Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

Modash alternatives in 2026

Creators by what they post about, at 5¢ a row.

Modash costs $2,388 a year on Essentials, or from $299 a month without the yearly term, and $5,988 a year on Performance. Essentials gives 2 team members 300 opened profiles and 150 unlocked emails a month, and the search runs over Modash's own database of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles.

SpecStream is the best alternative to Modash for an influencer marketing team that needs creators its rivals have not found yet. 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, with the business contact they published. A creator with 5 facts costs 5¢ and an email 5¢ more, so 1,000 creators cost $50. There are no seats, and you see the most a run can cost before it starts.

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New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and Modash side by side

	SpecStream	Modash
What you send	The creators you want in plain words: the niche, the market, the language and any other condition every row must meet	AI Search and filters over its creator database, across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
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 own database: every public profile on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube with over 1K followers, 380M+ creators
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 Modash. Each one you open counts against the month: 300 opened profiles on Essentials, 800 on Performance
The creator's contact	The business email the creator published, for 5¢ on top of the row, and a phone for 15¢	Emails that creators list publicly in their profiles: 150 unlocked a month on Essentials, 400 on Performance
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 380M+ profiles in its database, opened inside your monthly allowance
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¢	Bring your creators into Modash by CSV, social handles or emails. Each profile you then open uses the 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 with seats. Essentials is $199 a month as $2,388 paid yearly, for 2 team members. Performance is $499 a month as $5,988 paid yearly, for 5. Monthly plans start at $299 a month. Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year
When you need more	Add balance and keep the same rate. A top-up never expires. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages	No rate per extra profile or email. Its pricing page says to upgrade to a bigger plan or ask for a custom plan. All limits reset at the start of each billing cycle
Reruns and change labels	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¢	Content tracking follows the posts of creators already in a campaign: 100 tracked creators on Essentials, 250 on Performance
MCP and API	MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A, at the same row rates. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC	Modash MCP connects your account to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. The API is priced apart from the platform: the Discovery API starts at $16,200 a year and the Raw API at $10,000 a year
Where the data goes	Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks	CSV export of creator lists, CSV or Excel export of campaign results, a Shopify integration, and an inbox for Gmail or Outlook
The free start	$10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 creators	A 14-day trial, no card: 20 opened profiles, 6 unlocked emails and 10 tracked creators

Why Modash buyers move to SpecStream

You search by what creators post about

Modash search runs over its own database of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles, the same database every other Modash customer filters. On SpecStream you write the brief the way you would give it to a colleague: "creators in Germany who post in German about trail running", or "newsletter writers in the UK who cover home espresso and take sponsors". 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 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 monthly allowance

Modash Essentials unlocks 150 creator emails a month and Performance 400. On SpecStream the business email a creator published adds 5¢ to the row. 150 creators with 5 facts and an email cost $15, and 400 cost $40. Source URL and read time on every value.

You pay for the creators delivered

A Modash plan is paid each month or year whether the campaign runs or not, and its limits reset at the start of each billing cycle. 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 a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

The search behind it 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. For shows as well as channels, SpecStream holds 424,019 podcasts that published an episode in the 90 days to November 7, 2026, read on November 9, 2026 at specstream.ai/data/podcasts. 169,321 of them publish at least weekly.

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 creators 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 Modash 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.

GRIN

A creator management platform with an escrow wallet for creator payments. Starter costs $200 a month plus a 10% management fee on wallet deposits, and paid partnership and affiliate campaigns need at least $250 in the wallet. On SpecStream a creator is a 5¢ row, and the price does not move with what you pay your creators.

HypeAuditor

A creator database of 227.2M+ accounts with 35+ filters. Its pricing page prints no dollar amount and starts buyers on free media plans and demo versions of its features. SpecStream takes the brief in your own words, with any condition, and prints its rates: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.

CreatorIQ

An enterprise platform to find, manage, track and report on influencer campaigns, sold by quote. Vendr reports that the median buyer pays $39,250 a year. On SpecStream that amount buys 785,000 creator rows at 5¢, and you can start with $10 of credit and no card.

Upfluence

A platform to find creators, manage programs and pay them, with a 14M+ creators database. Every plan is customized and the minimum contract is 12 months. SpecStream sells by the delivered row with no term: add balance when a campaign needs creators, and a top-up never expires.

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 Modash

Write the creators you want in plain words, or export your creator lists from Modash 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": "Creators in Germany who post in German about trail running, with their channel 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.

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Frequently asked questions

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How much does Modash cost?

Modash Essentials is $199 a month as $2,388 paid yearly, and Performance is $499 a month as $5,988 paid yearly. Monthly plans start at $299 a month, and Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year. Essentials covers 2 team members, 300 opened profiles, 150 unlocked emails and 100 tracked creators a month. Performance covers 5 team members, 800 profiles, 400 emails and 250 tracked creators.

What is the best Modash alternative?

SpecStream, at 5¢ a creator. You name the niche, market and language, approve the most the run can cost, and get one structured row per creator who posts about it, with the business email they published for 5¢ more. 1,000 creators with 5 facts cost $50, and the rows land in your sheet, your CRM, Slack or your agent.

Does Modash have a free plan?

Modash has a 14-day free trial with no card, limited to 20 opened profiles, 6 unlocked emails and 10 tracked creators. SpecStream gives every new account $10 of credit, no card, which is up to 200 creators at 5¢ a row or 100 with an email.

How much does the Modash API cost?

The Modash Discovery API starts at $16,200 a year and the Raw API at $10,000 a year, priced apart from the platform and run on monthly credits. SpecStream's API, SDKs and MCP server charge the same rates as the workspace: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, $5 per 1,000 searches on the Search API and $0.80 per 1,000 pages on the Extract API.

Can SpecStream find a creator's email?

Yes, for 5¢ on top of the row. It is the business email the creator published, and the row carries the URL of the page it was read on and the time it was read. A phone adds 15¢.

Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?

Yes, both, at the same rates of 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. The MCP server is at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key, and connecting an agent is free on every plan. The REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI spend from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on each key.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. CreatorIQ sells by quote, so its figure is the one 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
Modash pricingmodash.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
Modash home pagemodash.io/, read Nov 9, 2026
Modash APImodash.io/influencer-marketing-api, read Nov 9, 2026
GRIN pricinggrin.co/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
HypeAuditor pricinghypeauditor.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
CreatorIQ on Vendrvendr.com/marketplace/creatoriq, read Nov 9, 2026
Upfluence pricingupfluence.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026