# Crustdata review (2026): is it worth paying for? > People and company data API with real-time watchers Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Crustdata is a B2B data provider that sells access to a database of people, companies and job postings through a REST API and an MCP server. Teams use it to search, enrich and monitor records for sales, recruiting and investing, paying in credits per result. - **Category:** Lead & Email Finders - **Made by:** Crustdata Inc. - **Website:** https://crustdata.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are a small team, as the page says paid plans begin at four figures a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Crustdata is a paid product with a free trial. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** $20 in free credits for every new account, one-time. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Enterprise | Custom | Real-time signals and live search; the page says plans start at four figures a month. Sold through sales. | Read from https://crustdata.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Crustdata before buying. ## Key features - **People and company search:** Search about 1B people and 60M+ companies with 350+ filters; billed from 0.03 credits per result, and empty searches are free. - **Enrichment:** A base person profile costs 1 credit; work email, personal email and phone are add-ons that raise the cost to as much as 9 credits. - **Watchers:** Alerts when a person or company changes or a new match appears, billed from 0.5 credits per new result. - **Real-time endpoints:** Live people search (2 credits per profile) and live enrich (7 credits) query the web instead of the index; both are listed as enterprise. - **MCP server:** The same data can be connected to an AI agent through an MCP server as well as through the REST API. ## Good for - Developers building sales, recruiting or investing tools on a data API - Teams that want to pay per record instead of per seat ## Worth knowing - Self-serve credit pack prices in dollars are not shown on the pricing page; only credit costs per call are. - Credits bought stay valid for 12 months, and several endpoints (contact enrich, live search) are listed as enterprise only. - It is an API and data product, not a prospecting app with a list-building interface. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Crustdata sells people and company data through an API, with real-time watchers and a $20 one-time credit to start. Its own page says plans start at four figures a month, and some endpoints are enterprise only. - **Value for money: D.** The page says enterprise plans start at four figures a month, far above the $167 where the category's dearest tenth begins. Self-serve credit pack prices in dollars are not shown. - **Free plan and trial: C.** $20 in free credits for each new account, one time, with no card mentioned. - **Features: C.** Search, enrichment, watchers and real-time endpoints, with an MCP server. Contact enrich and live search are enterprise only, and there is no list-building screen. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is an API product, so it needs a developer. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web, with an API and an MCP server and two listed integrations. No apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Crustdata'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 - Crustdata'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). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/lead-finders ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Crustdata 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. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, MCP and REST API among them, and has an API. 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, AI features ## 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/crustdata-vs-people-data-labs) - [MixRank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mixrank): Bulk company, people and tech data feeds, refreshed hourly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crustdata-vs-mixrank) - [Clay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clay): Data enrichment tables that query 150+ data providers in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clay-vs-crustdata) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://crustdata.com/pricing - https://crustdata.com - https://crustdata.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/crustdata Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).