Lusha was built for sales and marketing teams that already know who they want to call: it reveals the email and phone number of a contact you have identified and charges each data point in credits. For the recruiter who still has to find the candidate before asking for their phone number, HeyTalent is the best Lusha alternative: it finds profiles on LinkedIn, ranks them with AI variables, gets their email and phone number and starts the first touch, priced per organisation and with a free ATS. Lusha performs better when the candidate list already exists and only needs completing. The choice depends on where your team loses hours: locating people or getting their details.
What Lusha is and what HeyTalent is
Lusha is a B2B data platform (sales intelligence): a database of contacts and companies that reveals verified emails and phone numbers of professionals through its web app, a Chrome extension that works on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator, an API and an MCP server. Lusha presents itself as the data layer for sales, marketing and revenue operations teams.
According to the fact sheet Lusha publishes for AI assistants, read on November 9, 2026, its data comes from its opt-in community, licensed partners, publicly available business information and its own pattern analysis, and Lusha states that it does not scrape professional networks.
HeyTalent is an AI sourcing platform for recruiters: it extracts LinkedIn profiles in real time, including those outside the recruiter's network; it then prioritises them with AI variables written by the team itself, gets their contact details and schedules automated LinkedIn invitations, follow-ups and InMails.
HeyTalent vs Lusha in 2026: comparison by criterion
In 2026, HeyTalent and Lusha only overlap on getting email and phone: HeyTalent also covers searching, filtering and first contact with candidates, while Lusha covers buying signals and company data for selling.
| Criterion | HeyTalent | Lusha |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Recruiters, agencies and headhunters | Sales, marketing and RevOps teams |
| Where profiles come from | Real-time extraction from LinkedIn | Community, licensed partners and public data |
| Filtering | AI variables defined by the recruiter | Contact and company attributes, buying signals |
| Email and phone | Lookup included in all three plans | 1 credit per email, 5 per phone |
| Outreach | Automated LinkedIn invitations, follow-ups and InMails | Email sequences with Lusha Engage |
| ATS | Its own, free | None; integrates with Bullhorn, among others |
| Entry price | €93/month per organisation, billed annually | Free with 40 credits/month; Starter at $49.90/month, billed monthly |
| Users | Unlimited on every plan | Free and Starter, 1 user; Pro, 2; Premium, 5; more than 5 through sales |
Lusha wins where the work is commercial: its buying signals, identification of companies visiting a website and account scoring have no equivalent in HeyTalent.
How HeyTalent works when you lack candidates, not data
HeyTalent starts one step earlier than Lusha: it starts from a job brief and ends with candidates who are already talking to the recruiter. Two lines describing the role are turned into a LinkedIn search with advanced filters, and anyone who prefers writing it by hand can use Boolean search.
Each profile is extracted at the moment of the query, so HeyTalent shows the candidate's experience as it stands that day. The tool then ranks the profile with AI variables, such as English level or years at a type of company. An inferred variable prioritises the review; it does not certify a skill.
Once the list is reviewed, HeyTalent looks up email and phone. According to the figures HeyTalent publishes on its phone enrichment page, the hit rate is 65% of the LinkedIn profiles enriched, nine in ten numbers delivered (92%) are valid, and the credit goes back to the account when no number is found. These are self-reported figures with no published methodology.
The sequence of invitations, follow-ups and InMails runs from HeyTalent, and replies are gathered in a single inbox that can be filtered by job or by recruiter, where anyone can reply from a teammate's account. One click in that conversation sends the candidate to the HeyTalent ATS. Lusha, by contrast, delivers the data point, and its sequencer, Lusha Engage, works by email.
The HeyTalent ATS is not paid for: what HeyTalent bills is sourcing. With that ATS, each job has its own pipeline, the posting goes out on a careers page branded for the agency and on Google Jobs, and the client sees the stages you choose, CVs included.
When HeyTalent does not replace Lusha
HeyTalent does not replace Lusha in a sales team. HeyTalent has no sales CRM, does not score accounts or detect website visits, and its campaigns are LinkedIn-only: it finds emails and phone numbers but does not send emails. Lusha is also moving towards recruiting with Lusha Talent Sourcing, a ChatGPT app that suggests candidate shortlists with contact details.
How much Lusha and HeyTalent cost in 2026
Lusha charges per plan, in dollars and with credits to reveal data; HeyTalent charges per organisation and in euros. According to Lusha's pricing page as of November 9, 2026, the Free plan is permanent with 40 credits a month, and Starter, the first paid plan, costs $49.90/month billed monthly.
| Lusha plan | Billed monthly | Billed annually | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 40 a month |
| Starter | $49.90/month | $37.45/month ($449.10/year) | 400 a month · 4,800 a year |
| Pro | $69.90/month | $52.45/month ($629.10/year) | 600 a month · 7,200 a year |
| Premium | $399.90/month | $299.95/month ($3,599.10/year) | 3,400 a month · 40,800 a year |
| Scale | Custom | Custom, annual | Custom |
Lusha's prices exclude tax and every plan lets you add credits. Free and Starter include one user, Pro two and Premium five; teams of more than five users go through sales.
Billed annually, HeyTalent costs €93/month on the Recruiter plan, capped at 2,000 candidates monthly; Agency costs €182/month, up to 5,000, and Ultra €509/month, up to 14,000. All three are charged per organisation, with unlimited users.
A Lusha credit is one revealed data point and a HeyTalent candidate is an extracted, filtered profile: compare the cost per contactable candidate with what each sourcing tool costs in 2026.
What uses up credits in Lusha
In Lusha, revealing a verified email costs 1 credit and a phone number 5; searching is free. Its fact sheet for AI assistants adds 1 credit per company record or record exported to the CRM and, from Pro upwards, extra sources at 2 credits per email and 8 per phone, charged only when they return a match.
On Lusha's monthly plans, unused credits roll over up to twice the allowance; on annual plans they expire at the end of the cycle. Starter's 400 credits cover 80 phone numbers or 400 emails.
Contact data accuracy and coverage: what to measure
A high claimed accuracy does not guarantee more contactable candidates: a provider can get every email right and still cover few profiles in your specialty. Lusha and HeyTalent both publish their own quality figures, and neither replaces a test on your own roles.
Lusha's database is built for selling to companies; for profiles such as nursing or logistics, its coverage has to be measured, not assumed. HeyTalent starts from the LinkedIn profile and looks up the contact afterwards, so it depends on the candidate being on LinkedIn.