Grata alternatives in 2026
Every company that fits your thesis as a row, at 5¢ to $1 a row.
Grata publishes no plan price. Its pricing page names three plans, Growth, Scale and Alpha, each behind "Book a demo", and its rate card meters use in credits: 1.50 for an API call, 1.00 for an export and 1.00 for a CRM sync. Pulse Signal lists Grata at $12,000 a year, and CostBench reports a median contract of $155,000 a year from 6 buyer reports. A search returns the companies in Grata's database.
SpecStream is the best alternative to Grata for deal teams, searchers and independent sponsors who source from a thesis. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents: you write the thesis in plain words, and it finds every company on the live web that fits, reads each company's own site and returns one structured row per company. 1,000 companies with 5 facts each cost $50, an owner's email adds 5¢, and you see the most the run can cost before it starts.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and Grata side by side
| SpecStream | Grata | |
|---|---|---|
| What you send | Your thesis in plain words, with the conditions every company must meet | A search of Grata's database: 22M+ global companies, 200K+ conferences and 10M+ executive contacts |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, with the facts you asked for joined from many sites. Source URL and read time on every value | A company profile from its database, with over 70 fields per company |
| A company the database lacks | Found on the live web and read from its own site. Every row meets the conditions you wrote | A custom research request, at 1.50 credits a request |
| Published price | 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. 1,000 companies with 5 facts cost $50 | Sold by demo on three plans: Growth, Scale and Alpha. Pulse Signal lists $12,000 a year. CostBench reports a median contract of $155,000 a year from 6 buyer reports |
| The unit you pay for | A delivered row. The same rate on every plan | A subscription plus credits. An API call takes 1.50 credits, an export 1.00, a CRM sync 1.00 and a corporate document 0.75 to 75.00. The rate card prints no dollar value for a credit |
| The cost cap before a run | The most the whole job can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | Use past the plan is charged at the rate card and invoiced monthly in arrears |
| Contract | Pay as you go from a balance, or a plan at $19, $99 or $499 a month that turns its whole price into credit | Subscription fees are invoiced annually in advance and are non-cancelable and non-refundable. Grata can raise the fee at renewal with 30 days' notice |
| Start without a sales call | $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 companies | Every plan on the pricing page opens with "Book a demo" |
| Data already held | Public databases read every morning at specstream.ai/data: 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. Ask for your own cut of any of them | 150 data points across 22M+ global companies, with seller intent signals on the Alpha plan |
| 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¢ | An Enrichment API and a List API, at 1.50 credits an API call |
| When a tracked company moves | A saved request reruns 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¢ | Seller intent signals, said to find companies 6 to 12 months before they come to market, on the Alpha plan |
| MCP and API | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A on every account. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC | API access comes with the Alpha plan or as an optional module. A Grata MCP call from an agent takes 1.00 to 10.00 credits: 1.00 for standard data, 3.00 for company and AI search, 10.00 for premium data |
| Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks. Reading, exporting and sharing cost nothing | A direct data export takes 1.00 credit, and a CRM sync takes 1.00 credit |
Why Grata buyers move to SpecStream
Your thesis is the request
On Grata you search the companies its database holds. On SpecStream you write the thesis as you would brief an associate: "founder-owned commercial HVAC service companies in Texas and Oklahoma, with the owner's name and the year founded", or "family-owned specialty food makers in the Midwest that sell to grocery chains, with the owner and the plant location". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every company must meet and the facts to bring back, then searches the live web and reads each company's own site. A company that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed.
Your letter list costs $50 per 1,000 companies
A row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, a row with up to 15 facts and one set of related records costs 15¢, and a deep row with no limit costs $1. An owner's email adds 5¢ and a phone adds 15¢. A letter list of 1,000 founder-owned companies with the owner's name on each row is $50, and $100 with every owner's email. Grata's pricing page shows "Book a demo" under each of its three plans, and its rate card counts credits with no dollar value printed.
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. Duplicates and companies you already own are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. Grata invoices its subscription annually in advance, and charges use past the plan at its rate card, monthly in arrears.
You hear when a tracked company moves
Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each company comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, a changed or new row costs half its rate, and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, your CRM or a signed webhook. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are ready as signals at specstream.ai/signals.
Every private raise filed with the SEC is already here
SpecStream reads SEC EDGAR 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 with its filing history since 2023. Ask for your own cut: the companies on your tracked list that raised, or every filer in your sector and state.
The search behind your rows is measured
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 Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are at specstream.ai/benchmarks.
Other Grata alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. A thesis in plain words returns every company that fits as a structured row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, under a maximum you approve before the run. 1,000 companies with 5 facts each cost $50, and an owner's email adds 5¢.
Tracxn
A private company database with 8.4M+ companies, 292K+ investors and 2M+ funding rounds. The free Lite plan has usage limits, Premium is sold through sales, exports take credits, and each user gets 1 free analyst query a month. SpecStream finds the companies that fit your thesis on the live web, and exporting them costs nothing.
Apollo.io
A sales contact tool sold on four plans: Free, Basic, Professional and Custom. It exports up to 10,000 leads in one click, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. On SpecStream the owner is one of the facts on the company's row, read from the company's own pages, with an email for 5¢ more.
Lusha
A contact tool billed in credits: 1 credit to reveal an email, 5 credits to reveal a phone number, and up to 40 credits a month on the Free plan. SpecStream starts from the thesis and returns the company, the owner and the owner's email on one row for 10¢.
How SpecStream scores
The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.
| SpecStream |  Parallel |  Exa |  Tavily |  Perplexity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |
How to switch from Grata
Write your thesis in plain words, or import the company list you exported from Grata, 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 companies.
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": "Founder-owned commercial HVAC service companies in Texas and Oklahoma, with the owner'\''s name, the year founded, the city, the services listed on their site and the owner'\''s email", "count": 25}'Approve that maximum and you pay for the companies found. Send the rows to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or a sheet, and save the request to hear when a company on it changes.
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Does SpecStream have an API?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp, Python and TypeScript SDKs and a CLI, on every account. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, from the same balance as your rows.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. Grata publishes no plan price, so its price figures come from Pulse Signal and CostBench, named where they appear.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream Form D dataspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
- Grata pricinggrata.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Grata rate cardgrata.com/rate-card, read Nov 9, 2026
- Grata terms of servicegrata.com/legal/terms-of-service, read Nov 9, 2026
- Grata APIgrata.com/api, read Nov 9, 2026
- Pulse Signal, Grata pricinggetpulsesignal.com/compare/grata-vs-hunter, read Nov 9, 2026
- CostBench, Gratacostbench.com/software/financial-data-terminals/grata/, read Nov 9, 2026
- Tracxn pricingtracxn.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Apollo.io pricingapollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026