Lusha is a contact database with a browser extension: reveal a record for a credit, five for a phone number. Lakewave does not keep a static database. It finds the people in a role at a company when you ask, verifies each mailbox with the mail server at that moment, and charges only for verified people.
| Capability | Lakewave | Lusha |
|---|---|---|
| Contact data verified at the moment you ask | Yes, live mailbox check | Database record with a freshness date |
| Find by title at a company | Yes | Yes, from the database |
| Accept-all domains resolved | Yes | Not disclosed |
| Phone numbers | Published work numbers for government contacts | Yes, 5 credits per reveal |
| Charged when nothing usable is found | No | Credit per reveal |
| AI-written outreach, sending from your own inbox | Yes | No, exports to CRM or sequencer |
| Government (SLED) procurement signals | Yes | No |
| Chrome extension on LinkedIn | None | Yes, core to the product |
| Free tier | 15 verified contacts, no card | 40 credits a month |
| Published pricing | From $29 for 400 credits | From about $49.90 a month, credits pooled annually |
Lusha is a good database with strong phone coverage. The case for Lakewave is that a mailbox checked live, when you need it, beats a record checked when it was collected.
A database record was true when it was collected. Lakewave checks the mailbox when you ask and again before you send, and drops people whose recent evidence shows they moved on.
Lusha's extension reads profile pages as you browse. Lakewave has no browser component, which is often the difference between a tool a rep can expense and one IT has to review.
Lusha ends at the export. Lakewave drafts, sends from your own mailbox, warms it, verifies at send time and tells you which clicks were human.
Lusha's Starter is listed around $49.90 a month, with promotional annual rates lower, for a pool of credits where an email reveal is one credit and a phone reveal is five. Lakewave's Starter is $29 for 400 credits at 4 per verified person. Per record Lusha can be cheaper; per verified, send-ready person with the outreach included, Lakewave usually is. Lusha is the better choice if direct dials are the priority.
Lusha returns records from its database with an accuracy indicator. Lakewave verifies each mailbox with the mail server at search time and again right before any send, so a record that went stale between the two is caught.
For government and education contacts, Lakewave looks up published work numbers. It is not a direct-dial database for commercial contacts; Lusha is stronger there.
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