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BetterContact vs Surfe

Surfe wins 5 of 6 decided metrics across 1 shared suites; the loser still leads where its column is highlighted. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

BetterContact

Waterfall contact enrichment aggregating 20+ providers for emails and mobiles.

★ 4.8 · 44 reviewsA

Access: API · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

Surfe

Sales intelligence platform cascading emails and mobiles across 15+ providers, with people and company search, CRM sync, REST API and a native MCP server.

★ 4.4 · 69 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	BetterContact · #6 of 29	Surfe · #1 of 29
Match rate	90.9%	90.0%
Valid email rate	66.0%	66.7%
Latency p50	35,589ms	-
Cost / valid email	$0.060	-
Invalid rate	2.0%	1.9%
Catch-all share	32.0%	29.6%
Business email	100.0%	100.0%
Right-person rate	98.0%	98.1%
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Catch-all detection	81.3%	-
Confidence-score quality	+78.7 pts	-
Geographic coverage	9	10

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	BetterContact · #3 of 24	Surfe · not measured
Match rate	87.8%	-
Valid / reachable rate	88.4%	-
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / mobile number	$0.452	-
Right-person rate	92.3%	-
Mobile coverage	77.6%	-
Disconnected rate	0.0%	-
Low-activity share	11.6%	-
Landline / mobile classification	-	-
Country accuracy	83.7%	-
Geographic coverage	9	-

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	BetterContact · not measured	Surfe · #6 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	100.0%
Company name accuracy	-	96.0%
Latency p50	-	-
Price / matched company	-	-
Industry accuracy	-	47.0%
Employee count ±20%	-	18.9%
HQ / location accuracy	-	66.0%
Description present	-	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	-	17.0%
Domains / social profiles	-	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	100.0%

Questions about BetterContact vs Surfe

Which is better, BetterContact or Surfe?

Surfe wins 5 of the 6 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Email Data: BetterContact #6 of 29, Surfe #1 of 29.

How do BetterContact and Surfe compare in user reviews?

BetterContact holds 4.8 / 5 across 44 reviews on G2 and Capterra; Surfe holds 4.4 / 5 across 69 reviews on Chrome Web Store, Product Hunt and Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of BetterContact and Surfe?

BetterContact offers an API, CSV export, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations; Surfe offers an MCP server, an API, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations. Both offer an API, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations.