Is there a free alternative to Crunchbase?

Yes. Indexed has a free plan with 25 credits a month and a free API key. Tracxn offers a free Lite plan with usage limits, and OpenVC keeps most of its investor database free for founders. Crunchbase itself offers a 7-day free trial of Pro.

What is the best PitchBook alternative?

It depends on the work. For private equity, valuations, funds and limited partners, PitchBook's depth is hard to replace. For venture funding and startup research at lower cost, Crunchbase, Tracxn and Indexed publish self-serve or free plans. Dealroom suits ecosystem and government work, and Harmonic suits early-stage sourcing.

Which Crunchbase alternatives have an API?

Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, Tracxn, Harmonic and CB Insights all advertise an API, and none of them publishes an API price on its site. Indexed includes API access on every plan, Free included, with published credit costs.

How complete is Indexed's data?

Not complete. Coverage is growing, and some regions and early-stage rounds are thinner than others. Our research rules require a source for each figure, and unknown values stay blank.

How much does Indexed cost?

The Free plan costs nothing and includes 25 credits a month. Paid plans start at $49 a month, with more credits and higher API limits.

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Crunchbase alternatives in 2026

Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, Tracxn, Harmonic and CB Insights all sell private-company data, but they are built for different buyers and priced in different ways. This page sets out what each one says about itself on its own website, where each is stronger, and where Indexed fits. Indexed is our product, so we have kept every competitor claim to facts we could check on that vendor's site, with links in the sources section.

Indexed currently covers 98,000+ company profiles, 22,200+ investors and 127,300+ tracked funding events. Coverage is still growing and is not complete; see where Indexed falls short.

Last updated 2026-09-25. Vendor pricing and plans change; check each source before you buy.

At a glance

Crunchbase alternatives compared by audience, data focus, free option, pricing and API
Product	Built for	Data focus	Free option	Pricing	API
Indexed	Founders, investors, sales and research teams who want funding and investor data without a sales call	Technology and product companies, their funding rounds and their investors	Free plan: 25 credits a month, 25 API searches a day, no card needed	Published self-serve plans from $49 a month	REST API on every plan, Free included. Domain lookup costs 1 credit per hit; misses are free
Crunchbase	Investors, GTM teams, analysts, product developers, wealth managers and entrepreneurs	Private company data and predictions (funding, growth, acquisition, IPO, closure)	7-day free trial of Pro	Pro $49 a month billed annually or $99 billed monthly; Business from $199 a month billed annually	API and MCP through a custom data plan, priced by sales; MCP is an add-on on Pro
PitchBook	Investment professionals: PE, VC, limited partners, investment banks, credit investors, corporates	PE, VC and M&A deals, private company valuations, funds, limited partners, debt, people and public companies	No free plan; a free trial on request, at PitchBook's discretion	Not published; quoted by number of seats and firm type	API and data feed sold as premium add-ons; LLM connectors, one of which needs no license but has a limited dataset
Dealroom	VCs, corporates and governments	Startups, tech, talent, venture capital and their ecosystems globally	3-day free trial of Premium, no credit card required	Premium €12,600 a year, Premium Plus €17,000 a year (both from 3 seats); Enterprise custom	Separate API + MCP plan, custom priced; limited API access on lower plans
Tracxn	Investors, corporates, founders, sales teams, journalists, universities and government agencies	Private companies, funding rounds, acquisitions and investors	Lite plan, free with usage limits, no credit card required	Premium (commercial use) price not published	APIs and data dumps, priced by volume of unique companies accessed; contact sales
Harmonic	Venture and growth investors, corporate development and GTM teams	Startups and their people, tracked as they hire, fundraise and launch products	Not published	Not published; book a demo	API with MCP access; bulk data via S3, BigQuery or Snowflake; financing and investor data is an add-on
CB Insights	Enterprise strategy, M&A, corporate VC, business development and venture teams	Private and public companies, investors, funding, cap table history, M&A, IPOs and business relationships	10-day free trial	Not published; request pricing. A consumption-based data tier is also offered	APIs and data feeds, MCP, and Snowflake, Salesforce and Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors; price not published
OpenVC	Founders raising money, and investors looking for deal flow	Investor database: VC firms, corporate VCs, PE firms, family offices and angel groups	About 90% of features free, including unlimited investor search	Upgrade for $99 a month or $299 a year	Not published

"Not published" means the vendor's own site does not state it; it does not mean the feature or plan is absent.

When to choose each one

Choose Crunchbase if

you want a well-known self-serve database with published prices, predictive signals for funding, acquisition and closure, and CRM integrations on the Business plan.

Where it is stronger: brand recognition and predictions. Crunchbase says it refreshes 15M+ predictions weekly and makes 30M+ verified data updates a year.

Choose PitchBook if

you do private equity, M&A or fund-level work and need valuations, fund and limited partner data, debt financings and service providers in one licensed platform.

Where it is stronger: depth on private equity, valuations, funds and limited partners. Its data page lists 12.9M+ companies, 3.2M+ deals, 171K+ funds and 66K+ limited partners, maintained by a data team of 1,800+.

Choose Dealroom if

you map startup ecosystems, work for or with a government or ecosystem body, or want talent and founder data alongside funding.

Where it is stronger: ecosystem-level work for governments and ecosystem builders, and talent and founder pedigree data.

Choose Tracxn if

you want a free plan from a large, established database and can work within its usage limits, or you want to buy data in bulk by volume.

Where it is stronger: scale of tracked deals. Its pricing page lists 7.7M+ companies, 1.8M+ funding rounds and 226K+ acquisitions.

Choose Harmonic if

you source very early companies, including by tracking founders and hiring, and want bulk data delivered to your own warehouse.

Where it is stronger: people data and early signals. Its pricing page cites 35M+ companies and 195M+ people, refreshed weekly.

Choose CB Insights if

you run corporate strategy or M&A and want market-level research, proprietary scores and business relationship data.

Where it is stronger: market coverage and scoring: 1,600+ markets, 12 million companies, and scores such as Mosaic and Exit Probability.

Choose OpenVC if

you are a founder building an investor list and do not need company funding histories or an API.

Where it is stronger: a founder-first fundraising workflow that is mostly free.

Choose Indexed if

you want to start free, look up companies by website domain through an API with published prices, and use free ranked lists and funding reports. It fits best when your targets are technology companies.

How Indexed is different

A free tier you can use. Company and investor profiles are free to browse. A free account gets 25 credits a month, refreshed monthly, for funding histories, valuations and tech stacks. Paid plans are self-serve on the pricing page, with no sales call.
An API on every plan. Every account, Free included, gets an API key. Send a website domain and get the company back, one at a time or up to 100 domains per call; misses are free. See the API reference.
AI-first research with source checks. AI agents do the research, and our current workflows check each claim against its cited source before publishing. Unknown facts stay blank rather than estimated. The methodology explains the rules.
Free ranked lists and reports. 153 ranked lists by sector, stage and location, and the State of Startup Funding report, are public and free to cite.

Where Indexed falls short

Coverage is still growing and is not complete, especially for early-stage rounds outside the US. If a deal matters to you, check the cited source.
We focus on technology and product companies. Agencies, consultancies and most non-technology businesses are outside our current focus.
We do not track limited partners, fund performance or contact details for people.
Funding amounts appear only when a source states them, so some rounds show no amount.
We are a newer, smaller product without the analyst teams of the larger vendors.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free alternative to Crunchbase?: Yes. Indexed has a free plan with 25 credits a month and a free API key. Tracxn offers a free Lite plan with usage limits, and OpenVC keeps most of its investor database free for founders. Crunchbase itself offers a 7-day free trial of Pro.
What is the best PitchBook alternative?: It depends on the work. For private equity, valuations, funds and limited partners, PitchBook's depth is hard to replace. For venture funding and startup research at lower cost, Crunchbase, Tracxn and Indexed publish self-serve or free plans. Dealroom suits ecosystem and government work, and Harmonic suits early-stage sourcing.
Which Crunchbase alternatives have an API?: Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, Tracxn, Harmonic and CB Insights all advertise an API, and none of them publishes an API price on its site. Indexed includes API access on every plan, Free included, with published credit costs.
How complete is Indexed's data?: Not complete. Coverage is growing, and some regions and early-stage rounds are thinner than others. Our research rules require a source for each figure, and unknown values stay blank.
How much does Indexed cost?: The Free plan costs nothing and includes 25 credits a month. Paid plans start at $49 a month, with more credits and higher API limits.

Sources

Competitor facts come only from each vendor's own website, on the date shown. Indexed facts come from our live pricing configuration and API reference.

Crunchbase: plans and prices. https://www.crunchbase.com/buy/select-product, accessed 2026-09-25.
Crunchbase: API. https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-api, accessed 2026-09-25.
Crunchbase: homepage. https://www.crunchbase.com/, accessed 2026-09-25.
PitchBook: pricing. https://pitchbook.com/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
PitchBook: data and API. https://pitchbook.com/data, accessed 2026-09-25.
Dealroom: pricing. https://dealroom.co/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
Dealroom: API. https://dealroom.co/api/, accessed 2026-09-25.
Dealroom: homepage. https://dealroom.co/, accessed 2026-09-25.
Tracxn: pricing. https://tracxn.com/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
Tracxn: data solutions pricing. https://w.tracxn.com/offerings/data-solutions/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
Tracxn: homepage. https://tracxn.com/, accessed 2026-09-25.
Harmonic: pricing. https://www.harmonic.ai/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
Harmonic: homepage. https://www.harmonic.ai/, accessed 2026-09-25.
CB Insights: pricing. https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
CB Insights: API and data feeds. https://www.cbinsights.com/what-we-offer/api, accessed 2026-09-25.
CB Insights: homepage. https://www.cbinsights.com/, accessed 2026-09-25.
OpenVC: pricing. https://www.openvc.app/pricing, accessed 2026-09-25.
OpenVC: homepage. https://www.openvc.app/, accessed 2026-09-25.
Indexed: plans and credits. /pricing
Indexed: API reference. /docs/api