# PeopleSearch.im, free: Cached company discovery API

> The same endpoint searches companies with "entity": "company": by name, website, LinkedIn page, industry, headquarters, size, type or keywords, in plain words or as CompanyFilters. Companies come back whole in companies (website, LinkedIn page, industry, employees, headquarters, description), free, up to 100 a page with a key.

PeopleSearch.im's cached company discovery API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Employees, Social profiles, Locations.
You get 3 credits, which pay for PeopleSearch.im's other calls. This call costs none of them: you can get as many pages as you like.
The cheapest of the 308 plans we rank by price is [Deepline, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/deepline/top-up/llms.txt). Deepline's cached company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://peoplesearch.im/pricing
- Request: `POST https://peoplesearch.im/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://peoplesearch.im/pricing
- Its API docs: https://peoplesearch.im/developers
- Sold by: PeopleSearch.im (https://peoplesearch.im)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The same endpoint searches companies with "entity": "company": by name, website, LinkedIn page, industry, headquarters, size, type or keywords, in plain words or as CompanyFilters. Companies come back whole in companies (website, LinkedIn page, industry, employees, headquarters, description), free, up to 100 a page with a key.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from any part of the Service [...] except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by applicable law. You agree not to: use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights, [...] use any automated means, such as bots, scrapers, or crawlers, to access or collect data from the Service, except as expressly permitted by us or by applicable law, [...] misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or use the Service to send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or communications, or use the Service to build a competing product or for any other purpose we reasonably prohibit.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits
- Enough for: no limit
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.68 s

## The call

- You send: entity "company", one of query or filters. Optional: filters.names, filters.websites, filters.company_ids, filters.industries, filters.locations, filters.keywords, filters.types, filters.exclude_types, filters.size_min, filters.size_max, limit, page, drop
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: new accounts

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

ok, total results, company key, name, website, LinkedIn URL, industry, employee count, location, description, specialties, next page token, credits balance, ignored filters, unmatched filters

## PeopleSearch.im's plans (4)

- [PeopleSearch.im, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/20-pack/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/50-pack/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, stored

## PeopleSearch.im's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/search`: [PeopleSearch.im, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt)

## PeopleSearch.im's APIs (7)

- [PeopleSearch.im: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: email verification API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/deliver](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/free-credits-post-api-v1-deliver/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/reveal](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/free-credits-post-api-v1-reveal/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/free-credits-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: email finder API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/tools](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/peoplesearch-im/free-credits-post-api-v1-tools/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: email finder API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/peoplesearch-im/free-credits-post-api-v1-email/llms.txt)
- [PeopleSearch.im: reverse email lookup API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt)

## PeopleSearch.im: cached company discovery API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/getprospect/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Hunter, free, Free, POST /discover](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/hunter/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [AnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/company_search.prospeo](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/anyapi/free-starting-balance-post-v1-run-company-search-prospeo/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, stored
- [graph8, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/graph8/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Minelead, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/minelead/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

- https://peoplesearch.im
- https://peoplesearch.im/developers
- https://peoplesearch.im/legal/privacy
- https://peoplesearch.im/legal/terms
- https://peoplesearch.im/openapi.json
- https://peoplesearch.im/pricing
- https://peoplesearch.im/tools/company-search
- https://peoplesearch.im/tools/linkedin-profile-lookup