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
| SpecStream | RocketReach | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Lookup Information on people. Subscribers pre-pay for a set number of Lookups and Exports |
| 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 pre-paid Lookup. Cognism reports extra lookups at $0.30 to $0.45 each |
| Phone numbers | 15¢ on a delivered row that carries the phone, on every plan | From 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 credit | SalesIntel 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 |
| Seats | No seats. People and agents spend from one balance | Priced 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 balance | A top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balance | Lookups expire at the end of the subscription term |
| 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 | SalesIntel 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
Accounts by a trait no filter lists
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. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit before anything runs, then checks each account against each condition on the live web. An account that fails one is not delivered and not billed.
The committee and its contacts come on the row
1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150 on SpecStream, plus 5¢ for each email and 15¢ for each phone. SalesIntel reports RocketReach's Pro plan at $829 a year for 3,600 exports, and its Essentials plan carries no phone numbers.
Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled. Source URL and read time on every value.
The price is set before the run
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. RocketReach lookups are paid up front, and its terms say they expire at the end of the subscription term.
Signals that say who to call this week
SpecStream reads public databases every morning. 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. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of them.
The same account runs the Search API, the most accurate web search API in the world: 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 scores and method are on benchmarks.
The accounts stay up to date 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 RocketReach alternatives
SpecStream
The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition, with the buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.
Apollo
A sales platform billed in credits. One click exports up to 10,000 leads, and credits reset at the start of each billing cycle with no rollover. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and a row costs the same on every plan.
Lusha
A contact database sold in credits. The Free plan gives 40 credits a month, an email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ to a row and a phone adds 15¢, on every plan.
Cognism
Sold on credits, where 1 credit is 1 revealed contact and viewing a contact already revealed costs nothing. Its pricing page sends you to a Cognism expert for a price. SpecStream's rates are on its pricing page, and sign-up comes with $10 of credit.
ZoomInfo
A go-to-market platform priced by licenses and credit usage, with credits priced by the depth of information you need and one tier showing 75K included credits. On SpecStream, 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, and you see the price before the run.
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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Can SpecStream fill in a list I already have?
Does SpecStream have an API?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. The docs start at specstream.ai/docs/api.How accurate is SpecStream?
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.
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream data, Form Dspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
- SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
- RocketReach termsrocketreach.co/terms, read Nov 9, 2026
- SalesIntel, RocketReach pricingsalesintel.io/blog/rocketreach-pricing-plans/, read Nov 9, 2026
- Cognism, RocketReach pricingcognism.com/rocketreach-pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Apollo pricingapollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- Lusha pricinglusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
- Cognism pricingcognism.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
- ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026




