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title: "WhoLayer vs Lusha (2026): pricing, features, and where each is stronger"
description: "A sourced, dated comparison of WhoLayer and Lusha: person-level ID, ecommerce, API, MCP, and pricing, plus where Lusha is the better pick."
url: https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha
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Compare · Contact data, enrichment, and MCP

# WhoLayer vs Lusha

Lusha in one line: Self-serve contact data for SMB and mid-market teams, strong on phone numbers, now with signals and MCP. WhoLayer identifies website visitors (person-level for US traffic, company-level free) and offers contact data through an API and MCP server, all from one credit wallet, starting with a free plan with 100 credits a month. Pick Lusha if you need phone coverage and a popular Chrome extension.

Checked November 4, 2026. Every Lusha figure links to its source.

## Side by side

WhoLayer compared with Lusha
|   | Lusha | WhoLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Positioning | Self-serve contact data for SMB and mid-market teams, strong on phone numbers, now with signals and MCP. [\[1\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-1) | Website visitor identification, ecommerce shopper ID, and contact data for teams and AI agents. |
| Person-level visitor ID | No; website visitors is company-level by design [\[4\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-4) | Yes, US traffic only (1 credit per person, charged once a month); company-level worldwide (free) |
| Ecommerce | No ecommerce product found in our research | Yes: Shopper ID sends identified US shoppers to Klaviyo, Customer.io, Mailchimp, Omnisend, Iterable, Braze, ActiveCampaign, or Brevo, with Returning Shopper events for existing Attentive and Postscript subscribers (2 credits per new shopper, 1 credit for shoppers already on your list where the platform can be checked), Growth plan and up |
| API | Yes (REST API v3) [\[5\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-5) | Yes: REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec |
| MCP server | Yes [\[5\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-5) | Yes: a data MCP server with 13 tools, plus a public docs MCP server with 5 |
| Pricing model | Credits shared across the app, extension, API, and MCP: 1 per email, 5 per phone [\[3\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-3) | Monthly or annual plans with credits from one wallet for every product; overage between $0.045 and $0.060 a credit on paid plans |
| Entry price | Free (40 credits a month); Starter $49.90 a month [\[2\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-2) | Free plan with 100 credits a month; paid plans from $49 a month |

WhoLayer's column is generated from our live pricing and API limits. See [pricing](https://wholayer.com/pricing) and the [MCP docs](https://wholayer.com/docs/mcp).

## Where Lusha is stronger

An honest list. If one of these is what you need, it may be the better pick.

- Phone coverage and a popular Chrome extension
- Admin spend caps and alerts for website visitor credits
- Native HubSpot, Salesforce, and n8n integrations
- Signals, lookalikes, and buying-group tools

## Where WhoLayer is different

### Built for agents

A data MCP server with 13 tools and a REST API with an OpenAPI spec. Per-key daily caps, a 250-credit default ceiling per call, read-only keys, and idempotent retries keep an agent's spending predictable.

### Contact data with checks

Work and personal emails come with a risk grade, mobiles come with a carrier and line-type check, and you can verify lists of up to 1,000 emails per call.

### Company-level ID is free

Company identification is free and unlimited on every plan. Person-level ID is US-only and charged once per person per month; repeat visits are free.

### One wallet, published per-result prices

Visitor ID, Shopper ID, the Data API, and the MCP server draw from the same credits, and every credit cost is listed on the pricing page. Misses aren't charged.

### Opt-outs honored everywhere

Opted-out and suppressed people are never returned, delivered, or charged. Global Privacy Control signals are honored, and the rules we enforce are published as a machine-readable policy.

### Monthly plans, spend caps

Monthly plans stop at the end of the billing period, and you can set a hard monthly spend cap so overage never surprises you.

### WhoLayer isn't the right fit if

- You need a large global contact database for prospecting by country. WhoLayer's person-level data is US-only.
- You need person-level identification of visitors outside the US. WhoLayer identifies people for US traffic only; elsewhere it's company-level, after consent.
- You want a full ABM advertising suite, an on-site AI chat agent, or a built-in sequencer and dialer. WhoLayer identifies and enriches; it doesn't run ads, chat, or send email for you.

## Pricing

Lusha's published entry price, next to WhoLayer's plans.

Lusha

Free (40 credits a month); Starter $49.90 a month [\[2\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-2)

Credits shared across the app, extension, API, and MCP: 1 per email, 5 per phone [\[3\], November 4, 2026](https://wholayer.com/compare/lusha#source-3)

WhoLayer

WhoLayer plans
| Plan | Monthly | Credits | Overage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | Free | 100 | None |
| Starter | $49 | 1,000 | $0.060 a credit |
| Growth | $199 | 5,000 | $0.050 a credit |
| Scale | $799 | 20,000 | $0.045 a credit |

Example: identifying 1,000 US people a month uses 1,000 credits. The cheapest fit is Starter at $49 a month. Repeat visits by the same person in a month are free, and company-level ID doesn't use credits.

[Price your own volume](https://wholayer.com/calculator)

## Questions

### Is WhoLayer cheaper than Lusha?

It depends on what you need and how much. Lusha's entry price is: Free (40 credits a month); Starter $49.90 a month (as of November 4, 2026). WhoLayer: Free plan with 100 credits a month; paid plans from $49 a month. Use the WhoLayer cost calculator to price your own volume.

### Does WhoLayer identify people outside the US?

No. Person-level identification is US-only. Outside the US, WhoLayer identifies the company, and only after the visitor's consent is recorded.

### Do Lusha and WhoLayer have MCP servers?

Lusha: Yes. WhoLayer: Yes: a data MCP server with 13 tools, plus a public docs MCP server with 5.

### When is Lusha the better choice?

When you need phone coverage and a popular Chrome extension, or admin spend caps and alerts for website visitor credits.

## Sources

- \[1\] [lusha.com](https://www.lusha.com/) (vendor's own page, checked November 4, 2026)
- \[2\] [Lusha pricing](https://www.lusha.com/pricing/) (vendor's own page, checked November 4, 2026)
- \[3\] [Lusha docs: billing and plans](https://docs.lusha.com/user-guide/billing-and-plans.md) (vendor's own page, checked November 4, 2026)
- \[4\] [Lusha docs: website visitors](https://docs.lusha.com/user-guide/shared/features/website-visitors) (vendor's own page, checked November 4, 2026)
- \[5\] [Lusha docs](https://docs.lusha.com/) (vendor's own page, checked November 4, 2026)

Competitor information is from public sources as of November 4, 2026 and may have changed. Trademarks belong to their owners. WhoLayer wrote this page; if something here is wrong, [tell us](https://wholayer.com/contact?topic=sales) and we'll fix it.

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