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Best cached company hierarchy API in 2026

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DiscoLike, Bigdata.com and SEC API are the best cached company hierarchy API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 3 providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan and each part of the plan's score. We rank 17 plans by price. The cheapest plan is DiscoLike, $399 monthly, at $2.50 per 1,000 companies.

  1. #1 DiscoLike: Cached company hierarchy API

    DiscoLike, $399 monthly

    It returns 2 of the 3 key fields we check: Parent, Family tree.

    Overall score
    76.6
    $ per 1,000
    $2.50
    Price score
    88
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 17
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 companies than this plan: 0
    Data score
    84
    Cost to get started score
    53
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $399
    Bundle score
    91
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Discover endpoint · BizData endpoint · Append endpoint · Match endpoint · Contacts endpoint and 5 more
    Performance score
    13
    • This call's median time on 27 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.788 s
    • SEC API, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 companies in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 1 out of 1 on those 20 companies. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.84 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 84 out of 100.

  2. #2 Bigdata.com: Cached company hierarchy API

    Bigdata.com, $50 monthly

    It returns all 3 key fields we check: Company, Parent, Family tree.

    Overall score
    62.5
    Price score
    72
    • $ per 1,000 companies: none. The provider's pages give this plan's price, but not how many companies it pays for.
    • Our benchmark paid per company: $0.0055 a company, the lookup's 250 tokens whether or not it finds the company, and 1 token more, under $0.00003, for its subsidiaries when they come back
    • Price we use to rank this plan: $5.50 per 1,000 companies
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 17
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 companies than this plan: 3
    Data score
    45
    Cost to get started score
    78
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $50
    Bundle score
    93
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Search Service · Research Agent · Workflows API · Private Company Overview · Private Company People and 8 more
    Performance score
    49
    • This call's median time on 26 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.204 s
    • SEC API, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • On 26 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 companies in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.6667 out of 1 on those 20 companies. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.45 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 45 out of 100.

  3. #3 SEC API: Cached company hierarchy API

    SEC API, $239 monthly

    It returns 2 of the 3 key fields we check: Parent, Family tree.

    Overall score
    24.1
    Price score
    0
    • $ per 1,000 companies: none. The provider's pages give this plan's price, but not how many companies it pays for.
    • $ per 1,000 companies the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    Data score
    3
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $239
    Bundle score
    86
    • Also pays for: Query API: 40 per second per API key · Full-Text Search API: 20 per second per API key and 4 more
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 28 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.088 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • SEC API, the fastest benchmarked provider: under 0.1 s, counted as 0.1 s
    • We scored this provider on 6 of the 20 companies in our benchmark. We sent it those 6 on 28 October 2026.
    • We scored this plan 0.1667 out of 1 on those 6 companies. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.03 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 3 out of 100.

The Data score on cached company hierarchy APIs

Out of 100: the share of companies the call returned a hierarchy for. A hierarchy means the provider found the company at its domain and listed at least one other company of its group. We score a company only if its LinkedIn page links to another company of its group, like a parent or a subsidiary. Some company pages link only to their own brand pages. Pages on the company's own website, like an office page or a program page, count as brand pages too. Those companies may have no group, so we leave them out. We don't check the companies the provider lists. Only the provider knows how big a group is. A provider we called more than once on the same company is scored on all those calls, so no one run decides it. Each provider here answers from a copy it keeps. We then lower the score to the lowest score we are 95% sure the call earns. We lower the score more when we test fewer companies.

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