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Parsers VC pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, GET /categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity}

Parsers VC's sitellms.txtBest cached company discovery API in 2026
69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 460 priced plans is Deepline, top-up, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: Free one of Parsers VC's 5 plans
Call: GET /categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity} one of Parsers VC's 3 calls
API: Cached company discovery API one of Parsers VC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get companies from Parsers VC's database. Parsers VC doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 9 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Phones.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 results. Unused credits expire at the end of each month.
  • One call. You call GET /categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity}. You send dimension, value, entity "startups" or "funds". The call returns the matching companies.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Parsers VC: 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, not live data, like this plan.

This planParsers VC, free, Free, GET /categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity}GetProspect, freeHunter, free, Free, POST /discovergraph8, freeAnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/company_search.prospeo
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness69%62%54%69%85%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for500 results a monthno limitno limitno limitabout 1 page, once
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone 16 or overanyone 18 or oververified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposesone new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

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 2026-10-24.

  1. parsers.vc/about/terms_of_service/
  2. parsers.vc/api/v1/agents.md
  3. parsers.vc/api/v1/openapi.json
  4. parsers.vc/api_page/pricing/
  5. parsers.vc/api_page/reference/
  6. parsers.vc/pricing/

Product details

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

  • Description
  • Industry, not in the answer
  • Type and status
  • Images
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Social profiles
  • Headquarters
  • Locations
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Extra fieldsinvestor ID, investor name, investor website, investment date: +$0.00 · funding round ID, funding round date, funding round type, funding round amount: +$0.00 · valuation ID, valuation date, valuation amount: +$0.00 · news ID, news title, news date, news description, news category, news author, news source: +$0.00 · fund group ID, fund group name: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List startups (GET /v2/startups) · Get startup (GET /v2/startups/{id}) · Find a startup by name or website (GET /v2/startups/search) · List funds (GET /v2/funds) · Get fund (GET /v2/funds/{id}) · Find a fund by name or website (GET /v2/funds/search) · Find a company of either kind (GET /v2/companies/search) · List people (GET /v2/persons) · Get person (GET /v2/persons/{id}) · Funding rounds across all startups (GET /v2/startups/fundingrounds) · Funding rounds of a startup (GET /v2/startups/{id}/fundingrounds) · Post-money valuations (GET /v2/startups/postvaluations) · Fund portfolio (GET /v2/funds/{id}/portfolio) · List news items (GET /v2/news) · Change feed (GET /v2/signals) · Categories and facets (GET /v2/categories) · Live company crawl (GET /v2/companies/find) · Venture matching (/venturematching) · The entities in a category (GET /v2/categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity})
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThis is /v2/startups with the category conditions applied — the same query, not a second one that might drift — so $select, $expand, $orderby, $filter and paging all behave exactly as they do there.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataYou represent, warrant, and agree that you will not contribute or submit any User Submission (defined below) or other materials or otherwise use the Service or interact with the Service in a manner that: [...] Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content
Use dataYou will not use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content not owned by you in a way that violates someone else’s (including Parsers) rights. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may display insubstantial excerpts of Content for criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research and similar purposes, provided: The use does not compete with the Service, and Proper attribution is provided to Parsers (please follow our Attribution Instructions to ensure that you are properly attributing Parsers). Any other uses of Content require agreed with our team by email or in writing. [...] You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not contribute or submit any User Submission (defined below) or other materials or otherwise use the Service or interact with the Service in a manner that: Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Parsers), Violates any law or regulation, including without limitation any applicable export control laws and/or data privacy laws, or would cause Parsers to be in violation of any law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws relating to labor, employment, or the issuance of securities), Is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, Jeopardizes the security of your Parsers account or anyone else’s (such as allowing someone else to log in to the Service as you), Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user, Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes, Runs any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Service, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Service, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Service (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Service infrastructure), “Crawls,” “scrapes”, “parse” or “spiders” any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Service or Content (through use of manual or automated means), Circumvents or attempts to circumvent any features, limitations, or restrictions of the Service (including, without limitation, attempting to access, download, export, or otherwise use or exploit any Content using any automated means or tools), Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content, Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Service.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough for500 results a month
Expiresat the end of each month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddimension, value, entity "startups" or "funds". Optional: industry, country, region, city, stage, investor_type, investment_stage, $filter, $select, $expand, $orderby, $top, $skip, $count
MethodGET
Path/categories/{dimension}/{value}/{entity}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 50 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, website, domain, description, description as parsed from the site, logo, location, founded year, employee count range, total raised, last funding stage, next funding stage, operating status, primary source, exit status, added at, updated at, last activity, tags, founder names, founder related locations, post-money valuation, email, phone, Twitter URL, LinkedIn URL, Facebook URL, Instagram URL, Medium URL, YouTube URL, AngelList URL, Product Hunt URL, Messenger URL, blog URL, Facebook likes, Twitter followers, Twitter following, LinkedIn followers, Similarweb last month visits, headquarters, portfolio count, portfolio, activity, source, is actual, investment types, investment stages, Facebook reviews, Facebook check-ins

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