D&B Hoovers alternatives in 2026

Accounts by a trait no filter lists

Your best accounts share a trait no filter lists. Describe it, and every account that has it reaches your CRM with its buying committee and a link to where the trait shows.

D&B Hoovers gives you 130+ filters over the records it holds. On SpecStream the request is the whole job: companies by the tools they run, the roles they hire for, the markets they entered or the wording on their own site. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per account. Every row meets the conditions you wrote.

490 accounts with an email for the price of 150

Hoovers Essentials sells 150 companies and contacts for $49 a month. SpecStream bills the rows that meet your 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. A person's email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢. $49 is 490 accounts with an email on each, and 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, plus 5¢ an email.

Each email says whether a page printed it, and one built from the company's published pattern is labeled likely. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged.

The price is set before the run

A Hoovers plan renews automatically at the list price in effect at renewal, and Enterprise starts with a sales quote. Every SpecStream 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. Reading and pricing a request cost nothing, and the row rates are the same on every plan.

Funding filings and new executives, every morning

SpecStream reads the public databases a sales team watches for a reason to call. In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, each one a row at specstream.ai/data/form-d. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals, and you can ask for your own cut of any of them.

SpecStream's 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 scores and method are on benchmarks.

The accounts stay up to date in your CRM

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and new matches arrive in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 accounts that did not change costs $10. Rows you already own are never charged again.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns every matching account as a structured row with its buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. You approve the most a run can cost before it starts, and new accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Lusha

A contact database sold in credits. The Free plan has up to 40 credits a month, and Pro billed monthly is $69.90 for 600 credits a month. An email takes 1 credit and a phone number 5, so 600 credits is 120 phone numbers. SpecStream adds a phone to a row for 15¢ and an email for 5¢, on accounts chosen by the conditions you wrote.

Lead411

A contact database sold by exports. Its entry plan is $49 a month for 1,000 exports, after a 7 day trial with 50 free exports. SpecStream finds the accounts first, by any trait on the live web, and bills each one as a delivered row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1.

Apollo.io

A sales platform sold by the seat, with every seat on an account on the same plan. A user can select and export up to 10,000 leads in one click from its database. SpecStream has no seats: a team and its agents spend from one balance, and each account is checked against your conditions on the live web before it is delivered.

Cognism

A contact database sold by quote. Its core prospecting package includes 5 seats, each seat carries an allocation of credits, and the price comes from a call with its sales team. SpecStream publishes its rates, 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row on every plan, and quotes the most a run can cost before it starts.