Comparison · QD vs Lusha
Lusha finds one contact. We deliver 750, verified.
Lusha is a seat your reps look things up with. We are a firm you brief once. This page sets the two side by side on what each one is, how contacts are verified, how volume works and what it costs — with a source and a date on every figure.
- 92%+
- Deliverability target
- Stated guarantee · 2026
- 750
- Verified leads, Pilot
- 250 companies · 3 contacts each · 2026
- 5–7d
- Turnaround
- From a confirmed brief · 2026
The difference
One contact at a time, against 750 in a file.
| Measure | Lusha | Qualified Deals |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A per-seat lookup tool. Revealing a contact’s phone number or email deducts credits from the account balance each time.docs.lusha.com · checked 17 Aug 2026 | A research project. You brief a senior analyst once, and a finished file comes back.Pilot scope · 2026 |
| Verification | An automated lookup against Lusha’s database. Lusha’s published documentation describes no human verification step.docs.lusha.com · checked 17 Aug 2026 | Every contact is cross-checked by a person against LinkedIn and the company website before delivery, and the date of that check is recorded on the row.Delivery SOP stages 1–5 · 2026 |
| How volume works | Credit-metered. On monthly plans, unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance. Per-plan credit counts are not published.docs.lusha.com · checked 17 Aug 2026 | 750 verified leads in one file. No credits, no per-lookup metering, nothing to top up.Pilot scope · 2026 |
| What you receive | Contacts revealed one at a time, into your browser, your CRM or an export.docs.lusha.com · checked 17 Aug 2026 | 750 verified leads across 250 companies, as XLSX and a CSV that imports cleanly, 5–7 days from a confirmed brief.Pilot scope · 2026 |
| Bounce policy | None stated in Lusha’s published documentation.docs.lusha.com · checked 17 Aug 2026 | Seven-day bounce replacement. Report above 8% inside the window and every bounced record is replaced, re-verified, within 5 working days.Stated guarantee · 2026 |
These are not competing versions of the same product. Lusha is built for the number a rep needs before a call that starts in ten minutes, and it does that in a way we do not. This page is not an argument against holding a seat.
Every Lusha statement above is read from Lusha’s own published documentation on the date shown. We have not tested Lusha’s output and publish no measurement of it — and no accuracy figure appears on this page for either side of that row, because Lusha does not publish one.
How we verify
Brief, Source, Verify, QA and deliver.
| Stage | What happens | Artifact produced |
|---|---|---|
| 01Brief | A 30-minute Project Brief call with a senior analyst — not an SDR — to scope the ICP, territory, titles, volume and timeline. Ten fields, all required before research begins. If the brief shows we are not a fit, we say so before any work starts. | The signed research brief |
| 02Source | Analysts map the territory across twenty-plus sources — ZoomInfo, Apollo, Clay, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Cognism, Lusha, Crunchbase, PitchBook and company websites — triangulated rather than exported. Accounts outside the brief are dropped here. | The raw master source sheet |
| 03Verify | Every contact is cross-checked by a person against LinkedIn and the company website: current role confirmed, employer matched, email format validated. The date of that check is recorded on the row. SMTP-only verification is the floor, not the ceiling. | The LinkedIn cross-check log |
| 04QA and deliver | A 10% spot-check by a second person, with zero QA failures permitted — anything that fails goes back to the analyst. Records that cannot be confirmed are removed, not shipped as Pending. Then a CRM-ready XLSX and CSV with a count summary. | The QA spot-check sheet |
What you receive
One workbook, four sheets, and a CSV that imports cleanly.
Delivered as QD_[Client]_[Package]_[YYYYMMDD].xlsx with a matching UTF-8 CSV for direct CRM import. Phone columns are formatted as text, so long numbers do not arrive as scientific notation.
1 · Read Me
Client, package, ICP summary, delivery date, record counts, the verification method, and the guarantee stated verbatim.
2 · Verified Leads
One row per person. Company, contact, exact title, LinkedIn URL, verified email, confirmation date, status.
3 · Companies
One row per company. Domain, employee band, HQ country, sector, and the accounts we excluded.
4 · Method
Sources used, the verification steps applied, the exclusions, and the QA sample size.
| Company | Contact | Title | Confirmed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N•••••• Systems | D. R••••• | VP Engineering | 2026-07-28 | Verified |
| C•••••• Labs | R. M••••• | Head of Infrastructure | 2026-07-29 | Verified |
| A••••••• Digital | S. T••••• | Director, Service Delivery | 2026-07-29 | Verified |
| V•••••• Cloud | J. P••••• | Chief Technology Officer | 2026-07-30 | Verified |
If you already have a Lusha seat
Three things buyers say first.
We use Lusha for quick lookups.
That is what it is for
One contact at a time, credit by credit, at the moment a rep needs it. A Pilot is the other job: 750 verified contacts arriving as one finished file, not 750 individual credit-spends someone has to sit and make.
Lusha credits are cheap per lookup.
Per seat, per year, it adds up
The seat is the cost, and it recurs. Credits roll over up to twice a month’s allowance and then stop, so they bank against a slow month rather than accumulating into a list. A Pilot is one fixed fee for a known volume.
Does a lookup tell you the job is still theirs?
A reveal is not a check
A lookup returns what the database holds for that person. Confirming they still hold the job is a separate step, and Lusha’s published documentation describes no human one. That confirmation is the work we do before delivery, and its date is on the row.
Cost
A seat you meter, against a fee you agree.
Lusha’s figures are read from their own published rate card at lusha.com/pricing on 10 September 2026, on annual billing, divided by the seats each plan includes: Starter $449 for one seat, Professional $629–$3,359 for two, Premium $3,599–$9,539 for five. The floor is Professional’s entry step and the ceiling is Premium’s top step. Enterprise is quote-only and is not in the range. Both rows exclude tax.
Lusha publishes in US dollars; the other three are converted at the mid-market rates recorded for 16 August 2026 and rounded to the nearest 5. Our own prices are unchanged from the pricing page.
FAQ
What buyers ask when a Lusha seat is already in the stack.
Is Qualified Deals a Lusha alternative, or a complement to it?
Mostly a complement, and the two jobs are genuinely different. Lusha is for the number a rep needs before a call that starts shortly — one contact, revealed on the spot. We build the list a campaign runs on: 750 verified contacts, delivered as one file, with the verification already done. Teams that keep a seat and commission projects are using each for what it is good at.
How does a 750-lead Pilot compare in cost to a year of Lusha credits?
A Pilot is $420 or ₹35,000, one time, for 750 verified leads. Our record of Lusha puts a seat at ₹29,000 to ₹1,00,000 a year, and that is per user before anyone counts whether the credits cover the volume you need. The honest comparison is not per record: it is a recurring seat that meters every lookup against a fixed fee for a known deliverable. We publish our figure for Lusha as our own estimate rather than as their price, because we could not read their pricing page directly.
Does Lusha verify that a contact still holds the job the way Qualified Deals does?
Lusha’s published documentation describes no human verification step, and we make no claim about their accuracy because they publish no figure and we have not tested it. What we can state is our own method: a researcher opens the person’s LinkedIn profile and the company website, confirms the name, the exact title and the current employer, and records the date of that check on the row. Anything that cannot be confirmed is removed rather than delivered.
Can I use Lusha for one-off lookups and Qualified Deals for a bulk verified list?
Yes, and that is the usual arrangement. Keep the seat for the contact someone needs today; commission a project when a campaign needs a list. Delivery is a CRM-ready XLSX plus a UTF-8 CSV with a BOM, so it drops into the same stack the seat already feeds.
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Book a project brief
Keep the seat for today’s lookup. Commission the list your campaign runs on.
A senior researcher reads every brief and replies from a named address.