Company database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search.
Lead finding and verification
One row, in depth: what each tool does, the verified numbers, and who each suits.
Expandi details read from its pricing page, FAQ, home page and help centre on 19 October 2026.
Company database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search.
Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed.
Lead finding and verification, in one look.
They find leads from different places. Warmerly searches its own database of companies, finds and verifies email addresses, and can search LinkedIn for named people through a connected account. Expandi builds lead lists from LinkedIn: a search URL, Sales Navigator, Recruiter, a post, a poll, a group, an event, company followers, people you may know, a CSV, a CRM app or its MCP. Its help centre lists 13 such sources and names no email finder or verifier. Last checked 19 October 2026.
Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed.
Drawn side by side.
Where each one gets its leads
Press or focus a node for what it does. Dashed nodes are things we could not find
Describe the companies in a sentence, or use filters. Searching is free; exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly allowance. These are companies, not named people.
"Useful if you do not have a paid subscription". Leads come from a LinkedIn search.
Warmerly: Lead finder, Email finder and Email verification help pages and its plan allowances. Expandi: its Lead Lists help collection and overview article, read 19 October 2026. Expandi lists 13 lead-list types and, in the pages we read, no email finder or verifier.
| Product | Source | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Warmerly | Company database | Describe the companies in a sentence, or use filters. Searching is free; exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly allowance. These are companies, not named people. |
| Warmerly | Email finder | From a domain, website or LinkedIn URL, or a name plus a company. Shows a status, a confidence score and how it was found. A lookup counts only when an address is found. |
| Warmerly | Email verifier | Safe to send, Send with caution, Do not send or Unknown, for one address or a bulk list. A standard check does not send a message. |
| Warmerly | LinkedIn search | Searches LinkedIn for named people through your own connected account. A LinkedIn slot is $19 a month per account. |
| Warmerly | CSV import | Bring leads in from a CSV file. |
| Warmerly | Posts, groups and events | We found no way to build a list from a post's reactions, a group or an event in the code or docs. |
| Warmerly | Sales Navigator or Recruiter list | We found no import from a Sales Navigator or Recruiter search in the code or docs. |
| Expandi | LinkedIn Search URL | "Useful if you do not have a paid subscription". Leads come from a LinkedIn search. |
| Expandi | Sales Navigator URL | More filters than a LinkedIn search URL. Needs a paid Sales Navigator plan. |
| Expandi | Recruiter URL | Built from Recruiter Lite or Pro, another paid LinkedIn subscription. |
| Expandi | Upload CSV | "The only column you really need is the profile link." |
| Expandi | Post Engagement URL | Retrieve those who have interacted with a public post. |
| Expandi | Poll URL | A Poll URL lead list. It is listed in the Lead Lists collection; the overview article does not describe it. |
| Expandi | Group URL | Load the members of a LinkedIn group. |
| Expandi | Event Attendees URL | Load the attendees of a LinkedIn event. |
| Expandi | People You May Know | Up to 1000 people at one go. "This search allows you to warm up your account." |
| Expandi | Company Followers | Only followers of the company page that you own. |
| Expandi | CRM and Apps | Leads imported from a third-party application. Smartlead is the one named, for leads that have a LinkedIn profile URL. |
| Expandi | Lead qualification | Automatically identifies and groups leads in your LinkedIn account that match your ideal customer profile. |
| Expandi | Generated by MCP, beta | Created through Expandi's MCP using a connected AI tool such as ChatGPT or Claude. |
| Expandi | Email finder | Not found in the help-centre pages we read. |
| Expandi | Email verifier | Not found in the help-centre pages we read. |
What Warmerly allows each month
Verifications, email lookups and lead exports by plan. Expandi states none of these
Starter: 5,000 verifications, 1,000 email lookups and 500 lead exports a month.
Each bar is drawn against the Agency figure for that row. Warmerly: plan limits in its billing code. A lookup counts only when an address is found. Expandi's pages do not state an allowance for finding or verifying.
| Plan | Verifications a month | Email lookups a month | Lead exports a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 250 | 50 | 100 |
| Starter | 5,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| Growth | 25,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 |
| Agency | 150,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 |
What each one lists
A tick means we found it in the code, docs or help pages. It does not mean the other cannot do it
Showing all 8 rows.
Warmerly, in detail.
Companies from Warmerly's own database found by sentence or filter, an email finder, an email verifier with monthly allowances by plan, and a LinkedIn people search that needs a connected account.
Search a company database in plain words
Lead finder turns a sentence such as 'dental practices in the UK' into filters, shows the matching companies, and lets you export a CSV or add them to a campaign. Searching is free. Only exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly lead allowance. The AI step never touches the database: it only produces filters.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
Companies, not named people
The companies come from Warmerly's own database, built by reading the public websites of businesses. They are companies with a published way to contact them, not a list of named individuals. Filters include country, town, business type, technology used, email provider, company size, founding year and signals such as hiring now.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
An email finder
Email finder takes a company website, domain or LinkedIn URL, or a person's name plus their company. It shows the address with a status, a confidence score and how it was found. A lookup counts against the monthly allowance only when an address is actually found.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
An email verifier
Email verification checks one address or a bulk list and answers Safe to send, Send with caution, Do not send or Unknown, with a confidence score and a plain reason. A standard check does not send a message to the address.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
Allowances by plan
Verifications, email lookups and lead exports a month: Starter 5,000, 1,000 and 500; Growth 25,000, 10,000 and 5,000; Agency 150,000, 100,000 and 50,000. The Free plan has 250 verifications, 50 email lookups and 100 lead exports.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
LinkedIn search for named people
A second tab, LinkedIn search, searches LinkedIn itself for named people using your own connected LinkedIn account and a Warmerly LinkedIn slot. That is a paid add-on at $19 a month per account. Leads imported this way carry LinkedIn member ids.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
CSV import and the API
Leads can also be imported from a CSV, and lead search, email finder and email verification each have an API reference.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
Where Warmerly is behind
Warmerly cannot build a list from a LinkedIn post's likers, a poll, a group, an event's attendees or a company page's followers, and it has no Sales Navigator or Recruiter list import that we found in the code or docs.
Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026
Expandi, in detail.
Lead lists are built from LinkedIn activity and LinkedIn searches, plus a CSV, a Smartlead import and an MCP route. We found no email finder, verifier or enrichment in its help centre.
13 lead-list sources in the help centre
The Lead Lists collection has an article for each of: LinkedIn Search URL, Sales Navigator URL, Recruiter URL, Upload CSV, Post Engagement URL, Poll URL, Group URL, Event Attendees URL, People You May Know, Company Followers, CRM and Apps, Lead Qualification, and Generated by MCP (beta). That is 13 source types.
help.expandi.io/en/collections/3042098-lead-lists · read 19 October 2026
Free LinkedIn search or paid LinkedIn tools
"A LinkedIn search URL in Expandi is useful if you do not have a paid subscription". A Sales Navigator URL gives "more filters to use in comparison to a LinkedIn search URL" and needs that paid LinkedIn plan. Recruiter Lite or Pro is another paid LinkedIn subscription.
help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026
People who engaged
A post engagement list can "retrieve those who have interacted with it", and event attendees and group members can be loaded as lists. Company followers can only be retrieved for "the company page that you own".
help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026
People You May Know, up to 1000 at a go
"This search allows you to warm up your account." It retrieves "up to 1000 people at one go". That is the only list-size figure the article gives.
help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026
A CSV needs only a profile link
"The only column you really need is the profile link." Other columns can be used to personalise messages.
help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026
CRM and Apps, and Lead qualification
CRM and Apps "allows users to create lead lists using data (leads) imported from a third-party application", and the article names Smartlead only, for leads that have a LinkedIn profile URL. Lead qualification "automatically identifies and groups leads in your LinkedIn account that match your ideal customer profile".
help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026
Lists from an AI tool (beta)
A list can be "created through Expandi's MCP using a connected AI tool, such as ChatGPT or Claude". The MCP article says the AI can "Build lead lists" when you describe who you want to reach.
help.expandi.io/en/articles/16005740-what-is-expandi-s-mcp-and-what-can-it-do-for-you · read 19 October 2026
What Expandi does not say
We looked, and found no statement on these. That is about its published pages only, not about the product.
- An email finder
- An email verifier or any statement about checking addresses
- A database of companies or contacts to search inside Expandi
- List-size limits for sources other than People You May Know
- Whether the pricing page's plan includes every lead-list source
Where the sources disagree
We report each version rather than pick one.
- Expandi's overview article lists 12 lead-list options and leaves out the poll list. Its Lead Lists collection has a Poll URL article, so we count 13 source types.
- Expandi's pricing page does not say which lead-list sources each plan includes.
Only what we could verify.
| Measure | Warmerly, both channels | Expandi |
|---|---|---|
| Lead finding and verification | Company database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search. | Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed. |
| Lead sources documented | 4 (company database, email finder, LinkedIn search, CSV) | 13 lead-list types |
| Named people from LinkedIn posts, groups or events | Not found | Yes |
| Email verifications a month | 5,000 on Starter, 150,000 on Agency | Not stated |
| Email lookups a month | 1,000 on Starter, 100,000 on Agency | Not stated |
| Free plan allowance | 250 verifications, 50 lookups | 7-day trial, no figures |
| Needs a paid LinkedIn tool | No for the company database; yes for LinkedIn search | For Sales Navigator and Recruiter lists |
What it means for you.
Our reading of the facts above. Not a promise, and not the only reasonable reading.
Different jobs, so check which one you need
Expandi finds people on LinkedIn by what they did there. Warmerly finds companies from its own database and then an email address for them. Neither replaces the other.
Expandi is ahead on LinkedIn-native sources
Posts, polls, groups, events, followers and Sales Navigator lists have no Warmerly equivalent that we found.
Warmerly is the only one of the two with an address finder and verifier we could read about
If your sequence sends email, finding and checking the address before sending is something Expandi's pages do not describe.
Pick the one that fits.
Warmerly is the better fit if
- You need email addresses found and checked before an email campaign
- You want to search a company database in plain words
- You want allowances for finding and verifying that are listed by plan
Expandi is the better fit if
- Your leads come from LinkedIn searches, Sales Navigator, posts, groups or events
- You want to build lists from who engaged with a post or attended an event
- You already use Smartlead and want its leads in a LinkedIn flow
Does Expandi find email addresses?
We found no email finder or verifier in the pages we read. Its lead lists are built from LinkedIn, a CSV, Smartlead or its MCP.
What does Warmerly's lead database contain?
Companies that publish a way to contact them, built from reading public websites. It is not a list of named individuals.
How many lead-list types does Expandi have?
Its help centre has articles for 13 lead-list sources. The overview article lists 12 of them, without the poll list.
- Expandi help: Lead Lists collection
- Expandi help: What do all the different lead list options do?
- Expandi help: What is Expandi's MCP?
- Expandi pricing
Expandi pages were read on 19 October 2026. Plans and wording change, so check the vendor's own page before you decide. Warmerly details come from the product as it runs today.
- All features
- Main job
- Starting price (per month)
- What the price covers
- Free trial
- LinkedIn automation
- LinkedIn profile warm-up
- Dedicated country-based IP
- If/action sequence builder
- Image and GIF personalisation
- Mailbox warmup
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks
- Inbox placement checks
- Cold email campaigns
- Reply inbox
- Agency features
- Integrations
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