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RocketReach alternatives in 2026

Accounts with contacts from 5¢ a row.

RocketReach sells pre-paid lookups that expire at the end of the term. SalesIntel reports Essentials at $329 a year for email only, Pro at $829 with phone numbers and Ultimate at $1,699 with API access.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the accounts you want by any trait, and each one reaches your CRM with its buying committee at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ an email and 15¢ a phone.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and RocketReach side by side

SpecStreamRocketReach
What you get backStructured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every valueLookup Information on people. Subscribers pre-pay for a set number of Lookups and Exports
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 pre-paid Lookup. Cognism reports extra lookups at $0.30 to $0.45 each
Phone numbers15¢ on a delivered row that carries the phone, on every planFrom Pro up. SalesIntel reports Essentials at $329 a year as email only and Pro at $829 a year with phone numbers
Plans$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 creditSalesIntel reports Essentials at $329 a year, Pro at $829 and Ultimate at $1,699, custom team plans from $6,000 a year, and 5 free lookups for a new account
SeatsNo seats. People and agents spend from one balancePriced per user. Cognism reports Essentials at $80, Pro at $150 and Ultimate at $833 per user a month, and team plans from $83 per user a month billed annually
Unused balanceA top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balanceLookups expire at the end of the subscription term
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 webhooksSalesIntel reports API access with Ultimate at $1,699 a year and above. Its terms ban automated data collection on the service without written consent

Why RocketReach 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 RocketReach

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the contacts you exported from RocketReach, 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": "SaaS companies in the United States with 100 to 1,000 employees that raised a Series B in the last 12 months, with the CRO, the VP of Sales and a work email and direct phone 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.

Frequently asked questions

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How much does RocketReach cost?
SalesIntel reports RocketReach Essentials at $329 a year for email only, Pro at $829 a year with phone numbers and Ultimate at $1,699 a year with API access, and custom team plans from $6,000 a year. Cognism reports the same three plans at $80, $150 and $833 per user a month. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.
Do RocketReach lookups expire?
Yes. RocketReach's terms say subscribers pre-pay for a set number of lookups and that lookups expire at the end of the subscription term. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.
What is the best RocketReach 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 each account that meets every condition with its buying committee, an email for 5¢ more and a phone for 15¢ more. The rows land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or your sheet, and stay up to date on your schedule.
Is there a cheaper alternative to RocketReach for phone numbers?
A phone adds 15¢ to a SpecStream row, on every plan. SalesIntel reports RocketReach's phone numbers start on Pro at $829 a year, and Cognism reports extra lookups at $0.30 to $0.45 each. SpecStream bills only delivered rows, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Can SpecStream fill in 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.
Does SpecStream have an API?
Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search returns rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 each. All three run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, the CLI and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The docs start at specstream.ai/docs/api.
How accurate is SpecStream?
SpecStream's 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. It is the most accurate web search API in the world, and the scores and method are on benchmarks. In a row, each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. RocketReach's terms come from its own page. Its prices come from SalesIntel and Cognism, which publish them; Cognism sells a rival product.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  3. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
  4. SpecStream data, Form Dspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
  5. SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
  6. RocketReach termsrocketreach.co/terms, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. SalesIntel, RocketReach pricingsalesintel.io/blog/rocketreach-pricing-plans/, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. Cognism, RocketReach pricingcognism.com/rocketreach-pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. Apollo pricingapollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  10. Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
  11. Cognism pricingcognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  12. ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026