Kaspr

What Is Kaspr?

Kaspr is a Paris-based B2B contact-data tool, best known for a Chrome extension that shows phone numbers and emails while you browse LinkedIn. Its history explains both its appeal and its baggage, so this review follows the timeline.

Kaspr started in November 2018, founded by Allan Benguigui and Omar Ghorbel to fill a gap in prospecting data for the French market, according to coverage of the 2022 deal. The legal entity is KASPR SAS, registered in Paris at 38 rue Dunois, and its terms are governed by French law. At the time of the acquisition, press coverage cited more than 1,500 active customers and 50,000 users, figures we could not check independently.

In April 2022, Cognism Limited of London announced it had bought Kaspr for an undisclosed sum, with Taylor Wessing advising the buyer. Cognism's own review on this site covers that product in detail: see Cognism. Kaspr now sits inside a UK-owned group, which is why our directory lists it as a French company with a non-EU parent.

On 5 December 2024, the CNIL fined KASPR SAS €240,000 for scraping LinkedIn contact details. By 4 March 2026, after Kaspr deleted its database and stopped collecting from LinkedIn, the regulator closed the order, and it published the decision two days later. The sections below explain what that means for a buyer today.

Kaspr is a narrow tool. It looks people up and exports them, with no sequencing and no pipeline management. For the wider market, see our sales engagement software category.

Key Features

The Chrome Extension

The extension is the product's centre of gravity. Kaspr's pricing page says it gives access to verified phone numbers and emails directly from LinkedIn profiles, groups, and events. You click, spend a credit, and save the contact to a dashboard with notes and lists.

Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite

Starter adds Kaspr on top of LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Business adds LinkedIn Recruiter Lite. For sellers who live in Sales Navigator all day, that keeps lookups inside the same screen. Recruiters get the equivalent on Recruiter Lite.

Credits, CSV Enrichment, and Automations

Kaspr splits its allowance into three pools: B2B email credits, phone credits, and direct-email credits. B2B emails are unlimited on paid plans under a fair-use policy, while phone and direct-email credits are the scarce resources. You can also upload a CSV of LinkedIn URLs for bulk enrichment, with row limits that rise by plan.

Integrations

Kaspr lists connections to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Lemlist, Brevo, Zoho, and Zapier. API access exists on Starter in limited form and on Business, and in both cases it is available only on request. Enterprise adds intent data, advanced Salesforce enrichment, and single sign-on.

How Kaspr Sources Data Now

This is the least clear part of the product. Kaspr's data page says it draws on public information such as legal registries and company websites, first-party collection, and third-party data providers. A Kaspr vs Cognism comparison page, last updated in January 2025, says it checks data against 120 sources. Kaspr's privacy policy, last updated in December 2025, still lists LinkedIn among public sources. The CNIL, however, says Kaspr chose to erase its database and cease all data collection on LinkedIn.

We could not verify what the rebuilt database contains or how its sources differ from before March 2026. That same comparison page says Kaspr and Cognism share information between datasets, but it predates the March 2026 deletion, so the arrangement may have changed. Ask for a written description of your data sources before you rely on it.

Pricing

Kaspr's paid plans run from €45 per user a month on annual billing, or €59 billed monthly, and a free plan is available. The pricing page also shows sterling and dollar prices.

Free users get 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits, and 5 direct-email credits a month, with an export cap of 100 leads. Starter costs €45 annual or €59 monthly. It includes unlimited B2B emails, 1,200 phone credits and 60 direct-email credits a year, and up to 12,000 exports a year. Business costs €79 annual or €99 monthly, with 2,400 phone and 2,400 direct-email credits a year and up to 30,000 exports.

The pricing page is not fully consistent. Its plan cards and first comparison table list 15 B2B email credits and 100 exports on Free, while a second table lists 25 credits and 10 exports, so confirm allowances in-app.

Enterprise is custom and promises unlimited credits. Extra credits are sold as add-on packs, and the smallest phone pack works out at €0.35 per credit. If your team phones prospects heavily, the add-on cost can overtake the subscription.

Credits roll over monthly on paid plans only, according to the pricing page. Starter therefore suits email-led prospecting better than phone-led work, since 100 phone credits a month is only a few lookups a day.

EU Compliance and Privacy

The honest summary is mixed. Kaspr is a French company, and the CNIL's own sanction is also the best evidence that a European regulator watches it. But the facts behind the fine are specific and serious.

The CNIL found that Kaspr marketed a Chrome extension and built a database of about 160 million contacts. It sold that database for prospecting, recruitment, and identity verification. Kaspr scraped details from LinkedIn and domain-name registries, including from users who had limited profile visibility to first- and second-degree connections. The breaches cited covered the lawful basis (Article 6), five-year retention renewed on every update (Article 5(1)(e)), late and English-only information notices (Article 14), and refusing to name sources in access requests (Article 15).

Kaspr responded by deleting its database, ending LinkedIn collection, removing the automatic retention renewal, issuing notices in all official EU languages, and answering the pending requests. The CNIL closed the order without further penalty. That is a real remediation. Kaspr's current marketing cites legitimate interest as its lawful basis and adds that users remain responsible for their own compliance, so you must assess legitimate interest for each campaign.

Hosting is not a clean EU story either. Kaspr's privacy policy names OVH, MongoDB, and HubSpot among its providers and says data may be transferred to third countries under safeguards. We therefore do not label Kaspr as EU-hosted in our data.

LinkedIn Account Risk

LinkedIn's User Agreement (effective 3 November 2025) prohibits using "browser plugins and add-ons" to scrape or copy its services. It also lets LinkedIn restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts that breach the contract. Kaspr's LinkedIn profile-visit guidelines say its extension does not scrape LinkedIn data and that users will not lose their accounts. The same help article warns that excessive profile visits may be flagged as spam or abuse, and it offers a "hide extension" option to help users avoid LinkedIn restrictions. One Trustpilot reviewer reports a LinkedIn block.

Treat this as a real operational risk for any seller whose pipeline depends on one LinkedIn account.

Who It's Best For

If you are a solo seller or recruiter who works in LinkedIn all day and wants a free way to test contact coverage, Kaspr's free plan is a low-cost trial. Check the numbers on a sample of your own targets before paying.

If you run an email-led outbound motion, Starter's €45 per user a month on annual billing buys unlimited B2B emails, 1,200 phone credits a year, and up to 12,000 exports. Use it with a CRM connection so exports do not pile up in the dashboard.

If your team calls prospects and needs high-volume phone data, Kaspr's credit limits are a poor fit. Look at Cognism, which sells custom packages with phone-verified data, or compare the Lusha alternatives, Apollo alternatives, and ZoomInfo alternatives pages.

If compliance review matters more than coverage, consider Dropcontact. It is a French email finder that says it keeps no contact database and does not connect to LinkedIn, although it does not offer phone numbers.

The Verdict

Kaspr is easy to use, cheap to start, and handy for LinkedIn-centred prospecting. Its drawbacks are equally concrete: a €240,000 CNIL fine for scraping restricted LinkedIn data, unresolved questions about its post-2026 sources, LinkedIn account risk, tight phone credits, and a Trustpilot score of 1.5 out of 5 across 88 reviews. Kaspr's own site cites a 4.4 out of 5 G2 rating based on more than 750 reviews, so experiences vary. Try the free plan, document your legitimate-interest assessment, and keep your expectations for phone data modest.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Kaspr GDPR compliant?

Kaspr is a French company that states legitimate interest as its lawful basis, but the CNIL fined it 240,000 EUR in December 2024 for GDPR breaches. The regulator closed the order in March 2026 after Kaspr deleted its database and stopped collecting from LinkedIn. Users remain responsible for their own compliance.

Why did the CNIL fine Kaspr?

The CNIL found that Kaspr collected contact details from LinkedIn users who had restricted profile visibility. Kaspr also kept data for five years from each update, informed people late and only in English, and failed to name data sources in access requests.

Can Kaspr get my LinkedIn account restricted?

It can. LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits browser add-ons that scrape or copy its services and allows restriction or termination of accounts. Kaspr says its extension does not scrape and advises browsing naturally, but some users report being logged out or blocked.

Who owns Kaspr and how does it differ from Cognism?

Cognism Limited, a London company, acquired Kaspr in 2022. Kaspr targets individual sellers with a freemium Chrome extension, while Cognism sells custom-priced packages with phone-verified Diamond Data and do-not-call screening. A Kaspr comparison page last updated in January 2025, before the March 2026 database deletion, says the two share information between datasets.

How much does Kaspr cost and is there a free plan?

Kaspr has a free plan with 15 B2B email, 5 phone, and 5 direct-email credits a month. Starter is 45 EUR per user a month on annual billing (59 EUR monthly), Business is 79 EUR (99 EUR monthly), and Enterprise is custom.