TheirStack alternatives in 2026

The signal you sell on, written as a request

A TheirStack alert is a saved search: a job title, a place, keywords and company filters from its menu. The accounts a sales team wants often need one more condition no menu lists, such as a posting that names the tool you replace, or a company that also opened a new office.

On SpecStream you write the whole signal as the request, for example "software companies in the United States with an open data engineer role that mentions Snowflake, posted in the last 14 days, with the job title, the posting URL, the company's website and its employee count". SpecStream reads it back as conditions you can edit before anything runs, then returns one row per match. A row that fails a condition is not delivered and not billed.

Pay once for each role

TheirStack bills 1 credit for each job.new event and 1 more for its job.closed, so a job costs up to two credits on one webhook. Each webhook is billed on its own and is not deduplicated against the API, so a role pulled through two channels is paid twice.

A SpecStream row you own is never charged again. A saved request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A new or changed row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row 1¢. A filled role shows as no longer matching. Read how schedules work.

The account in the row, with the role

A posting alone tells you a company is hiring. A row can carry what you decide on as well: the company's size, its website, the office the role sits in, and the person who leads the team, read from the posting and the company's own pages and joined into one record. An email adds 5¢ to a row and a phone 15¢.

SpecStream also holds signals worth pairing with hiring, such as US funding rounds, new executives and layoffs, at specstream.ai/signals.

In the tool your team uses

TheirStack sends webhook events to an endpoint you run or to Zapier, Make or n8n. SpecStream sends new matches straight to Slack, email, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or a signed webhook, and to your agent through the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

A price before the run

TheirStack charges credits when it scans for matches, and when credits run out its webhook monitoring pauses. SpecStream quotes the most a run can cost before it starts, nothing runs until you approve it, and what the run does not use goes back to your balance. A run that finds nothing costs nothing. Every rate is on the pricing page.

SpecStream

The live web data engine. Deep Search returns the hiring accounts you describe as rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, reruns them hourly to yearly with every change labeled, and delivers them to your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent. Source URL and read time on every value.

JobsPipe

A jobs API metered at 1 credit per job returned, with the Builder plan at $49 a month for 25,000 credits. It returns postings in one schema. A SpecStream row carries the posting and the company facts your request names, and you pay for it once.

Coresignal

Company, employee and job posting data through database APIs and datasets, with a free plan and monthly plans from $49. You build the alerting on top. A saved SpecStream request reruns on its own and labels each row changed, unchanged or no longer matching.

Fantastic.jobs

A job posting API that polls every ATS it covers hourly, with a 14 day free trial. It returns the postings. SpecStream returns the accounts behind the postings that meet every condition you wrote, from 5¢ a row.