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Bigdata.com pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API

Bigdata.com's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026
31% complete: 4 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 303 plans we rank by price is Deepline, top-up, at no cost per call.
Plan: Starter one of Bigdata.com's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/knowledge-graph/companies Bigdata.com's only call for this API
API: Cached company discovery API one of Bigdata.com's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get companies from Bigdata.com's database. Bigdata.com doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 4 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Headquarters.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/knowledge-graph/companies. You send at least one of query, types, countries or sectors. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Bigdata.com: cached company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

This planBigdata.com, freeGetProspect, freeHunter, free, Free, POST /discoverAnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/company_search.prospeograph8, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness31%62%54%85%69%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishedno limitno limitabout 1 page, onceno limit
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card requiredanyone 16 or overanyone 18 or overone new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listverified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposes

Every cached company discovery API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. bigdata.com/developers
  2. bigdata.com/pricing
  3. bigdata.com/terms-and-conditions
  4. docs.bigdata.com/api-reference/companies/find-by-details.md
  5. docs.bigdata.com/api-rest/rate_limits.md
  6. docs.bigdata.com/getting-started/bigdata_pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Industry
  • Type and status
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees, not in the answer
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search Service · Research Agent · Workflows API · Private Company Overview · Private Company People · Company Profile · Find by details (POST /v1/knowledge-graph/people) · Private Company Funding Rounds · Get Subsidiaries · Get by CUSIP · Get by ISIN · Get by Listing · Get by SEDOL
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBigdata.com Knowledge Graph tracks over 7 million companies worldwide. Use this endpoint to search by name, website, ticker, or other market identifiers. Refine your results with filters such as company type, country, or sector.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep data4.2 Grounding Right [...] 3. What you may not do. You may not (a) store, cache, retain, or archive the underlying Bigdata Content itself beyond the moment of Consumption [...] 6. Survival of derivative works. Your right to retain and use derivative output you have already lawfully created under a Grounding Right survives termination of your account, but no new Grounding Rights may be exercised after termination. [...] 7. Term [...] 4. Effect of Termination. Upon termination, you will immediately cease to access Bigdata.com and use its Services, cease exercising any further Grounding Rights, and delete (or return, at our sole discretion) any and all copies of Bigdata Content stored in violation of Section 4.
Use data4.1 Grant of Service License Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service, Bigdata.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and not-sublicensable license to use the Services (the Chatbot, the website, the API, and the MCP server). 4.2 Grounding Right [...] 2. What you may do. Under a Grounding Right, you may (a) use Bigdata Content and/or Files to ground a single inference, and (b) retain and keep the derivative output that the Chatbot or your Connected Model produces from that inference. 3. What you may not do. You may not (a) store, cache, retain, or archive the underlying Bigdata Content itself beyond the moment of Consumption, (b) redistribute the underlying Bigdata Content to any third party, (c) treat the Grounding Right as perpetual: each Consumption is a new, separate, one-time right and confers no standing or ongoing license to the underlying Bigdata Content, or (d) use Bigdata Content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any AI or machine-learning model. [...] 4.5 Restrictions You shall not, whether directly, through the Chatbot, through the API, or through a Connected Model: 1. use the Services in a manner that infringes the laws of your country or geographical location, 2. use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person or company, 3. disassemble, decipher, reconfigure, reverse engineer, decompile, alter, or reproduce the Services, or make derivatives or improvements to any software programs provided by Bigdata.com, 4. combine or integrate the Services with any software, technology, services, or materials not authorized by Bigdata.com, 5. rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available Bigdata.com, or any Bigdata Content, in whole or in part, 6. use the Services or Bigdata Content to create, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve any new or existing AI, machine-learning, or software model that you or third parties might offer, except by written confirmation from us, 7. systematically download, scrape, harvest, or extract Bigdata Content, whether via the Chatbot, the website, the API, or a Connected Model, 8. copy, store, archive, cache, or create a database of Bigdata Content, in whole or in part, beyond what is expressly permitted for a Grounding Right under Section 4.2, 9. use Searches or Responses to develop models, products, or services that compete with Bigdata.com, 10. claim that a Response was human-generated, 11. upload to Bigdata.com any Personal Information that violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enacted by the European Union, or the applicable privacy and data protection law of your location, 12. connect a Connected Model to Bigdata.com via MCP that does not operate under Zero Data Retention, or misrepresent a Connected Model's ZDR configuration. 4.6 Third-Party Services You shall not use Bigdata.com as part of any third-party service, software, platform, or product without express authorization from Bigdata.com. This restriction applies equally to connecting Bigdata.com to a Connected Model that you make available, directly or indirectly, to any third party.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$10
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.22 s
The call
You sendat least one of query, types, countries or sectors
MethodPOST
Path/v1/knowledge-graph/companies
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card required
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity ID, name, description, company type, country, sector, industry group, industry, favicon, website, ISIN values, CUSIP values, SEDOL values, listing identifiers, ticker

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