# Best similar people API in 2026

> [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly), [DiscoLike](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/discolike/399-monthly) and [Anysite](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/anysite/300-monthly) are the best cached similar people API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 4 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. We rank 15 plans by price. The cheapest of the 15 plans is [Kooperativa, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/kooperativa/499-monthly), at $0.00023 per 1,000 people. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan covers up to 21,600,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 people. [Reverse Contact, $449 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly), covers any number of people. Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan costs less to start than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.

1. [Reverse Contact, $449 monthly: Cached similar people API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly): Overall score 58.4 (Price 100, Data 14, Cost to get started 62, Bundle 86, Performance 38), $0 extra per 1,000. The $449 monthly price covers any number of people.
   - It returns all 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Recommendations, Open to work.
   - On 26 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 people as every other provider in our benchmark.
   - This plan scored 0.1421 out of 1 on those 20 people. That gives this plan a Data score of 14 out of 100.
2. [DiscoLike, $399 monthly: Cached similar people API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/discolike/399-monthly): Overall score 44.7 (Price 47, Data 15, Cost to get started 53, Bundle 92, Performance 100), $2.50 per 1,000 people
   - It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Skills, About, Location, Connections.
   - On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 people as every other provider in our benchmark.
   - This plan scored 0.148 out of 1 on those 20 people. That gives this plan a Data score of 15 out of 100.
3. [Anysite, $300 monthly: Cached similar people API](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/anysite/300-monthly): Overall score 40.1 (Price 64, Data 1, Cost to get started 65, Bundle 100, Performance 15), $1.579 per 1,000 people
   - It returns 12 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
   - On 25 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 people as every other provider in our benchmark.
   - This plan scored 0.0113 out of 1 on those 20 people. That gives this plan a Data score of 1 out of 100.

We don't rank 1 other provider we benchmarked: [Ocean.io](https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-apis/ocean-io/3000-yearly). Each Ocean.io plan is free, billed yearly, over $500 to start or priced on request. We don't score these plans.

The Data score on cached similar people APIs: Out of 100. For each person we sent, we asked the call for 10 similar people. The score is the share of them whose LinkedIn profile shows the same industry as the person we sent. We leave out the people whose industry we couldn't find. Each provider here answers from its own copy of profile data. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer people than the benchmark has.

Last updated: October 29, 2026. The page: https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-people-api. Every plan: https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-api-pricing. The benchmark: https://datacircle.dev/cached-similar-people-api-pricing/benchmark.csv.