# Bright Data companies dataset alternative in 2026, priced per row Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/bright-data-companies-dataset-alternative Bright Data's Companies information enriched dataset holds 30.4M records at up to $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum. A custom dataset means building a scraper in Scraper Studio at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the companies you need and the facts on each, and get one row per match from the live web, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, rerun as often as every hour. [Describe your dataset](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-bright-data-companies-dataset&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=bright-data-companies-dataset&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DUS%2520B2B%2520software%2520companies%2520with%252050%2520to%2520500%2520employees%2520that%2520raised%2520funding%2520in%2520the%2520last%252012%2520months%252C%2520with%2520website%252C%2520headcount%252C%2520last%2520round%2520and%2520its%2520date) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and the Bright Data companies dataset side by side | | SpecStream | Bright Data | |---|---|---| | What you send | The companies you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back | A pick from 30 company datasets, narrowed by filters on the fields each one holds. A record limit then picks records at random | | What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | A snapshot file of company records drawn from LinkedIn company pages: URL, ID, name, country code, locations, followers, employees on LinkedIn, about and more | | How old the data is | Read from the live web during your run, with the read time on every value | Refreshed monthly. Pre-collected records date from a few days to a couple of months back, and records collected fresh outside your time range cost an additional fee | | The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢ with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 facts and one set of related records, $1 for a deep row. Email +5¢, phone +15¢ | A record, at up to $0.0025 in a one time order, in tiers of 100K, 500K, 1M, 5M and 20M records | | The smallest order | $10 of credit on sign up, no card. 200 companies with 15 facts each cost $30 | $250 for 100K records | | A free sample | $10 of credit on sign up, no card: up to 200 companies at 5¢ a row, each one meeting the conditions you wrote | Business Information Datasets, a free listing on AWS Data Exchange: 1,000 rows of company profiles as an S3 object, from a dataset of over 100M records. For more records you contact Bright Data | | A custom dataset | Every request is a custom dataset across the whole web, priced at the same row rates and quoted before it runs. No scraper to build | Scraper Studio turns a prompt into a scraper for one website, at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads, or $499 a month with 383K page loads included. Each new page or scroll is billed as another result | | Scheduled delivery | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly, inside the spending limits you set | Custom schedules deliver updates daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom basis. Subscriptions save 25% biannual, 50% quarterly and 80% monthly, with a minimum monthly commitment | | Only what changed | Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢ | Smart data updates deliver only New Records or Updated Records, and you pay for those records. A record that stops matching your filters is removed, and its first scrape is still charged | | 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 | Filter the dataset by geography, category, date range or other criteria, and see an estimated record count before checkout | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | JSON, NDJSON, JSON Lines, CSV or Parquet files, sent to Snowflake, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Azure or SFTP | | MCP and API | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC | A snapshot download API, with code samples in Python, Node.js, cURL, PHP, Go, Java and Ruby | ## Why Bright Data companies dataset buyers move to SpecStream ### 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](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bright-data-companies-dataset). New business registrations, the LEI register, public companies and UK companies are on [specstream.ai/data](https://specstream.ai/data?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bright-data-companies-dataset), and funding rounds and new executives at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bright-data-companies-dataset). ## Other Bright Data companies dataset alternatives ### 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. ## How to switch from the Bright Data companies dataset Write the companies you want in plain words, in place of the dataset filters you would set. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 15¢ a row, that is 66 companies with up to 15 facts each. 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": "US B2B software companies with 50 to 500 employees that raised funding in the last 12 months, with website, headcount, last round and its date", "count": 25}' ``` Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, 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. To keep the rows up to date, save the request and choose how often it reruns. Comparing all of Bright Data's products? See [Bright Data alternatives](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/brightdata?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=bright-data-companies-dataset). ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does the Bright Data companies dataset cost? Up to $0.0025 a record, from $250 for 100K records in a one time order. Biannual, quarterly and monthly subscriptions save 25%, 50% and 80%, and tiers run from 100K to 20M records. ### Is there a free sample of Bright Data's company data? Yes. Bright Data's Business Information Datasets listing on AWS Data Exchange is free and holds 1,000 rows of company profiles. You accept the vendor's terms when you subscribe, and more records mean contacting Bright Data. SpecStream's $10 of credit on sign up returns up to 200 companies that fit your own conditions. ### How much does a custom company dataset cost at Bright Data? $1.5 per 1,000 page loads in Scraper Studio, or $499 a month with 383K page loads included, and you build the scraper for each website from a prompt. On SpecStream a custom dataset costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, quoted before it runs. ### Can I get only new or changed company records? Yes, at half the row rate on SpecStream. A saved request reruns hourly to yearly, labels each row changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and charges 1¢ for an unchanged row. Bright Data's smart data updates send only New Records or Updated Records, on schedules from daily to custom. ### What is the best alternative to the Bright Data companies dataset? SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, with $10 of credit to start. You describe the companies in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get rows read from the live web with the source URL and read time on every value. ### Is there company data with no $250 minimum? Yes. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card. After that the smallest purchase is a $10 top up that never expires, and each run bills only its delivered rows. ### Does SpecStream have an MCP server? Yes, at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key. Connecting an agent is free on every plan, and it spends from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on its key. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. - [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream Form D filings](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data company datasets](https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/companies), read Nov 12, 2026 - [AWS Marketplace, Business Information Datasets by Bright Data](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-gnq5q4vfugh4c), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data EULA linked from the AWS listing](https://d7umqicpi7263.cloudfront.net/eula/slK904JkkKlPCY4pY7CfGXLQMFrKBnDJAgNQKt_yXMI), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data datasets](https://brightdata.com/products/datasets), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data dataset pricing](https://brightdata.com/pricing/datasets), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Scraper Studio pricing](https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper/studio), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data purchase options](https://docs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/purchase-options), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Coresignal pricing](https://coresignal.com/pricing/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [People Data Labs company pricing](https://www.peopledatalabs.com/pricing/company), read Nov 12, 2026 - [CompanyEnrich pricing](https://companyenrich.com/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Crunchbase Pro](https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-pro/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Vendr, Crunchbase pricing](https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/crunchbase), read Nov 12, 2026