Comparison

Updated May 2026

Reverse Lookup vs Epieos: different tools for different jobs

Both turn an email into information. They're built for completely different workflows — here's how to pick.

Epieos is an OSINT tool used by journalists, law enforcement, and threat intelligence teams to investigate digital footprints. Reverse Lookup is a B2B contact enrichment platform for sales, recruiting, marketing, and fraud teams. If you're doing the second job with the first tool, you're paying for the wrong thing.

Epieos

OSINT investigation across consumer platforms

Reverse Lookup

B2B contact enrichment at scale

  • Built for B2B workflows
  • Bulk CSV/XLSX
  • API access
  • Google Sheets add-on
  • 1,000s of lookups/month

The 30-second verdict

Choose Epieos if: you're investigating a specific person — a fraud target, a threat actor, an interview subject, a missing person's digital footprint — and you need to know which consumer platforms (Google, Strava, GitHub, Have I Been Pwned?, etc.) an email is registered on. Epieos is trusted by Bellingcat, Le Monde, the United Nations, and law enforcement for this exact job. It's €29.99/month for 30 full-access requests.

Choose Reverse Lookup if: you need to know who the person is professionally — name, job title, company, industry, LinkedIn URL — and you need to do this for hundreds or thousands of emails through a dashboard, CSV upload, Google Sheets formula, or API. Plans start at $0/month for 15 credits, scaling to $49/mo for 1,000 credits and $249/mo for 10,000.

  • Different output types

    Epieos returns platforms the email exists on. Reverse Lookup returns the person’s professional profile.

  • Different volume

    Epieos’s paid tier gives 30 requests/month. Reverse Lookup starts at 1,000/month for $49.

  • Different stack

    Epieos has API on the custom enterprise tier only. Reverse Lookup has full REST API on every paid plan.

Two different jobs

Same input (an email). Very different outputs. Self-select which job is yours — the right tool follows directly.

🕵️

OSINT Investigation

You’re doing this job if you’re trying to:

  • Verify a suspicious sign-up by checking which platforms the email is registered on
  • Build a digital-footprint profile of a specific individual
  • Investigate a threat actor, fraud ring, or person of interest
  • Confirm whether an email has appeared in known data breaches
  • Find consumer-platform accounts (Strava, GitHub, Chess.com, Foursquare) for a single target
  • Conduct journalism, threat intelligence, or law enforcement work

The right tool:Epieos is purpose-built for this. Use it.

💼

B2B Contact Enrichment

You’re doing this job if you’re trying to:

  • Identify inbound leads — who works where, what’s their job title?
  • Enrich a CSV of email addresses with company, title, LinkedIn URL, and industry
  • Run a daily/weekly sales prospecting workflow
  • Source candidates from email-only lists in recruiting
  • Verify B2B contacts before adding them to a marketing list
  • Trigger CRM enrichment automatically when a new lead comes in
  • Process more than 30 emails per month

The right tool:Reverse Lookup is purpose-built for this. Use it.

💡 What if I'm doing both?

Many fraud-ops, security, and risk teams need both. Use Epieos for deep investigation on a specific suspect; use Reverse Lookup for bulk screening of incoming signups. The tools complement each other — they don't compete.

The at-a-glance comparison

Twenty-five real-world differences. The pattern is consistent: same input, different output categories — for different jobs.

  • Primary use case

    Epieos

    OSINT investigation

    RL

    B2B contact enrichment
  • Pricing entry

    Epieos

    Free tier (heavy watermark, 3 modules)

    RL

    Free tier (15 credits/mo)
  • Paid entry

    Epieos

    €29.99 / mo

    RL

    $49 / mo
  • Paid tier volume

    Epieos

    30 full-access requests / mo

    RL

    1,000 credits / mo
  • Per-lookup cost (paid entry)

    Epieos

    ~€1.00 / lookup

    RL

    ~$0.049 / lookup
  • Bulk CSV / XLSX upload

    Epieos

    No

    RL

    Yes
  • Google Sheets add-on

    Epieos

    No

    RL

    Yes
  • REST API access

    Epieos

    Custom/enterprise tier only

    RL

    All paid plans
  • Zapier integration

    Epieos

    No

    RL

    Yes
  • CSV / XLSX export of results

    Epieos

    No

    RL

    Yes
  • Returns: full name

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    Yes
  • Returns: job title

    Epieos

    Limited

    RL

    Structured
  • Returns: company

    Epieos

    Limited

    RL

    Structured
  • Returns: industry & company size

    Epieos

    No

    RL

    Yes
  • Returns: platforms email is registered on

    Epieos

    ~25 platforms

    RL

    No
  • Returns: Have I Been Pwned? breach data

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    No
  • Returns: Google account creation date

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    No
  • Returns: profile photo from Google

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    No
  • Returns: Strava, Fitbit, GitHub, Chess.com presence

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    No
  • Does NOT log your queries

    Epieos

    Yes (stated policy)

    RL

    History saved in your dashboard (you control it)
  • Does NOT notify the target

    Epieos

    Yes

    RL

    Yes
  • GDPR compliant

    Epieos

    Yes (EU-hosted)

    RL

    Yes
  • CCPA compliant

    Epieos

    Not advertised

    RL

    Yes
  • Used by

    Epieos

    Bellingcat, Le Monde, UN, Microsoft, Maltego, Deloitte, law enforcement

    RL

    Sales, recruiting, marketing, fraud-ops teams
  • Best for

    Epieos

    Investigations, journalism, threat intel

    RL

    B2B workflows at scale

Comparison based on Epieos's public pricing page and module list, and Reverse Lookup's pricing as of May 2026. Epieos provides genuine value for OSINT investigations — this comparison is for users evaluating which tool fits their workflow.

30 requests a month: doing the math

Epieos's Osinter plan — their main paid tier at €29.99/month — gives you 30 full-access requests per month. That's exactly one lookup per day.

If your job is investigating a specific individual or building a single deep profile, 30 requests is generous.

If your job is B2B prospecting, recruiting, or list enrichment, 30 requests is over by lunchtime on day one.

  • 30

    Epieos full-access requests / month at €29.99

  • 1,000

    Reverse Lookup credits / month at $49 (Starter)

  • ~33×

    More lookups for roughly the same monthly cost

💡 The cost-per-lookup gap

At paid entry tiers, Epieos works out to roughly €1.00 per lookup. Reverse Lookup's Starter plan works out to roughly $0.049 per lookup — about 20× cheaper per lookup at comparable monthly spend. And that's before you factor in the credit-back guarantee on unmatched data.

Epieos's per-lookup cost reflects the depth and breadth of OSINT data they return across ~25 platforms. It's not necessarily expensive for their job. It is expensive if you're using it to do B2B enrichment.

What you actually get back

Different outputs for different jobs. Look at what each tool returns side-by-side and pick the one that matches your work.

Epieos returns:

A breakdown of where the email is registered across consumer platforms.

  • Google ID, account creation date, profile photo, Google Maps reviews
  • LinkedIn profile (via LinkedIn module)
  • Skype presence
  • Email Checker (~200 sites): which sites the email is registered on
  • Fitness platforms: Strava, Fitbit, Asics Runkeeper, Adidas Runtastic, Nike Run Club
  • Developer platforms: GitHub
  • Other consumer: Duolingo, Vivino, Facebook, Proton Mail, Etsy, Dropbox, Foursquare, Flickr, Chess.com, Substack, Trello, Notion, Gravatar
  • Breach data: Have I Been Pwned?
  • Phone lookup module

Best for: Building a digital-footprint picture of one person.

Reverse Lookup returns:

A structured professional profile, ready to use in a CRM or spreadsheet.

  • Full name
  • Job title and role
  • Current company and domain
  • Industry
  • Company size
  • Location (city, country)
  • LinkedIn URL
  • Other social profiles (where available)
  • Phone (where available)
  • Verified, match-confidence score

Best for: Filling in the “who is this person, professionally?” gap across hundreds or thousands of emails.

Both outputs are valuable. They're just different outputs for different jobs. If you need to know what your inbound lead does for a living and where they work, Reverse Lookup gives you that in a clean row of a spreadsheet. If you need to know whether a fraud suspect has a Strava account and a Chess.com profile, Epieos gives you that in an investigation panel.

Pricing comparison

Different pricing models for different jobs — and very different volume math.

Epieos

PlanPriceVolumeNotes
Member€0 / moFree, limitedGoogle + Email Checker + Skype only. Heavy watermark, harder captchas.
Osinter€29.99 / mo30 full-access requests / moAll modules including LinkedIn. Light watermark.
CustomContact salesIncreased limitsAPI access, private modules, additional credits. Enterprise only.

Yearly billing available. API access is locked to the Custom/enterprise tier — confirm pricing with Epieos sales.

Reverse Lookup

PlanPriceCreditsNotes
Free$0 / mo15 / moForever, no card needed
Starter$49 / mo1,000Full features, API included
Growth$99 / mo3,000Full features, API included
Scale$249 / mo10,000Full features, API included
CustomTalk to sales50,000+High-volume teams

Annual: save 30%

What it actually costs at the volume you need

  • 30 lookups / month

    Epieos€29.99 (Osinter)
    RLFree tier (15) + spillover OR Starter $49 covers it 33×

    Epieos is cheaper at this exact volume

  • 100 lookups / month

    EpieosCustom (enterprise quote)
    RL$49 (Starter)

    RL is dramatically cheaper

  • 1,000 lookups / month

    EpieosCustom only
    RL$49 (Starter)

    RL is dramatically cheaper

  • 10,000 lookups / month

    EpieosCustom only
    RL$249 (Scale)

    RL is dramatically cheaper

💡 At low single-investigation volumes, Epieos is reasonable.

At any B2B workflow volume — even 100 lookups a month — Reverse Lookup's pricing model is built for that job, and Epieos's isn't. Use the right tool for the actual volume you need.

Which tool actually fits your workflow?

Honest, use-case-by-use-case. Each tool wins where it's designed to.

  • Epieos wins

    OSINT investigations / journalism

    Trusted by Bellingcat, Le Monde, and the UN for a reason. Cross-platform footprint mapping is their core competence.

  • Epieos wins

    Threat intel / fraud forensics on a specific target

    Have I Been Pwned? breach data, account creation timestamps, and consumer-platform presence are exactly the signals threat analysts need.

  • Epieos wins

    Law enforcement investigations

    Built for this audience, with the privacy posture (no query logging) and reputation that supports it.

  • Epieos wins

    Verifying a single suspicious user’s digital footprint

    This is exactly what Epieos was designed for.

  • RL wins

    B2B sales prospecting

    Bulk CSV + Sheets + API mean SDRs work without manual lookups. Pricing scales with volume.

  • RL wins

    Recruiting / candidate sourcing

    Returns LinkedIn URL + job title at volume. 30 requests/month at Epieos doesn’t cover a single day of sourcing.

  • RL wins

    Marketing list enrichment

    CSV upload + structured company data + GDPR compliance. Built for this exact workflow.

  • RL wins

    CRM enrichment via API

    API available on every paid plan, not locked behind enterprise.

  • RL wins

    Fraud screening on incoming signups (bulk)

    Bulk run a daily signup list to flag anomalies. Use Epieos as a follow-up on specific suspicious hits.

  • RL wins

    AI agent / RAG pipeline needing structured B2B profiles

    Clean JSON output, predictable schema, full API.

We didn't make Epieos look bad here. They're excellent at OSINT investigation. But if your job lives in a spreadsheet, a CRM, or a sales workflow — Epieos isn't really built for you, and the volume math makes that obvious.

Honest section

On privacy and query logging — an honest comparison

Epieos makes a strong, deliberate privacy claim: they don't log your queries. That's the right design choice for their audience. A journalist investigating a corrupt official, or a threat analyst tracking a malicious actor, cannot afford to have query logs sitting on a vendor's server. Epieos's no-logging posture is genuinely valuable for that work.

Reverse Lookup is designed differently — on purpose. B2B enrichment workflows benefit from a saved history: knowing what you looked up last Tuesday, exporting a 30-day audit of lookups, billing accountability, and re-running enrichments when data refreshes. We save your lookup history in your account, encrypted, accessible only to you.

Different design choices for different jobs. If your work requires zero-trace investigation, Epieos's no-logging design fits that. If your work requires reproducibility and auditability, our dashboard history does.

  • Both are GDPR compliant.
  • Both source from publicly available information.
  • Both respect data-subject opt-out rights.
  • Neither notifies the person being looked up.

Can I use Epieos and Reverse Lookup together?

Yes — and the smartest fraud-ops, security, and trust-and-safety teams already do.

A typical combined workflow looks like this:

  1. 01

    Reverse Lookup screens 1,000 new signups overnight via API. Most return clean B2B profiles — flagged, scored, and routed automatically.

  2. 02

    Suspicious signups with no professional footprint, weird domain patterns, or other risk signals get escalated to investigation.

  3. 03

    Epieos runs deep OSINT on those dozen suspects: which platforms the email is registered on, when the Google account was created, whether it appears in known breaches.

One tool for scale. The other tool for depth. No conflict.

What real users say

Two products, two different customer bases. Choose on the evidence that matches your job.

Reverse Lookup

See on G2

4.9 / 5

Across 49 verified G2 reviews

  • We needed a tool that could run 800 inbound signups through enrichment every morning. Reverse Lookup does that overnight via API — and the same data lands in our CRM cleanly.

    Michael T. · Head of Sales, GrowthForge

  • We use Reverse Lookup for bulk pre-screen — clean B2B profiles get auto-approved. Only the weird ones land in front of the analyst team. Massive time saver.

    James C. · Security Analyst, SecureLayer

Epieos has earned its reputation in the OSINT community through years of consistent, focused work. Their public customer list includes:

  • Bellingcat
  • Le Monde
  • United Nations
  • Microsoft
  • Maltego
  • Deloitte
  • NCPTF

If your work resembles theirs — investigative journalism, threat intelligence, child safety, law enforcement, or deep individual investigation — Epieos is well-placed to serve you.

If your work is B2B contact enrichment, the names on Epieos's customer wall aren't really evidence of fit for your job. Different reference customers exist for different jobs.

Using the right tool for your actual job?

If you're running B2B workflows, recruiting, marketing, or bulk fraud screening — Reverse Lookup is built for that. Start free. No card. 15 credits a month, forever.

  • 15 free credits, no card
  • Credit-back on unmatched data
  • Bulk CSV / XLSX upload
  • Native Google Sheets add-on
  • Full REST API on every paid plan
  • GDPR & CCPA compliant

Other comparisons

More side-by-side breakdowns coming soon.

FAQ

Reverse Lookup vs Epieos: FAQ

  • Is Epieos better than Reverse Lookup?

    For OSINT investigations — yes, Epieos is built for that. For B2B contact enrichment at any meaningful volume — no. The tools are optimized for different jobs. Most users searching "Epieos alternative" actually need a B2B tool and don’t realize it; if that’s you, Reverse Lookup is the better fit.

  • Can Epieos do bulk email lookups?

    No, not on their paid Osinter plan. That plan gives you 30 full-access requests per month — about one lookup per day. Bulk processing is not part of Epieos’s product design. For bulk CSV/XLSX upload of hundreds or thousands of emails, Reverse Lookup is purpose-built for this.

  • Does Epieos have an API?

    API access is locked behind their Custom (enterprise) tier — you would need to contact their sales team for pricing. Reverse Lookup includes full REST API access on every paid plan starting at $49/month.

  • Which one is more accurate?

    Both return high-quality data for their respective use cases. Epieos verifies platform presence in real-time and explicitly avoids false positives. Reverse Lookup returns verified B2B contact data with 98%+ accuracy on professional emails. They’re hard to compare directly because they return different types of information.

  • Why is Epieos €29.99/month for only 30 requests?

    Because OSINT investigation is a different job than B2B enrichment. Each Epieos request scans ~25 consumer platforms in real time — that’s deep, expensive work designed for cases where you only need to do it a few times a week on specific targets. For B2B enrichment, where you need to run thousands of emails through a simple "who is this person professionally?" check, Reverse Lookup’s per-lookup cost is roughly 20× lower because the job is different.

  • Is Epieos used by law enforcement?

    Yes. Epieos publicly states their customers include law enforcement, the United Nations, and child safety organizations (NCPTF). They’re a serious tool for serious investigation work. If your work resembles that, use them.

  • Can I use Reverse Lookup for OSINT investigations?

    You can, but you’ll be missing key OSINT signals — Have I Been Pwned? breach data, Google account creation timestamps, fitness/dev/consumer platform presence. Reverse Lookup focuses on professional B2B context. For deep individual OSINT, Epieos remains the right tool.

  • Is Reverse Lookup GDPR compliant like Epieos?

    Yes. Reverse Lookup is GDPR and CCPA compliant, sources from publicly available information, and respects data-subject opt-out rights. Epieos is also GDPR compliant and is EU-hosted; we are hosted with appropriate compliance posture for B2B SaaS.

  • Does Reverse Lookup store my search queries like Epieos doesn’t?

    Reverse Lookup saves your lookup history inside your account so you can re-run, export, and audit your work. This is by design for B2B workflows. Epieos’s no-logging design serves a different audience (investigators who need zero-trace research). Different tools, different design choices for different jobs.

  • How do I switch from Epieos to Reverse Lookup?

    If you’re using Epieos for B2B-style enrichment (the 30/month cap is your bottleneck): sign up for Reverse Lookup’s free tier (15 credits, no card), run the same emails through both tools, compare the outputs. For B2B fields (name, title, company, LinkedIn, industry), Reverse Lookup will give you cleaner, faster, structured data at much higher volume.

  • Can I use both Epieos and Reverse Lookup together?

    Yes — many trust-and-safety, fraud-ops, and risk teams do exactly this. Reverse Lookup runs at scale across daily signups; Epieos digs deep on the specific suspects that get flagged. The tools complement rather than compete.