Captain Data review (2026): is it worth €59.99 a month?
People and company data API built on LinkedIn profiles
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Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for LinkedIn-based people data over an API
Captain Data is an API for people and company data built on LinkedIn profiles, priced by credits from €59.99 per 1,000. It is for developers, credits do not roll over on monthly billing, and the euro figures were the ones read.
Who Captain Data is for
- Fits if you are a developer who needs LinkedIn-based people data in your own tool
- Works for teams that prefer volume pricing to per-seat plans
Who Captain Data is not for
- Not for you if you want an app to prospect in, as there is no dashboard
- Pricey if you start small, as the base rate is €59.99 per 1,000 credits
- Watch out: unused credits do not roll over month to month on monthly billing
- Watch out: the page was read with the euro setting, and its dollar figures were not confirmed
Why Captain Data gets a 1.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for money€59.99 per 1,000 credits from a 2,500-credit start is about €150 a month, and the volume slider shows €600 for 20,000. That is the dearer end for what is a data API.
- CFree plan and trial100 free credits with no card, one time.
- CFeaturesPeople enrichment, people and company search, company employees and an MCP server. There is no dashboard prospecting app.
- DEase of useNo store rating on record. It is an API product and needs a developer.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb, with an API and MCP server and two listed integrations. No apps.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Captain Data's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/captain-data#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/captain-data.svg" alt="Captain Data: 1.6 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Captain Data stands among lead and email finders
Captain Data's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 2 of the 72 other lead and email finders we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 21 of 72) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $67.02 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 38 of the 54 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 37 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 73 lead and email finders we grade, cut by the letter each got. Captain Data’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 1 of 72, level with 9
- CFree plan and trialAbove 21 of 72, level with 49
- CFeaturesAbove 2 of 72, level with 52
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 72, level with 4
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 72, level with 18
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 55 lead and email finders. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Captain Data, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Captain Data you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 60 of the 72 other lead and email finders grade higher. It costs $804.25 a year.
What you could not
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
What this rests on. Captain Data’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Captain Data?
Captain Data is a REST API for enriching and searching people and company profiles, mostly starting from a LinkedIn URL, a name or a domain. It is aimed at product teams, sales platforms and AI agents, and is billed by credits per record.
Worth knowing
- The page was read with the euro setting showing; a US dollar setting exists but its figures were not confirmed.
- Unused credits do not roll over month to month on monthly billing.
- Pricing scales with volume only, and there is no per-seat plan or dashboard prospecting app.
Key features
- People enrichment
- Return a full profile from a LinkedIn profile URL for 1 credit per record.
- Find people and companies
- Resolve a person from a name and optional company, or a company from a name or domain, at 2 credits per record.
- Search endpoints
- People and company search cost 1 credit per request plus 1 credit per result, with one page counted as one request.
- Company employees
- Retrieve the employees of a given company through a dedicated endpoint, billed per request and per result.
- MCP server
- A Model Context Protocol server exposes the same data to Claude, Cursor and other agents.
Captain Data pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Captain Data is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €59.99 per 1,000 credits, billed monthly (from 2,500 credits).
- Starts at
- €59.99 per 1,000 credits, billed monthly (from 2,500 credits)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 100 free credits, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Silver (20,000 credits) | €600per month for 20,000 credits, billed monthly | Shown on the volume slider at €29.99 per 1,000 credits, 50% under the €59.99 base rate. |
Read from captaindata.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Captain Data before you buy.
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- MCP
- REST API
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Common questions
Does Captain Data have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Captain Data is listed for Web.
Does Captain Data have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Captain Data is listed for Web.
Is Captain Data open source?
Captain Data is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Captain Data have an API?
Yes. Captain Data offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.