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# Best Juicebox alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# Juicebox alternatives in 2026

**People by their work, at 20¢ a person.**

Juicebox costs $99 a seat a month on Starter and $179 on Growth, billed yearly. Starter gives 500 contact credits and 500 exports a month, Growth 1,500 of each per seat, and every search runs over its 800M profiles.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe people by the code, papers, talks or patents the role needs, and get each one as a row with a link to the work, at 20¢ with 15 facts and an email.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-juicebox&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=juicebox&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DMachine%2520learning%2520researchers%2520in%2520New%2520York%2520who%2520published%2520a%2520paper%2520on%2520retrieval%2520or%2520ranking%2520since%25202024%2520and%2520now%2520work%2520in%2520industry%252C%2520with%2520the%2520paper%252C%2520their%2520current%2520employer%2520and%2520an%2520email)

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

## SpecStream and Juicebox side by side

|  | SpecStream | Juicebox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you send | The people you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | An AI search over its profiles, unlimited from Starter and limited on Free |
| People covered | Anyone whose work is published on the live web: the code, papers, talks or patents the role needs, each person found on the page where the work is published | 800M global profiles from 30+ data sources |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Profiles inside Juicebox, with contact info paid from monthly credits |
| Emails and phones | 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, charged on the rows that carry them. No monthly allowance | Contact credits: 500 a month on Starter, 1,500 a seat a month on Growth, unlimited on Business. One credit returns every email and phone on a profile |
| Exports | Reading, exporting and sharing cost nothing, with no monthly cap | 500 a month on Starter, 1,500 a seat a month on Growth, 2,250 a seat a month on Business, with 100, 250 or up to 500 profiles per bulk export |
| 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 seat. Starter is $99 a seat a month billed yearly or $119 monthly, Growth $179 or $199, and Business is custom, on annual billing only |
| A larger team | The same row rates for any number of people, with no seats. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at those rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more credit | Growth takes up to 5 seats, each paid. Business is custom and annual |
| Agents | 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 | Juicebox Agents, an add-on at $199 per agent a month on a paid plan |
| Cancelling | Nothing to cancel. Add balance when a role needs people, and a top-up never expires | Cancelling stops future charges with no refund for the current billing period. A paused plan is charged again when the pause ends |
| Where the data goes | Ashby, Bullhorn, Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Affinity, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | 100+ ATS and CRM integrations and CSV export, inside the export limit |
| How to start | $10 of credit, no card. At 20¢ a person with 15 facts and an email, that is 50 people | A Free plan with limited searches, 5 contact credits once and no exports |

## Why Juicebox buyers move to SpecStream

### 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](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=juicebox).

### 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.

## Other Juicebox alternatives

### 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.

## 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 Juicebox

Write the role the way you would brief a sourcer: what the person built, wrote or shipped, where they are, and the facts you want on each one. Or import the people you exported from Juicebox, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 20¢ a person with 15 facts and an email, that is 50 people.

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": "Machine learning researchers in New York who published a paper on retrieval or ranking since 2024 and now work in industry, with the paper, their current employer and an email", "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-juicebox&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=juicebox&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DMachine%2520learning%2520researchers%2520in%2520New%2520York%2520who%2520published%2520a%2520paper%2520on%2520retrieval%2520or%2520ranking%2520since%25202024%2520and%2520now%2520work%2520in%2520industry%252C%2520with%2520the%2520paper%252C%2520their%2520current%2520employer%2520and%2520an%2520email)

## Frequently asked questions

Something we didn't answer? [Talk to a human](https://specstream.ai/talk-to-a-human.md)

How much does Juicebox cost?

Juicebox Starter is $99 a seat a month billed yearly or $119 monthly, Growth is $179 or $199, and Business is custom on annual billing. Juicebox Agents add $199 per agent a month. Free costs $0 with limited searches.

What is the best Juicebox alternative?

SpecStream, at 20¢ a person with 15 facts and an email. You describe the people by what they built, wrote or shipped, approve the most the run can cost, and get one structured row per person in Ashby, Bullhorn, your sheet or Slack, with no seats.

How many contact credits does Juicebox include?

500 a month on Starter, 1,500 a seat a month on Growth and unlimited on Business, with 5 once on Free. On SpecStream an email costs 5¢ and a phone 15¢, charged only on the rows that carry them, with no monthly allowance.

Does Juicebox have a free plan?

Yes, at $0 with limited searches, 5 contact credits once and no exports. SpecStream gives every new account $10 of credit, no card, which is 50 people with 15 facts and an email.

Does Juicebox refund when you cancel?

Its help center says cancelling stops future charges but does not refund the current billing period. SpecStream has no subscription to cancel: a top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.

Where do the emails come from?

An email costs 5¢ and is charged when the row carries it. An email printed on a page comes with that page's URL and the time it was read. An email no page printed is built from the company's published pattern, labeled likely and billed as an email.

Does SpecStream have an API?

Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and 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. Deep Search costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp`. The scores are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=juicebox).

### Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Juicebox's prices and terms come from its own pricing page and help center. Each other tool's figure comes from its own page, and the hireEZ median and LinkedIn Recruiter figures from Vendr.

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.  [Juicebox pricing](https://juicebox.ai/pricing)juicebox.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
5.  [Juicebox home page](https://juicebox.ai/)juicebox.ai/, read Nov 9, 2026
6.  [Juicebox help, cancel a subscription](https://docs.juicebox.ai/help/billing/cancel-subscription)docs.juicebox.ai/help/billing/cancel-subscription, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [hireEZ pricing](https://hireez.com/pricing/)hireez.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [hireEZ on Vendr](https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/hireez)vendr.com/marketplace/hireez, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [SeekOut pricing](https://www.seekout.com/pricing)seekout.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [LinkedIn Recruiter](https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/recruiter)business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/recruiter, read Nov 9, 2026
11.  [Vendr, LinkedIn pricing (updated February 2026)](https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/linkedin)vendr.com/marketplace/linkedin, read Nov 9, 2026
12.  [Gem pricing](https://www.gem.com/pricing)gem.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026