Crustdata sells real-time people and company data by API. Ocean decides which companies to look up, ranked from your own won and lost deals.
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CrustdataReal-time people and company data by API, for AI agents.
Crustdata is a real-time B2B data provider for AI agents, with 1B+ people and 60M+ companies, by its own count. It powers sales, recruiting and investment workflows through APIs.
Deciding which companies to look up, ranked from your own deals.
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 green check marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean.io logo Ocean | Crustdata |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes from your closed-won deals | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | A data API. Your agent or app decides who to look up. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Returns data for your workflow to score. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts and company data | Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | Crustdata is stronger here. 1B+ people and 60M+ companies through real-time APIs, by its own count. |
| Company data | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | Real-time company data for sales, recruiting and investment workflows. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | Built for AI agents that make thousands of calls. |
| Pricing | Ocean is stronger here. Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | $20 in free credits, then usage-based plans, with custom enterprise plans. |
Crustdata starts you with free credits and quotes larger plans.
Crustdata says it reached $10M in annual revenue in 1.5 years, with its own go-to-market run on its own APIs. It sells data to agents, and doesn’t decide which companies fit you.
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 pricingCrustdata fetches the data. Ocean decides who to fetch it for.
Choose Crustdata if Ocean.io logo Use both ifFive steps, working back from your renewal date.
Find your plan, your billing date and any unused credits with Crustdata.
Export your lists and saved searches, and note which workflows depend on them.
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.
The right alternative depends on what you use Crustdata for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
ApolloBuilt for Contacts and sequencing in one tool, with published self-serve plans.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from which accounts deserve outreach, then pushes contacts to Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
ZoomInfoBuilt for Contact and direct-dial volume, with third-party intent, in one contract.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ranks accounts from your closed-won deals instead of selling a database.
ExploriumBuilt for Teams and AI agents that need a B2B data foundation for go-to-market.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ships the ranking itself, learned from your deals, instead of a data layer you build on.
ExaBuilt for Developers and GTM engineers who build their own list-building agents on a search API.
Where Ocean starts Ocean gives revenue teams a maintained ICP model and a ranked market, with no engineer.
ClayBuilt for GTM engineers who assemble custom enrichment and research workflows from many data sources.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from your closed-won deals and ranks the market, instead of a build.
Short answers on Crustdata’s cost, how Ocean compares and what switching takes.
Every new account starts with $20 in free credits. Larger plans are usage-based, and enterprise plans are quoted.
Real-time people and company data through APIs, built for AI agents and used for sales, recruiting and investment workflows.
It returns data on the companies your agent or app asks about. Ocean ranks your market against your own won and lost deals.
Yes. Use Crustdata for what it does best, and Ocean to decide which accounts fit your best customers.
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.
Check your plan and renewal date, export your lists, connect your CRM so Ocean reads your won and lost deals, review the segments and scores Ocean proposes, then send scored accounts to your CRM or sequencer.
