Kaspr is a French Chrome extension launched in 2018, which has since been acquired by Cognism, the European leader in sales intelligence. The concept is simple: when you visit a LinkedIn profile, the tool automatically retrieves your contact’s professional contact information—email, phone number, and company details—in just a few seconds, without leaving your browser.
What sets Kaspr apart from most of its competitors is its focus on European data. While U.S. solutions like ZoomInfo and Apollo.io excel in the English-speaking market, Kaspr has a database of more than 500 million verified contacts, with particularly strong coverage in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
The tool is primarily designed for B2B sales teams, recruiters, and entrepreneurs looking to streamline their lead generation without spending hours on it. Whether you’re a freelancer, a startup founder, or the manager of a small sales team, Kaspr can save you a considerable amount of time on one of the most time-consuming tasks in business development: finding the right contact information.
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of how the tool works, its features, pricing, actual limitations, and specific use cases for your business.
B2B lead generation faces a structural problem: contact information is scattered, often incomplete, or outdated. On average, a sales representative spends 30% of their time searching for information that should have been accessible in 30 seconds. Kaspr solves this specific problem.
You're viewing a LinkedIn profile, you want to contact the person by email, but the "Contact Information" section is empty. You try to find a phone number on Google and end up wasting 20 minutes for nothing. With Kaspr, the extension activates directly on the page and displays the available information without any additional steps.
Another common scenario: You have a list of prospects (from an event, a webinar, or a LinkedIn export) and need to enrich the contacts one by one. Kaspr’s CSV enrichment feature lets you process hundreds of rows automatically using LinkedIn profile URLs.
| Tool | Strengths | Limitations | Admission price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaspr | EU data, native LinkedIn integration, simple interface | in credits" System, CNIL Fine 2024 | Free / 45€/month |
| Apollo.io | Very broad U.S. user base, built-in outreach features | Less Accurate EU Data | Free / $49/month |
| Lusha | Intuitive interface, good cell phone reception | High prices for advanced plans | Free / $29/month |
| Hunter.io | Great for domain-based emails | No phone numbers | Free / €34/month |
| Dropcontact | 100% GDPR-compliant, LinkedIn data enrichment without scraping | Less suitable for real-time prospecting | €24/month |
For freelancers or entrepreneurs in France who are reaching out to French or European companies, Kaspr remains one of the most effective tools in terms of coverage and speed. Dropcontact is a solid alternative if you’re looking for more secure GDPR compliance, but its approach is different: it uses public data and algorithms to enrich its database, without scraping LinkedIn.
Kaspr operates on a in credits model. Each credit corresponds to a request for information about a contact (phone number or direct email address). Generic B2B email addresses (such as prenom.nom@entreprise.com) are included in unlimited quantities on all paid plans.
| Plan | Monthly price | Monthly Phone Credit | Direct Email Credits/Month | B2B Emails |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0€ | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| Starter | 45€/month (annual) or 59€/month | 100 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Business | 79€/month (annual) or 99€/month | 200 | 200 | Unlimited |
| Organization | Price upon request (minimum of 50 users) | Custom | Custom | Unlimited |
The annual subscription offers a discount compared to the monthly plan, which adds up to significant savings over the long term. The Starter plan is more than enough for a solo salesperson or freelancer who regularly reaches out to potential clients. However, if you need direct email addresses (ones that actually correspond to the contact’s personal email account, not a generic alias), you’ll need to upgrade to the Business plan.
Credits are shared among all users of the account starting with the Starter plan, which is especially convenient for small teams.
Installation takes less than three minutes. Here's how it works in practice.
Go to the Chrome Web Store, search for "Kaspr," and add the extension to your browser. Create an account directly from the extension or from the kaspr.io website. No credit card is required for the free plan.
Once you're signed in, a Kaspr icon will appear in your Chrome toolbar.
Go to LinkedIn and open any profile. The Kaspr extension activates automatically and displays a sidebar with the available contact details. If you click "Reveal," the corresponding credit is used, and you gain access to the data. You can then add this contact to a list, leave a note, or export it directly to your CRM.
The dashboard interface, accessible at kaspr.io, lets you view all your enriched contacts, organize them into lists, and track your in credits usage.
Starting with the Starter plan, Kaspr also works with LinkedIn Sales Navigator, which opens up much more powerful bulk enrichment capabilities. You can run a Sales Navigator search using your usual filters, then activate Kaspr to enrich all the results at once.
By 2026, Kaspr had established itself as the go-to tool for sales and recruitment teams targeting the European market, thanks to its seamless integration with the LinkedIn ecosystem.
This is the tool’s core feature. When you browse a LinkedIn profile, Kaspr cross-references data from more than 150 sources to provide you with the phone number and email address associated with the contact. The data is verified and updated regularly. If the search is unsuccessful, no credits are deducted.
Have you collected a list of prospects (from an event, a partner, or a LinkedIn export) and only have their names or profile URLs? Import a CSV file containing your contacts’ LinkedIn URLs, and Kaspr will automatically enrich the entire list with any available contact information. This saves a considerable amount of time compared to manually enriching each contact one by one.
Workflows allow you to automate repetitive tasks: automatically sending connection requests on LinkedIn, sending personalized messages, and automatically populating contact information when adding a contact. These scenarios combine to create semi-automated lead generation pipelines, from the initial contact all the way to exporting data to the CRM.
Starting with the Starter plan, Kaspr allows you to send up to 50 invitations per day on LinkedIn, subject to the network's terms of use.
Kaspr connects directly to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and about ten other tools via native integrations. This means that as soon as you enrich a contact, you can automatically push it to your CRM without any additional steps. An API is also available (with access limited depending on your plan) for more technical use cases.
The dashboard centralizes all your activities: enriched contacts, organized lists, notes, in credits usage. For teams, you have a consolidated view of each member’s activity, which facilitates coordination among sales representatives.
Kaspr is the #1 tool for instantly turning a LinkedIn profile into a qualified lead by extracting verified cell phone numbers and email addresses—all seamlessly integrated with your CRM.
You’ve just launched your business and are targeting CTOs at Series A startups. With Kaspr, you can search LinkedIn by job title and industry, then enrich the relevant profiles to retrieve their email addresses. You can then set up a cold email sequence using Lemlist or a similar tool. The result: a structured lead pipeline in just a few hours, without having to manually search for each contact.
You've identified 500 target accounts using Sales Navigator. Instead of enriching them one by one, you export the list, import the LinkedIn URLs into Kaspr, and retrieve the contact information in batches. The contacts are then pushed directly into HubSpot so your sales reps can get to work. What used to take a week is now done in a single day.
LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is powerful for identifying profiles, but finding their direct email addresses is another matter. Kaspr, which is compatible with Recruiter Lite starting with the Business plan, lets you obtain candidates’ contact information without having to wait for them to reply to an InMail. This is particularly useful for passive candidates who only check LinkedIn occasionally.
You’re reaching out to marketing managers in your industry to explore co-marketing or editorial partnership opportunities. Kaspr lets you quickly build a qualified list with their direct contact information, without having to go through generic contact forms that end up in shared inboxes.
You’re starting from scratch in a new industry and need to quickly rebuild your prospect database. Kaspr gives you access to a database of 500 million contacts, with filters by industry, company size, and geography. Combined with an automated prospecting tool like Waalaxy or PhantomBuster, you can launch multichannel campaigns in just a few days.
To get the most out of Kaspr in 2026, here are some strategic tips to optimize your performance and protect your accounts:
Sales Navigator offers highly granular filters that aren't available in standard LinkedIn searches: years of experience, company growth, recent job changes, and more. By combining these filters with Kaspr data enrichment, you can generate lists of highly qualified leads with their direct contact information. This is likely the most powerful workflow the tool offers.
If you're on plan , your phone credits are limited. Use them primarily for high-potential prospects where you really need their direct number (cold calling, high-stakes deals). For lower-priority contacts, unlimited B2B emails are sufficient for making initial contact.
Do you have contacts in your CRM without email addresses or phone numbers? Export them to CSV, add the corresponding LinkedIn URLs, and run a batch enrichment from Kaspr. This is an efficient way to “clean up” and complete an existing database without having to go through each record manually.
LinkedIn monitors automated behavior and may restrict accounts that send too many invitations or mass messages. Stick to the recommended limits (a maximum of 50 invitations per day) and always personalize your messages to reduce the risk of being flagged.
Kaspr integrates natively with about 20 tools. Here are the main Categories
CRM: HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM. Enriched contacts are pushed directly into your records, without the need for manual export/import.
Outreach tools: Compatibility with Lemlist and other email sequencing tools to combine data enrichment and activation within a single workflow.
Automation: Using Zapier or the API (Business plan), Kaspr can be integrated into Make workflows or any other tool that supports webhooks.
Native LinkedIn: The extension works on standard LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter Lite, depending on your subscription plan.
If you use Clay for data enrichment and personalization at scale, Kaspr can be integrated as a complementary data source, particularly for European phone numbers that Clay alone does not always capture.
Kaspr is the leading tool in 2026 for instantly extracting verified cell phone numbers and email addresses from LinkedIn to automate your sales prospecting directly in your CRM.
In December 2024, the CNIL fined Kaspr €240,000 for several violations of the GDPR: collecting data from users who had restricted the visibility of their information, failing to inform data subjects, and retaining data for an excessive period of time. This penalty is public and documented.
This does not mean that the tool is illegal or that you should avoid it at all costs. But it does require extra caution when using it: make sure the contacts whose information you’re enriching have made their information publicly visible, respect their right to opt out, and keep an up-to-date unsubscribe list.
If GDPR compliance is a critical issue for your business (regulated industries, DPO involved), Dropcontact remains the most legally secure option on the French market, as it operates without scraping LinkedIn or collecting sensitive personal data.
The in credits model in credits well for moderate use, but if you’re reaching out to hundreds of contacts per week, the cost per lead can rise quickly. With 100 phone credits per month on plan , you’ll quickly hit the limit if you’re very active.
The data is excellent for France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Outside of Europe, the coverage becomes less reliable. If you're primarily prospecting in the United States, Apollo.io or ZoomInfo will likely be more relevant.
Kaspr isn't the ideal tool if you're looking for a comprehensive outreach solution with email sequences, A/B testing, and advanced analytics. It remains, first and foremost, a data enrichment tool. For activation, you’ll need to pair it with a dedicated tool like Lemlist. Similarly, if you don’t use LinkedIn at all in your prospecting, the tool loses much of its value.
Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions to help you make a decision in 2026:
Yes, there is a free plan that includes 5 phone credits, 5 direct email credits, and 15 B2B emails per month. That’s enough to test the tool, but nowhere near enough for regular prospecting. Paid plans start at €45/month (billed annually).
This is the contentious issue. Kaspr claims to be GDPR-compliant, but the €240,000 fine imposed by the CNIL in December 2024 casts some doubt on that claim. Using the service remains possible and legal, but it requires certain precautions: only target contacts who have made their data public, inform the people contacted about the source of their data, and comply with requests to delete it.
Yes, Kaspr works with a standard LinkedIn account. Access to Sales Navigator unlocks additional features (starting with the Starter plan), but it's not required to use the basic extension.
Absolutely. Recruiters use Kaspr to find the contact information of candidates they’ve identified on LinkedIn, including passive candidates who aren’t applying for jobs. The extension is compatible with Recruiter Lite starting with the Business plan.
Kaspr cross-references information from more than 150 different data sources and regularly updates its database. The data is verified in real time during each search. If the phone number or email address cannot be found, no credits are deducted.
Yes, and that's actually one of its advantages. Starting with the Starter plan, credits are shared among all users of the account (shared pool), which eliminates the need to purchase individual licenses for each sales representative. The dashboard also lets you track each team member's activity.
Yes, an API is available, with limited access on plan and more extensive access on the Business plan. It allows you to integrate Kaspr into your own tools or automated data enrichment workflows.
Cognism has acquired Kaspr. Kaspr remains a product entrepreneur, designed for smaller teams with a credit-based model and a more user-friendly interface. Cognism is an enterprise solution—more expensive and more powerful—that includes Diamond Data for manual verification of phone numbers.
Kaspr is an effective tool for any professional who uses LinkedIn as their primary lead generation channel and wants to automate the collection of contact information. Its strengths lie in its European coverage, ease of use, and native CRM integrations.
Three things to keep in mind before making your decision:
Its free plan allows for a true no-obligation trial, but the data limits are quickly reached for regular professional use. The Starter plan at €45/month (billed annually) is the realistic starting point for serious use.
The GDPR issue deserves to be taken seriously. The 2024 CNIL fine does not invalidate the tool, but it does require strict practices in its use. If compliance is a sensitive issue in your organization, be sure to do your research before rolling out the tool on a large scale.
Kaspr integrates into an ecosystem; it doesn't replace it. To get the most out of the tool, pair it with a CRM and an outreach tool. On its own, it enriches contacts. Combined with Lemlist and HubSpot, it becomes a real driver of business growth.
