Head-to-head · B2B data

Crustdata vs HarvestAPI

Crustdata wins 5 of 9 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.

Crustdata live

Unified B2B data API for company, people, jobs, web and social data, with email and phone enrichment as paid add-ons; built for agents, official CLI.

★ 4.4 · 15 reviewsB

Access: MCP · CLI · API · Dataset · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Crustdata · #9 of 24	HarvestAPI · not measured
Profile match rate	95.9%	-
Identity accuracy	97.9%	-
Latency p50	1,046ms	-
Price / matched profile	-	-
Current employer accuracy	91.5%	-
Move detection	85.0%	-
Decoy hit rate	0.0%	-
Job title accuracy	87.2%	-
Seniority label accuracy	80.4%	-
Location accuracy	87.2%	-
Work history completeness	7.5	-
Education completeness	100.0%	-
Skills present	0.0%	-
Social / profile URLs	100.0%	-
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	83.3%	-

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	Crustdata · not in suite	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5
Current-job accuracy	-	93.1%
Fetch success	-	99.0%
Latency p50	-	3,350ms
Cost / profile	-	$0.0037
Move detection	-	94.2%
Still at previous employer	-	2.4%
Control accuracy	-	91.8%
Work history completeness	-	9.1
Education completeness	-	99.0%

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Crustdata · #6 of 6	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6
Employer coverage	83.3%	95.0%
Postings recall	47.6%	59.3%
Latency p50	2,858ms	4,579ms
Cost / job	-	$0.0001
Closed or unknown postings	35.4%	10.6%
Duplicate postings	13.8%	33.8%
Location accuracy	96.6%	96.3%
Posted-date accuracy	66.8%	32.8%
Description present	100.0%	0.0%
Coverage by country	81.3%	91.7%

Questions about Crustdata vs HarvestAPI

Which is better, Crustdata or HarvestAPI?

Crustdata wins 5 of the 9 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Jobs Data: Crustdata #6 of 6, HarvestAPI #3 of 6.

How do Crustdata and HarvestAPI compare in user reviews?

Crustdata holds 4.4 / 5 across 15 reviews on Product Hunt; HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Crustdata and HarvestAPI?

Crustdata offers an MCP server, a command-line tool, an API, dataset delivery, CSV export, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations; HarvestAPI offers an API. Both offer an API.