UpLead sells verified B2B emails and mobile numbers, checked in real time when you unlock them, with credit refunds for bad data. Ocean uses contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
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UpLeadVerified emails and mobiles, checked at download, with credits back for bad data. A fit for small outbound teams.
UpLead is a B2B contact and company database with 50+ search filters, technographics, a Chrome extension and an API. Its pitch is data accuracy: emails are verified in real time and bounced contacts are credited back.
Deciding which companies are worth winning, ranked by fit learned from your won and lost deals, before you spend credits on contacts at them.
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 | UpLead |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | Competitor Intelligence on the custom Professional plan, which UpLead says helps find lookalikes of your best customers. Plans below it search by filters. We found no description of how the matching works. |
| Learns your ICP from won and lost deals | Ocean is stronger here. Learned automatically from your won and lost deals. | You build the profile yourself from 50+ search filters, saved searches and technology search. We found no description of learning fit from your 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. | Results match your filters. We found no per-account reason for why a company fits. |
| Coverage | Ocean is stronger here. Segments your whole market and shows win rate, deal size and cycle time for each segment. | Says 200M+ leads on its home page, and about 19M company profiles and 27K technologies on its data page. Its own pages give different figures. |
| 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. | Emails are verified in real time when you unlock a contact, shown as valid, invalid or accept-all, and bounced contacts are credited back. UpLead says accuracy is 95%. |
| Companies | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | Company profiles, news alerts on every paid plan, and enrichment on Plus and above. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | Buyer intent data on the Professional plan, which UpLead says is collected with consent from its own sources. It doesn’t name the provider. |
| 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. | Integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive, Dynamics 365, Outreach, Salesloft and more, plus Zapier. Two-way sync is on Professional. |
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | A REST API with company, person, prospector and lists endpoints, limited to 500 requests a minute. Full API access is on Professional. We found no MCP server documented. |
| Security and privacy | SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, per Ocean’s own site. | We couldn’t open a security page. Ask for its security report and its data sources before a review. |
| Pricing | Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | Essentials $99 a month, Plus $199 a month, Professional by quote on annual billing. A 7-day trial gives 5 credits. |
UpLead publishes two self-serve plans for one user each, a custom Professional plan and a trial. One credit unlocks one contact.
Essentials and Plus include one user each, and the trial gives 5 credits. At 170 credits a month the entry plan is a few hundred contacts, so volume buyers move up fast. Intent and the full API need a custom annual contract. Extra-credit prices and the Professional figure come from a reviewer, so confirm both. The 95% figure is accuracy at verification, not a promise that nothing bounces later.
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 pricingUpLead verifies the people. Ocean picks the companies worth reaching.
Choose UpLead if Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep UpLead for verified contacts and add Ocean to decide whose contacts to buy.
Export your saved lists and downloaded contacts, then run the companies through Ocean to see how many match your closed-won pattern.
Find your plan, billing term, credit balance and whether intent and the API are included.
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 quote that grows with seats, credits and add-ons, because the entry price is the smallest line; price your real volume.
Expect annual terms that renew on their own, because that is how it is sold; get notice dates, price caps and export rights in writing.
Expect an accuracy claim, because vendors measure it on their own samples; test find and bounce rates on your own list.
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.
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A B2B contact and company database that verifies emails in real time when you unlock them, with mobile numbers, technographics, intent data on its top plan and an accuracy guarantee backed by credit refunds.
Essentials is $99 a month for 170 credits or $74 a month billed annually. Plus is $199 a month for 400 credits or $149 a month billed annually. Professional is by quote on annual billing. A 7-day trial gives 5 credits.
UpLead states a 95% accuracy rate and credits back contacts whose data proves bad. It measures accuracy when the email is verified, so a contact can still go stale later.
We found no description of that. Its Professional plan has Competitor Intelligence for lookalikes. Ocean reads your CRM deals, clusters them into segments with win rate, cycle and deal size, and ranks every company against them.
We found none documented. It has a REST API, with full access on Professional. Ocean has an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine.
On the Professional plan only, which is custom-priced and annual. Intent shows who is researching now, while Ocean’s fit shows who resembles the customers you win. Many teams use both.
We couldn’t open a security page for it. Ask what report and data-source documentation it 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.
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
With Ocean.io we can focus our ad spend on the right companies.
Martin Nørgaard Klausen,
Co-Founder, Lead Motor, Zen Media
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
Ocean.io reduced our average cost per Marketing Qualified Lead by 23%.
Garrett Butler,
Digital Engagement, CBC
Ocean.io expands the sea into an ocean, and Scalestack is great at fishing in this vast ocean.
Ezequiel,
Head of Product Operations, Scalestack
Ocean.io allows us to identify lookalike companies with incredible accuracy.
Maged,
Head of Product, Surfe
