Thomasnet alternatives in 2026

Every row meets the conditions you wrote

On Thomasnet the supplier is the customer. Thomas sells suppliers a higher place in your results: its advertising page promises 25x more buyer evaluations with premium placement, and a free profile gets basic positioning in limited categories. On SpecStream the request decides who appears. You write the part, the standard, the region and anything else a maker must meet, and SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit before anything runs. Each condition is checked against the maker's own words and numbers, and a maker that fails one is not delivered.

The certificate as the maker's site states it

When few makers on your sheet hold ISO 13485 or AS9100, you search by the certificate. A Thomasnet profile shows the certifications the supplier entered. A SpecStream row gives the certificate as the maker's own site states it, with a link to where it says so, and each value carries its source URL and the time it was read. Your quality lead can open the page for row 147 before the RFQ goes out.

A new region in one request

Thomasnet covers North American suppliers that have a profile on it. SpecStream reads the live web, so a request for makers in Mexico or Poland runs the same way as one for Ohio, and a run keeps working until it reaches the count you asked for.

SpecStream also holds the public databases a sourcing team starts from. On November 9, 2026, specstream.ai/data/medical-devices showed 25,792 establishments in 103 countries registered with the FDA to make medical devices, listing 5,560 device types, from FDA data exported November 6, 2026. Ask for your own cut of it, joined with what each maker's site says.

A price per maker, set before the run

A row costs 5¢ with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. A contact adds 5¢ for a person's email and 15¢ for a phone. 200 makers with 15 facts each cost $30. Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes, and nothing runs until you approve it. Duplicates and rows you already own are not charged, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balance.

Your supplier sheet stays up to date

Import the vendor list you have, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Save a request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each maker comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a certificate that left the maker's site or a plant that closed shows as a change. A changed or new row costs half its rate, and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet or a signed webhook.

Measured on the public benchmarks

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, with 978 correct. On WideSearch, the benchmark for building tables from the web, SpecStream scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The method and every score are on benchmarks.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns every maker for a part, a standard and a region as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with the certificates each maker's own site states.

Europages

A supplier directory for Europe. Europages says 1 million buyers a month use its database of over 2.2 million suppliers, manufacturers and wholesalers, and it runs requests for quotes. SpecStream returns the makers that meet your standard in any region as rows in your own sheet, each with the page that states the certificate.

MFG

A custom manufacturing marketplace. You post a request for quotes and manufacturers answer it, and MFG counts 50k+ buyers and 100k+ manufacturers on its home page. SpecStream gives you every maker that fits before you send an RFQ, at 5¢ to $1 a row, so the RFQ goes to the makers you chose.

Veridion

A supplier data provider for enterprises. Its Data Foundations package covers up to 50M entities with a quarterly refresh, and its pricing page says "We don't publish fixed prices because every engagement is scoped." SpecStream's price is on the page, the first $10 of credit needs no card, and each row is read from the live web when you ask.

TealBook

A supplier data platform sold on custom enterprise contracts with no public list price. A comparison by Procurement AI Agents dated April 17, 2026 reports $30,000 to $80,000 a year for a smaller scope and $100,000 to $300,000 or more for a large enterprise. On SpecStream, 200 makers with 15 facts each cost $30, with no contract.

A sourcing agent

A person or agency that finds and vets suppliers for you. Epic Sourcing reports that agencies often charge $300 to $1,500 as a flat fee for one sourcing task. SpecStream returns the makers for the same search as rows at 5¢ to $1 each, and reruns the search on your schedule at 1¢ for each maker that did not change.