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PhantomBuster Pricing in 2026: LinkedIn Scraping and Automation Costs

PhantomBuster automates LinkedIn exports, scraping, and enrichment. Here's what each plan costs and how it compares to Evaboot and Apify.

What PhantomBuster Does

PhantomBuster is a no-code automation platform built around "Phantoms," which are pre-built scripts that automate tasks on LinkedIn, Google, Instagram, Twitter, and other platforms. For cold email people, the LinkedIn Phantoms are the main draw. You can export LinkedIn Sales Navigator search results, scrape company pages, auto-connect with prospects, and pull contact data from profiles without writing a line of code.

Each Phantom handles a specific task. The "LinkedIn Sales Navigator Search Export" Phantom takes your Sales Nav search URL and exports every profile in the results to a spreadsheet. The "LinkedIn Profile Scraper" Phantom visits a list of LinkedIn profile URLs and pulls names, titles, companies, locations, and recent activity. The "LinkedIn Auto Connect" Phantom sends connection requests with personalized notes to a list of profiles. You chain Phantoms together into workflows.

PhantomBuster Pricing Plans

Starter: $56/month. 5 Phantom slots. 20 hours of execution time per month. 10,000 AI credits for enrichment. Access to all Phantoms. Email support. This plan works for individual SDRs running 2 to 3 LinkedIn export or scraping Phantoms alongside a couple of enrichment workflows. The 20 hours of execution time is enough for about 5,000 to 8,000 LinkedIn profile exports per month depending on the Phantom.

Pro: $128/month. 15 Phantom slots. 80 hours of execution time. 30,000 AI credits. Priority support. This is the plan for teams or agencies running multiple LinkedIn export workflows alongside data enrichment and auto-connection sequences. 80 hours of execution handles roughly 20,000 to 30,000 LinkedIn exports per month.

Team: $352/month. Unlimited Phantom slots. 300 hours of execution time. 90,000 AI credits. Dedicated account manager. Team collaboration features. This plan is for agencies managing multiple clients where LinkedIn data extraction and automation run at high volume across many accounts.

How Cold Email Teams Use PhantomBuster

The most common workflow I see in cold email operations: pull a Sales Navigator search of your ICP. Run the LinkedIn Sales Navigator Search Export Phantom to get all the profiles in a CSV. Then run the LinkedIn Profile Scraper Phantom to enrich each profile with additional data (company size, recent posts, mutual connections). Finally, push the data into Apollo or Clay for email finding and further enrichment.

This workflow gives you a prospect list built from LinkedIn targeting, which is often more accurate than Apollo's filters because Sales Navigator lets you filter by seniority level, company headcount growth, recent job changes, and technologies used. The resulting list tends to produce higher reply rates because the targeting is tighter.

PhantomBuster vs. Evaboot

Evaboot is the simpler alternative for LinkedIn data export. It's a Chrome extension that adds an "Export" button directly to Sales Navigator. Click it, and Evaboot exports your search results to a CSV with cleaned names and verified company data. Pricing starts at $49/month for 2,500 leads.

Where Evaboot wins: simpler setup, faster for basic exports, built-in data cleaning, no execution time limits. Where PhantomBuster wins: automation beyond just exporting (auto-connect, auto-message, multi-step workflows), works across multiple platforms (not just LinkedIn), and can chain automations together. If all you need is to export Sales Navigator searches, Evaboot is the better tool. If you need automation sequences or scraping beyond LinkedIn, PhantomBuster is more capable.

PhantomBuster vs. Apify

Apify is a web scraping platform with pre-built "actors" for LinkedIn, Google Maps, Twitter, and hundreds of other sites. It is more technical than PhantomBuster but cheaper at scale. Apify's LinkedIn Profile Scraper costs roughly $5.50 per 1,000 profiles on their pay-per-result pricing. For 10,000 profiles, that's $55 compared to PhantomBuster's $56 to $128/month where execution time is the limiting factor.

Apify is better if you have some technical comfort and need high-volume scraping across multiple platforms. PhantomBuster is better if you want a visual, no-code interface and don't mind paying more for convenience.

The LinkedIn Risk Factor

Every LinkedIn automation tool carries account risk. LinkedIn actively detects and restricts accounts that use automation. PhantomBuster, Evaboot, and every other tool that scrapes or automates LinkedIn actions can trigger restrictions ranging from temporary limitations to permanent bans.

Mitigate this by: using a dedicated LinkedIn account for automation (not your personal profile), staying under 100 profile views and 50 connection requests per day, running Phantoms during business hours only, and using PhantomBuster's built-in rate limiting features. If your LinkedIn account gets restricted, it does not affect your cold email infrastructure. Keep those separate.

Bottom line: PhantomBuster pricing runs $56 to $352/month depending on your automation volume. It is the best no-code LinkedIn automation tool for cold email teams that need to export Sales Navigator searches, scrape profile data, and run auto-connection sequences. Evaboot ($49/month) is simpler for basic exports. Apify is cheaper at high volume but more technical. Budget for LinkedIn account risk regardless of which tool you pick. And remember, PhantomBuster builds your prospect list. You still need pre-warmed inboxes from a provider like Puzzle Inbox to actually send the cold emails.