CrustData Alternative for
B2B Data Freshness
New and changed records from every dataset we sell reach your feed every hour, for every customer, on every plan. The freshness on this page is the freshness in your contract. And the records go back: 1.8B+ job postings tracked, 1.2B+ people profiles since 2013, 120M+ companies tracked globally.
Some buyers come to us to replace CrustData. Others keep it for live change alerts and use us for depth, history, and the hourly baseline underneath. Either way, here's what you get:
Hourly updates, whoever you are
New and changed records reach your feed every hour, for every customer, on every plan.
One flat license per dataset
No per-record credits, and no expiry date on capacity you already paid for. Re-reading a record you already have costs you nothing.
History you can join against
App and SDK history back to 2008, technographics back to 2012, people profiles back to 2013, job postings back to 2021. Knowing what changed this week is worth more when you can see the years around it.
Saw MixRank on another B2B data vendor comparison table?
Some comparison tables list MixRank without job postings data, or with numbers we outgrew years ago. CrustData's own footer carries a “MixRank alternative” page. Wherever you saw the comparison, here are our current numbers:
- job postings tracked, history back to 2021
- 1.8B+
- people profiles since 2013
- 1.2B+
- fields in the people schema
- 250+
- companies tracked globally (40M+ active)
- 120M+
When teams like yours decide to bring MixRank in
Teams evaluating CrustData rarely doubt its freshness. The questions start after the sandbox: what the live tier costs, what a re-pull costs, and what to do when someone asks a question the present tense can't answer. That kind of gap is what sends teams our way, usually in one of these three situations:
You need more than the present tense.
Your model, your board, or your customers ask what a company looked like three years ago. Live retrieval can't answer that; only stored history can. Ours goes back to 2013 for companies, 2013 for people profiles, and 2008 for apps and SDKs.
You're doing credit math before every refresh.
Search is cheap, but a full person record runs 1 to 7 credits depending on the fields. If you keep a CRM or a search index current on a schedule, every refresh starts with a spreadsheet: how many records, how many credits, and which ones can wait.
The endpoints you need are above your plan.
Per CrustData's own documentation, the live company and person endpoints, the ones that fetch a record the moment you ask, are enterprise-only and plan-gated. If real-time is why you signed up, that is the first thing to check on your quote.
Where CrustData is the right call.
CrustData is a Y Combinator-backed company that built its product around live retrieval and push alerts, and parts of it are genuinely ahead of the category. For some teams it's the better choice. We would rather tell you that now than have you find out six months into a contract with us.
What they do well
Push alerts, not polling.
Their Watcher API sends a webhook the moment a watched company or person changes: a job move, a funding round, a hiring spike. Most data vendors wait for you to ask. CrustData tells you.
Built for agents from day one.
An MCP server, a sandbox key, and documentation with working request examples for every endpoint. A developer can go from landing page to first query without talking to sales.
Pick CrustData if:
You need to be told the moment something changes. Their core strength is webhooks that fire when a watched company or person changes.
You're wiring data straight into an agent. MCP-native access, a sandbox key, and docs your engineers will actually enjoy.
You only need what is true now. If nobody will ever ask you what a company looked like three years ago, you don't need to pay for history.
The question that decides your bill
CrustData's headline is real-time data, and the product can deliver it. The question that decides what you actually get is not “is their data real-time” but “is the real-time part in my plan.”
New and changed records reach your feed every hour, on every plan.
Live company and person endpoints are enterprise-only and plan-gated, per their docs. Everything else is the indexed dataset, and the flat file refreshes monthly.
One flat license per dataset. Re-reading a record you already have costs nothing.
Credit-based. Search runs 0.03 credits per result; a full person record runs 1 to 7. Purchased credits expire 12 months after purchase.
Apps and SDKs to 2008. Technographics to 2012. People profiles to 2013. Job postings to 2021.
Built around live retrieval and an indexed dataset. If you need 2022, ask to see it before you sign.
Six datasets on the same company and people records: people, companies, jobs, technographics, apps and SDKs, developers.
Companies, people, jobs, and social posts over one versioned REST API. Social post endpoints are enabled on request.
Whichever vendor you're pricing, ask two questions. Does my plan include the live endpoints? What does a full monthly re-pull of my records cost? The two answers decide what you actually pay and how fresh “fresh” is.
Don't just take our word for it.
A spec sheet tells you less than an afternoon with your own records.
The plan test
Ask CrustData whether live company and people endpoints are included in the plan you're quoted. Then ask us whether hourly refresh costs extra. Both answers should take one word.
The history test
Pick ten companies you know well. Ask both of us for their headcount and job postings as of a date in 2022. Then compare what comes back.
The re-pull test
Ask both of us what it costs to re-check every record in your CRM next month. On a credit plan, that number has a credit count attached. On ours, it's already included.
Already comparing MixRank vs. CrustData side by side?
Send us the specific fields where the two datasets disagree, and we'll tell you why, including the cases where we're the one who's wrong.