Coresignal sells raw company, employee and job-posting records through a credit-priced API, an MCP server and bulk datasets, for teams building their own data products. Ocean uses contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
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CoresignalRaw company, employee and job records at scale, by API or bulk file. A fit for data teams building products and models.
Coresignal is B2B data infrastructure. Its homepage lists 72M+ company records, 915M+ employee records and 486M+ job postings, sold through Company, Employee and Jobs APIs, an Agentic Search API that turns plain-English questions into queries, an MCP server and datasets delivered to a warehouse.
A ready answer for revenue teams: which companies fit, ranked by what your won and lost deals show, with the reason on each.
Ocean is contextual intelligence for go-to-market. It reads what every company actually does from its own website, learns what good looks like from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and ranks your whole market against it, with the reason behind each score. The ranked accounts arrive in your CRM, your rep queue or your AI agents.
What buyers weigh, grouped by the job each part does. A light blue background marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | Search by industry, size, location, funding and technology, in code or plain English, and its blog explains how to find similar companies. It doesn’t ship a ranked lookalike product. |
| Learns your ICP from won and lost deals | Ocean is stronger here. Learned automatically from your won and lost deals. | You build any scoring yourself on the records. We found no description of learning fit from your won and lost deals. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Returns fields for each company, not a reason a rep can read. Explaining a match is left to what you build. |
| Coverage | Ocean is stronger here. Segments your whole market and shows win rate, deal size and cycle time for each segment. | 72M+ company records with 500+ fields, 915M+ employee records and 486M+ job postings, by its own count. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts | Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | Employee records with job history, plus an Employee Contact Enrichment API at 10 credits per email found. |
| Raw multi-source records at scale | Doesn’t sell raw record dumps or datasets. It returns ranked accounts. | Core strength: deduplicated company, employee and job records with historical data, webhooks, Elasticsearch queries, bulk files and rates up to 100+ requests a second. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | Fields for headcount trends, hiring velocity, executive changes and technology, and job postings as a signal. You decide what counts as intent. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| CRM sync | Two-way with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio. Reads your deals to learn, then writes scores, segments and signals back. | No native CRM sync documented. It lands data through the API, webhooks, no-code tools or files in a warehouse. |
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | An MCP server and an Agentic Search API for agents, with fast searches at 20 credits and reasoning searches at 100. |
| Security and privacy | SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, per Ocean’s own site. | Says its data is collected in line with high privacy standards. We couldn’t open a security page or find a compliance report, so ask for one. |
| Pricing | Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | Published for the API: $49 to $5,000 a month in credits. Datasets are quoted. |
Coresignal publishes eight monthly API plans priced in credits. Searching is free and credits are spent only on records you collect.
A job posting costs 1 credit, a core company or employee record 10 and a full multi-source record 20, with extra bundles adding more. Contact enrichment costs 10 credits per email found. Annual billing is 10% off. Reviewers disagree on which plan includes Contact Enrichment: its docs mark it on every plan, while others say Pro and up, so confirm. The per-credit price falls from about $0.02 on Mini to $0.0005 on Elite.
A flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals.
Contacts are charged only when one is found. Exports are free.
See Ocean pricingCoresignal gives builders the raw data. Ocean gives revenue teams the finished ranking.
Choose Coresignal if Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep Coresignal for raw data and add Ocean for the ranked answer.
Export the companies you pull from Coresignal, then run them through Ocean to see how many fit your closed-won pattern.
Find which records and endpoints use the most credits, and whether your plan’s rate limit and rollover fit your volume.
Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio. Ocean reads your closed-won and closed-lost deals to learn what a good account looks like.
Ocean proposes segments and scores, with the reason on each. Correct anything that doesn’t match how you sell.
Scores, segments and matched signals go back to your CRM, or into Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
Expect a quote that grows with seats, credits and add-ons, because the entry price is the smallest line; price your real volume.
Expect your team to own it, because the tool supplies the pieces and not the finished model; budget the hours.
Expect an accuracy claim, because vendors measure it on their own samples; test find and bounce rates on your own list.
Expect a trust-center link or a request form, because reports sit behind a sales step; ask for the date and scope.
Ocean is better because it tells it like it is: contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
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B2B data infrastructure: company, employee and job-posting records through credit-priced APIs, an Agentic Search API, an MCP server, webhooks and bulk datasets for warehouses.
API plans run from $49 a month for 2,500 credits to $5,000 for 10M, with a 7-day trial of 2,000 credits and 10% off annual billing. Bulk datasets start from $1,000 by quote.
A job posting is 1 credit, a core company or employee record 10 and a full multi-source record 20. Contact enrichment is 10 credits per email found, and searching is free.
No: it sells raw records, and you build any scoring. Ocean reads your CRM deals, learns the ICP and ranks every company against it with the reason on each.
Yes, per reviewers and its own blog, alongside an Agentic Search API. Ocean has an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine.
Data and engineering teams building their own data products, models or pipelines on raw records. Revenue teams that want the ranking ready get more from Ocean.
It says it collects data in line with high privacy standards. We couldn’t open a security page or find a compliance report, so ask for one and its licensing terms.
Ocean reads what each company does from its own website, learns from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and returns ranked matches with the reason on each one.
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