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# Best Bardeen alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# Bardeen alternatives in 2026

**Lead data from any site at 5¢ to $1 a row.**

Bardeen costs $10 a month for 100 credits on Basic and $50 for 1,000 on Premium, or $480 a year for 12,000. You build your own scrapers, and its terms say all sales are final.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the data you want in plain words, and SpecStream finds every match on the live web and returns it as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-bardeen&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bardeen&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DAccounting%2520firms%2520in%2520Chicago%2520with%252010%2520to%252050%2520employees%252C%2520with%2520the%2520website%252C%2520the%2520phone%2520number%252C%2520the%2520managing%2520partner%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520for%2520each)

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

## SpecStream and Bardeen side by side

|  | SpecStream | Bardeen |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you send | The data you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | A scraper you build. On Enterprise, Bardeen builds and maintains them for you |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, place or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Bardeen Agents that automate lead sourcing and enrichment |
| Websites a plan covers | Any site on the live web, on every plan. SpecStream finds the pages for each request | The sites you build scrapers for, plus premium scrapers, on Basic and Premium |
| The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan. The searches and pages behind a row are not billed | A credit. Basic includes 100 a month and Premium 1,000 |
| Plans | $10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more credit | Basic $10 a month and Premium $50 a month, or $480 a year for 12,000 credits, with 20% off yearly. Enterprise has custom bulk credits |
| Refunds | Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing | All sales are final, and a cancellation refunds no part of the current period's fee |

## Why Bardeen buyers move to SpecStream

### 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](https://specstream.ai/data/places?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bardeen) held 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, and [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bardeen) 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](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bardeen).

## Other Bardeen alternatives

### 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.

## How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

ResultsWideSearchCostSimpleQA Verified

|  | SpecStream | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/parallel.svg)Parallel | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/exa.svg)Exa | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/tavily.svg)Tavily | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/perplexity.svg)Perplexity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Web research**WideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |

## How to switch from Bardeen

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the lists you built with Bardeen, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

```
curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Accounting firms in Chicago with 10 to 50 employees, with the website, the phone number, the managing partner and a work email for each", "count": 25}'
```

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-bardeen&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bardeen&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DAccounting%2520firms%2520in%2520Chicago%2520with%252010%2520to%252050%2520employees%252C%2520with%2520the%2520website%252C%2520the%2520phone%2520number%252C%2520the%2520managing%2520partner%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520for%2520each)

## Frequently asked questions

Something we didn't answer? [Talk to a human](https://specstream.ai/talk-to-a-human.md)

How much does Bardeen cost?

Bardeen costs $10 a month for Basic with 100 credits and $50 a month for Premium with 1,000, or $480 a year for 12,000 credits on Premium. Enterprise has custom bulk credits. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.

What is the best Bardeen alternative?

SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 per delivered row. You describe the data in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get structured rows that meet all of them in your sheet, your CRM, Slack or your agent. The same request reruns on your schedule, and you build no scraper.

Does Bardeen give refunds?

No. Bardeen's terms say all sales are final, and a cancellation takes effect at the end of the period with no refund of its fee. On SpecStream a top-up never expires, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Can SpecStream watch data for changes?

Yes, on any schedule from hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, and an unchanged row costs 1¢.

Does SpecStream have an API?

Yes, three: the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search, which returns every match for a request as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. They run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, A2A and the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp`.

How much does SpecStream cost?

A delivered row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much it needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, so 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500. Plans are $19, $99 or $499 a month, and the whole price becomes credit at the same rates. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

### Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

1.  [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing)specstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
2.  [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md)specstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
3.  [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks)specstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
4.  [SpecStream data, Form D](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d)specstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
5.  [SpecStream signals](https://specstream.ai/signals)specstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
6.  [Bardeen pricing](https://www.bardeen.ai/pricing)bardeen.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [Bardeen terms of service](https://www.bardeen.ai/terms-of-service)bardeen.ai/terms-of-service, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [Browse AI pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing)browse.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [Zapier pricing](https://zapier.com/pricing)zapier.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [SpecStream data, places](https://specstream.ai/data/places)specstream.ai/data/places, read Nov 9, 2026
11.  [Apollo pricing](https://www.apollo.io/pricing)apollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026