crustdata.com

What It Is

Crustdata is a B2B data provider based in San Francisco, USA. It is positioned as a service that delivers real-time company and people data via APIs or data feeds. Its core goal is to organize signals scattered across the web—such as company changes, personnel moves, funding, hiring activity, posts, news, and web traffic—into a data layer that can be used by AI agents, sales, recruiting, and investment systems.

Core Capabilities

Based on the content reviewed, Crustdata’s product offering has two main lines. The first is a set of real-time APIs, including Company Enrichment, Company Search, People Enrichment, People Search, Jobs, Posts, Watcher, and other endpoints. These can be used to build prospect lists, monitor company signals, track candidate activity, and follow investment events. The second is bulk company and people datasets delivered in CSV or JSON format, aimed at internal analytics, data enrichment, and machine learning use cases. According to the official site, its data is unified from 11+ sources and covers 12M+ companies and 250M+ people profiles; it also uses coverage language such as “1 billion people” and “60 million companies.” Datasets can be refreshed monthly, quarterly, or annually, while the site also mentions a 14–28 day refresh cycle and ongoing efforts to shorten that cycle.

Pricing and Integration

Pricing uses an API credit model and supports monthly and annual billing. Large-scale datasets and enterprise requirements require contacting sales, and no specific public pricing is listed. On the integration side, Crustdata is relatively developer-friendly, offering a REST API, token-based authentication, documentation, API key management, and developer support. CSV/JSON delivery is also available. Notably, the site explicitly states that Crustdata can provide real-time people and company data inside Claude via MCP.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its focused data use cases and rich signal types, making it suitable for direct integration into sales automation, CRM, ATS, investment screening, and AI agent workflows. It also supports both real-time APIs and bulk data, which makes it easier to balance cost and freshness. The drawbacks are that public information lacks specific details on pricing, security certifications, compliance statements, SLA, team permissions, and audit capabilities. For enterprise procurement, these points still need to be confirmed with sales.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Crustdata is better suited to sales, recruiting, venture capital, private equity, and enterprise software teams targeting overseas markets—especially developer teams that need to embed external B2B data into their own products or internal systems. There is no evidence in the reviewed content regarding access from China, so its availability from China should be considered unknown. The only known billing options are monthly and annual payments. If using it in the Chinese market, users should carefully verify network connectivity, invoicing and payment, Chinese-language and China company data coverage, and compare it with alternatives such as Coresignal, PeopleDataLabs, Proxycurl, Clearbit, ZoomInfo, and Bright Data.