Enrich Layer is well-suited for enrichment workflows where known people and company records need additional structured attributes. Crustdata is designed for products that require structured people & company enrichment, real-time or live data retrieval, live alerts via webhooks, APIs designed for integration with applications and tools, high-depth structured profiles.
This makes Crustdata particularly strong for AI-driven applications, automation platforms, and intelligence systems that must react to live changes.
Crustdata covers more data
Enrich Layer focuses on structured profile enrichment across People, Companies, Contacts (emails & phone numbers), Jobs, and Schools. Crustdata extends beyond and provides structured data across People, Companies, Posts, Engagement signals, Events, and Activity-level signals.
For teams building data products that require interconnected entity intelligence, Crustdata supports a wider scope of data types natively.
| Feature | Crustdata | Enrich Layer |
|---|---|---|
| People profiles | 1B+ | 401M+ (LinkDB dataset) |
| Company profiles | 60M+ | Included within LinkDB dataset |
| Job profile APIs | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Contact enrichment | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes (Email & Contact APIs) |
| School profile data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Post & activity signals | ✅ Yes | Not publicly documented as a core dataset |
| Real-time search APIs | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| People enrichment datapoints | 90+ | 45+ |
| Company enrichment datapoints | 250+ | 45+ |
| People search filters | 60+ | 5 |
| Company search filters | 95+ | 3 |
| Feature | Crustdata | Enrich Layer |
|---|---|---|
| Data refresh model | Real-time retrieval & continuous updates | Configurable freshness (≤29 days or cached) |
| Live scraping | ✅ Yes | Yes (with ≤29-day parameter) |
| Cached dataset | Structured internal systems | 401M+ LinkDB dataset |
| Response speed | Optimized for live workflows | Cached = near-instant, Live scrape = 2–3 sec |
Enrich Layer lacks real-time search APIs
Enrich Layer offers flexibility between cached and live scraping models. Crustdata is architected for systems that require continuously updated entity intelligence across multiple data layers.
Better discovery and list building capability
Use filters to discover companies and people and build lists that automatically update whenever a new profile matches your criteria. With our real-time discovery APIs, you receive profiles and updates as soon as they appear, rather than managing discovery logic manually within your own systems.
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To provide a clearer comparison, below is a structured breakdown of enrichment depth and search flexibility across both platforms.
Enrichment Datapoints
Crustdata provides significantly deeper enrichment coverage across both people and company entities, particularly at the company level.
Enrich Layer returns approximately 45+ structured datapoints per entity (as publicly stated in their documentation).
| Category | Crustdata | Enrich Layer |
|---|---|---|
| People enrichment datapoints | 90+ | 45+ |
| Company enrichment datapoints | 250+ | 45+ |
| Category | Crustdata | Enrich Layer |
|---|---|---|
| People search filters | 60+ | 5 |
| Company search filters | 95+ | 3 |
Search Filter Coverage
Crustdata supports extensive filtering flexibility across both people and company search APIs, enabling granular discovery workflows.
Enrich Layer offers lookup-based and limited filtering capabilities, with fewer configurable parameters for search queries.
Complete in-depth profiles with 350+ datapoints
All our 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, and company-level growth and activity signals.
| 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 whenever a new profile matches your criteria. With our real-time discovery and monitoring capabilities, you can track meaningful changes as they happen rather than polling for updates.
Enrich Layer’s APIs focus on enriching known profiles, but do not support real-time discovery of new entities. Crustdata provides real-time discovery and enrichment APIs that allow any company, person, or post to be discovered, enriched, and tracked live.
✅ Yes
❌ No
Web Search API
Enrich Layer’s public documentation does not position web search as a core API offering. On the other hand, Crustdata’s Web Search API converts live search results into structured, machine-readable JSON. Instead of relying on third-party search tools or scraping search results, your systems receive normalized results including titles, URLs, snippets, ranking position, result type, and source.
This enables AI agents to reason over live web data, enrich profiles, power RAG pipelines, and monitor markets in real time.
If you're evaluating an Enrich Layer alternative and need more than record-level enrichment, book a demo to see how Crustdata delivers real-time, structured intelligence built for AI agents and modern data products.