# Captain Data review (2026): is it worth €59.99 a month? > People and company data API built on LinkedIn profiles Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Lead & Email Finders - **Made by:** Captain Data - **Website:** https://www.captaindata.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want an app to prospect in, as there is no dashboard. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 100 free credits, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Silver (20,000 credits) | €600 per 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 https://www.captaindata.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Captain Data before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Product teams that embed people and company data in their own app - AI agent builders who need structured profile lookups ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: D.** €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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 100 free credits with no card, one time. - **Features: C.** People enrichment, people and company search, company employees and an MCP server. There is no dashboard prospecting app. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is an API product and needs a developer. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web, with an API and MCP server and two listed integrations. No apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/lead-finders ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with MCP, REST API **Tags:** Public API, AI agents, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [People Data Labs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/people-data-labs): Person and company data sold through APIs and data feeds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/captain-data-vs-people-data-labs) - [Crustdata](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crustdata): People and company data API with real-time watchers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/captain-data-vs-crustdata) - [PhantomBuster](https://toolgpa.com/tools/phantombuster): Cloud automations that collect and enrich leads from LinkedIn. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/captain-data-vs-phantombuster) - [Clay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clay): Data enrichment tables that query 150+ data providers in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/captain-data-vs-clay) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.captaindata.com/pricing - https://www.captaindata.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/captain-data Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).