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Coresignal answers from its own database — enormous, well-structured, and only as current as its last crawl of that profile. Datamagnet fetches every profile from the page at request time, and tells you the moment one changes.

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Where the record comes from
Fetched from the page
Read from a database
Live fetch on every endpoint
Real-time Employee API only
Post engagement identities
Commenters, reactors, reposters
Commenters only
Webhooks on record changes
From $199/mo
From $1,500/mo
Bulk flat-file datasets
Coresignal's next plan above its $49 Starter
$800/moCoresignal's next plan above its $49 Starter
Per live Datamagnet profile
1 creditPer live Datamagnet profile
Credits, no card required
10 freeCredits, no card required

Datamagnet vs Coresignal: the short answer

Coresignal and Datamagnet solve different halves of the same problem. Coresignal is a bulk web-data provider: 4.5B+ records across employees, companies and job postings, queried by Elasticsearch DSL or delivered as flat files that update daily, weekly or monthly. Datamagnet is a live data API: POST a profile URL, get that profile as it exists right now, at 1 credit. Choose Coresignal for offline analytics, historical time-series and job-postings data at dataset scale. Choose Datamagnet when freshness, post engagement and job-change signals drive a live product, and when Coresignal's jump from $49 to $800 a month prices you out.

Our verdict

Coresignal is a genuinely strong data business and the better answer for anything that looks like research. It has scale we do not have, history we do not have, and a job-postings product we do not have at all. What it does not have is a cheap, live, profile-shaped API at the middle of the market: its self-serve pricing steps from $49 straight to $800, its real-time endpoint is a separately-sold add-on, and change webhooks start at the $1,500 tier. Datamagnet is the better fit when the data feeds a running product rather than an analysis.

The 7 best Coresignal alternatives in 2026

Ranked for teams using Coresignal as a people or company data API. If you need job postings or multi-year history, Coresignal itself is still the right answer.

  1. 1. Datamagnet

    Best for: Live profile data feeding a product, pipeline or agent

    Every person and company profile fetched from the page at request time for 1 credit, plus post engagement identities, Sales Navigator URL search and job-change webhooks from the $199 plan.

    Starting price
    $39/mo, or $0.02/credit

  2. 2. People Data Labs

    Best for: Emails, phone numbers and identity resolution at scale

    A 2.47-billion-record person dataset queried by API or licensed as flat files, refreshed monthly. Enriches from emails, phones or fuzzy names, not just profile URLs.

    Datamagnet vs People Data Labs
    Starting price
    Free 100 records; Pro $98/mo

  3. 3. Bright Data

    Best for: Engineering teams that want raw scraping infrastructure

    Proxies, 1,000+ ready-made scrapers and stored datasets covering the major professional network. Very low per-record cost at volume, but you own parsing, retries and freshness.

    Datamagnet vs Bright Data
    Starting price
    $1.50/1K records; datasets $250/100K

  4. 4. Enrich Layer

    Best for: Former Proxycurl users who want the same API shape

    The Proxycurl-compatible API that outlived the July 2025 shutdown, with emails, phone numbers and job postings. Serves cached profiles first; a forced live fetch costs ten credits.

    Datamagnet vs Enrich Layer
    Starting price
    Pay-as-you-go from $0.0216/credit

  5. 5. ScrapIn (Reverse Contact)

    Best for: Matching a person from an email, domain or name

    A real-time profile API with identity resolution, now part of Reverse Contact, which also licenses company, employee and job-posting datasets from $1,000/mo.

    Datamagnet vs ScrapIn (Reverse Contact)
    Starting price
    Pay-as-you-go from $100

  6. 6. ZoomInfo

    Best for: Enterprise sales orgs buying verified contact data

    A verified B2B contact database sold on annual platform contracts, and now also as GTM AI with consumption-priced API, MCP and CLI access.

    Datamagnet vs ZoomInfo
    Starting price
    Free tier; data credits $0.35

  7. 7. Crustdata

    Best for: Company depth and watchers for AI-agent products

    An indexed company and people API with headcount history, web traffic, reviews and watchers, search at 0.03 credits per result, and live endpoints as a plan-gated add-on.

    Datamagnet vs Crustdata
    Starting price
    Credits; dollar rate set by plan

Full breakdown of Coresignal pricing, credits and hidden costs →

Which one should you pick?

Straight guidance, including the cases where we're the wrong answer.

Choose Datamagnet if

  • The record has to be right at the moment you read it, not right as of the last refresh cycle
  • You want post content plus the people behind the engagement — commenters, reactors and reposters
  • You need Sales Navigator search URLs turned into structured results
  • You want job-change and engagement signals on a webhook without moving to a $1,500/month plan
  • Your volume sits between hobby and enterprise, where Coresignal steps from $49 to $800
  • You are building a product or an agent and want a small, predictable per-endpoint credit model

Choose Coresignal if

  • You need job-postings data — Datamagnet has no job-postings product of any kind
  • You need historical snapshots or headcount time-series going back years; Datamagnet only returns the present
  • You are training models or running offline analytics and need hundreds of millions of records as flat files
  • Your matching has to work from sources beyond a single network, or you want one record merged from several public sources
  • You want Elasticsearch Query DSL expressiveness across 500+ company fields and 300+ employee fields
  • Your volume is high enough that Coresignal per-record rates beat our per-credit floor

Datamagnet vs Coresignal, feature by feature

What each tool actually returns, how fresh it is, and what it costs to run.

Data & API coverage

Data & API coverage: Datamagnet compared with Coresignal, feature by feature
FeatureDatamagnetCoresignal
Data collected at the moment of requestEvery endpoint, by defaultReal-time Employee API only
Live people search10 credits per page of 25Database search
Search filter modelFixed ICP filters, include/excludeElasticsearch Query DSL
Sales Navigator URL search Yes No
Post content & stats YesEmployee & Company Posts APIs
Post engagement identities (commenters, reactors, reposters)All threeCommenters only; reactions as counts
Funding rounds data Yes Yes
Job-change & engagement signals6 signal typesProfile & experience webhooks
Webhooks on record changesHMAC-signed, Scale plan $199/moPremium plan, from $1,500/mo
Self-serve, pay-as-you-go10 free credits, no card7-day trial, then from $49/mo
Bulk flat-file datasets (hundreds of millions of records) No Yes
Historical data for time-series analysis NoCompany & employee since 2016
Job postings dataset No468M+ records, since 2020
Multi-source resolution beyond one network No Yes
Natural-language search API and hosted MCP server NoAgentic Search API + MCP

Freshness

Freshness: Datamagnet compared with Coresignal, feature by feature
FeatureDatamagnetCoresignal
Update modelFetched live per requestDatabase read; Coresignal says it refreshes continuously
Record age at deliverySecondsAs of that record's last crawl
Job-change detectionContinuous signals + webhooksExperience-change webhooks, weekly, Premium plan
New-post detectionWithin minutes via signalsPosts APIs; no documented post webhook
Bulk dataset refreshNo licensed dataset productDaily, weekly or monthly by dataset

Coresignal capabilities are summarized from their public documentation and pricing pages, last checked September 2026. Products change — verify against their current offering before you buy.

Coresignal has a real-time endpoint. It is not the default.

Most comparisons of these two products are out of date, because they assume Coresignal has no live data at all. It does. Coresignal ships a Real-time Employee API that scrapes a profile on demand and returns it in under 30 seconds on a cache miss, for one search credit per successful request. The distinction that still holds is architectural: that endpoint sits alongside the main product rather than underneath it. Its search endpoint is capped at 50 URLs per minute, its credits are bought separately from the standard plans through a sales conversation, and every other Coresignal endpoint answers from Coresignal's own database rather than from the source page. With Datamagnet, live is not a tier — it is how every endpoint works.

  • Enrich — POST a LinkedIn URL to the person or company endpoint, 1 credit, fetched at that moment
  • Search — ICP search, live people search, or a Sales Navigator URL returns net-new matches
  • Watch — six signal types push job changes and engagement to an HMAC-signed webhook from the $199 plan
50/min
Documented cap on the search endpoint of Coresignal's Real-time Employee API, whose credits are sold separately from its standard plans.

Pricing, side by side

What you pay Coresignal versus what you pay us, for the same work.

Coresignal

Credit-based API plans split into Search and Collect credits that reset each month, with unused credits not carrying over. Full datasets are quoted separately by agreement length.

Free trial200 Collect + 400 Search credits, 7 days
$0
StarterAt least 250 Collect + 500 Search credits
from $49/mo
ProAt least 10,000 Collect + 20,000 Search credits
from $800/mo
PremiumAt least 50,000 Collect + 150,000 Search; adds webhooks + historical headcount
from $1,500/mo
DatasetsCustom, priced by agreement length and bundle
from $1,000

Datamagnet

Credits, not seats. Charged only on successful requests, and 10 free credits to test before you pay anything.

FreeOn signup, no card
10 credits
Starter1,000 credits/mo
$39/mo
Pro10,000 credits/mo
$99/mo
Scale25,000 credits/mo · webhooks + bulk export
$199/mo
Pay-as-you-go200 credits $10 → 100,000 credits $2,000
from $0.02/credit

Coresignal advertises $0.196–$0.133 per record on Starter and as low as $0.005 on Premium, with 20% off for annual payment. Its multi-source endpoints consume two credits per call rather than one. Competitor pricing is taken from their public pricing page and was last checked September 2026; list prices change and negotiated rates differ. See Datamagnet pricing for our current plans.

Where each tool genuinely wins

No tool wins everywhere. Here's the honest split.

Where Coresignal wins

  • Scale we cannot match — 4.5B+ records, including 895M+ employee and 70M+ company records
  • A job-postings dataset of 468M+ listings reaching back to 2020; Datamagnet has no job-postings product at all
  • Company and employee history since 2016, plus a historical headcount API, making real time-series research possible
  • Flat-file dataset delivery in JSON or CSV for offline analytics and model training, which we do not offer
  • Multi-source records that merge several public sources into one profile rather than reading a single network
  • Field depth of 500+ company and 300+ employee attributes, well beyond what a profile fetch returns
  • Elasticsearch Query DSL across the whole database — far more expressive than our fixed search parameters
  • An Agentic Search API that takes natural-language prompts, plus a hosted MCP server for company, employee and jobs data
  • Per-record economics at dataset volume, quoted as low as $0.005 on Premium — below any rate on our published list

Where Datamagnet wins

  • Live fetch is the default on every endpoint, not a separately-sold add-on behind a sales call
  • Post engagement returns identities for commenters, reactors and reposters, not just commenters
  • Sales Navigator search URLs convert directly into structured results
  • Six signal types: job changes, new posts, and keyword, industry, company and person engagement
  • HMAC-signed webhooks from the $199 Scale plan rather than a $1,500 tier
  • Pricing that continues through the middle of the market — $39, $99, $199 — with no $800 step
  • Charged only on successful requests, with 10 free credits and no card to start
  • Flat per-endpoint credit costs: a person or company profile is 1 credit, with no two-credit multiplier

Datamagnet vs Coresignal: FAQ

Coresignal is a dataset provider: it maintains large databases of employee, company and job-posting records that you query by API or download as files, with dataset deliveries updating daily, weekly or monthly. Datamagnet is a real-time API: every enrichment request fetches the public profile page at that moment, and signals push changes to you as they happen. Coresignal is built for offline analysis at bulk scale, Datamagnet for products and pipelines that need current data.

Yes. Coresignal offers a Real-time Employee API that scrapes a profile on demand and returns it in under 30 seconds on a cache miss, for one search credit per successful request. Two caveats matter for buyers: its search endpoint is documented at 50 URLs per minute, and its credits are sold separately from Coresignal's standard plans through a sales representative. Every other Coresignal employee, company and jobs endpoint answers from Coresignal's own database instead.

Point your enrichment calls at Datamagnet's person and company endpoints — POST a LinkedIn URL, get JSON back — and replace scheduled re-pulls with job_change signals so records refresh themselves instead of waiting for the next dataset cut. You get 10 free credits to test the response shape without a card. Job-postings data and historical snapshots have no Datamagnet equivalent, so keep Coresignal for those workloads if you depend on them.

When volume and history matter more than freshness. Coresignal holds 4.5B+ records, including 468M+ job postings and company and employee history reaching back to 2016, and will deliver them as flat files for offline analytics or model training. It also searches by Elasticsearch Query DSL across 500+ company and 300+ employee fields, and merges several public sources into one record rather than reading a single network. Datamagnet does none of that.

Coresignal's self-serve plans start at $49 per month and step straight to $800 for Pro, with Premium from $1,500 and full datasets quoted from around $1,000. Datamagnet runs $39, $99 and $199 per month, or pay-as-you-go from $0.02 per credit, and a person or company profile costs 1 credit. So at the entry and middle of the market Datamagnet is cheaper; at true dataset scale the comparison flips, because Coresignal quotes per-record rates as low as $0.005.

Datamagnet collects only publicly available information and respects robots.txt, and we are CCPA and GDPR compliant. Because profiles are fetched at request time rather than held in a standing database, there is less stored personal data to manage than with a bulk dataset provider. Whichever vendor you choose, review your own lawful basis for processing if you operate in the EU or handle EU residents' data.

Sources

Every competitor claim on this page traces back to one of these.

  1. 1.Coresignal — Datasets and Data APIs Pricing (plan tiers, credits, per-record rates) — checked July 2026
  2. 2.Coresignal — Homepage (4.5B+ records, employee, company and job-posting counts) — checked July 2026
  3. 3.Coresignal Docs — APIs Overview (base, clean and multi-source tiers; Posts APIs; Real-time Employee API) — checked July 2026
  4. 4.Coresignal Docs — Real-time Employee API (on-demand scrape, under 30s on cache miss, one search credit, credits via sales) — checked July 2026
  5. 5.Coresignal Docs — Rate limits (Real-time Employee API search capped at 50 URLs per minute) — checked July 2026
  6. 6.Coresignal Docs — Employee Posts API data dictionary (commenter identities; reactions as counts only) — checked July 2026
  7. 7.Coresignal Docs — Company Posts API data dictionary (reaction and reshare counts, no reactor identities) — checked July 2026
  8. 8.Coresignal Docs — Multi-source Employee API webhook subscriptions (profile and experience changes, weekly) — checked July 2026
  9. 9.Coresignal Docs — Multi-source Company API (two credits per successful call, rate limits) — checked July 2026
  10. 10.Coresignal Docs — Pricing and Subscriptions (Search vs Collect credits, trial terms) — checked July 2026
  11. 11.Coresignal Docs — FAQ (dataset updates daily/weekly/monthly; unused monthly credits do not carry over) — checked July 2026
  12. 12.Coresignal — Company Data API (500+ fields on the Multi-source Company API) — checked July 2026
  13. 13.Coresignal — Employee Data API (300+ fields on the Base and Multi-source Employee APIs) — checked July 2026
  14. 14.Coresignal Docs — Agentic Search API (natural-language querying, fast and reasoning endpoints) — checked July 2026
  15. 15.Coresignal Docs — Coresignal MCP (hosted MCP server for company, employee and jobs data) — checked July 2026
  16. 16.Coresignal Docs — Multi-source Company Data dictionary (funding rounds, investors, amounts) — checked July 2026
  17. 17.People Data Labs — Person Data pricing (Free, Pro $98/mo) — checked July 2026
  18. 18.Bright Data — Web Scraper API pricing ($1.50/1K records) and LinkedIn datasets ($250/100K) — checked July 2026
  19. 19.Enrich Layer — Pricing (pay-as-you-go from $0.0216/credit) — checked July 2026
  20. 20.Reverse Contact — Pricing (pay-as-you-go from $100; datasets from $1,000/mo) — checked July 2026
  21. 21.ZoomInfo GTM AI — Pricing (free tier, $0.35 data credits) — checked July 2026
  22. 22.Crustdata docs — Credit pricing per endpoint (search 0.03 credits per result, live enrich plan-gated) — checked September 2026

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