Lead generation software — find, verify and reach B2B buyers
LeadQuasar is a B2B lead generation platform with 7.5 million+ verified decision-makers across 180+ industries. Search the whole database free, unlock 50 leads a day without a credit card, see a 0–100 quality score before you unlock — and get an instant AI summary of any lead so you can qualify it first. Unlimited unlocks are $3.99/month.
See it working
Filtering the database, switching between people and companies, and where the free account is asked for.
What lead generation software actually does
“Lead generation software” is a crowded label. Stripped back, a B2B lead generation tool has one job: turn a description of your ideal customer into a list of real people you can email or call today — and prove they’re real before you send. Everything below is the work that sits between those two points.
Find the right people
Filter a B2B contact database by industry, job title, company, location and data richness until only your ideal buyers are left. This is the part most people mean when they say “lead generation tool”.
Verify before you send
A name and a guessed email is not a lead. Good software checks the mail server, flags disposable and role addresses, and tells you how confident it is — before a bounce damages your sender reputation.
Score and prioritise
Not every record is worth the same. Data-quality scoring surfaces the contacts that carry a verified email, a direct phone, a LinkedIn profile and firmographics — so your reps work the best ones first.
Get it into your outreach tool
Verified data is only useful once it reaches your reps. Good lead-gen software exports a clean, deduped list that drops straight into the CRM, sequencer or dialer you already run — no manual clean-up first.
Track what happened
Statuses, tags, notes and reminders, so a lead you unlocked in March doesn't get emailed cold again in June by someone else on the team.
Measure cost per lead
Which industry replies? What did this month's pipeline actually cost? Without that loop you're buying data blind — the single most common reason lead-gen spend gets cut.
How LeadQuasar works
Search free, judge the data before you open it, unlock the contacts you want, then export them to your CRM or outreach tool.
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Search — free, no card
Describe your ideal customer in filters or in plain English. Browse matching decision-makers across 180+ industries instantly. Searching the whole database costs nothing.
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Read the quality score
Every lead carries a 0–100 data-quality score and a named data tier (Lean → Premium), so you can see exactly how rich a record is before you open it. The tier is a quality signal, not a price.
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Unlock the contact details
Emails and phones stay hidden until you unlock. Free accounts unlock 50 leads a day with no card and see both on screen; Pro removes the cap entirely for $3.99/month.
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Export to your CRM
Group leads into lists and push a clean, deduped CSV to your CRM, sequencer or dialer on Pro. Leads you've unlocked are yours to keep and export whenever you want.
AI that tells you if a lead is worth unlocking
Most “AI powered lead generation” is a chatbot bolted onto a search box. LeadQuasar AI does one thing genuinely well: it reads any lead and writes you an instant, plain-English summary — what the business does, its size and location, who to contact, and whether it fits your target market. You get that while the record is still locked, so you qualify a lead instead of gambling on it.
What the business does
A plain-English read on the company behind the lead — what it sells, roughly how big it is, and where it's based — drawn straight from the record you're looking at.
Whether it fits your market
LeadQuasar AI weighs the lead against your target market and tells you, in a sentence or two, whether it's the kind of buyer worth your time.
Who to contact
It points you to the right person on the record, so you know who you'd actually be reaching before you unlock them.
Qualify before you unlock
You read the summary while the lead is still locked, so a free account's daily unlocks go on the contacts the summary says are a genuine fit — not on the ones that aren't.
LeadQuasar AI is included in Pro at $3.99/month — there is no separate AI subscription, and no per-message metering.
Two plans, and nothing metered per lead
Almost every lead generation platform meters you — a licence per rep, a credit allowance per month, usually both. We took the meter out: the free plan unlocks 50 leads a day with no card, and Pro is $3.99/month for unlimited unlocks.
Seats and credits
The two ways this category usually charges you — often at the same time.
- Seat licences charge for headcount, not for leads — so a growing team pays more for exactly the same data.
- A credit allowance turns every reveal into arithmetic, and a thin listing with a generic info@ address burns the same allowance as a verified direct email plus a mobile number.
- Run the allowance down mid-campaign and you’re buying a top-up or waiting for the reset.
Free, then $3.99/mo (LeadQuasar)
Every lead still carries a data tier — but it tells you how complete the record is, not what it costs.
- Free: search and filter the whole database, unlock 50 leads a day with the email and phone on screen, one saved list. No credit card.
- Pro, $3.99/month: unlimited unlocks, CSV export, AI chat, website analysis, AI lead summaries, unlimited saved lists and no ads.
- No credits, no seats, no annual contract — monthly, cancel anytime, and unlocked leads are yours to keep and export.
Built for teams that buy leads, not licences
Founders doing their own outbound
You need 50 good conversations, not a 12-month data licence. Search free, read the AI summary to spot the contacts worth your time, and unlock 50 leads a day without ever entering a card.
Agencies prospecting for clients
Build a fresh targeted list per client engagement without buying a seat for every account manager. Export a clean CSV on Pro, hand it over, move on.
Small sales teams
Two to ten reps who need verified emails and direct phones — and would rather spend the budget on the contacts than on seat licences and modules nobody opens.
Local & service businesses
165+ niches, filterable by state and city — from dentists and law firms to roofers, plumbers and marketing agencies. Geo-targeting is a filter, not an add-on.
Not sure it’s a fit? Our comparison pages are honest about when a competitor is the better buy — read LeadQuasar vs Apollo.io or LeadQuasar vs ZoomInfo.
How the main lead generation platforms differ
These are structural differences in how each product is sold, not a scorecard. Competitor pricing changes often — check their sites for current figures. For the full picture, read the deep dives.
| LeadQuasar | Apollo.io | ZoomInfo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat $3.99/mo, unlimited unlocks, no seats | Per-seat licences plus credits | Sales-led annual contract |
| What a lead costs | Nothing per lead — 50 leads a day free, unlimited on Pro | Seat + credit based | Bundled into the licence |
| Contract | None — monthly, cancel anytime | Monthly or annual | Annual commitment |
| Quality score shown before you unlock | Yes — 0–100 on every record | Not the model | Not the model |
| Sweet spot | SMB & agency prospecting | All-in-one database + outreach | Enterprise intent data & integrations |
Explore the platform
Leads by industry
180+ industries, each with live counts, email coverage and state-level filters.
Browse industriesFree tools
An instant email verifier and an AI ICP generator. No signup, no email wall.
Open the toolsGuides & playbooks
How to build a lead list, what a lead should cost, and how to pick a tool.
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Get started freeLead generation software — frequently asked questions
What is lead generation software?
Lead generation software is a tool that finds, verifies and organises potential buyers so a sales team can contact them. In B2B it usually combines four things: a searchable contact database (filter by industry, job title, company size and location), email and phone verification, a way to score or prioritise records, and an export step that pushes the leads into a CRM, sequencer or dialer. Modern platforms like LeadQuasar add an AI layer on top — LeadQuasar AI writes an instant plain-English summary of any lead so you can judge whether it fits your market before you unlock it.
What is the best AI lead generation tool?
The best AI lead generation tool is the one where the AI works from verified data rather than guessing. LeadQuasar AI sits directly on a 7.5 million+ contact database and, on Pro, does three things: it chats with you to find businesses in your niche, it reads your own website and returns matching leads, and it writes an instant plain-English summary of any lead — what the business does, its size and location, who to contact, and whether it fits your target market. You read that summary while the record is still locked, so the AI is helping you decide, not inventing contacts.
How much does lead generation software cost?
It varies enormously by pricing model. Enterprise sales-intelligence platforms are typically sold as annual contracts negotiated with a sales rep. Mid-market tools usually charge per seat, so cost scales with headcount rather than with the leads you actually need, and credit-based tools meter every contact you reveal. LeadQuasar does neither: the free plan costs nothing, needs no credit card and unlocks 50 leads a day with email and phone shown on screen, and Pro is $3.99/month for unlimited unlocks, CSV export and the AI assistant. There is no per-lead charge and no annual commitment.
How does AI lead generation work?
AI lead generation applies a language model to one of the slowest parts of prospecting: working out which leads are worth pursuing. In LeadQuasar you filter the database down to your market — or describe it to the AI in plain English, or paste your own website URL and let it find businesses that match — then let LeadQuasar AI read any lead and write you an instant summary of what the business does, its size and location, who to contact, and whether it fits your target market. Because it draws on a verified database rather than the open web, the summary describes a real record instead of a hallucinated one.
Is there free lead generation software?
Yes — LeadQuasar has a genuinely usable free plan. It needs no credit card, lets you search and filter all 7.5 million+ contacts, and unlocks 50 leads a day with the verified email and direct phone shown on screen. You also get one saved list, and the free workspace carries ads and upgrade prompts. We run two free tools with no signup at all: an email verifier and an AI Ideal Customer Profile generator. Pro ($3.99/month) is for when you outgrow the daily cap or want CSV export and the AI assistant. Free scraped lists exist elsewhere, but they usually trade your sender reputation for stale data.
What is the difference between lead generation software and a lead database?
A lead database is the raw asset — a store of contacts you can search. Lead generation software is the workflow around it: verification, quality scoring, list building, unlocking and CSV export. LeadQuasar is both. The database gives you 7.5 million+ verified contacts across 180+ industries; the software layer scores every record 0–100, labels it with a data tier so you know how complete it is, gives you an instant AI summary so you can qualify it first, lets you unlock only what you need, and exports it to your CRM.
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