These two are closer than most matchups on this site — both sell scraped business data by the record, both do Google Maps well, both have an API. The differences are narrower and more practical: how far the catalog stretches beyond lead generation, whether contact data is packaged in or metered separately, and whether you want verified emails in the export or are happy to run your own verifier. That last one settles it for a lot of buyers.
| Lobstr.io | Outscraper | |
|---|---|---|
| What it's built for | Lead generation — a curated catalog of scrapers aimed at the sources sales teams actually prospect from | A broad data catalog: maps, reviews, marketplaces, company and contact enrichment, phone validation |
| Google Maps | A flagship scraper with deep field coverage | A first-class, maintained service with documented fields |
| Emails | Extracted as an enrichment tier, priced on top of the base listing scrape | Available as a separate billable enrichment service on top of the base scrape |
| Email verification | Offered as part of the enrichment tiers, so verified addresses can arrive in the export | Available as its own service in the catalog |
| Pricing model | Credit subscription with per-1,000 rates that vary by enrichment tier and fall steeply at volume | Pay-as-you-go per record with no mandatory subscription; volume tiers and prepaid packs lower the rate |
| Commitment | Subscription-shaped — best value comes from committing to a tier | None required — a quiet month costs nothing |
| Cost predictability | Good once you've chosen a tier, but you have to price base, enriched and verified output as three different things | Good per service, though a contact-complete list is the base rate plus each enrichment stacked on top |
| Breadth beyond lead gen | Narrower and deliberately so — prospecting sources and integrations | Much broader — marketplaces, reviews and data services well outside lead generation |
| Technical skill required | Low — built for sales and growth users, with an API for the technical ones | Low in the UI; genuinely API-first for developers |
| Export & API | Spreadsheet exports, REST API and integrations aimed at outreach workflows | REST API, XLSX / CSV / JSON, async jobs for large pulls |
Disclosure: Hubertino is our product and it overlaps heavily with both of these on Google Maps lead lists. Our difference is packaging rather than capability — one credit per business with website emails and socials already in it — and we don't verify emails, which is a genuine advantage for Lobstr.io if deliverability matters to you. If you need Outscraper's catalog breadth, we're not a substitute at all.
It turns on volume and consistency. Lobstr.io's per-1,000 rates fall steeply as you scale, so at sustained high volume on a committed tier it's very competitive. Outscraper's pay-as-you-go model wins when usage is irregular, because there's no subscription burning in the months you don't scrape. Compare the finished list, not the base rate: on both platforms emails and verification are priced on top, so the headline number is never what a contact-complete row costs.
Coverage is broadly similar because both face the same constraint — emails aren't on the Maps listing, so they have to come from crawling each business's own website, and plenty of small businesses only publish a contact form. The meaningful difference is verification: Lobstr.io can hand you verified addresses as part of its enrichment, which reduces the bounce risk before you send. On Outscraper, verification is a separate service you add.
Lobstr.io leans that way — it's built around a sales user's workflow, and the catalog is narrow enough that choosing is easy. Outscraper's UI is fine without code, but its strength is being API-first and broad, and a lot of what you'd pay for is only reachable if someone is comfortable calling an API.
Not by scraping harder — Google's results feed serves roughly 100-120 businesses per query, and that's a source limit no tool can exceed. The workaround on any platform is running the same category across many smaller geographies, such as zip codes, and de-duplicating. Ask either vendor how their Maps scraper handles geographic splitting before you assume a single city query will return a whole metro; it won't, anywhere.
Start free with 100 credits — enough for a real lead list. No card required.
Start free with 100 credits