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People Data Labs alternatives in 2026

Any field your product needs, as rows from the live web, at 5¢ to $1 a row.

People Data Labs sells person and company records by the credit. Person plans start at $98 a month for 350 credits, which is 28¢ a record, and the free plan gives 100 credits a month with no contact data. Vendr reports that the median buyer pays $12,500 a year. When its dataset has no matching person, the API returns a 404.

SpecStream is the best alternative to People Data Labs for product and AI teams that need company and people data in their product or agent. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents: your code asks in plain words through the API or MCP, and gets typed rows that meet every condition it sent, read from the live web. A row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1, an email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢, and 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500. You approve the most a run can cost before it starts.

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New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and People Data Labs side by side

SpecStreamPeople Data Labs
What you sendThe companies, people or other records you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meetParameters that identify one person, sent to https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/person/enrich, or a query to the Person or Company Search API
What you get backStructured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every valueThe matching record from its dataset with a 200. When it finds no matching person, the reply is a 404
A list you already haveImport 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¢Bulk Enrichment takes up to 100 credits a request, 1 for each match in the batch
The unit you pay forA 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 planA credit. Enrichment takes 1 credit per successful request, and Search takes 1 credit for every profile it returns
The price to start$10 of credit on sign-up, no card. Plans at $19, $99 or $499 a month turn their whole price into credit. 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500Person: $98 a month for 350 credits, or from $940 a year. Company: $100 a month for 1,000 records. Enterprise is custom pricing on annual contracts. Vendr reports a median of $12,500 a year
Emails and phonesAn email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢ to the row that carries it, at the same rate on every plan. An email no page printed is labeled likelyThe free plan's 100 monthly records come without contact data
What failed or empty work costsNothing. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not chargedUnsuccessful requests are not billed, with one exception: Person Identify takes 1 credit per request, including a request with no match
The cost cap before a runThe most the whole job can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overagesThe plan's monthly credits. When the account has none left, requests return a 402 error
MCP and APIMCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDCREST API with a rate limit per key: 100 calls a minute on the free plan and 1,000 a minute for paying customers by default

Why People Data Labs buyers move to SpecStream

Any field your product needs, read from the live web

People Data Labs answers from the records in its dataset, and a person it does not match returns a 404. A SpecStream request is the whole job, written once: "Series A and B developer tool companies in the United States and Europe, with headcount, the last funding round, the CTO and the head of engineering, and a work email for each". 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, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per company or person.

A row costs 5¢, and a miss costs nothing

At People Data Labs' starting plan, $98 buys 350 person credits, 28¢ each, and every profile a search returns takes one. SpecStream's rates are on pricing: 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. A row that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. $98 on SpecStream is 1,960 rows at 5¢.

Your agent spends under a maximum you approved

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. An API key carries its own limits: total, per run, monthly, and the operations it allows. Agents connect to https://api.specstream.ai/mcp with OAuth or an API key, and people and agents spend from one balance.

Company data read every morning

SpecStream holds public databases and reads them every morning. On November 9, 2026, specstream.ai/data listed every US company that filed a Form D since January 3, 2023: 54,034 operating companies, from SEC EDGAR. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of them through the same API, with the people you need on each row.

The fields stay up to date

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 (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 rows that did not change costs $10. Changes arrive by signed webhook or through the API, and in Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or Slack with no code. Rows you already own are never charged again.

The most accurate web search API, in the same account

The Search API answers one question from the live web for $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. It scores a 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. The Extract API reads pages for $0.80 per 1,000 and scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on benchmarks.

Other People Data Labs alternatives

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words, through the API or MCP, returns every company or person that meets your conditions as a typed row, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Coresignal

Data sold in monthly credit plans: Mini at $49 a month, Starter at $199 and Pro at $499 after a 7 day free trial, and a $1,000 a month tier with 150,000 credits at $0.007 a credit. SpecStream has no monthly minimum for a row: each delivered row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 on every plan, under a maximum you approve.

Crustdata

A people and company data API billed in credits, with people enriched from 1 credit and companies from 2. New accounts start with $20 in credits, and enterprise plans start at four figures a month. SpecStream prices the whole request before it runs and bills only the rows that meet your conditions.

Enrich Layer

An enrichment API on monthly and annual plans. Both are a 12-month commitment, and canceling early incurs a fee for the remaining months. SpecStream has no commitment: you pay for delivered rows from your balance, and a plan at $19, $99 or $499 a month turns its whole price into credit.

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

SpecStreamParallelExaTavilyPerplexity
Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna60.945.553.047.947.0
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna9694919494
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol9997919295

How to switch from People Data Labs

Write the records you want in plain words, in place of the match parameters and search queries you send today. Or import the list you enrich now, 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 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": "Series A and B developer tool companies in the United States and Europe, with headcount, the last funding round, the CTO and the head of engineering, and a work email for each", "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 People Data Labs cost?
Person plans start at $98 a month for 350 credits, or from $940 a year, and company plans at $100 a month for 1,000 records. The free plan gives 100 credits a month with no contact data, Enterprise is custom pricing on annual contracts, and Vendr reports that the median buyer pays $12,500 a year.
What is the best People Data Labs alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. Your product or agent asks in plain words through the API or MCP, you approve the most the run can cost, and you get one typed row per company or person that meets every condition, read from the live web.
How do People Data Labs credits work?
1 credit pays for 1 successful enrichment request, and a search takes 1 credit for every profile it returns. Bulk Enrichment takes up to 100 credits a request, Person Identify takes 1 credit even with no match, and an account with no credits left gets a 402 error.
Is there a cheaper alternative to People Data Labs?
SpecStream delivers a row with up to 5 facts for 5¢, against 28¢ a person credit on People Data Labs' $98 plan. 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500, an email adds 5¢, a phone adds 15¢, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Does SpecStream have an API?
Yes, three: the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. They run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.
Can SpecStream enrich a list I already have?
Yes, up to 20,000 rows from a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base. Importing is free. Each row that matches your request pays its row rate, and a row that does not match costs a 5¢ check.
How accurate is SpecStream?
The Search API scores a 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. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and method are on benchmarks.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, and the median People Data Labs contract from Vendr.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  3. SpecStream dataspecstream.ai/data, read Nov 9, 2026
  4. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
  5. People Data Labs person pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/person, read Nov 9, 2026
  6. People Data Labs company pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/company, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. People Data Labs plansdocs.peopledatalabs.com/support/billing/compare-plans.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. People Data Labs creditsdocs.peopledatalabs.com/support/billing/how-credits-work.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. People Data Labs Person Enrichment API referencedocs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/reference-person-enrichment-api.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  10. People Data Labs usage limitsdocs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/usage-limits.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  11. Vendr, People Data Labsvendr.com/marketplace/people-data-labs, read Nov 9, 2026
  12. Coresignal pricingcoresignal.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
  13. Crustdata pricingcrustdata.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  14. Enrich Layer pricingenrichlayer.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026