Coresignal alternatives, sorted by why you are leaving
Coresignal's search is free and a full record is 20 credits. On the $49 plan that is 125 records a month, which is where the search for Coresignal competitors usually starts. 4 replacements below, each one matched to a specific reason.
If you want the same company, person and job data priced by the field rather than the record, Crustdata is the closest of these Coresignal alternatives: a search result is 0.03 credits and a base profile 1. If the rows go inside a product you sell, People Data Labs' standard terms cover showing its data there. If what you collect is mostly job postings, TheirStack sells them on a published ladder from $49. If you want flat-priced profile fetches, Reverse Contact sells them unlimited from $249 a month.
Prices and limits for every option below are read off the vendor's own page. These are the Coresignal competitors that each answer a named problem.
The 3 reasons people actually leave
If none of these is your situation, the honest answer is that you should probably stay. The 23 providers in the Enrichment APIs listing are where these replacements come from.
1 · A full record costs 20 credits
Search endpoints are free and return IDs; collect and enrich spend the credits, 20 for a full company or employee record, 10 for an email found and 1 for a job posting. On Mini, $49 for 2,500 credits, that is 125 full records a month at about $0.39 each. Leaving out bundles brings a record down to 10 credits for the core alone, if the fields you need are in it.
2 · The ladder only pays at volume
A credit is $0.0196 on Mini, $0.0067 on Growth and $0.0015 on Premium, where $1,500 buys 1,000,000. Growth to Premium is 50% more money for nearly seven times the credits, so the price that makes Coresignal cheap starts at $1,500 a month. Below Premium, unused monthly credits do not roll over.
3 · Contact data is not the product
Coresignal says it does not collect telephone numbers, so there are no mobiles to buy, and an email is a separate contact enrichment call at 10 credits. Queries are written in Elasticsearch DSL or a filter syntax, and the natural-language agentic search is 20 credits a call, or 100 on the reasoning endpoint at 10 an hour.
4 Coresignal alternatives, and what each one fixes
Ordered by how closely each one answers the reasons above, not by price.
| Provider | Entry price | Unit cost | Free tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coresignal | $49/mo | $0.0196 per credit | 7-day free trial with 2,000 credits, issued once per company email domain | Baseline |
| Crustdata | Quote only | Sold in credits; no public dollar price for a credit | $20 in free credits on every new account, on the self-serve In-DB endpoints | Search wide for pennies of a credit, then pay only for the fields you keep |
| People Data Labs | $98/mo | $0.28 per record | Free plan, up to 100 credits per month with contact data obfuscated | Best for building on top of |
| TheirStack | $49/mo | $0.0327 per API credit, entry plan | A free trial with company and API credits, no card required | Best for hiring and technology signal with filter depth |
| Reverse Contact | $100 one-time | $0.02 per credit | 500 credits free to try, no credit card required | Unlimited profile lookups for a team that starts from LinkedIn URLs |
Read from each vendor's own pricing page on 24 October 2026.
The case for each one
Each one below is matched to a reason rather than scored, and each one names what you give up by taking it. A replacement with no downside is a replacement nobody has actually run.
Crustdata
The same three datasets priced by the result and by the field: 0.03 credits a search result, 1 for a base person profile, 2 for a company.
Crustdata is the nearest like-for-like move. It sells people, company and job data from its own index, as Coresignal does, plus web and social post search, and it is aimed at the same buyer: a product team building on B2B data.
The pricing runs the other way round. Coresignal's search is free and the record is dear; Crustdata's search costs 0.03 credits a result and the record is cheap, at 1 credit for a base person profile with each contact field added on top. A work email is +1 and a phone +2, and Crustdata does sell phones.
It hosts an MCP server at install.crustdata.com/mcp and gives new accounts $20 in credits. Rate limits are per endpoint: 15 a minute on enrich, 30 on search, 10 on the live endpoints, and enrich takes up to 25 profiles a call.
What you give up
A published dollar price. Crustdata prices every endpoint in credits and prints the dollar rate of a credit nowhere public, so the ladder Coresignal publishes, $49 to $5,000, has no equivalent to compare against until you are inside the dashboard. You also give up bulk dataset delivery to a warehouse.
When it is the wrong answer
A team that needs to put a dollar figure in front of finance before it signs. Coresignal's rate card is public and Crustdata's is not.
People Data Labs
A dataset vendor at a printed $0.28 a record, and the one self-serve provider here whose standard terms cover showing its data inside your product.
People Data Labs sells the same kind of thing Coresignal does: person and company data as an API and as bulk loads, for teams building on it. The bulk and search endpoints are built for warehouse loads, which is the other half of what Coresignal sells as datasets.
Self-Serve starts at $98 a month for 350 credits and the record rate is $0.28. That sits below a full Coresignal record on Mini, about $0.39, and above one on Premium, $0.03, so the comparison turns on your volume.
The license is the difference that does not depend on volume. Its standard subscription agreement licenses you to show its data to your own customers inside your product, which few other self-serve plans here grant by default.
It is not a resale license: you may not resell the data, give your users programmatic access to a substantial part of it, or build anything that competes with PDL, and those terms must flow down to your customers. Its record carries SOC 2 Type II. The free plan gives 100 credits a month with contact data obfuscated.
What you give up
Job postings and the free search. PDL's datasets are person, company, job title and school, not job postings, and its search spends credits where Coresignal's returns IDs for nothing. There is no MCP server on the PDL record.
When it is the wrong answer
A pipeline that collects hundreds of thousands of records a month. At Coresignal Premium a full record is $0.03, and nothing on PDL's published pricing comes close.
TheirStack
If most of what you collect is job postings, TheirStack sells them on a published ladder from $49 a month for 1,500 API credits.
A Coresignal job posting is the cheapest thing it sells, at 1 credit, and plenty of teams use it for hiring signals and nothing else. TheirStack does only that: job postings and the technology signals inferred from them, sold as rows.
The subscription climbs from $49 for 1,500 API credits a month to $5,500 for 5,000,000, and one-time company-credit packs start at $109 for 1,000. Unused paid credits roll over for 12 months, packs and subscriptions alike. Coresignal's monthly credits expire each month below Premium.
Paid accounts get 4 requests a second and there is an MCP server at api.theirstack.com/mcp. Free credits come on signup with no card.
What you give up
People and companies as full records. TheirStack has no employee profiles and no contact enrichment, so it replaces the jobs dataset and leaves the other two to someone else.
When it is the wrong answer
Anyone whose Coresignal spend is mostly employee records. Those cost 20 credits each, and that is the part TheirStack does not sell.
Reverse Contact
Flat monthly pricing for profile fetches, unlimited from $249, where Coresignal charges 20 credits a record.
Reverse Contact turns the per-record charge into a subscription. Go at $249 a month makes profile fetches from a social URL unlimited, Plus at $449 adds search and Max at $699 adds enrichment from an email, a name or a domain. Credit packs start at $100 for 5,000 if you would rather pay per call.
For a workload dominated by profile lookups, that removes the arithmetic Coresignal's bundles require. Emails, phones and live refreshes stay on credits on every plan, and nothing is charged when nothing is found.
The limit is 100 or more requests a minute per workspace on every self-serve option, and there is a hosted MCP server with 16 tools. New accounts get 500 credits with no card.
What you give up
The job postings, the bulk datasets and the scale pricing. At Coresignal Scale or Elite a credit is $0.00075 or $0.0005, and a flat plan built for profile fetches is not the cheaper way to move millions of records.
When it is the wrong answer
A warehouse load of millions of company or job records, which is what Coresignal's upper plans and dataset deliveries are for.
What you would actually pay, on each one
Every provider on this page publishes a rate card, so the real numbers can sit next to each other rather than behind a summary. The plan you want is the one whose included volume covers a normal month for you, not the cheapest one on the page.
Coresignal
Coresignal publishes 8 tiers, one of them a free trial, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $5,000.
Free trial
- 2,000 credits
- 5 requests a second
- Contact enrichment on request
Mini
- 2,500 credits a month
- 125 full records, or 2,500 job postings
- 5 requests a second, email support
Starter
- 12,000 credits a month
- 5 requests a second
Pro
- 35,000 credits a month
- 10 requests a second, search preview
Growth
- 150,000 credits a month
- 20 requests a second, account manager
Elite
- 10,000,000 credits a month
- 100+ requests a second, Slack support
2 steps between the fifth and the last are not drawn here. The cost model below reads all 8.
Crustdata
Crustdata publishes 3 tiers, one of them free.
Free
- Every new account
- The self-serve In-DB endpoints
- Enough to test your own use case
Self-serve
- Search, enrich, jobs and web endpoints
- Packs valid 12 months, or auto top-up
- Dollar rate not printed on the public pages
Enterprise
- Live people and company endpoints
- Contact enrich and recurring credit grants
- A lower rate per credit as volume grows
People Data Labs
People Data Labs publishes 3 tiers, one of them free.
Free
- Full access to the Person APIs for testing
- Contact data is obfuscated, so emails and phones are masked
- No commitment, sign up and go
Self-Serve
- Contact data included and unmasked
- Access to premium fields
- Monthly or annual subscription
- CSV enrichment and email support
Enterprise
- Custom volumes and annual contracts
- Access to all APIs, plus Data License Feeds
- Formal data testing before you commit
- Additional field bundles
TheirStack
TheirStack publishes 11 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $49 to $5,500.
1,500 API credits
- 1,500 jobs, or 500 companies, or any mix
- $32.67 per 1,000 credits
- Unused paid credits roll over for 12 months
5,000
- $20.00 per 1,000 credits
10,000
- $16.90 per 1,000 credits
20,000
- $12.00 per 1,000 credits
50,000
- $8.00 per 1,000 credits
5,000,000
- $1.10 per 1,000 credits, the floor of the ladder
5 steps between the fifth and the last are not drawn here. The cost model below reads all 11.
Reverse Contact
Reverse Contact publishes 4 tiers, none of them free, and the paid ladder runs from $249 to $699.
Credit packs
- Fourteen sizes, up to $5,000 for 1,000,000
- $0.02 a credit falling to $0.005
- Valid for 3 months, no subscription
Go
- Unlimited fetches from a social URL
- Search at 1 credit, enrichment at 2
- MCP and CLI included
Plus
- Everything in Go
- Unlimited people, company, agentic and lookalike search
- Enrichment still 2 credits
Max
- Everything in Plus
- Unlimited enrichment from an email, a name or a domain
- Emails, phones and live refreshes on credits
Read the included volume before the headline price. A plan that costs twice as much and carries five times the credits is the cheaper plan, and on this page that is the usual case rather than the exception.
What each one costs at your volume
Coresignal first, then every replacement. The model picks the cheapest published plan that covers your volume on each one, which is the comparison a row of entry prices cannot make.
Coresignal
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Crustdata
Publishes no price, so there is nothing here to model and the lines below say what to ask for.
People Data Labs
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
TheirStack
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Reverse Contact
Priced on the volume you use, so the plan that covers a normal month is the one that decides the bill.
Plans are read from each vendor's own pricing page and the model picks the cheapest one that covers you, so these are list prices before any discount you negotiate and before annual billing, which most of these vendors discount. Crustdata publishes no price, so nothing is modeled there and the panel says what to ask for instead.
What a year costs at three volumes
The same plan-fit arithmetic as the model above, run out to a year, because an annual number is what a budget actually asks for.
The priced columns move with volume, through a bigger plan or more seats.
| A year at | Coresignal | Crustdata | People Data Labs | TheirStack | Reverse Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 a month | $5,988 Pro | Quoted | $3,360 Self-Serve | $1,200 5,000 | $1,200 Credit packs |
| 10,000 a month | $18,000 Premium | Quoted | $33,600 Self-Serve | $4,800 50,000 | $2,400 Credit packs |
| 50,000 a month | $18,000 Premium | Quoted | $168,000 Self-Serve | $10,800 200,000 | $12,000 Credit packs |
Crustdata does not publish enough to price a year, so that column is marked rather than filled. These are list prices on the published plan that covers each volume, on the billing term each vendor publishes, so they are the number before you negotiate.
Which replacement is yours
Answer what matters most and the lean appears below. Every option is read from the records on this page, and staying on Coresignal is one of the possible answers.
Each answer leans one way. The recommendation appears here once you have picked at least two.
A tool like this can only weigh what is on the page. It does not know your workload, and the one test that does is the bake-off on this page: your own rows, queries or records, run on the cheapest entry each side offers.
Where an answer leans on a certification or an integration, it means that vendor publishes it on the pages this directory read, which is not the same as the other one lacking it. The sources are listed at the foot of the page.
Where the data comes from, and what you may do with it
The question that arrives late and expensively is who is allowed to hold the data. A migration is the moment to check it, because you are signing a new contract anyway.
| Provider | Fields returned | Coverage | Compliance | Redistribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coresignal | Work email, Firmographics, Technographics, Job postings, Job changes, LinkedIn profile | Global | None published | Not stated |
| Crustdata | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, Technographics, Job postings, Job changes, Intent and news, LinkedIn profile | Global | None published | Not stated |
| People Data Labs | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA SOC 2 Type II CCPA | Not stated |
| TheirStack | Job postings, Technographics, Firmographics, Intent and news | Global | GDPR DPA | Not stated |
| Reverse Contact | Work email, Personal email, Mobile phone, Firmographics, LinkedIn profile | Global | GDPR DPA CCPA | Not stated |
None of these states a redistribution position on its pricing or docs pages. Internally that never matters. Put the rows in something your customers can see and it becomes the question your legal team asks first.
Two practical notes that apply to every provider on this page. A compliance badge describes the vendor rather than your use of it, so a GDPR DPA does not give you a lawful basis for the outreach you send. And every one of these vendors runs its own opt-out, which means a person who asks you to delete their record has to be removed from your copy as well as from theirs.
Moving off Coresignal
Written against Crustdata, the first pick above, because the steps are the same whichever one you take and the specifics are what make them useful. Swap the name and the order still holds.
Measure the thing you are about to lose
Run 500 rows you already have through Coresignal and record the match rate, the fields that came back populated and the cost. Without that number a migration cannot be judged, because every provider looks cheaper per unit than the one you are paying for today.
Check which fields change
Crustdata returns every field Coresignal does, so nothing downstream has to change shape. Confirm the values rather than the keys: two providers can both return a mobile number and disagree about which one it is.
Rewrite the auth and the limits, in that order
Coresignal authenticates with an API key in the apikey request header, from the self-service dashboard. Crustdata uses a bearer token in the authorization header, plus an x-api-version header pinned to 2025-11-01.
The limits are the part that bites later. Coresignal's limits: by plan: 5 requests a second on the trial, Mini and Starter, 10 on Pro, 20 Growth, 50 Premium, 100 Scale. Agentic search /reasoning is 10 an hour.
Crustdata's limits: per endpoint, per minute: 15 on person and company enrich, 30 on search, 10 on the live endpoints, 300 on autocomplete. Batch jobs are also capped at 5 in flight per pool by default. A loop tuned to the first will either crawl or get throttled on the second.
Run both for one billing cycle
Keep the old key live and route a slice of real traffic to the new one. A month is the shortest honest test, because credit expiry, rollover and the overage rate only show up at renewal and those are where the surprises live.
Cancel on the renewal date
Credits on most of these plans do not survive a downgrade. Check what happens to the balance you have already paid for, and time the switch so you are not buying the same records twice.
The step people skip is the first one, and it is the only one that cannot be done after the fact. Once the old key is off you have nothing to compare the new match rate against, so a provider that is quietly worse on your segment looks like a provider that is fine.
What practitioners say about People Data Labs
Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page.
The accuracy spread between vendors is smaller than the one inside your own list
it's nearly all the same at the end of the day... there's a marginal 5-10% difference between the vendors but overall 55-65% data accuracy / validity overall. [...] have a team of 20+ (or however many) outsourced data integrity workers through fiver or whatnot... it's what the rich tech companies like AirBnB and Uber do to have the most up to date data...
r/SalesOperations · November 2024 · 3 points
The range here lands on the assumption the waterfall stack on this site is modeled with, which is a 55% first pass. That figure is labeled as modeled on every page that uses it, because no provider in this category publishes a match rate you can hold it to, so an independent practitioner arriving at 55 to 65% is the closest thing to corroboration available. It also makes the case for the waterfall itself: if the best single source clears about 60%, the second provider is not a luxury.
The 5 to 10% spread between vendors is this commenter's estimate and nothing here verifies it, and the thread it comes from is a request for benchmarks that were never published. Read it as a reason to run your own test on your own rows rather than as a reason to skip one. It argues against paying a premium for coverage claims, which is a different question from paying a premium for a redistribution license.
14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page.
What practitioners say about TheirStack
Transcribed as written and linked to the thread. A Reddit claim is a signal rather than a fact, so nothing here is the only source for any figure on this page.
There is no official job-postings API, which is why this category exists
Job sites don't provide public APIs, they want that ad revenue. There use to be scripts to scrape their HTML but most no longer work. You can search github to find some now mostly abandon projects.
r/cscareerquestions · May 2023 · 12 points
This is the structural reason a provider can charge for job postings at all. The boards publish no publicly usable API because the listings are their advertising inventory, so the data reaches you either through a scraper you maintain yourself or through somebody who maintains one for you. TheirStack is the second option with a rate card attached, and the rate card is what you are really comparing against your own engineering time.
It is a 2023 comment and the abandoned-project problem has not improved since, which is the part to weigh. The question for your own build is not whether you can scrape a board this week but whether you want to own that maintenance the next time the markup changes.
14 threads read on 13 October 2026, searched by vendor name. Scores and dates are the comment's own. Nothing here is the only source for a price or a limit on this site: every figure in the tables above comes from a vendor's own page.
Should you actually switch?
The short answer is at the top of this page. Before you act on it, run the test below, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether that answer holds for you.
No provider in this category publishes a match rate you can hold them to, so run the same 500 rows through a free tier or trial on each, verify every result set, and divide spend by survivors. Your own list is the only evidence worth acting on, it takes half a day, and it changes the decision often enough to be worth it.
Head to head, and in a stack
Before you switch, try the waterfall in Clay.
Clay runs a waterfall across 150+ data providers from one table, without a separate contract with each. A lookup that finds nothing costs no data credit, and the free plan includes 500 actions a month.
Frontal is a Clay Elite Studio Partner.
Switching from Coresignal, answered
What is the best Coresignal alternative?
It depends on why you are leaving, which is how this page is organized rather than ranked. The first pick here is Crustdata, which this directory sums up as "Search wide for pennies of a credit, then pay only for the fields you keep", at quote only. The case for it, and what you give up, is in the section above.
Is there a free alternative to Coresignal?
Yes, 3 of the replacements here do. Crustdata: $20 in free credits on every new account, on the self-serve In-DB endpoints. People Data Labs: Free plan, up to 100 credits per month with contact data obfuscated. Reverse Contact: 500 credits free to try, no credit card required.
What is the cheapest Coresignal alternative?
At 10,000 credits a month, Reverse Contact: $200 a month against Coresignal at $1500, on the cheapest plan of each that carries the API. The cost model above moves with your own volume.
How were these alternatives chosen?
By the reason teams leave, not by a score. The page opens with the reasons teams leave and matches a replacement to each one.