# Can I replace Crunchbase with an AI agent?

A company database covering funding rounds, investors, leadership and news. Yes, an agent running looot covers the jobs listed here.

## What Crunchbase does and what looot covers

- Enrich a company: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi.
- Search companies: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi.
- Find funding data: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal.
- Find company news: covered. Providers: newsdata-io, exa.
- Search people at a company: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, ai-ark.
- Investor lists: partial. Providers: people-data-labs. Investor coverage depends on the provider and may have gaps.

## Agent prompt to replace Crunchbase

Use looot to for each company I give you, return what it does, its size, its funding rounds, its leadership and recent news. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Crunchbase?

For the jobs listed on this page, yes. An agent running looot can do each of them by calling catalog endpoints. You still pick the provider and check the result.

## Is there a free Crunchbase alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Crunchbase depends on your volume.

## What does Crunchbase cost?

List prices change, so check Crunchbase's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Crunchbase alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Crunchbase's data jobs directly. The providers used here are people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi, newsdata-io, exa, ai-ark.

## Which Crunchbase features does looot not cover?

Every job listed here has at least partial coverage. Check the notes on partial jobs.

## How do I replace Crunchbase with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Crunchbase account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Crunchbase account. Your existing Crunchbase data stays where it is.

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## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.