# Autobound, free: Cached company discovery API

> Discover distinct companies that have one or more signals matching the filter, sorted by most-recent signal.

Autobound's cached company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/free
- Get it: https://www.autobound.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchcompanies
- Sold by: Autobound (https://www.autobound.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: 10,100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /v1/companies/enrich · POST /v1/contacts/enrich · POST /v1/contacts/search · POST /v1/buyer-intent/companies · POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts · POST /v1/buyer-intent/export

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover distinct companies that have one or more signals matching the filter, sorted by most-recent signal.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: license to access and use the Services solely for Customer’s internal business purposes during the term of this Agreement [...] Customer shall retain a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, copy, and distribute any Reports generated through the Services prior to the date of termination or expiration, solely for Customer’s internal business purposes
- Use data: Company hereby grants Customer a non-exclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and use the Services solely for Customer’s internal business purposes during the term of this Agreement. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, or underlying structure of the Services or any component thereof, Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based upon the Services, Resell, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, distribute, or otherwise make the Services available to any third party, except as expressly authorized in writing by Company, Remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices, labels, or markings on or in the Services, Use the Services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Company’s servers, networks, or infrastructure.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 results, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: signal_types. Optional: signal_subtype, signal_subtypes, detected_after, detected_before, limit (1 to 100), offset, signals_per_entity, company_domains, company_domain, industries, employee_count_min, employee_count_max, revenue_min, revenue_max, content_filters.keywords, content_filters.tech_mentioned, content_filters.competitors_mentioned, content_filters.pain_points, content_filters.initiatives
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no credit card required

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, name, domain, LinkedIn URL, description, founded year, industries, industry confidence, is B2B, is B2C, employee count minimum, employee count maximum, employee count confidence, employees on LinkedIn, revenue, revenue confidence, headquarters city, headquarters state, headquarters country, signal count, most recent signal at, offset, limit, has more, hint, notice, warnings, filters applied, suggestion, data freshness, freshness suggestion

## Autobound's plans (10)

- [Autobound, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/19-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/49-pack/llms.txt): $18.002 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $149 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/149-pack/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/499-pack/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $1,299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/1299-pack/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $4,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/4999-pack/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $10,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/10000-pack/llms.txt): $7.692 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, $40,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/40000-pack/llms.txt): $6.957 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Autobound, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/contact-us/llms.txt): 54% complete, 1 month

## Autobound's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/companies/search`: [Autobound, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)

## Autobound's APIs (11)

- [Autobound: cached company enrichment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached company funding API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-funding-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: person enrichment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached LinkedIn company post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-company-post-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: LinkedIn person comment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached LinkedIn person post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-person-post-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: LinkedIn person reaction API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached leadership change API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/autobound/free-free-post-v1-companies-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached leadership change API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/autobound/free-free-post-v1-contacts-search/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: company discovery API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/autobound/free-free-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/autobound/free-free-post-v1-contacts-search/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: cached company discovery API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)

## Autobound: cached company discovery API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/company_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-company-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 30 days
- [Lusha, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/lusha/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 week
- [Bloomberry, free, API key, GET /accounts/tech.json](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/bloomberry/free-api-key-get-accounts-tech-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 14 days
- [People Data Labs, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/people-data-labs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

- https://autobound-api.readme.io/changelog/richer-company-and-contact-data-on-enrich-plus-live-linkedin-posts
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/docs/company-data
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/docs/credits
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchbuyerintentcompanies
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchcompanies
- https://www.autobound.ai/apis/company-enrichment-api
- https://www.autobound.ai/apis/contact-enrichment-api
- https://www.autobound.ai/master-services-agreement
- https://www.autobound.ai/pricing