Airscale Review 2026
Last reviewed October 2026 by Théo Pascard
Airscale
List building and waterfall enrichment on rollover credits, from $49/mo
Overview
Airscale is a list-building and enrichment workbench in the Clay family. You start a table from its own Leads finder, a Sales Navigator search, a company search, a hiring-signal search or a CSV, then enrich the rows through a waterfall that queries several providers in order and charges only when a valid email or mobile number comes back. Results go out as a CSV or straight into HubSpot, Smartlead, lemlist or Instantly, and an MCP server lets Claude or Codex run searches and enrichments directly. Two things set it apart from the bigger names: the entry price, $49 for 4,000 credits, and the fact that every plan has unlimited seats and credits that never expire. We run it ourselves as the sourcing stage of our outbound, which is what the notes below are based on.
Who it's for
- →Small outbound teams and founders who want Clay-style tables and a waterfall without Clay's entry price
- →Agencies that share one workspace across several people: seats are unlimited on every plan
- →Teams with irregular volume, since unused credits roll over instead of expiring at month end
- →Operators who export a list, sort it against their ICP themselves and only then pay for emails
Not for
Capabilities
- Leads finder: people search filtered by keywords in the company profile, company size, headquarters and seniority, loaded into a table
- Sales Navigator search results as a list source
- Company finder, plus a search for companies hiring for specific positions
- Waterfall email finder: 2 credits per valid email, nothing charged on a miss according to the API documentation
- Waterfall mobile finder across 15 phone providers: 40 credits per number found
- Email verification at 0.5 credit per request
- AI research agent (Airsearch) and AI columns for cleaning, formatting and copy
- Exports to HubSpot, Smartlead, lemlist and Instantly, and CSV export of any table
- API, and an MCP server to search and enrich from Claude or Codex
- Unlimited seats and credit rollover on every plan
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Credits / mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49/mo | 4,000 | 4,000 credits a month, about $0.0123 per credit: roughly $0.025 per email found (2 credits) and $0.49 per mobile (40 credits). Unlimited seats, credits roll over, 14-day free trial. |
| Pro | $99/mo | 12,000 | 12,000 credits a month, about $0.0083 per credit: roughly $0.017 per email found and $0.33 per mobile. Unlimited seats, credits roll over. |
| Growth | $189/mo | 25,000 | 25,000 credits a month, about $0.0076 per credit: roughly $0.015 per email found and $0.30 per mobile. Unlimited seats, credits roll over. |
| Scale | Custom | — | Custom volume. The pricing page quotes verified emails from $0.008 and mobile numbers from $0.15 at this level, which is where the site's headline unit prices come from. |
Our advice
How we run it
We run Airscale as the sourcing stage of our own outbound, not as our main email finder. The workflow is the Leads finder: keywords in the company profile plus size and headquarters filters, preview, load the result into a table, export the CSV, then sort every company against the campaign's ICP before spending anything on enrichment. Over three days in early October 2026 we ran around twenty exports this way, and roughly 1,300 of the exported profiles ended up as campaign leads after sorting: about one lead for every 12 to 30 profiles, depending on the keyword. Keywords that name a trade (an agency type, 'interior architecture') sorted far better than keywords that name a service.
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FAQ
How much does Airscale cost?
Three published plans, billed monthly: Starter at $49 for 4,000 credits, Pro at $99 for 12,000 and Growth at $189 for 25,000. Scale is custom. Every plan includes unlimited seats, and unused credits roll over. There is a 14-day free trial.
How many credits does an email or a phone number cost on Airscale?
According to Airscale's API documentation, a valid email costs 2 credits and a lookup that finds nothing is not charged; a mobile number costs 40 credits, again only when one is found, and an email verification 0.5. On Starter that works out to about $0.025 per email and $0.49 per mobile, falling to about $0.015 and $0.30 on Growth. The $0.008 per email and $0.15 per mobile shown on the site are the custom Scale rates.
Do Airscale credits expire?
No. The site states that unused credits never expire and roll over from month to month, on every plan. That is unusual in a category where most credit plans reset monthly.
Does Airscale have reviews?
Not on G2 at the time of writing: its G2 profile exists but showed no review on October 5, 2026. We publish a market rating only when a tool has two independent review platforms or at least fifty reviews, so this page carries none. The customer count and provider numbers on Airscale's site are the vendor's own figures.
Is Airscale a Clay alternative?
In shape, yes: a table of leads, columns that enrich each row, and a waterfall across data providers. Clay goes further on automation, AI research and the number of integrations, and costs more to start, $185 a month against $49. Airscale covers the common case, building a list and getting emails and mobiles on it, with less to learn.
What are the best Airscale alternatives?
Clay if you need the deepest workflow builder and the widest provider catalogue. BetterContact if you only want the waterfall on a list you already have, billed on valid hits. Persana if you want AI prospecting agents on top of the enrichment.
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