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Published October 8, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
The verdict in 60 words: PhantomBuster is a no-code scraping and automation toolbox: 100+ Phantoms that extract data from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Google Maps, Instagram, X, Reddit and more, and run LinkedIn actions in the cloud. It is priced in execution hours and slots, from $69 a month. It does not send email, its Phantoms break when platforms change, and its Trustpilot score is 3.3.
Price: Start $69 a month ($56 on annual), Grow $159 ($128), Scale $439 ($352); 14-day trial without a card; a free plan after the trial with 30 minutes a month. Best for: growth teams and agencies that build their own data pipelines. Not for: anyone who wants an outreach tool that sends email or writes the message.
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%.
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PhantomBuster at a glance
PhantomBuster | |
|---|---|
What it is | Cloud automations (Phantoms) and workflows (Flows) that scrape data and perform actions on 15+ platforms |
Starting price | $69 a month (Start); $56 on annual |
Trial | 14 days, no card: 5 slots, 2 hours of execution, 50 email credits, exports capped at 10 rows |
Channels | LinkedIn actions (requests, messages, likes, event invites); no email sending |
Billing unit | Slots (concurrent Phantoms) and execution hours a month; automations pause when hours run out, no overages |
Recommended limits | 15 to 25 connection requests a day, 60 to 100 a week, 40 to 80 messages a day (vendor blog) |
Integrations | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Clay, BetterContact, Hunter, Snov.io, Dropcontact, ChatGPT, Zapier, Make, n8n; MCP server on every plan |
Reviews | Capterra 4.5 from 64; Trustpilot 3.3 from 113; read October 8, 2026. G2 blocked automated reads; the vendor blog claims 4.4 from 112 |
Pros
Breadth: Phantoms for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Google Maps, Instagram, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, so one subscription feeds many list-building jobs.
No-code setup in minutes, with documentation reviewers praise, and it runs with the computer off.
Email finder credits on every plan (500 to 10,000 a month) and AI credits for enrichment and message drafting.
An MCP server on every plan, so Claude or ChatGPT can run Phantoms.
No surprise bills: when execution hours run out, automations pause.
Cons
Execution hours do not roll over, and intensive users say the price climbs fast.
Phantoms break when LinkedIn or another platform changes its page, and errors are described as uninformative.
Accounts flagged or blocked is a recurring complaint; the vendor's own recommended limits are conservative for a reason.
No email sending at all: the email credits find addresses, you need another tool to send.
Support is described as slow, and the Trustpilot score (3.3) is the lowest of the tools in this series.
Key features
Phantoms and Flows
A Phantom is a single automation (scrape a Sales Navigator search, auto-connect, send a message). A Flow chains them: search, extract, enrich, then act. Slots set how many can be scheduled at once; hours set how long they can run each month.
Data extraction
The reason most people buy it. LinkedIn profiles, Sales Navigator searches, post likers and commenters, group members, Google Maps listings and social followers, exported to CSV, Google Sheets or a CRM.
LinkedIn actions
Connection requests, messages, likes and event invites, run from the cloud. The vendor's blog recommends 15 to 25 requests a day and 40 to 80 messages, lower than most dedicated LinkedIn tools allow.
Enrichment, AI and MCP
Email finder and URL finder credits on each plan, AI credits (10,000 to 90,000 a month) for drafting and enrichment, and an MCP server that lets an AI assistant trigger Phantoms.
PhantomBuster pricing
From phantombuster.com/pricing, read October 8, 2026. Annual billing is about 20% less.
Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Slots | Execution hours | Email credits | AI credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free (after trial) | $0 | $0 | 1 | 30 minutes | ||
Start | $69 | $56 | 5 | 20 | 500 | 10,000 |
Grow | $159 | $128 | 15 | 80 | 2,500 | 30,000 |
Scale | $439 | $352 | 50 | 300 | 10,000 | 90,000 |
What an execution hour actually buys, and the three plans by team, in PhantomBuster pricing explained.
Give your sales team
an unfair advantage.
PhantomBuster alternatives
Prices read October 8, 2026.
Clay: the enrichment-workflow tool most PhantomBuster users graduate to, with waterfalls across data providers; see Clay pricing explained.
Expandi or Dripify: if the LinkedIn actions were the point, a dedicated tool allows higher volume with a dedicated IP and an inbox. See our Expandi review and our Dripify review.
Apollo: if the scraping was a way to get contacts, a database with sequences at $49 a seat on annual skips the scraping. See our Apollo review.
Valley (our product) starts from the other end: live buying signals, natural-language search or your own list, then qualification against your ICP, per-person research and a first message in your voice, then LinkedIn and email sequences. One seat is one LinkedIn account; Starter is $199 a month or $149 billed quarterly, with a 7-day trial. Fewer messages, each with a reason to reply. See how Valley compares.
More in PhantomBuster alternatives (2026) and why teams replace Clay, PhantomBuster and HeyReach with one tool.
Who PhantomBuster is for
A growth engineer, an agency or a RevOps team that wants to build its own pipelines: scrape a Sales Navigator search, pull post engagers, enrich, push to a CRM. If you think in Flows and spreadsheets, it is the most flexible tool at the price.
Who PhantomBuster is not for
Sales reps who want to send. It does not send email, its LinkedIn volume guidance is conservative, and nothing in it decides who deserves a message or what it should say. Teams that need predictable uptime should also note how often Phantoms break between platform changes.
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FAQ
How much does PhantomBuster cost? Start $69 a month ($56 on annual), Grow $159 ($128), Scale $439 ($352), plus a free plan with 30 minutes a month after the 14-day trial. Read October 8, 2026.
Does PhantomBuster have a free trial? Yes, 14 days without a card: 5 slots, 2 hours of execution, 50 email credits and exports capped at 10 rows.
What is an execution hour? Time a Phantom spends running. Start includes 20 hours a month, Grow 80, Scale 300. Hours do not roll over; when they run out, automations pause rather than bill overages.
Does PhantomBuster send email? No. Email credits find addresses; sending needs a separate tool.
Is PhantomBuster safe for LinkedIn? It runs in the cloud and the vendor recommends 15 to 25 connection requests a day. Flagged accounts are still a recurring review complaint, so keep to the guidance.
Does PhantomBuster work with Claude or ChatGPT? Yes. An MCP server is included on every plan, and ChatGPT is listed among the integrations.
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.
