Alternatives to SkipGenie
SkipGenie is a membership: $58 a month including 100 search credits, 17 cents a credit after that, with no long-term contract stated. That shape suits steady monthly volume. Where the volume is irregular, a pay-per-result tool avoids the fee entirely: Skipmatch at 3 cents a matched record on a 50-record minimum order, REISkip at 15 cents a match, or Locate Next at $0.17 per qualifying search from a prepaid balance, with $0 when nobody qualifies. Licensed users can look at credentialed tools such as TLOxp and IDI, neither of which published a current rate on October 24, 2026. PropStream fits if you also have to build the list.
1. How this page was written
The SkipGenie lines come from the five skipgenie.com URLs in the source list, read on October 23, 2026, and they are written as a paraphrase rather than as quotations, because the pages were read through a tool that summarizes them. Where a page said nothing on a topic, this page records that it said nothing rather than treating silence as a no. The questions follow the skip tracing comparison framework.
2. Side by side
| Question | SkipGenie, its own pages, read October 23, 2026 | Locate Next, live site, read October 23, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| How you buy | One plan on the join page, Skip Genie One, at $58 a month, which includes 100 search credits every month. The real estate page offers the same $58 a month. | Nothing to join. The pricing page sets one charge, $0.17 per qualifying search, taken from a balance you top up. |
| Searches beyond the allowance | Additional search credits are 17 cents each. The FAQ describes buying more from the Subscription area by entering the number you want and confirming payment. | There is no allowance to exceed. Every qualifying search is the same price, and the maximum cost appears before anything runs. |
| A search that returns nothing | Whether a search with no result consumes a credit is not stated on the join page or the FAQ. | The pricing page names the cases with no charge: no result, a failed search, a result reused from the last 30 days, and a person whose every phone and email is blank, malformed or marked disconnected. |
| Unused credits and refunds | The FAQ says there are no refunds and that membership fees and credits are not refundable. The join page says credits carry no cash value. Whether unused monthly credits roll over is not stated. | A prepaid balance is spent only when a search qualifies. The pages checked do not state a refund policy for an unspent balance. |
| Submitting a list | The FAQ describes downloading a bulk submit template from the member dashboard, adding your names and uploading the file, with each record at the standard 17 cents. The bulk search page asks for owners, heirs or lessors with the last address you have for each. The file type, the column names and any size limit are not published; the template sits inside the member area. | The bulk page takes your own CSV or .xlsx sheet as it is, up to 25,000 rows and 500 columns, with no template to copy your names into and every original column kept. |
| What comes back | The bulk search page lists phone numbers, emails, age, address history, and possible relatives and associates for each name, and says results typically appear in your private dashboard within minutes depending on size. | Contact details are added after your own columns. Choose an export format, or save a CRM template and pick the exact columns you want, including DNC results and emails. Possible relatives stay off the owner’s row unless you choose them. |
| Rows owned by a company | The pages checked describe no entity or LLC lookup. The homepage suggests a manual route instead: when the grantee was a company that wound up, search the people who signed for it, named in the record. | The LLC page looks the company up in state business records where a source is available, shows what agrees and what does not, lists the people on the filing with their titles as filed, and keeps the registered agent separate. It is not a beneficial ownership report. |
| Number checks | The FAQ says phone numbers can be scrubbed against state, national and litigation do-not-call lists, and that scrubbing is available but not required. The Tracer page lists a do-not-call scrub, a caller ID check and a connection status check. No price for a scrub is published. | Do Not Call checks run in Export against the DNC dataset currently active on this site. A number with no current answer stays Not checked and is never treated as clear. |
| API and CRM files | No API is described on the pages checked, and a site search found nothing for CRM or integration. Exporting is not described either. | No API is stated on the pages checked. The CRM export page offers six file layouts, keeps your record IDs, and says no CRM import of these files has been verified by us yet. |
| Trying it first | The FAQ answers the trial question with no trial at this time, apart from a limited-time offer it describes for oil and gas professionals during that launch. | No trial. Access opens to teams in stages. The tools on this site, including the cost calculator, run in your browser at no charge. |
| Claimed hit rate | The FAQ declines to give a percentage. | The pages checked publish no match rate. |
3. The 17 cents is not the whole price on either side
The two per-search numbers look almost identical, so the difference sits in the rules around them. SkipGenie’s 17 cents is what an extra credit costs once the 100 included with the $58 membership are used, and its pages do not say whether a search that finds nothing spends one. Locate Next’s $0.17 arrives with a published test: a search is charged when exactly one person returned carries an owner name from your list and has a valid phone or email, and valid means well formed, not proven reachable. The full rule and its examples are on the pricing page.
So the honest comparison is not 17 cents against $0.17. It is a fixed monthly floor with an allowance against a balance with no floor, and it turns on how many searches you actually run in a month and how many of them come back empty.
4. A template to fill in, or the sheet you already have
The two bulk routes differ in shape. SkipGenie’s FAQ describes a template you download from the member dashboard, fill with names and send back. Locate Next takes the file your county export or your list provider gave you, in the column order it arrived in, and adds its columns at the end. If you keep deal notes, a parcel number or a CRM record ID beside each owner, check which route preserves them before you commit, because a template that asks only for names and addresses will not carry them. The CRM CSV checker reads a file in your browser and reports what would break on import.
5. Company-owned properties
If much of your list is held in LLCs, this is the clearest difference between the two sites. SkipGenie’s own suggestion is to find a person named in the record and search that person. That is a sound manual method, and how to find who owns an LLC sets it out step by step. Locate Next does the filing step for you and shows its working. Neither route proves ownership: a person named on a filing, a registered agent and a matching name are each a lead to check against the deed, not proof that someone owns the company or the parcel.
6. Decide it on your own rows
- Count the searches you really ran last month, and how many came back with nothing.
- Price a month on each model from those two counts, using each company’s own published rule.
- Run the same twenty confirmed owners through both, including LLC rows, and keep the output files.
- Check both files for your record ID, for which person was tied to your owner name, and for how an unchecked number is labelled. What a skip trace match proves explains what those labels can and cannot support.
Common questions
How much is SkipGenie a month?
Its join page listed one plan on October 23, 2026, Skip Genie One, at $58 a month with 100 search credits included each month, and additional credits at 17 cents each.
Does SkipGenie have a trial?
Its FAQ answered the trial question with no trial at this time, and separately described a limited-time offer for oil and gas professionals during that launch. Read October 23, 2026.
Can you get a refund from SkipGenie?
Its FAQ says there are no refunds and that membership fees and credits are not refundable, and that you can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the billing cycle. Read October 23, 2026.
Does SkipGenie look up LLC owners?
The pages checked describe no entity lookup. The homepage suggests searching the people who signed for a company in the record instead. Read October 23, 2026.
How does Locate Next charge?
$0.17 per qualifying search from a prepaid balance, with top-ups from $10.00 and no membership. Searches with no result, failed searches and results reused from the last 30 days are not charged.
Does Locate Next check Do Not Call status?
Do Not Call checks run in Export against the DNC dataset currently active on this site. The check compares phone numbers with the dataset currently active on this site. It does not promise a live connection to government records, identify the owner of a number, or establish consent to contact someone. DNC checks are included at no extra charge.
Sources
- SkipGenie, join page. The single plan, the monthly amount, the included credits, the additional credit price and the note on cash value. Read October 23, 2026.
- SkipGenie, frequently asked questions. Buying more searches, refunds and cancellation, the bulk submit template, scrubbing against state, national and litigation lists, the trial answer and the declined percentage. Read October 23, 2026.
- SkipGenie, bulk search page. What to put in the file, the turnaround wording and the fields returned. Read October 23, 2026.
- SkipGenie, the Tracer page. The do-not-call scrub, caller ID and connection status checks. Read October 23, 2026.
- SkipGenie, homepage. The suggestion to search the people who signed for a company. Read October 23, 2026.
- Locate Next, pricing page. The qualifying search rule, the cases with no charge and the spending limits. Read October 23, 2026.
- Locate Next, bulk skip tracing. File types, row and column limits and columns kept. Read October 23, 2026.
- Locate Next, LLC owner lookup. The filing, titles as filed and the registered agent kept separate. Read October 23, 2026.
- Locate Next, CRM export. Export layouts, record IDs and the unverified-import note. Read October 23, 2026.
- Skipmatch, pricing page. The per-matched-record rate, free unmatched records and the order minimum. Read October 24, 2026.
- REISkip, pricing page. The per-match rate, marked introductory, and its minimums. Read October 24, 2026.
- PropStream, pricing page. Plan prices and the per-contact tracing rate. Read October 24, 2026.
SkipGenie’s pages and prices can change. Read them yourself before you buy. This page is general information, not legal advice.