Comparison · QD vs SalesQL
SalesQL gives you 5,000 lookups a month. We give you 750 records a person has checked.
Their allowance is bigger than our delivery and costs less, and this page says so rather than working around it. What a lookup allowance does not buy is which companies to look up, or whether the person is still in the job when the file lands. Every figure below carries a source and a date.
- 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
More lookups than we deliver records.
| Measure | SalesQL | Qualified Deals |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A LinkedIn email finder. A browser extension returns a contact’s details from the profile a rep is on, with bulk export from search pages, CSV enrichment and an API alongside it. salesql.com · checked 30 Aug 2026 | A research project. You brief a senior analyst once, and a finished file comes back. Pilot scope · 2026 |
| How much you get | A great deal, and cheaply: 2,000 lookups a month at $39, 5,000 at $79, 12,000 with fifteen seats at $119. A credit is spent only when a match is found. salesql.com/pricing · checked 30 Aug 2026 | 750 records. Not because more is difficult, but because 750 is the scope you briefed and every one of them has been read by a person. Pilot scope · 2026 |
| Who decides who to look up | You do. The extension works from the profile or search page in front of a rep, so the targeting happens before the tool is opened. salesql.com · checked 30 Aug 2026 | We do, against your brief. The 250 companies are mapped to your ICP and agreed before a single contact is looked up. Pilot scope · 2026 |
| What gets checked | Emails and phone numbers are described as verified in real time, and an email verifier is included on every plan. No human review step is described. salesql.com · checked 30 Aug 2026 | Every contact is cross-checked by a person against LinkedIn and the company website — current role confirmed, employer matched — and the date of that check is recorded on the row. Delivery SOP stages 1–5 · 2026 |
| Phone numbers | Included on all three paid tiers. The free plan carries 50 credits and no phone numbers at all. salesql.com/pricing · checked 30 Aug 2026 | Work email and direct business lines where available. We do not source personal mobiles, which is a published position rather than a coverage gap. Pilot scope · 2026 |
| What you receive | Contact records, exported in bulk, against that month’s credits. Unlimited exports on the paid tiers. salesql.com/pricing · checked 30 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 | A credit is not spent on a miss, and an email verifier is bundled. No replacement policy for a delivered address that later bounces is stated. salesql.com/pricing · checked 30 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 |
Their allowance is larger than our delivery, by a lot, and it costs less. That comparison is real and we are not going to dress it up. What it leaves out is that a lookup allowance answers only one question — what is this person’s address — for a person you have already decided to look up. Choosing the 250 companies, and confirming the named individual is still in the job when the file lands, are the two pieces of work a credit does not cover. They are also most of the work.
Every SalesQL figure above is theirs, read from their own published card and quoted as they label it. We have not tested SalesQL and publish no measurement of its data, and no accuracy percentage for them appears anywhere on this page — they publish none, and we found no third-party test we would stand behind.
How we verify
Brief, Source, Verify, QA and deliver.
| Stage | What happens | Artifact produced |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Brief | 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 |
| 02 Source | 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 |
| 03 Verify | 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 |
| 04 QA 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 the extension is already installed
Three things buyers say first.
We already use SalesQL for LinkedIn lookups.
Then the addresses are solved
Genuinely — 5,000 matches a month is more than most teams get through, and a credit is only spent when something is found. What the extension cannot do is decide which profiles were worth opening. A Pilot arrives with that decision already made and the contacts already checked, so the list exists before anyone starts scrolling.
SalesQL is far cheaper than a research project.
Per lookup, much cheaper
Their card is $39 a month for 2,000 lookups, and we are not going to pretend that is expensive. The two are priced for different work. A lookup fee buys an address for a person you picked. A Pilot fee buys the picking, the checking against LinkedIn and the company website, a date on every row, and a bounce guarantee on the file. Compare what is inside each price rather than the prices.
Their credits cover far more than 750 records.
And volume was never the hard part
Twelve thousand credits a month is a lot of contacts, and nothing here suggests otherwise. But an unchecked contact at volume is the problem this business exists to fix: the address that resolves, for a person who left in March. We deliver fewer records on purpose, each one read by a person, with the date of that reading attached.
Cost
A cheaper price, for a different piece of work.
SalesQL’s figures are their published card, read on 30 August 2026, at the Professional tier their page flags as most popular. Billed annually the same card takes 25% off, which brings that tier to about $59 a month. Theirs is a monthly subscription and ours is a one-time project fee, so the two columns are not a like-for-like quote and are not offered as one — per lookup they are far cheaper than us, and the row above says so. Both rows exclude tax.
SalesQL publishes dollars only, so the other three currencies are converted at the mid-market rates recorded for 16 August 2026. Our own prices are unchanged from the pricing page.
FAQ
What buyers ask when the extension is already installed.
Is Qualified Deals a SalesQL alternative, or a complement to it?
A complement, and for most teams the honest answer is to keep both. SalesQL turns a LinkedIn profile into contact details, in bulk, for very little money. We decide which profiles were worth opening and confirm the person is still behind them. If your target list already exists and only the addresses are missing, SalesQL is the cheaper and faster route and we would say so. If the list is the thing you do not have, a lookup allowance has nothing to act on yet.
Their plan includes thousands of lookups. Why would we buy 750 records?
Because the two numbers are not measuring the same thing. A credit allowance counts how many addresses a tool will return; it says nothing about whether the person still holds the role, and nothing about whether that company belonged on your list. A Pilot is 750 records across 250 companies chosen against your ICP, each one read by a researcher against LinkedIn and the company website, with the date of that check on the row and a bounce guarantee on the file. Fewer records, on purpose, with the work done.
What happens when a monthly credit allowance runs out mid-campaign?
That is a question for them rather than us, and their card is the place to check it — allowances are monthly, and the tiers run from 50 credits on the free plan to 12,000 on the largest. What we can answer is the equivalent question on our side: there is no allowance to exhaust. A Pilot is a fixed scope for a fixed fee, agreed before work starts, and if the brief turns out to need more companies than the scope covers we tell you that at the brief stage rather than halfway through.
Can reps keep using the SalesQL extension alongside a Qualified Deals Pilot?
Yes, and nothing about the two conflicts. Delivery is a CRM-ready XLSX plus a UTF-8 CSV with a BOM, with field mapping agreed before delivery, so a Pilot lands in the same CRM the extension already exports into. Teams running both tend to use us for the campaign list and keep the extension for what a rep finds on their own — a name from a call, a profile that turns up mid-quarter.
Related comparisons
Weighing more than one of these.
- A lookup on the profile
- A Chrome extension that reveals a contact while a rep is on their LinkedIn page, against a finished list. Their published card in three currencies, and what their own data page is scoped to.
- A finder, and a claimed rate
- They publish a higher accuracy figure than we do, and we do not dispute it. The page is about what stands behind each number — a measurement of a database, against a guarantee on your delivery.
Book a project brief
Keep the extension running. Tell us who you sell to and the checked list arrives alongside it.
A senior researcher reads every brief and replies from a named address.