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Captain Data vs Icypeas

Icypeas wins 9 of 11 decided metrics across 1 shared suites; the loser still leads where its column is highlighted. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

Captain Data live
2
Real-time people and company search / enrichment API over 750M+ profiles, strong on LinkedIn resolution and employee mapping.
★ 4.6 · 80 reviewsA (excellent, 4.6 or above)
Access: MCP · API · Dataset
Icypeas
9
Contact data and enrichment API: email discovery, verification, reverse lookup, find-people and bulk.
★ 5.0 · 1 reviewsA (excellent, 4.6 or above)
Access: MCP · API · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations
Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics
updated 2026-09-25
Metric Captain Data · not in suite Icypeas · #7 of 29
Match rate-68.3%
Valid email rate-68.3%
Latency p50-6,284ms
Cost / valid email-$0.013
Invalid rate-0.0%
Catch-all share-31.7%
Business email-100.0%
Right-person rate-100.0%
Decoy hit rate-10.0%
Catch-all detection-46.2%
Confidence-score quality-+53.8 pts
Geographic coverage-10
People Datacore + suite-specific metrics
updated 2026-09-25
Metric Captain Data · not measured Icypeas · #12 of 24
Profile match rate-83.7%
Identity accuracy-100.0%
Latency p50-1,511ms
Price / matched profile-$0.013
Current employer accuracy-90.2%
Move detection-75.0%
Decoy hit rate-0.0%
Job title accuracy-87.8%
Seniority label accuracy--
Location accuracy-78.0%
Work history completeness-7.5
Education completeness-100.0%
Skills present-24.4%
Social / profile URLs-100.0%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority-58.3%
Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics
updated 2026-09-25
Metric Captain Data · #20 of 23 Icypeas · #16 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate69.4%97.0%
Company name accuracy100.0%94.8%
Latency p507,017ms1,893ms
Price / matched company$0.064$0.013
Industry accuracy72.0%77.3%
Employee count ±20%10.0%21.9%
HQ / location accuracy72.0%81.4%
Description present100.0%96.9%
Founding year accuracy32.0%59.8%
Domains / social profiles96.0%97.9%
Coverage by country / size42.9%94.3%

Questions about Captain Data vs Icypeas

Which is better, Captain Data or Icypeas?

Icypeas wins 9 of the 11 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Company Data: Captain Data #20 of 23, Icypeas #16 of 23.

Which is cheaper, Captain Data or Icypeas?

Measured on the list price of each provider's central self-serve pack, divided by what it actually returned: Company Data, price per matched company: Captain Data $0.064, Icypeas $0.013.

How do Captain Data and Icypeas compare in user reviews?

Captain Data holds 4.6 / 5 across 80 reviews on G2 and Capterra; Icypeas holds 5.0 / 5 across 1 reviews on G2. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Captain Data and Icypeas?

Captain Data offers an MCP server, an API and dataset delivery; Icypeas offers an MCP server, an API, CSV export, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations. Both offer an MCP server and an API.

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