2 categories · RankedContactOut
ContactOut is a B2B email finder and lead generation platform that provides verified emails and phone numbers for over 350M professionals · contactout.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“ContactOut and HireEz are top recommendations for recruiting teams based on accuracy, usability, and recruiter-specific functionality”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Use free LinkedIn tools combined with lightweight contact extensions like ContactOut or Lusha.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Quickly getting personal contact info for candidates you've already identified.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“You need contact info but don't want to pay much: Try ContactOut or SignalHire”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Be cautious with data‑harvesting and scraping tools (e.g., ContactOut, SignalHire, ZoomInfo and similar plugins)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ContactOut, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 7 | 3 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of ContactOut →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ContactOut's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Recruiters and sales reps
- Price stated
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Sign up to get 5 free credits daily
- Certifications
- SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA
- Customers named
- Google, Tenstorrent, Societe Generale, CNN, Robert Half, HSBC, Yelp, WarnerMedia
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 16 of the 18 answers that named ContactOut and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-seven of the fifty-seven domain citations in answers naming ContactOut came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 142 | 14 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | 0 | 2026-02-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2023-09-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Email warmup how to build a strong sender reputation blog
- 2026-09-23How do growing service businesses modernize their day to day operations blog
- 2026-09-23How to write a b2b cold email sequence blog
- 2026-09-22Why modern talent acquisition requires sales skills blog
- 2026-09-04Your best sales representative isnt always your most consistent one and why that matters blog
- 2026-09-03The recruiting skill nobody trains you on saying candidate names right blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page contactout.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.