Kooperativa vs ContactOut: No Daily Caps
ContactOut is priced and capped as a recruiter/sales browser tool, with daily lookup limits and export caps even on paid plans. Kooperativa is an unlimited API with no daily or export cap.
| Feature | Kooperativa | ContactOut |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat license, unlimited requests | Tiered plans with daily lookup and export caps |
| Free tier limit | Not applicable, flat license | 5 lookups/day |
| Starting paid price | $499/mo, or $449/mo billed as one annual payment ($5,388/year). One license, every endpoint included. | Roughly $79/mo (email), up to ~$199/mo (Recruiter tier) |
| Export caps | None | Yes, present on paid tiers |
| API access | Core product, every endpoint included | Team/API plan sold separately, custom pricing |
| Rate limit | 500 requests/minute per workspace, shared | Governed by plan-level lookup caps |
ContactOut is built primarily as a browser-based lookup tool for recruiters and sales reps, a Chrome extension and web app for finding contact details from a LinkedIn profile or company page, with API access as a separate, custom-priced add-on rather than the core product.
Its free tier caps usage at 5 lookups a day, and paid tiers, reported around $79 to $99 a month for email-focused plans and up to roughly $199 a month for a Recruiter tier with phone and export features, still carry export caps according to multiple 2026 pricing breakdowns.
Why the caps exist and who they're designed for
Daily lookup and export caps make sense for the product's primary use case: an individual recruiter or salesperson doing a bounded number of manual lookups per day as part of their normal workflow. The pricing and limits are shaped around that person, not around a system making thousands of automated calls per day.
That's exactly the mismatch that shows up when a developer tries to build an automated pipeline on top of a tool priced and capped for manual, individual use: the caps that are perfectly reasonable for a human doing lookups by hand become a hard ceiling for any kind of batch or automated process.
What changes with unlimited, API-first access
Kooperativa has no daily lookup cap and no export cap, because the product is the API itself, not a browser tool with an API bolted on. $499/mo (or $449/mo annual) includes unlimited requests across person enrichment, company enrichment, search, and bulk enrich, governed only by a 500 requests/minute shared rate limit sized for infrastructure stability. This is a profile and firmographic comparison specifically: ContactOut's core product is contact details (email and phone), which Kooperativa does not offer.
For any workload that's inherently automated, backfilling a CRM, enriching inbound leads in real time, running a monitoring pipeline, that removes the daily-cap ceiling entirely rather than just raising it.
When ContactOut is the better fit
Any workload that needs contact details, email or phone, needs ContactOut or a comparable vendor, since that's not something Kooperativa provides. If the actual use case is a recruiter or a small sales team doing manual, occasional lookups from a browser, with the browser extension itself being the valuable part of the product, ContactOut's tool and its pricing are built for exactly that and a flat API license doesn't replace the extension.
For profile and firmographic data without a contact-reveal requirement, if the use case is automated, programmatic, or high-volume, the caps that make sense for manual browser use become the limiting factor, and an unmetered API is the better fit.
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One API key, one flat license, unlimited requests across person enrichment, company enrichment, search, bulk enrich, and monitors. No credits to track and no seat count to negotiate.