Head-to-head
Crustdata vs Coresignal
Crustdata: Real-time B2B data API covering 200M+ companies and 800M+ people profiles, with live LinkedIn-style screening endpoints. Coresignal: Raw public-web employee and company data at scale, aimed at investors and data teams.
Overlapping capabilities: Company search, Company enrichment, People search.
Benchmark: company search
| Metric | Crustdata (partial run) | Coresignal (partial run) |
|---|---|---|
| Precision (of returned) | 36% | 16.1% |
| Precision@10 | 35.5% | 10% |
| Size accuracy | 97.5% | 51.1% |
| Depth (avg results /25) | 23 | 7 |
| Latency p50 | 5,868ms | 191ms |
Bold = better. Partial run = quota hit mid-run; not directly comparable. From the latest run — full report.
Reviews across the web
Crustdata has a sparse but genuinely positive review footprint: a 4.4-star rating from 13 Product Hunt reviews and essentially no G2 or Capterra corpus, reflecting how early-stage the product is. Users who have adopted it praise the developer experience and its real-time webhook alerts as a real differentiator, while the open question in reviews is whether data quality and latency hold up at production scale. Buyers should weight their own bake-off results heavily given the small sample of public reviews.
Full roundup →Coresignal's public review base is sparse — roughly a dozen reviews each on G2 (4.5) and Datarade (4.8) — which fits a vendor selling bulk datasets to data teams rather than seats to salespeople. Sentiment is positive about the scale and freshness of the raw data, while the recurring criticisms are the absence of contact data (no emails or phones), a clunky self-serve experience (one Reddit tester scored it 6/10), and a high upfront commitment before quality can be assessed.
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