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Icypeas vs Surfe

Dead heat on metrics won: pick on the dimension you buy. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

Icypeas

Contact data and enrichment API: email discovery, verification, reverse lookup, find-people and bulk.

★ 5.0 · 1 reviewsA

Access: MCP · 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	Icypeas · #7 of 29	Surfe · #1 of 29
Match rate	68.3%	90.0%
Valid email rate	68.3%	66.7%
Latency p50	6,284ms	-
Cost / valid email	$0.013	-
Invalid rate	0.0%	1.9%
Catch-all share	31.7%	29.6%
Business email	100.0%	100.0%
Right-person rate	100.0%	98.1%
Decoy hit rate	10.0%	-
Catch-all detection	46.2%	-
Confidence-score quality	+53.8 pts	-
Geographic coverage	10	10

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Icypeas · #12 of 24	Surfe · not measured
Profile match rate	83.7%	-
Identity accuracy	100.0%	-
Latency p50	1,511ms	-
Price / matched profile	$0.013	-
Current employer accuracy	90.2%	-
Move detection	75.0%	-
Decoy hit rate	0.0%	-
Job title accuracy	87.8%	-
Seniority label accuracy	-	-
Location accuracy	78.0%	-
Work history completeness	7.5	-
Education completeness	100.0%	-
Skills present	24.4%	-
Social / profile URLs	100.0%	-
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	58.3%	-

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Icypeas · #16 of 23	Surfe · #6 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	97.0%	100.0%
Company name accuracy	94.8%	96.0%
Latency p50	1,893ms	-
Price / matched company	$0.013	-
Industry accuracy	77.3%	47.0%
Employee count ±20%	21.9%	18.9%
HQ / location accuracy	81.4%	66.0%
Description present	96.9%	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	59.8%	17.0%
Domains / social profiles	97.9%	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	94.3%	100.0%

Questions about Icypeas vs Surfe

Which is better, Icypeas or Surfe?

They win the same number of metrics, 7 each, on the 2 benchmarks that measured both: pick on the data you buy. Leaderboard ranks: Email Data: Icypeas #7 of 29, Surfe #1 of 29; Company Data: Icypeas #16 of 23, Surfe #6 of 23.

How do Icypeas and Surfe compare in user reviews?

Icypeas 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 Icypeas and Surfe?

Icypeas offers an MCP server, 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 MCP server, an API, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations.