BatchData Alternative — The Same 2¢, Without the $2,000 Floor

What is Ava Data?

Ava Data is a skip-tracing API and data-intelligence platform built for real-estate investors, agents, collections teams and developers. Every account includes the web dashboard, List Builder for quick-list property pulls, List Stacking, bulk CSV processing at up to 250,000 records per file, Digital Matching for ad-platform audience files, and the public REST API, which is enabled per account.

Pricing is per match. A phone-only Standard Search costs 1 credit ($0.02), phone plus email costs 2 credits ($0.04), and a Deep Search that adds the related-persons graph costs 10 credits ($0.20). Credits are charged per component and only when a match comes back. The $9/month plan includes 100 credits and covers API use. The identity graph behind the results refreshes every 24 hours, and the full request and response schema is published at /docs/ and as an OpenAPI document at /openapi.json.

What is BatchData?

BatchData is the developer-facing property-data and skip-tracing API in the BatchService family, alongside BatchLeads (the investor web app) and BatchSkipTracing. It is widely used as the data layer behind other real-estate software, which is why a BatchData subscription and a BatchLeads subscription are separate purchases with separate signups.

As published on batchdata.io in September 2026, BatchData sells skip tracing both as a monthly subscription and as a credit-based pay-as-you-go option. The subscription ladder starts at $2,000/month for up to 100,000 skip traces on its Growth tier and rises through $5,000/month for up to 300,000, a Scale tier at up to 750,000, and $20,000/month for up to 3,000,000 on Enterprise. Its documented skip trace returns multiple phone numbers identified as mobile or landline, email addresses and a most-recent mailing address, together with Do Not Call status, TCPA litigator flags and a confidence score, and it exposes a separate endpoint for scrubbing a list against DNC and litigator data.

BatchData's own pages describe a pay-as-you-go per-record rate at more than one figure, so no single per-record price is quoted here as theirs. Ask BatchData for the current pay-as-you-go rate in writing before budgeting against it — the subscription ladder above is the part its pricing page states consistently.

How Ava Data Knows the Numbers Are Good

There's a harder question than price: how do you know the numbers are good? Most skip tracing services never find out what happens after they hand you a phone number. Ava Data does — through partnerships with high-volume dialing networks placing over 100 million calls a month, Ava Data sees real connect signals and tests its data head-to-head against major data vendors. Every outcome gets scored: right-person connects, numbers that don't connect, wrong numbers. Those signals feed a custom ranking layer that orders every contact's phone numbers by real-world connect performance — so the number most likely to answer is first on your list.

These are aggregate network connect signals — no customer lists or uploaded records are ever shared, sold, or used.

Side-by-Side Comparison

How much does a skip trace cost on each platform?

The honest answer depends entirely on volume, and the crossover is worth stating plainly rather than hiding.

BatchData's Growth tier is $2,000/month for up to 100,000 traces. Used in full, that is 2¢ per trace — the same headline number Ava Data charges for a matched phone. The difference is what happens at every other volume:

• 5,000 records in a month. BatchData Growth is $2,000, because the tier is the tier — 40¢ per record at that usage. Ava Data is 5,000 matched phones at 2¢, so $100 at the very most, less every record that returns no match.
• A month you trace nothing. The subscription still bills. Ava Data bills $9 — the plan every account carries — and nothing else.
• 100,000 records a month, every month. This is where BatchData's ladder earns its structure. At full utilisation the unit prices converge, and BatchData is adding DNC and litigator data that Ava Data does not return at all. At steady volume that is a genuinely competitive package.

The durable part of that arithmetic is not a price, it is a shape: a tier charges for capacity, and per-match billing charges for results. Unused capacity never becomes savings, and a record that cannot be matched still consumes a trace against an allotment. Ava Data's skip-tracing cost guide compares the whole market on cost per usable number for the same reason.

What does BatchData return that Ava Data does not?

Do Not Call status and TCPA litigator flags. BatchData documents both as part of its skip-trace response and sells a separate scrub endpoint for checking a list against them. Ava Data's published API schema returns a phone number and its line type, and nothing else about that number — there is no DNC field and no litigator field in the OpenAPI document, so there is no version of this page in which Ava Data claims one.

That matters most for teams whose outbound is phone-first and whose compliance process expects the scrub to arrive with the data. If that is you, either BatchData or a dedicated scrub step in your own pipeline is the right answer, and Ava Data sits behind it rather than in place of it. Teams that already run a scrub — most collections operations and most dialer-driven shops do — are paying twice for it inside a bundled product.

When BatchData Is the Right Choice

BatchData is the right choice at steady, high volume with compliance fields in scope. If you trace six figures of records a month on a predictable cadence, a tier priced against that volume is a rational purchase, and the DNC and litigator data folded into the response is work you would otherwise buy separately. It is also the incumbent in this category, with a long list of software products built on top of it, which is its own kind of assurance for a team making a platform decision.

Ava Data is the better fit when volume is uneven, when the commitment is the obstacle rather than the rate, or when the same account has to serve both a dashboard user and a developer. One login, one credit balance, and a REST API billed at the same published per-match rates as the web app — a single lookup is a valid month.

Common Objections, Answered Honestly

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the cheapest BatchData alternative for skip tracing?

Ava Data charges 1 credit — 2¢ — per matched phone, 2 credits (4¢) for phone plus email, and 10 credits (20¢) for a Deep Search, on a $9/month plan, with no charge for a record that returns no match. BatchData's published skip-tracing subscriptions start at $2,000/month for up to 100,000 traces, so the two are close on unit price at full utilisation of that tier and far apart at any lower volume.

Does Ava Data's API return Do Not Call status like BatchData's?

No. Ava Data's published API schema returns a phone number and its line type. There is no Do Not Call field and no TCPA litigator flag in the OpenAPI document, and BatchData documents both. Teams that need a scrub run it as a separate step against whatever contact data they source.

Where does Ava Data's data come from?

Property and ownership attributes come from public records — county recorder and assessor filings and the other public sources that describe who owns what. Contact data comes from an identity graph that refreshes every 24 hours and resolves a person across address changes and name variants. Ava Data returns contact information for outreach; under the Fair Credit Reporting Act it may be used to locate someone, never to decide their eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or tenancy.

Can I use Ava Data with a list I already trace through BatchData?

Yes. Export the list as a CSV and upload it to Bulk Skip Tracing, up to 250,000 records per file, or send the same fields to the REST API. The enriched file comes back with your original columns plus appended phones and emails, up to 35 export columns, charged per match rather than per row — which makes running the same list through both providers a cheap way to compare them directly.

Is BatchData the same company as BatchLeads?

They are sibling products under BatchService, not one product. BatchData is the developer-facing API and BatchLeads is the investor web app, and each has its own signup and pricing — a BatchLeads subscription does not include BatchData API access. PropStream, a Stewart Information Services company, acquired BatchLeads in July 2025. Ava Data's API is not a second product: it is the same account, login and credit balance as the dashboard.

Further reading: Skip Tracing API · Contact Enrichment API · API Reference · Bulk Skip Tracing · Batch Skip Tracing · BatchLeads Alternative · Skip Tracing Cost Guide · List Builder Quick-Lists