The only metric is whether anyone replies
With no operations function and no data budget, the question is not how many people you can reach. It is whether the thirty you chose ever see the message. Cuvy is free for 50 addresses a month with no card, and $19 a month for 500. One credit per person found, nothing for a miss, and nothing to sign.
- Free every month
- 50 addresses, no card
- Starter
- $19 for 500
- Price per address on Starter
- $0.038
- Annual contract
- None. Every price is monthly
50 addresses free every month · no card
Your sending domain is also your invoice domain
This is the part of outbound that is different when the company is four months old.
A larger company sends cold email from a domain bought for the purpose, and if that domain burns, somebody buys another one. You do not have that. The name in your reply-to is the name on your receipts, your password resets, your support replies and the thread where a customer is deciding whether to renew. There is no separation to fall back on because there is only one of everything.
That makes a list of pattern guesses an unusually bad trade. The downside is not a low reply rate on a campaign; it is a paying customer who does not get an email they were waiting for, three weeks later, for a reason nobody connects to the outbound you did in March.
So the useful thing is not volume. It is knowing which addresses are confirmed, which have been seen once, and being told plainly which people could not be found at all — then choosing what to do with each, while the list is still small enough that choosing is possible.
The arithmetic of doing this alone
Coverage, what a quiet month is worth, and what to do when a month runs long.
- 74%
- of a typical B2B search comes back with an address
- 1,000
- credits a quiet month can carry on Starter
- $15
- for 250 more when a month runs long
Higher on software companies with public domains, lower on very small businesses. Worth knowing before you plan a week around a list of forty.
Unused credits roll into the next month up to twice the allowance, which suits outbound that happens in bursts between shipping.
Packs are bought outright, so they never expire and there is no upgrade you have to keep paying for afterwards.
What doing this yourself actually looks like
- No card
Start on the free plan and pick people you can name a reason for
The free tier is 50 addresses a month with no card. At that size the constraint is not the allowance, it is how many people you can write a genuine first line about.
- Confidence on every row
Run it on the search page and read the confidence, not just the address
Every address arrives with what is known about it. Two independent sources agreeing is a different thing from one sighting, and at thirty sends a week you can afford to treat them differently.
- Nothing is sent for you
Send from your own mailbox, in your own words
Cuvy sends nothing. It hands you a file, and what happens next is a person writing an email. That is usually the correct amount of automation for the first hundred customers.
Places to start that are not a subscription
How an address is found
What a finder can and cannot establish from a name and a company domain, and what each result state means, before you spend anything on a list.
A list you already have
The spreadsheet of names you have been adding to since launch. Upload it and the blank email column gets filled; rows that already have one are not charged.
Where it all lives
Lists, credits, saved searches and past exports, in one place, so that the record of who you have contacted is not four CSVs in Downloads.
What founders ask before they put a card in
What can I actually do on the free plan?
50 addresses a month, one seat, and no card at any point. Profile and search lookups, CSV export, and the confidence label on every address are all included. Sales Navigator and LinkedIn Recruiter pages, whole-search lookups, catch-all domains and saved lists begin at Starter. It is a working plan rather than a countdown to a paywall.
Is there anything to sign, or a minimum term?
No contract, no minimum term and no annual price. Every plan is monthly, the free plan needs no card at all, and stopping is something you do at the end of a month rather than something you negotiate. Nothing here is quoted per year, so there is no discount you are missing by paying month to month.
I have no CRM. Where does the list go?
A CSV, which is where most founder-led outbound is tracked anyway. If you add HubSpot later, the same export goes there instead without you rebuilding anything. The API arrives on Pro, which is further up the ladder than most founders need in year one.
My LinkedIn network is small. Does that limit what I can search?
It limits what LinkedIn shows you rather than what Cuvy does with it. Cuvy reads the results your own account can see, so a thin network returns fewer usable rows on a plain people search. Sales Navigator shows considerably more of them, and Sales Navigator pages are covered from Starter.
The month runs out mid-list. Pack, or move up a plan?
They are different shapes. A pack is a one-off, and it leaves next month at the price it already was — the right answer to one unusual week. Moving up a plan costs less per address and keeps costing less, which is the right answer once two months in a row have run long. Either way the run waits at the balance rather than billing past it, and what it found before it stopped is yours.
Can I use it for investors or hiring, not just customers?
Yes. A search page is a search page, whether the people on it are prospects, angels or the five engineers you want to hire, and the billing does not change with the reason. What does not change either is that a bad message to the right address is still a bad message.
50 addresses free every month · no card