Bright Data employee dataset alternative in 2026, priced per row
Bright Data's Employees business enriched dataset holds 257.4M+ records at up to $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum: $250 buys 100K records, and a record limit picks them at random. Schedules run from one time to daily.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the accounts and roles you need, and get one row per match from the live web, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, rerun as often as every hour.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream and the Bright Data employee dataset side by side
| SpecStream | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| What you send | The accounts and the people you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | 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 or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | A snapshot file of profile records (profile URL, LinkedIn ID, name, location, certifications and more) joined to company data such as revenue and funding |
| How old the data is | Read from the live web during your run, with the read time on every value | Pre-collected records from the last days to months. Records outside the time range you set are collected fresh at an additional fee |
| 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. The same rate on every plan | 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. 300 accounts with their buying committee cost $45, plus 5¢ for each email | $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 | Built by its sales team on request. Or build your own collector in Scraper Studio at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads, or $499 a month with 383K page loads included |
| Scheduled delivery | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly, inside the spending limits you set | One-time, bi-annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, with up to 80% off on monthly plans |
| 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 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¢ | Filter the dataset by geography, timeframe, category or any supported field, 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, XLSX or Parquet files, sent to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Snowflake, Google PubSub, SFTP, a webhook or email |
| 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 | The Marketplace Dataset API, with SDKs for Python and JavaScript |
Why Bright Data employee dataset buyers move to SpecStream
The people at the accounts you name
SpecStream builds the dataset you describe from the live web: companies, people, places, filings or tenders that meet every condition you wrote. For employee data, that means the accounts that fit and the people in the roles you need at each one, such as "US logistics software companies with 50 to 500 employees, with the VP of Sales and the head of RevOps". Bright Data's filters work on the fields its dataset 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.
Start with $10, not a $250 order
The smallest Bright Data order is $250 for 100K records. 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. 300 accounts with their buying committee cost $45, plus 5¢ for each email. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, and rows you already own are never charged again.
Schedules that label every change
Bright Data delivers the employee dataset on a schedule from one time to daily, and its smart data updates send only new or updated records. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a company whose VP of Sales changed comes back labeled changed. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and an unchanged row 1¢. The rows land in Slack, email, Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or a signed webhook, or in your agent through the MCP server.
Workforce signals we already read
SpecStream reads SEC 8-K filings and state WARN notices, so new executives and layoffs reach your sheet, your CRM or a webhook on your schedule. Open them at specstream.ai/signals, and our public datasets at specstream.ai/data.
Other Bright Data employee dataset alternatives
Coresignal
Employee and company data sold through APIs and datasets, paid in credits. A full employee record costs 20 credits, plans run from $49 a month for 2,000 credits to $5,000 a month, and on the $1,000 Growth plan a credit costs $0.007, so a full record costs 14¢. On SpecStream a row with up to 15 facts and the people at a company costs 15¢, and only rows that meet your conditions are billed.
People Data Labs
Person data APIs paid in credits, starting at $98 a month for 350 records a month. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card, and bills each delivered row from your balance, with a top-up that never expires.
Revelio Labs
Workforce data with no per-record fees, starting at $1,250 a month for the Revelio Terminal. SpecStream returns the people themselves as rows, from $10 of credit, with the source URL and read time on every value.
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 employee dataset
Write the accounts and roles 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 about 66 accounts with their people.
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 logistics software companies with 50 to 500 employees, with the VP of Sales, the head of RevOps and a work email for each", "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.
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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 signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data employee datasetsbrightdata.com/products/datasets/employee, read Nov 12, 2026
- Bright Data datasetsbrightdata.com/products/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 pricingpeopledatalabs.com/pricing/person, read Nov 12, 2026
- Revelio Labs pricingreveliolabs.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026