Crunchbase Review: Company Events, Not Contact Data
Crunchbase suits teams that research private companies and funding dataThis Crunchbase review counts 19 negative mentions of price level and 14 of data freshness.
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Crunchbase in three sentences
Crunchbase is a predictive intelligence platform for private company, funding and market data, per its home page read on Sep 25, 2026. Scores rest on 32 tagged reviews, and ease of use has 32 favourable mentions. Price level has 19 mentions, all of them negative.
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What it costs
Three plans. Every figure read on the vendor's pricing page on Oct 13, 2026.
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Plan prices read on the vendor's page: Pro $99 a month, billed monthly; Business starts at $199 a month, billed annually.
Scores calculated on 32 tagged reviews; global score 6.3.
What you get, what you don't
Five things Crunchbase does.
- HubSpotNative
- SalesforceNative
- ZapierNative
- OutreachNative
- Data hostedUS (primary processing)
- GDPR data processing agreementAvailable
- SOC 2 reportSOC 2 Type II
- Single sign-onBusiness plan
- ChannelsEmail, form
- HoursNot published
- PhoneNot published
- Read as negative8 of 11 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 want full private company profiles and funding and growth forecasts. Skip it if You put price level or data freshness first.
Price level draws 19 negative mentions All 19 mentions of price level are negative, and none is favourable. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Data freshness draws 14 negative mentions All 14 mentions of data freshness are negative, and none is favourable. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Data coverage draws 13 negative mentions Data coverage draws 13 negative mentions and 22 favourable mentions. We hold no published fact that shows another tool here does better.
Customer support draws 8 negative mentions 8 of the 10 mentions of customer support are negative, and 2 are favourable. Tomba covers it
Questions to ask the vendor
- What does Pro include at $99 a month, and what needs Business?Price level draws 19 negative mentions; Pro is $99 a month, billed monthly, read on Oct 13, 2026.
- How often is company data refreshed, and how do I report a wrong record?Data freshness draws 14 negative mentions of Crunchbase.
- Which regions and company types does the database cover?Data coverage draws 13 negative mentions and 22 favourable mentions.
- Who answers support requests on Pro, and how fast?Customer support draws 8 negative mentions; support is listed by email and form, read on Oct 7, 2026.
If Crunchbase isn't it
Three tools we score in this category. Each card names where the tool is weaker. The highest-scored tool that covers a dealbreaker above is always among them. Price level, Data freshness and Data coverage 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 Crunchbase.
- Support by chat and email, read on Sep 26, 2026
- Free plan and trial draws 3 negative mentions
- All four APIs on the Free and Startup plans, read on Sep 25, 2026
- Free plan stops at 10,000 credits, read on Oct 4, 2026
- Support by chat and email, read on Oct 3, 2026
- All 3 listed plans are quote-only, read on Oct 3, 2026
Crunchbase vs Tombathe three alternatives
 Crunchbase |
Tomba |
Diffbot |
Harmonic |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our score | 6.3 | 8.6 | 7.7* | 7.7* |
| Price and plan | ||||
| Entry price | $99 /mo | $89 /mo | $299 /mo | Quote |
| Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | No free plan stated |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial | No free trial stated | No free trial stated | No free trial stated |
| Four dimensions, same grid | ||||
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 9.3 | 8.4 | 8.4 |
| Feature depth | 6.6 | 8.6 | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Value for money | 5.9 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
| Support quality | 5.0 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
| Fit | ||||
| Integrations | Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier | HubSpot, Pipedrive, Airtable | Excel, Google Sheets, CData | Affinity, Slack, Zapier |
| Support channels | Email, form | Chat, email | Chat, email | |
| Main strength | Private company profiles and forecasts | Email finder with verification | Structured JSON from URLs | Company and people database |
Tomba scores 8.6 on 19 tagged reviews. It lists direct mobile and business phone numbers, read on Sep 26, 2026.
Diffbot lists a Knowledge Graph of over 10 billion entities, read on Sep 25, 2026.
Harmonic lists hiring, funding and growth signals, read on Sep 26, 2026. It lists 40M companies and 250K investors, read on Oct 3, 2026.
Entry plans, read between Sep 25 and Oct 13, 2026: Crunchbase Pro $99 a month, billed monthly; Tomba Growth $89 a month, billed monthly; Diffbot Startup $299 a month, billed monthly; Harmonic quote-only.
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 25 and Oct 13, 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
Ease of use has 32 favourable mentions
Ease of use has 32 favourable mentions and no negative one. Ease of setup scores 8.7, and 5 of the 6 tagged reviews that discuss setup read as favourable.
Business lists CRM and workflow integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier and Outreach, plus SSO and team management, read on Oct 13, 2026.
Data freshness draws 14 negative mentions of Crunchbase
Data freshness has 14 mentions, all of them negative, and data coverage draws 13 negative mentions and 22 favourable mentions. Data quality scores 5.7, and 2 of the 9 tagged reviews that discuss it read as favourable.
Data accuracy has 25 mentions, 24 of them favourable and 1 negative. The vendor lists full private company profiles and private company forecasts, read on Oct 13, 2026.
Pro is $99 a month, billed monthly
Crunchbase pricing includes a Free plan, read on Sep 27, 2026. Pro is $99 a month, billed monthly, with a 7-day free trial, and Business starts at $199 a month, billed annually; Custom Data Solutions is quote-only, all read on Oct 13, 2026.
Price level has 19 mentions, all of them negative. Value for money scores 5.9, and 6 of the 20 tagged reviews that discuss value read as favourable.
Support quality scores 5.0 on 11 tagged reviews
Support quality scores 5.0, and 2 of the 11 tagged reviews that discuss support read as favourable. Customer support has 10 mentions, 8 of them negative.
The vendor lists support by email and a request form, read on Oct 7, 2026. No support phone number is listed, read on Oct 13, 2026. Custom Data Solutions lists dedicated support, read on Oct 13, 2026.
Subscriptions renew automatically and refunds close after 7 days
The cancellation policy lists recurring subscriptions that renew automatically, read on Oct 13, 2026, and a refund within 7 days of payment if no data was exported, read on Oct 3, 2026. Billing and renewals have 8 mentions, 7 of them negative.
Cancellation and exports have 2 mentions, both negative. The vendor lists a data processing agreement and SOC 2 Type II, read on Sep 25, 2026. The site does not rule on legal compliance.
Before you commit
Pro is $99 a month, billed monthly, and subscriptions renew automatically, read on Oct 13, 2026. The cancellation policy lists a refund within 7 days of payment if no data was exported, read on Oct 3, 2026. Billing and renewals draw 7 negative mentions.
The site holds no published fact that measures how current Crunchbase data is; it counts what reviewers say in one set of tagged reviews. Data freshness has 14 mentions, all of them negative, while data accuracy has 25, 24 of them favourable.
The site does not rule on which contact fields a record holds. Crunchbase lists full private company profiles, read on Oct 13, 2026, and its home page describes private company, funding and market data, read on Sep 25, 2026.
The site holds no published fact that shows Crunchbase flags accounts that are in market. It lists private company forecasts for funding and growth, read on Oct 13, 2026, and Business lists CRM and workflow integrations, read on Oct 13, 2026.
Crunchbase lists investors, GTM teams and analysts as its audience, read on Sep 25, 2026. Teams wrote 10 of the 32 tagged reviews, and the site does not rank one group above the others.
The site holds no published fact that explains the gap between rating sites; it counts what reviewers say in one set of tagged reviews. Data quality scores 5.7, and 2 of the 9 tagged reviews that discuss it read as favourable. Price level draws 19 negative mentions.
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