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Published October 8, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
How much does PhantomBuster cost?
PhantomBuster costs $69, $159 or $439 a month on monthly billing, or $56, $128 and $352 a month on annual ($672, $1,536 and $4,224 a year). The plans are called Start, Grow and Scale. There is a 14-day trial without a card and a free plan after it with one slot and 30 minutes of execution a month. Pricing is not per seat: you pay for slots (how many automations can be scheduled at once) and execution hours (how long they run), plus email, AI and URL finder credits. All figures read from phantombuster.com/pricing on October 8, 2026; a support article states the prices are current as of May 2026.
What we checked, and when: each vendor's pricing and features pages, its help centre, Vendr where it publishes contract data, and the public review listings we could open (Capterra, Trustpilot; G2 blocked automated reads on most pages and is cited only where it rendered or where the vendor states its own score). All read on October 8, 2026. This is a documentation and reviews-based assessment, not a hands-on test.
Disclosure: Valley makes an outbound platform and competes for part of this budget. Where Valley appears it is marked, and every price and claim below was read from the source named next to it on October 8, 2026.
Valley is an AI outbound platform that finds the people most likely to buy from you - from live buying signals, natural-language search, or your own lists - qualifies them against your ICP, researches each one, and sends personalized messages across email and LinkedIn that get 15-45% reply rates, against a category average of about 2%.
Give your sales team
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The plans, exactly as published
Free | Start | Grow | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Monthly | $0 | $69 | $159 | $439 |
Annual (per month) | $0 | $56 | $128 | $352 |
Annual (per year) | $0 | $672 | $1,536 | $4,224 |
Slots | 1 | 5 | 15 | 50 |
Execution hours a month | 30 minutes | 20 | 80 | 300 |
Email credits a month | 500 | 2,500 | 10,000 | |
AI credits a month | 10,000 | 30,000 | 90,000 | |
URL finder credits a month | 1,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
The trial is 14 days without a card: 5 slots, 2 hours of execution, 50 email credits and exports capped at 10 rows. There are no automatic overages on any plan; when hours or credits run out, automations pause until the next cycle.
What the units mean
Slots
A slot is one Phantom or Flow that can be scheduled. Five slots on Start means five automations configured and running on a schedule at once; swap one out to run a sixth. Agencies running many clients hit the slot cap before the hours cap.
Execution hours
Hours are the time Phantoms spend running. Scraping a large Sales Navigator search or running a daily LinkedIn action sequence consumes them continuously, and hours do not roll over. This is the unit reviewers complain about: intensive use on Start exhausts 20 hours well before month end, and the next tier is 2.3 times the price.
Credits
Email credits find addresses (they do not send email), AI credits power enrichment and drafting, URL finder credits resolve a name and company to a profile. They reset monthly.
Hidden and adjacent costs
A sender. PhantomBuster does not send email. Budget for Instantly ($47), lemlist ($55 on yearly) or a similar tool if email is a channel.
Enrichment beyond the credits. Heavy users pair it with Clay, Dropcontact, Hunter or Snov.io, each with its own bill.
LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Most LinkedIn Phantoms assume a Navigator search as the input, around $99 a month per seat on LinkedIn's own pricing.
Time. Phantoms break when a platform changes its page; reviewers describe uninformative errors and slow support, which is a cost in hours rather than dollars.
Give your sales team
an unfair advantage.
PhantomBuster cost by team size
Team | Plan | Annual cost | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
One person testing | Free or Start | $0 to $672 | A handful of scrapes a month fits in 20 hours |
Growth team of 2 to 3 | Grow | $1,536 | 15 slots cover daily LinkedIn actions plus scraping; 80 hours is the realistic floor for daily runs |
Agency with several clients | Scale | $4,224 | 50 slots is the first tier where one client does not displace another |
When PhantomBuster pricing works, and when it does not
It works for a team that scrapes in bursts: a big list pull, an enrichment pass, then a month of light use. Hours are cheap when you use them in a lump. It stops working when the automations run every day, because daily LinkedIn actions burn hours continuously and the step from Start to Grow to Scale is a multiplier, not an increment.
If the goal is replies rather than rows, compare the bill against a tool that does the finding, the research and the message from one seat. Valley (our product) is $199 a month or $149 billed quarterly per seat, with no execution hours to count; see our PhantomBuster review and PhantomBuster alternatives.
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FAQ
How much does PhantomBuster cost per month? $69 (Start), $159 (Grow) or $439 (Scale) on monthly billing; $56, $128 and $352 on annual. Read October 8, 2026.
Is there a free PhantomBuster plan? Yes, after the 14-day trial: one slot and 30 minutes of execution a month.
Does PhantomBuster charge overages? No. When execution hours or credits run out, automations pause until the next cycle.
What is the cheapest way to use PhantomBuster? Annual Start at $56 a month, used in bursts rather than daily, with scrapes scheduled to stay inside 20 hours.
Do PhantomBuster hours roll over? No. Unused execution hours expire at the end of the month, which is the most common pricing complaint in reviews.
Is PhantomBuster priced per user? No. Plans are priced by slots, hours and credits, so a team shares one subscription.
How this page was made: the facts were read from the sources named in the text on October 8, 2026; drafted with AI assistance; fact-checked, reviewed and edited by Saniya Sood.
