Bright Data companies dataset alternative in 2026, priced per row

The companies that fit your conditions

SpecStream builds the dataset you describe from the live web: companies, people, places, filings or tenders that meet every condition you wrote. For company data, that means the accounts that fit, such as "US B2B software companies with 50 to 500 employees that raised funding in the last 12 months", with the facts you name on each. Bright Data's filters work on the fields its file already holds, and a record limit picks records at random. On SpecStream a condition can be a trait no field lists, and each row shows the page that states it.

The free sample on AWS Data Exchange

Bright Data lists Business Information Datasets on AWS Data Exchange at no charge. The listing holds 1,000 rows of company profiles with fields such as company ID, size, headquarters, industries, founding year, funding and investors, drawn from sites such as Glassdoor, Owler and Crunchbase. To subscribe you accept the vendor's terms, linked from the listing as its EULA. A free subscription has no end date and can be canceled at any time, and AWS notes that infrastructure costs may apply. For more than the 1,000 rows, the listing tells you to contact the provider.

On SpecStream the first rows are the ones you asked for. Describe the companies, approve the most the run can cost, and $10 of credit on sign up covers up to 200 companies at 5¢ a row, each with the source URL and read time on every value. When the sample is right, the same request runs at full size at the same rates.

A custom dataset without building a scraper

Bright Data's custom datasets come from Scraper Studio: you choose one website, describe the data, and a scraper is generated in about 10 to 15 minutes. Its own FAQ says you still need a working knowledge of web scraping to configure and use it. You pay $1.5 per 1,000 page loads, and a click to a new page or a scroll for more data is another result. On SpecStream you write the request once, for the whole web, and pay per delivered row: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, such as the people at a company, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. 200 companies with 15 facts each cost $30, and the most a run can cost is quoted before it starts.

Scheduled delivery that labels every change

Bright Data delivers company dataset updates daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom schedule, and its smart data updates send only New Records or Updated Records, at its per record price with up to 80% off a monthly plan. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a company that raised a new round comes back labeled changed. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and an unchanged row 1¢. Rows you already own are never charged again. They land in Slack, email, Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or a signed webhook, or in your agent through the MCP server.

Company data we already read

SpecStream reads every Form D on SEC EDGAR the day it is filed: 44,407 filings by operating companies since November 1, 2024, as read on November 12, 2026, at specstream.ai/data/form-d. New business registrations, the LEI register, public companies and UK companies are on specstream.ai/data, and funding rounds and new executives at specstream.ai/signals.

Coresignal

Company and employee data through APIs and datasets, paid in credits. A full company record costs 20 credits, plans start at $49 a month for 2,000 credits, and on the $1,000 a month Growth plan a credit costs $0.007, so a full company record costs 14¢. On SpecStream a row with up to 15 facts costs 15¢, and only rows that meet your conditions are billed.

People Data Labs

Company data APIs at $100 a month, starting at 1,000 records a month, or 10¢ a record. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card, and bills each delivered row from your balance, with a top up that never expires.

CompanyEnrich

A company enrichment API at 1 credit per company, from $49 a month for 5,000 credits. SpecStream finds the companies as well as filling them in: you describe them, and each row arrives with the source URL and read time on every value.

Crunchbase

Company and funding data sold by seat. Crunchbase Pro exports up to 2K rows a month, and Vendr reports a median contract of $20,000 a year. SpecStream has no seats: you pay per delivered row, and the rows land in your CRM, sheet or agent.