# Crustdata, free, $20 free credits, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full: Cached company discovery API

> Search the Crustdata company database using structured filters, a natural-language query, or both.

Crustdata's cached company discovery API on its $20 free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 10 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Revenue and budgets.
The cheapest of the 280 plans we rank by price is [Deepline, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/deepline/top-up/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies-full
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crustdata.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/company-apis/search-companies-with-indexed-fields-only
- Sold by: Crustdata (https://crustdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: People enrich (/person/enrich) · People search (/person/search) · People identify (/person/identify) · Person verify (/batch/person/verify) · Company enrich (/company/enrich) · Job search (/job/search) · Web search (/web/search/live) · Web fetch (/web/enrich/live) · Social post search (/social_post/search) · People search watcher (/watch/person/search) · Job search watcher (/watch/job/search) · Social post search watcher (/watch/social_post/search) · Person watcher (/watch/person) · Company watcher (/watch/company)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the Crustdata company database using structured filters, a natural-language query, or both.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of filters or search, and x-api-version header "2025-11-01", and fields "taxonomy, followers, headcount, funding, hiring, software_reviews". Optional: sorts, limit, cursor, search.mode
- Method: POST
- Path: /company/search

## About the plan

- Plan: $20 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 72 fields the plan's answer can hold

Crustdata company ID, company name, primary domain, all domains, website, profile URL, profile ID, profile name, logo, description, company type, status, year founded, employee count range, markets, estimated revenue lower bound, estimated revenue upper bound, IPO date, stock symbols, fiscal year end, acquisition status, country, headquarters, street address, state, city, all office addresses, Crunchbase URL, Crunchbase UUID, Twitter URL, total results, industry, industries, categories, specialities, NAICS code, NAICS sector, NAICS sub-sector, NAICS industry group, NAICS industry, NAICS year, SIC code, SIC industry, SIC year, followers, followers month-over-month growth, followers quarter-over-quarter growth, followers 6-month growth, followers year-over-year growth, headcount, largest headcount country, headcount growth percent 1 month, headcount growth percent 3 months, headcount growth percent 6 months, headcount growth percent 12 months, headcount growth absolute 1 month, headcount growth absolute 3 months, headcount growth absolute 6 months, headcount growth absolute 12 months, total funding, last round amount, last fundraise date, last round type, investors, job openings, job openings growth percent, job openings growth by function, software review count, software average rating, software review count month-over-month growth, software review count quarter-over-quarter growth, software review count year-over-year growth

## Crustdata's plans (4)

- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, free, Crustdata University Program, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-crustdata-university-program-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, In-DB API access, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/contact-us-in-db-api-access-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days

## Crustdata's calls (3)

- `POST /company/search`, Search Companies: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits, POST /company/search, Search Companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- `POST /company/search`, Search Companies, full: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt)
- `POST /batch/company/search`: [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /batch/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-company-search/llms.txt)

## Crustdata's APIs (8)

- [Crustdata: cached company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached job postings API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-job-posting-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-post-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /batch/person/contact/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /person/contact/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /batch/person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/cached-reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-identify/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/cached-reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-identify/llms.txt)

## Crustdata: 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
- [AI Ark, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/ai-ark/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [PredictLeads, free, 100 API credits Free, GET /discover/extended_companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/predictleads/free-100-api-credits-free-get-discover-extended-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 2 weeks
- [Lusha, free, Free, POST /v3/companies/prospecting, Prospecting Companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/lusha/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 week

## 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://crustdata.com/apis/people-enrichment
- https://crustdata.com/pricing
- https://crustdata.com/terms
- https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/company-apis/search-companies-with-indexed-fields-only
- https://docs.crustdata.com/company-docs/search/introduction
- https://docs.crustdata.com/company-docs/search/reference
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/credits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/data-updates
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/rate-limits