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Best cached company headcount API in 2026

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We benchmarked 3 cached company headcount API providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 companies cost. We rank 43 plans by price. The cheapest plan is BlitzAPI, $499 monthly, at $0.10 per 1,000 companies.

  1. #1 Pipecorn: Cached company headcount API

    Pipecorn, $399 monthly, Grow, 27,000 credits a month

    It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, By department.

    Overall score
    78.0
    $ per 1,000
    $14.78
    Price score
    90
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 companies than this plan: 5
    Data score
    80
    Cost to get started score
    63
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $399
    Bundle score
    95
    • Also pays for: Search leads by filters · Search leads by filters, from the Pipecorn people database and 4 more
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Asynchronous Single Contact Enrichment · Synchronous Single Contact Enrichment · Enrich people and 12 more
    Performance score
    20
    • This call's median time on 27 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.505 s
    • The Swarm, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 companies as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.8 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 80.

  2. #2 Skrapp: Cached company headcount API

    Skrapp, $349 monthly, Enterprise 50K

    It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, Company.

    Overall score
    76.8
    $ per 1,000
    $20.94
    Price score
    63
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 companies than this plan: 18
    Data score
    85
    Cost to get started score
    64
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $349
    Bundle score
    88
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Email Finder · Bulk Email Finder · Email Verifier · Bulk Email Verifier · Company bulk enrich and 2 more
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 25 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.023 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • The Swarm, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • On 25 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 companies as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.85 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 85.

  3. #3 The Swarm: Cached company headcount API

    The Swarm, $500 monthly

    It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, Company.

    Overall score
    73.4
    $ per 1,000
    $10.00
    Price score
    94
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 43
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 companies than this plan: 3
    Data score
    45
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    90
    • Also pays for: Search Profiles · Search Companies · Relationships · Add Connector
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Fetch Profile · Refresh a Profile · Get Profile/Company Posts · Get Comments / Reactions / Reshares and 1 more
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 20 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.005 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • The Swarm, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • On 20 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 companies as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.45 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 45.

The Data score on cached company headcount APIs

Out of 100: the share of companies for which the call returned the number of people who work there that the company's own LinkedIn page shows, within 10%. Each provider here answers from a copy it keeps.

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