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RocketReach Pricing or Per-Contact Lookups: Where the Charge Lands
We paid the base charge for one executive and got an id, a country and a null title. A second provider returned the right job title and zero contacts.
B2B Prospecting Tool by API: The List Is Free, the Name Is the Bill
One free call returned 100 sales leaders at 47 companies with names redacted. Revealing who they are is the paid step. How three prospecting routes bill.
Crunchbase Pro or Crunchbase by the Call: What Each Actually Returns
Sixty-nine organisations match Stripe. The profile carried seven fields and no funding total. Twenty-five rounds came back with types and no amounts.
Tavily API, or One Key: Four Search Engines, One Query, Zero URLs in Common
What the Tavily API is, and what four search engines did with one query in the same minute. Two shared no URLs at all. One found our own page.
Ahrefs API by the Call: Domain Rating, Backlinks, Paid Pages
We pulled our own backlink profile through the Ahrefs API: ten referring domains, all DR 91 or higher, six dofollow links out of thirty-three.
Apollo Email Finder API: Two Providers, One Mailbox, Two Owners
Apollo says patrick@stripe.com is the CEO, verified. Hunter.io says it is an IT administrator, observed. Same address, one day apart, both confident.
Domain Age Checker: One TLD Returns Nothing and Still Bills
Eleven domains through a domain age endpoint. Three TLDs came back empty with HTTP 200 and were billed. Two were refused for free.
Claude MCP for Web Data: One Server Per Tool, or One Key?
One call mapped 3,779 documentation pages in eight seconds. The question is whether each tool that does this needs its own MCP server in your config.
How to Use Seedance 2.0 by API: One Prompt, Two Models, Measured
Seedance 2.0 and 2.0 Mini rendered one 5-second prompt in the same two minutes for the same 108,900 tokens. One billed exactly twice the other.
Octen AI Search API: 78 ms Inside, One Second End to End
Octen reports its own latency in every response. On our calls it said 78 ms; the round trip was a second. What search, extract and embedding return.
Reddit User Information Extraction: Profile, Posts and Comments by API
One Reddit account, three endpoints: a profile with karma split two ways, a complete post history in one call, and comments that carry their thread.
Hunter.io API: Domain Search Finds, Email Finder Guesses
Hunter.io domain search returned ten verified addresses at confidence 85. Email finder returned one address at confidence 16 with no source. Same provider.
Reverse Email Lookup API: What One Address Actually Returned
A reverse email lookup on a Stripe address returned an IT administrator, not the CEO. That is the endpoint working, and the fuzzy flag says why.
TikTok Profile Viewer and Account Finder: What an API Returns
One profile call returned two different follower counts in one response. One keyword returned twenty accounts, ten of them regional handles of one brand.
TinyFish Made a Free Web Search API. One Query Is a Third.
We asked TinyFish Search one question five ways. It returned 27 pages, and the best single phrasing found 9 of them. Every call was free.
AI Agent Development Company or In House? The Hard Part
Two vendors, one domain, two different companies. One reported 2,930 employees and the other 63. Neither returned an error. That is the build.
How Do You Find Prospects Running Google Ads?
One landing page carried 1,537 distinct ad creatives. That count, not traffic, separates a company testing paid search from one committed to it.
Google Shopping API: The Lowest Price Is a Different Product
One search returned the same headphones from 22.99 to 399.99. The cheapest was a weekly rental. Sorting by price picks the row that is not the product.
Two Reddit Scrapers, One Query, Four Posts in Common
The complaint is that a Reddit scraper returns irrelevant posts. We measured it. Results were relevant, and two providers disagreed on six of ten.
Salary Data API: Three Sources, Three Different Numbers
Indeed says the median software engineer earns 136k. Levels.fyi says 298k. Both are right, and the field that explains it is the sample count.
Telegram Channel Data Without a Bot Token
Telegram publishes view counts no other platform gives you. They arrive as 926K and 24.2M, already rounded, and they are lifetime totals not velocity.
Insider Trading API: What Form 4 Data Actually Tells You
A director sold 1,848,501 shares for $410,843,671. The filing arrived two days later, and that lag is the most important field in the response.
PitchBook Pricing and Cost: Is There an API Instead?
PitchBook publishes no price and no public API. Free alternatives return which rounds a company raised and what type, not how much, when or the valuation.
How to Monitor Competitor Prices Automatically
Two sources agreed the price was 54.99. One also said the list price was 79.99. Store only the first and you cannot tell a price cut from a discount.