How does Leadistry pricing work?

You buy a monthly lead allowance. One lead means one delivered company record with the fields you requested (Companies House data is always included; a verified website and a named-personal email from that website are included when found). Failed lookups and dissolved companies never count. Starter starts at £10/month for 50 leads.

Can I get a refund if a search fails?

Automatically. We charge per delivered lead, not per search. If a search fails partway, the unused lead allowance is returned to your balance the same minute the job marks failed, no support ticket needed.

Is Leadistry GDPR and PECR compliant?

Yes. We process under Legitimate Interest (we follow the ICO three-part LIA test, internally documented), honour data-removal requests at the SQL level within 24 hours, and keep both a director-suppression list and a company-suppression list. A public removal form at /remove-company lets anyone remove their company without signing up.

What data can I get for each UK company?

Up to 6 enrichment data points per lead, website, named-personal email, Facebook, Instagram, company LinkedIn, director or co-founder LinkedIn, on top of Companies House basics (company name, number, SIC, address, incorporation date, officers).

Where does the data come from?

Companies House for the registry data. Contact enrichment is discovered by our in-house pipeline from publicly published sources, company websites, public LinkedIn profiles. We never buy datasets.

Can I contact the leads inside Leadistry?

Yes. From the Growth plan (£25/month) Leadistry includes a built-in cold-email outreach engine: connect your own Microsoft 365 or Google mailbox and run multi-step sequences with A/B email variants, automatic mailbox warm-up, UK business-hours sending windows, a reply inbox and open, click and bounce tracking. Every plan can also push new leads and replies to your CRM over webhook, Zapier or Slack. There are no phone numbers, UK PECR forbids unsolicited marketing calls, so outreach is email only.

Signals are saved watches that alert you when UK companies hit a buying moment: newly incorporated, annual accounts due soon, or a confirmation statement due soon. Filter by SIC code, city and a no-website flag, and a daily matcher posts new matches to an arrivals board. One click adds a company to an outreach campaign. Signals are included on every plan.

How does the monthly lead allowance work?

Leadistry is a rolling monthly subscription. Each plan refills your lead allowance at the start of every billing cycle. Unused leads roll over to the next cycle while your subscription is active. Top-up packs remain usable until the end of your current cycle.

What's included in the trial?

Every new account gets 10 free trial leads, regardless of signup method. The full app is unlocked from day one.

Do you support recurring searches?

Yes. Save any search as a recurring job that runs daily, weekly, or monthly. Per-user dedup means each run only returns companies you haven't seen before.

Best UK Lead Generation Software for 2026, Honest Comparison

Every "best UK lead generation software" list has the same problem: it ranks the tool that pays for the affiliate placement. This post is written by the team behind one of the tools (Leadistry), so we have skin in the game, but we've tried to be honest about where each platform actually wins.

Six platforms below, ranked by use case rather than by overall winner.

What "UK lead generation software" actually means

Lead generation tools fall into three buckets:

1. List builders, give you an enriched prospect list (a CSV or API feed). What you do with it after is up to you. Examples: Leadistry, Cognism, Apollo's prospecting module. 2. Single-contact reveal tools, you find a person on LinkedIn and the tool gives you their email/phone. Examples: Lusha, Hunter.io, RocketReach. 3. End-to-end sequencing platforms, list-build + email/call workflows + reporting. Examples: Apollo's full suite, Outreach, Salesloft.

Most lists conflate the three. Pick the bucket first, then the tool.

The contenders

Leadistry, UK list builder, no-frills pricing

Built for: UK B2B teams who want a fresh, enriched list every week without paying enterprise prices.

Strengths: Native Companies House search, 5-digit UK SIC code filtering, postcode targeting, no-website prospecting, contactable-lead-only pricing, rolling monthly subscription with no annual lock-in. £29/mo Growth tier.

Weaknesses: UK-only (don't pick this for US prospecting). No built-in email sequencing, pair with Smartlead, Instantly, or Apollo's sequencer. Smaller dataset than the global incumbents.

Free trial: 6 leads, no credit card. Try Leadistry.

Apollo, global breadth + sequencing

Built for: Multi-country prospecting where the US is part of the mix.

Strengths: Massive global database (~270M contacts), built-in email + LinkedIn sequencing, Chrome extension. Decent UK coverage at the surface.

Weaknesses: UK SIC mapping is approximate, Apollo uses NAICS internally and converts. UK-specific filters (filing deadlines, Companies House status, no-website flag) aren't there. Credits expire monthly. Annual contract for the best price.

Cognism, premium UK + EU mobile data

Built for: Mid-market UK sales teams calling mobile numbers.

Strengths: "Diamond Verified" mobile numbers (genuinely high-quality phone data). Strong UK coverage. Compliance posture geared for big-company procurement.

Weaknesses: Quote-based pricing, typically £16k+/year minimum. Sales-led, demo required. Annual lock-in is the norm.

Lusha, fast LinkedIn-side reveals

Built for: One-by-one prospecting. You see someone interesting on LinkedIn, click the extension, get their details.

Strengths: Smoothest LinkedIn workflow. Fast Chrome extension. Pay-as-you-go credits. UK + global coverage.

Weaknesses: Per-reveal cost adds up fast. No bulk list-building. Credits expire monthly on Pro tier.

ZoomInfo, enterprise data warehouse

Built for: Enterprise sales teams with five-figure annual budgets.

Strengths: Enormous data depth, intent signals, integrations with every CRM.

Weaknesses: Price. Annual contracts only. UK depth is fine but not their main focus.

Hunter.io, domain → email guesses

Built for: Finding a specific person's email when you already know their company.

Strengths: Cheap and simple. Good for "I need to email Jane Smith at acme.co.uk."

Weaknesses: Not a list builder. Not a database. Email guessing, accuracy varies wildly.

Pricing snapshot (May 2026, monthly billing)

Leadistry Growth: £25/mo (200 verified leads, £0.125 per lead, every one delivered with contact data)
Apollo Basic: ~£40/mo
Cognism: quote-based, £16k+/yr
Lusha Pro: ~£36/mo
ZoomInfo: enterprise, ~£10k+/yr
Hunter.io Starter: ~£35/mo

USD prices converted at 1.27 USD/GBP.

Recommendations by use case

UK B2B, list-based prospecting, self-serve → Leadistry
US/UK split, want sequencing built in → Apollo
UK mid-market, mobile-cold-calling, big budget → Cognism
LinkedIn-first one-by-one prospecting → Lusha
Enterprise with intent data needs → ZoomInfo
Email guessing for a known domain → Hunter.io

What to actually do

Most teams over-buy. If you're a UK B2B operator with a budget under £200/month, the right starting point is a list builder + a sequencer + an email verifier, total cost ~£60-80/month. If you're an enterprise team with multi-country needs and deep CRM integration requirements, the calculus flips and Cognism / ZoomInfo earn their price.

The biggest mistake is signing a 12-month annual contract before you know whether the tool fits your workflow. Every monthly-billing option above lets you try it for a single month and walk away. Use that.

Leadistry's free trial is 6 leads with no credit card, enough to build one or two real lists and decide whether the workflow fits before you commit.

Put this into practice

Filter 5 million UK companies by SIC code, region and incorporation date, enriched and ready to contact. Start with 10 free leads.

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WRITTEN BY

The Leadistry Team

Leadistry maintains a live database of 5 million UK companies, enriched from the Companies House register with verified websites, business emails and social profiles. We write about the craft of finding and reaching the right businesses, first.

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