Captain Data review

Captain Data is a REST API for people and company data, aimed at AI agents and B2B SaaS rather than a general-purpose prospecting interface. Its homepage says you can send a LinkedIn URL, a person’s name, or a company domain to get structured data.

The endpoint set covers six jobs: enrich a person from a LinkedIn profile URL, search people with a query, find someone by full name and optional company, enrich a company from its LinkedIn URL, search companies, and retrieve employees for a specific company. That gives developers several ways to identify or enrich records without treating every request as a LinkedIn URL lookup.

The practical question is whether those endpoints and their credit costs fit your workflow. The available product details describe API access and data types, but do not publish a USD starting price or enough detail to calculate what a typical enrichment run costs.

Captain Data’s clearest strength is endpoint coverage. The API combines people search, person lookup and enrichment, company search and enrichment, and employee lookup. That can suit a B2B product that needs to find records as well as fill in details on records it already has. The homepage also presents it for AI agents, so it is positioned for software-driven requests rather than only manual prospecting.

The pricing page lists all data types and endpoints on Silver and Growth, as well as on Enterprise and Titanium. That means the plan descriptions do not suggest that core endpoint access is reserved for the higher tiers. Silver is presented for lower-volume API users and shows 20,000 credits per month and up to 20,000 records. Growth adds priority support; Enterprise offers a named account manager, with a dedicated success manager available above 500,000 credits per month. Database export is available at custom pricing.

For teams comparing alternatives, one Reddit discussion names Phantombuster and TexAu as similar products. That is user commentary, not a feature-by-feature comparison, but it gives buyers a starting point for evaluating other data-extraction tools.

Pricing is the main buying friction. The pricing page shows a Silver estimate billed monthly in EUR, but the amount is not published on the vendor's site. USD prices and annual equivalents are also not published, so a US buyer cannot compare plans cleanly from the listed figures. Annual billing offers volume-based discounts, and Titanium lists discounts of up to 96%, but the page does not provide a usable price for estimating spend. Growth is usage-based, with no credit price stated here.

Silver shows 20,000 credits per month and up to 20,000 records. Those figures give lower-volume buyers a reference point, but the sources do not explain how credits map to each endpoint or record, so the real cost per result remains unclear. Higher-volume pricing is also not itemized.

There is a separate trust concern for buyers considering older AppSumo licenses. In one Reddit thread, users complained that lifetime licenses would not transfer to the new enterprise-level platform; an AppSumo update cited in the thread said it was a different product built on a new system. That is a reported license dispute, not evidence about current customer terms, but buyers should confirm migration and account protections before switching.

Captain Data does not publish a USD price or an annual equivalent, so we can’t give you a reliable monthly cost or calculate the jump between tiers. According to the pricing page, Silver is shown as a monthly estimate in EUR, with 20,000 credits and up to 20,000 records per month. It includes real-time API automations and all data types and endpoints.

Growth uses usage-based credit pricing and offers priority support. Enterprise adds a named account manager, with a dedicated success manager available above 500,000 credits per month. Titanium is for enterprise-volume customers; the page advertises up to 96% off with annual billing and volume-based pricing. Since the prices aren’t published in the published material, those plan descriptions don’t tell you what the step up will cost.

Annual billing offers volume-based discounts, but the annual equivalents aren’t listed. Database export is an add-on with custom pricing. There’s no free plan listed, and trial availability isn’t published. Get a written quote that covers expected credit use, billing currency and export costs before you budget a switch.

Captain Data’s REST API is built for teams integrating people and company data into software, so switching means mapping your existing workflows to its endpoints: people enrichment and search, find people, company enrichment and search, and employee lookup. The published product information doesn’t document migration tools, API compatibility, or a process for importing existing data. Treat the migration effort as dependent on your current integration and confirm the details with Captain Data before committing.

Data portability is worth checking early. The pricing page lists database export at custom pricing, not as a clearly priced standard feature. Ask what formats are available and what an export costs before you move data or build more workflows around the API.

The review notes flag reported license losses among former lifetime-deal users, but provide no Reddit thread details or evidence about how often this happens. That’s a reason to verify license terms in writing, not proof of a general pattern. For teams leaving, confirm access to existing data and any export charges; for teams joining, get renewal and usage terms documented.