What is the Crunchbase API? And how to access it

Crunchbase’s REST API provides access to company, funding, investor, and market data for uses such as lead enrichment, deal sourcing, funding monitoring, competitor analysis, and CRM updates. Its 2025 relaunch added AI-based Predictions and Insights features that estimate the likelihood of events including funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, closures, growth, and layoffs, while also supplying signals on company growth, investor performance, competition, valuations, and market direction. Users can retrieve information through search, entity lookup, and autocomplete endpoints, with historical data available in firmographic, core financial, and advanced financial tiers; the API supports up to 200 calls per minute but does not offer native webhooks, requiring polling for alerts. Free API access has been discontinued, so custom data access requires a negotiated contract, while Crunchbase’s web products include Pro at $79 per month billed annually and Business at $199 per month, with an MCP server available through certain plans. Zapier can connect Crunchbase data to thousands of applications for automation, while SEC EDGAR, Crustdata, and Apify offer lower-cost or free alternatives that may be useful for narrower historical-data needs but lack Crunchbase’s depth and predictive capabilities.

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