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Best data enrichment APIs in 2026

Any field, at 5¢ to $1 a row.

A data enrichment API fills in records from its vendor's database. People Data Labs Pro is $100 a month for 1,000 company records. Coresignal takes 20 credits for a full company record, from $49 a month. Bitscale's REST API starts at $15K a year.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the records and any fields you need, and Deep Search fills each row from the live web at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. Source URL and read time on every value.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Data enrichment APIs side by side

SpecStreamPeople Data LabsCoresignalCrustdataEnrich LayerBitscale
Where the data comes fromThe live web, read when you ask, with facts from many sites joined into one record per row. Plus the public records we read every morning at specstream.ai/data, and signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at specstream.ai/signalsIts own dataset: 70MM+ companies with insights and signals, and person profiles enriched with resume and contact infoIts datasets: 70M+ company records, 907M+ employee profiles and 482M+ job postingsIts index of 1B+ people and 60M+ companies, refreshed every 1 to 30 daysIts People, Company, Jobs, Contact, School and Logo APIsA grid that calls its 100+ data sources and integrations in the order you set
What a record carriesAny field you can describe in words, beside the usual ones: the tools a site runs, whether it offers same day delivery. Up to 5 facts for 5¢, up to 15 facts and one set of related records for 15¢, no limit for $1The fields in its record. Premium fields cost extra, and the Free plan obfuscates emails, phones and addressesA core record for 10 credits or a full record for 20, with field bundles for more credits. An email found is 10 creditsA base person profile for 1 credit. A work email adds 1 credit, a personal email 2 and a phone 2. A company enrichment starts at 2 creditsAbout 2 credits a contact: the Starter plan's 35,000 credits enrich up to about 17,500 contactsWhat the providers in your grid return. Email providers cost 1 to 8 credits each and phone providers 2 to 30
The unit you pay forA delivered row, with 5¢ more for an email and 15¢ for a phone. An imported row that does not match costs 5¢ for the check, and a match pays its row rate instead. Duplicates and rows you already own are not chargedA credit for each successful request. A person with no match returns a 404 and is not billedA credit. A full company record is 20 credits and an email found 10A credit for each result. A search that comes back empty costs nothingA credit, from $0.10 on the $10 pack down to $0.0077 on the Ultra planA credit, spent only when a data provider returns a valid result
Published price5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, the same rate on every plan. Plans at $19, $99 and $499 a month turn their whole price into credit, and a yearly plan adds 20% more. The most a run can cost is quoted before it startsPerson Pro from $98 a month for 350 credits, 28¢ a credit. Company Pro at $100 a month for 1,000 records. Vendr reports a median of $12,500 a yearMini at $49 a month for 2,500 credits, 125 full company records. Growth at $1,000 a month for 150,000 credits, $0.007 a creditSelf serve credits for its index. Real time API access from four figures a monthPay as you go from $10 for 100 credits. Starter at $588 a year for 35,000 credits, up to Enterprise above $24,000 a yearGrowth at $349 a month for 15,000 credits. The REST API is an Enterprise feature, billed annually from $15K
Free start$10 of credit on sign up, no card: up to 200 rows at 5¢. Reading and pricing a request cost nothingUp to 100 credits a month, with no contact dataA 7 day free trial with 2,000 credits$20 in free creditsCredit packs from $10 for 100 credits, with no subscriptionA Free plan with 200 credits, no card
CommitmentNone. Pay as you go, or a plan by the month or the yearMonthly or annual on Pro. Enterprise is annual contracts with custom pricingMonthly, or yearly at 10% offCredit packs, each valid for a yearMonthly and annual plans are a 12 month commitment, with a fee to cancel earlyMonthly from Growth. Enterprise is billed annually
Where the data goesGoogle Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks. REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, A2A and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcpAPI responses, and CSV enrichment on ProAPI responses, webhooks by plan, and datasets as JSON or CSVAPI calls, single or batch at the same creditsAPI responses and a CLI for scripts and CI pipelinesHubSpot both ways on Growth, Salesforce on Booster, webhooks, and an MCP server

Why teams choose SpecStream for data enrichment

Other data enrichment APIs

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

How to start

Import the list you have, or write the records and fields you need in plain words. 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": "stripe.com, notion.so and linear.app, with the headcount, the headquarters city, the head of sales and a work email", "count": 3}'

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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What is a data enrichment API?
A data enrichment API takes a record you have, such as a company domain or a person's name, and returns the fields you are missing: headcount, industry, location, the people, an email or a phone. SpecStream fills any field you can describe at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, from the live web, with the source URL and read time on every value.
What is the best data enrichment API in 2026?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You name the records and the fields in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get one typed row per record, filled from the live web rather than one vendor's dataset. The rows reach your product through the API and MCP, or your CRM and sheet with no code, and a saved request keeps them up to date.
How much does a data enrichment API cost?
SpecStream costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, with no monthly minimum. People Data Labs Person Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 credits. Coresignal runs from $49 a month for 2,500 credits, at 20 credits a full company record. Enrich Layer packs start at $10 for 100 credits. Bitscale Growth is $349 a month, and its REST API is on Enterprise from $15K a year.
Is there a free data enrichment API?
New SpecStream accounts get $10 of credit, no card, which is up to 200 rows at 5¢. People Data Labs gives up to 100 credits a month with no contact data, Coresignal a 7 day trial with 2,000 credits, Crustdata $20 in credits and Bitscale 200 credits.
Do I pay when a record has no match?
On SpecStream, an imported row that does not match costs 5¢ for the check, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. People Data Labs bills enrichment only on a match, Crustdata does not charge for an empty search, and Bitscale spends credits only when a provider returns a valid result.
Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?
Yes. Deep Search returns enriched rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, the Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, and the Extract API costs $0.80 per 1,000 pages. All three run on one key through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, the CLI, A2A and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, or from Vendr where the cell names it.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  3. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 12, 2026
  4. SpecStream Form D filingsspecstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 12, 2026
  5. SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 12, 2026
  6. People Data Labs person pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/person, read Nov 12, 2026
  7. People Data Labs company pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/company, read Nov 12, 2026
  8. People Data Labs: how credits workdocs.peopledatalabs.com/support/billing/how-credits-work.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  9. People Data Labs Person Enrichment APIdocs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/reference-person-enrichment-api.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  10. People Data Labs on Vendrvendr.com/marketplace/people-data-labs, read Nov 12, 2026
  11. Coresignal pricingcoresignal.com/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026
  12. Crustdata pricingcrustdata.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  13. Enrich Layer pricingenrichlayer.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  14. Bitscale pricingbitscale.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  15. Bitscale: the best data enrichment APIs in 2026bitscale.ai/blogs/data-enrichment-api, read Nov 12, 2026
  16. Reverse Contact pricingreversecontact.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  17. Autobound pricingautobound.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  18. Clearbitclearbit.com/, read Nov 12, 2026