Shengkun Ye's open source people search quotes $0.0024 a lead

Shengkun Ye released a Jev-powered people search that waterfalls across six contact data providers, Apollo, Clay, People Data Labs, Hunter, ContactOut and Ploid, and runs the candidate list through Jev before any of them get called. The pitch is $0.0024 per lead, open source, no subscriptions, 0% markup, framed against the $2,000 subscriptions he says it replaces.

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Pay for enrichment only on the leads Jev kept

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Open source. No subscriptions. 0% markup.

The ordering is the whole trick. The flow Ye describes is run 1,000 leads through Jev, then pay for enrichment only on the leads Jev kept. Enrichment calls are the expensive part of a prospecting pipeline, so a cheap model acting as the gate in front of them is where the cost difference comes from, not from anything clever inside the providers.

What the number does and does not cover

The $0.0024 is the builder's own figure from his launch post, not an independent benchmark, and it is per lead on a 1,000 lead run. Ye does not publish a breakdown of how much of that is Jev tokens and how much is provider spend, and he does not say what share of the 1,000 survived the filter. That share is the variable that matters most. A list Jev keeps 80% of and a list it keeps 10% of produce very different bills on the same architecture, and your own list is the one that decides which you get.

There is also no accuracy claim here. Nothing in the post says how often Jev drops a lead that would have enriched fine, which is the failure mode a sales team notices before it notices the invoice.

This is the second open source people search on Jev we have covered in a week, after earlier coverage of Treg's build at $0.0089 a lead. Two separately posted per lead numbers from two different builders on two different setups are not a comparison, and nobody has run them against the same list.

For people building on it, treat $0.0024 as a shape rather than a price. The structure, cheap filter first, paid enrichment second, is the portable part.