Looking for the best Lobstr alternative?

Yes. Lobstr offers a free tier with 100 credits per month, which is enough to scrape 100 profiles or deliver about 10 fully-enriched leads (1 cr scrape + 9 cr email find per lead). WizLeads has a free, one time trial of 500 credits and paid plans starting at $39/mo for 10,000 credits, with catch-all resolution and SEG detection.

For teams that need verified emails at scale, yes. WizLeads removes the LinkedIn account risk that Lobstr leaves on your session cookies, handles oversized searches with smart splitting integrated into the scrape job, benchmarks at a 0.60% bounce rate, and resolves catch-all domains to valid/invalid. Lobstr is a strong option for scrape-only workflows where you handle enrichment separately and already have a stable LinkedIn account you are comfortable attaching to a scraper.

Yes. Lobstr is cloud-based, but the scraper still uses your own LinkedIn session cookies to make requests. There is no account-less or managed-account mode. Your LinkedIn account is the one interacting with Sales Navigator, so any ban risk sits on your account. Lobstr throttles activity and caps searches per day, but it cannot remove the underlying account exposure. WizLeads account-less mode does not touch your LinkedIn account at all.

Lobstr claims 0% account bans with built-in throttling that respects LinkedIn's 6,000 searches per month limit and hard-caps at 200 searches per day per account. That is a real mitigation, but it is not the same as zero exposure — your own LinkedIn session is what makes the requests, so pattern-based detection can still reach your account. WizLeads account-less mode avoids the exposure entirely by not using your LinkedIn session.

Catch-all domains are configured to accept any email address, which makes standard SMTP verification return "unknown" or "risky." That is useless if you want to know whether an address will actually deliver. WizLeads uses a proprietary algorithm to return a valid/invalid verdict on catch-all domains instead of the generic "risky" label. Lobstr flags catch-all domains as "Risky" rather than resolving them to valid or invalid — you do not see a deliverability verdict.

Using the standardized formula (assuming 60% email find rate): to deliver 10,000 verified emails you scrape 16,667 leads. Lobstr charges 1 credit per scrape and 9 credits per successful email find, so 16,667 + 90,000 = ~107,000 credits. Lobstr Pro is $100 for 100,000 credits ($0.001/credit), plus a ~$7 top-up for the remaining credits, so total cost is about $107. WizLeads charges 1 credit per scrape and 3 credits per enrichment, so 16,667 + 30,000 = 46,667 credits. On WizLeads Cartel Monthly at $1.99 per 1,000 credits ($0.00199/credit), the same 10K leads cost $93. WizLeads is roughly 15% cheaper per deliverable lead.

Both are cloud-based scrapers, so neither requires a Chrome extension or keeping a browser open. The difference sits one layer deeper: Lobstr still uses your own LinkedIn session cookies to make requests, which means your account carries the ban risk and you have to stay inside LinkedIn's rate limits (5K leads/account/day). WizLeads runs in account-less mode by default — no LinkedIn credentials at all — and the 2,500 search cap is handled automatically by a smart splitter that checks result counts and iterates across geography, industry, seniority, and company size filters inside the scrape job. If you want truly hands-off, risk-free scraping with splitting integrated into the scrape itself, account-less plus smart splitting is the distinction.