PitchBook alternatives in 2026

The thesis is the search

A PitchBook screener filters the fields PitchBook collected. On SpecStream you write the thesis as you would say it to an associate: "founder-owned commercial HVAC service companies in Texas founded before 2005", or "family-owned specialty food makers in the Midwest that sell to grocery chains". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every company must meet and the facts to bring back, then searches the live web and joins what each company's own site, filings and press say into one record.

A company that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed. Source URL and read time on every value.

Companies read from their own sites

A founder-owned business that never raised a round states what it does, who owns it and when it started on its own site. SpecStream reads those pages for each request, and every match on the live web comes back as a row. The Search API under it scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and SpecStream scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on benchmarks.

1,000 companies for $50, with no seats

Multiples reports a PitchBook team license at $25,000 to $40,000 a year with a 2 to 3 seat minimum. SpecStream has no seats. A row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, a row with up to 15 facts and one set of related records costs 15¢, and a deep row with no limit costs $1. The yearly letter list of 1,000 companies with 5 facts is $50, and each owner's email adds 5¢.

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.

This week's raises are already here

SpecStream reads SEC EDGAR the day a Form D is filed. In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, and each one is a row on specstream.ai/data/form-d with its filing history. Funding filings and new executives arrive weekly at Investors & deal flow. Ask for your own cut: one sector, one state, one round size.

A tracked company moves, and your CRM shows it

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each company comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 companies that did not change costs $10. New matches and changes land in Affinity, Salesforce, HubSpot, a sheet or Slack with no code, and PitchBook sells its CRM integration as a paid add-on. Rows you already own are never charged again.

Grata

A private company search platform for deal teams, sold in three tiers, Growth, Scale and Alpha, each behind a demo, with API access on the top tier or as an add-on. Multiples reports $15,000 to $40,000 a year, quoted per team. On SpecStream the same thesis is a request priced before it runs, at 5¢ to $1 a company.

Dealroom

A startup and venture database priced per seat and billed annually. Premium is €250 a seat a month at 10 seats, €30,000 a year, with a minimum of 3 seats and 10,000 export credits per seat. Its API is priced on call volume on top of any plan. SpecStream has no seats and no export credits: every row you pay for is yours to send to your CRM or sheet.

Harmonic

A startup database that tracks 35M+ companies and 195M+ people, sold by quote. Multiples reports $10,000 to $30,000 a year. SpecStream finds companies of any kind, venture-backed or founder-owned, from one request in plain words, and bills only the rows delivered.

Crunchbase

A self-serve company database built around funding rounds, with a free tier. Multiples lists it at $49 a month. SpecStream returns each company that meets every condition you wrote as one record, with the owner's email for 5¢ more, and reruns the request on your schedule.