Bright Data company dataset alternative in 2026, priced per row
Bright Data's Companies information enriched dataset holds 30.4M company records at up to $0.0025 a record, $2.50 per 1,000, with a $250 minimum: 100K records. Its company datasets are drawn from LinkedIn company pages and refreshed monthly.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the companies and the facts you need, and get one row per match from the live web, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and the Bright Data company datasets 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 its datasets marketplace, narrowed by filters on the fields it holds, or by a prompt that sets the filters. A record limit then picks records at random |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, with facts from many sites joined into one row. Source URL and read time on every value | A snapshot file of company records: 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 | A snapshot refreshed monthly. Records outside the time range you set are collected at an additional fee |
| Company data on offer | Any company you can describe, from the live web. Plus the datasets we hold at specstream.ai/data: every company that filed a Form D since 2023 with its filing history, nonprofits, local businesses, and open federal contracts and grants | 30 company datasets with 2.1B+ records, among them Companies information enriched (30.4M records), LinkedIn company information (30.4M), Crunchbase companies information (5.3M) and Glassdoor companies overview (2.1M) |
| The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. A row that fails a condition is not billed | A record, at up to $0.0025 ($2.50 per 1,000) in a one time order. Every record in the snapshot is billed, and hiding columns does not change the record count |
| The smallest order | $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. 200 companies with up to 5 facts each cost $10 | $250 for 100K records |
| A custom dataset | Every request is a custom dataset: the conditions and facts you write, priced at the same row rates and quoted before it runs | Specific data points on request, or your own collector in Scraper Studio at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads |
| Updates | A saved request 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¢ | Daily, weekly, monthly or custom updates. Biannual, quarterly and monthly plans save 25%, 50% and 80%, and smart updates deliver only new or updated records |
| 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 company, with any namesakes shown beside it. Import is free | Filter the dataset by its fields and pay for the records in the filtered snapshot |
| Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, 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: GET https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/snapshots/{id}/download |
Why Bright Data company dataset buyers move to SpecStream
The companies you describe
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, a condition can be a trait no field lists, such as "B2B software companies in Germany that publish a public API" or "manufacturers that state ISO 13485 on their own site". Each row shows the page that states it. Bright Data's filters work on the fields its dataset already holds, and a record limit picks records at random.
Pay for the companies that fit
A Bright Data order bills every record in the snapshot, from $250 for 100K records, whether or not each company is one you will use. On SpecStream you get $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, and pay for the rows that meet your request: 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. A company that fails a condition costs nothing, the most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, and rows you already own are never charged again.
Facts from many sites in one row
Bright Data sells LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Glassdoor and its enriched set as separate datasets, each at its own record count. A SpecStream row joins what the company's own site, its registry filing, its press and its job pages say into one record, and records of two kinds never merge. Source URL and read time on every value.
Every change labeled
Bright Data's company datasets are refreshed monthly, and smart updates send only new or updated records. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each company comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a company that moved its headquarters or raised a round comes back labeled changed. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), an unchanged row 1¢. The rows land in Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack or a signed webhook, or in your agent through the MCP server.
Other Bright Data company dataset alternatives
Coresignal
A companies dataset of 70M+ records, sold through APIs and datasets paid in credits. A full company record costs 20 credits, plans run from $49 a month for 2,500 credits, and on the $1,000 a month plan a credit costs $0.007, so a full record costs 14¢. Unused credits do not roll over. On SpecStream a row with up to 15 facts costs 15¢, only rows that meet your conditions are billed, and your balance never expires.
People Data Labs
Company data on 70MM+ companies, with a Pro plan at $100 a month that starts at 1,000 monthly records, 10¢ a record. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card, and returns companies its database never collected, with the source URL and read time on every value.
Crunchbase
Company and funding data, with API access sold through the Crunchbase sales team. Vendr reports a median Crunchbase contract of $20,000 a year. SpecStream reads funding from the filings and pages that state it: every company that filed a Form D since 2023 is at specstream.ai/data, and new rounds arrive as signals at specstream.ai/signals.
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 |
How to switch from the Bright Data company 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 5¢ a row, that is 200 companies with up to 5 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": "B2B software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees, with the website, industry, headquarters city, employee count and latest funding round", "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. Buying people data too? See the Bright Data employee dataset alternative.
Frequently asked questions
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Is there a company dataset with no $250 minimum?
Can I get only new or changed company records?
Does SpecStream have an MCP server?
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 pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream dataspecstream.ai/data, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data datasetsbrightdata.com/products/datasets, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data company datasetsbrightdata.com/products/datasets/companies, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data datasets pricingbrightdata.com/pricing/datasets, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data custom datasets pricingbrightdata.com/pricing/datasets/custom, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data purchase optionsdocs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/purchase-options, read Nov 12, 2026
- Coresignal pricingcoresignal.com/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026
- People Data Labs company pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/company, read Nov 12, 2026
- Crunchbase APIdata.crunchbase.com/docs/using-the-api, read Nov 12, 2026
- Vendr on Crunchbasevendr.com/marketplace/crunchbase, read Nov 12, 2026