The best tools to find social media profiles by email address in 2026

Apollo is a sales prospecting database, and its enrichment feature takes an email address and returns the person's record. The People Enrichment API returns linkedin_url, twitter_url, facebook_url and github_url fields, along with a match confidence score, so you can tell a firm match from a weak one before the link goes into your CRM.

Apollo charges credits only when it finds data. A basic lookup costs 1 credit and a returned mobile number adds 8, so running a list of old leads through it costs nothing for the addresses it can't match. In Apollo's own example response the LinkedIn field is filled and the X, Facebook and GitHub fields come back empty, which is a fair picture of what to expect for work contacts: LinkedIn first, the rest only when the person uses those networks under their real name.

The free plan has no time limit, which makes Apollo the cheapest way to test a few hundred addresses. On the free plan, email campaigns can only send from Gmail accounts. Apollo's pricing page data lists the Basic plan at $49 a month and Professional at $99, but the page did not show how many credits each plan includes when we checked.

Skip Apollo if most of your addresses are personal Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook accounts. Its database is built around people's jobs, and it has far less to say about someone who signed up with a personal address.

Hunter is best known for finding work email addresses, but its Person enrichment endpoint runs the other way too. Send it an email address (or a LinkedIn handle) and it returns the handles it knows for LinkedIn, X, Facebook and GitHub. The X record also carries the bio and follower counts, which helps when you want to know whether a lead is active there before you reach out.

If you built an integration on Clearbit's old API, Hunter has a clearbit_format option that returns its answer in Clearbit's schema. That can save a developer a day of rewriting field names. Each response tells you what it cost in an X-Credits-Used header, and the API accepts up to 15 requests a second.

The free plan includes 50 credits a month. Inside the web app, lead enrichment is listed from the Starter plan up. Hunter's pricing page shows prices in euros from our location and we could not confirm a US dollar price, so check the page from your own country before you budget.

Hunter suits a small team or a solo developer who wants social handles added to signups or CRM records without buying a full sales platform. Skip it if you need personal email coverage or a database to prospect in; Apollo gives you more for prospecting.

People Data Labs sells person data through an API rather than an app for sales reps. Its Person Enrichment API accepts an email address on its own, and the record it returns can include linkedin_url, twitter_url, facebook_url, github_url and a profiles list for other networks.

A useful detail for this job is the required parameter. You can tell the API to return a record only if it includes, for example, a LinkedIn URL, so your results contain the field you came for. You can also look a person up by one of their social profile URLs, which helps when you have a profile and want the rest of the record.

The free plan gives you up to 100 credits a month for testing. Emails, phone numbers and addresses are hidden on the free plan, CSV enrichment is not included and support is documentation only. Pro starts at $98 a month with as few as 350 credits a month, and annual terms save 20%. Enterprise volumes are priced through sales.

People Data Labs fits a product or data team that wants to add social profiles to signups automatically, or enrich a warehouse of contacts on a schedule. Skip it if nobody on your team writes code, because the free plan has no CSV enrichment and the API is the way in.

HubSpot completed its purchase of the data company Clearbit in December 2023 and said it would fold Clearbit into its own platform. Today, when you turn on HubSpot's built-in enrichment, it fills in the LinkedIn URL on a contact, along with job title, seniority and location. On company records it also adds the company's X handle and Facebook page.

There are two limits to know before you rely on it. Enrichment needs a business email address: HubSpot's help center says personal addresses such as Gmail or Yahoo will not be enriched. And LinkedIn is the only personal social profile it adds to contacts, so it won't find someone's Instagram or X account.

Enrichment is included with Starter, Professional or Enterprise in Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Data Hub or Content Hub, or Professional and above in Smart CRM. It does not use HubSpot Credits, although the separate smart properties feature does. Sales Hub Starter lists at $20 a seat a month, and HubSpot was showing a lower price of $7 a seat for new customers when we checked.

If your contacts already live in HubSpot, turn this on before you pay for a second tool. If you're on the free CRM or need more than LinkedIn, look at Apollo or People Data Labs instead.

Spokeo is a people-search site, and its email search is the most direct answer to "whose account is this?" for a personal address. According to Spokeo, an email search can show the owner's name and address, connected social profiles, photos and videos, and recent posts.

That makes it useful for one-off checks: an unfamiliar buyer on a marketplace, a sender you want to verify before you reply, or a lead who signed up with a Gmail address and a fake name. You search one person at a time. Business use goes through a separate conversation with Spokeo's sales team.

A one-month membership costs $19.95, or $14.95 a month if you pay $44.85 every three months. Both include up to 100 reports a month and renew until you cancel, which you can do online or by phone.

Read the terms before you use it for work. Spokeo says it is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and you agree at checkout not to use it to decide on anyone's credit, insurance, employment or housing. Skip it for screening job applicants or tenants, and skip it if you need to enrich a marketing list.

OSINT Industries answers a different question from the other tools here. Instead of matching an email to a person's profile in a database, it checks which online services an email address, phone number or username is registered with, from Facebook and Instagram to WhatsApp, Telegram, Strava, Cash App and Airbnb.

Results show each linked account with whatever the service exposes, such as a display name, username, account creation date or last-seen date. The platform marks which accounts appear in breached data (it checks Have I Been Pwned) and which are live, and it puts the activity on a map and a timeline. You can export a case to PDF, Word, Excel or JSON.

It is built for law enforcement, government, journalists and corporate investigators, and it is priced that way. The pricing page lists plans in pounds only: Basic is £19 a month for 30 credits, Intermediate £49 for 100 credits with API access, and Advanced £99 for 300 credits. We could not find a US dollar price, so we have not given one.

For marketing, this is the wrong tool. Thirty searches a month won't touch a list, and a registered account tells you a person uses a service, not what their profile says. Pick it if you investigate scams or identities and need to show where an address has been used.