Heepsy alternatives in 2026
Creators in your niche, at 5¢ a row.
Heepsy costs $69, $149 or $229 a month billed annually, and searches its own database of 20M+ creators. Plus caps a month at 25K results and 500 advanced profiles, and an email comes only with an advanced profile you unlock.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the niche, market and language, and every creator posting about it reaches your sheet as a structured row, at 5¢ for 5 facts and 5¢ more for the email they published.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and Heepsy side by side
| SpecStream | Heepsy | |
|---|---|---|
| What you send | The creators you want in plain words: the niche, the market, the language and any other condition every row must meet | A search in plain language, or AI, lookalike and text search with 30+ filters, over its database |
| Where it looks | The entire live web, read when you ask. Facts from a creator's profiles, site, podcast and press join into one record | Its database of 20M+ creators across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per creator, with the facts you asked for. Source URL and read time on every value | Creator profiles inside Heepsy. Results and advanced profiles count against the month: 5K and 100 on Starter, 25K and 500 on Plus, 100K and 2K on Advanced |
| The creator's contact | The business email the creator published, for 5¢ on top of the row, and a phone for 15¢ | Emails only for advanced profiles you unlocked, where the creator has public contact details. Contact details export starts on Plus |
| Data already held | Public databases read every morning at specstream.ai/data. 424,019 podcasts published an episode in the 90 days to November 7, 2026, and 169,321 of them publish at least weekly: specstream.ai/data/podcasts. Ask for your own cut by topic, language or country | The 20M+ creators in its database, opened inside your monthly allowance |
| 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, and no seats | A plan. Starter is $69 a month billed annually ($89 monthly), Plus $149 ($199) and Advanced $229 ($299). Custom pricing for large teams |
| Exports | Reading, exporting and sharing cost nothing, with no monthly cap | None on Free. Excel or CSV from Starter, with basic profile data and follower counts |
| Refunds and price changes | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages. What a run does not use goes back to your balance | Fees already paid are non-refundable, unused billing periods included, and Heepsy may change a plan's price, features or usage limits |
| MCP and API | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC, at the same row rates | API access only on the Custom plan, priced on request |
| Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | Excel or CSV export, and a Shopify and WooCommerce integration |
| The free start | $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 creators | A Free plan at $0: 500 results and 10 advanced profiles a month, 1 project, no card |
Why Heepsy buyers move to SpecStream
You search by what creators post about
Heepsy search covers its own 20M+ creators, the same database every other Heepsy customer filters. On SpecStream you write the brief the way you would give it to a colleague: "travel creators in Spain who post in Spanish about hiking and camping", or "newsletter writers in the UK who cover home espresso and take sponsors". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, then searches the live web and joins what it finds into one record per creator. A creator who fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed.
The email costs 5¢, with no profile to unlock
On Heepsy an email comes only with an advanced profile you unlock: 100 a month on Starter, 500 on Plus. On SpecStream the business email a creator published adds 5¢ to the row. 500 creators with 5 facts and an email cost $50. Source URL and read time on every value.
You pay for the creators delivered
A Heepsy plan is paid each month or year whether the campaign runs or not, and fees already paid are non-refundable. 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.
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. A run that finds nothing costs nothing.
The search behind every row leads two public benchmarks
SpecStream's search API scores 97.9 F-score on SimpleQA Verified, on all 1,000 official questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on WideSearch, on all 200 official tasks. The scores and the method are on benchmarks.
New creators in the niche arrive in your sheet
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¢. New matches and changes land in Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.
Other Heepsy alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. You describe the creators in plain words and get one structured row for each, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row plus 5¢ for an email, under a maximum you approve before the run. 1,000 creators with 5 facts cost $50.
Modash
A creator database of 380M+ profiles sold as plans with monthly limits. Essentials is $199 a month as $2,388 paid yearly, with 300 opened profiles and 150 unlocked creator emails. On SpecStream 150 creators with 5 facts and an email cost $15.
GRIN
A creator management platform with a wallet for creator payments. Starter costs $200 a month plus a 10% management fee on wallet deposits. On SpecStream a creator is a 5¢ row, and the price does not move with what you pay your creators.
Upfluence
A platform to find creators, run programs and pay them, with a 14M+ creators database, custom quoted with a 12 month minimum. Vendr reports a median of $15,000 a year. SpecStream sells by the delivered row with no term.
HypeAuditor
A creator database of 227.2M+ profiles with 35+ filters. Its pricing page prints no plan price and sends buyers to a free start or to sales. SpecStream prints its rates: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ for an email.
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 Heepsy
Write the creators you want in plain words, or export your saved creators from Heepsy to CSV and import them, 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 creators.
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": "Travel creators in Spain who post in Spanish about hiking and camping, with their profile link, follower count and the business email they published", "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.
Frequently asked questions
Something we didn't answer? Talk to a human
How much does Heepsy cost?
What is the best Heepsy alternative?
Is Heepsy free?
How many creators does Heepsy have?
Does Heepsy give refunds?
Can SpecStream find a creator's email?
Does SpecStream have an API?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The scores are on benchmarks.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Heepsy's prices and terms come from archived copies of its own pricing and terms pages. Upfluence and CreatorIQ sell by quote, so their figures are the ones Vendr publishes.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream podcasts dataspecstream.ai/data/podcasts, read Nov 9, 2026
- Heepsy pricing (archived Oct 22, 2026)web.archive.org/web/20261022171029/https://www.heepsy.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Heepsy terms of service (archived Oct 10, 2026)web.archive.org/web/20261010231615/https://www.heepsy.com/terms-of-service, read Nov 9, 2026
- Modash pricingmodash.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- GRIN pricinggrin.co/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
- Upfluence pricingupfluence.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Upfluence on Vendrvendr.com/marketplace/upfluence, read Nov 9, 2026
- HypeAuditor pricinghypeauditor.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026