Compared on Nov 8, 2026.

ZoomInfo alternatives: a price on the page and a source on every value

ZoomInfo publishes no price. Its pricing page sells custom packages through a form and says its API, MCP and CLI are priced on usage, without the rates. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents, and its price is on the page: describe the accounts you want in plain words, and Deep Search returns each one that meets every condition as a structured row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, with the source URL of every value. SpecStream leads two public benchmarks: WideSearch, at 60.9 on the low-cost model, where the best other API scores 57.6 even on the larger model, and SimpleQA Verified, at 99. The scores and their sources are on benchmarks.

Describe your data

New accounts get $10 of credit for their first 30 days, no card.

SpecStream and ZoomInfo side by side

	SpecStream	ZoomInfo
What you send	The data you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet	Its platform, API, MCP or CLI, on a custom package
What you get back	Structured rows, one record per company, place or filing, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value	Not stated
Data already held	Public databases read every morning at specstream.ai/data: every company that filed a Form D since 2023 with its filing history, nearly 2 million US nonprofits, every US bank failure since 1934, federal rules, open federal contracts and grants, and local businesses. Signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of them	Not stated
A list you already have	Import a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown alongside their evidence. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢	Not stated
What a row costs	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	Not stated. The API, MCP and CLI are priced on usage, at rates not published
How to start	$10 of credit for your first 30 days, 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	A pricing form for a custom package, and a free trial on six use cases. Annual cost, seats and contract terms: Not stated
Failed or empty work	Nothing. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing	Not stated
Before a run	The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages	Not stated
Reruns	Hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢	Not stated
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	API, MCP and CLI. Delivery to Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and S3, contracted per dataset

Why ZoomInfo buyers move to SpecStream

A price you can read today

ZoomInfo states no annual cost, no cost per contact and no contract terms. SpecStream charges per delivered row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, on every plan. Plans are Pro at $19, Scale at $99 and Team at $499 a month, all spent as credit at those rates. The full list is on pricing.

Before a run starts you see the most it can cost, and nothing runs until you approve it.

Accounts with the trait that matters

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.

SpecStream checks each account against each condition on the live web. Every value carries its source URL and read time, so a rep can open the page before the first call.

Rows the same day, kept up to date

Sign up and you get $10 of credit for your first 30 days, no card. SpecStream already reads public databases every morning, from every Form D filer since 2023 to open federal contracts and grants, and tracks funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at specstream.ai/signals.

Set a request to rerun from hourly to yearly. A changed or new row costs half its rate, and an unchanged row costs 1¢.

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

WideSearch score against cost

Solid: GPT-5.6 Sol. Faded: GPT-5.6 Luna.

WideSearch score

SpecStream 60.9, $39.40

60.9$39.40

Parallel Turbo 44.0, $10.10

44.0$10.10

Parallel Fast 45.5, $10.50

45.5$10.50

Perplexity 47.0, $24.80

47.0$24.80

Tavily 47.9, $107

47.9$107

Exa Auto 53.0, $41.20

53.0$41.20

Perplexity 53.5, $547

53.5$547

Parallel Basic 55.3, $965

55.3$965

Exa Auto 55.9, $1,061

55.9$1,061

Tavily 55.9, $1,072

55.9$1,072

Parallel Advanced 57.6, $692

57.6$692

$10$100$1,000

Cost per 1,000 tasks, log scale

How to switch from ZoomInfo

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the list you exported from ZoomInfo, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit for your first 30 days, 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": "Companies in the Netherlands with an active LEI whose parent company is in the United States.", "count": 25}'

Describe your data

Frequently asked questions

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How much does ZoomInfo cost?

ZoomInfo does not publish a price. Its pricing page offers custom packages through a form and a free trial on six use cases, and says its API, MCP and CLI are priced on usage without stating the rates. SpecStream's rates are public: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.

Do I need to talk to sales to start SpecStream?

No. Sign up and you get $10 of credit for your first 30 days, no card. Plans run by the month from Pro at $19, and a yearly plan adds 20% more credit.

How accurate is SpecStream?

SpecStream leads two public benchmarks: WideSearch, at 60.9 on the low-cost model, where the best other API scores 57.6 even on the larger model, and SimpleQA Verified, at 99. The scores and their sources are on benchmarks. Every value in a row carries the source URL and the time it was read.

Can SpecStream deliver into our CRM and our own systems?

Rows go to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio, to Google Sheets, Excel and Airtable, and through Zapier, Make, n8n or a signed webhook. Your engineers can call the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs or the CLI, and every value arrives with its source URL.

What else does a SpecStream account include?

The same account runs the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, where a page with no text is not charged. Your agent can use all of it through the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 8, 2026
SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 8, 2026
SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 8, 2026
ZoomInfo pricingzoominfo.com/pricing, read Nov 8, 2026