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Best skip tracing services for wholesalers (cost per record compared)

Skip tracing turns a property and owner into phone numbers and emails. The right service balances accuracy and cost per record, and the smart move is to test hit rates before buying in bulk.

By The Pipelio Team · Updated Jul 2, 2026

Skip tracing turns a property and owner name into contact info, phone numbers and emails, so you can actually reach the seller. The best service for you balances accuracy (hit rate) and cost per record; test a small batch before you buy thousands.

What skip tracing is

You feed in an address and owner; the service returns likely phone numbers and emails from data sources. Accuracy and freshness matter more than the headline price, cheap records you cannot reach are not cheap.

How to pick

  • Hit rate and accuracy in your market (test a sample first).
  • Cost per record, and whether bulk pricing drops it.
  • Data freshness, stale numbers waste dials.
  • Easy export to a CSV you can import into your CRM.

Services wholesalers use

Common options, with publicly cited approximate per-record pricing. Verify current pricing and accuracy with each provider; rates and hit rates vary by market and volume.

  • Tracerfy, often cited around $0.02 per record (verify).
  • BatchData / BatchSkipTracing, often cited around $0.07 per record (verify).
  • REISkip, often cited around $0.10 to $0.15 per record (verify).
  • PropStream, skip tracing bundled with its data tools (verify).

This is a roundup of options, not endorsements; confirm details directly with each tool.

$0.02 to $0.15commonly cited skip-trace cost per record (varies widely by provider, volume, and market; verify).

Batch and bulk skip tracing

Batch skip tracing just means tracing a whole list at once instead of one record at a time. You upload a CSV of properties and owners, the service returns numbers and emails for the batch, and you import the result into your CRM. It is how almost every wholesaler traces, because pulling records one by one does not scale.

Two things change when you go bulk. First, cost per record usually drops with volume, so ask for the tiered price before you commit. Second, hit rate matters more: a 10 percent accuracy gap across 5,000 records is 500 dead numbers you already paid for. Trace a small sample with two providers and compare before you buy in bulk.

If you are searching for "batch skip tracing," you may mean bulk tracing in general, or the Batch-branded tools (BatchLeads and its skip tracing product). Verify their current products and pricing directly. We cover how the workflow compares on Pipelio vs BatchLeads.

Bigger operations often want an API so records are traced automatically as new leads land, instead of exporting and re-uploading CSVs by hand. Ask whether a provider offers one and what tier it sits on.

After you trace: actually call them

Skip-traced data is worthless if it sits in a spreadsheet. Import the list into your CRM, work it in a pipeline, and dial. Pipelio is not a skip tracer, it is where you call and text the numbers you traced, from your own number, and track every conversation. See pricing.

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Frequently asked

It varies widely. Per-record prices are commonly cited from a few cents to around $0.15, dropping with bulk volume (verify current pricing with each provider). Accuracy matters as much as price: a cheap record you cannot reach is not a deal.

Accuracy varies by market and data source, so there is no single winner. Test a small batch with two or three providers and compare hit rates in your area before committing to bulk.

From skip tracing services that match property and owner records to contact data, then they import those numbers into a CRM to call and text. Always scrub against the DNC and follow TCPA rules.

Batch skip tracing means tracing an entire list at once instead of record by record. You upload a CSV of properties and owners, get phone numbers and emails back for the whole batch, then import them into your CRM to call. It is the standard way wholesalers trace, because one-by-one lookups do not scale.

Per-record pricing normally drops as volume rises, so bulk costs less per record than one-off lookups. Ask each provider for tiered pricing and verify it directly. Judge the real number by cost per reachable owner, not the headline rate, because unreachable records still bill you.

They are Batch-branded tools commonly used together for property data and tracing. Verify current products and pricing with them directly. If you are choosing tools for a wholesaling workflow, see our Pipelio vs BatchLeads comparison.

Some providers offer an API so records are traced automatically as leads arrive, instead of exporting and uploading CSVs by hand. It usually sits on a higher tier, so ask about access and cost if you trace continuously.