Quick answer: Pick PhantomBuster if you want cloud automations that pull live lead data from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and 15+ other platforms, enrich it, and run LinkedIn outreach, with unlimited users on every plan and Start from $69 a month ($56 a month billed annually). Pick Buzz if you want LinkedIn, email and calls in one seat for $79 a month billed monthly, or an AI Employee that finds prospects, handles replies and books meetings for you. PhantomBuster details below come from its own pricing and home pages, checked on November 9, 2026.
PhantomBuster and Buzz both help B2B teams fill their pipeline from LinkedIn, but they solve different parts of the job. PhantomBuster is an automation and data-extraction platform: you launch "Phantoms" (single automations) or Workflows (chains of Phantoms) that scrape, enrich and message leads, and you pay for automation slots, execution time and credits. Buzz is an outbound platform: one seat covers LinkedIn, email and calls, or an AI Employee does the prospecting, writing, replies and booking. This guide compares them on channels, AI, data and price.
Buzz vs PhantomBuster at a glance
PhantomBuster prices and features come from phantombuster.com/pricing and its home page, checked on November 9, 2026. Buzz figures come from the Buzz pricing page. Where something is not on a public page, we say "not published".
| Buzz | PhantomBuster | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Outbound platform: LinkedIn, email and calls in one seat, or an AI Employee that runs outbound for you | Cloud automation and data-extraction platform: Phantoms and Workflows that scrape, enrich and run LinkedIn outreach |
| Best for | Founders and teams that want booked meetings without an annual contract, or outbound done for them | Growth and sales teams that want to build lead lists from live LinkedIn and web data and automate LinkedIn actions |
| Channels | Email, LinkedIn and calls (voicemail drops included) in every Core seat | LinkedIn outreach (connection requests, messages and follow-ups, likes, event invites); data extraction from 15+ platforms. Email sending and calling not listed on home or pricing (email credits are for finding email addresses) |
| AI | AI Employee finds prospects, writes messages, handles replies and objections, follows up and books meetings in Calendly | AI credits for filtering, scoring and writing personalized LinkedIn messages; MCP server to run it from Claude or ChatGPT |
| Contact data | 250M+ contact database with enrichment | No pre-built database; you extract live, public data through your own accounts and enrich it (email and URL finder credits) |
| Plans | Core, AI Employee, White Label | Trial, Start, Grow, Scale |
| Entry price | Core: $79 per seat per month, billed monthly | Start: $69/mo monthly or $56/mo annual ($672 billed yearly); 5 automation slots, 20h execution time, 500 email credits/mo |
| Next tiers | AI Employee: custom (talk to sales) | Grow: $159/mo or $128/mo annual ($1,536/yr), 15 slots, 80h; Scale: $439/mo or $352/mo annual ($4,224/yr), 50 slots, 300h |
| Users | Priced per seat | Unlimited users on every plan |
| Monthly billing | Yes, Core is billed monthly | Yes; annual billing saves 20% |
| Agencies and white label | White Label: $1,000 per month for 20 seats, billed annually | Not published |
| Free start | Start free | 14-day free trial, no credit card; trial exports limited to 10 rows |
Pricing: what you actually pay
PhantomBuster lists four plans. Every plan includes unlimited users, the MCP server and LinkedIn and Sales Navigator automation:
- Trial: free for 14 days, no credit card. 5 automation slots, 2 hours of execution time, 50 email credits, 1,000 AI credits and 100 URL finder credits. Exports are limited to 10 rows.
- Start: $69 a month, or $56 a month billed annually ($672 a year). 5 automation slots, 20 hours of execution time, 500 email credits, 10,000 AI credits and 1,000 URL finder credits a month. Unlimited exports.
- Grow: $159 a month, or $128 a month billed annually ($1,536 a year). 15 automation slots, 80 hours of execution time, 2,500 email credits, 30,000 AI credits and 10,000 URL finder credits a month.
- Scale: $439 a month, or $352 a month billed annually ($4,224 a year). 50 automation slots, 300 hours of execution time, 10,000 email credits, 90,000 AI credits and 20,000 URL finder credits a month.
Slots are how many automations run at the same time. Execution time is used while Phantoms are running. If you run out, automations pause until the time resets or you upgrade; PhantomBuster says no overage is charged automatically. You can cancel anytime.
Buzz keeps it to three options:
- Core: $79 per seat per month, billed monthly. Includes LinkedIn and email outreach, phone calling, voicemail drops, CRM integrations and AI message drafting.
- AI Employee: custom priced, so you talk to sales.
- White Label: $1,000 a month for 20 seats, billed annually. See Buzz white label.
Bottom line on price: PhantomBuster Start is $69 a month ($56 annual) for the whole team, but you budget in slots, hours and credits, and you still need a separate tool to send email or make calls. One Buzz Core seat is $79 a month billed monthly, with LinkedIn, email and calls included. For a full cost breakdown of AI outbound, read how much an AI SDR costs.
Channels: email, LinkedIn and calls
PhantomBuster's public home and pricing pages (checked November 9, 2026) focus on LinkedIn: connection requests, personalized messages and follow-ups, likes and event invites, plus lead warming and connecting multiple LinkedIn accounts. It also extracts data from 15+ platforms such as LinkedIn, X, Instagram and Facebook, and syncs leads to HubSpot, or to other tools through Zapier, Make or n8n. Email credits on its plans are used to find email addresses. Sending email sequences and calling are not listed on those pages, so we do not claim them.
Buzz includes email, LinkedIn and calls in every Core seat, and the AI Employee can run those steps for you. That matters because one channel alone tends to stall. Our guide on why email-only AI SDRs stall explains why, how to build one LinkedIn and email sequence shows how to set it up, and is LinkedIn automation safe covers limits and warm-up.
AI and data: automation toolkit or AI Employee
PhantomBuster gives you building blocks. You pick Phantoms or ready-made Workflows, point them at a LinkedIn search, post or list, and they extract profiles, enrich contacts, filter and score them with AI credits, and trigger LinkedIn outreach. It does not sell lead databases; you build lists from public data you can already see through your own accounts. You stay in charge of setup, schedules and what to do with replies.
Buzz's AI Employee does the outbound work itself. It learns your business, finds prospects in a 250M+ contact database that match your ideal customer profile, builds campaigns across LinkedIn and email, handles replies and objections, follows up when people go quiet, and books meetings in Calendly. Learn more in what an AI Employee is.
Who should pick which
- Pick PhantomBuster if you mainly need to scrape and enrich live LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or other public web data at scale, want unlimited users on one plan, and are happy to wire it to separate email and calling tools.
- Pick Buzz Core if you want contact data plus LinkedIn, email and calls in one seat at $79 a month, on monthly billing.
- Pick Buzz AI Employee if you want outbound done for you, from finding prospects to booking meetings.
- Pick Buzz White Label if you are an agency that wants to resell multichannel AI outbound under your own brand at a published price. See LinkedIn automation for agencies.
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