# Crustdata, free, $20 free credits: 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 9 of the 13 key fields we check. 7 are in the plan's price: Description, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets. 2 cost extra: Industry, Funding.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits
- 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: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓ costs more
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓ costs more
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: no limit
- Extra fields: industry, industries, categories, specialities, NAICS code, NAICS sector, NAICS sub-sector, NAICS industry group, NAICS industry, NAICS year, SIC code, SIC industry, SIC year: +$0.00 · followers, followers month-over-month growth, followers quarter-over-quarter growth, followers 6-month growth, followers year-over-year growth: +$0.00 · 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: +$0.00 · total funding, last round amount, last fundraise date, last round type, investors: +$0.00 · job openings, job openings growth percent, job openings growth by function: +$0.00 · 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: +$0.00
- 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". Optional: fields, sorts, limit, cursor, search.mode
- Method: POST
- Path: /company/search

## About the plan

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

## The 31 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

## Crustdata's plans (4)

- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, free, Crustdata University Program](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-crustdata-university-program/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /company/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-company-search/llms.txt): 69% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, In-DB API access](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/contact-us-in-db-api-access/llms.txt): 69% complete, 30 days

## Crustdata's calls (2)

- `POST /company/search`: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/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 discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [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: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/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
- [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://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