Clearbit Alternative

Life after Clearbit.

Clearbit stopped selling to new customers after the HubSpot acquisition, and its free APIs went dark through 2025. If what you liked about it was good data behind a clean API, that's the part PeopleDB kept alive: identifier in, verified contact record out, key in minutes.

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What happened to Clearbit

The short timeline: HubSpot announced the acquisition in November 2023 and closed it that December. Breeze Intelligence, built on Clearbit's dataset, launched at INBOUND in September 2024. The free Clearbit platform, Connect, and the Slack integration were discontinued in April 2025. The free Logo API followed in December 2025, with Clearbit's own changelog pointing people to Logo.dev. Today clearbit.com is an acquisition banner and a customer login link, and the API docs redirect to a login page.

None of this makes the data bad. It makes the product conditional: Clearbit's capabilities now live inside HubSpot subscriptions. If you're a HubSpot shop, that may be fine. If you wanted a standalone API, the door is closed, and the full landscape of replacements is in our seven-vendor round-up. This page covers the piece PeopleDB replaces: person enrichment.

Clearbit then, PeopleDB now

	Clearbit / Breeze	PeopleDB
Available to new customers	Only inside HubSpot subscriptions	Yes, self-serve
Standalone API	Closed; docs behind login	Public docs, key in minutes
Person enrichment	Via HubSpot	Yes, by LinkedIn or GitHub identifier
Company enrichment	Yes, inside HubSpot	No
Visitor deanonymization	Yes (Breeze)	No
Logo API	Sunset December 2025	No (Clearbit suggests Logo.dev)
Pricing	HubSpot subscription + credits	Per lookup, published: 15¢ down to 6¢
Credits	Platform allowances	Never expire
Free tier	Free tools discontinued 2025	10 credits, no card

Clearbit status verified from clearbit.com, its changelog, and HubSpot's public pages on August 27, 2026.

When PeopleDB is the right replacement

You used Clearbit for person enrichment over HTTP

That workflow maps one-to-one: an identifier goes in, a contact record comes out, from code, with published pricing. No CRM adoption required to get an API key.

You don't want your data vendor to require a platform

The lesson of the sunset is that bundled tools follow the bundle's strategy. PeopleDB's whole product is the endpoint, priced per lookup, so there is no platform for it to be absorbed into.

Your identifiers are LinkedIn profiles or GitHub logins

Clearbit's person lookup keyed on email. PeopleDB starts one step earlier: from the LinkedIn or GitHub identifier you already have, including GitHub logins, which are their own hard problem, and returns emails rather than requiring one.

When Breeze inside HubSpot is the answer

If your company already runs on HubSpot, Breeze Intelligence enriching records natively inside the CRM is genuinely convenient, and no external API will beat data appearing where your team already works. The same goes for company-level enrichment and visitor deanonymization, which PeopleDB simply doesn't do. This page is for the other cohort: the people who used Clearbit as infrastructure rather than as a CRM feature.

The API

GET /api/v1/people

curl "https://peopledb.co/api/v1/people?linkedin_public_identifier=dhh" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

// ←
{
  "linkedin_public_identifier": "dhh",
  "github_login": "dhh",
  "email_addresses": ["david@hey.com", "dhh@basecamp.com"],
  "personal_email_addresses": ["david@hey.com"],
  "work_email_addresses": ["dhh@basecamp.com"],
  "phone_numbers": []
}

Common questions

Can I still buy Clearbit?

Not as a standalone product. HubSpot acquired it in December 2023 and folded the data into Breeze Intelligence; as of August 2026, clearbit.com is an acquisition banner with a login link, and the capabilities live inside HubSpot subscriptions.

What happened to the Clearbit API and the logo API?

The API docs now sit behind a login. The free platform and Connect were discontinued in April 2025, and the free Logo API was sunset in December 2025, with Clearbit's changelog pointing to Logo.dev as the replacement.

Does PeopleDB replace all of Clearbit?

No. Clearbit was several products. PeopleDB replaces the person-enrichment piece: identifier in, verified contact record out. For company enrichment, visitor deanonymization, and logos, other tools fit; the round-up linked below maps them.

How does the pricing model compare?

Clearbit sold subscriptions, and its successor is bundled into HubSpot plans with credit packs. PeopleDB is prepaid per lookup: 15¢ at the smallest tier down to 6¢ at volume, charged only on a hit, credits never expiring.

Pricing

100 credits — $15 (15¢ / lookup)

500 credits — $60 (12¢ / lookup)

2,000 credits — $200 (10¢ / lookup)

10,000 credits — $750 (7.5¢ / lookup)

50,000 credits — $3,000 (6¢ / lookup)

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