Crustdata
A real-time API for company and people data — sales, recruiting and investing teams query it directly, or plug it straight into Claude via MCP, instead of buying a static list that's already stale.
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Description
Sales, recruiting and investment teams have long relied on data providers that sell a list — a CSV export of companies or contacts that starts going stale the moment you download it. Crustdata takes a different approach: instead of a list, it's a live API you query in real time, covering more than a billion people and over 60 million companies, so the data you get back reflects what's true today rather than what was true when the file was last refreshed.
Crustdata is a real-time B2B data API built for programmatic access rather than manual list-building. It exposes company and people search, profile enrichment, and signal monitoring (hiring, funding, leadership changes) through a REST API, and — notably — through Claude's Model Context Protocol, letting an AI agent query it directly during a workflow instead of a human exporting data first. The company reports 1.4-second median search latency, a 2-day median data freshness window, and 96% fact-verification accuracy on returned records. Pricing is credit-based across usage tiers, with flat-file bulk delivery refreshed monthly also available, and custom pricing for enterprise volume.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you're building a product or workflow that needs company/people data as a live API rather than a one-time export, Crustdata is a credible, more automation-friendly alternative to the established data providers.
Against Clearbit and Apollo.io, both of which built their reputation on enrichment for sales and marketing tooling, Crustdata's differentiator is real-time querying and native MCP support — the second part matters specifically if you're building AI agents that need to look up company data mid-task rather than pre-loading a database. Against People Data Labs and Coresignal, which compete more directly on raw data-API access, the claimed 2-day freshness and 96% verification are the numbers worth pressure-testing with a trial before committing budget, since data-quality claims in this space vary widely between marketing copy and production reality. Credit-based pricing is standard for the category but makes cost hard to estimate up front — get a sense of your actual query volume before assuming a tier. Best fit: engineering teams building sales, recruiting or investment tooling that needs programmatic, near-live data access, especially anything agentic. Weaker fit: a small team that just wants an occasional list export — a simpler point tool will be cheaper and less to integrate.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Paliers à l'usage basés sur des crédits, facturation mensuelle ou annuelle. Livraison en fichier plat avec rafraîchissement mensuel disponible. Tarification entreprise sur devis.
Pros
Données en temps réel via API plutôt qu'un export statique qui devient obsolète
Support natif du Model Context Protocol de Claude — interrogeable directement par un agent IA
Fraîcheur des données annoncée à 2 jours médians, latence de recherche de 1,4 seconde
Couverture large : 1 milliard+ de personnes, 60 millions+ d'entreprises
Cons
Tarification à crédits difficile à estimer sans connaître son volume de requêtes réel à l'avance
Chiffres de fraîcheur/précision (96%) à vérifier soi-même en essai avant d'engager du budget
Overkill pour une équipe qui a juste besoin d'un export ponctuel de liste
Marché déjà occupé par des acteurs établis (Clearbit, Apollo.io) avec un historique plus long