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PhantomBuster alternatives in 2026

Accounts as finished rows, at 5¢ to $1 a row.

PhantomBuster costs $69, $159 or $439 a month on Start, Grow and Scale. The plan buys 20, 80 or 300 execution hours, 5, 15 or 50 automation slots, and monthly credits that reset and do not roll over. An email credit is used on every discovery attempt, whether or not an email comes back.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the accounts you want in plain words, and every account that meets your conditions reaches your CRM as a structured row with its buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. You see the most the whole job can cost before it runs.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and PhantomBuster side by side

SpecStreamPhantomBuster
What you sendThe accounts you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meetA Phantom, one of its pre-built automations, or a multi-step Workflow. A plan holds 5, 15 or 50 automation slots
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 results of each run as CSV or JSON. Free and Trial stop at 10 rows per export or API call
Data already heldPublic 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 themData is extracted live when an automation runs, inside the plan's 20, 80 or 300 execution hours a month
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 monthly plan of execution hours, slots and credits: Start $69 for 20 hours, Grow $159 for 80, Scale $439 for 300. Billed annually, $56, $128 or $352 a month
What an email costs5¢ on a delivered row that carries the email. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not chargedOne email credit per discovery attempt, whether or not an email comes back. A plan includes 500, 2,500 or 10,000 email credits a month
Balance you do not useA top-up never expires. What a run does not use goes back to your balanceCredits reset monthly and do not roll over. Each kind of step has its own credits: email, AI, URL and CAPTCHA
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 hours and slots, with no top-ups in the middle of a billing cycle. More credits come as add-on packs or a larger plan
How to start$10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more creditA 14 day trial with no card. Free has 30 minutes of execution time a month, 1 slot and 50 MB of storage, with no email, AI, URL Finder or CAPTCHA credits
API and deliveryMCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. Rows go to Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooksAn API whose v1 endpoints return JSON. Its pricing guide has you move results into your CRM or data warehouse by CSV, JSON or the API

Why PhantomBuster buyers move to SpecStream

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How SpecStream scores

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

How to switch from PhantomBuster

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the CSV you exported from PhantomBuster, 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": "Software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees that are hiring for RevOps, with the VP of Sales and a work 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.

Frequently asked questions

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How much does PhantomBuster cost?
PhantomBuster costs $69, $159 or $439 a month on Start, Grow and Scale, or $56, $128 or $352 a month billed annually. The plans include 20, 80 or 300 execution hours and 500, 2,500 or 10,000 email credits a month. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 per delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.
What is the best PhantomBuster alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the accounts in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get one structured row per account that meets every condition, with its buying committee. The rows land in your CRM, your sheet or your agent, and the same request reruns on your schedule.
Does PhantomBuster have a free plan?
Yes, with 30 minutes of execution time a month, 1 slot and 50 MB of storage, and exports and API output limited to 10 rows. Its trial lasts 14 days with no card. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card, which is up to 200 rows at 5¢ a row.
Does PhantomBuster charge when it finds no email?
Yes, 1 email credit is used per discovery attempt, whether or not an email comes back. On SpecStream an email costs 5¢ on a delivered row that carries it, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Do unused PhantomBuster credits roll over?
No, the 500 to 10,000 email credits in a plan reset every month and do not roll over, and execution time and slots have no top-ups in the middle of a cycle. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.
What do 1,000 accounts cost on SpecStream?
$150 for 1,000 accounts with the buying committee, at 15¢ a row, plus 5¢ for each email. The quote shows the most the job can cost before it runs, and a row that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed.
Does SpecStream have an API?
Yes: a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp, with the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results and the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages. Your team and your agent spend from the same balance, inside the limits you set on each key.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

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  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  3. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
  4. SpecStream data, local businessesspecstream.ai/data/places, read Nov 9, 2026
  5. SpecStream data, Form D filingsspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
  6. SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. PhantomBuster pricing explainedphantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. PhantomBuster APIhub.phantombuster.com/docs/api.md, read Nov 9, 2026
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  11. Browse AI pricingbrowse.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  12. Apify pricingapify.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026