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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coresignal",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coresignal.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coresignal.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coresignal.json",
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        "streamable-http"
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      "authNotes": "`apikey` header on REST. Hosted MCP v2 at mcp.coresignal.com uses OAuth 2.1 through the Coresignal dashboard and looks up the team's key server-side, so no key sits in the client.",
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      "pricingNotes": "7-day free trial with 2,000 credits. Monthly plans Mini $49 (2,500 credits), Starter $199 (12,000), Pro $499 (35,000), Growth $1,000 (150,000), Premium $1,500 (1,000,000), Scale $3,000 (4,000,000), Elite $5,000 (10,000,000). Annual plans are 10 per cent off from Starter up. Search is free. Collecting a record costs 1 credit for jobs and posts, 10 for base or clean company and employee records, 20 for multi-source records, 12 for real-time employee. Agentic Search costs 20 (fast) or 100 (reasoning) (https://coresignal.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$49 / mo",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 mention in the API docs, MCP docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      },
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      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.coresignal.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "com.coresignal/mcp",
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        "lead.search",
        "lead.enrichment",
        "email.finder",
        "data.company",
        "data.person"
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        "lead-search",
        "enrichment",
        "hosted",
        "card-required",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "async-jobs",
        "closed-source"
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      "graded": true,
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        "score": 63.1,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 208,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 2,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 73
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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          "Search is free, and credits are only taken on collect or enrich calls that return 200",
          "Every plan price and per-endpoint credit cost is public",
          "Hosted MCP with 5 tools, OAuth 2.1 and a confirmation step before large pulls",
          "Monthly release notes with dated entries and flagged breaking changes",
          "Privacy policy covers people in the datasets, with a five-year retention cap"
        ],
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          "Real-Time API requests timing out for about six days up to 1 October, per the status page",
          "Main search takes Elasticsearch DSL, a free-form JSON body",
          "7-day trial with a card per the 30 September check, and no free tier",
          "Terms name Deeptrace Inc. while the privacy policy names Binary House LLC",
          "Breaking changes in August 2026 to Agentic Search and Multi-source Jobs, announced in release notes with no stated notice period"
        ],
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          "Search for IDs first (free), then collect only the records you need",
          "Use base records at 10 credits when you don't need the 20-credit multi-source fields",
          "Use MCP v2 at /mcp/v2. The older /mcp endpoint will be deprecated",
          "Treat a 402 as out of credits, not a transient error",
          "Expect no work emails for EEA and UK people from the MCP email tool"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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            "grade": "B",
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 55
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        "http": "curl \"https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi/v2/company_multi_source/enrich?enrich_query=stripe.com\" -H \"apikey: $CORESIGNAL_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http coresignal https://mcp.coresignal.com/mcp/v2"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/coresignal"
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          "item": "Mini plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "2,500 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "12,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 499,
          "note": "35,000 credits, adds contact enrichment"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 1000,
          "note": "150,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Multi-source company or employee record",
          "unit": "record",
          "usd": 0.285,
          "note": "20 credits at Pro plan rates ($499 for 35,000 credits)"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Deeptrace Inc.",
        "domain": "coresignal.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2014-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions/",
        "privacy": "https://coresignal.com/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.coresignal.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes",
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        "checked": "2026-10-01",
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          "The terms and conditions name Deeptrace Inc. (Lewes, Delaware) as the contracting company for Coresignal",
          "The privacy policy, updated 25 August 2026, names Binary House LLC as the data controller and lists Deeptrace Inc. as a processor"
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coresignal.json",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 276
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              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
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          "page": "https://status.coresignal.com",
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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          "url": "https://coresignal.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "url": "https://docs.coresignal.com/llms.txt",
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/coresignal.com",
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      "slug": "lusha",
      "name": "Lusha API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Lusha",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.lusha.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "lead-data",
      "summary": "Contact and company enrichment, filter-based prospecting, lookalikes, job-change and company signals, and webhooks over a versioned REST API with OpenAPI files.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lusha.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.lusha.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "REST calls take an `api_key` header (lowercase, underscore). Keys belong to users and can carry per-key credit caps set by admins. The hosted MCP server at https://mcp.lusha.com takes OAuth in chat clients or an x-api-key header elsewhere. Webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 40 credits a month. Starter $49.90 a month for 400 credits, Pro $69.90 for 600, Premium $399.90 for 3,400, with about 25 per cent off billed yearly, and Scale on quote. An email costs 1 credit, a phone 5 and company data 1, plus 1 credit per request (per 25 results in bulk), charged even when nothing matches (https://www.lusha.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$49.90 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": 50,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.lusha.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.lusha.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.lusha.com/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "com.lusha.mcp/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "lead.search",
        "lead.enrichment",
        "email.finder",
        "data.person",
        "data.company"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "closed-source",
        "enterprise",
        "lead-search",
        "enrichment"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-23",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 215,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 51,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 84
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "On 2026-09-04 version 2.8.0 retired the Decision Makers API, launched on 2026-06-08 in 2.4.0, and removed it from the reference in a minor version with no notice period found (https://docs.lusha.com/changelog/overview)",
          "On 2026-03-10 version 2.2.0 moved Contact Lookalikes to `/v3/lookalike/contacts` with replaced schemas, marked not backwards compatible, in a minor version (https://docs.lusha.com/changelog/overview)"
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        "verdict": "API key on every plan, including Free with 40 credits a month. At least 1 credit per request even when nothing matches.",
        "strengths": [
          "API key on every plan, including Free with 40 credits a month",
          "Admins can cap each key's monthly credits",
          "Ten dated releases since 8 June 2026",
          "Privacy notice names sources, a DPO and an EU representative, with a removal page and subprocessor list",
          "SOC 2 Type II and a 99.95 per cent uptime SLA stated in the trust centre"
        ],
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          "At least 1 credit per request even when nothing matches",
          "Decision Makers API removed 88 days after launch, and Contact Lookalikes changed incompatibly, both in minor versions",
          "50 MCP tools with no toolsets or read-only mode, including table writes and CRM export",
          "Free plan capped at 100 requests a day",
          "Contact data partly comes from members' shared CRM, email and calendar data"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Batch up to 25 contacts a request. A single bulk request costs 1 credit, not 1 per contact",
          "Ask for phones only when needed. A phone is 5 credits against 1 for an email",
          "Use the Buying Group endpoint. Decision Makers was retired on 2026-09-04",
          "Use `/v3/lookalike/contacts` for contact lookalikes",
          "Back off exponentially on 429. Free keys stop at 100 requests a day"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.6
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 67
        },
        "provenanceScore": 100
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.lusha.com/account/usage -H \"api_key: $LUSHA_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http lusha https://mcp.lusha.com",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "lusha": {
              "headers": {
                "x-api-key": "${LUSHA_API_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://mcp.lusha.com"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/lusha"
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      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49.9,
          "note": "400 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 69.9,
          "note": "600 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Premium",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 399.9,
          "note": "3,400 credits"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Lusha Systems Inc.",
        "domain": "lusha.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1999-07-09",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.lusha.com/legal/terms_and_conditions-2/",
        "privacy": "https://www.lusha.com/legal/privacy_policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.lusha.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.lusha.com/changelog/overview",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "lusha.com was registered in 1999, long before Lusha was founded. The Delaware entity works with its Israeli affiliate Lusha Systems Ltd."
        ],
        "score": 100
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "lusha",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.lusha.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:26.022629918Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
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          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 421,
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              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 3,
              "ok": 3
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          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.lusha.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T00:11:24.969019796Z"
        },
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "com.lusha.mcp/mcp",
            "version": "1.0.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z"
          }
        ],
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://lusha.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2027-05-01T14:48:00Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:37.519456655Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.lusha.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.560226426Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "lusha.com",
          "registered": "1999-07-09",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/lusha.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:25.928147432Z"
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            "url": "https://docs.lusha.com/changelog/overview",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:47.999672117Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.lusha.com/pricing/",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:11.498897679Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "f08a29786476"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.lusha.com/legal/privacy_policy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:07.151214689Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "f02acae6094e"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.lusha.com/legal/terms_and_conditions-2/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:09.981654589Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "f0614f5f443f"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:26.022629918Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Coresignal API + MCP has a score of 63.1 (B) against Lusha API + MCP's 62.6 (B). Both do lead search. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 22 points."
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-lusha",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lusha.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Coresignal API + MCP for agent ergonomics (+22).\n\nPick Lusha API + MCP for reliability (+20), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), transparency \u0026 trust (+11).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Coresignal API + MCP | Lusha API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 75 | Lusha API + MCP +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 83 | Coresignal API + MCP +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 51 | Coresignal API + MCP +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 59 | Lusha API + MCP +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Lusha API + MCP +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 82 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 84 | Lusha API + MCP +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **62.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Coresignal API + MCP | Lusha API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Coresignal | Lusha |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi` | `https://api.lusha.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 5 | 50 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.coresignal/mcp` | `com.lusha.mcp/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Popularity | 2 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Coresignal API + MCP.** Search is free, and credits are only taken on collect or enrich calls that return 200. Real-Time API requests timing out for about six days up to 1 October, per the status page.\n\n**Lusha API + MCP.** API key on every plan, including Free with 40 credits a month. At least 1 credit per request even when nothing matches.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Coresignal API + MCP\n\n1. Search for IDs first (free), then collect only the records you need\n2. Use base records at 10 credits when you don't need the 20-credit multi-source fields\n3. Use MCP v2 at /mcp/v2. The older /mcp endpoint will be deprecated\n4. Treat a 402 as out of credits, not a transient error\n5. Expect no work emails for EEA and UK people from the MCP email tool\n\n### Lusha API + MCP\n\n1. Batch up to 25 contacts a request. A single bulk request costs 1 credit, not 1 per contact\n2. Ask for phones only when needed. A phone is 5 credits against 1 for an email\n3. Use the Buying Group endpoint. Decision Makers was retired on 2026-09-04\n4. Use `/v3/lookalike/contacts` for contact lookalikes\n5. Back off exponentially on 429. 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