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Forager vs Surfe

Surfe wins 4 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.

Forager

People, organisation and job-post APIs for sourcing and talent intelligence, with contact reveal.

★ 5.0 · 1 reviewsA

Access: API · Dataset · 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	Forager · #28 of 29	Surfe · #1 of 29
Match rate	4.1%	90.0%
Valid email rate	50.0%	66.7%
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / valid email	$0.190	-
Invalid rate	0.0%	1.9%
Catch-all share	50.0%	29.6%
Business email	100.0%	100.0%
Right-person rate	100.0%	98.1%
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	1	10

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Forager · #19 of 24	Surfe · not measured
Match rate	42.9%	-
Valid / reachable rate	90.5%	-
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / mobile number	$0.316	-
Right-person rate	100.0%	-
Mobile coverage	38.8%	-
Disconnected rate	0.0%	-
Low-activity share	9.5%	-
Landline / mobile classification	-	-
Country accuracy	90.5%	-
Geographic coverage	7	-

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Forager · #8 of 24	Surfe · not measured
Profile match rate	95.9%	-
Identity accuracy	97.9%	-
Latency p50	-	-
Price / matched profile	$0.020	-
Current employer accuracy	91.5%	-
Move detection	-	-
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Job title accuracy	85.1%	-
Seniority label accuracy	-	-
Location accuracy	95.7%	-
Work history completeness	8.6	-
Education completeness	100.0%	-
Skills present	91.5%	-
Social / profile URLs	100.0%	-
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	83.3%	-

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Forager · 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%

Technographic Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Forager · #5 of 10	Surfe · not in suite
Coverage	95.0%	-
Detection accuracy	63.5%	-
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / lookup	$0.020	-
Live stack recall	44.0%	-
Technologies per domain	64	-
Dated results	0.0%	-
Coverage by geo / size	85.0%	-

Questions about Forager vs Surfe

Which is better, Forager or Surfe?

Surfe wins 4 of the 6 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Email Data: Forager #28 of 29, Surfe #1 of 29.

How do Forager and Surfe compare in user reviews?

Forager holds 5.0 / 5 across 1 reviews on G2; 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 Forager and Surfe?

Forager offers an API, dataset delivery, 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.