Bright Data offers SERP APIs, scraping APIs, and pre-built datasets, but does not provide real-time people or company search APIs or native entity-level monitoring.
Real-time APIs vs dataset delivery
Bright Data offers people and company datasets collected from the web, as well as enrichment APIs. In addition to live enrichment, some of their datasets are updated on a periodic schedule.
Crustdata provides structured people and company profiles enriched across multiple verified sources and retrieved in real time through API calls.
For teams building applications that require continuously refreshed entity data via API, Crustdata is designed to operate as a real-time structured data layer rather than a periodically refreshed dataset source.
| Feature | Crustdata | Bright Data |
|---|---|---|
| People profiles | 1B+ | 620M |
| Company profiles | 60M+ | 56M |
| Real-time B2B search APIs | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Post data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Post reactor data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Website traffic data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Technographic data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Job posting data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Product review data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Employee review data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| News data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Proxy & scraping infrastructure | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| Feature | Crustdata | Scrapin.io |
|---|---|---|
| Current company | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Past work experience | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Job start & end dates | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Detailed job descriptions | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Education history | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Incomplete |
| Degree information | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Certifications | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Languages | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Business emails | ✅ Yes (where available from verified sources) | ❌ No |
| Connection data (exact count) | ✅ Exact numbers (where available) | ⚠️ Limited (e.g. capped counts such as 500+) |
People API feature coverage
Bright Data offers people datasets and scraping infrastructure, but structured historical career depth and enriched professional fields may require additional customer-side processing.
Crustdata’s People API is structured to provide full historical career timelines, enriched education data, certifications, languages, and contact signals.
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Better discovery and list building capabilities
With webhooks, you can track custom events to identify new opportunities as soon as they appear. Bright Data provides infrastructure and datasets, but list automation, event tracking, and entity-level monitoring must be implemented by the customer.
With Crustdata’s real-time search APIs, you receive profiles that match your criteria now, not profiles discovered during dataset refresh cycles or past scraping runs.
✅ Yes
❌ No
Structured filtering (role, occupation,
skills, company growth signals, etc.)
⚠️ Requires custom scraping logic
✅ Yes
Event-based tracking (job change,
promotion, hiring, etc.)
Live Data vs Periodic Datasets
Bright Data offers both a live enrichment API and datasets that are updated periodically (quarterly). Crustdata provides real-time structured discovery and enrichment APIs that retrieve and structure entity data on demand, across people, companies, and posts.
Rather than relying on periodic dataset refresh cycles, Crustdata is built to support workflows that require continuously updated structured intelligence and live entity retrieval.
60M+
56M
New profile discovery
Dataset refresh or manual scraping
Crustdata is real-time
Bright Data’s data freshness depends on dataset update schedules or how often customers scrape and maintain their own pipelines, and on-demand entity enrichment doesn’t satisfy the users’ needs. Crustdata retrieves data at the moment of request by spawning live crawlers and enriching profiles in real time.
✅ Yes
❌ No
Custom event tracking
❌ No
Bright Data provides the ability to collect raw data and access large datasets, but does not provide the real-time intelligence layer required by modern AI systems.
Our APIs are built for products that require live data to function. From real-time enrichment to discovery and event tracking, Crustdata is the infrastructure layer designed for AI agents and platforms that must respond to changes as they happen.
Complete in-depth profiles with 350+ datapoints
All Crustdata company and people profiles are enriched with more than 350+ datapoints, including granular information such as job start and end dates, education history, job descriptions, skills, company growth signals, and public web presence.
| Feature | Crustdata | Scrapin.io |
|---|---|---|
| Social media post tracking via webhooks | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Social media monitoring
Use filters to discover companies and people and build lists that auto-update in real time. With Crustdata’s real-time search APIs, you get profiles that match your criteria today instead of those discovered during dataset refreshes. With webhooks, you can track custom events to identify changes as they happen.
Web Search API
Crustdata’s Web Search API converts live search results into structured, machine-readable JSON. Bright Data provides SERP APIs that return structured search results in JSON format.
Both platforms enable applications to retrieve normalized search data including titles, URLs, snippets, ranking position, result type, and source.
This allows developers to power AI workflows, RAG pipelines, enrichment processes, and web monitoring without maintaining their own scraping infrastructure.
Book a demo to see how Crustdata replaces scraping pipelines and static datasets with a real-time, structured data layer built for AI products.