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Best people search API in 2026

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We benchmarked 4 people search API providers. We list the three we score highest. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 people cost.

Best cached people search API in 2026

  1. #1 Context.dev: People search API

    Context.dev, $90 monthly

    It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Location.

    Overall score
    76.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.90
    Price score
    78
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 141
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 36
    Data score
    66
    Cost to get started score
    74
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $90
    Bundle score
    94
    • Also pays for: Logo Link · Search Brands
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Scrape · Map URLs · Crawl Website · Search Web · Answers · Search Companies · Retrieve Brand and 6 more
    Performance score
    100
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 24 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.657 s
    • Context.dev, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.657 s
    • In our benchmark of 24 October 2026, we called this provider on all 20 of our companies.
    • We scored this plan 0.66 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 66.

  2. #2 Voila Norbert: People search API

    Voila Norbert, $499 monthly

    It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Photo.

    Overall score
    44.2
    $ per 1,000
    $9.98
    Price score
    59
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 141
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 66
    Data score
    30
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $499
    Bundle score
    67
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: POST /search/name · POST /massives/
    Performance score
    2
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 21 October 2026, minus the baseline: 30.821 s
    • Context.dev, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.657 s
    • In our benchmark of 21 October 2026, we scored this provider on 1 of our 20 companies.
    • We scored this plan 0.3 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 30.

  3. #3 Anymail Finder: People search API

    Anymail Finder, $499 monthly

    It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience.

    Overall score
    33.4
    $ per 1,000
    $19.96
    Price score
    44
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 141
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 90
    Data score
    8
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $499
    Bundle score
    88
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Find Email by LinkedIn URL · Find Company Emails · Find Person Email · Verify Email and 3 more
    Performance score
    11
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 24 and 25 October 2026, minus the baseline: 5.94 s
    • Context.dev, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.657 s
    • In our benchmark of 24 and 25 October 2026, we called this provider on all 20 of our companies.
    • We scored this plan 0.0754 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 8.

The Data score on people search APIs

Out of 100: the share of requested people the call returned who work at the company now, by their LinkedIn profile. We asked for 10 people at each company. A provider called on fewer companies is set against how the others did on those same companies, so an easier few don't lift it. A provider we called more than once on the same company is scored on all those calls, so no one run decides it.

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