Crunchbase vs. DataFox (discontinued)

Crunchbase

DataFox (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Crunchbase	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Crunchbase is a provider of private-company prospecting and research solutions. The vendor boasts that over 60 million users—including salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers—use Crunchbase to prospect for new business opportunities, and that companies all over the world rely on Crunchbase to power their applications, making over 3 billion calls to their API each year.	$0
DataFox (discontinued)	Score 7.7 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	DataFox was a tool used to dentify new prospects and deliver actionable sales triggers from thousands of data sources. Oracle acquired DataFox in October 2018, and the product was sunsetted in 2023. It is no longer available.	N/A

Pricing

Crunchbase

DataFox (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

Basic: $0
Crunchbase Starter: $29
per month, per user
Crunchbase Pro: $49
per month, per user
Crunchbase Enterprise: Custom Billing

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Crunchbase	DataFox (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Subscription pricing. Please contact DataFox for additional information.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Crunchbase	DataFox (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Crunchbase Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase It has more data and it's for sure more accurate, Crunchbase has a better platform when talking about visual and it's also easier to search. Also, it has better filters which can help companies to dive deeper into researching accordingly to their needs Incentivized Helpful? Christian Brock Director Chose Crunchbase UK based business, good data, great insights. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase I like Pitchbook a lot -- but too expensive for a slight difference in our use case. If Crunchbase added valuation "estimates" (kind of like zillow "zestimates"), it would be awesome instead of just very good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is cheaper and the overall price/value balance is better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is definitely bottom of the barrel in this space. At similar pricing models, all competitors I have tried have significantly bigger and more updated databases. Crunchbase may have been great sometime in the past, but they are not worth engaging now. Incentivized Helpful? Vivian Okere Commercial Account Executive Chose Crunchbase The UI/UX: Crunchbase gives me visibility of everything in one place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is the best resource for prospecting startups hands down. TechTarget has a lot of useful info, but I found it to be inaccurate where it mattered most. Crunchbase's data seems more accurate, and is also easier to use. Not the most exact comparison, but they offer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Sales Navigator is better only because it provides you with more direct contacts to reach out to. Crunchbase only tells you really the top dogs in the company like c-level execs, not necessarily contacts that you would be having sales conversations with. Incentivized Helpful? Parker O'Very Marketing Operations Manager Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase has far more company data than LinkedIn Sales Navigator. The thing that it lacks is data on the people at those companies. LinkedIn Sales Navigator also has a better CRM integration, from what I understand. It is more automated. For our strategy, we use both of these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase This question always gets me. In a world with so many database solutions, it becomes quite difficult to compare, its the subtleties. Bigger is usually better...Crunchbase has gone through over 300...300 rounds of funding. In a world where there are so many options, going with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase I have found that Crunchbase has more up-to-date information when comparing ZoomInfo and EverString. Incentivized Helpful? ★ Kevin Thomas ★ Small Business Consultant - Financial Services Chose Crunchbase I don't know of other services like Crunchbase, in my mind it stands alone. Of course I could use FormDs, but it's cumbersome and doesn't provide the same level of information, so I rarely use it. Incentivized Helpful?	DataFox (discontinued) Kyle Scagnelli Enterprise Sales Development Representative Chose DataFox (discontinued) We utilize both for the most accurate information in terms of employee count of company, location of headquarters address, validity of what current technology that may be using today. Also cross reference this information with LinkedIn and other sites to get the best info … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DataFox (discontinued) Better UI and integrations. Incentivized Helpful? ABRAHAM PABLO Commercial Account Executive Chose DataFox (discontinued) It is an easy to use tool and the integration with Salesforce works well. Also, it was a real time-saver when it comes to looking for information about companies where you want to make a pitch, Incentivized Helpful? Mauricio Belmonte Mireles Commercial Account Executive Chose DataFox (discontinued) DataFox is very intuitive and has a good artificial intelligence that works really fine for our field teams focused on big accounts. Gives metrics associated with the lead or client and it can be linked to Salesforce making it a tool that adds up to the existing tech stack in … Incentivized Helpful? Shane Finnegan Account Manager Chose DataFox (discontinued) Because I haven't only ever used DataFox, I can't compare it to one of their competitors. I can say however that this solution is a hundred times better than scouring websites for company lists and manually assembling Excel spreadsheets. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DataFox (discontinued) DataFox has a very simple to use interface and has great coverage across our ICP. DataFox yielded the highest match rate on the data diagnostic tests indicating that they had great potential in expanding our addressable market. For the kind of functionality, DataFox is much … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DataFox (discontinued) Datafox is incredibly easy to use and set up. This is extremely vital when you launch it to sales and SDR teams that care less about learning a new platform and want to start getting value out of something ASAP. It may have some gaps when it comes to contact and international … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Cannon Corporate Development - M&A Sourcing Chose DataFox (discontinued) Apologies - there are a few others that are not coming to the top of my head aside Hoover's but I have experience with 4-5 similar tools. What makes DataFox stand out is its ability to group companies by keyword and insight into transactions. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Crunchbase

DataFox (discontinued)

Prospecting

Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
	Crunchbase 9.2 Ratings 17% above category average	DataFox (discontinued) - Ratings
Advanced search	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Identification of new leads	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
List quality	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
List upload/download	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Load time/data access	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Sales Intelligence Data Standards

Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
	Crunchbase 6.9 Ratings 12% below category average	DataFox (discontinued) - Ratings
Contact information	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Company information	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Industry information	5.70 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification

Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
	Crunchbase 8.9 Ratings 18% above category average	DataFox (discontinued) 8.2 Ratings 10% above category average
Lead qualification process	5.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Salesforce integration	10.00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Company/business profiles	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data hygiene	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Tags	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Sales Intelligence Email Features

Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
	Crunchbase 4.3 Ratings 54% below category average	DataFox (discontinued) - Ratings
Sales email templates	4.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Append emails to records	4.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Crunchbase	DataFox (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Lead411 Score 9.1 out of 10	Lead411 Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Lead411 Score 9.1 out of 10	Lead411 Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 9.9 out of 10	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 9.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Crunchbase	DataFox (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	1.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Crunchbase	DataFox (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	The data is outdated and has significant gaps. It is mostly a replication of what is easily and publicly available, with little value added. Their predatory subscription model includes no notice of renewal and they are very antagonistic towards their customers. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I would definitely recommend DataFox to any sales team that wants their prospecting to be improved. If a company has trouble finding companies that fit their customer segments, then DataFox can probably solve that issue. I took 2 points off and gave an 8/10 because of the inaccuracy that is sometimes encountered in the lists generated and in the employee count. Incentivized Shane Finnegan Account Manager Read full review
Pros	Account-Based Data. Employee range, website, industry, company description, chief executives, latest news, etc. All for the given company you are researching. Salesforce integration. I have not used it, but the functionality is supposed to be great. You can run data enrichment in your CRM with the Crunchbase data. Funding, mergers, and acquisitions data. Crunchbase has relationships with thousands of VC firms throughout the world and followup with each very regularly to be able to serve up the latest data to their users. Tech integrations. Integrations with tools like Bombora, Builtwith, Siftery, and others are really useful because you can use Crunchbase's company profile-based research method, and see the data from these tools specifically related to the given company. Incentivized Parker O'Very Marketing Operations Manager Read full review	Initial sync with CRM is relatively effortless Signal Data provided for each company is extremely valuable for targeting Great Customer success team Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Notifications - Something similar to TweetDeck would be nice, so that when news breaks it could be an immediate fact. Honestly dont add too much because you don't want it to become more of a social tool with cluttered info, keep it straight to the point. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I wish there was the ability to score/prioritize by different types of models (this would allow you prioritize different variations of account "profiles" vs. a catch-all score. There could be better contact data, but contact data is hard to come by (unless you're crawling linkedin/email signatures for the real deal). This isn't really a knock on Datafox, but I hope for a more robust API integration to other platforms that would benefit from account/contact data (Yesware, ChiliPiper, etc.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	In our experience, the customer service is horrible to non existent. If we were a fortune 100 company with a staff of computer people I am sure this would be a valuable service as they would "speak the language" but that is not us. Not being able to reach customer service when we are thinking about upgrading is, in my opinion, a crazy business model. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	They give standard answers. They are not a customer first business. I tried to cancel my subscription after using it for only 1 week as we found the information was outdated and not at all useful. But they would not cancel the year long subscription I mistakenly signed up for Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides emails on c-suite. Crunchbase however is an easier tool to use so if complicated segmentation is not required, Crunchabse is a great solution. It's also super fast to access and provides a succinct and easy to read profile view. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is an easy to use tool and the integration with Salesforce works well. Also, it was a real time-saver when it comes to looking for information about companies where you want to make a pitch, Incentivized ABRAHAM PABLO Commercial Account Executive Read full review
Return on Investment	Crunchbase has enabled my company to be more efficient in determining whether or not to conduct further diligence on companies. Tailoring searches for certain criteria has been helpful for aggregating competitors and companies of similar profiles. The software is not only powerful, but also affordable! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has no impact on my region because of the lack of information. Works only for the teams focused on big companies so SME teams don't benefit from it. It is a great tool to prioritize big accounts. Incentivized Mauricio Belmonte Mireles Commercial Account Executive Read full review
ScreenShots		DataFox (discontinued) Screenshots