Proxycurl alternatives in 2026
People and company rows at 5¢.
Proxycurl shut down on July 4, 2025, after LinkedIn sued it in January. Its team now runs NinjaPear: a person profile is 3 credits and a company 3 to 6, on plans from $49 to $1,899 a month with a 12 month commitment.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Deep Search returns each person or company you name or describe as a row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email. Source URL and read time on every value.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and NinjaPear, the Proxycurl team's new company, side by side
| SpecStream | NinjaPear | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | The people and companies your request names, with the fields you ask for, read from their public pages and company sites and joined into one row. Source URL and read time on every value | Company details, funding, updates, customers, competitors and person profiles from its own API, with person profiles at GET /api/v2/employee/profile |
| One person | 5¢ a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15. A work email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢. An email no page printed is labeled likely | Person Profile is 3 credits a call. Work Email Lookup is 2 credits when the email is found and 0.5 credit on a miss |
| One company | 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, read from the company's own pages when you ask | Company Details is 3 credits a call, up to 6 with the employee count and follower count flags. Company Funding is 2 credits plus 1 per investor |
| Finding people by role | Describe them in plain words, by role, company, size, place or what they did. Only rows that meet every condition are billed | Employee Search is 2 credits a call plus 1 credit per employee returned |
| Starting from a profile URL | Start from a list of names, companies or domains: a CSV, Excel file or Google Sheet of up to 20,000 rows, imported free. Empty cells are filled and the values you imported stay labeled as yours | A company's LinkedIn URL is read for its name only. Its docs say NinjaPear does not visit or scrape the supplied social media URL |
| Plans | No plan and no contract. $10 of credit on sign-up, no card: up to 200 rows at 5¢ | Plans from $49 to $1,899 a month. Monthly and annual plans carry a 12 month commitment, and canceling early costs the months left. A 3 day trial includes 10 credits |
| Unused credit | A run that finds nothing costs nothing, and credit you top up never expires | Plan credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Pay as you go credits last 30 days for the $10 pack and 90 days for larger packs |
| Volume | A run keeps working until it reaches the count you asked for, up to four hours on the largest lists | Paid endpoints are limited to 50 requests a minute |
| Up to date | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢, and each row is labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching | The Monitor API watches company blogs, X and websites. A person or company profile is called again for new values |
| Where the data goes | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks. REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, and MCP at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp | A REST API with code samples, person and company profiles in Gmail, and NinjaPear for Claude |
Why former Proxycurl users choose SpecStream
What happened to Proxycurl
LinkedIn filed a lawsuit against Proxycurl in January 2025, and its founder posted the shutdown on July 4, 2025, writing that the company closed to comply with the legal settlement with LinkedIn. The team now runs NinjaPear, which he calls a Competitive Intelligence Data company. There is no Proxycurl key to move: every call to it has to go somewhere new.
SpecStream answers the job those calls did. Name the people or companies, or describe them, and each row comes back with the fields you asked for, read from public pages such as company sites, team pages, press and registers, joined into one record.
Every value comes with the page it was read on
A profile API returns the fields its vendor stored. SpecStream returns each value with the URL of the page it was read on and the time it was read, so a title, a city or a headcount can be checked before it overwrites a CRM field. A row a page contradicts is not charged, and duplicates and rows you already own are not charged either.
Any field you can describe
Proxycurl and NinjaPear return their own schema per endpoint. SpecStream fills the fields your request names, including ones no profile carries, such as "spoke at a conference this year" or "the company lists SOC 2 on its site". People and their companies come back joined in one row.
A price per delivered row, with no 12 month plan
NinjaPear's extra credits on its $1,899 a month plan cost $0.009 each, so a person profile is 2.7¢ and a found work email 1.8¢. That plan carries a 12 month commitment, and its credits expire at the end of each billing cycle.
SpecStream costs $100 for 1,000 people with up to 5 facts and a work email each, and you buy no plan and no allowance. The most a run can cost is approved before it starts, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Your people and accounts stay up to date in your own tools
Import a CSV, Excel file or Google Sheet of up to 20,000 rows, or connect the CRM. SpecStream fills empty cells only, and the filled rows go back to the sheet or CRM, matched to the records already there. Save the request and it reruns on your schedule: rechecking 1,000 people who did not change costs $10.
Search and page reading on the same key
The same key runs the Search API, the most accurate web search API in the world: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), shown on the benchmarks page. Search costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, $1 per 1,000 on the fast tier, and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Other Proxycurl alternatives
Enrich Layer
A people and company profile API sold by credit, from $588 a year for 35,000 credits to $22,788 for 2,954,000, on a 12 month commitment. A company profile is 1 credit, plus 1 by default for one under 29 days old. SpecStream reads each value when you ask, at 5¢ a row. See Enrich Layer alternatives.
People Data Labs
A person and company database with an API. Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 credits, an enrichment is 1 credit, and the free plan of up to 100 credits a month hides emails, phones and addresses. SpecStream returns a person with a work email at 10¢, with no monthly plan. See People Data Labs alternatives.
Crustdata
A people and company database for agents. A base person profile is 1 credit with emails and phones as add ons, new accounts get $20 in credits, and enterprise plans start at four figures a month. SpecStream prices every run on its pricing page and quotes the most it can cost before it starts. See Crustdata alternatives.
Coresignal
A company and employee database sold by credit: a full company record is 20 credits, on plans from $49 a month for 2,500 credits. SpecStream has no allowance to size: a company row is 5¢ when it is delivered. See Coresignal alternatives.
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 replace your Proxycurl calls
Where your code called Proxycurl's person or company profile, send the people or companies and the fields you need in plain words. 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": "The CEO and the head of sales at stripe.com, gusto.com and figma.com, with their name, title, city, the company employee count and a work email", "count": 6}'For a list you already hold, import the file in the workspace, pick the fields to add and approve the quote. Your agent can do the same through the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp, with OAuth or an API key. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card, which is up to 200 rows at 5¢. More on enriching a list.
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SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream enrichmentspecstream.ai/for/enrichment, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 12, 2026
- Proxycurl shutdown postnubela.co/blog/goodbye-proxycurl/, read Nov 12, 2026
- NinjaPear pricingnubela.co/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- NinjaPear API docsnubela.co/docs, read Nov 12, 2026
- Enrich Layer pricingenrichlayer.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- Enrich Layer Company Profile endpointenrichlayer.com/docs/api/v2/company-api/company-profile, read Nov 12, 2026
- People Data Labs person pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/person, read Nov 12, 2026
- People Data Labs creditsdocs.peopledatalabs.com/support/billing/how-credits-work.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- Crustdata pricingcrustdata.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- Coresignal pricingcoresignal.com/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026