# Crunchbase company data in 2026: prices compared, rows from 5¢ Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/crunchbase-company-data Bright Data sells a Crunchbase companies dataset of 5.3M+ records at up to $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum order. Its Crunchbase Scraper API returns one record per company URL at $1.50 per 1,000. Crunchbase sells its own API by quote. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Name the companies and the facts you need, and Deep Search returns every match at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with no minimum order. Source URL and read time on every value. [Describe your companies](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-crunchbase-company-data&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DUS%2520fintech%2520startups%2520founded%2520since%25202020%2520that%2520raised%2520a%2520Series%2520A%252C%2520with%2520the%2520website%252C%2520headquarters%252C%2520founding%2520year%252C%2520employee%2520count%2520and%2520the%2520date%2520of%2520the%2520last%2520round) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## Crunchbase company data side by side | | SpecStream | Bright Data Crunchbase dataset | Bright Data Crunchbase Scraper API | |---|---|---|---| | What you send | The companies you need in plain words, with the conditions each must meet and the facts to bring back | A pick from its datasets marketplace: the Crunchbase companies information dataset whole, or a subset by industry and country | Crunchbase company URLs, up to 5,000 in one API call | | What a record holds | The facts your request names, joined from many sites into one record per company. Source URL and read time on every value | 125 data fields: name, URL, ID, Cb rank, region, about, industries, operating status, founded date, number of employees, email, phone number and more | Name, URL, ID, Cb rank, region, about, industries, operating status and more, one record per URL you send | | Price | 5¢ a row 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¢ | Up to $0.0025 a record. The 100K record tier is $250 one time | $1.50 per 1,000 records pay as you go. Scale: $499 a month with 384,000 records included, then $1.30 per 1,000 | | Smallest purchase | $10 of credit on sign-up with no card, then top-ups from $10 that never expire | A $250 minimum order | 5,000 free records a month, then pay as you go | | A custom dataset | Any dataset you describe, with the most it can cost quoted before it runs | Its custom dataset tool filters the Crunchbase dataset from one prompt in plain English and shows an estimated record count before checkout, at the same price per record. Complex or high volume orders go to its sales team | Its prebuilt Crunchbase scrapers, each with its own fixed output fields | | Refresh and schedule | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching | Updates daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom schedule, delivered to your storage. You can take only New Records or Updated Records | Recurring jobs on a schedule, delivered to your storage or webhook | | What a refresh costs | Half the row rate for a changed or new row (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and 1¢ for an unchanged row | Refresh tiers save 25% biannual, 50% quarterly and 80% monthly against a one time order | Each record delivered again, at the same rate per 1,000 | | The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it | The order price, from $250 | Monthly spend limits you set | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n, signed webhooks, the API and the MCP server | Snowflake, webhook, Google Cloud, email, PubSub, Amazon S3, SFTP or Azure, as JSON, NDJSON, JSON Lines, CSV or Parquet | API, webhook or cloud storage, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV | ## Why Crunchbase data buyers choose SpecStream ### Rows for the companies you need A marketplace dataset is the file its seller collected from one site, and a Crunchbase record holds what Crunchbase holds. On SpecStream you write the companies you need and the facts each row must carry, such as "US fintech startups founded since 2020 that raised a Series A, with the website, headquarters, employee count and the date of the last round". Deep Search finds every match on the live web, joins facts from many sites into one record per company, and shows the page and the time each value was read. ### No $250 minimum Bright Data's smallest dataset order is $250. A company row with up to 15 facts costs 15¢ on SpecStream, so 500 companies with 8 facts each cost $75, and a run that finds 300 costs $45. You start with $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, and a top-up starts at $10 and never expires. Rows you already own are never charged again. ### A custom dataset, priced before it runs Bright Data's custom dataset tool turns one prompt into filters on the Crunchbase file it already holds, so the rows you can get are the rows it collected. On SpecStream every request is a custom dataset: you see how it was read, as conditions and facts you can edit, and the most it can cost, before anything runs. Duplicates, rows a page contradicts and a run that finds nothing are not charged. ### Scheduled refresh, with every change labeled Bright Data delivers dataset updates on a schedule and lets you take only New Records or Updated Records. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches land in Slack, email, a sheet, your CRM or a [signed webhook](https://specstream.ai/docs/webhooks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data). ### Funding data we already hold SpecStream reads every SEC Form D filing from EDGAR the day it is filed: 54,118 operating companies since January 3, 2023, by week, state and industry, read Nov 12, 2026 at [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data). Signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data), and every dataset we hold opens at [specstream.ai/data](https://specstream.ai/data?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data). ## Other places to buy Crunchbase company data ### Crunchbase API Crunchbase's own API is a read only service for approved developers, at 200 requests per minute per key, and its price is set by its sales team. Multiples reports a license from $30,000 a year. SpecStream returns the companies that meet your conditions at a price per row shown before the run. ### Crunchbase Pro A seat on Crunchbase's own database of 4M+ private companies, with exports of up to 2,000 rows a month. Multiples lists Pro at $49 per user a month billed annually. On SpecStream every delivered row can be exported, and exporting costs nothing. ### Apify Crunchbase Company Scraper A community Actor on the Apify Store that takes company slugs or search keywords and returns company records, priced from $8.73 per 1,000 company records, with a free Crunchbase API key required. SpecStream needs no key from another service and no list of companies to start from. ## How to get Crunchbase style company data on SpecStream Write the companies you want in plain words, with the facts each row must carry, in place of the dataset you would order. Or import the list you already have, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 15¢ a row, that is up to 66 companies with 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 fintech startups founded since 2020 that raised a Series A, with the website, headquarters, founding year, employee count and the date of the last 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. The full comparisons are on [Bright Data alternatives](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/brightdata?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data) and [Crunchbase alternatives](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/crunchbase?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=crunchbase-company-data). ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does Crunchbase company data cost? Bright Data's Crunchbase dataset costs up to $0.0025 a record with a $250 minimum order, and its Crunchbase Scraper API costs $1.50 per 1,000 records pay as you go, read Nov 12, 2026. Crunchbase prices its own API by quote. SpecStream returns company rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with no minimum order. ### What is in a Crunchbase companies record? Bright Data lists 125 data fields across 5.3M+ records, among them name, URL, ID, Cb rank, region, industries, operating status, founded date, number of employees, email and phone number. On SpecStream a row carries the facts your request names, with the source URL and read time on every value. ### Does Bright Data build a custom Crunchbase dataset? Its custom dataset tool filters the Crunchbase dataset from one prompt in plain English and shows an estimated record count before checkout, at up to $0.0025 a record from the same $250 minimum. SpecStream builds the dataset from the live web for any request you can describe, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, quoted as a maximum before it runs. ### Can I get only new or updated companies? Yes. Bright Data delivers updates daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom schedule, and sells them as New Records or Updated Records, with 25% to 80% off for a refresh plan. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly and labels each row changed, unchanged or no longer matching: a changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢. ### Is there a Crunchbase dataset without a $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 API and an MCP server? Yes. The MCP server is at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key, and the REST API takes the same request. Connecting an agent is free on every plan, and it spends from the same balance as your team. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, or from the named third party where the company publishes no price. - [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 data](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data datasets](https://brightdata.com/products/datasets), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Crunchbase datasets](https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/crunchbase), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data datasets pricing](https://brightdata.com/pricing/datasets.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Crunchbase Scraper API](https://brightdata.com/products/web-scraper/crunchbase), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Crunchbase Scraper API pricing](https://brightdata.com/products/web-scraper/crunchbase.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Crunchbase API](https://about.crunchbase.com/products/data-licensing/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Crunchbase API essentials](https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/using-the-api.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Crunchbase Pro](https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-pro/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Multiples, Crunchbase API pricing (facts verified Aug 20, 2026)](https://multiples.vc/compare/crunchbase-api-alternatives/md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Multiples, Crunchbase alternatives (facts verified Aug 17, 2026)](https://multiples.vc/compare/crunchbase-alternatives/md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify Crunchbase Company Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/crunchbase-scraper), read Nov 12, 2026