# Best people search API in 2026

> 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.

1. [Context.dev, $90 monthly: People search API](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/90-monthly): Overall score 76.6 (Price 78, Data 66, Cost to get started 74, Bundle 94, Performance 100), $0.90 per 1,000 people
   - It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Location.
   - 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. [Voila Norbert, $499 monthly: People search API](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/voila-norbert/499-monthly): Overall score 44.2 (Price 59, Data 30, Cost to get started 62, Bundle 67, Performance 2), $9.98 per 1,000 people
   - It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Photo.
   - 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. [Anymail Finder, $499 monthly: People search API](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anymail-finder/499-monthly): Overall score 33.4 (Price 44, Data 8, Cost to get started 62, Bundle 88, Performance 11), $19.96 per 1,000 people
   - It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience.
   - 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.

Last updated: October 25, 2026. The page: https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api. Every plan: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-api-pricing. The benchmark: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-api-pricing/benchmark.csv.