You’re here to pick the right plan fast, avoid surprise costs, and make sure the plan supports your team’s outreach volume without risking account safety. This guide gives you a clear way to size your needs, map them to plan limits, and justify the spend.
Pick your plan based on three things: monthly execution time (hours your automations run), number of concurrent automations (slots), and credits (AI/email). Size your team’s daily actions, multiply by workdays, add a 20% buffer, then match to the next plan up to stay within safe limits.
All plans support team use. Choose based on execution time, slots, and credit needs. Pricing is per workspace, not per user, and you can link up to 100 LinkedIn accounts to one workspace.
Plan comparison at a glance
Compare PhantomBuster plans at a glance to find the tier that matches your LinkedIn automation and lead generation needs.
Global notes (apply to all plans)
PhantomBuster pricing plans share these universal features:
- Per workspace pricing: Not per user, so sales teams can collaborate without multiplying costs.
- Unlimited exports: All paid plans include unlimited CSV/JSON exports.
- Multiple LinkedIn accounts: Up to 100 LinkedIn accounts per workspace.
- Free trial: 14-day free trial on all plans.
- Native integrations: HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, Pipedrive, lemlist (one-way), Zapier, Make, n8n, and Clay.
- Annual discounts: Save 19% on Starter, 20% on Pro, and 20% on Team with annual billing.
| Feature | Starter | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Individuals testing LinkedIn prospecting or small-scale data collection | Freelancers, power users, or 1–2 reps running daily list building | Lead generation agencies and sales teams running multi-rep, high-volume outreach campaigns |
| Monthly price | $69/month | $159/month | $439/month |
| Annual price | $56/month (billed annually) | $128/month (billed annually) | $352/month (billed annually) |
| Execution time (hours/month) | 20 hours (light capacity for testing and simple sequences) | 80 hours (daily list building and data enrichment) | 300 hours (supports parallel campaigns for multiple markets) |
| Concurrent automations (“slots”) | 5 slots | 15 slots | 50 slots |
| AI credits (per month) | 10,000 | 30,000 | 90,000 |
| Email credits (per month) | 500 | 2,500 | 10,000 |
| URL Finder credits (daily/monthly) | 300/day, 1,000/month | 1,000/day, 10,000/month | 2,000/day, 20,000/month |
| CAPTCHA credits (per month) | 1,000 | 5,000 | 30,000 |
| Storage | 1 GB | 10 GB | 50 GB |
| Core safety and scaling controls | Start low and run during business hours | Stagger runs and maintain a capacity buffer | Distribute actions across team accounts and time windows |
| LinkedIn accounts per workspace | Up to 100 | Up to 100 | Up to 100 |
| CRM and integrations | HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, Pipedrive, lemlist (one-way), Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay | HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, Pipedrive, lemlist (one-way), Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay | HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, Pipedrive, lemlist (one-way), Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay |
| Support | Priority support | Priority support | Priority support and onboarding |
If you’re close to any limit (hours, slots, credits), choose the next plan up for safe pacing. For the full breakdown of what each plan includes, see our support guide on what’s included in each PhantomBuster plan. Follow LinkedIn limits to stay within platform norms.
How plan resources work at PhantomBuster
PhantomBuster uses a usage-based subscription model. You get monthly resources that reset each billing cycle. These resources determine how much automation you can run, how many LinkedIn automations you can keep active, and how much AI-powered data enrichment you can perform.
Understanding these resource types helps you size the right plan for your lead generation needs:
- Execution time: Total hours your automations run each month.
- Slots: How many automations you can keep active simultaneously.
- AI credits: Power AI-driven personalization and profile analysis.
- Email credits: Find and verify professional email addresses.
- URL Finder credits: Search for LinkedIn profile URLs and company websites.
- CAPTCHA credits: Used to solve CAPTCHAs safely during automation runs.
What “execution time” actually covers
Execution time is the total number of hours your automations are allowed to run each month. Think of it as your fuel tank for LinkedIn automation and lead data collection.
Every minute an automation runs uses execution time. This includes data extraction from LinkedIn Sales Navigator searches, LinkedIn profile collection, and multi-step outreach campaigns with lead enrichment. Longer or more complex jobs like enriching large lead lists consume more minutes. Retries, pagination, and processing delays also consume execution time.
Why this matters: Execution time is the primary limiter for daily volume in your lead generation strategy. If you’re extracting lead data from multiple sources, enriching LinkedIn profiles, and personalizing outreach, this tank empties quickly unless you size it correctly.
How many “slots” you really need
Slots show how many automations you can keep active in your Dashboard at once.
Slots control parallelism, not run time. A slot doesn’t equal a run; it’s simply one automation you have activated. You can start, stop, edit, or schedule automations inside your available slot limit.
How this affects usage:
- Multi-source workflows: If you run PhantomBuster’s Events Search, Groups Members, and People Search automations together, you’ll need more slots to run them in parallel.
- Sequential workflows: If your sequences chain steps (find → enrich → message), you may use fewer slots because fewer automations need to be active simultaneously.
- Speed and scaling: Slots determine how much you can run at once, which directly affects speed.
AI credits for personalized messages
AI credits are consumed when AI-powered automations generate content, rewrite messages, interpret LinkedIn profiles, or analyze data for personalized outreach. Teams often generate more leads when they personalize at scale with AI.
AI credits typically get used for:
- Writing personalized connection requests: Tailored messages based on profile data.
- Summarizing LinkedIn profiles: Understanding job titles and company context.
- Generating message variations: Creating multiple versions of intro messages.
- Drafting social replies: Content blocks for LinkedIn engagement.
- Running custom AI steps: Advanced analysis within workflows.
Each AI operation uses credits depending on complexity. If your team personalizes every lead or runs heavy AI summarization, this becomes a major scaling variable.
Watch a short video on how AI credits work in PhantomBuster.
Email credits for contact details
Email credits are consumed when PhantomBuster attempts to find and verify professional email addresses during data enrichment workflows.
Each email lookup equals one credit. Verification steps are bundled into the same credit. Failed or unverified results still consume a credit because the lookup happened.
Who needs email credits:
- SDRs and BDRs: Enriching leads before LinkedIn outreach.
- Volume list builders: Teams running large-scale prospecting.
- Multi-channel teams: Anyone moving beyond LinkedIn messaging into email sequences.
URL Finder credits for lead data
URL Finder credits are used when automations search for public profile URLs or company website URLs based on a name or company query during data collection.
URL Finder use cases include:
- Finding LinkedIn profile URLs: From lead lists with just names.
- Identifying company websites: From company names to enrich data.
- Completing CRM data: Filling gaps in contact details.
- Preparing lists: Before enrichment or outreach automation.
Each lookup consumes one credit. Starter and Pro plans have monthly credit resets. Team plan has both daily and monthly caps. Higher plans include more credits for large prospecting operations.
Plan picker: match real scenarios to a plan tier
Use this table to match your volume to a plan. Pick the row that matches your team’s LinkedIn prospecting volume and outreach needs.
| Scenario | Recommended plan | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Solo rep testing: Light weekly campaigns, basic exports, profile data collection | Starter | 20 hours of execution time and 5 slots handle testing automations and building small lead lists. Ideal for validating your workflow before you scale. |
| Solo heavy user or 2 light users: Daily list builds, data enrichment, intro messages | Pro | 80 hours and 15 slots support daily LinkedIn prospecting, enriching contact data, and sending personalized connection requests. |
| 3+ reps: Parallel campaigns, CRM integration, weekly personalization | Team | 300 hours and 50 slots enable multiple sales team members to run LinkedIn outreach simultaneously. PhantomBuster’s HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, and Pipedrive integrations sync contacts automatically, so reps don’t copy-paste data. |
If you’re unsure how many resources you need, this support guide walks you through estimating execution time and slots.
Not sure between Pro and Team? Start a free trial and monitor execution time for a week to see what fits your workflow.
Budget and ROI snapshot of using PhantomBuster
Calculate your return on investment with this formula: ROI = hours saved × hourly cost − monthly fee − credits overage. This helps sales teams justify PhantomBuster pricing plans by measuring time savings against subscription costs.
Here’s a practical example: if one rep saves 8 hours/week by automating LinkedIn prospecting, data extraction, and sending connection requests, and you value that time at $50/hour, that’s $1,600/month in time value (8 × $50 × 4 weeks).
Leading B2B companies have freed up 20% more sales capacity through automation. If your plan plus any additional credits costs $200–$500/month, payback can happen within the first week, depending on rep hourly cost and volume.
The time saved compounds as you add more sales team members and automate lead generation across multiple platforms. Plans on an annual billing cycle offer lower per-month costs compared to monthly subscriptions.
Safety and scaling guardrails available across all PhantomBuster plans
Execution time limits how long your automations can run each month. The real purpose isn’t just capacity, it’s pacing for account safety.
Execution time enables safer LinkedIn automation
Execution time provides several safety benefits:
- Safer distribution of actions: Spread activity across the day instead of fast bursts that trigger LinkedIn suspicion.
- Gradual scaling: Start with light runs then extend execution time as LinkedIn accounts warm up.
- Task batching: Schedule runs in waves (morning → afternoon → next day) that mimic human rhythms.
- Time-windowed outreach: Run actions only during business hours or specific days.
Why it matters for safety: Short, human-like windows of activity equal lower risk when automating LinkedIn within LinkedIn limits. More execution time allows more spread, more realism, and fewer flags from LinkedIn’s monitoring systems. These controls help you stay within platform norms, but you should still follow LinkedIn’s policies and our safety guide.
Slots: spreading actions across accounts and hours
Slots define how many automations you can keep active. Practically, they define how well you can spread activity across different LinkedIn accounts and time windows.
More slots let you:
- Run parallel campaigns: Assign them to different users or LinkedIn accounts to stay under safety caps.
- Distribute outreach across team-owned accounts: Spread actions across team-owned accounts and time windows to stay within platform norms.
- Break large jobs into smaller flows: Run independently and more safely.
- Stagger runs: Chain PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn Search Export, Profile Visit, and Send Message automations into one workflow with schedules between each step.
Safety advantage: Parallelism equals finer control over LinkedIn automation. Instead of one overloaded account doing 100 actions per day, five LinkedIn accounts can each do 20, all within healthy limits.
AI credits: controlled AI access to protect sensitive lead data
AI credits power profile analysis, content generation, personalized messages, and summarization for LinkedIn outreach. The big safety angle is data governance when enriching contact data.
Higher PhantomBuster pricing plans give you:
- Field-level control: Over which CRM or lead fields AI can access when generating personalized connection requests.
- Protection of sensitive attributes: Exclude salary, personal data, or internal notes from prompts.
- Predictable AI cost behavior: Plan limits and usage caps prevent AI steps from overrunning your workflows.
- Safer personalization: Keep AI within the boundaries you define for LinkedIn prospecting.
Why it matters for safety: AI should never see what it shouldn’t when processing valuable data. PhantomBuster pricing plans determine how much control you have over guardrails.
Quick answers to pricing questions
Is PhantomBuster legal to use for LinkedIn automation?
PhantomBuster automates actions on publicly available data. Always follow LinkedIn’s terms and your local laws. PhantomBuster provides controls like pacing, scheduling, and limits to keep usage safe and compliant with platform behavior expectations.
Will using PhantomBuster get my LinkedIn account restricted?
Restrictions happen when actions spike unnaturally or violate platform behavior norms, leading to LinkedIn account restricted issues. PhantomBuster provides safety pacing, time-window scheduling, and gradual warm-up options to maintain account safety. Multi-account distribution spreads actions across your sales team to stay under platform thresholds, and plan limits help avoid unsafe bursts.
Does PhantomBuster comply with GDPR and CCPA data protection laws?
PhantomBuster maintains a privacy and security program aligned with GDPR and CCPA. We do not sell customer data. You control your data and are responsible for lawful use when handling contact data and lead information collected through LinkedIn prospecting.
What’s included in the PhantomBuster 14-day free trial?
PhantomBuster offers a 14-day free trial on all paid plans so you can test PhantomBuster automations before committing. The free trial includes execution time, slots, and credits so you can test PhantomBuster automations for LinkedIn, enrichment, and outreach.
How many team members can I add to one PhantomBuster workspace?
Pricing is per workspace, not per seat, so you can invite collaborators without extra user fees (no seat-based limit). Teams can invite collaborators to shared workspaces to manage LinkedIn accounts, review lead lists, and coordinate outreach automation.
Can I connect multiple LinkedIn accounts to one PhantomBuster workspace?
Up to 100 LinkedIn accounts can be connected to one PhantomBuster workspace for safe LinkedIn automation across growing sales teams. Actions remain separated per LinkedIn profile to maintain account safety. Multi-account distribution improves safety by spreading activity across different LinkedIn accounts.
What happens if I exceed my monthly execution time or credits?
If you exceed execution time, automations will throttle or pause until the next billing cycle unless you upgrade your plan. Monitor usage in your dashboard to track execution time, AI credits, and email credits in real time. Add a 20% buffer when sizing your plan to avoid stalls.
Can I upgrade or downgrade my PhantomBuster plan mid-cycle?
You can upgrade or downgrade your PhantomBuster pricing plan at any time in your account settings. Plan changes take effect immediately when upgrading, and you’re prorated for the difference. When downgrading, changes apply at the next billing cycle. Learn how to manage your subscription in our support guide.
How do I estimate the right number of slots for my team?
Count how many automations must run at the same time based on your workflow design. Consider time windows and staggered runs: if you spread LinkedIn prospecting across morning and afternoon, you might need fewer simultaneous slots than running everything at once.
Do I need technical skills to use PhantomBuster effectively?
PhantomBuster offers pre-built automations and no-code setup, so sales teams can launch LinkedIn automation without technical skills. The PhantomBuster Chrome extension and intuitive dashboard make it easy to collect data with just a few clicks.PhantomBuster Chrome extension and intuitive dashboard make it easy to collect data with just a few clicks.
How do PhantomBuster plans support CRM integration for sales teams?
All PhantomBuster pricing plans include native CRM integrations with HubSpot (bidirectional), Salesforce, and Pipedrive. Integrations push cleaned lead data to your CRM automatically, so reps spend more time selling. Field mapping lets you control which lead data flows into your CRM from LinkedIn profiles and Sales Navigator searches.
What’s the safest daily pacing for LinkedIn outreach with PhantomBuster?
Start at 20–30 connection requests per day when warming up new LinkedIn accounts to maintain account safety. Distribute personalized messages over several days rather than sending bulk batches. Ramp slowly by increasing volume 10–20% weekly after establishing consistent activity without warnings.
How many prospects can I process per month on each PhantomBuster tier?
The number of prospects depends on your mix of tasks. Simple LinkedIn connections consume less execution time than full data enrichment plus personalized outreach. Assumes two to three steps per workflow (search → enrich → outreach) and 10–15 minutes of execution time per 100 profiles. Your mileage varies with enrichment depth. For light LinkedIn prospecting, Starter handles 500–1,000 profiles monthly. Pro supports 2,000–5,000 profiles with enrichment. Team tier handles 10,000+ profiles across parallel campaigns.
Are there discounts for annual billing or volume pricing?
PhantomBuster offers discounts for annual billing that lower your effective per-month cost compared to monthly subscriptions. Consider consolidating usage into shared workspaces instead of purchasing multiple individual plans. One Team plan often costs less than three Pro plans while supporting more LinkedIn accounts.
Ready to pick a plan with confidence? Start your free trial to test PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn automation, data enrichment, and outreach campaigns before committing to paid plans.