BatchLeads Alternative — Pay Only for Matches

What is Ava Data?

Ava Data is a PI-grade skip tracing API and data intelligence platform built for real estate investors, outbound sales teams, and developers. Every account includes the web dashboard, List Builder for quick-list property pulls (absentee owner, pre-foreclosure, tax-default, vacant, and more), bulk CSV processing, and the public REST API — no separate developer plan or approval tier required beyond standard account enablement.

Pricing is per match: 1 credit ($0.02) for a phone-only Standard Lookup, 2 credits ($0.04) for phone + email, and 10 credits ($0.20) for a Deep Search that adds the related-persons graph. Credits are only charged when a match is returned. The $9/month plan includes 100 credits and covers API use as well — there is no separate API plan.

What is BatchLeads?

BatchLeads is a real-estate list-building and marketing platform — property search, list stacking, direct-mail and SMS tools, and an in-app skip-tracing feature — sold as a tiered monthly subscription. As of its 2026 published pricing, plans run Personal Basic ($39/month, 250 skip-trace credits included), Personal Plus ($59/month, 1,000 credits), and Growth ($119/month), with Enterprise pricing available by quote. Skip tracing beyond a plan's included allotment is billed separately, commonly cited around 10–15¢ per record depending on volume.

BatchLeads is one of four BatchService products alongside BatchDialer (predictive dialing), BatchSkipTracing (a standalone skip-tracing product on the same data), and BatchData (the developer-facing API and data platform). PropStream, a Stewart Information Services company, acquired BatchLeads and BatchDialer in July 2025, so BatchLeads now shares ownership with a formerly separate competitor.

How Ava Data Knows the Numbers Are Good

There's a harder question than price: how do you know the numbers are good? Most skip tracing services never find out what happens after they hand you a phone number. Ava Data does — through partnerships with high-volume dialing networks placing over 100 million calls a month, Ava Data sees real connect signals and tests its data head-to-head against major data vendors. Every outcome gets scored: right-person connects, numbers that don't connect, wrong numbers. Those signals feed a custom ranking layer that orders every contact's phone numbers by real-world connect performance — so the number most likely to answer is first on your list.

These are aggregate network connect signals — no customer lists or uploaded records are ever shared, sold, or used.

Side-by-Side Comparison

The Fine-Print Math: A Skip-Trace-Only Workflow

If list building and marketing tools aren't why you're paying — if you already have a list source and just need current contact data — the subscription-plus-overage math compounds fast:

• Ava Data: Trace 1,000 records at 2¢/match, pay only for what matches — $20 at the very most, less whatever share doesn't match, and $0 in months you don't trace anything.
• BatchLeads Personal Plus: $59/month for 1,000 included credits. Trace fewer than 1,000 in a given month and the unused credits don't roll into savings; trace more and each extra record runs another 10–15¢ on top of the subscription already paid.

Over a year, BatchLeads' Personal Plus tier alone is $708 in fixed cost before overage, regardless of whether every month uses the full 1,000-credit allotment. Ava Data's $9/month plan (100 credits included) plus match-based overage totals a fraction of that for teams whose volume is uneven month to month — the common pattern for solo investors and small teams who aren't tracing on a steady weekly cadence.

This isn't an argument that BatchLeads is overpriced for what it does — its list-building, mail, and SMS tools are a genuinely different, broader product. It's an argument that paying a marketing-platform subscription purely to unlock a contact-data feature is the expensive way to solve a narrower problem.

When BatchLeads Is the Right Choice

If direct-mail campaigns, SMS marketing, and an all-in-one list-building workflow are core to how your team prospects — and skip tracing is one feature among several you'll use every week — BatchLeads' bundled subscription can work out well, especially at volume that fully uses a plan's included credits.

Ava Data is the better fit when the job is narrower: you already have a list — your own pulls, a wholesaler relationship, List Builder, a prior export — and the bottleneck is turning a name and address into a phone number that answers, without paying for mail and SMS tools that sit unused.

Common Objections, Answered Honestly

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ava Data cheaper than BatchLeads?

For a skip-tracing-only workflow, generally yes. BatchLeads' published plans run $39–$119+/month regardless of how many records you actually trace, plus overage beyond the included allotment. Ava Data is $9/month with 100 credits included — one plan for dashboard and API — then 2¢ per matched phone record.

Does Ava Data have an API like BatchLeads?

Ava Data includes a public REST API with every account. BatchLeads' API access runs through the affiliated BatchData product, which is a separate signup and pricing plan, not something bundled into a BatchLeads subscription.

Is BatchLeads the same company as BatchSkipTracing and BatchData?

They're sibling products under BatchService, sharing data infrastructure and, since PropStream's July 2025 acquisition, common ownership with PropStream and BatchDialer. Each still operates as its own product with its own pricing.

Can I use Ava Data for the same quick-lists BatchLeads offers?

Ava Data's List Builder ships quick-list filters for the core off-market segments — absentee owner, pre-foreclosure, tax-default, vacant, tired landlord, and more. See the full set at /lists/. It doesn't include BatchLeads' direct-mail or SMS marketing tools.

Further reading: List Builder Quick-Lists · Skip Tracing API · Bulk Skip Tracing · PropStream Alternative · Skip Tracing Cost Guide · Absentee Owner