PitchBook Alternatives: 8 Funding and Company Data Tools for Sales Teams, Compared
Publish date: Nov 12, 2026
Vendr's median PitchBook buyer pays $30,000 a year, and Fundz sells funding alerts from $49 a month. The right swap depends on what you used PitchBook for.
Crunchbase if you watched who raised, and when. Apollo.io if you need emails at funded accounts on a small budget. ZoomInfo if an enterprise team wants contacts, alerts and funding data in one contract. Dealroom or Beauhurst for European and UK startups, Tracxn for a free tier with global coverage, and Harmonic for seed-stage and stealth companies.
Each of the eight PitchBook alternatives gets a price, a funding line and a contacts line. Spona's US data then shows how many funded companies a sales team can reach, and how fast a round becomes visible.
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Why sales teams look for PitchBook alternatives
PitchBook tracks more than 12.75 million companies and 3 million deals. The same release counts 600,000 investors and 170,000 funds. PitchBook's data is updated multiple times a day, and a team of more than 1,800 people vets it. That is the deal coverage the eight tools below are weighed against.
The bill is the first reason to look elsewhere. PitchBook publishes no price: quotes vary by seat count and firm type, and CRM Integration is a premium add-on. Vendr's buyers report a median of $30,000 a year. Contracts in its data run from $20,000 to $124,500.
Our PitchBook pricing post covers the trial, the multi-year discounts and the renewal increases.
The second reason is the audience. PitchBook describes itself as built for those "investing in, acquiring or advising on private market transactions", and its contacts match. The same brochure lists validated email addresses for 2.5 million deal professionals, with alerts when one of them is involved in a financing event. A rep who sells to a startup that just raised wants that startup's head of operations, not the investor who wired the money.
The third reason is the trial. PitchBook offers no free plan. Its pricing page asks you to fill out a form, and then PitchBook decides whether a trial "might be right for you". Six of the eight tools below print a price or open a trial without that form.
8 PitchBook competitors compared for sales teams
The criterion is what you used PitchBook for, and whether you need a person's email at the end of it. Prices come from each vendor's own pages where they print one, and from Vendr's purchase data or Capterra's listing where they do not. Three of the eight quote only.
| Tool | Best for | Price | Funding data | Contacts |
| Crunchbase | Seeing who raised, and when | Free trial; Vendr estimates Pro at $49 to $99 a user a month, billed annually | Funding rounds, growth and acquisition signals | Not confirmed |
| Apollo.io | Emails at funded accounts on a small budget | Free plan; Basic $49 a user a month, billed annually | Funding filter by stage and amount | 240M contacts, 30M companies |
| ZoomInfo | Enterprise teams that want one contract | Quote only; Vendr median $33,500 a year | Funding info and funding-round alerts | 500M contacts |
| Fundz | Reps who want daily funding alerts | Pro $49 a month billed annually ($79 quarterly) | 18 signal types, about 3,000 updates a week | 150 lookups and 10 mobiles a month |
| Dealroom | Selling into European and UK startups | Premium €250 a seat a month at 10 seats, billed annually | Every company profile and funding round | 3,000 business email credits |
| Beauhurst | UK teams that need unannounced rounds | Quote only; no free trial | Every private company in the UK, Germany and Ireland | None: "not a contact database" |
| Tracxn | Testing before paying, with global coverage | Free version; from $500 a month on Capterra's listing | 8.4M+ companies, 7.8K+ added daily | Not stated |
| Harmonic | Seed-stage and stealth startups | Quote only | Financing data as an add-on on API and bulk plans | 195M+ people profiles |
1. Crunchbase: the closest swap for startup funding data
Crunchbase's homepage promise is "Before It's News, It's In Crunchbase". Funding rounds, growth insights and acquisition predictions run down the page as live signals. That is the PitchBook job most sales teams used: who raised, and when. A free trial starts from the homepage.
These are Vendr's figures, not prices read on Crunchbase's own site. Vendr puts Starter at about $29 a user a month billed annually. Pro runs $49 to $99. The median contract is $20,000 a year, from 71 purchases.
Is Crunchbase the same as PitchBook? No. Crunchbase sells per user on self-serve plans, and PitchBook sells per seat by quote, to dealmakers. The API sits on Crunchbase's Enterprise tier, which Vendr puts at $50,000 and up. We could not confirm contact emails on Crunchbase's plans, so budget a separate contact source.
If Crunchbase makes your shortlist, our Crunchbase alternatives post covers the tools around it.
2. Apollo.io: contacts with a funding filter
Apollo is the cheapest route to an email at a funded account. Its database claim is 240M contacts and 30M companies, and the free plan stays free with no time limit. Apollo's own plan article puts Basic at $49 a user a month billed annually, and Professional at $79.
The funding filter is the reason Apollo is on this list. Its help center says you can search by seed, angel and venture funding, or set a minimum and maximum amount raised. The filter needs a plan with advanced filters. Apollo calculates funding data from multiple sources, so treat a round date as a lead, not a record.
Credits are pooled across the team and do not roll over. Our Apollo pricing post has the credit math by plan.
3. ZoomInfo: enterprise contacts with funding alerts
ZoomInfo is not the cheaper option. Vendr's buyers pay a median of $33,500 a year, above PitchBook's $30,000. Vendr adds that contracts often carry a 5 to 10% yearly price increase. The pricing page shows no price, only "Get Pricing", and a free trial.
What the money buys is reach. ZoomInfo claims 500 million contacts and 100 million companies. The Copilot Advanced package lists funding info among its features, and the pricing FAQ promises real-time alerts for company events such as funding rounds. Each export costs one credit.
Pick ZoomInfo when the team already runs on an enterprise contract and wants funding alerts inside the same tool. Our ZoomInfo pricing post covers the packages and the credit rules.
4. Fundz: funding alerts built for sales reps
Fundz writes its Pro plan for "sales reps, recruiters, and advisers". It costs $49 a month billed annually, or $79 billed quarterly. Strategic costs $99 a month on annual billing, and Enterprise is custom.
Pro tracks 500 accounts and matches up to 15 leads a day. Each month it adds 150 contact lookups and 10 mobile numbers, with push to HubSpot and bulk CSV export. Fundz reports about 3,000 updates a week across 18 signal types, funding among them.
The fit is one rep who wants a morning list of funded accounts and a few contacts for each. At $588 a year, that rep pays less than 2% of PitchBook's median contract.
5. Dealroom: European and UK startup data
Dealroom prices in euros, and Premium costs €250 a seat a month at 10 seats, billed annually and paid up front. That is €30,000 a year for the team. Seats run from 3 to 20. Ten seats cost 29% less a seat than three.
Premium Plus costs €325 a seat and adds an MCP connection. The trial is the practical part for a sales team: three days of full Premium access, 50 export credits and no card. A Premium seat carries 10,000 export credits, and the comparison table lists 3,000 business email credits, without saying per seat or per plan. So the contact comes with the round.
Pick Dealroom when you sell into European or UK startups and want the funding round and the email in one seat.
6. Beauhurst: UK companies, unannounced rounds included
Beauhurst covers "every private company in the UK, Germany, and Ireland". It prices by quote and offers no free trial.
The reason to shortlist it is what press releases miss. Beauhurst reads deals from Companies House filings and reports that almost 70% of UK equity investments are never announced. Press releases, it adds, are often published before the deal completes.
Its research on the UK market shows the trend a sales team sells into. In 2025, the amount UK companies raised rose 3.34%. The deal count fell 7.87%, so fewer deals carried more money.
The limit is contacts. Beauhurst calls itself "not a contact database", though it offers CRM integrations and an API. A UK team pairs it with a contact source.
7. Tracxn: global coverage with a free tier
Tracxn's homepage counts 8.4M+ companies and 7.8K+ daily additions, next to a Sign Up for Free button. Tracxn publishes no price on a page we could read. The only public figure we found is Capterra's listing: from $500 a month, with a free version and a free trial. The listing carries only two user reviews.
The homepage names investors, corporates and government agencies as its users, not sales teams. For a sales team it works as a free way to test a funding-triggered list before paying for anything. The site does not state a contact count.
8. Harmonic: early-stage startup discovery
Harmonic calls itself "the startup discovery engine". Its pricing page lists Console, API and Bulk data, each behind a Get pricing button, and no free tier. Harmonic's FAQ counts more than 35 million companies and 195 million people. Financing and investor data is an add-on on API and bulk plans, and CRM sync is one on API.
Harmonic's angle is the stage before a round is public: stealth and seed companies. That is also the stage with the smallest budgets. Pick it when you sell to founders at the first hire. Its pricing page names no emails or phone numbers, so check what contact data a plan carries.
Funding as a sales trigger: Spona's US data
A funding round is a buying signal because the money has to go somewhere: hires, tools, offices. The pages that rank for this query never measure how many companies that is, or how fast a round reaches a database. Spona's records answer both for the US.
What the funding data shows
Over the past three months, Spona's records hold 947 US companies with a publicly disclosed Series A. Those companies carry 11,783 verified contacts, about 12 each. The median lag from public disclosure to availability in Spona's records is 4.9 hours. That is an observed figure, not a service target.
Two limits apply. The lag starts at public disclosure, not at the close of the round. And a round that is never disclosed is not in these counts.
Count every disclosed equity or debt event in the past 12 months instead, and the US group grows to 15,263 companies. They hold 81,222 verified contacts, about 5 each. A verified contact is a unique named work email that passed verification in the past 90 days, with catch-all domains excluded.
Size changes the picture: companies with fewer than 50 staff make up 79% of the group. They hold 46% of the contacts. At 250 or more staff, the group holds just 698 companies. They carry 14,808 contacts, about 21 each.
A rep working funded accounts by email reaches more people per account in the larger bands.
The Series A companies sit inside the 12-month group, so the two counts are never added. For scale, the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor estimates 16,709 US venture deals in 2025. That is deals rather than companies, and venture only, so it is not a like-for-like figure. Beauhurst's 70% unannounced share is a UK number, and we found no US equivalent, so it does not apply to these counts.
Where Spona fits today
Spona does not search by funding yet. Venture Data and Signal Search are coming soon. Until then, PitchBook, Crunchbase and Dealroom are the stronger tools for funding history and investor names, and Fundz and ZoomInfo for alerts.
What Spona does today is the contact step. Data Enrichment takes a list you already hold and adds work emails, direct dials and mobiles. The companies in a week of Form D filings are one such list. You pay only when a result returns.
Spona's search works the other way round too: you describe the ideal customer in a chat and get a scored, verified list. The Pro plan costs $99 a month, or $75 a month billed yearly, and every search starts with a free sample.
Where it does not fit: a team that needs investor names, round sizes and valuations in one record. That team still needs one of the eight tools above. Spona adds the person at the company. It does not tell you who funded it.
Are there PitchBook alternatives free of charge?
Yes, for the funding event itself. Two public registries record rounds by law, and five of the tools above have a free plan or trial. The free part ends at the contact.
- Search Form D filings on EDGAR (US). A company that sells securities under Regulation D must file Form D within 15 days after the first sale. The SEC charges no filing fee. The form lists each executive officer and director of the issuer, the total offering amount and the amount sold so far. EDGAR's full-text search filters by form type and offers a "Last 30 days" option. Our recently funded startups post walks through the search step by step.
- Check Companies House (UK). When a UK company allots new shares, it must deliver a return of the allotment, form SH01, within one month. Companies House lists document images among the details it shows free, so anyone can read the filing. This is the source Beauhurst reads to find the rounds that press releases miss.
- Use the free plans and trials. Apollo's free plan has no time limit. Tracxn offers a free version, Dealroom a three-day trial, and Crunchbase and ZoomInfo free trials. PitchBook's trial comes by request form only.
- Add the contact. A Form D names officers and directors, not the operations lead you sell to. Spona's Free plan includes 3,000 one-time credits, a new search session costs 1,000 of them, and every search starts with a free sample. Load the companies from a week of filings and spend those credits on the first contacts.
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FAQ about switching from PitchBook
Is there a free version of PitchBook?
No. PitchBook's pricing page offers a trial by request form: "Fill out a form and we'll see if a free trial might be right for you." There is no free plan and no public price. Form D filings on EDGAR and Companies House documents are the free records of the rounds themselves.
Which tools are cheaper than PitchBook?
On list price, Fundz Pro at $49 a month and Apollo Basic at $49 a user a month, both billed annually. Tracxn starts at $500 a month on Capterra's listing. On purchase data, Crunchbase's Vendr median is $20,000 a year against PitchBook's $30,000. ZoomInfo's median sits above PitchBook's, so it is a swap for reach, not for savings.
Can ChatGPT access PitchBook data?
Only for paying customers. The PitchBook app in ChatGPT serves "entitled or licensed Morningstar and PitchBook users", so a ChatGPT subscription alone returns none of its data. For a free view of a round, read the registry filings above.
Which tools include contact emails?
Apollo, ZoomInfo, Fundz and Dealroom sell emails on credits inside their plans. Beauhurst does not. PitchBook's 2.5 million validated emails belong to deal professionals, not to the buyers at a funded company. Our best B2B data providers post compares the contact databases on their own terms.
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