People Data Labs vs. Crustdata

People Data Labs vs. Crustdata

People Data Labs vs. Crustdata

PDL is well-known for its large people dataset and firmographic coverage. Crustdata, on the other hand, goes further by giving your product the ability to enrich profiles and monitor them in real time, access social media activity data, and tap into 15+ data sources beyond what PDL currently supports.

PDL is well-known for its large people dataset and firmographic coverage. Crustdata, on the other hand, goes further by giving your product the ability to enrich profiles and monitor them in real time, access social media activity data, and tap into 15+ data sources beyond what PDL currently supports.

Crustdata is real-time

Crustdata is real-time

Crustdata covers more data types

Crustdata covers more data types

Crustdata is built for AI agents & tools

Crustdata is built for AI agents & tools

PDL lacks social post data

PDL lacks social post data

PDL lacks employee & product reviews

PDL lacks employee & product reviews

Data coverage

FeatureCrustdataPDL
People profiles1B+1.5B+
Company profiles60M+71M+
Real-time search APIs✅ Yes❌ No
Post data✅ Yes❌ No
Post reactor data✅ Yes❌ No
Website traffic✅ Yes✅ Yes
Technographic data✅ Yes❌ No
Job posting data✅ Yes❌ No
Product review data✅ Yes❌ No
Employee review data✅ Yes✅ Yes
News data✅ Yes✅ Yes
Historical data✅ Yes✅ Yes

Freshness

FeatureCrustdataPDL
Update frequencyReal-time (all profiles)Monthly
Real-time monitoring webhooks✅ Yes ❌ No
Custom event tracking✅ YesUnspecified

User support

FeatureCrustdataProxycurl
MethodEmail or dedicated Slack channels with dedicated engineers for each accountUnspecified

Why people choose Crustdata over competitors like People Data Labs

Why people choose Crustdata over competitors like People Data Labs

Why people choose Crustdata over competitors like People Data Labs

Crustdata is trusted by teams building AI agents, GTM, recruiting and deal sourcing platforms that rely on accuracy and signal tracking. While PDL is a strong choice for large-scale static enrichment, Crustdata is built for real-time data needs with support for job change detection, social post data, and webhook-triggered workflows that help your product respond to change as it happens.

Real-time monitoring to know what's happening to profile that are important

Crustdata offers webhooks that track people, companies and events that notify your product when a tracked profile changes. Whether it’s a job change, a skill update, or a new post, you just plug in a webhook and get alerted instantly.

FeatureCrustdataProxycurl
Update frequencyReal-time (all profiles)Partial real-time (some profiles)
Real-time monitoring webhooks✅ YesUnspecified
Custom event tracking✅ YesUnspecified
FeatureCrustdataPDL
Firmographic data✅ Yes✅ Yes
Employee data✅ Yes✅ Yes
Technographic data✅ YesUnspecified
Job posting data✅ Yes✅ Yes
Post data✅ Yes❌ No
Website traffic data✅ Yes❌ No
Product review data✅ Yes❌ No
Employee review data✅ Yes❌ No
News✅ Yes❌ No

Multisource company data

Crustdata pulls from 16+ sources to provide a broader understanding of each company  including web traffic trends, news mentions, employee reviews, social posts, product mentions, and more. This gives you context that goes beyond basic firmographics.

Build auto updating lists with realtime data and unlimited coverage

Use Crustdata’s real-time search to create lists that update automatically as new matches are surfaced. Whether you’re targeting companies hiring in a specific region or tracking executives posting about a certain topic, your list will always be updated and never miss a person or company who fits your criteria.

Complete in-depth profiles with 350+ datapoints

All our company and people profiles are enriched with more than 350+ datapoints including granular data such as start and end date of jobs, education and job descriptions of a person’s work history

Social media monitoring

Crustdata has a post API that lets you find all the posts made by a founder or a company on their social media. We also offer webhooks that let you track keywords across social media posts or get notified the instant a founder or company has posted.

FeatureCrustdataProxycurl
Post data✅ Yes❌ No
Post reactor data✅ Yes❌ No

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