How much does BookYourData cost?

Volume pricing applies per transaction, not to your running total. Two 5,000 packs cost $1,598; one 10,000 pack costs $999. That's $599 for the exact same number of records. Once your target is proven, bundle the year's needs into one order. Credits don't expire, so there's no use-it-or-lose-it pressure.

Run a search close to a previous one and part of the results are records you already bought. Turn on Net-New, which only downloads records your account has never purchased. One repeat buyer calls it out as the first habit worth building on a BookYourData account.

The 97% guarantee returns credits, not money, and only past a 3% hard-bounce allowance. Those first 3 points are your cost. Purchased credits are never refundable in cash, so the only real safety net is testing small before you buy big.

Phone is included in the credit, but BookYourData says most records carry the company line, with a direct dial only where they have one. For a calling team, the true cost of a reachable mobile is higher than $0.10. Look at the phone column on your free records before you scale.

One buyer reported a first batch with a 25% bounce rate, then records of people who had left. BookYourData's answer to that kind of complaint: filter by company size and keep one row per company. Staff turnover at very small firms is where data ages fastest, even with a refresh every 30 to 90 days.

Several users say it's hard to see how many credits each export consumed. Note the balance before and after every download and keep the receipts from your account. If you file a guarantee claim, you'll need to tie each record to a purchase and a bounce report.

You have a clear target and need volume in one go: entering a new vertical, an agency preparing campaigns for several clients, filling an event. At $0.10 a record on the 10,000 pack, with no seats and no commitment, few tools beat it on a one-time buy. Non-expiring credits absorb calendar slips.

You prospect daily, contact by contact, from LinkedIn or your CRM. Re-buying 250 packs at $0.40 adds up faster than a subscription with a monthly quota, which is where Apollo wins. And if your niche is very narrow, coverage can be thin: the free credits will tell you.

Lusha is handier for finding a number mid-call, but a phone number costs 10 credits there and an email 1. Apollo adds email sequences and a light CRM on top of its data. ZoomInfo is in another league, with annual contracts that start around $15,000. BookYourData only competes on one thing, the price of a bulk list, and it wins that one.

US law doesn't require opt-in for B2B email, but it doesn't exempt B2B either. Each message needs an accurate sender and subject line, your physical postal address and a working unsubscribe you honor within 10 business days. Fines can reach $53,088 per email, and BookYourData says compliance is shared: you own the send.

If your list includes EU or UK contacts, GDPR applies on top of CAN-SPAM. You need a legitimate interest, a message relevant to the person's job, an easy opt-out, and you must tell them where their data came from by your first email at the latest. Keep BookYourData's opt-out page handy for deletion requests.

3.8/5: a broad database of 500M+ profiles across 200+ countries, a per-record price that's hard to beat at volume and a clear guarantee, held back by credit-only compensation and missing direct dials on many records. Start with the 10 free credits, then 250, and only buy big once you've measured your bounce rate.