Icypeas is a small French email finder and verifier known for checking catch-all addresses, with cheap credits that never expire. Ocean uses contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
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IcypeasA low-cost email finder and verifier, strong on catch-all domains. A fit for agencies and GTM engineers.
Icypeas is the trading name of Vloum SAS, a small Paris company founded in 2022. It finds and verifies emails from a name and a company, scans domains and scrapes profile and company pages.
Deciding which companies are worth emailing, ranked by fit learned from your won and lost deals, with the reason on each.
Ocean is contextual intelligence for go-to-market. It reads what every company actually does from its own website, learns what good looks like from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and ranks your whole market against it, with the reason behind each score. The ranked accounts arrive in your CRM, your rep queue or your AI agents.
What buyers weigh, grouped by the job each part does. A light blue background marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean | Icypeas |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | You search a people and company database by filters such as title, location and skills, and counting matches is free. We found no lookalike feature documented. |
| Learns your ICP from won and lost deals | Ocean is stronger here. Learned automatically from your won and lost deals. | It enriches names and domains you bring and leaves the choice of who to contact to you. We found no description of learning fit from won and lost deals. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Returns an email with a certainty level and the mail provider. It doesn’t explain why a company is worth contacting. |
| Coverage | Ocean is stronger here. Segments your whole market and shows win rate, deal size and cycle time for each segment. | Says profile and company data come from open sources and an outside provider. Reviewers report coverage drops on small domains and non-US firms, and benchmarks disagree on its find rate. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts | Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | A found email costs 1 credit and a miss is free. A reverse email lookup costs 10 credits. Its phone finder is listed as coming soon. |
| Email verification and catch-alls | Doesn’t sell a standalone email verifier. It returns contacts for ranked accounts. | Verifies any list for 0.1 credit an email and stresses verifying Google and Microsoft catch-all addresses. Its own and a third-party benchmark both measured about 1% hard bounces. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | No hiring, funding or intent signals documented. Profile and company scrapers add data for personalizing outreach. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| CRM sync | Two-way with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio. Reads your deals to learn, then writes scores, segments and signals back. | Seven native Clay actions, a Google Sheets script, Make, Zapier and n8n, and a partner role in Apollo and Lemlist waterfalls. No native CRM or sequencer connector is listed. |
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | An MCP server on every plan with setup guides for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, plus API docs published as llms.txt, Markdown and an OpenAPI file. |
| Security and privacy | SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, per Ocean’s own site. | Hosts in France with OVHcloud and Scaleway and publishes a GDPR statement with sub-processors. Its ISO 27001 and SOC 2 claim describes those hosting providers, not Icypeas itself. |
| Pricing | Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | Published: $19, $39, $89 or $499 a month plus VAT, with 20% off annual. |
Icypeas publishes four plans, priced plus VAT, with the same features on each: catch-all verification, API access, MCP, Make, Zapier and n8n, and credits that roll over. New accounts get 50 free credits.
A found email is 1 credit and a verification 0.1, but a profile scrape is 1.5, a company scrape 0.5, a reverse email lookup 10 and each people-database result 0.02. The annual toggle says save 20%, and the yearly price works out to ten months for twelve, about 17%. List prices haven’t moved since April 2025, and payments aren’t refunded. Cheap credits cost more per usable contact if hit rates are low, so test your own list.
A flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals.
Contacts are charged only when one is found. Exports are free.
See Ocean pricingIcypeas finds and verifies the emails. Ocean decides which companies deserve the email.
Choose Icypeas if Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep Icypeas for verification and email finding and add Ocean to decide who to email.
Export a list you enriched with Icypeas, then run the companies through Ocean to see how many fit your closed-won pattern.
Find your plan, your credit balance and how many credits scrapes and reverse lookups use compared with finds and verifications.
Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio. Ocean reads your closed-won and closed-lost deals to learn what a good account looks like.
Ocean proposes segments and scores, with the reason on each. Correct anything that doesn’t match how you sell.
Scores, segments and matched signals go back to your CRM, or into Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
Expect a headline database size, because counts come from its own records and not your market; ask for coverage on your list.
Expect an accuracy claim, because vendors measure it on their own samples; test find and bounce rates on your own list.
Expect export and no-code connectors first, with two-way sync tied to the plan; confirm what is live on yours.
Expect a trust-center link or a request form, because reports sit behind a sales step; ask for the date and scope.
Ocean is better because it tells it like it is: contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
Start using OceanThe right alternative depends on what you use Icypeas for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
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LeadMagicShort answers on what Icypeas does, what it costs, how Ocean compares and what to check before you buy.
A small French email finder and verifier that also scans domains, looks up the person behind an email, scrapes profile pages and searches a people and company database. It sends nothing.
Basic is $19 a month for 1,000 credits, Premium $39 for 4,000, Advanced $89 for 10,000 and Hypergrowth $499 for 100,000, plus VAT, with 50 free credits on signup and credits that never expire.
Its own 300-row benchmark found a 79% find rate and 1.33% bounce rate, and a third-party review cites about 31.6% in a 20,000-row test with about 1% hard bounces. Test your own list.
We found no description of that. Ocean reads your CRM deals, clusters them into segments with win rate, cycle and deal size, and ranks every company against them.
Yes, on every plan, with setup guides for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Ocean has an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine.
Not yet. Its phone finder is listed as coming soon. Ocean returns phone numbers as part of contacts for ranked accounts.
It hosts in France, publishes a GDPR statement and sub-processors, and cites ISO 27001 and SOC 2 held by its hosting providers. It’s a small company, so ask what reports Icypeas itself can provide.
Ocean reads what each company does from its own website, learns from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and returns ranked matches with the reason on each one.
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