Sales tool comparisons
Instant Expert vs Prospeo: export contact data or send a paid request?
Understand Prospeo’s search, export credits and pricing, and when to use Instant Expert for a paid call or reply instead.
Prospeo helps you build a prospect list and obtain contact details. Instant Expert helps you find people and offer payment for a call or reply. The useful question is what you need to do with the people after finding them.
Preview before spending on contact data
In Prospeo, filter the People Search, inspect names, titles and companies, then select people to save, export or send to a connected tool. You can limit the number of contacts per company. Growth and Pro also have duplicate-control filters. Prospeo People Search
For example, if you sell onboarding software to customer-success teams, narrow the company type before selecting individual roles. Avoid treating every customer-success title as someone who handles onboarding. Limiting the initial selection per company can also keep one large account from dominating your list.
Browsing is free, but exporting people includes email enrichment. An export is not simply a free way to download the names you previewed.
What does Prospeo cost?
The live pricing page checked September 26, 2026, lists these monthly per-user plans:
| Plan | Monthly price | Monthly credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 |
| Starter | $49 | 2,000 |
| Growth | $99 | 5,000 |
| Pro | $249 | 15,000 |
A verified business email uses one credit; a mobile number uses ten. Growth adds native HubSpot and Salesforce connections and CRM enrichment. Check the integration you need before choosing solely by allowance. Prospeo pricing
Instant Expert quotes each person’s request in the draft. A known LinkedIn profile can be imported directly; you do not need to buy an email lookup just to identify that person for a paid invitation.
When you need to understand the handoff
If you are still trying to learn what happens between onboarding and ongoing customer support, start with that question rather than an email campaign about your product.
A paid reply could ask:
In a customer handoff you personally worked on, what information moved from onboarding to the ongoing customer-success team? What, if anything, had to be clarified afterward?
The recipient chooses text or voice. Request a call if you want to follow up on the sequence of events. Read their profile for relevant responsibilities and describe the experience wanted in the message.
For a paid product introduction, say that you intend to show the onboarding tool. Do not label a demonstration as research.
Moving a selected list into Instant Expert
Import a CSV containing name plus company, email or LinkedIn URL. Review the matched people, add recipients to a draft and inspect the invitation and prices before sending. This is a file transfer, not a native Prospeo connection.
Choose Prospeo when you need usable contact records for your sales tools. Use Instant Expert when your next step is the person’s participation in a clearly described conversation.