| Proxycurl | Coresignal |
|---|---|
| Scrapes LinkedIn profiles live and returns data in <3 seconds | "Real-time" API does not return data immediately |
| Core business is in data enrichment via API | Core business is in selling datasets |
| Fresh data no older than 29 days; with 90% of profiles scraped in real-time | Stale data |
| Profile dataset contains ~500M profiles | Has a dataset that is bigger in count |
| $45,000 one-time payment for US Profile Dataset (264+M profiles), updates available quarterly for $4,500 | $50,000 one-time payment for US Profile Dataset (180M+ profiles), updates available quarterly for $25,000 |
| $69,500 one-time payment for our entire dataset on people and companies (473+M people profiles, 19+M company profiles), updates available quarterly for $9,000 | $65,000 one-time payment for global people profiles, does not include company profiles (670+M profiles), updates available quarterly for $33,000 |
| $0.01 cents per profile via API, extra fees for additional enrichment parameters | $0.20 cents per profile via API, extra fees for additional enrichment parameters |
| 19M Company profiles | 91M Company Profiles |
| Does not have historical job dataset | Has historical job postings datasets |
| Has contact data | Does not have contact data |
I will preface this comparison article by saying that I am the CEO of Proxycurl, and I know of Coresignal from my interaction with our customers who were comparing Coresignal and us. This is a summary of my findings, which might lean towards being biased, so take heed of that as you conclude.
By visiting the websites of both services, you can tell what the most significant difference between Coresignal and Proxycurl is with the target audience.
Coresignal pushes you, the customer, to contact their sales staff. Proxycurl pushes you, the developer, to get an API key and test its product out immediately.
From the get-go, it is reasonable to conclude that Coresignal is an "Enterprisey" product, whereas Proxycurl is a no-nonsense development tool intended for software engineers to self-onboard.
And there is more...
LinkedIn Scraping VS LinkedIn Datasets
The next difference between Coresignal is in the core products that we serve. When I refer to Coresignal's landing page, it is easy to infer that Coresignal's core product is their bulk datasets.
Proxycurl offers an enrichment API for businesses and professionals.
As far as I know, Coresignal's real-time API does not scrape LinkedIn profiles and return the relevant data in real-time.
Proxycurl API scrapes fresh LinkedIn profiles in real-time. In addition, Proxycurl offers a data freshness guarantee.
| Proxycurl | Coresignal |
|---|---|
| Scrapes LinkedIn profiles live and returns data in <3 seconds | "Real-time" API does not return data immediately |
Data Freshness
I am not confident of this -- but based on my calls with our customers switching over from Coresignal, Coresignal's data is at best 3-4 months old. Usually older.
Proxycurl offers data no older than 29 days. See Proxycurl's freshness guarantee here.
Data Size and Richness
Coresignal wins in terms of sizes of dataset. It is so because Coresignal's product aggregates data from a more significant number of sources (20) relative to Proxycurl (4).
This is immediately obvious when you look at the numbers that Coresignal boasts. For example, Coresignal's landing page cites that they have 91M company profiles. In contrast, Proxycurl has 19M company profiles.
Vastness aside, Coresignal also has more datasets. For example, Coresignal has a Job postings dataset that Proxycurl does not have.
However, Proxycurl's data is richer than Coresignal. It does have one thing that Coresignal does not have: contact information of people profiles.
| Proxycurl | Coresignal |
|---|---|
| 19M Company profiles | 91M Company Profiles |
| Does not have job dataset | Has job postings datasets |
| Has contact data | Does not have contact data |
Pricing
Proxycurl and Coresignal have two competing products.
- Datasets (Proxycurl datasets are known as LinkDB Snapshots.)
- API
Dataset pricing
LinkDB is cheaper than Coresignal for both our US Profile Dataset and our entire dataset.
We also provide more information than Coresignal, particularly when it comes to enrichment parameters like different contact methods.
Our updates are not even remotely similar, and frequently our quarterly updates can be nearly a third of the price of the updates from Coresignal.
For example:
- Our US Profile Dataset quarterly updates are $4,500
- Their US Profile Dataset quarterly updates are $25,000
- Our entire dataset (including companies) has quarterly updates available for $9,000
- Their Global People Profiles (no companies) has quarterly updates available for $33,000
Spotting the difference yet?
Anyways, their dataset is slightly larger, but ours is still extensively rich and full of millions of different profiles. It will do the job just as well (if not better).
API Pricing
Proxycurl is priced at one credit ($0.009 onwards) for most endpoints for our API. Or 1000 profiles for $9 on our largest subscription plan.
| Proxycurl | Coresignal |
|---|---|
| $45,000 for US Profile Dataset | $50,000 for US Profile Dataset |
| $69,500 for our entire dataset on people and companies (473+M people, 19+M companies) | $65,000 for global people profiles (670+M people profiles) |
| $0.009 per profile via API, extra fees for additional enrichment parameters | $0.20 per profile via API, extra fees for additional enrichment parameters |
Proxycurl API VS Coresignal
CoreSignal has reached out claiming following statements to be misleading:
- “Does not scrape LinkedIn profiles live. Real-time API reads their database"
- “Stale data (3-4 months)”
This is what a customer who converted to Proxycurl said:
Understood we use a provider (Coresignal) currently and will likely change off once our contract with them is over. We're currently spending around 100k per year but are getting quarterly world wide updates. The reason I reached out was that your API is fantastic. Ill reach out again as we get closer to the subscription end date.
I'd say you should do your own due diligence. Coresignal is great if you are price insensitive and am fine with stale data.
Proxycurl is great if freshness is what you need for quality data enriched with contact information.
If you need a second opinion about any quotation you are getting from Coresignal, I will be happy to jump on a call with you to see what you have. We have a lot of Coresignal converts who jumped over to us when they realise they can get a better deal with fresher data at Proxycurl.
Just send us an email to [email protected]!
