LeadOcean

People and company data API on 693M profiles with a hosted MCP server, priced by speed not credits: free for 1,000 records, then from $97/mo.

From $97/mo Free tier MCP server API

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Bottom line

A developer-first B2B data API: search 693M people and 63M companies, enrich a LinkedIn URL or email into a full record with verified work emails and phones, and run it all from Claude or ChatGPT through a hosted MCP server. No credits, paid plans from $97/mo set your speed, and the free tier gives 1,000 records once.

Stands out for: The pricing model: instead of buying credits per contact, you pay for a pace, and reaching it slows requests rather than cutting you off, so a Solo plan can enrich up to 50,000 people a week for $97. Phone numbers and CSV export are included on every paid plan, and the MCP server signs in with your account instead of a pasted key.

Watch out for: It is an API and agent tool set, not an app with a search screen, sequences or a Chrome extension, so non-technical recruiters will need Claude, ChatGPT, Clay or a workflow tool in front of it. The 1,000 free records are one-off, signup needs a work email, and the company is young with no outside reviews yet.

Overview

LeadOcean sells B2B people and company data as an API and a set of agent tools. It unifies 20+ licensed and proprietary sources into one schema covering 693M people profiles and 63M companies, with 366M people holding an email address and 166M a phone number. Each response names the dataset that answered, and fields it does not know come back empty rather than guessed.

Search takes 50 people filters and 34 company filters, from title, seniority and skills to headcount, revenue, funding, technology and email status, with cursor paging. Enrichment turns a LinkedIn URL or email into a full record with role, firmographics, skills, education and every verified work email and phone on file, with a deliverability status on each email. The same functions are exposed as 12 tools on a hosted MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, and through Clay, Zapier, Make and n8n.

Pricing has no credits. Free gives 1,000 records once with the full feature set. Solo at $97/mo allows 10,000 enrichments every 5 hours and 50,000 a week, Agency at $497/mo allows 1M enrichments a day with client usage rights, and Platform at $1,997/mo adds a resell and embed licence. Reaching a plan's pace slows requests until the window resets, and every plan can be cancelled any time.

Who it's for

Best for

  • Recruiters and sourcers who run searches through Claude or ChatGPT
  • Agencies enriching large candidate or lead lists without per-contact fees
  • RevOps and GTM engineers feeding a warehouse or CRM from scripts
  • Builders adding people data to their own product or agent

Not ideal for

  • Recruiters who want a point-and-click search app or LinkedIn extension
  • Teams that need built-in email sequences
  • Users without a work email domain

Key features

People and company search. 693M people profiles and 63M companies, with 50 people filters and 34 company filters including title, seniority, industry, headcount, revenue, funding, technology, location and email status.

Enrichment. A LinkedIn URL or email returns current role, company firmographics, skills, education and location plus every verified work email and phone number on file; unknown fields come back null rather than guessed.

Hosted MCP server. Twelve tools at api.leadocean.io/mcp for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code and other agents, signed in with your account rather than a pasted key, plus a full llms.txt reference.

MCP server

https://api.leadocean.io/mcp

First-party MCP at api.leadocean.io. https://api.leadocean.io/mcp.

Pricing

Starting price $97/mo
Free tier ✓
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$01,000 records once, 5 requests a second
Solo$97/mo10k enrichments every 5 hours, phones and CSV export
Agency$497/mo1M enrichments a day, 5 keys, client use
Platform$1,997/moResell and embed licence, 20 keys

LeadOcean prices by pace, not credits: every plan reaches the whole database and every feature, and the price sets speed and headroom. Free costs nothing and gives 1,000 records once (not monthly), 5 requests a second and one key; it needs a work email. Solo is $97/mo for one person, with 10,000 enrichments every 5 hours (50,000 a week), 100,000 search records every 5 hours, phone numbers and bulk CSV export. Agency is $497/mo with 1M enrichments a day, 25M search records a month, 5 keys and rights to use the data for clients. Platform is $1,997/mo with a resell and embed licence. A record is each person or company returned, so a search page of 25 counts 25; empty enrichments cost nothing, and hitting the pace slows requests rather than stopping them. Cancel any time. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 20 Oct 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.

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Is LeadOcean expensive?

LeadOcean starts at $97/mo. We list 131 email finders tools in total. 45 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $49 a month.

  • 18 quote-based
  • 45 free tier
  • 100 public price

Worked out automatically from every email finders listing, so it updates as the directory changes.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • No credits: paid plans are paced by speed, not per contact
  • Phone numbers and CSV export included on every paid plan
  • Hosted MCP server that signs in with your account

Cons

  • API only, no search app or Chrome extension
  • Free records are a one-off 1,000
  • Young company with no outside reviews

Integrations

Claude ChatGPT Cursor Clay Zapier Make n8n

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How LeadOcean compares

See all LeadOcean alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.

ToolFree tierFromMCPAPICompare
LeadOcean (this tool) ✓$97/mo✓✓
Datamagnet Another people and company data API with an MCP server, priced by credits from $39/mo, if you only need modest volumes. –$39/mo✓✓ Compare
Apollo Contact database with a full search app, Chrome extension and built-in sequences, for teams that want an interface rather than an API. ✓$49/mo✓✓ Compare
Clay Data workbench that pulls from many providers with AI research per row, where LeadOcean is one source you could feed into it. ✓$185/mo✓✓ Compare
Datamagnet

$39/mo MCP API

Another people and company data API with an MCP server, priced by credits from $39/mo, if you only need modest volumes.

Apollo

$49/mo Free tier MCP API

Contact database with a full search app, Chrome extension and built-in sequences, for teams that want an interface rather than an API.

Clay

$185/mo Free tier MCP API

Data workbench that pulls from many providers with AI research per row, where LeadOcean is one source you could feed into it.

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Frequently asked questions

What is LeadOcean?
People and company data API on 693M profiles with a hosted MCP server, priced by speed not credits: free for 1,000 records, then from $97/mo. LeadOcean is a B2B data API for people and companies: search 693M profiles and 63M companies, enrich a LinkedIn URL or email into a full record with verified work emails and phone numbers, and do the same from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through its hosted MCP server. LeadOcean is listed under Email finders, Lead generation and Sourcing in the Work Insiders directory.
Is LeadOcean free?
Partly. LeadOcean has a free tier with paid plans above it. See all free recruiting tools. See free Email finders.
Does LeadOcean have an MCP server or API?
Yes. LeadOcean has a first-party MCP server and a public API.
What are alternatives to LeadOcean?
LeadOcean alternatives worth comparing are Datamagnet, Apollo and Clay. The comparison table above shows free tier, starting price, MCP and API side by side.