# Best cached similar companies API in 2026

> We benchmarked 4 cached similar companies API providers. We list the three we score highest. For each one, we show its top scoring plan and each part of the plan's score. We rank 50 plans by price. The cheapest plan is [Tomba, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-company-apis/tomba/pay-as-you-go), at $0.125 per 1,000 companies.

1. [Extruct, $149 monthly, Pro: Cached similar companies API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-company-apis/extruct/149-monthly-pro-post-v1-companies-company-identifier-similar): Overall score 50.1 (Price 81, Data 17, Cost to get started 70, Bundle 83, Performance 9), $0.298 per 1,000 companies
   - It returns 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Match, Description, Industry and type, Employees, Headquarters, Domain.
   - We scored this provider on 3 of the 20 companies in our benchmark. We sent it those 3 on 25 October 2026.
   - We scored this plan 0.1667 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 17.
2. [The Companies API, $295 monthly: Cached similar companies API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-company-apis/the-companies-api/295-monthly): Overall score 38.8 (Price 65, Data 2, Cost to get started 66, Bundle 90, Performance 3), $1.18 per 1,000 companies
   - It returns 12 of the 13 key fields we check: Match, Description, Industry and type, Images, Technologies, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Revenue, Domain, Followers, Contact.
   - We scored this provider on 5 of the 20 companies in our benchmark. We sent it those 5 on 27 October 2026.
   - We scored this plan 0.0204 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 2.
3. [Skrapp, $349 monthly, Enterprise 50K: Cached similar companies API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-company-apis/skrapp/349-monthly-enterprise-50k-get-api-v3-companies-enrich): Overall score 38.2 (Price 13, Data 30, Cost to get started 64, Bundle 88, Performance 100)
   - It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Match, Domain.
   - On 25 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 companies in our benchmark.
   - We scored this plan 0.295 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 30.

The Data score on cached similar companies APIs: Out of 100: the share of 10 similar companies per company that the call returned in the same industry as the company we gave, by each one's LinkedIn page. A call that takes no count is held to the same 10. Each provider here answers from a copy it keeps.

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