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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, GET /companies

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026
62% complete: 8 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 328 plans we rank by price is Deepline, top-up. Deepline's cached company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /companies one of ExploreYC's 2 calls for this API
API: Cached company discovery API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get companies from ExploreYC's database.
  • 8 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day, enough for 5 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You call GET /companies. Every input is optional: limit, offset, source, batch, industry, country, is_hiring, top_company, search. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: cached company discovery API alternatives

The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /companiesDanskCVRAPI, DKK 99 monthly, Basis, GET /companies/searchImplisense, €379 pack, 5,000 Implicents, GET /v2/searchPubrio, $495 packHirebase, $2,390.40 yearly
$ per 1,000 companies$0.033$0.006$0.086$0.36$3.984
Completeness62%46%8%62%69%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$50DKK 99€379$495$2,390.40
Enough for500 pages a day50,000 pages a month5,000 pagesas many as you pay for50,000 results a month
Freshness1 day1 minute1 day1 day1 hour
Who can get itanyoneanyone, billed in advance with no binding period, Danish companies (CVR numbers), Norwegian ones need Probusinesses (§ 14 BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law, not consumersAI agents with a registered agent credential, for themselves or their human, through Pubrio's agent storefront, business use only, of ageanyone 16 or over who can form a binding contract (the terms: "You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract", commercial use requires an API plan)

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 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/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
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Company by id · Company by slug · Distinct YC batches · Distinct countries · Distinct industries · Founder leaderboards (ranked) · Founder profile + stats + companies · Full-text company search · Geo-located companies · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator)
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchList and filter companies across all tracked sources (YC + a16z).
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 pages a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: limit, offset, source, batch, industry, country, is_hiring, top_company, search
MethodGET
Path/companies
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 42 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, limit, offset, has more, company ID, source, source ID, company name, slug, website, one-liner, description, team size, batch, status, industry, subindustry, all locations, is hiring, top company, nonprofit, stage, country, latitude, longitude, logo thumbnail URL, founders, year founded, exit type, acquirer, ticker symbol, funded date, source URL, total funding, last round amount, last round name, last round date, valuation, employee count, employee growth 6 months, created at, updated at

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