Captain Data Review: Extraction Pipelines Built to Run Unattended
Captain Data suits product builders who pull people and company data by APIIn this Captain Data review, Interface, Price level and Stability each draw 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones.
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Captain Data in three sentences
Captain Data is a B2B data API for real-time people and company data, per the vendor's pages read on Sep 29, 2026. It scores 8.0 on 15 tagged reviews written between Oct 2023 and Mar 2026. Ease of use draws the most favourable mentions, 10, while Interface, Price level and Stability each draw 3 negative mentions.
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What it costs
One plan. Every figure read on the vendor's pricing page on Sep 29, 2026.
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Captain Data pricing read on the vendor's page; Silver is $660 a month, billed monthly, 20,000 credits.
Scores recalculated on 15 tagged reviews; global score 8.0.
What you get, what you don't
Six things Captain Data does. None of the six is missing on the vendor's pages; the weak spots are in what reviewers say, below.
- Claude DesktopNative
- CursorNative
- WindsurfNative
- ChatGPTNative
- Data hostedNot published
- GDPR data processing agreementAvailable
- SOC 2 reportSOC 2 Type II
- Single sign-onNot published
- ChannelsSlack channel
- HoursNot published
- PhoneNot published
- Read as negative1 of 8 tagged reviews
The data behind the score
Our five scores against the average of the tools we score.
Should you buy it?
Name your dealbreaker. No profile is scored on its own yet: too few tagged reviews per profile, so the page shows the overall score.
Buy it if You build a product or an agent that needs people and company data through a REST API or an MCP server. Skip it if You need emails or phone numbers from people enrichment, or a published annual price per month.
Interface draws complaints from reviewers Interface draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones among the tagged reviews. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Price level draws complaints from reviewers Price level draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones; Silver is $660 a month, billed monthly, read on Sep 29, 2026. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Stability draws complaints from reviewers Stability draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones among the tagged reviews. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Questions to ask the vendor
- How is stability tracked for extractions that run unattended over months?Stability draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones.
- What does annual billing cost per month, and which volumes get the discount?Annual billing is offered with a discount, but the annual price per month is not published.
- Which endpoint returns email or phone for a person you have enriched?People enrichment does not return email or phone, per the vendor's page read on Sep 29, 2026.
If Captain Data isn't it
Three tools we score in this category. Each card names where the tool is weaker. Interface, Price level and Stability have no card: we hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better. Click a card, or a name below, to put it next to Captain Data.
- Waterfall enrichment across 32 integrations, read on Sep 29, 2026
- Its most criticized theme, Stability, draws 2 negative mentions
- Free plan with $5 of prepaid usage, read on Sep 29, 2026
- Its most criticized theme, Credits and quotas, draws 5 negative mentions
- Email and phone validation built in, read on Oct 4, 2026
- Its most criticized theme, Feature range, draws 1 negative mention
Captain Data vs TexAuthe three alternatives
 Captain Data |
TexAu |
Apify |
Bardeen |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our score | 8.0 | 7.6* | 7.6 | 7.4* |
| Price and plan | ||||
| Entry price | $660 /mo | $99 /mo | $19 /mo + pay as you go | $10 /mo |
| Free plan | No free plan stated | Free plan | Free plan | No free plan stated |
| Free trial | Free trial (length not stated) | No free trial stated | No free trial stated | |
| Four dimensions, same grid | ||||
| Ease of setup | 6.5 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.2 |
| Feature depth | 8.2 | 6.9 | 8.8 | 8.1 |
| Value for money | 8.6 | 8.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Support quality | 8.3 | 7.5 | 6.7 | 7.1 |
| Fit | ||||
| API | REST API, included | Not published | REST, plus API clients | Not published |
| Support channels | Slack channel | Email and in-app chat | Chat (Starter, Scale) | |
| Main strength | People and company enrichment API | Waterfall enrichment with CRM sync | Ready-to-run tools for web data | AI-built scraper templates |
TexAu lists CRM sync with custom field mapping and conflict resolution, read on Sep 29, 2026.
Apify's Actor marketplace offers ready-made Actors in Apify Store, read on Oct 4, 2026.
Bardeen builds scrapers from AI-built templates, read on Oct 4, 2026.
Entry prices read on Sep 29, 2026: Captain Data Silver $660 a month, billed monthly; TexAu Solo $99 a month; Apify Starter $19 a month plus pay as you go; Bardeen Basic $10 a month, billed monthly.
Same five-dimension grid for every tool; the fifth dimension changes with the category and stays out of this table. Prices and integrations read on each vendor's public pages between Sep 29 and Oct 4, 2026. * Under 10 tagged reviews: the score is weighted toward the site average; with none, it is the site average. Some of these prices have not been read again for 6 months. Check the vendors' pages before you buy.
What the reviews say, in depth
This Captain Data review describes the data API version
The vendor's pages, read on Sep 29, 2026, describe Captain Data as a B2B data API for real-time people and company data, aimed at product builders and GTM platforms. The tagged reviews were written between Oct 2023 and Mar 2026, so a review can describe a version of the product that predates this API positioning.
The capabilities listed on the same date are people search with Sales Navigator-style queries, profile enrichment from a LinkedIn profile URL, company data from a LinkedIn URL or a domain, a REST API and an MCP server.
Captain Data pricing runs on credits, with Silver at $660
Silver is $660 a month, billed monthly, for 20,000 credits a month, read on the vendor's pricing page on Sep 29, 2026. The page read on Oct 4, 2026 offers annual billing with a discount; the annual price per month is not published. People Search costs 1 credit per request plus 1 credit per result.
Price level draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones. The pricing page read on Oct 4, 2026 shows a 100-credit free trial with no credit card required.
People enrichment does not return email or phone
The vendor's people enrichment page, read on Sep 29, 2026, states that people enrichment does not return email or phone. It returns profile information from a LinkedIn profile URL.
The rate limit in the vendor's documentation is 600 requests per minute on Silver and Gold tier plans, read on Sep 29, 2026.
The Captain Data connector works inside AI assistants
Captain Data lists an MCP server, included, for tool calls from Claude, Cursor and agents, read on Sep 29, 2026. Its MCP page shows Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and ChatGPT as native integrations.
Integrations draws 6 favourable mentions and no negative ones in reviews dated Oct 2023 to Mar 2026.
Ease of use draws 10 favourable mentions and none negative
Onboarding help draws 2 favourable mentions, and Learning curve draws 1 negative mention. Interface draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones.
The vendor's pricing page, read on Sep 29, 2026, describes a REST API with simple JSON endpoints and API key authentication.
Before you commit
Captain Data pricing is credit based: Silver is $660 a month, billed monthly, for 20,000 credits a month, read on the vendor's pricing page on Sep 29, 2026. People Search costs 1 credit per request plus 1 credit per result. Credits are the unit shown on the pricing page.
The vendor's pages read on Sep 29, 2026 describe a B2B data API for real-time people and company data, with a REST API and an MCP server. This page describes that version. The tagged reviews date from Oct 2023 to Mar 2026, so a review may describe an earlier version.
Stability draws 3 negative mentions and no favourable ones among the tagged reviews, counted as of Sep 2026. The theme is not split by data source, so this page cannot tie those mentions to LinkedIn extractions.
Company data can be enriched from a LinkedIn URL or a domain, per the vendor's pages read on Sep 29, 2026. People enrichment starts from a LinkedIn profile URL, and People Search uses Sales Navigator-style queries. This page does not list other data sources.
Ease of use draws 10 favourable mentions and no negative one, and Onboarding help draws 2 favourable mentions. Learning curve draws 1 negative mention, and Interface draws 3 negative mentions. The pricing page describes a REST API with API key authentication, read on Sep 29, 2026.
This page does not cover lifetime plans. The plan it records is Silver, $660 a month, billed monthly, with a monthly or annual subscription term that renews tacitly, read on Sep 29, 2026. For a lifetime offer, ask the vendor before you buy.
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