ParseHub alternatives in 2026
Rows from one request, at 5¢ a row.
ParseHub's paid plans start at $189 a month, by its help center. You build a project in its app for almost every website, and each run stops at a page limit: 200 pages on Free and 10,000 on Standard, by PulseSignal.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Ask in plain words, and it searches the live web, reads every page that holds the facts and returns rows that meet every condition you wrote, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and ParseHub side by side
| SpecStream | ParseHub | |
|---|---|---|
| What you send | The data you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | A project you build in the ParseHub app. Its help center says you will probably need a new project for every website |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, place, product or filing, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | The pages your projects scrape, counted per run: each time new content loads is one page |
| Setup before the first row | None. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, and reading and pricing a request cost nothing | A project per website, built and kept working by you |
| 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 | None. Each project reads the site it was built for |
| 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 | A plan. Paid plans start at $189 a month, by its help center. PulseSignal lists Standard at $189 and Professional at $599 a month (prices verified September 7, 2026) |
| Limits on a plan | The same row rates on every plan. A run keeps working until it reaches the count, up to four hours on the largest requests | Free: 5 public projects and 200 pages per run. Standard: 20 private projects and 10,000 pages per run. Professional: 120 private projects, by PulseSignal |
| The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | A plan fee each month, whether a project finds the data or not |
| 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¢ | Project scheduling on paid plans |
| Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | Images and files saved to Dropbox or Amazon S3 on paid plans |
| The free start | $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows | A free plan with up to 5 projects |
Why ParseHub buyers move to SpecStream
One request covers every site that holds the data
On ParseHub each website is a project you build, and its help center says almost every site needs its own. On SpecStream the request is the whole job. It can be companies, places, products, filings or tenders: "every online store in Germany that sells Sage or De'Longhi espresso machines, with the price today and whether it is in stock", or "open school HVAC tenders in Texas, with the agency and due date". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record. When a site changes its layout, you have nothing to fix.
You pay for rows, and the pages behind them are free
ParseHub bills a plan from $189 a month and caps the pages a run may read. 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. At 5¢ a row, 10,000 rows cost $500. The searches and pages behind each row cost nothing, a retry costs nothing, and a run that finds nothing 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. An agent's key carries its own limits: total, per run and monthly.
The Search and Extract APIs are measured on 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. A search costs $5 per 1,000 and a page read $0.80 per 1,000, on the same balance as your rows.
Reruns label every row and land in your tools
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 Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.
Other ParseHub alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns structured rows from the live web at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Octoparse
A desktop and cloud app where you build a task per site. It starts with a free plan of 10 tasks and 50,000 rows of export a month, then $69 a month on Standard and $249 on Professional, billed annually. A SpecStream request covers every site that holds the data.
Apify
A platform for cloud programs called Actors. Starter is $19 a month plus usage at $0.2 per compute unit, Scale $199 and Business $999, at lower unit rates. SpecStream has one rate card for every request, the same on every plan.
Browse AI
Robots that extract data from the sites you set up. Personal is $19 a month billed annually for 2 domains, and its fully managed extraction starts at $500 a month paid annually. A SpecStream request has no domain limit.
Import.io
Extractors you set up per site, billed by successful query. Starter is $9 a month billed annually for 5,000 queries, and Standard $199 for 50,000. On SpecStream the pages read to find a row are not billed.
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 ParseHub
Write the data you want in plain words, in place of the projects you build and schedule today. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.
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": "Every online store in Germany that sells Sage or De'\''Longhi espresso machines, with the store name, the product page, the price today and whether it is in stock", "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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https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The scores are on benchmarks.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. ParseHub's pricing page prints no text to a reader without its script, so its price comes from an archived copy of its own help article and its plan limits from PulseSignal, named where they appear. Each other tool's figure comes from its own pricing page.
- 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 dataspecstream.ai/data, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
- ParseHub help, Pricing of Paid Plans (archived Feb 12, 2026)web.archive.org/web/20260212192235/https://help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006322493-Pricing-of-Paid-Plans, read Nov 9, 2026
- PulseSignal, ParseHub pricinggetpulsesignal.com/pricing/parsehub, read Nov 9, 2026
- Octoparse pricingoctoparse.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Apify pricingapify.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Browse AI pricingbrowse.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Import.io pricingimport.io/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026