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PhantomBuster pricing has three paid plans: Start at $69 a month with 20 execution hours and 5 automation slots, Grow at $159 with 80 hours and 15 slots, and Scale at $439 with 300 hours and 50 slots. Annual billing takes about 20 percent off. An execution hour costs $3.45 on Start and $1.46 on Scale, and when the hours run out your automations simply stop until the next cycle.
figures taken from PhantomBuster's pricing page and its pricing FAQ; prices in USD before tax
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The plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Execution time | Slots | Email credits | AI credits | URL finder credits | Cost per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | Free, 14 days | - | 2 h | 5 | 50 | 1,000 | 100 | Exports limited to 10 rows |
| Start | $69 | about $56 | 20 h | 5 | 500 | 10,000 | 1,000 | $3.45 |
| Grow | $159 | about $128 | 80 h | 15 | 2,500 | 30,000 | 10,000 | $1.99 |
| Scale | $439 | about $352 | 300 h | 50 | 10,000 | 90,000 | 20,000 | $1.46 |
Cost per hour is the monthly price divided by the included execution time. Email, AI and URL finder credits are monthly allowances on top of the hours, and they are spent separately: enriching a profile with an email address uses email credits whether or not the Phantom that found the profile was fast. People also type it as phantom buster pricing; the plans are the same.
The meter
20 to 300
hours a month
Counted while a Phantom runs. A slow platform with strict daily limits eats hours without giving you more rows.
5 to 50
running in parallel
One slot per automation you keep live. An agency with a list per client fills 5 slots in a week.
500 to 10,000
email credits a month
Email, AI and URL finder credits are separate pools. Enrichment-heavy lists run out of these first.
Your automations pause until the hours reset or you upgrade. PhantomBuster does not bill overage automatically, which keeps the invoice predictable, but there is no small top-up either. If you run out on day 20, the choice is ten days of silence or the next tier, permanently.
Worked bills
Solo SDR · Start · $69 a month
One rep runs a weekly Sales Navigator search export, an email enrichment step and a CRM push: three slots, a few hours a week, 500 email credits. Start fits with room to spare, and on annual billing it is about $56 a month.
Agency with 8 clients · Grow · $159 a month
Each client gets its own list builder plus one enrichment flow, so 16 automations compete for 5 slots on Start. Grow's 15 slots are the real reason to upgrade, and 80 hours is usually plenty. Expect to rotate one or two flows by hand.
Always-on growth team · Scale · $439 a month
Daily post-engager scraping, follower extraction and enrichment across several social accounts, running all day. 300 hours and 50 slots cover it, at $1.46 an hour, and annual billing brings it to about $352 a month.
What none of these prices include is anything outside PhantomBuster: an email verifier if you want a second check, the paid tier of a sync tool, and the person who rebuilds a flow when a platform changes. Once the list is in the CRM, the next problem is ownership, and lead routing that assigns each new lead to the right rep keeps fresh records from sitting unworked in a shared view.
The part the price does not cover
Most PhantomBuster workflows run on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator through your own logged-in session. PhantomBuster recommends conservative daily limits, and its pricing FAQ says it works within platform constraints. LinkedIn's User Agreement still prohibits scraping and automated activity, and it can restrict an account that trips its checks.
That cost never shows up on the invoice. A restricted rep account means lost connections and a week of outreach gone. If LinkedIn is the core of your pipeline, budget for it honestly. If most of your lists come from company websites, Google Maps and industry directories, a scraper built for those sources carries none of that risk.
Which to buy
| Question | PhantomBuster | WebRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Main sources | LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, X and 15+ platforms | Websites, Google Maps, directories, marketplaces and portals you log in to |
| Outreach actions | Yes, connection requests, messages and follow-up chains | No, it collects data; your sequencer sends |
| What the meter counts | Execution hours, slots and credit pools | Records per month, flat price |
| Entry price | $69 a month, 20 hours, 5 slots | $79 a month, 10,000 records, 5 robots |
| Bigger tier | $439 a month, 300 hours, 50 slots | $249 a month, 100,000 records, 25 robots, logins and hourly runs |
| Custom columns | Fixed per Phantom | Any column you describe in a sentence |
| Delivery | CSV, CRM sync, Zapier, Make, n8n | Google Sheets feed, Excel, CSV, JSON API, Slack and webhooks on Scale |
| Best for | Social selling and LinkedIn-led outbound | Recurring B2B lists from the open web with fields nobody else sells |
If your lists come from the open web, start with the lead scraper page, and for local businesses the Google Maps scraper. For a per-record view of a maps-heavy budget, the Outscraper pricing guide has worked numbers, and Apify pricing covers the pay-per-result route. Lists that sit behind a partner or supplier portal are covered by the web screen scraping tool.
Plan fit
Pick Start
One or two reps, up to five live automations, LinkedIn-led prospecting.
Pick Grow
An agency or team that needs more than five automations at once. Slots, not hours, decide it.
Pick Scale
Always-on social automation where the hours would otherwise run out mid-month.
Skip it
Your leads come from websites and maps, you need custom columns on a schedule, and you never touch LinkedIn. WebRobot plans start at $79.
FAQ
Describe the companies and columns once, and get fresh rows in Sheets, Excel or your API every day, with no execution hours to ration.