# Lusha API + MCP (slim)

> Contact and company enrichment, filter-based prospecting, lookalikes, job-change and company signals, and webhooks over a versioned REST API with OpenAPI files.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.md (~5,700 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**B · 62.6/100 · rank #215 of 452 · #3 in Lead & company data · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: API key on every plan, including Free with 40 credits a month. At least 1 credit per request even when nothing matches.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Lusha · category: Lead & company data · legal entity: Lusha Systems Inc. · provenance 100/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.lusha.com` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Modes: Enrichment (email 1 credit, phone 5, company 1, plus 1 a request) and prospect search (contact and company filters, lookalikes, buying groups). No standalone email verification endpoint
- Free tier: 40 credits a month, API key included, 40 requests a minute and 100 a day
- API plan: Every plan, including Free
- Rate limits: 25 requests a second by default. Per plan, Free 40 a minute and 100 a day, Premium 300 a minute and 18,000 a day, Scale 300 a minute and 50,000 a day
- Webhooks: Signal subscriptions for job changes, promotions and company events, signed with HMAC-SHA256
- MCP server: Official, hosted at mcp.lusha.com, 50 tools, OAuth or x-api-key header, writes to tables and CRM export (not read-only)
- Waterfall: Optional fallback to your enabled third-party providers on every paid plan
- Prices: Starter $49.90 per month (plan); Pro $69.90 per month (plan); Premium $399.90 per month (plan)

- Scores: Reliability 75, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 83, Agent ergonomics 51, Security & auth 59, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 82, Transparency & trust 84 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Atlassian Statuspage at status.lusha.com with a Lusha API component and AWS us-east-1 components (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI files per the 30 September check (25). · Agent ergonomics, The hosted MCP has 50 tools across enrichment, prospecting, signals, lookalikes, buying groups, tables, CRM export and account, with no tool… · Security & auth, REST takes an `api_key` header. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Version 2.16.0 on 2026-09-23 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms naming Lusha Systems Inc.
- Sources: 7, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: lead.search, lead.enrichment, email.finder, data.person, data.company
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lusha.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/lusha.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lusha from a page on lusha.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Batch up to 25 contacts a request. A single bulk request costs 1 credit, not 1 per contact
2. Ask for phones only when needed. A phone is 5 credits against 1 for an email
3. Use the Buying Group endpoint. Decision Makers was retired on 2026-09-04
4. Use `/v3/lookalike/contacts` for contact lookalikes
5. Back off exponentially on 429. Free keys stop at 100 requests a day

## Connect

```bash
curl https://api.lusha.com/account/usage -H "api_key: $LUSHA_API_KEY"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http lusha https://mcp.lusha.com
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/lusha

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## Panel reviews (2, average 3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ Seven credits for one contact, and a miss still costs one (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Credit caps on admin keys, none on the rest (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)