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# Best Clearbit alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# Clearbit alternatives in 2026

**Accounts by any trait, with the buying committee, at 5¢ to $1 a row.**

Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence) joined HubSpot, and its data is now HubSpot data enrichment. It comes with a HubSpot Starter, Professional or Enterprise subscription and fills in contact and company records you already hold, from a work email or a company domain. Enrichment uses no HubSpot Credits. Intent does: 10 credits to monitor one company for one month and 50 for one custom signal, at $0.010 a credit, and unused credits do not roll over.

SpecStream is the best alternative to Clearbit for sales and RevOps teams that need the accounts themselves. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents: describe the accounts you want in plain words, with the trait your best customers share, and each company that meets every condition comes back as a structured row with its buying committee. You see the most the run can cost before it starts, you pay 5¢, 15¢ or $1 for each row delivered, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, and the rows land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-clearbit&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DB2B%2520software%2520companies%2520in%2520the%2520US%2520with%252050%2520to%2520500%2520employees%2520that%2520use%2520HubSpot%2520and%2520are%2520hiring%2520a%2520revenue%2520operations%2520role%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Sales%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520RevOps%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520for%2520each)

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

## SpecStream and Clearbit side by side

|  | SpecStream | Clearbit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you send | The accounts you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | A record already in your HubSpot CRM. Contact enrichment uses first name, last name and work email. Company enrichment uses the company domain |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Property values filled in on HubSpot contact and company records, such as Job title, Industry and Company size |
| Accounts you do not have yet | Every company on the live web that meets the conditions you wrote, such as the tools it runs, the roles it hires for or the markets it entered, each with the people you asked for | Intent, in beta, creates one company record from market segments for 10 HubSpot Credits. Enrichment itself starts from a record you hold |
| Data already held | Public databases read every morning at [specstream.ai/data](https://specstream.ai/data?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit): every company that filed a Form D since 2023 with its filing history, nearly 2 million US nonprofits, every US bank failure since 1934, federal rules, open federal contracts and grants, and local businesses. Signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit). Ask for your own cut of any of them | HubSpot's commercial dataset, third-party providers and public information, read through enrichment inside HubSpot |
| A list you already have | Import a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown alongside their evidence. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢ | Bulk enrichment runs on contacts and companies from a HubSpot index page or an import, and fills every eligible property for the records you select |
| Emails and phones | 5¢ for a person's email and 15¢ for a phone, added to the row that carries it. Each email says whether a page printed it, and one no page printed is labeled likely | Contact enrichment starts from a work email you already have. Clearbit's terms say a customer has no expectation that personal addresses such as Gmail are enriched |
| 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 | A HubSpot subscription on Starter, Professional or Enterprise. Enrichment uses no HubSpot Credits. Intent uses 10 credits to monitor one company for one month and 50 for one custom signal, at $0.010 a credit |
| The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | Credits past the monthly limit bill pay as you go at $0.010 each, invoiced in increments of 10, or in capacity packs of 1,000 credits at $10 a month for the rest of the term. Unused credits do not roll over |
| Reruns and change labels | Hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢ | Continuous enrichment keeps previously enriched records up to date with the latest data from HubSpot. Automatic enrichment is off by default until a Super Admin turns it on |
| API and delivery | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. Rows go to Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | HubSpot contact and company records, used in HubSpot forms, lead scoring, segments and workflows |

## Why Clearbit buyers move to SpecStream

### You get the accounts you do not have yet

Clearbit enrichment starts from a record in your CRM: a work email or a company domain goes in, and property values come back. SpecStream starts from the request. Write the accounts you want and the trait they share, such as the tools they run, the roles they hire for or the markets they entered, and SpecStream searches the live web, reads each company's pages and returns every account that meets all of it, with the buying committee you asked for. The request can cover companies, people, places, filings or tenders.

### The price is per account and set before the run

A row costs 5¢ with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, plus 5¢ for each email. 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.

### Signals come from data SpecStream reads every morning

In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, and each one is a row at [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit), read from SEC EDGAR. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit). Ask for your own cut, for example the companies in your territory that raised this week, with the CFO and a work email.

### Reruns label every account and land in your CRM

Save the request and it reruns 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¢, so rechecking 1,000 accounts that did not change costs $10. New matches and changes land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

### The search behind the rows is measured on public benchmarks

SpecStream 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. Scores and method are at [specstream.ai/benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit). The same account runs the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

## Other Clearbit alternatives

### SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, under a maximum you approve before the run. Rows go to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio.

### Clay

A workspace for building enrichment tables from many data providers, billed in Data Credits and Actions. Data Credits start at $0.05 each, the Launch plan starts at $185 a month and Growth at $495 a month, and the free plan comes with 100 Data Credits and 500 Actions a month. On SpecStream you write the request once and the price covers the whole job: the searches and pages behind each row are not billed.

### Apollo

A contact database with a sales engagement tool, billed in credits. Its Starter plan is free with no time limit, an export selects up to 10,000 leads in one click, and credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. SpecStream reads the live web for each request, so an account is found by what its own pages say today.

### Lusha

A contact database billed in credits. The Free plan has up to 40 credits a month, an email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. A SpecStream row carries the whole account, with the facts you asked for and the committee, and adds 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.

### Cognism

A B2B contact database sold by package, with no price on its pricing page. 1 credit is 1 revealed contact, and CRM Enrichment is priced on subscription structure, usage and delivery requirements. SpecStream's rates are on its pricing page: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, with $10 of credit to start.

## 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 Clearbit

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the companies you already have in HubSpot as a CSV of 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": "B2B software companies in the US with 50 to 500 employees that use HubSpot and are hiring a revenue operations role, with the VP of Sales, the head of RevOps 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-clearbit&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=clearbit&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DB2B%2520software%2520companies%2520in%2520the%2520US%2520with%252050%2520to%2520500%2520employees%2520that%2520use%2520HubSpot%2520and%2520are%2520hiring%2520a%2520revenue%2520operations%2520role%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Sales%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520RevOps%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 Clearbit cost in 2026?

Clearbit enrichment uses 0 HubSpot Credits and comes with a HubSpot Starter, Professional or Enterprise subscription. Intent is metered: 10 credits to monitor one company for one month and 50 for one custom signal, at $0.010 a credit, or $10 for a pack of 1,000 credits a month. Unused credits do not roll over.

What is the best Clearbit alternative?

SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the accounts in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get each account with its buying committee in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or a sheet. The same request reruns on your schedule with every change labeled.

Does Clearbit find new accounts?

HubSpot's Intent creates one company record from market segments for 10 credits, in beta, and enrichment fills in records you already hold from a work email or a company domain. SpecStream returns every company that meets the conditions you wrote, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row: 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, plus 5¢ for each email.

Does SpecStream work with HubSpot?

Yes. Rows go to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio at the same 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, and to Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Slack and Teams, or through Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks.

Can SpecStream fill in a list I already have?

Yes, up to 20,000 rows from a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base. Importing is free. Each row that matches pays its row rate, and a row that does not match costs 5¢.

How does SpecStream handle emails that bounce?

An email costs 5¢ and says whether a page printed it. An address no page printed is labeled likely, so your team knows which ones to send to first. A phone adds 15¢.

Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?

Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. The MCP server is at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key, and an agent spends from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on its key.

### 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 Form D data](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.  [Clearbit home page](https://clearbit.com/)clearbit.com/, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [Clearbit terms of service](https://clearbit.com/terms)clearbit.com/terms, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [HubSpot data enrichment, knowledge base](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/records/get-started-with-data-enrichment)knowledge.hubspot.com/records/get-started-with-data-enrichment, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [HubSpot product and services catalog, credits and rate sheet](https://legal.hubspot.com/hubspot-product-and-services-catalog)legal.hubspot.com/hubspot-product-and-services-catalog, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [Clay pricing](https://www.clay.com/pricing)clay.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
11.  [Apollo pricing](https://www.apollo.io/pricing)apollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
12.  [Lusha pricing](https://www.lusha.com/pricing/)lusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
13.  [Cognism pricing](https://www.cognism.com/pricing)cognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026