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ContactOut vs HarvestAPI

No suite in this run measured both ContactOut and HarvestAPI; each block below shows one of them alone.

ContactOut

Contact data for recruiting and sales: browser extension, search / enrichment and API, personal and work emails.

★ 4.5 · 128 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · #14 of 29	HarvestAPI · not measured
Match rate	69.4%	-
Valid email rate	64.7%	-
Latency p50	1,024ms	-
Cost / valid email	-	-
Invalid rate	11.8%	-
Catch-all share	20.6%	-
Business email	100.0%	-
Right-person rate	94.1%	-
Decoy hit rate	0.0%	-
Catch-all detection	71.4%	-
Confidence-score quality	+63.5 pts	-
Geographic coverage	9	-

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · #9 of 24	HarvestAPI · not in suite
Match rate	85.7%	-
Valid / reachable rate	73.8%	-
Latency p50	490ms	-
Cost / mobile number	-	-
Right-person rate	88.5%	-
Mobile coverage	55.1%	-
Disconnected rate	7.1%	-
Low-activity share	19.0%	-
Landline / mobile classification	-	-
Country accuracy	83.3%	-
Geographic coverage	9	-

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · #11 of 24	HarvestAPI · not measured
Profile match rate	91.8%	-
Identity accuracy	97.8%	-
Latency p50	898ms	-
Price / matched profile	-	-
Current employer accuracy	97.8%	-
Move detection	75.0%	-
Decoy hit rate	0.0%	-
Job title accuracy	86.7%	-
Seniority label accuracy	81.6%	-
Location accuracy	95.6%	-
Work history completeness	8.2	-
Education completeness	100.0%	-
Skills present	91.1%	-
Social / profile URLs	100.0%	-
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	80.0%	-

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · #11 of 23	HarvestAPI · not measured
Domain-to-company match rate	97.0%	-
Company name accuracy	95.9%	-
Latency p50	707ms	-
Price / matched company	-	-
Industry accuracy	77.3%	-
Employee count ±20%	26.0%	-
HQ / location accuracy	93.8%	-
Description present	96.9%	-
Founding year accuracy	69.1%	-
Domains / social profiles	100.0%	-
Coverage by country / size	90.0%	-

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	ContactOut · not in suite	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5
Current-job accuracy	-	93.1%
Fetch success	-	99.0%
Latency p50	-	3,350ms
Cost / profile	-	$0.0037
Move detection	-	94.2%
Still at previous employer	-	2.4%
Control accuracy	-	91.8%
Work history completeness	-	9.1
Education completeness	-	99.0%

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · not in suite	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6
Employer coverage	-	95.0%
Postings recall	-	59.3%
Latency p50	-	4,579ms
Cost / job	-	$0.0001
Closed or unknown postings	-	10.6%
Duplicate postings	-	33.8%
Location accuracy	-	96.3%
Posted-date accuracy	-	32.8%
Description present	-	0.0%
Coverage by country	-	91.7%

Technographic Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	ContactOut · #7 of 10	HarvestAPI · not in suite
Coverage	85.0%	-
Detection accuracy	35.5%	-
Latency p50	707ms	-
Cost / lookup	-	-
Live stack recall	37.1%	-
Technologies per domain	80	-
Dated results	0.0%	-
Coverage by geo / size	70.0%	-

Questions about ContactOut vs HarvestAPI

Which is better, ContactOut or HarvestAPI?

No benchmark in this run measured both, so they have no metric in common. ContactOut is ranked on Email Data, Phone Data, People Data, Company Data and Technographic Data; HarvestAPI is ranked on Live Profile Data and Jobs Data.

How do ContactOut and HarvestAPI compare in user reviews?

ContactOut holds 4.5 / 5 across 128 reviews on G2 and Capterra; HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.