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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coresignal.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "authNotes": "`apikey` header on REST. Hosted MCP v2 at mcp.coresignal.com uses OAuth 2.1 through the Coresignal dashboard and looks up the team's key server-side, so no key sits in the client.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "7-day free trial with 2,000 credits. Monthly plans Mini $49 (2,500 credits), Starter $199 (12,000), Pro $499 (35,000), Growth $1,000 (150,000), Premium $1,500 (1,000,000), Scale $3,000 (4,000,000), Elite $5,000 (10,000,000). Annual plans are 10 per cent off from Starter up. Search is free. Collecting a record costs 1 credit for jobs and posts, 10 for base or clean company and employee records, 20 for multi-source records, 12 for real-time employee. Agentic Search costs 20 (fast) or 100 (reasoning) (https://coresignal.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$49 / mo",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 mention in the API docs, MCP docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "openapi": "https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "com.coresignal/mcp",
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        "lead.search",
        "lead.enrichment",
        "email.finder",
        "data.company",
        "data.person"
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        "lead-search",
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        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "async-jobs",
        "closed-source"
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 20,
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          "transparency": 73
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "verdict": "Search is free, and credits are only taken on collect or enrich calls that return 200. Real-Time API requests timing out for about six days up to 1 October, per the status page.",
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          "Search is free, and credits are only taken on collect or enrich calls that return 200",
          "Every plan price and per-endpoint credit cost is public",
          "Hosted MCP with 5 tools, OAuth 2.1 and a confirmation step before large pulls",
          "Monthly release notes with dated entries and flagged breaking changes",
          "Privacy policy covers people in the datasets, with a five-year retention cap"
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          "Real-Time API requests timing out for about six days up to 1 October, per the status page",
          "Main search takes Elasticsearch DSL, a free-form JSON body",
          "7-day trial with a card per the 30 September check, and no free tier",
          "Terms name Deeptrace Inc. while the privacy policy names Binary House LLC",
          "Breaking changes in August 2026 to Agentic Search and Multi-source Jobs, announced in release notes with no stated notice period"
        ],
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          "Search for IDs first (free), then collect only the records you need",
          "Use base records at 10 credits when you don't need the 20-credit multi-source fields",
          "Use MCP v2 at /mcp/v2. The older /mcp endpoint will be deprecated",
          "Treat a 402 as out of credits, not a transient error",
          "Expect no work emails for EEA and UK people from the MCP email tool"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 55
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        "provenanceScore": 90
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        "http": "curl \"https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi/v2/company_multi_source/enrich?enrich_query=stripe.com\" -H \"apikey: $CORESIGNAL_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http coresignal https://mcp.coresignal.com/mcp/v2"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search",
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          "item": "Mini plan",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "12,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 499,
          "note": "35,000 credits, adds contact enrichment"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 1000,
          "note": "150,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Multi-source company or employee record",
          "unit": "record",
          "usd": 0.285,
          "note": "20 credits at Pro plan rates ($499 for 35,000 credits)"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Deeptrace Inc.",
        "domain": "coresignal.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2014-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions/",
        "privacy": "https://coresignal.com/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.coresignal.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
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          "The terms and conditions name Deeptrace Inc. (Lewes, Delaware) as the contracting company for Coresignal",
          "The privacy policy, updated 25 August 2026, names Binary House LLC as the data controller and lists Deeptrace Inc. as a processor"
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coresignal.json",
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        "slug": "coresignal",
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          "target": "https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi",
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          "lastOk": true,
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              "date": "2026-09-30",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 272
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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              "ok": 29
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.coresignal.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:39:55.511132851Z"
        },
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          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "com.coresignal/mcp",
            "version": "2.0.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z"
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://coresignal.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:42.817319654Z"
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          "url": "https://docs.coresignal.com/llms.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:28.23764868Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "coresignal.com",
          "registered": "2014-12-16",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/coresignal.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:47.149939456Z"
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            "url": "https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes",
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            "url": "https://coresignal.com/pricing/",
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            "url": "https://coresignal.com/privacy-policy/",
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            "url": "https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions/",
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      "name": "Crustdata API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Crustdata",
      "vendorUrl": "https://crustdata.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "lead-data",
      "summary": "Company, person, job, web and social post search and enrichment, with live web lookups, batch jobs and watchers that push changes to a webhook.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crustdata.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.crustdata.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "`authorization: Bearer` API key plus a pinned `x-api-version: 2025-11-01` header (without it you get the latest version, which may break). Hosted MCP at install.crustdata.com uses OAuth, or the API key as a bearer token for headless clients.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Credit-based. Person and company search 0.03 credits a result plus 0.1 to 2.5 for premium filter or response fields, person enrich 1 to 7, company enrich 2 to 4, contact enrich (emails and phones) 1 to 5.5 per matched person on enterprise plans, identify and autocomplete free. Watchers run 0.5 to 150 credits per delivered record depending on refresh SLA. Purchased credits last 12 months. The pricing page lists no dollar figures and mentions a free trial and monthly or annual plans (https://crustdata.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 mention in the API docs, MCP docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.crustdata.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.crustdata.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.crustdata.com/openapi-specs/2025-11-01/person.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "lead.search",
        "lead.enrichment",
        "data.company",
        "data.person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "lead-search",
        "enrichment",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "async-jobs",
        "closed-source"
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.5,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 331,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 67,
          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 89,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "In September 2026 the changelog flags `config.refresh_frequency_days` as refused on indexed discovery watches, a breaking change shipped inside the pinned version 2025-11-01 with no advance notice found (https://docs.crustdata.com/openapi-specs/2025-11-01/changelog.md)"
        ],
        "verdict": "Per-field credit prices, readable per account from `/account/endpoints`, and `X-Credits-Used` on every response. No status page and no SLA.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-field credit prices, readable per account from `/account/endpoints`, and `X-Credits-Used` on every response",
          "Per-key endpoint restrictions and monthly credit caps",
          "Eight OpenAPI files, llms.txt and a detailed dated changelog",
          "Rate-limit headers, typed 429 errors and back-off guidance",
          "Opt-out portal for data subjects with removal in 30 days"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page and no SLA",
          "No public dollar price per credit, and the free trial is on request",
          "Breaking changes shipped inside the pinned version 2025-11-01",
          "Default limits of 15 to 30 requests a minute",
          "Terms cover website use only, and terms and privacy policy name different companies"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Always send `x-api-version: 2025-11-01`. Unpinned calls get the latest version",
          "Call `/account/endpoints` first to see what your plan enables and what each field costs",
          "Ask only for the premium field groups you need, since each one bills",
          "Poll `GET /batch/{id}` before submitting more batch jobs. Active jobs count against a cap of 5 to 30",
          "Read the `crustdata://catalog` resource before calling MCP tools"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.5
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 67,
          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 89,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.crustdata.com/company/identify -H \"authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -H \"x-api-version: 2025-11-01\" -d '{\"domains\":[\"retool.com\"]}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http crustdata https://install.crustdata.com/mcp"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/crustdata"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Crustdata Inc.",
        "domain": "crustdata.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-03-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://crustdata.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://crustdata.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://docs.crustdata.com/openapi-specs/2025-11-01/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
        "notes": [
          "The terms page is a generic website-use notice naming CrustData Inc. (California). We found no published API terms of service",
          "The privacy policy, last updated 19 May 2025, names Crustdata Technologies Inc.",
          "status.crustdata.com doesn't resolve"
        ],
        "score": 76
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "crustdata",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.crustdata.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T02:29:54.543244855Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
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          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 445,
          "samples24h": 273,
          "samples30d": 1131,
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            {
              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 29,
              "ok": 29
            }
          ]
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://crustdata.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:43.381431206Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.crustdata.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:29.605883484Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "crustdata.com",
          "registered": "2019-03-18",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/crustdata.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:45.082534374Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.crustdata.com/openapi-specs/2025-11-01/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:32.955834168Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6da05d3e0dc2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://crustdata.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:14.605382342Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "43910ddb98b2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://crustdata.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:16.656212887Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "9d0f34eff1e9"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://crustdata.com/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:18.651481283Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "3b112a0e6c77"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T02:29:54.543244855Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Coresignal API + MCP has a score of 63.1 (B) against Crustdata API + MCP's 53.5 (D). Both do lead search. The largest gap is transparency \u0026 trust, 17 points."
  },
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-crustdata",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-crustdata.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-crustdata.md",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-crustdata.min.md"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crustdata.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Coresignal API + MCP for reliability (+10), payments \u0026 pricing (+15), maintenance \u0026 community (+15), transparency \u0026 trust (+17).\n\nPick Crustdata API + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Coresignal API + MCP | Crustdata API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Coresignal API + MCP +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 89 | Crustdata API + MCP +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 73 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 56 | Coresignal API + MCP +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 5 | Coresignal API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 67 | Coresignal API + MCP +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 56 | Coresignal API + MCP +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Coresignal API + MCP | Crustdata API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Coresignal | Crustdata |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi` | `https://api.crustdata.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 5 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.coresignal/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-07 | none |\n| Popularity | 2 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Coresignal API + MCP.** Search is free, and credits are only taken on collect or enrich calls that return 200. Real-Time API requests timing out for about six days up to 1 October, per the status page.\n\n**Crustdata API + MCP.** Per-field credit prices, readable per account from `/account/endpoints`, and `X-Credits-Used` on every response. No status page and no SLA.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Coresignal API + MCP\n\n1. Search for IDs first (free), then collect only the records you need\n2. Use base records at 10 credits when you don't need the 20-credit multi-source fields\n3. Use MCP v2 at /mcp/v2. The older /mcp endpoint will be deprecated\n4. Treat a 402 as out of credits, not a transient error\n5. Expect no work emails for EEA and UK people from the MCP email tool\n\n### Crustdata API + MCP\n\n1. Always send `x-api-version: 2025-11-01`. Unpinned calls get the latest version\n2. Call `/account/endpoints` first to see what your plan enables and what each field costs\n3. Ask only for the premium field groups you need, since each one bills\n4. Poll `GET /batch/{id}` before submitting more batch jobs. Active jobs count against a cap of 5 to 30\n5. 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