# Crustdata
ID: 05-crustdata
Page: https://gtmmcps.com/tools/05-crustdata
JSON: https://gtmmcps.com/data/tools/05-crustdata.json
Documentation references: https://gtmmcps.com/docs/05-crustdata/
Category: Signals & Intent
MCP support: official
Testing: RESEARCHED
API access: free
Last checked: 2026-09-07
Endpoint check: docs-only; date: 2026-09-04

Aggregates real-time company and people data (250+ data points per company from 15+ sources - funding, headcount, web signals, social, reviews) plus a "Watcher API" for near-real-time hiring/funding/event alerts, covering 60M companies and 1B+ people.

## MCP links
- https://install.crustdata.com/mcp
- https://docs.crustdata.com/for-agents/mcp.md
- https://docs.crustdata.com/for-agents/claude-plugin.md

## Sources
- https://crustdata.com/
- https://crustdata.com/pricing
- https://crustdata.com/apis/company-enrichment
- https://docs.crustdata.com/for-agents/mcp.md
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/crustdata
- https://install.crustdata.com/mcp

## Research notes
One of the clearest "new self-serve tier" contrasts to 6sense/Demandbase/Bombora in this category - YC-backed (launched 2025), free sandbox key, credit-based API pricing beyond that. No enterprise-only gate found. [api_gate 2026-09-03] Reconciled paid -> free so this cross-listed entry agrees with its canonical entry in 01-data-enrichment.md, checked against the live vendor pricing surfaces: https://crustdata.com/ states "Free sandbox key, full API, MCP server and skill templates"; https://crustdata.com/pricing lists no prices at all, only three access routes (credit-based real-time API with monthly/annual plans, flat-file data, and a contact-sales custom/enterprise tier), so the earlier "flat-file data starting at $49/mo" figure is dropped as no longer verifiable on the vendor's own page; https://docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing states credits are "valid for 6 months from the purchase date", /person/search and /company/search cost 0.03 credits per result, /person/search/autocomplete, /company/search/autocomplete and /company/identify are free, "Web live endpoints are available on self-serve plans", and Company and Person live endpoints remain plan-gated. No sales call is required to get a key, so the gate is free-to-start with paid usage on top, not paid. 2026-09-07: Same first-party endpoint as the other Crustdata entry: registry remote for io.github.mhimed-crustdata/crustdata, 401 to an MCP initialize (https://install.crustdata.com/mcp).

## Named capabilities
Tool names below are reported by sources. Their presence is not a successful call.

## CLI evidence
Status: none-found

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