Most vendors on our comparison pages sell rows. Salesgenie sells a seat. That one difference explains why it turns up in a call center’s shortlist — the sticker is among the lowest in the category and it is printed — and why the shortlist is usually the wrong place for it. A subscription prices the right to look at a database. A dialer floor never looks at a database; it loads one. Everything below follows from that.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product and we sell homeowner phone files to call centers. Treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read of Salesgenie’s public pages, quoted as advertised on 19 September 2026. We did not take the trial or speak to a consultant.
The three plans, as printed
| Basic | Pro | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | “Starting at $99 / month” | $149 / month | $299 |
| User licences | 1 | 1 | Includes 5 |
| Prospect views | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Exports | Not included | Uses credits | Uses credits |
| Email addresses | Not included | Uses credits | Uses credits |
| Email marketing | Not included | Included | Included |
| Direct mail marketing | Not included | Included | Included |
| Buyer-intent add-on | +$50 / month | +$50 / month | +$50 / month |
Behind all three, the same file: “over 19.5 million businesses and 255 million consumers,” with “best-in-class data verification with weekly updates, including email and phone,” and “300 demographic, 400 firmographic, and 8,000 intent filters.” The term is the line most people miss: “The subscription lasts for 12 months. After that, it renews automatically month to month at the then current rate.” The trial takes no card.
Pricing and claims on this page are as publicly advertised at the time of writing — confirm current pricing with each vendor, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
What a subscription prices
Unlimited views, one licence, twelve months. That is the product a rep buys: open the app, search a territory, read a record, call it, move on. The value is in the looking — the 8,000 intent filters, the firmographics, the CRM, the mobile app — and the plan is priced so the looking is free at the margin. Salesgenie is honest about who this is for; its role pages include sales professionals, marketing professionals, small-business owners and enterprise, and the product’s centre of gravity is business prospecting. The consumer database is one of the databases, not the point of the seat.
Exports are where a floor’s cost actually lives, and exports are the one line the plan table prices in a different unit. On Basic they are not included at all — the $99 seat is for looking. On Pro and Team they “use credits,” and the credits are quoted, not printed. So for a buyer whose job is to put 25,000 rows into a dialer every month, the published price is the part of the bill that is public and the part that matters is the part that is not. This is not a trick; it is the natural shape of a seat licence being asked to do a file’s job.
What a file prices
A file vendor prices the row you take away and nothing else. No seat, no term, no view. The number on the quote is the number that goes on the dialer, and it can be compared across vendors the way the subscription cannot: total spend divided by rows that produced a working, dialable connect. The worksheet is in homeowner data cost per record, and the three questions that decide whether a per-record file is worth its sticker — where the rows came from, when they were last true, and what the vendor counts as a match — are in how to buy call center leads.
Two consequences for a floor comparing the shapes. First, a twelve-month term is a commitment a file never asks for; the file’s equivalent of cancelling is not reordering. Second, the unit of the guarantee differs. Salesgenie’s refund is on the portion of a list that was undeliverable, out-of-date or disconnected — a genuinely better remedy than the make-good-in-rows most brokers offer, and still a remedy about addresses and lines rather than about who answered. A dialer’s loss on a wrong row is the dials, and the floor number we track for it is agent-tagged wrong or dead numbers per call: 3.45% of 2,205 tagged calls on a 25,000-record file a Bay Area solar floor dialed on 1–2 September 2026. Ask any vendor, subscription or file, what its guarantee would have paid on that measure.
Where the consumer row comes from
Salesgenie says more about its sourcing than most of the category. The consumer database is “gathered from more than 100 sources, including: real estate, tax assessments, voter registration files, utility connections, bill processors, behavioral data,” with “over 24 million calls each year to gather and verify” and “over 300 full-time researchers.” The consumer-leads page describes “more than 29 billion records across 90+ trusted sources,” run through NCOA, and cites an independent audit of over 100,000 records at “a 95% confidence level.” That is a serious compiled file, and the tax assessment is one of its inputs.
It is still a compiled file, and the distinction that matters to a home-services floor is not the inputs but the key. Salesgenie’s row is a household: “homeowner or renter” is a select on it, alongside age, income and marital status, and the phone is the household’s phone. A property-record file is keyed on the parcel: the deed names the owner, the phone is matched by name to that owner and checked live before delivery, and homes that fail the match are dropped rather than filled — on an 18,309-parcel Texas pool we measured on 18 August 2026, 79.7% of homes produced a contact whose name matched the deed and 54.6% produced that owner with a live mobile. The row also carries what the county knows about the house — the last roofing permit, the solar permit, the year built — which is what a setter’s opener is made of. The two record types, side by side, are in telemarketing lists for home services; what each field on a homeowner row should mean is in homeowner data fields explained.
Where Salesgenie is the right buy
- Business prospecting by one rep. Firmographics, intent filters, a dialer, a CRM and a mobile app in one seat is the job Salesgenie was built for. A small B2B team gets a lot for $99 a month, and the unlimited-views pricing is exactly right for someone who reads records one at a time.
- Direct mail from a sourced file. Data Axle’s consumer records are run through NCOA processing and the guarantee refunds undeliverables. If the campaign is a postcard rather than a dial, the guarantee covers the failure you actually have — on Pro or Team, where direct mail is included.
- A database beside a sales process. Teams that want lead management, performance tracking and email campaigns attached to the data — and are willing to sign for a year — are buying the seat, and the seat is the product.
Alternatives, by what you actually need
- A compiled consumer file with no term. TelephoneLists.biz alternatives reads a portal that sells the same shape of row month to month with no contract, its refresh cadence printed; ListGiant alternatives reads a broker that sells by quote with a guarantee paid in rows. Both are rows-first, and both leave the key-of-the-record question open.
- Phones for rows you already hold. If the file exists and only the numbers are missing, that is an append, priced against what you already know — skip tracing vs data append sorts which you need.
- A file built for a pitch about the house. The owner on title, a sourced wireless flag, a dated scrub and the permit dates the opener needs — the category Scout Data sells into, laid out by vertical in roofing call center leads and solar call center leads.
The test is the same whichever you pick: put a thousand exported rows on the floor beside a thousand from a file vendor, and read the dialer report a week later. The protocol is in free lead samples: how to test a vendor. The seat will look cheaper on the invoice; the report decides whether it was.
Wrong-number and match figures are from our benchmarks page, each with its sample and month.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Salesgenie cost?
As publicly advertised on 19 September 2026: three plans — Basic “starting at $99 / month,” Pro at $149 a month and Team at $299 with five user licences — each with unlimited in-app views and “optional credits to download.” The plan table marks exports as not included on Basic and “uses credits” on Pro and Team, so the cheapest plan that can put a row into a dialer is $149. The credits are not priced; the FAQ says pricing “varies based on a number of factors including package, number of users, credits, available databases,” and routes you to a consultant for a quote. A buyer-intent add-on is $50 a month on any plan. The subscription “lasts for 12 months,” then renews month to month.
Is Salesgenie the same as Data Axle?
Salesgenie is Data Axle’s self-serve sales-and-marketing product; every form on the site is a Data Axle form, and the databases behind it are Data Axle’s business and consumer files. If you buy a mailing list from Data Axle directly or through a reseller, you are usually buying slices of the same file. The subscription is the packaging, not the data.
What does the Salesgenie guarantee cover?
Its wording: “If you receive bad data, we will refund your money for the portion of your list that was undeliverable, out-of-date or disconnected.” That is a money-back remedy, which is better than most of the category offers. Read the three words: undeliverable is an address, disconnected is a line, out-of-date is a record. None of them is “rang somebody other than the homeowner,” which is the failure a dialer floor actually pays for.
Does Salesgenie scrub consumer phones against the Do Not Call registry?
Salesgenie’s own DNC compliance page answers this for you: “you must compare your calling lists to the registry once every 31 days and delete any registered phone numbers,” and it points you to the FTC to register for a subscription account number. That is the correct description of the obligation and it sits with the caller. Whatever flag a download carries, scrub inside the 31-day window yourself and run your own suppression file on top.