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HarvestAPI vs Lusha

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

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

Lusha

Sales intelligence with contact and company data, enrichment, signals and recommendations; extension and API v3.

★ 4.2 · 2,066 reviewsB

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

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Lusha · #18 of 29
Match rate	-	71.7%
Valid email rate	-	62.8%
Latency p50	-	847ms
Cost / valid email	-	$0.486
Invalid rate	-	4.7%
Catch-all share	-	30.2%
Business email	-	100.0%
Right-person rate	-	97.7%
Decoy hit rate	-	0.0%
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	-	6

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not in suite	Lusha · #6 of 24
Match rate	-	81.6%
Valid / reachable rate	-	87.5%
Latency p50	-	739ms
Cost / mobile number	-	$0.974
Right-person rate	-	90.5%
Mobile coverage	-	67.3%
Disconnected rate	-	0.0%
Low-activity share	-	12.5%
Landline / mobile classification	-	100.0%
Country accuracy	-	85.0%
Geographic coverage	-	10

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Lusha · #23 of 24
Profile match rate	-	89.8%
Identity accuracy	-	97.7%
Latency p50	-	739ms
Price / matched profile	-	$0.122
Current employer accuracy	-	93.2%
Move detection	-	-
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Job title accuracy	-	81.8%
Seniority label accuracy	-	73.8%
Location accuracy	-	95.5%
Work history completeness	-	0.8
Education completeness	-	0.0%
Skills present	-	0.0%
Social / profile URLs	-	100.0%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	-	66.7%

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Lusha · #12 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	99.0%
Company name accuracy	-	94.9%
Latency p50	-	778ms
Price / matched company	-	$0.219
Industry accuracy	-	42.4%
Employee count ±20%	-	27.0%
HQ / location accuracy	-	83.8%
Description present	-	99.0%
Founding year accuracy	-	71.7%
Domains / social profiles	-	98.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	95.0%

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5	Lusha · not in suite
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	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6	Lusha · not in suite
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%	-

Questions about HarvestAPI vs Lusha

Which is better, HarvestAPI or Lusha?

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

How do HarvestAPI and Lusha compare in user reviews?

HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot; Lusha holds 4.2 / 5 across 2,066 reviews on G2 and Capterra. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.