TheirStack vs Trigify
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentTheirStack compared with Trigify
Trigify listens to public social and community activity for person-level signals such as a job change or a competitor complaint, from $40 a month. TheirStack reads institutional signals from job postings at the company level. Trigify gives you a named human with a reason to reach out; TheirStack gives you a qualified account and the technical reason it fits. The two combine well and neither substitutes for the other.
Choose TheirStack if
Vendors selling back-office, infrastructure, or developer software whose product never appears on a customer's website, recruiters and staffing firms who need hiring signal at scale, and technical GTM operators who would rather hit an API or an MCP server than click through a dashboard.
Choose Trigify if
Founder-led and small sales teams selling into markets where buyers are visibly active on LinkedIn, X, or Reddit, agencies running signal-based outbound for several clients at once, and technical GTM operators who want signals available through an API or MCP rather than trapped in a vendor dashboard.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | TheirStack | Trigify |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Signals | Signals |
| Starting price | Free tier on signup, then $49 per month for 1,500 credits or $109 once for 1,000 credits (free plan available) | $40 per month (Starter) (14 days trial) |
| Pricing model | Credit-based, sold either as a monthly subscription or as one-time packs with no subscription; unlimited team members and no per-seat charge. | Self-serve credit-based subscription with per-plan caps on listening searches, workflows, and seats, plus published per-credit overage. |
| Free plan | Free credits on signup with access to job search, company search, company lookup, enrichment, exports, and email alerts, at low volume. | No |
| Free trial | Not a time-limited trial; a free credit allowance is included on signup | 14 days on all self-serve plans |
| Best for | Vendors selling back-office, infrastructure, or developer software whose product never appears on a customer's website, recruiters and staffing firms who need hiring signal at scale, and technical GTM operators who would rather hit an API or an MCP server than click through a dashboard. | Founder-led and small sales teams selling into markets where buyers are visibly active on LinkedIn, X, or Reddit, agencies running signal-based outbound for several clients at once, and technical GTM operators who want signals available through an API or MCP rather than trapped in a vendor dashboard. |
| Setup time | Twenty minutes to a first list. Sign up, spend free credits on a query against your best-guess ICP, and read the source postings to see whether the extraction is catching what you expected. API integration is another afternoon. | An afternoon. Create an account, define one listening search against a competitor's post or a topic, connect Slack, and run a historical backfill. Getting a workflow with sensible ICP filters into production is more like a week of iteration. |
| Learning curve | Low for the app, moderate for the judgement. The filters are straightforward; the skill is learning which technology mentions actually indicate ownership rather than aspiration, and building filters that exclude recruitment agency postings. | Moderate, and the difficulty is judgement rather than software. Building searches is easy; deciding which engagement actually indicates intent, and resisting the urge to sequence everyone the tool finds, is the skill that determines whether the tool works. |
| Platforms | Web application, REST APIs for jobs, companies, technographics, and buying intents, MCP servers, CSV export | Web application, REST API, Command line interface, MCP server, Chrome-based workflows via integrations |
| Compliance | Job posting data is published business information rather than personal data, which keeps privacy exposure low, No publicly advertised SOC 2 attestation | GDPR obligations apply to enriched personal data, No publicly advertised SOC 2 attestation |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain | Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| Ownership | Privately held | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
TheirStack
Strengths
- The job posting source sees software that no website crawler ever will, which makes TheirStack the only practical technographic option for back-office, data, and infrastructure vendors.
- Every extracted signal links back to the source posting, so claims are verifiable rather than a black box, and a rep can quote the actual requirement on a call.
- Ingestion of roughly 300,000 postings a day means the freshness ceiling is about a day, far better than the weekly or opportunistic crawls elsewhere in this category.
- The API is included in the same credit balance as the app rather than priced separately, and MCP servers are available, which is a genuinely developer-friendly posture at this price.
Limitations
- Everything is inference. A technology mentioned in a posting is strong evidence, not proof, and companies routinely list tools they are migrating away from, tools a single team uses, and tools copied from a stale template.
- Companies that do not advertise roles publicly are effectively absent, which skews coverage toward larger and faster-growing organisations and away from small established businesses.
- Recruitment agency postings are a persistent noise source: the hiring company in the record may be the agency rather than the end employer, and filtering that out takes deliberate work.
- No storefront or consumer-web technographics, so ecommerce app vendors get nothing useful here.
Trigify
Strengths
- Person-level social and community signals with a name attached, which is a fundamentally warmer starting point than an anonymous account-level intent score.
- A $40 entry price in a category where the established players start at thousands of dollars a month, which is the difference between a startup running a signal motion and not running one.
- Historical replay and backtesting let you start with a year of accumulated signals rather than waiting for new activity, so time to first value is days rather than a quarter.
- The API, CLI, and MCP server are unusual at this price and make Trigify usable as a data source inside a custom stack rather than only as an app.
Limitations
- The signal is only as good as your market's public behaviour, and entire industries are effectively invisible to it.
- A like or comment is a weak intent signal on its own, and the volume Trigify can produce makes it easy to build a high-volume, low-relevance outbound motion if you skip the filtering work.
- Public social platforms change their access rules regularly, which is a structural risk for any vendor whose core dataset is scraped from them.
- No website visitor identification, no product usage ingestion, and no third-party intent feed, so it covers one slice of the signal landscape rather than the whole picture.
Pricing compared
TheirStack
Credit-based, sold either as a monthly subscription or as one-time packs with no subscription; unlimited team members and no per-seat charge.
- Free$0
- Monthly API subscription, entry$49
- Monthly API subscription, mid$169
- Monthly API subscription, high volume$400
- One-time credit packs$109
Model it at two volumes. A founder validating a market buys the $109 one-time pack, pulls 1,000 company records with their inferred stacks, and never pays again; at roughly 11 cents a record that is cheap for data nobody else has. A vendor running continuous outbound sits on the $169 monthly plan for 10,000 credits, or around 1.7 cents a credit, and pulls a few thousand qualified companies a month with the API doing the work. At $400 for 50,000 the unit cost falls under a cent. The pricing is the most honest in the category: no seats, no separate API bill, no annual lock-in, and a free tier that actually lets you check whether your buyers appear in job ads before you spend anything.
Trigify
Self-serve credit-based subscription with per-plan caps on listening searches, workflows, and seats, plus published per-credit overage.
- Starter$40
- Max$199
- EnterpriseCustom
Trigify is the cheapest credible way to run a signal-based motion, and the gap is not small. Starter at $40 a month buys person-level social signals, job change detection, enrichment, and workflow routing in a category where the recognised leaders start at $2,500 a month and $40,000 a year. Max at $199 with 40,000 credits and full API, CLI, and MCP access is arguably underpriced for what a technical team can build on top of it. The value case breaks only if your buyers are not publicly active, in which case no amount of cheap listening produces anything worth acting on. Judged against tools that own the same signal type, this is the best capability per dollar available to a small business.
Editorial verdict on each
TheirStack
TheirStack is the best-priced serious signal tool in this category and the only sensible option if the software you sell lives somewhere a crawler cannot reach. Reading job ads rather than websites is not a clever workaround, it is a structurally better view of a company's internal stack, and 300,000 new postings a day gives it a freshness advantage that weekly-crawl vendors cannot close. Buy the $109 one-time pack first and check whether your buyers actually post job ads, because if they do not, nothing else about the product matters. If they do, the $169 monthly plan with unlimited seats and the API included is a genuinely cheap foundation for an account-selection motion. Just build the verification habit early: this is inference, every record links to the posting it came from, and the teams that read the source before dialling get very different results from the ones that trust the label.
Read the full TheirStack profileTrigify
Trigify is the entry point to signal-based selling for companies that cannot spend $40,000 a year to find out whether signal-based selling works for them. It owns one signal type properly, public person-level social and community activity plus the job change and hiring events that surface there, and it delivers those signals all the way into a CRM, a Slack channel, or an AI agent rather than stopping at a dashboard. Buy it if your buyers post in public and you have the discipline to filter aggressively before you enrich. Do not buy it if your market is quiet online, if your best signal is on your own website or inside your product, or if you need a vendor that will pass an enterprise security review. At $40 a month with a 14-day trial, the cost of finding out is close to nothing, which is exactly the right shape for a small business testing a new motion.
Read the full Trigify profileTheirStack profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Trigify last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.