# Best cached company headcount API in 2026

> 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](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly), at $0.10 per 1,000 companies.

1. [Pipecorn, $399 monthly, Grow, 27,000 credits a month: Cached company headcount API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-apis/pipecorn/399-monthly-grow-27000-credits-a-month-post-accounts-headcount): Overall score 78.0 (Price 90, Data 80, Cost to get started 63, Bundle 95, Performance 20), $14.778 per 1,000 companies
   - It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, By department.
   - 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. [Skrapp, $349 monthly, Enterprise 50K: Cached company headcount API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-apis/skrapp/349-monthly-enterprise-50k-get-api-v3-companies-enrich): Overall score 76.8 (Price 63, Data 85, Cost to get started 64, Bundle 88, Performance 100), $20.94 per 1,000 companies
   - It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, Company.
   - 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. [The Swarm, $500 monthly: Cached company headcount API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/500-monthly): Overall score 73.4 (Price 94, Data 45, Cost to get started 62, Bundle 90, Performance 100), $10.00 per 1,000 companies
   - It returns 2 of the 5 key fields we check: Total, Company.
   - 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.

Last updated: October 27, 2026. The page: https://datacircle.dev/best-cached-company-headcount-api. Every plan: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-api-pricing. The benchmark: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-api-pricing/benchmark.csv.