1. [Compare](/compare.md) 2. Ocean vs Icypeas # Ocean vs Icypeas: pricing and how they compare 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. [Start for free](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) [Book a demo](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) [See Icypeas pricing](#how-much-does-icypeas-cost) Ask AI to compare * [Ask Claude to compare Ocean and Icypeas (opens in a new tab)](https://claude.ai/new?q=Compare%20Ocean.io%20and%20Icypeas%20for%20B2B%20email%20data%3A%20email%20finding%20and%20verification%2C%20catch-all%20handling%2C%20find%20rate%20and%20bounce%20rate%2C%20lead%20database%20search%2C%20credit%20costs%2C%20Clay%20and%20MCP%20access%2C%20learning%20from%20CRM%20deals%2C%20ICP%20fit%20and%20pricing.%20Use%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocean.io%2Fcompare%2Focean-vs-icypeas%20and%20other%20sources%2C%20and%20say%20where%20each%20one%20is%20stronger.) * [Ask ChatGPT to compare Ocean and Icypeas (opens in a new tab)](https://chatgpt.com/?q=Compare%20Ocean.io%20and%20Icypeas%20for%20B2B%20email%20data%3A%20email%20finding%20and%20verification%2C%20catch-all%20handling%2C%20find%20rate%20and%20bounce%20rate%2C%20lead%20database%20search%2C%20credit%20costs%2C%20Clay%20and%20MCP%20access%2C%20learning%20from%20CRM%20deals%2C%20ICP%20fit%20and%20pricing.%20Use%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocean.io%2Fcompare%2Focean-vs-icypeas%20and%20other%20sources%2C%20and%20say%20where%20each%20one%20is%20stronger.) * [Ask Perplexity to compare Ocean and Icypeas (opens in a new tab)](https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=Compare%20Ocean.io%20and%20Icypeas%20for%20B2B%20email%20data%3A%20email%20finding%20and%20verification%2C%20catch-all%20handling%2C%20find%20rate%20and%20bounce%20rate%2C%20lead%20database%20search%2C%20credit%20costs%2C%20Clay%20and%20MCP%20access%2C%20learning%20from%20CRM%20deals%2C%20ICP%20fit%20and%20pricing.%20Use%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocean.io%2Fcompare%2Focean-vs-icypeas%20and%20other%20sources%2C%20and%20say%20where%20each%20one%20is%20stronger.) * [Ask Gemini to compare Ocean and Icypeas (opens in a new tab)](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&q=Compare%20Ocean.io%20and%20Icypeas%20for%20B2B%20email%20data%3A%20email%20finding%20and%20verification%2C%20catch-all%20handling%2C%20find%20rate%20and%20bounce%20rate%2C%20lead%20database%20search%2C%20credit%20costs%2C%20Clay%20and%20MCP%20access%2C%20learning%20from%20CRM%20deals%2C%20ICP%20fit%20and%20pricing.%20Use%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocean.io%2Fcompare%2Focean-vs-icypeas%20and%20other%20sources%2C%20and%20say%20where%20each%20one%20is%20stronger.) * [Ask Grok to compare Ocean and Icypeas (opens in a new tab)](https://grok.com/?q=Compare%20Ocean.io%20and%20Icypeas%20for%20B2B%20email%20data%3A%20email%20finding%20and%20verification%2C%20catch-all%20handling%2C%20find%20rate%20and%20bounce%20rate%2C%20lead%20database%20search%2C%20credit%20costs%2C%20Clay%20and%20MCP%20access%2C%20learning%20from%20CRM%20deals%2C%20ICP%20fit%20and%20pricing.%20Use%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocean.io%2Fcompare%2Focean-vs-icypeas%20and%20other%20sources%2C%20and%20say%20where%20each%20one%20is%20stronger.) Updated November 13, 2026. [See sources](#sources) Used by teams at * Coinbase * Revolut * Stripe * HubSpot * Harmony * Productboard * Twilio * Qualtrics * Seismic * Datadog * Jeeves * Plaid * Gartner * PostHog * Decagon * Orb * Rippling * Copy.ai * Aircall * beehiiv * TextExpander * Intercom * Deel * Radisson Hotel Group * Schneider Electric * Swisscom * Micron Technology * GSK * Sony * [How they differ](#how-they-differ) * [Comparison](#ocean-vs-icypeas) * [Icypeas cost](#how-much-does-icypeas-cost) * [Which to choose](#which-to-choose) * [Switching](#switching-from-icypeas) * [Alternatives](#icypeas-alternatives) * [FAQ](#icypeas-faq) --- ## How do Ocean and Icypeas differ? ### ![Icypeas logo: Icypeas alternatives, pricing and comparison with Ocean](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/icypeas-mark.webp?width=256) Icypeas A 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. ### Ocean 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. --- ## Icypeas and Ocean features, side by side What buyers weigh, grouped by the job each part does. A light blue background marks the stronger side. __Ocean vs Icypeas comparison__ | 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. | --- ## How much is Icypeas? 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. * Annual plans give 12,000, 48,000 and 120,000 credits at $190, $390 and $890, and a Hypergrowth plan at $4,990: $190 to $4,990 a year * Basic is $19 for 1,000 credits, Premium $39 for 4,000 and Advanced $89 for 10,000, about $0.019, $0.0098 and $0.0089 an email: $19 to $89 a month * Hypergrowth: 100,000 credits, about $0.005 an email. Custom plans go higher, up to about $34,930 a month by one reviewer’s account: $499 a month ### What the price leaves out 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. ### How Ocean charges 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 pricing](/pricing.md) --- ## Should you choose Ocean or Icypeas? Icypeas finds and verifies the emails. Ocean decides which companies deserve the email. ### Choose Icypeas if * You want the cheapest credible email finder and verifier, with credits that never expire * Catch-all domains cause bounces on your lists * You build waterfalls in Clay, Make, Zapier or n8n and need a low-cost leg ### Use both if * You use Ocean to pick the accounts and Icypeas to find and verify the emails, often in Clay * You rank a list with Ocean before spending credits on emails [Talk to us](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) ### Choose Ocean if * You want the ICP learned from your won and lost deals, as segments with win rate, cycle and deal size * You want the reason on every account and an exact count of the market * You want ranked accounts pushed natively into your CRM * You want phone numbers and contacts for accounts in one place [Start for free](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) --- ## How to switch from Icypeas to Ocean Five steps. Most teams keep Icypeas for verification and email finding and add Ocean to decide who to email. ### 1. Export a list you verified Export a list you enriched with Icypeas, then run the companies through Ocean to see how many fit your closed-won pattern. ### 2. Check your credits and plan Find your plan, your credit balance and how many credits scrapes and reverse lookups use compared with finds and verifications. ### 3. Connect your CRM Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio. Ocean reads your closed-won and closed-lost deals to learn what a good account looks like. ### 4. Review the segments and scores Ocean proposes segments and scores, with the reason on each. Correct anything that doesn’t match how you sell. ### 5. Send scored accounts Scores, segments and matched signals go back to your CRM, or into Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences. ### Questions to ask before you rely on Icypeas for targeting * **What find rate and bounce rate do we get on our own list, by region?** Expect a headline database size, because counts come from its own records and not your market; ask for coverage on your list. * **Where does its profile and company data come from, and how fresh is it?** Expect an accuracy claim, because vendors measure it on their own samples; test find and bounce rates on your own list. * **Does it connect to our CRM or sequencer, or only through Clay and no-code tools?** Expect export and no-code connectors first, with two-way sync tied to the plan; confirm what is live on yours. * **Which security reports does Icypeas itself hold?** 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 Ocean](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) --- ## How do other Icypeas alternatives compare to Ocean? The right alternative depends on what you use Icypeas for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts. ### [![Apollo logo: Apollo alternatives and pricing](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/apollo-mark.webp?width=192)Apollo](/compare/ocean-vs-apollo.md) * Built for: Contacts and sequencing in one tool, with published self-serve plans. * Where Ocean starts: Ocean starts from which accounts deserve outreach, then pushes contacts to Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences. ### [![Lusha logo: Lusha alternatives and pricing](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/lusha-mark.webp?width=192)Lusha](/compare/ocean-vs-lusha.md) * Built for: Individual reps who need quick contact lookups from a browser extension. * Where Ocean starts: Ocean decides which accounts to work, with a Chrome extension for company data as you browse. ### [![Cognism logo: Cognism alternatives and pricing](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/cognism-mark.webp?width=192)Cognism](/compare/ocean-vs-cognism.md) * Built for: Teams selling into Europe that need phone-verified mobile numbers and GDPR-focused data. * Where Ocean starts: Ocean ranks the accounts first, then finds the contacts. ### [![Clay logo: Clay alternatives and pricing](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/clay-mark.webp?width=192)Clay](/compare/ocean-vs-clay.md) * Built for: GTM engineers who assemble custom enrichment and research workflows from many data sources. * Where Ocean starts: Ocean starts from your closed-won deals and ranks the market, instead of a build. ### [![LeadMagic logo: LeadMagic alternatives and pricing](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/compare/leadmagic-mark.webp?width=192)LeadMagic](/compare/ocean-vs-leadmagic.md) * Built for: GTM engineers and agencies that want a cheap, API-first layer to find and verify emails and mobiles inside Clay and sequencers. * Where Ocean starts: Ocean decides which companies are worth enriching, ranked by fit learned from your won and lost deals, with the reason on each. --- ## Icypeas pricing and alternatives: common questions Short answers on what Icypeas does, what it costs, how Ocean compares and what to check before you buy. **What is Icypeas?** 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. **How much does Icypeas cost?** 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. **How accurate is Icypeas?** 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. **Does Icypeas learn from my won and lost deals?** 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. **Does Icypeas have an MCP server?** 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. **Does Icypeas find phone numbers?** Not yet. Its phone finder is listed as coming soon. Ocean returns phone numbers as part of contacts for ranked accounts. **Is Icypeas ready for an enterprise security review?** 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. **How does Ocean find lookalike companies?** 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. --- ## Sources (16) checked November 13, 2026 * [Icypeas](https://www.icypeas.com/) * [Icypeas pricing](https://www.icypeas.com/pricing) * [Icypeas API documentation](https://api-doc.icypeas.com/) * [Icypeas find people endpoint](https://api-doc.icypeas.com/reference/find-people) * [Use Icypeas with AI agents](https://api-doc.icypeas.com/ai-agents) * [Icypeas security](https://www.icypeas.com/security) * [Icypeas GDPR statement](https://www.icypeas.com/legal/gdpr-statement) * [The best email finders in 2026 (Icypeas’s own benchmark)](https://www.icypeas.com/product/benchmark-email-finders) * [Icypeas review (Emelia, a competitor)](https://emelia.io/software/icypeas) * [Icypeas review (SyncGTM, a competitor)](https://syncgtm.com/blog/icypeas-review) * [Icypeas review (Satellyte, third party)](https://satellyte.ai/blog/icypeas-review-2026) * [Apollo pricing](https://www.apollo.io/pricing) * [Lusha](https://www.lusha.com/) * [Cognism](https://www.cognism.com/) * [Clay](https://www.clay.com/) * [LeadMagic](https://leadmagic.io/) --- ## What teams say about Ocean [All case studies](/case-studies.md) --- > Today we can more confidently say we're reaching out to all the companies that could potentially buy from us. > > — Josh Pudnos, Director of Commercial Operations, Brandwatch [Read Brandwatch's story](/case-studies/brandwatch.md) > With Ocean.io we can focus our ad spend on the right companies. > > — Martin Nørgaard Klausen, Co-Founder, Lead Motor, Zen Media [Read Zen Media's story](/case-studies/zenmedia.md) Laura Salmina, Sales Developer at Tele2 IoT [Read Tele2 IoT's story](/case-studies/tele2.md) Julian Berbec, Growth Marketer at Monta [Read Monta's story](/case-studies/monta.md) > Working with a trusted partner saves a ton of engineering time and ongoing AI costs. Speed and quality are higher out of the gate. > > — Stefan Kollenberg, Data Partnerships, Clay [Read Clay's story](/case-studies/clay.md) > Ocean.io reduced our average cost per Marketing Qualified Lead by 23%. > > — Garrett Butler, Digital Engagement, CBC [Read CBC's story](/case-studies/cbc.md) > Ocean.io expands the sea into an ocean, and Scalestack is great at fishing in this vast ocean. > > — Ezequiel, Head of Product Operations, Scalestack [Read Scalestack's story](/case-studies/scalestack.md) > Ocean.io allows us to identify lookalike companies with incredible accuracy. > > — Maged, Head of Product, Surfe [Read Surfe's story](/case-studies/surfe.md) --- [ocean.io logomark](/index.md) ocean.io logotype [Home](/index.md) [Discovery](/index.md) [Workflows](/index.md) [Context studio](/index.md) [Search](/index.md) [Assistant](/index.md) [Leads](/index.md) [API](/index.md) [Extension](/index.md) Recommendations Segments Models ### Recommendations 1,304 companies Tier 1 · 68 Tier 2 · 241 Tier 3 · 512 Tier 4 · 483 All CRM statuses 1 | Company | Score | Segment | Matched signals | Status | Location | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------- | ------- | -------------- | | ![Moss logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/getmoss.com/5cd47a9faf8cd98ac4805334af0a3a31be1edb6c.png?width=72) Moss | T1 92 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: FinTech +2 | Net new | Germany | | ![Spendesk logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/spendesk.com/680a4a70ec12e26b7920057edb74b23cfc8af299.png?width=72) Spendesk | T1 89 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: FinTech +2 | Net new | France | | ![Brex logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/brex.com/2c66f22edd5c0a2cb1eec442e151128e4e8019a8.png?width=72) Brex | T1 86 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: FinTech +2 | Net new | United States | | ![Payhawk logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/payhawk.com/a80969444c1e52f57ae3374048cab1e00e0fdb22.png?width=72) Payhawk | T1 83 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: FinTech +2 | Net new | United Kingdom | | ![Ramp logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/assets/custom/pricing/ramp-logomark.webp?width=72) Ramp | T2 79 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: FinTech +2 | Net new | United States | | ![Rydoo logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/rydoo.com/32e0ac2fe888f3db8ff3e0eeef98dacb410722b6.png?width=72) Rydoo | T2 74 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: Software +2 | Net new | Belgium | | ![Circula logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/circula.com/7a2303a2a1b191b8bcda9eff1af4ec066361f27d.png?width=72) Circula | T2 68 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: Software +2 | Net new | Germany | | ![Wallester logo](https://cdn-bunny.ocean.io/logos/wallester.com/91c6be05eb0e08e95d0b13c9b1216345389226c2.png?width=72) Wallester | T2 63 | Mid-market FinTech | Industries: Financial Services +2 | Net new | Estonia | ## Move with your market * Context learned from your closed-won deals * Accounts ranked on fit, with the reason shown * Direct push to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Attio [Start for free](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api) [Book a demo](https://book.ocean.io/inbound/api)