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HarvestAPI vs Surfe

No suite in this run measured both HarvestAPI and Surfe; each block below shows one of them alone.

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

Surfe

Sales intelligence platform cascading emails and mobiles across 15+ providers, with people and company search, CRM sync, REST API and a native MCP server.

★ 4.4 · 69 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Surfe · #1 of 29
Match rate	-	90.0%
Valid email rate	-	66.7%
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / valid email	-	-
Invalid rate	-	1.9%
Catch-all share	-	29.6%
Business email	-	100.0%
Right-person rate	-	98.1%
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	-	10

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Surfe · #6 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	100.0%
Company name accuracy	-	96.0%
Latency p50	-	-
Price / matched company	-	-
Industry accuracy	-	47.0%
Employee count ±20%	-	18.9%
HQ / location accuracy	-	66.0%
Description present	-	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	-	17.0%
Domains / social profiles	-	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	100.0%

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5	Surfe · not in suite
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	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6	Surfe · not in suite
Employer coverage	95.0%	-
Postings recall	59.3%	-
Latency p50	4,579ms	-
Cost / job	$0.0001	-
Closed or unknown postings	10.6%	-
Duplicate postings	33.8%	-
Location accuracy	96.3%	-
Posted-date accuracy	32.8%	-
Description present	0.0%	-
Coverage by country	91.7%	-

Questions about HarvestAPI vs Surfe

Which is better, HarvestAPI or Surfe?

No benchmark in this run measured both, so they have no metric in common. HarvestAPI is ranked on Live Profile Data and Jobs Data; Surfe is ranked on Email Data and Company Data.

How do HarvestAPI and Surfe compare in user reviews?

HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot; Surfe holds 4.4 / 5 across 69 reviews on Chrome Web Store, Product Hunt and Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.