Parsers VC pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, GET /startups, List startups, full

Parsers VC's site llms.txt Best 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 280 plans we rank by price is Deepline, top-up, at $0.00 per 1,000.

Plan: Free one of Parsers VC's 5 plans

Call: GET /startups, List startups, full one of Parsers VC's 4 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.
8 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Locations, Funding, Phones.
Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 250 results. Unused credits expire at the end of each month.
One call. You call GET /startups. You send $expand "Funds,FundingRounds,PostValuations,References". You can also send $filter, $select, $orderby, $top, $skip and $count. 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

The table starts with Parsers VC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to Parsers VC's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

	Parsers VC, $999 monthly, Enterprise, GET /startups, List startups, full	QuickEnrich, $288 yearly	The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/companies/fetch	Coresignal, $54,000 yearly, Elite, GET /v2/company_multi_source/collect/{company_id}, Collect: Company API	TheirStack, $1,500 monthly
$ per 1,000	$3.996	$4.00	$4.00	$4.50	$4.50
Completeness	62%	54%	77%	100%	77%
Billing	monthly	yearly	yearly	yearly	monthly
Pay	$999	$288	$96,000	$54,000	$1,500
Enough for	250,000 results a month	72,000 results a year	24,000,000 results a year	12,000,000 results a year	about 333,333 results a month
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone over 18	anyone with a business email	a legal entity (the terms' User is 'the legal entity that subscribes to or accesses the Services', its Authorized Users are its employees)

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 2026-10-20.

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, not in the answer
Locations
Funding
Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
Parents, not in the answer
Phones

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	from the same budget: 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 pitch	Search 917K+ startups by sector, stage, location, team size and funding history.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	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: [...] Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content
Use data	You 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 get	500 credits a month
Enough for	250 results a month
Expires	at the end of each month

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	$expand "Funds,FundingRounds,PostValuations,References". Optional: $filter, $select, $orderby, $top, $skip, $count
Method	GET
Path	/startups

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone

The 58 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, investor ID, investor name, investor website, investment date, funding round ID, funding round date, funding round type, funding round amount, valuation ID, valuation date, valuation amount, news ID, news title, news date, news description, news category, news author, news source