7 Best Technographic Data Providers in 2026 (Compared)

Technographic data is a record of which software, tools and platforms a company uses. Sales and marketing teams use it to find accounts that run a product they sell against or alongside. Engineers and agent builders use it to filter lists before they spend money on contacts.

The providers split into three groups. Some detect technologies on a website. Some sell company records with a technology field. A few attach people to the companies they find. Most buyers need one of those three, not all of them.

This page ranks seven providers on the same checklist, written for readers who pull data through an API or an agent. We read each vendor's pricing page and API docs in September 2026. We ran no live benchmark. For the concept itself, read what are technographics. For prompts that use the data, see use technographic data.

LeadOcean has its own comparison pages for Apollo, Crustdata and Coresignal.

TL;DR

Prices are monthly list, USD, with the billed-yearly figure after it where the vendor shows one. Checked September 2026. Sources sit in each section.

What we evaluated

• Technology coverage. How many technologies and sites does the tool track, and can you filter by technology or only look up one domain?
• History and freshness. Does the record show when a technology was first and last seen, or only the current stack?
• People. Can you get decision-makers and contact data at the companies you find?
• API and agent access. Rate limit, batch size, bulk export and whether a hosted MCP server returns data.
• Price at 1M records a month. Monthly list price first, billed-yearly figure after it, with a source and the month checked.

1. LeadOcean: best for contacts at companies that use a technology

LeadOcean is a people and company database with a technology filter. POST /v1/people/search and POST /v1/companies/search both take technologies (names) and technologyCategories (105 categories, such as CRM or Analytics). Add title, level, country and size to get the people at those companies. It holds 693M people and 67M companies, served through REST and a hosted MCP server with 13 tools.

Technology data comes from about 7.8M crawled sites, so coverage is narrower than a dedicated technographics vendor. It tells you a company runs a CRM or an analytics tool. It gives no per-domain history and no trend line. If you need that, BuiltWith below is the better pick.

The case for LeadOcean is the bill and the output. Agency is $497 a month with 200 requests a second per account and 5 API keys. There are no credits. Sizing a company list is free through GET /v1/companies/count and the leadocean_count_companies MCP tool, so you check the audience before you spend a record. LeadOcean ranks first here because the page is written for API and agent buyers who want people, not reports.

Pros

• Filters people by technology, title, level and country in one call.
• One flat monthly price. No credits, no per-record price, no overage invoice.
• Rate limit per account by plan: 5 a second on Free, 50 on Solo, 200 on Agency, 10,000 on Platform.
• Hosted MCP server with OAuth sign-in and 13 tools. Counting an audience is free.
• Free plan: 1,000 records, no card, the same API and MCP server as paid plans.

Cons

• No per-domain technology history and no trend reports.
• Technology data covers about 7.8M crawled sites, not the whole database.
• Paid plans have a fair-use pace. Past it, requests are served at a reduced rate until the window resets.
• The app is an Exports page with a filter builder and CSV download, not a report builder or a CRM.

Best for: engineers, RevOps and agents that need contacts at companies filtered by technology, at a fixed monthly bill.

Pricing: Free is 1,000 records one-off. Solo is $97 a month and Agency is $497 a month. See LeadOcean pricing, checked September 2026.

2. BuiltWith: best for the deepest per-domain technology profile

BuiltWith is the reference for what a website runs. Its plans page lists 127,906 tracked technologies and data on 491.9 million domains (BuiltWith plans, October 2026). Nothing else on this list tracks that many technologies or shows that much history per domain.

The plans are Basic at $295 a month, Pro at $495 and Team at $995. Team is the first plan with a stated API allowance, 1.2 million credits. BuiltWith does not say whether they renew each month. The API allows 10 requests a second and 8 at once. The Lists API, which pulls every site on a technology, needs a subscription and shows no credit price (BuiltWith API reference, September 2026).

BuiltWith runs an MCP endpoint at api.builtwith.com/mcp that takes your API key as a Bearer token. It lists contacts found on websites, with EU and California personal data removed, so it is not a verified-email database. For the full price ladder, read BuiltWith pricing.

Pros

• 127,906 tracked technologies and 491.9M domains.
• Per-domain profile, relationships and trend endpoints.
• Individual site lookups are free forever.
• MCP endpoint and a Free API for counts.

Cons

• Basic starts at $295 a month, the highest entry price on this list apart from Wappalyzer's API tier.
• 10 requests a second and 8 at once, with a dedicated endpoint as the only way past it.
• Lists and keyword search need a subscription, with no credit price shown.
• No verified people data. You need a second vendor for contacts.

Best for: analysts and data teams that need the full technology profile, history and spend of a domain.

Pricing: Basic $295, Pro $495 and Team $995 a month, or $2,950, $4,950 and $9,950 billed yearly. Team Ultra is $6,000 a month (BuiltWith plans, October 2026; Team Ultra, September 2026). There is no 1M price card. Prepaid credits come to about $6,434 to $7,100 for 1M lookups, a derived figure (BuiltWith x402 descriptor, September 2026).

3. TheirStack: best for companies by technology and hiring signals

TheirStack finds companies by the technologies they use and the jobs they post. Every API plan includes the Job Search, Company Search and Technographics endpoints, plus webhooks and an MCP server (TheirStack plans, September 2026). Hiring data is a strong technology signal, because a job ad names the tools a team will use.

The meter is the catch. A job costs 1 API credit, and a company or a full tech stack costs 3 (TheirStack credits docs, September 2026). So 1M tech stacks is 3M credits, and TheirStack lists no 3M tier. We found no person or contact records.

Paid accounts run at 4 requests a second, and credits expire 12 months after purchase (TheirStack rate limit docs, September 2026). The hosted MCP server at api.theirstack.com/mcp signs in with OAuth or an API key and spends credits at the API rate (TheirStack MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Technographics and Job Search in every API plan.
• A published price ladder from $49 to $5,500 a month.
• Free plan with 200 API credits and 50 company credits a month.
• Hosted MCP server with OAuth and API-key sign-in.

Cons

• A company or tech stack costs 3 credits, three times a job.
• 4 requests a second on paid plans.
• No people or contact records that we found.
• Credits are prepaid and expire after 12 months.

Best for: teams that build account lists from technology plus hiring signals and have a separate contact source.

Pricing: Free is 200 API credits and 50 company credits a month. API plans run from $49 a month for 1,500 credits to $5,500 for 5,000,000. The pricing page shows monthly figures only (TheirStack pricing, September 2026). 1M tech stacks is 3M credits and no tier fits, so the next published tier is API 5M at $5,500.

4. Wappalyzer: best for cheap cached technology lookups

Wappalyzer detects the technologies on a website, and it is the simplest route to a lookup API. A cached lookup is 1 credit a URL, and a live recursive lookup is 5. One request takes up to 10 URLs (Wappalyzer lookup docs, September 2026).

The API starts at Business. Pro at $250 a month includes no API credits, so API buyers start at $450. Business includes 20,000 credits, and they expire after 60 days (Wappalyzer pricing, September 2026).

Wappalyzer also builds lead lists on a technology, with emails and phones scraped from public pages and no accuracy promise. The hosted MCP server is read-only with three tools, on Business and above (Wappalyzer MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Simple cached lookup API at 1 credit a URL.
• Free account with 50 technology lookups a month.
• Lead lists by technology, finalized at 1 credit a website.
• Read-only MCP server with three tools.

Cons

• The API needs Business at $450 a month. Pro has none.
• Included credits expire after 60 days.
• No public price at 1M.
• Contact data is scraped as-is, with no verified people.

Best for: developers who need to detect the technologies on a list of domains by API.

Pricing: Pro $250, Business $450 and Enterprise $850+ a month, or $2,500, $4,500 and $8,500+ billed yearly. Enterprise starts at 200,000+ credits (Wappalyzer pricing, September 2026). Wappalyzer publishes no 1M price.

5. Crustdata: best for tech stacks and people from one API

Crustdata is the closest single-vendor option if you want stack and people together. Technographics sits on the existing Company and Job APIs. Company Search filters by technology, and Company Enrich returns the detected stack (Crustdata technographics docs, September 2026).

It is a beta, gated add-on. Access needs field-level permission on your account. Enrich adds 2 credits per company on top of the base 2. A technographics filter adds 1 credit per search result on top of 0.03 (Crustdata pricing docs, September 2026).

Crustdata runs a hosted MCP server at install.crustdata.com/mcp, with OAuth for interactive clients and an API key for code (Crustdata MCP docs, September 2026). The weak point is volume. Default limits are 15 requests a minute on enrich and 30 on search (Crustdata rate limits, September 2026).

Pros

• Tech stack, job postings and people in one API.
• Company Search filters by technology.
• Hosted MCP server with OAuth and API-key sign-in.
• Batch person enrich takes up to 10,000 identifiers a job.

Cons

• Technographics is a beta add-on that needs field-level permission.
• No dollar price per credit and no plan list on the pricing page.
• Default limits of 15 requests a minute on enrich and 30 on search.
• The contact endpoints need an enterprise plan.

Best for: teams that want stack and people data from one vendor and can negotiate a contract.

Pricing: the pricing page lists no plans or dollar prices. A Crustdata blog post reports a lowest tier from $95 a month (Crustdata pricing, September 2026; Crustdata blog, September 2026). 1M tech stacks is 4,000,000 credits (2 base plus 2 for technographics). With no public price per credit, there is no public 1M price (Crustdata docs, September 2026).

6. Coresignal: best for company records with dated technology fields

Coresignal is the volume pick if you want a company database with technology as a field. Its homepage claims 70M+ company records and 907M+ employee records (Coresignal, September 2026). Search by filter is free (Coresignal docs, September 2026).

The Clean Company API returns a technologies array with the date each technology was first and last verified (Coresignal docs, September 2026). That is the nearest thing here to BuiltWith's history. A company record costs 10 credits, so tech lookups are not cheap.

Rate limits rise with the plan, from 5 requests a second on Starter to 100 on Scale (Coresignal rate limits, September 2026). The hosted MCP server has 5 tools and OAuth 2.1 sign-in (Coresignal MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Tech stack with first and last verified dates per technology.
• A published plan ladder from $49 to $5,000 a month.
• Bulk Collect takes up to 10,000 records per request.
• Search by filter is free.

Cons

• A company record is 10 credits, so tech-stack volume gets expensive.
• Credits reset each cycle on plans below Premium.
• Rate limits start at 5 requests a second.
• Contact enrichment is 20 credits a call, and the API starts at Pro.

Best for: data teams that pull company records at volume and want dated technology fields.

Pricing: monthly list is Mini $49, Starter $199, Pro $499, Growth $1,000, Premium $1,500, Scale $3,000 and Elite $5,000. Billed yearly, Starter is $2,149 and Elite is $54,000 (Coresignal pricing, September 2026). 1M company records is 10,000,000 credits, the Elite allowance at $5,000 list. The pricing page marks Premium, Scale and Elite as contact sales.

7. Apollo: best for technology search plus contacts, priced per seat

Apollo is a sales platform with a technology filter in its API. Organization Search finds companies by the technologies they use, across 1,500+ supported technologies. Apollo says it calculates that data from multiple sources (Apollo organization search docs, September 2026).

Credits are the meter. Organization Search costs 1 credit per page of up to 100 results, and organization enrichment costs 1 credit per company (Apollo API pricing, September 2026). Each search returns at most 50,000 records, so a big pull needs many narrow queries.

Every plan includes API access. Paid plans get 200 search requests a minute and 50,000 a day (Apollo rate limits, September 2026). Apollo runs an official MCP server at mcp.apollo.io/mcp on any plan, including Free (Apollo MCP docs, September 2026).

Pros

• Technology search across 1,500+ technologies, with contacts in the same account.
• Free plan with API access and MCP.
• Organization search is 1 credit per page, not per company.
• Hosted MCP server with OAuth or an API key.

Cons

• Priced per seat, and credits expire at the end of each billing cycle.
• A search returns at most 50,000 records.
• We found no per-domain technology history in the docs.
• Phone numbers cost 8 credits each.

Best for: sales teams that want technology-based account lists and contacts in one seat-priced tool.

Pricing: per seat a month, billed monthly: Free $0 with 75 credits, Basic $65 with 2,500, Professional $99 with 4,000 and Organization $149 with 6,000 (minimum 3 seats). Billed yearly it is $49, $79 and $119 per seat a month (Apollo pricing, September 2026). There is no public 1M price for company tech data, and Apollo publishes no price for extra credits.

Comparison table

All prices are USD list, checked September 2026. See each section for sources. The Wappalyzer rate limit comes from its API basics, and the Apollo limit from its rate limit docs.

How to choose

• You need the people at companies that use a technology: LeadOcean. One call returns the contacts, and the bill stays flat.
• You need the full technology profile, history and spend of a domain: BuiltWith.
• You want companies by technology plus hiring signals: TheirStack, with a contact source behind it.
• You only need to detect technologies on a domain list: Wappalyzer Business.
• You want stack and people from one vendor: Crustdata, if you accept a beta add-on and a quoted price.
• You want company records with dated technology fields: Coresignal.
• Your reps live in a sales platform and pay per seat: Apollo.
• You are still choosing a general contact database: read best B2B databases first.

Verdict

For API and agent buyers who need people, LeadOcean wins. It filters contacts by technology on a flat $497 a month with no credits. Its technology data covers about 7.8M crawled sites and has no history. BuiltWith wins on depth and history. TheirStack wins on technology plus hiring signals. Wappalyzer wins on the cheapest clean lookup API. Crustdata wins if you want stack and people from one vendor and can negotiate. Coresignal wins on dated technology fields at volume. Apollo wins for sales teams that want technology search and contacts on seats.

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