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Clearbit API in 2026: What Still Works and What Replaced It

You can't sign up for the Clearbit API on your own anymore. HubSpot completed its acquisition of Clearbit on December 4, 2023 (HubSpot, 2023), and by September 2026 the standalone product has been folded into HubSpot's Breeze Intelligence credits. Here's exactly what still runs, what got cut, and how to move your enrichment calls without breaking your pipeline.

TL;DR

• HubSpot closed on Clearbit December 4, 2023 (HubSpot, 2023); the free tools and the Logo API are already shut down.
• Enrichment now runs through HubSpot Credits at $0.01 each (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026), not a standalone Clearbit signup.
• Live-lookup alternatives like Datamagnet, Clay, and Coresignal charge per profile or per credit with no HubSpot seat required.

What Happened to the Clearbit API?

HubSpot finalized its purchase of Clearbit on December 4, 2023, calling the deal complete in its own company news release (HubSpot, 2023). The standalone brand didn't disappear overnight, but the self-serve product it was known for has been quietly wound down since.

Two shutdowns are officially documented. Clearbit's own blog confirms the free Clearbit Platform, Weekly Visitor Report, TAM Calculator, Clearbit Connect, and the free Slack integration all sunset on April 30, 2025 (Clearbit, 2025). Then HubSpot's developer changelog confirmed the free Logo API (logo.clearbit.com) would shut down entirely on December 8, 2025, with logo.dev named as the recommended replacement (HubSpot Developer Changelog, 2025).

What's notable is what HubSpot hasn't published: a single page listing which Clearbit Enrichment, Prospector, or Risk endpoints are still live for legacy accounts today. Multiple developer trackers report that new self-serve signups are gone and that access now runs through a HubSpot subscription (dev.to migration guide, 2026), but no official HubSpot page states that in plain language. If you're still relying on a legacy Clearbit key, don't assume it's permanent — assume it's on borrowed time.

Which Clearbit Endpoints Still Work in 2026?

If you already have a Clearbit account from before the acquisition, your enrichment calls likely still run — but you can't get a new key, and two products are confirmed dead. The Logo API stopped serving requests on December 8, 2025 (HubSpot Developer Changelog, 2025), and the free Platform tools stopped on April 30, 2025 (Clearbit, 2025).

Here's the current state, split between what's officially confirmed and what's only reported by third-party trackers:

That gap between "officially confirmed" and "reported by trackers" matters. If your team's roadmap depends on a Clearbit endpoint that isn't in the top two rows, you're building on a status nobody at HubSpot has put in writing.

How Much Does HubSpot Breeze Intelligence Cost Now?

New enrichment access doesn't come with a Clearbit price tag anymore — it comes with a HubSpot Credits bill. HubSpot Credits cost $0.01 each, billed in 10-credit increments when you go over your plan's allocation (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026). Legacy Breeze Credit balances convert at fixed ratios: 100 Breeze Credits become 3,000 HubSpot Credits, 1,000 become 15,000, and 10,000 become 125,000 (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026).

Your monthly credit allocation depends on your HubSpot subscription tier — Breeze Intelligence isn't sold as its own line item anymore, it's a feature bundled into Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Content Hub, and Smart CRM plans. That's the real shift: enrichment pricing used to be a standalone decision. Now it's tied to whichever HubSpot hub you already pay for, which is exactly why so many teams are shopping for a hub-independent alternative.

Curious what a Clearbit alternative actually returns? Datamagnet's company profile endpoint and people profile endpoint are built to cover similar ground to what Clearbit's Company and Person Enrichment used to return — headcount, industry, and role history, fetched live rather than pulled from a cached database. We haven't run a formal field-by-field diff against Clearbit's old schema, so don't take that as a guarantee: pull a sample of your own accounts and compare the fields side by side before you commit to a migration. Our Clearbit alternative comparison breaks down the endpoint mapping in more depth.

How Competitor Pricing Compares

Clearbit's old standalone pricing is gone, so the real comparison in 2026 is against the vendors teams are actually migrating to. Three of these prices come from official, currently-live pricing pages checked this month; ZoomInfo publishes none, so its figure is a derived estimate.

A few specifics worth knowing before you pick a direction:

• Clay runs on two credit types: Data Credits at $0.05 each and Actions under $0.01 each. Its Launch plan is $167–185/month for 2,500–3,000 data credits and 15,000 actions, and Growth runs $446–495/month for 6,000 data credits and 40,000 actions (Clay pricing page, 2026).
• Coresignal scales from a $49/month Mini plan with 2,500 credits up to a $1,000/month Growth plan with 150,000 credits (Coresignal pricing page, 2026). See our Coresignal comparison if you're weighing live lookups against its periodic database snapshots.
• ZoomInfo doesn't list public pricing at all. Vendr's 2026 marketplace data, drawn from 1,313 verified purchases, puts the median annual contract at $31,875 (Vendr, 2026) — that's where the derived monthly figure above comes from. We've laid out the seat-contract-versus-pay-as-you-go tradeoff in more detail in our ZoomInfo alternative breakdown.
• Apollo.io starts free, with a Basic paid tier at $49/user/month (Capterra, 2026); higher tiers vary by source, so confirm current numbers directly on Apollo's own pricing page before budgeting. Our Apollo comparison covers how a live data API differs from a static contact database with seats.
• Datamagnet runs on a flat 1-credit-per-profile model with no monthly minimum: fetch a LinkedIn person or company profile live at request time for 1 credit, plus ICP and Sales Navigator URL search, post engagement data, and job-change signals (Datamagnet pricing, 2026). It does not return emails or phone numbers — it's a profile and signal API, not a contact-finder. You can check remaining usage anytime through the credit balance endpoint.

For a side-by-side breakdown built specifically around this switch, see our full comparison of Clearbit alternatives.

What Does This Mean for Teams Still Relying on Clearbit?

For most teams, the immediate impact isn't that calls are failing today — it's that you no longer control your own roadmap. Two products are already gone, and the pattern points toward more consolidation into HubSpot's hub pricing, not less.

Impact 1: Your enrichment cost is now tied to a HubSpot hub

If you're not already a HubSpot Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, or Smart CRM customer, there's no version of Breeze Intelligence you can buy on its own. You'd be paying for a HubSpot subscription just to get enrichment credits back (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026).

Impact 2: Your data source, not just your vendor, has changed

Clearbit's enrichment was built on its own crawled and purchased datasets. Live-lookup APIs like Datamagnet's LinkedIn scraper API fetch directly from a LinkedIn profile or company page at request time, which means fresher job titles and headcounts but a different underlying data model — worth testing against your own accuracy bar before you migrate.

In my conversations with teams mid-migration, the friction almost never shows up in the API call itself — request/response shapes are easy to remap. It shows up in downstream workflows that assumed Clearbit's specific field names, like estimated_annual_revenue or metrics.employeesRange, would never change.

Impact 3: You're not the only one who's been through a shutdown like this

Clearbit isn't the first LinkedIn-adjacent data API to go through a forced transition. Proxycurl shut down entirely on July 4, 2025, after LinkedIn won a lawsuit alleging it used fake accounts to scrape profile data at scale (Proxycurl, 2025; Social Media Today, 2025). If you migrated off Proxycurl already, the playbook for moving off Clearbit is nearly identical — see our Proxycurl migration guide for the endpoint mapping.

What Should You Do Now?

Here are five steps to take, ordered by urgency, if you're still running production traffic through Clearbit.

1. This week: Audit which Clearbit endpoints your codebase actually calls. Most teams only use two or three — Company Enrich and Person Enrich are the common ones — so scope the migration before you panic about all of it.
2. This week: Check whether your account is legacy or already gone. If a new API key request fails, you're already past the point of self-serve signup.
3. This month: Get a live test call working against an alternative. Datamagnet's quickstart guide walks through generating a key and making your first LinkedIn profile call in a few minutes, with 10 free credits to test against real data.
4. This month: Remap any HubSpot workflows that assumed Clearbit was built in. If you're a HubSpot customer, our HubSpot integration enriches contacts and companies on create without touching your Breeze credit allocation.
5. This quarter: Rebuild your job-change and engagement monitoring separately. Clearbit never had a strong signals product — Datamagnet's signal monitors can track job changes and LinkedIn engagement as their own workflow, independent of enrichment. Teams using this to watch former champions or customers for a new role tend to set it up as champion tracking; teams watching target executives for buying signals tend to set it up as an executive intelligence feed.

Do NOT:

• Rip out your enrichment layer in one sprint. Run the new API in parallel and diff the outputs against a sample of known accounts first.
• Assume every vendor's "credit" means the same thing. A Clay data credit, a Coresignal credit, and a Datamagnet credit all price out differently — check the unit economics against your actual call volume, not the sticker price.

The Bigger Picture

Clearbit's slow wind-down is part of a broader pattern: platform-owned data APIs get folded into the parent's subscription, and standalone-scraper APIs get shut down by legal action. Proxycurl's July 2025 shutdown after LinkedIn's lawsuit (Social Media Today, 2025) and Clearbit's absorption into HubSpot are different mechanisms with the same result — fewer independent, self-serve enrichment options than existed three years ago.

That's pushing demand toward APIs that are both independent of a CRM subscription and built to fetch data live rather than scrape it in bulk. Whichever direction you go, the underlying question is the same one Clearbit customers are asking right now: who controls your enrichment roadmap, you or your CRM vendor?

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I still sign up for the Clearbit API today?

No. Standalone self-serve signups are not available as of September 2026, based on current developer tracking; new enrichment access is sold through HubSpot Breeze Intelligence credits inside a HubSpot subscription (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026).

What Clearbit products have officially shut down?

Two are confirmed: the free Clearbit Platform, TAM Calculator, Connect, and free Slack app shut down April 30, 2025 (Clearbit, 2025), and the Logo API shut down December 8, 2025 (HubSpot Developer Changelog, 2025).

How much does HubSpot Breeze Intelligence cost?

HubSpot Credits cost $0.01 each, with legacy Breeze Credits converting at fixed ratios — 1,000 Breeze Credits become 15,000 HubSpot Credits (HubSpot Knowledge Base, 2026). Your monthly allocation depends on which HubSpot hub tier you're subscribed to.

What's the closest replacement for Clearbit's Company and Person Enrich endpoints?

Live-lookup APIs like Datamagnet are built to cover similar ground, fetching a LinkedIn person or company profile at request time for 1 credit. This hasn't been benchmarked field-by-field against Clearbit's old schema, so test it against a sample of your own accounts first. It doesn't return emails or phone numbers, so pair it with a dedicated contact-finder if you need those fields.

Sources

• HubSpot Completes Acquisition of B2B Intelligence Leader Clearbit — HubSpot, December 4, 2023, retrieved 2026-09-22
• The Future of Clearbit's Free Tools — Clearbit, February 2025, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Upcoming Sunset of Clearbit's Free Logo API — HubSpot Developer Changelog, March 18, 2025, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Understand HubSpot Credits and Billing — HubSpot Knowledge Base, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Clay Pricing — Clay, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Coresignal Pricing — Coresignal, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Apollo Pricing — Capterra, retrieved 2026-09-22
• ZoomInfo Marketplace Data — Vendr, 2026, retrieved 2026-09-22
• Goodbye Proxycurl — Proxycurl, 2025, retrieved 2026-09-22
• LinkedIn Wins Legal Case Against Data Scrapers Proxycurl — Social Media Today, 2025, retrieved 2026-09-22

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