Bardeen alternatives in 2026

You describe the data, and SpecStream finds the pages

On Bardeen you build a scraper for each source, and on Enterprise Bardeen builds and maintains them for you. On SpecStream the request is the whole job: "Accounting firms in Chicago with 10 to 50 employees, with the website, the phone number, the managing partner and a work email for each". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, before anything runs. It then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per match. You build no scraper, and you have none to fix when a site changes.

One rate card for every site

SpecStream has one rate card for every request: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. At 5¢ a row, 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500, plus 5¢ for each email and 15¢ for each phone. The searches and pages behind each row cost nothing, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

The price is set before the run

Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. Bardeen's terms say all sales are final, and a cancellation refunds no part of the current period.

A row that did not change costs 1¢ to recheck

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly across every site it draws on. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 rows that did not change costs $10.

Data held today, and measured accuracy

On Nov 9, 2026, specstream.ai/data/places held 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, and specstream.ai/data/form-d held 54,034 operating companies that filed a Form D. Ask for your own cut of either, or for accounts no database lists.

The Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and method are on benchmarks.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns every match on the live web as structured rows in your CRM, your sheet or your agent, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Browse AI

A tool where you train a robot on each website. The Free plan has 50 credits a month, and Personal costs $19 a month billed annually for 12,000 credits a year, paid with all credits up front. On SpecStream one request covers every site that holds the data.

Zapier

An automation platform priced by tasks, in tiers from 100 to 50K tasks a month. SpecStream returns the data itself as structured rows and sends them into Zapier, Make or n8n.

Apollo

A sales platform billed in credits. One click exports up to 10,000 leads, and credits reset at the start of each billing cycle with no rollover. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and a row costs the same on every plan.