How the monthly allowance works
Searching, filtering and saving never use a credit. A contact is used only when Buzzlist gives you a business email, personal email, mobile or direct dial you did not already have.
Your allowance resets at the start of each billing month. Reopening a person you already revealed in the same month is free. A record with no permitted contact detail costs nothing, even if you reveal it. Nothing about the free plan asks you for payment information first, and nothing expires while you stay on the plan.
What 100 contacts a month is actually enough for
It is one campaign, not a quarter of them. A hundred revealed people is roughly 25 a week: enough to work one narrow group of people properly, such as practice owners at med spas inside three ZIP radii, or finance directors at manufacturers between 50 and 500 staff in two states.
It is not enough to run outbound as a team, and it is not meant to be. What it is genuinely good for is the question you cannot answer from a pricing page: are the people I sell to actually in this database, with a phone number or an email I can use? Search for the people you really sell to, reveal 20 of them, check the results against what you know. If the answer is no, you have lost nothing.
What the free plan leaves out
Said plainly, so nothing is a surprise after you sign up: On a phone? Use the short sign-up page.
- No AI credits. That means no Sales Briefs and no four-email sequences. The sample brief is published in full so you can read a finished one before deciding it is worth paying for.
- No search in a sentence. Free uses the filters, which cover title, seniority, department, industry, NAICS and SIC, company size, state, city and ZIP radius.
- No deeper business profiles. Work history, skills and email verification status, starts on Growth at $499 a month.
- No sending yet. On paid plans Buzz writes the emails; today you send them from your own mailbox. Sending from inside Buzzlist is coming.
Where Free sits against the paid plans
| Plan | Price a month | Contacts a month | AI credits a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 | None |
| Starter | $199 | 1,500 | 1,000 |
| Growth | $499 | 4,000 | 5,000 |
| Scale | $1,499 | 15,000 | 20,000 |
A Sales Brief costs 10 AI credits and a four-email sequence costs 10, or 2 when that company was researched in the same week. Monthly plans, cancel any time, and the full detail is on the pricing page.