Clearbit is gone. Here's what to use instead.

If you landed here from a search for “Clearbit alternative”, here is the situation in one paragraph: Clearbit no longer sells to new customers. HubSpot acquired it in December 2023 (for $140M, per HubSpot’s 10-K), folded its data into what became Breeze Intelligence, shut down the free Clearbit platform and Connect in April 2025, and sunset the free Logo API in December 2025. Today clearbit.com is a banner announcing the acquisition and a login link for existing customers. If you want Clearbit’s data now, the answer is “become a HubSpot customer.” If that’s not your plan, you need a replacement, and the right one depends entirely on what you were using Clearbit for.

I build one of the tools below, so read the recommendations knowing that. I’ve tried to be precise about what each tool is for, including the cases where mine is the wrong choice.

What actually happened to Clearbit

The timeline, for the record:

• November 2023: HubSpot announces the acquisition.
• December 2023: Deal closes.
• September 2024: HubSpot unveils Breeze Intelligence at INBOUND, built on Clearbit’s dataset (“over 200 million company and buyer profiles”).
• April 2025: The free Clearbit platform, Weekly Visitor Report, Clearbit Connect, and the free Slack integration are discontinued.
• December 2025: The free Logo API (logo.clearbit.com), the way half the internet’s side projects rendered company logos, goes dark. Clearbit’s own changelog points people to Logo.dev.

The API docs now redirect to a login page. There was never a single announced cutoff date for new standalone customers; the door just quietly closed during 2024. Enrichment survives inside HubSpot subscriptions, where it draws on HubSpot’s dataset and third-party sources. That’s a fine outcome for HubSpot customers and a dead end for everyone else, which by traffic volume appears to be most people searching for this.

How to pick a replacement

Clearbit was several products wearing one brand: a company-data API keyed by domain, a person-enrichment API, a visitor-deanonymization pixel, and the logo endpoint. No single tool replaces all of it, so start from the question that actually matters: what’s the input at the start of your workflow?

• You have a domain and want company data or email addresses at it: Hunter.
• You have a name and company and want to discover and sequence prospects: Apollo, or Lusha if compliance certifications matter to procurement.
• You’re a recruiter clicking through LinkedIn: ContactOut.
• You have assorted identifiers and want the highest possible match rate, cost be damned: FullEnrich’s waterfall.
• You want straightforward person lookups with a self-serve API: RocketReach.
• You have a LinkedIn or GitHub identifier in a database column and want emails and phones back over HTTP: PeopleDB, the one I build.
• You just want logos: Logo.dev, per Clearbit’s own recommendation.

Second question: do you want to pay per seat per month, or per result? Subscriptions favor steady, high, human-driven volume. Per-result pricing favors bursty, programmatic use. Most of the pain people report with these tools is a pricing-model mismatch, not a data-quality problem.

All details below were checked against each vendor’s public pages on August 27, 2026. Several vendors render pricing client-side, so where I had to lean on third-party pricing guides I say so. Numbers drift; treat them as coordinates, not quotes.

The alternatives

Hunter

The domain-first choice. Give it a domain, get the email addresses and patterns at it; give it a name plus a domain, get a specific person’s address; verify anything before sending. Pricing is credit-based with a permanent free tier (50 credits a month), paid plans from €49/mo (it localizes currency), and, notably, an API key on every plan including the free one, with fully public docs. If your Clearbit usage was “domain in, company and email data out,” Hunter is the closest drop-in and the easiest to evaluate this afternoon.

Apollo

Not an enrichment tool so much as an entire outbound sales platform (database, sequences, dialer) that happens to have an enrichment API. Claims 240M+ contacts. Pricing is per seat plus credits, roughly $49 to $149 per user per month depending on tier per third-party pricing guides (their page renders client-side). The API is documented publicly and keys are self-serve, though person enrichment wants a work-email account, and phone numbers cost extra credits. Choose Apollo if you want the whole sales stack in one place. Skip it if you only need enrichment; you’d be buying a platform to use one endpoint.

ContactOut

A recruiter tool: Chrome extension over LinkedIn, search portal, campaigns. Strong on personal emails and phone numbers. Self-serve plans run $49 to $99 per user per month with a fair-use ceiling (their terms cap “unlimited” at 2,000 email credits a month) and a free tier of 5 emails a day. The API exists with public docs, but keys come from booking a sales meeting and API pricing isn’t published. Right if you’re sourcing candidates by hand all day. Wrong if you wanted an API you can start using today. I wrote a detailed comparison if this is your shortlist.

Lusha

Contact data for go-to-market teams with the compliance paperwork procurement asks about: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR and CCPA language on the homepage. Credit-based and transparently priced ($49.90 to $399.90 a month, with a 40-credit free tier); note that a phone reveal costs 10 credits to an email’s 1, which changes the math if you’re phone-heavy. The API starts self-serve but has no public price list. A sensible Clearbit replacement for sales teams whose blockers are legal review rather than engineering time.

RocketReach

The plainest of the bunch: a very large lookup database (they claim 700M+ profiles) behind seat-priced plans, roughly $29 to $149 a month annual per third-party guides. The API is documented publicly and keys are self-serve from account settings, with person lookups accepting a name plus employer, or a single identifier like an email or LinkedIn URL. Good when you want simple person-lookup coverage without adopting a platform. The catch: full API access reportedly sits on the top tier, so the entry price and the API price aren’t the same number.

FullEnrich

A different animal: a waterfall. It cascades your lookup across many upstream vendors and charges only for verified hits, at roughly $0.055 a credit ($55/mo for 1,000). A work email costs 1 credit, a mobile number 10. This is the “maximize match rate” option, effectively paying a broker to query the rest of the market for you. If your list is small and precious (say, hard-to-reach founders), the economics work. If your volume is high and steady, the per-hit cost adds up fast compared to going direct.

PeopleDB

Mine, so the pitch will be short and you can check the comparison table yourself. PeopleDB is an API for one job: pass a LinkedIn or GitHub identifier, get back verified emails (split personal/work), phone numbers, and linked social handles. Pricing is published to the cent (15¢ a lookup at the smallest tier, 6¢ at volume), credits never expire, you’re only charged when a lookup returns an email, and a new account has a working key and 10 free credits in about two minutes with no card.

It is deliberately narrow. There’s no discovery, no search filters, no sequences, no extension. If your workflow starts with a search box, use Apollo or Lusha. If it starts with a database column full of identifiers, especially GitHub logins, which nothing else on this list resolves, this is the one. (Why GitHub lookups are genuinely hard is its own story.)

The short version

Clearbit’s disappearance mostly hurt one specific user: the developer who wanted good data behind a clean API without talking to sales. Most of the industry answered by building platforms. A few of us answered by building APIs. Pick whichever matches the way you actually work, and verify current pricing on the vendor’s own site; every number above was true on August 27, 2026, and some of them won’t stay that way.