Innerfetch API vs Crunchbase
The Crunchbase API is sold only through sales, and its free Basic API is closed. Compare it with a self-serve company data API with per-call credits.
Crunchbase is the best-known database of private companies, funding rounds, investors and acquisitions. Its API comes in three packages, and you buy it through its sales team. Its docs say it no longer offers the free Basic API.
Innerfetch API is self-serve. Sign up with a work e-mail, get free credits, and call it in minutes. It does not return funding data. It returns the company profile and the company’s customers, competitors and vendors, each with the public page that shows it.
Prices
Crunchbase does not publish a price for its API. You ask its sales team. Its web app plans have a public trial, but the web app is not the API.
On Innerfetch API, every call has a fixed price in credits, and the pricing page shows each one. The table below shows the cost of 1,000 company profiles.
Two jobs, two tools
Crunchbase is strong when you follow money: who raised, from whom, and who bought whom. Innerfetch API is strong when you follow business: who a company sells to, who it competes with and what it buys.
Innerfetch API vs Crunchbase, row by row
| What you get | Innerfetch API | Crunchbase |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 company profiles cost | $11.98 on the Scale plan; $29 pay as you go | Not published; API through sales only |
| Pay as you go | Yes. Credit packs from $29, valid for 12 months | No |
| Free trial | 200 credits for 30 days with a work e-mail, no credit card | Web app trial; the free Basic API is closed |
| Commitment | None. Monthly plans, cancel at any time | A contract through sales |
| How fresh | Stored data that refreshes in the background; add fresh=true to refresh a company now | Stored database of companies, funding, investors and people |
| Company details | Industry, headquarters, headcount range, founded year, tech stack, e-mail pattern, open roles, executives | Firmographics, funding, investors, acquisitions, predictions |
| Customers of a company | Yes, each with the public page that names it | No |
| Competitors of a company | Yes, each with the reason it is there | Yes, ranked, with category, location and product overlap |
| Vendors a company uses | Yes, each with the public page that names it | Not published |
| People at a company | People of the company found on the public web | Founders and leaders |
| Work e-mail | Lookup with a verified, likely or unknown status | Not published |
| Phone numbers | No | Not published |
| Funding and revenue | No | Yes, its core strength |
| When nothing is found | 1 credit for a domain that is not a company; free in a batch | Not published |
| AI agents | MCP server with the same API key | Official MCP server, through sales |
| Pay per call without an account | Yes, agents pay each call in USDC | No |
| Rate limit | 300 requests a minute per key on every paid plan | 200 a minute and 3 at once per key |
Facts about Crunchbase come from its own public pages, verified in October 2026. Prices change, so check the sources below before you buy. "Not published" means we could not find the fact on a public page.
Where Innerfetch API wins
- Self-serve; an API key in minutes, with free credits to start
- A public price per call
- Customers and vendors of a company, each with the public page that shows it
- Competitors with the public page that compares them, when one exists
Where Crunchbase wins
- Deep funding, investor and acquisition history
- Ranked competitors with a score and the overlap behind it
- Funding and growth predictions
- A brand that investors know
Choose Innerfetch API if
- You want to start today without a sales call
- You need customer and vendor lists
- You want a price per call that you can plan
Choose Crunchbase if
- You need funding rounds, investors or acquisitions
- You research private markets or invest
- You can sign a contract through sales
Innerfetch API vs Crunchbase, answered
Is the Crunchbase API free?
No. Crunchbase says it no longer offers its Basic API, and API access goes through its sales team.
Does Innerfetch API have funding data?
No. We do not return funding rounds, investors or acquisitions. Crunchbase is the better choice for that.
Which one has competitors?
Both. Crunchbase ranks competitors with a score. Innerfetch API gives each competitor a reason, and the public page that compares them when one exists.
Should I use both?
Yes, if you need funding data. Use Crunchbase for funding and Innerfetch API for customer, competitor and vendor lists you can call today.
Sources
- Crunchbase docs: API essentials
- Crunchbase docs: Basic API closed
- Crunchbase docs: competitor relationships
- Crunchbase docs: MCP server
Checked in October 2026. Our own prices come from our pricing page.
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