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HarvestAPI vs Reverse Contact

HarvestAPI wins 3 of 5 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.

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

Reverse Contact live

Data-first, agent-ready people and company search / enrichment with live B2B social profiles, email→profile and domain→company resolution, and a validation-first email waterfall. API, CLI and MCP.

★ 4.7 · 181 reviewsA

Access: MCP · CLI · API · Dataset · CSV · Webhooks · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Reverse Contact · #5 of 29
Match rate	-	98.3%
Valid email rate	-	66.1%
Latency p50	-	12,854ms
Cost / valid email	-	$0.041
Invalid rate	-	1.7%
Catch-all share	-	30.5%
Business email	-	97.4%
Right-person rate	-	98.3%
Decoy hit rate	-	20.0%
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	-	11

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not in suite	Reverse Contact · #13 of 24
Match rate	-	77.6%
Valid / reachable rate	-	81.6%
Latency p50	-	18,782ms
Cost / mobile number	-	$0.228
Right-person rate	-	84.0%
Mobile coverage	-	61.2%
Disconnected rate	-	0.0%
Low-activity share	-	18.4%
Landline / mobile classification	-	97.4%
Country accuracy	-	86.8%
Geographic coverage	-	7

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Reverse Contact · #1 of 24
Profile match rate	-	98.0%
Identity accuracy	-	97.9%
Latency p50	-	177ms
Price / matched profile	-	$0.0090
Current employer accuracy	-	93.8%
Move detection	-	96.2%
Decoy hit rate	-	0.0%
Job title accuracy	-	85.4%
Seniority label accuracy	-	-
Location accuracy	-	95.8%
Work history completeness	-	7.9
Education completeness	-	100.0%
Skills present	-	89.6%
Social / profile URLs	-	100.0%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	-	87.5%

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Reverse Contact · #13 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	97.0%
Company name accuracy	-	95.9%
Latency p50	-	308ms
Price / matched company	-	$0.027
Industry accuracy	-	78.4%
Employee count ±20%	-	26.0%
HQ / location accuracy	-	80.4%
Description present	-	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	-	57.7%
Domains / social profiles	-	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	90.0%

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5	Reverse Contact · #1 of 5
Current-job accuracy	93.1%	95.0%
Fetch success	99.0%	99.0%
Latency p50	3,350ms	15,715ms
Cost / profile	$0.0037	$0.018
Move detection	94.2%	94.2%
Still at previous employer	2.4%	4.8%
Control accuracy	91.8%	95.9%
Work history completeness	9.1	9.1
Education completeness	99.0%	99.0%

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6	Reverse Contact · not measured
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 Reverse Contact

Which is better, HarvestAPI or Reverse Contact?

HarvestAPI wins 3 of the 5 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Live Profile Data: HarvestAPI #2 of 5, Reverse Contact #1 of 5.

Which is cheaper, HarvestAPI or Reverse Contact?

Measured on the list price of each provider's central self-serve pack, divided by what it actually returned: Live Profile Data, cost per profile: HarvestAPI $0.0037, Reverse Contact $0.018.

How do HarvestAPI and Reverse Contact compare in user reviews?

HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot; Reverse Contact holds 4.7 / 5 across 181 reviews on G2 and Product Hunt. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of HarvestAPI and Reverse Contact?

HarvestAPI offers an API; Reverse Contact offers an MCP server, a command-line tool, an API, dataset delivery, CSV export, webhooks and native integrations. Both offer an API.