PhantomBuster Alternative for Lead Lists from Google Maps, Directories and Websites

PhantomBuster is built for LinkedIn and social outreach and bills by execution hours and slots. If your lead lists come from Google Maps, industry directories, job boards and company websites, WebRobot is the better buy: describe the list in one sentence and it delivers 10,000 records a month to Google Sheets, Excel or your CRM for $79, with no hours to ration and no LinkedIn account at risk.

Run the robot

PhantomBuster figures taken from its public pricing page and pricing FAQ, USD before tax

Robot console

No account needed Running · s Complete · rows

1 · Page address

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2 · What data do you want 3 · Columns (optional)

Reads one page, up to 25 rows, usually in under a minute.

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Extracted data ·

The page was read, but none of the data you described is on it. Try describing it the way it reads on the page, or another page.

more rows found on this page. Confirm your email to see every row and download the CSV.

Want this data fresh every morning? A plan runs this robot on a schedule, follows Next pages and feeds Sheets and the API.

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The meter

Execution hours against records, the same lead list on both meters

A territory list of 4,000 businesses refreshed every month, with one visit to each company website. On PhantomBuster the clock is the limit. On WebRobot the only number is rows.

PhantomBuster Start · $69

paused · day 19

20 / 20 h

slots

5 / 5

email credits

500

cost per hour

$3.45

Hours burn while a Phantom waits on rate limits. When they run out, every automation stops until the next cycle or an upgrade.

WebRobot Launch · $79

next run · Mon 06:00

8,000 / 10,000 rows

companycityfinancing

Northside HVACPlano, TXyes

Lone Star AirFrisco, TXno

Cedar Comfort Co.Allen, TXyes

One flat plan. The robot runs on schedule and only the rows it delivers count, including columns read from each business website.

Illustration with sample company names. Plan limits are the published ones.

Comparison

PhantomBuster vs WebRobot for B2B lead lists

PhantomBuster prices come from phantombuster.com/pricing. Every plan with cost per hour and worked bills is in our PhantomBuster pricing breakdown; ours are on the WebRobot pricing page.

Dimension	PhantomBuster	WebRobot
What it is	A library of prebuilt automations (Phantoms) for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, X, Google Maps and other platforms, chained into workflows	A hosted robot for any public site or portal you log in to: describe the data once and it runs on a schedule
What the meter counts	Execution hours, automation slots and separate email, AI and URL finder credit pools	Records per month, flat price
Entry plan	Start $69 a month (about $56 annual): 20 hours, 5 slots, 500 email credits	Launch $79 a month ($39 billed yearly): 5 robots, 10,000 records, daily runs, API
Mid plan	Grow $159 a month: 80 hours, 15 slots	Scale $249 a month ($124 yearly): 25 robots, 100,000 records, hourly runs, change alerts, logins
Top plan	Scale $439 a month: 300 hours, 50 slots	Autopilot $699 a month ($349 yearly): 100 robots, 1,000,000 records
When the limit is hit	Automations pause until the next cycle or an upgrade; no automatic overage	Runs stop at the record allowance; move up a plan when the list grows
Columns	A fixed set per Phantom	Any column you can describe, including ones read from each company website
Outreach actions	Yes: connection requests, messages, follow-up chains	No. It builds the list; your sequencer sends
Users	Unlimited on every plan	1 seat on Launch, 5 on Scale, 15 on Autopilot
Account risk	Runs in your own LinkedIn session, so restrictions land on that account	No social account involved for open-web sources
Delivery	CSV, CRM sync (HubSpot and others), Zapier, Make, n8n	Google Sheets feed, Excel, CSV, JSON API; Slack, Zapier and webhooks on Scale

Fair play

When you should stay on PhantomBuster

If one of these describes your pipeline, keep it. We would rather you buy the right tool.

Stay if 01

LinkedIn-led outbound

Your reps prospect in Sales Navigator, send connection requests and run follow-ups from the same tool. WebRobot does not touch LinkedIn, so it cannot replace that.

Stay if 02

Social selling chains

Post engagers, followers and profile visits on Instagram and X turned into a contact list and a message sequence. That is exactly what Phantoms are built for.

Stay if 03

Big teams on one bill

Every PhantomBuster plan has unlimited users. A twenty-rep floor sharing one Grow account pays less per head than any per-seat tool, ours included.

Operations desk with a monitor showing a structured table of extracted records next to printed documents

Switching triggers

Why sales teams search for a PhantomBuster alternative

1
The hours run out on day 19. A slow Phantom on a rate-limited platform eats execution time without producing more rows, and the only fix is a permanent upgrade.
2
The qualifying field is not in the Phantom. Whether a contractor offers financing, which software a clinic books with, how many locations a franchise has: that lives on each company website, not in a profile export.
3
A rep account got restricted. After one warning from LinkedIn, many teams move list building to sources that need no personal login and keep LinkedIn for human conversations.
4
An agency outgrew 5 slots. One list per client fills Start in a week. Grow at $159 fixes slots, but the lists themselves are often plain directory and Maps exports.

Worked bills

What three lead-list jobs cost on each tool

PhantomBuster math uses the plan whose hours and slots fit the job. WebRobot math uses the plan whose record allowance covers it.

Job	PhantomBuster	WebRobot	Better buy
One SDR: weekly Sales Navigator export, email enrichment, message sequence	Start $69 covers it	Not built for LinkedIn	PhantomBuster
4,000 HVAC and plumbing companies in Texas from Google Maps, refreshed monthly, plus financing and online booking read from each website	Maps export fits on Start, but the two website fields are not a Phantom, so they become manual work or custom code	4,000 listing rows plus 4,000 website rows = 8,000 records: Launch $79	WebRobot
Agency with 10 clients: a directory or association member list per client, refreshed daily, delivered to each client's sheet	10 live automations need Grow at $159 for the slots	10 robots and up to 100,000 rows: Scale $249, with change alerts to Slack	Grow if the lists are LinkedIn; Scale if they are directories and websites

The split is about sources, not price. When the list starts on LinkedIn, PhantomBuster is the tool. When it starts on the open web, a scraper that reads any site and keeps the columns you name is cheaper than the hours and the manual research it replaces. Our lead scraper for B2B lists shows the same jobs in more detail, and the Google Maps scraper covers local territory lists.

Shortlist

PhantomBuster alternatives and who each one fits

Pick by where the lead starts and who runs the tool. Rows with a write-up link to our verified pricing.

LinkedIn outreach tools

Reps who live in LinkedIn and want connection and message sequences with safety limits.

Per-seat subscriptions

Outscraper

One-off Google Maps and review pulls at a per-record price.

Pay as you go per 1,000 records

Outscraper pricing

Apify

Developers who want to script scrapers and chain actors.

Platform plan plus pay per result or compute

Apify pricing

Bardeen

Browser automations that run while you work in Chrome.

Credits per action

Bardeen alternative

Browse AI

Point-and-click monitors on a handful of pages.

Credits per row

Browse AI pricing

WebRobot

Sales and agency teams that need recurring lists from Maps, directories and websites with custom columns.

Flat plan from $79 a month, $39 billed yearly

WebRobot pricing

07 · Switching

How to move your open-web lists off PhantomBuster

Keep PhantomBuster for LinkedIn if you use it there. Move only the lists that start on websites, maps and directories.

Sort your Phantoms

Split last month's automations into LinkedIn and everything else. The second group is what moves.

Write the list in a sentence

"Every HVAC company within 25 miles of Dallas on Google Maps with phone, website and rating, then from each website whether they offer financing."

Point it at the same sheet

Deliver to the Google Sheet or CRM import the Phantom fed. Check twenty rows against your last export.

Schedule it

Daily on Launch, hourly with Slack change alerts on Scale. Freed-up hours and slots go back to LinkedIn work.

Lists that sit behind a partner or supplier login move to the web screen scraping tool, hiring signals to the job scraper, and anything you want in a spreadsheet every morning to web scraping into Google Sheets.

FAQ

PhantomBuster alternative questions buyers ask

It depends on where your leads come from. If the pipeline runs on LinkedIn messages and connection requests, a LinkedIn-native outreach tool is the closer swap. If you mostly export lists from Google Maps, directories, job boards and company websites, WebRobot is the better fit: you describe the list in a sentence and get 10,000 scheduled records a month for $79, with no execution hours to ration.

For website and directory lists, yes. PhantomBuster Start costs $69 a month for 20 execution hours and 5 slots, and when the hours run out the automations pause. WebRobot Launch costs $79 a month, or $39 a month billed yearly, for 10,000 records on a daily schedule. Per-record tools like Outscraper are cheaper still for one-off Google Maps pulls.

PhantomBuster runs through your own logged-in LinkedIn session and recommends conservative daily limits. LinkedIn's User Agreement still prohibits scraping and automated activity, and LinkedIn can restrict accounts that trip its checks. The risk sits with the account owner, whichever tool you use. Lists built from the open web carry none of that account risk.

The usual reasons are execution hours running out mid-month, too few slots for an agency with many client lists, LinkedIn account restrictions, and Phantoms that only return a fixed set of fields. Teams whose lists come from websites and maps often find they are paying for LinkedIn-grade tooling they barely use.

No, and we say so plainly. WebRobot is not built for LinkedIn and we do not recommend scraping it. It reads public websites, Google Maps, directories, marketplaces, job boards and portals you have your own login for, then delivers the rows to Google Sheets, Excel, CSV or the REST API on a schedule.

It is worth it when your outbound lives on LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and social platforms and you want ready-made chains that find, enrich and message. It is less of a fit when you need custom columns from websites on a fixed schedule, because you pay for hours, slots and credit pools instead of the rows you actually keep.

No ongoing free plan. There is a 14-day trial with 2 hours of execution time and exports limited to 10 rows, which shows a Phantom working but does not produce a usable list. Free open-source scrapers exist, but they need a developer to build, host and repair them, which is the cost most sales teams are trying to avoid.

Lead lists from the open web, without rationing hours

Describe the companies and the columns once. The robot reads Maps, directories and each company website, then delivers 10,000 records a month to your sheet for $79.