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# Best PhantomBuster alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# 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.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-phantombuster&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DSoftware%2520companies%2520in%2520Germany%2520with%252050%2520to%2520500%2520employees%2520that%2520are%2520hiring%2520for%2520RevOps%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Sales%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email)

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

## SpecStream and PhantomBuster side by side

|  | SpecStream | PhantomBuster |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you send | The accounts you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | A Phantom, one of its pre-built automations, or a multi-step Workflow. A plan holds 5, 15 or 50 automation slots |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | The results of each run as CSV or JSON. Free and Trial stop at 10 rows per export or API call |
| Data already held | Public databases read every morning at [specstream.ai/data](https://specstream.ai/data?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster): 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](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster). Ask for your own cut of any of them | Data is extracted live when an automation runs, inside the plan's 20, 80 or 300 execution hours a month |
| 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 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 costs | 5¢ on a delivered row that carries the email. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not charged | One 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 use | A top-up never expires. What a run does not use goes back to your balance | Credits 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 run | The most the whole job can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | The 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 credit | A 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 delivery | MCP 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 webhooks | An 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

### One request covers the accounts, the committee and the CRM

Your best accounts share a trait no filter lists. Describe it, and every account that has it reaches your CRM with its buying committee and a link to where the trait shows. The trait can be the tools a company runs, the roles it hires for or the markets it entered: "Software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees that are hiring for RevOps, with the VP of Sales and a work email". 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 account. There is no automation to pick per site and no slot to free up.

### The bill counts delivered rows

A PhantomBuster plan is a month of execution hours and credits, and an email credit is used on each attempt whether or not an email comes back. 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. 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, plus 5¢ for each email. An account left out costs nothing, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

### The price covers the whole job

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. Reading and pricing a request cost nothing.

### Data held today, and measured accuracy

On Nov 9, 2026, [specstream.ai/data/places](https://specstream.ai/data/places?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster) held 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, and [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster) held 54,034 operating companies that filed a Form D. Ask for your own cut of either, or for accounts no database lists.

The Search API 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. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and method are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster).

### Reruns label every row and land in your CRM

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 HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

## Other PhantomBuster alternatives

### SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition as structured rows in your CRM, 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.

### Evaboot

Credit plans from $9 a month for 100 credits and $29 a month for 400, up to $299 a month for 15,000. A verified email takes 1 credit, $0.09 on Starter. On SpecStream an email is 5¢ on a delivered row, on every plan.

### LaGrowthMachine

Priced per identity: plans start at €60 a month per identity, and LGM Pro costs €120 per identity a month. SpecStream has no seats or identities. The price is per delivered row, and people and agents spend from one balance.

### Browse AI

Credit plans: Free with 50 credits a month, Personal at $48 a month for 2,000 credits or $19 a month billed annually, Professional from $87 a month, and Premium from $500 a month billed annually. On SpecStream the searches and pages behind a row are not billed, and the most a run can cost is approved before it starts.

### Apify

The Starter plan costs $19 a month with $19 of included usage, and a compute unit costs $0.20 on Starter. On the free plan, access is blocked until the next monthly cycle once the usage is spent. SpecStream has one rate card for every request, the same on every plan, and a top-up never expires.

## 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 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.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-phantombuster&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=phantombuster&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DSoftware%2520companies%2520in%2520Germany%2520with%252050%2520to%2520500%2520employees%2520that%2520are%2520hiring%2520for%2520RevOps%252C%2520with%2520the%2520VP%2520of%2520Sales%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email)

## Frequently asked questions

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

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.

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.  [SpecStream data, local businesses](https://specstream.ai/data/places)specstream.ai/data/places, read Nov 9, 2026
5.  [SpecStream data, Form D filings](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d)specstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
6.  [SpecStream signals](https://specstream.ai/signals)specstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [PhantomBuster pricing explained](https://phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained)phantombuster.com/blog/ai-automation/phantombuster-pricing-explained, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [PhantomBuster API](https://hub.phantombuster.com/docs/api.md)hub.phantombuster.com/docs/api.md, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [Evaboot pricing](https://www.evaboot.com/pricing)evaboot.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [LaGrowthMachine pricing](https://lagrowthmachine.com/phantombuster-pricing/)lagrowthmachine.com/phantombuster-pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
11.  [Browse AI pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing)browse.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
12.  [Apify pricing](https://apify.com/pricing)apify.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026