PhantomBuster pricing: what you pay as the work grows

PhantomBuster Grow costs $159 a month billed monthly. Seats cost nothing extra, because every plan lists unlimited users. Your bill moves with capacity: automation slots, execution hours and email credits.

Scale costs $439 a month, and Start is the entry plan. Three users or ten pay the same on Grow. Coming from a per-seat sender? Drop that arithmetic.

Capacity, not headcount, is what you budget for here. Slots cap how many automations run at once. Hours cap how long they run. Credits cap how many emails you enrich.

Run out of execution time and your workflows stall. PhantomBuster bills nothing extra for it. You decide whether to upgrade.

Plans auto-renew until you cancel. Fees can move whenever PhantomBuster chooses. Its terms name no refund window, so ask before you buy. Cancelling is easy, but the renewal date is yours to watch.

Skip PhantomBuster if all you need is a cold email sender.

Credits and hours set your bill, and renewal is automatic

Take a three-person team on Grow. The team pays $159 a month. All three share 15 slots, 80 hours and 2,500 email credits. A fourth teammate changes nothing on the invoice.

On annual billing the pricing page shows $128 a month under a “Save 20%!” banner. That is a per-month rate for a year you commit to.

If you are unsure the tool fits, pay monthly first. Monthly billing caps your risk at one month.

What pushes the bill past the plan price

Four limits sit under the plan price. Each one can push you up a tier.

• Slots. Slots are the automations that run at the same time. Start and the Trial have 5, Grow has 15 and Scale has 50.
• Execution time. This is the total time your automations can run each month. Start has 20 hours, Grow has 80 and Scale has 300. The Trial has 2.
• Email credits. PhantomBuster spends them when it enriches profiles with email addresses. They are separate from execution time. Start has 500 a month, Grow 2,500 and Scale 10,000.
• URL finder and AI credits. URL finder credits run 1k a month on Start. Grow has 10k and Scale 20k. AI credits run 10k, 30k and 90k.

Email credits decide the plan for most buyers, because enrichment is what many come for.

Say you need 4,000 enriched emails a month. Grow’s 2,500 falls short. Scale’s 10,000 covers you.

Slots decide the plan only if you run many workflows in parallel.

Going over on execution time costs you a stalled workflow and an upgrade decision. No overage charges are applied automatically. The pricing page lists no setup fee for any plan.

What the terms let the vendor do

The terms favor the vendor on renewal and price. PhantomBuster’s terms name no refund window. In the vendor’s own words:

• Renewal. “Unless You downgrade or cancel Your Subscription prior to the expiration of the current Subscription Term, Your subscription will be automatically renewed for a new period”. PhantomBuster’s terms give no length for that new period.
• Price changes. “The Phantom Company reserves the right to unilaterally modify its Subscriptions fees and conditions available on the subscription page at any time.” PhantomBuster’s terms name no notice period, so today’s prices can change.
• Refunds. “Refunds may be granted according to the rules set out in our Refund Policy”. The words “may be granted” promise nothing. PhantomBuster states no window you can plan around.
• Cancelling. “To cancel, go to the Billing page and click “Cancel subscription” below Payment info.” The vendor lets you cancel anytime.
• Billing timing. PhantomBuster charges your card at the start of each billing cycle. On annual plans it charges once per year.

Cancelling is easy. Cancelling before the renewal date is on you. On an annual plan the full-year charge lands at the start of the period. Put the renewal date in your calendar the day you pay.

Every plan has the same features, so you buy room

LinkedIn outreach campaigns, lead warming and profile and email enrichment sit on all four plans. So does connecting multiple LinkedIn accounts. The MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT is on every plan too.

You do not get a better feature set when you move up. You get more room to run the same one.

One person or a small team running light workflows fits Start. Grow fits a team running several at once. Always-on automation or many people launching jobs together calls for Scale. The vendor words them as “lightweight outbound workflows”, “multiple outbound workflows at once” and “always-on outbound automations”.

• Trial (free). It checks whether the tool does your job. It has 50 email credits and 100 URL finder credits a month. Exports stop at 10 rows. You can test a workflow but not take a real list out.
• Start. This is the first plan with unlimited exports. The vendor says it suits testing workflows, light prospecting and small, compliant lead lists.
• Grow. Choose it for parallel workflows. The vendor tags it as most popular.
• Scale. Choose it for high volume. The vendor points to it when several users run automations at the same time.

Does your work fit inside Start’s slots, hours and 500 credits? Then a higher plan buys you nothing.

PhantomBuster says it is not designed for buying pre-made lead lists. It says the same of scraping private or restricted data. Need no automation, scale or fresh data? PhantomBuster calls itself more than you need.

If you want a purchased contact database, skip this tool. The contact data pages cover that job better.

115 Trustpilot reviews split between praise and billing anger

Trustpilot shows a 3.2 rating across 115 reviews as of 2026-11-05. Sixty reviews give five stars and 39 give one star. Six give four stars, 5 give three and 5 give two.

An average of 3.2 hides two camps. Buyers either got the job done or felt burned.

Five of the ten newest reviews give one star.

One dated 2026-11-04 says the tool failed to find emails. It adds that billing came with no proper warning. Another review says the Phantoms break often and support takes days. A third says the Instagram URL finder got none of 100 leads right.

A review dated 2026-02-11 says the free trial did not work properly. A three-star review dated 2026-07-17 says the vendor first refused a refund. It issued one after a second contact.

Two of the ten newest give five stars. A review from 2026-10-20 praises fast support. It calls PhantomBuster the only platform that did the job. A French review from 2026-02-03 calls the pricing very clear.

Billing complaints fit the terms: renewal is automatic and refunds are discretionary. These are reviewers’ accounts. Test the one workflow you are paying for before you commit.

A cheaper sender wins if you already have your lists

PhantomBuster sources and enriches leads and runs LinkedIn outreach. Most rivals send email. Own your lists already? Then a sender wins on entry price.

Plan	Monthly price	What you get
PhantomBuster Start	$69	Unlimited users, 5 slots, 500 email credits
Saleshandy Starter	$41	1 seat, 7-day trial, refunds within 10 days
Instantly Growth	$47	1,000 contacts, 5,000 emails
lemlist Email	$69	50,000 emails, 14-day trial
Reply.io Multichannel	$99 per user	14-day trial, LinkedIn automation extra

Saleshandy Starter undercuts Start. It also gives you a stated refund window. PhantomBuster gives none.

Instantly Growth is cheaper too. Its terms call all fees non-refundable and non-cancellable. They let it raise fees when a renewal term starts. Our Instantly pricing page has the full terms.

lemlist Email matches Start’s price and lists 50,000 emails. Its terms call the fixed fee non-refundable for any reason. See the lemlist pricing page.

Reply.io Multichannel crosses into PhantomBuster’s job. Five users pay $495 a month on monthly billing. Reply.io lists LinkedIn automation as a separate per-account fee. Five people on Grow pay one flat price.

Want LinkedIn automation for a team? The flat seat price is your reason to shortlist PhantomBuster. If you only send email, skip it. The true cost calculator takes your seat and send counts.

Start on the free Trial, pay monthly and diary the renewal

Prove your workflow on the Trial, then pay month to month on Start. If you only send email, compare the cold email tools first.