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Loopster AI review: Can free emails replace your Clay credits?

Loopster AI review: Can free emails replace your Clay credits?

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“Free contact data” usually makes experienced outbound teams suspicious, and for good reason. 

 Free data is often stale, and stale emails bounce on domains you’ve spent weeks warming up. So when Loopster AI says emails and phone numbers come included in one flat monthly fee, the first thing to find out is whether that free data is good enough to send to.

The other questions come quickly. 

  • Is a $179 minimum cheaper than paying per contact at your volume, or only at someone else’s?
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  • Can you manage client work without paying $1,299 for separate workspaces?
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  • Are you comfortable with emails you pay vendors for being shared with every other customer?
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  • And how much do you trust a product that’s only weeks old with a client’s pipeline?

This review answers each question with clear numbers. It also covers what happens after you build the list, since Loopster AI doesn’t send emails, warm mailboxes, or handle replies.

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TL;DR: Loopster AI review

  • A Clay-style table workspace from the team behind HeyReach.
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  • Contact data from its own database is free on every plan.
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  • Plans cost $179, $449, or $1,299 a month.
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  • Separate client workspaces are only available on the $1,299 plan.
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  • Emails you pay vendors for are shared with every customer.
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  • No mailboxes, sending, warmup or reply handling.
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  • Launched weeks ago, with two G2 reviews so far.
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  • Salesforge takes your list from search to sent emails and replies.

Loopster AI review: What you get vs what you don't

Here’s how Loopster AI compares with Salesforge, using Leadsforge for the data.

Feature Loopster AI Leadsforge
Starting price $179/month on Launch Leadsforge from $49/month for 2,000 credits
Work emails Free from its own database, vendors at cost when it misses 1 credit, charged only when an email is found
Phone numbers Free from its own database, or from $0.013 a row 10 credits, charged only when a number is found
Personal emails 115M+ included Not listed
Jobs and hiring data 92M+ open roles Buying signals, lookalikes and LinkedIn company followers
Reusable workflows Functions and Loopgents Agent Frank runs prospecting, writing, and booking
Separate client workspaces Only on the $1,299 Unlimited plan One MCP connection per client account
AI agent access MCP for tables and enrichment Forge MCP for data, mailboxes, warmup and sequences
Sending email Not offered Salesforge sequences
LinkedIn outreach Separate product (HeyReach) Same sequence as email
Warmup and placement tests Not offered Warmforge
Reply handling Not offered Primebox
Free trial 14 days of Scale, 10,000 free enrichments 100 free Leadsforge credits, 14-day Salesforge trial

Loopster AI comes from the team behind HeyReach. It’s a table workspace for building and enriching lead lists, much like Clay, but contact data is included in the monthly fee rather than charged per row.

40,000-row list enriched with emails and phone numbers at no cost in Loopster.
This image shows a 40,000-row list enriched with emails and phone numbers at no cost in Loopster.

That changes how I’d build lists. If Loopster already has someone’s work email, personal email, or phone number, I pay nothing for it. 

If it doesn’t, the lookup moves through a list of 50+ vendors in the order I choose, and I pay only when one returns a verified result, at that vendor’s price. 

Each run shows its cost before it starts, and the charge comes from a dollar wallet that never expires.

work email waterfall checking Loopster Data first, then paid vendors in order.
This image shows a work email waterfall checking Loopster Data first, then paid vendors in order.

The feature I’d use most is Functions. I can combine finding an email, verifying it, and scoring the lead in one column, test a change on five rows, see the new cost per row, then publish it across every table. 

For an agency, that means building each client list the same way without recreating the workflow.

Loopgents handle research I’d otherwise give to a junior SDR, like checking whether a company is hiring SDRs, who led its last funding round, or writing an opening line about recent news. If I connect my own LLM key, those tokens cost me nothing in Loopster.

I can also manage my tables from Claude Code through the MCP. If I already work in an agent, I get a screen showing exactly what it did—something one early G2 reviewer says won him over.

But “unlimited” isn’t quite what the launch post suggests. Launch and Scale each include one workspace, so separate client workspaces cost $1,299 a month. 

Tables are capped at 50,000 rows on Launch and 200,000 on Scale, daily API calls are limited, and free data is subject to a fair use policy.

I also can’t keep my data spending to myself. When I pay a vendor for an email, Loopster adds it to its shared database, making it free for other customers, including my competitors. 

My tables and imports stay private, but the contacts I’ve paid for don’t.

A few more gaps would change how I plan a campaign:

  • I can’t tell how free emails are verified. Paid lookups are checked row by row, but the free database only says “verified.”
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  • I’d be cautious with personal emails. Loopster includes 115M+ personal addresses, but cold emailing personal inboxes carries different risks from emailing business addresses.
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  • The list ends at export. There are no mailboxes, warmup, sequences, or reply handling. HeyReach covers LinkedIn, but it’s a separate product with a separate bill.
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  • It’s only weeks old, so it has no track record for data accuracy, uptime, or how it enforces fair use.

So Loopster AI is a low-cost way to fill a large list with contact details. But you’ll need another tool to get that list in front of prospects.

What users are saying about Loopster AI in 2026

Loopster AI launched just a few weeks ago, so there’s not much feedback to go on. It has two G2 reviews, both 5 stars and both posted in its first week. 

Loopster Founder Launch Post
This image shows the Loopster Founder Launch Post

Its website adds five agency testimonials, and its LinkedIn launch posts have drawn some pointed questions in the comments.

Those questions tell me as much as the praise. They show what experienced GTM teams want to know before trusting the product with client work.

What users like about Loopster AI

1. A screen for the work your agent does

User Review
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Jack H., a Smartlead Certified Partner at a small business (G2, Oct 31, 2026, 5/5), used to run all his GTM work in Claude Code. 

He couldn’t see what had already been done or which workflows were worth repeating. He still builds in Claude Code, but now uses Loopster as a visual layer to see the work, and likes how much free data it includes.

He also says the team adds requested features and fixes issues within minutes or hours. That’s common for a product in its first few weeks, and worth checking again in a few months.

2. Pricing with no markup on vendor data

User Review
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Marijan F., a co-founder at a small business (G2, Nov 2, 2026, 5/5), uses Loopster as his hub for building and enriching lists. He calls the pricing perfect and likes paying vendors their own rates, with no markup.

He also calls the data “extremely accurate,” but he’d only been using it for a week. I’d treat that as a first impression, not a proper test.

3. A bill that doesn’t grow with usage

Three agency founders on Loopster’s website make the same point. 

Loopster Website Testimonial
This image shows the Loopster Website Testimonial

Dan Rosenthal of workflows.io says the bill doesn’t rise with usage, which protects his margins.

Loopster Website Testimonial
This image shows the Loopster Website Testimonial

Nicolas Schell of Scalantec and Alex Fine of Understory both praise getting broad data at a fixed price.

Loopster Website Testimonial
This image shows the Loopster Website Testimonial

These are testimonials Loopster chose to publish, but they point to the main reason agencies might switch: credits that eat into client margins.

4. Faster building from an agent

Loopster Website Testimonial
This image shows the Loopster Website Testimonial

Balsa Kosic of Prospeqt says his team builds at least twice as fast by working through the MCP instead of clicking around the interface.

One more testimonial comes from Bill at SalesCaptain, who says his agency was consulted while Loopster was being built. 

Loopster Website testimonial
This image shows the Loopster Website testimonial

That’s fair to disclose, but it also means his view isn’t independent.

What people are still asking

1. What am I paying for after the trial?

User Review
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Roman Medvedev asked what people pay for after day 14 if emails, phones, and orchestration are all free. 

Umer Ishaq, Loopster’s Head of Product, replied that users pay a platform fee that includes contact data, rather than paying per lookup.

That’s the trade-off to consider. At $179 a month or more, the platform fee only pays off if I’d otherwise spend more than that on data and workflow tools.

2. Do my paid lookups go to everyone?

User Review
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Floris Jansen asked whether an email he pays a vendor for gets added to Loopster’s database for other users. Umer’s answer was simply “yes sir.”

That means every contact I pay for becomes free for other customers, including competing agencies targeting the same accounts.

3. Which source wins when two disagree?

User Review
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Chaitrali Patne, a GTM engineer, asked what happens when two providers return different values for the same field, such as headcount. 

Umer joked at first, then said this only applies to emails and phones for now, and that Loopster refreshes its own data for other fields.

That doesn’t really explain how conflicts are resolved. If I score accounts by headcount, I’d test it myself before relying on it.

4. Isn’t this just Clay?

User Review
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François Lejeune of FullEnrich, a competing data company, posted a screenshot suggesting Loopster looks like Clay with a different logo. 

Loopster replied that it built the product itself and intentionally started with a similar layout to make it easier to learn.

For Clay users, that familiarity is a plus. It also means Loopster needs to win on price and data, not on a new way of working.

My hands-on experience with Loopster AI

Loopster AI gives you 14 days of the Scale plan for free, with 10,000 enrichments and no card required. 

That’s enough to decide whether it’s worth $179 a month or more, as long as you run the right tests. 

Here’s how I’d use the trial.

1. Test the free data on a list I already know

I’d start with 1,000 to 2,000 contacts I’ve already emailed, so I know which addresses work and which have bounced. With one click, Loopster’s own database fills in work emails, personal emails, phone numbers, company details, and open jobs for $0.00.

list of sales leaders enriched with contact details and open roles at no cost in Loopster.
This image shows a list of sales leaders enriched with contact details and open roles at no cost in Loopster.

The free result only matters if it’s accurate. I’d run every free email through my usual verifier and compare it with what I already know. With 10,000 trial enrichments, measuring accuracy is a better use of them than filling a 40,000-row list.

2. Set the waterfall order myself

When the free database comes up empty, the lookup moves through vendors in the order I set. The default starts with Icypeas at $0.0064 and Findymail at $0.013, then moves to Wiza at $0.052. Findymail’s verifier checks every result for $0.0043.

paid vendors ranked by order and price, with each result verified in Loopster.
This image shows paid vendors ranked by order and price, with each result verified in Loopster.

The average comes to about $0.019 per row, but a row that makes it to the end can cost up to $0.069. I’d put the cheapest accurate vendor for my market first and leave the expensive ones until last.

3. Check the receipt on individual cells

Each filled cell shows the cost, which vendor found the data, and whether it passed verification. For example, an email cost $0.038, came from BetterContact, and Findymail verified it as valid.

amount spent, the vendor that found the email, and its verification status in Loopster.
This image shows the amount spent, the vendor that found the email, and its verification status in Loopster.

This image shows the amount spent, the vendor that found the email, and its verification status in Loopster.Phone lookups need a closer look. One mobile number in the examples cost $0.32 through Surfe, above the $0.28 top rate listed in the phone waterfall menu. I’d set a phone budget before running a full column.

cost of a single mobile number lookup in Loopster.
This image shows the cost of a single mobile number lookup in Loopster.

4. Make the $10 wallet count

Loopster’s cost warning before a large run.
This image shows Loopster’s cost warning before a large run.

Adding a card puts $10 in the trial wallet, enough for about 790 emails at Findymail’s rate. I’d send rows to paid vendors only after Loopster’s free database misses them. 

Large runs show the maximum cost and ask before starting, and auto top-up stays off until you begin a paid plan.

5. Build an ICP scorer and test it on past deals

A Loopgent written in plain English scores each account out of 10 and gives a reason, such as “Opening 3 EU hubs” for a 9 or “Agency, not a buyer” for a 3.

accounts scored with a one-line reason in Loopster.
This image shows accounts scored with a one-line reason in Loopster.

I’d run it on accounts I’ve won and lost. If lost deals score as highly as wins, I’d improve the prompt before using it. With my own Anthropic key connected, tokens cost nothing from the wallet.

6. Price a full lead before scaling

Saving find, verify, and score as one function gives me a fixed cost per lead. In the examples, finding and verifying an email costs $0.024 per row, ICP scoring adds $0.012, and a company snapshot is free.

saved functions and their cost per row in Loopster.
This image shows saved functions and their cost per row in Loopster.

Changes go through a draft, are tested on five rows, with the new cost shown before publishing. Agencies can use the same process for every client list without rebuilding it.

7. Run it from Claude Code

40 leads processed by a saved Claude Code function, along with the wallet charge.
This image shows 40 leads processed by a saved Claude Code function, along with the wallet charge.

Through the MCP, I’d ask my agent to find verified work emails for 40 leads. In the example, the function returns 38 verified emails and 2 misses for $0.96, or about $0.025 per email found, and the table logs every step.

8. Know which agency features the trial leaves out

one wallet shared across client workspaces, each with its own limit in Loopster.
This image shows one wallet shared across client workspaces, each with its own limit in Loopster.

Scale includes one workspace, so per-client spending limits shown on the wallet page—such as a client paused at $150—are only available on the $1,299 Unlimited plan. 

If that’s how I’d manage client work, I’d ask for an Unlimited trial before deciding.

Loopster AI pricing in 2026

Loopster AI charges a flat monthly fee, and every plan includes contact data from its own database. 

The only additional spend is the wallet, which pays vendors when Loopster doesn’t have a contact and covers AI columns.

Loopster Pricing
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Features Launch Scale Unlimited
Price $179/month $449/month $1,299/month
Contact data from Loopster Unlimited, under fair use Unlimited, under fair use Unlimited, under fair use
Rows per table 50,000 200,000 Unlimited
Workspaces 1 1 Unlimited
Speed Up to 500 rows a minute Up to 2,000 rows a minute Up to 5,000 rows a minute
API requests a day 10,000 50,000 150,000
Starter wallet balance $25 $80 $200
Free trial 14 days of Scale, 10,000 enrichments

When the flat fee pays off

The flat fee only makes sense if I’d otherwise spend more than that on data. At Leadsforge’s $49 plan rate, a verified email works out to about $0.025. At that rate, Launch pays for itself at roughly 7,300 found emails a month.

Phone numbers change the math quickly. Each one costs 10 Leadsforge credits, or about $0.25, so Launch is cheaper at around 730 numbers a month. If my outreach includes calling, the flat fee pays off much sooner.

If I handle fewer than a few thousand contacts a month, I’d be paying $179 for a workspace I barely use.

What each upgrade actually buys

Moving from Launch to Scale costs $270 more a month. In return, I get four times as many rows per table, four times the speed, and five times the API requests but still only one workspace.

Moving from Scale to Unlimited costs another $850. It’s the only plan with separate client workspaces and per-client spending limits, which most agencies will want.

The trial uses Scale, so I’d be testing with larger tables and faster runs than Launch allows. If I plan to buy Launch, I’d keep my trial lists below 50,000 rows to test what I’d actually be paying for.

What I'd settle before paying

  • The starter balance. It’s unclear whether it refills monthly or is a one-time amount. I’d ask.
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  • You can’t withdraw the wallet balance. I can only spend it on Loopster, so I’d top up in small amounts.
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  • The fair use limit. Unlimited data excludes bulk exports, but there’s no stated limit.
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  • Auto top-up. It has a daily cap, but I’d set a low threshold and refill amount until I know my actual spending.

Who Loopster AI is built for (and who should look elsewhere)

When someone asked who Loopster AI is for under the launch post, Umer Ishaq, its Head of Product and GTM, named agencies, SMBs, and startups. 

He described the ideal customer as someone tired of paying for data and a platform at the same time, then paying again just to try to get data.

Loopster Ideal User Explanation
This image shows the Loopster Ideal User Explanation

That fits how I’d use it. I’d consider Loopster AI if I enrich thousands of contacts every month and get tired of credits running out before the campaign does.

  • I run an agency where data costs eat into every client retainer.
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  • I build lists in Clay and want similar tables without per-row credits.
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  • My outreach includes calling, so I need lots of phone numbers.
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  • I build in Claude Code but want to see what my agent has done.
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  • I repeat the same find, verify, and score steps for every new list.
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  • I sell into a niche like real estate, where Loopster lists over 3.4 million companies.

When to look elsewhere

I’d skip Loopster AI if I needed a tool that takes a list all the way to sent emails, or if my monthly volume were low. 

  • I enrich only a few thousand contacts a month.
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  • I need separate client workspaces but can’t justify $1,299 a month.
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  • I don’t want other customers to get access to my paid lookups.
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  • I need a tool with a track record of public reviews over several months.
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  • I want sending, warmup and replies alongside my data.
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  • I’d rather not decide whether to send cold emails to personal inboxes.

Best Loopster AI alternative: Leadsforge

Loopster AI and Leadsforge do the same first job: find the right people and get their contact details. 

The difference is in how you pay and where the list goes next. Leadsforge starts at $49 a month instead of $179, charges only for contacts it finds, and sends finished lists straight into Salesforge, where the rest of the campaign runs.

buyer described in plain language against Leadsforge’s contact database
This image shows a buyer described in plain language against Leadsforge’s contact database
Job Loopster AI Leadsforge
Starting price $179/month $49/month for 2,000 credits
Free to try 14 days of Scale, 10,000 enrichments 100 free credits, no card
Free every month Contact data under fair use 1,000 searches, 1,000 counts and 300 lookalike previews
Work emails Free from its database, vendors at cost on misses 1 credit, only when found
Phone numbers Free from its database, or from $0.013 a row 10 credits, only when found
Competitor followers on LinkedIn Not listed Yes
Lookalike companies Not listed From up to 10 of your best accounts
Local businesses and owners Not listed Google Maps search with owner lookups
Skip contacts you already have Not listed Exclude by email, domain or LinkedIn URL
Personal emails and jobs data 115M+ personal emails, 92M+ open roles Not listed
Agent access MCP for tables Forge MCP, alongside Salesforge and the rest of the stack
After the list Export to another tool Straight into a Salesforge sequence

Why I’d build lists in Leadsforge

1. I describe my buyer and get a ranked list

I type who I’m after, like “CEOs in healthcare across EMEA and the Americas,” and Leadsforge returns contacts ranked by how well they fit. I can narrow by title, seniority, department and location before I spend a credit, and counting a market is free up to 1,000 times a month.

2. I can build warm lists, not just cold ones

Leadsforge pulls the people who follow any company’s LinkedIn page. If that company is my competitor, those are people already paying attention to my category.

This image shows LinkedIn company followers filtered by title, location, and industry in Leadsforge.

It also finds companies similar to up to 10 of my best customers, ranked by match. That’s how I’d grow a list from accounts I’ve already closed instead of guessing at filters.

lookalike companies ranked by match score, ready to enrich in Leadsforge
This image shows lookalike companies ranked by match score, ready to enrich in Leadsforge

For local markets, it searches Google Maps businesses by category and radius, then finds the owners of up to 200 of them per search.

local businesses found by category and radius in Leadsforge
This image shows local businesses found by category and radius in Leadsforge

3. I never pay twice for contacts I already own

Before a search runs, I can exclude emails, domains and LinkedIn URLs already in my CRM. Loopster gives me contacts someone else already paid for. Leadsforge makes sure I don’t pay again for ones I already have.

4. I pay for results, not a platform

An email costs 1 credit and a phone 10 credits, and neither costs anything when nothing comes back. Bulk jobs reserve credits upfront and settle on actual results, and a retried request doesn’t charge twice. If I stop my plan, the API keeps working on credits I’ve already bought.

5. My agent can do it for me

Through the Forge MCP, I can ask Claude to search Leadsforge, enrich the results and check my credit balance without opening a dashboard.

Salesforge MCP connector switched on inside Claude
This image shows the Salesforge MCP connector switched on inside Claude
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Is Loopster AI worth it in 2026?

Loopster AI is worth it when three things are true: 

  • You enrich well over 7,000 contacts a month, or need phone numbers in volume.
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  • The free emails hold up when you check them against a list you already know.
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  • You’re comfortable with your paid lookups helping other customers.

If all three apply, the flat fee will likely cost less than paying per contact, and the tables are familiar enough to move your Clay workflows over in a week. Use the 14-day trial to test the second point before you pay.

If even one doesn’t hold, or you’d rather not add a separate sending tool to your list, I’d start with Salesforge. Find leads in Leadsforge for 1 credit per email found, send them through email and LinkedIn in one sequence, and let Warmforge protect your domains.

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