also shows its own benchmark against other tools; we do not repeat it and did not test either tool against the other.
Who should pick Tomba.io instead
- You need the verified work email of a named person, or bulk verification before a campaign.
- You want an API with high rate limits, team roles and SSO, or a Google Sheets/Excel add-in.
- You want addresses a company has published anywhere on the web, not only on its own site.
Who our Actor fits better
- Your list is small businesses whose own site shows a phone or WhatsApp button.
- You want a fresh read of the site today, with the page each detail came from.
- You already use Apify (for example, a Google Maps Actor) and want one platform bill.
Next step after the run: turn the scrape into a call sheet. Other honest comparisons: Hunter.io · Voila Norbert.
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 Tomba.io cost?
Its pricing page (checked 25 Oct 2026) shows Free (25 searches every 30 days), Basic $49 a month with 2,500 searches and 2,500 verifications, Growth $89 with 5,000 + 5,000, Pro $199 with 20,000 + 20,000 and Pro Plus $449 with 50,000 + 50,000. Yearly billing takes 25% off. Larger Scale plans (from $899 a month) are sales-assisted, and Enterprise is $4,999 a month on an annual contract.
Does Tomba charge when no email is found?
Its page says searches that find nothing cost nothing, and repeating the same request in the same usage window is free.
What is Tomba's refund policy?
Its FAQ says refunds apply only to your most recent payment, within 72 hours of the charge, and only if you used less than 10% or 1,000 credits (whichever is lower) of that purchase.
Does the Unadhi Actor find a person's email from their name?
No. It does not guess or construct addresses and has no database. It reads the websites you list and reports what each publishes, role inboxes only unless you turn personal addresses on.
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
- Tomba.io pricing (plans, credits per endpoint, rate limits, refund and cancellation FAQ) — https://tomba.io/pricing (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Unadhi Website Contact Scraper on Apify Store (pricing model, features) — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/contact-details-scraper-half-price (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Apify pricing (Free plan, $5 monthly usage) — https://apify.com/pricing (checked 25 Oct 2026)
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