Data coverage
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| People profiles | 1B+ | 472M+ |
| Company profiles | 60M+ | 21M+ |
| Real-time search APIs | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Post data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Post reactor data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Website traffic | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Technographic data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Job posting data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Product review data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Employee review data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| News data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Historical data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Freshness
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Update frequency | Real-time (all profiles) | Partial real-time (some profiles) |
| Real-time monitoring webhooks | ✅ Yes | Unspecified |
| Custom event tracking | ✅ Yes | Unspecified |
User support
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Method | Email or dedicated Slack channels with dedicated engineers for each account | Unspecified |
Proxycurl is a solid low-cost option for pulling basic company and people data. But Crustdata offers significantly more datapoints, more signals, more monitoring, and more reliability. If you’re building a product, Crustdata gives you the coverage and infrastructure to operate in real time with data from multiple sources.
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.
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Update frequency | Real-time (all profiles) | Partial real-time (some profiles) |
| Real-time monitoring webhooks | ✅ Yes | Unspecified |
| Custom event tracking | ✅ Yes | Unspecified |
Comprehensive knowledge of a profile with multi source data
While Proxycurl is limited to only one source of data, Crustdata pulls from multiple sources. This lets you get more context on a profile with more accurate and indepth signals.
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Firmographic data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Employee data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Technographic data | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| 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 |
Unlimited, real-time data coverage
Proxycurl relies on its LinkDB database, which is refreshed monthly or quarterly with enrichment data that may be up to 29 days old. Crustdata offers true real-time discovery and enrichment APIs that surface every profile matching your criteria at the exact moment of query, with data pulled live.
Better discovery and list building capability
Use filters to discover companies and people and build lists that get auto updated anytime a new profile matches the criteria of your lists. With our realtime search APIs, you will get all the profiles that fit your criteria now instead of those that fit your criteria a month ago. With our webhooks you can also track custom events to identify profiles that fit your criteria now.
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.
| Feature | Crustdata | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Post data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Post reactor data | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |