Where akta.pro pulls ahead
Analyzed company sections, not raw fields
Business model, product offering, customer profile, company assessment, trust signals, strategic signals and financial estimates, in a fixed schema.
vs Crustdata: firmographics, headcount, funding and similar fields; no analyzed assessment section published
74 data points per company, across 15 categories
An agent starts from conclusions it can reason over, so it needs fewer calls, fewer tokens and less prompt engineering.
vs Crustdata: the agent, or the developer behind it, still turns signals into a view of the company
A standalone news API with 77 event types
Query news by company, industry or open-ended topic, with every article summarized, scored for sentiment and tagged across 11 categories.
vs Crustdata: news returned inside company enrichment or as one source in web search
News signals benchmarked: top-tier accuracy
92.2% precision and 72.7% recall on company news retrieval. See the benchmark.
vs Crustdata: no news accuracy benchmark published
30K+ sub-sectors
Every company maps to a fine-grained industry, with industry-level search and industry news.
vs Crustdata: industry filters within company search
Pay only for the sections you ask for
Company data bills per section, from 0.5 to 5 credits each, with pay-as-you-go, subscriptions and enterprise plans for bulk.
vs Crustdata: modular endpoint and field pricing; narrow discovery tasks can cost less
What Crustdata is built for
Crustdata is a developer API for products built around people and professional-network data, and it serves that job well.
- People data and professional-network signals. Person search and enrichment power products that need profiles of individuals.
- Job-change triggers for AI SDRs. Watchers notify an outbound tool when a tracked person or company changes, so a sequence can fire at the right moment.
- Candidate sourcing and recruiting. Person search and job listings fit recruiting platforms that find and track candidates.
- Watchers on people. Entity and discovery watchers keep a list of individuals monitored over time.
If your product’s job centers on people, these features fit well. Many teams run both: Crustdata watching people, and akta.pro explaining the companies behind them. Once an agent has to understand what a company is and why it matters now, akta.pro is the better choice.
akta.pro vs Crustdata at a glance
| akta.pro | Crustdata | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | ✅ AI agents, AI builders, investors, strategy and GTM teams | ✅ Sales, recruiting and sourcing products built on people data |
| Analyzed sections | ✅ Business model, product offering, customer profile, company assessment, trust and strategic signals | ❌ Not published as analyzed sections |
| Entity resolution | ✅ Names, domains, subsidiaries and aliases resolve to one ID; resolve tools free | ✅ Free company identify |
| News API | ✅ Standalone, by company, industry or topic | ⚠️ Inside company enrichment or web search |
| Event classification | ✅ 77 event types across 11 categories | ❌ Not published |
| News signal enrichment | ✅ AI summary, sentiment, resolved companies, industry codes | ❌ Not published |
| News signals benchmarked | ✅ 92.2% precision, 72.7% recall, top tier (benchmark) | Not published |
| Industry model | ✅ 30K+ sub-sectors with industry search and news | ⚠️ Industry filters in company search |
| Funding and M&A | ✅ Funding, investors, acquisitions and investments (Enterprise) | ✅ Funding milestones and investors |
| Agent access | ✅ API, MCP, CLI, webhooks | ✅ API, MCP, CLI, watchers |
| Billing | ✅ Per section, 0.5–5 credits; pay-as-you-go, subscriptions, enterprise plans for bulk | ✅ Modular endpoint pricing, with premium field groups and credit packages |
akta.pro is the better fit when an agent has to understand a company and act on its news. Crustdata is the better fit for products built on people data and professional-network signals.
What one company profile looks like
The gap shows up in a single record. Crustdata gives an agent the facts to interpret. akta.pro gives it the analysis as well.
| Section | akta.pro | Crustdata |
|---|---|---|
| Firmographics, location, headcount | ✅ | ✅ |
| Business model | ✅ How the company makes money | ❌ |
| Product offering | ✅ What it sells, by product | ❌ |
| Customer profile | ✅ Who buys and in which segments | ❌ |
| Company assessment and trust signals | ✅ Scored per company | ❌ |
| Strategic signals | ✅ The moves the company is making | ❌ |
| Financial estimates | ✅ Per company | ✅ Revenue and funding fields; depth and availability vary by company |
| Industry | ✅ One of 30K+ sub-sectors | ⚠️ Industry field |
The same data is available as a tool call through the akta.pro MCP server at https://mcp.akta.pro/mcp, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or a custom agent can use it without extra code.
If your agent only needs to know that Ramp’s headcount moved, raw signals are enough. If it has to know what Ramp sells, who it sells to and why a change matters for the deal or account in front of it, every raw record still needs an analysis layer. That’s a pipeline you have to build, run and pay for in model tokens. akta.pro ships that analysis as the product.
Pricing
akta.pro starts free and bills per company section, so an agent pays only for the analysis it asks for. Crustdata also offers modular credit pricing and can be cheaper for narrow data lookups. akta.pro’s value is the analyzed company sections and connected news signals delivered for the task.
| akta.pro | Crustdata | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Pay-as-you-go credits, subscriptions, enterprise plans for bulk | Credit packages, with optional auto top-up |
| Entry point | Free to start, usable in production | Credit packages; prices not listed on the public pricing page |
| Company billing | Per section, 0.5 to 5 credits each; resolve tools free | Company enrichment: 2 credits base, +2 for returned technographics; company search billed per result and premium field group |
| News signals billing | 0.1 credits per call + 0.01 credits per article | No standalone news API |
| Gated data | Alternative signals: Subscription or Enterprise; funding and M&A: Enterprise | Live endpoints and contact data plan-gated |
Credits on the two platforms aren’t the same unit, so compare cost per task. For narrow lookups, Crustdata can be cheaper. For richer account research, compare the data bill plus the work needed to analyze fields, join news signals and deliver a usable company brief.
Why teams choose akta.pro over Crustdata
Deal screening and market mapping
Pull business model, company assessment and strategic signals for a long list of targets, then filter by any of 30K+ sub-sectors.
ICP qualification and CRM enrichment
Write customer profile and product offering into CRM company records, so reps and agents know which accounts fit and why.
“Why now” signals on accounts
Filter news by company and event type, such as funding rounds, product launches or leadership changes, and push each signal to the account it belongs to.
Your own research app, built in hours
Find companies with database filters, generate a list of matching company IDs, then enrich only the sections your research agent needs. Connect those companies to news-signal watchlists to refresh screening and targeting when relevant events happen.
Which should you choose?
Choose akta.pro if your agent or product needs to understand companies: private-company research, deal screening, ICP qualification, market mapping, CRM company enrichment or company news signals.
Choose Crustdata if your product is built around people: job-change triggers for an AI SDR, candidate sourcing for a recruiting platform or watchers on individuals.
The usual trigger to add akta.pro is when a workflow needs to know what a company is and why a change matters, not just that something changed.
Frequently asked questions
What is Crustdata best for?
Products built on people data and professional-network signals, such as job-change triggers for AI SDRs, candidate sourcing and watchers on individuals. For analyzed company intelligence and company news, akta.pro is the better choice.
How much does Crustdata cost?
Crustdata sells credit packages, with optional auto top-up. Company enrichment costs 2 credits per record, or 2 to 4 with technographics. Purchased credits are valid for 12 months. Live endpoints and contact data are plan-gated, and package prices aren’t listed on the public pricing page.
What is the best Crustdata alternative for company intelligence?
akta.pro: 20M+ entity-resolved companies with 74 data points each, analyzed sections such as business model and company assessment, and a news API with 77 event types, billed per section.
Does Crustdata have a news API?
Not as a standalone company-news API. Crustdata returns news inside company enrichment and as one source in its web search endpoint. akta.pro offers a dedicated news API, queryable by company, industry or topic, with summaries, sentiment and 77 event types, benchmarked at 92.2% precision and 72.7% recall.
How is akta.pro priced?
Pay-as-you-go credits, subscriptions and enterprise plans for bulk. Company-profile sections cost 0.5 to 5 credits each, resolve tools are free, and news signals cost 0.1 credits per call plus 0.01 credits per article. Alternative-signal data requires a Subscription or Enterprise plan; funding and M&A sections require Enterprise.
