Juicebox alternatives in 2026

People found by what they built

When a profile search returns people every rival already messaged, search by the code, papers, talks or patents the role needs, and get the people who made them in Ashby, with a link to the work you can mention in your first message.

The request is the whole job: "machine learning researchers in New York who published a paper on retrieval or ranking since 2024 and now work in industry", or "people who maintain open-source Postgres extensions, with what they built". SpecStream searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per person. Each person comes from the page where the work is published, and that page is the link on the row.

No seats and no credits to run out

Juicebox counts contact credits and exports against each seat every month: 500 of each on Starter. 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, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. 200 people with 15 facts and an email cost $40, and exporting them 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. A run that finds nothing costs nothing. Reading and pricing a request cost nothing, so you can size the pool for a role or a new city before you spend.

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 Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and the method are on benchmarks.

New people reach your ATS on a schedule

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 Ashby, Bullhorn, Slack, a sheet or a signed webhook with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the people who built, wrote or shipped what the role needs, 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. There are no seats, and new accounts get $10 of credit.

hireEZ

A sourcing and recruiting platform over 1B+ candidate profiles. Solo recruiters start at $494 a month, teams are priced by quote, and Vendr reports a median of $13,000 a year. On SpecStream $494 buys 2,470 people with 15 facts and an email.

SeekOut

A sourcing tool over 1B+ profiles. Sourcing Core is $149 a month paid annually, $1,788 a year, with 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month, and larger plans are custom. SpecStream has no exports to count: exporting costs nothing.

LinkedIn Recruiter

LinkedIn's sourcing seat, sold by quote on annual contracts with up to 150 InMails a month per seat. Vendr lists $8,000 to $12,000 per seat a year (February 2026). On SpecStream $8,000 buys 40,000 people with 15 facts and an email.

Gem

A recruiting CRM and ATS with custom pricing. Companies under 30 employees get Gem All-in-One free for six months, then 50% off a paid plan. SpecStream charges the same 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row at any company size, quoted before the run.