Seltz pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, POST /v1/search, Search, base

Seltz's site llms.txt Best company discovery API in 2026

38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 304 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 tier one of Seltz's 4 plans

Call: POST /v1/search, Search, base one of Seltz's 2 calls

API: Cached company discovery API one of Seltz's 3 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 1 month old. You get companies from Seltz's database.
5 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Headquarters.
Nothing to pay. You get $20 of credit once, enough for about 6,666 pages.
One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set scope to "companies" and tier to "base". The call returns the matching companies.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, for non-commercial use only. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Seltz: cached company discovery API alternatives

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

	Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, base	Tomba, $59,988 yearly	Implisense, €379 pack, 5,000 Implicents, GET /v2/search	Snov.io, $3,321 yearly	AnyAPI, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402 and MPP, POST /v1/run/apollo.organizations_search
$ per 1,000 companies	$0.003	$0.033	$0.086	$0.111	$0.12
Completeness	38%	54%	8%	38%	69%
Billing	pay as you go	yearly	pay first	yearly	pay as you go
Pay	monthly	$59,988	€379	$3,321	per call
Enough for	as many as you pay for	3,000,000 pages a month	5,000 pages	50,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	1 month	1 month	1 day	1 month	1 month
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over with a payment method added	anyone 18 or over, on request	businesses (§ 14 BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law, not consumers	anyone of legal age	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list, paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402) or a Tempo wallet (MPP)

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 2026-10-27.

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, not in the answer
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees
Social profiles, not in the answer
Headquarters
Locations, not in the answer
Funding, not in the answer
Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
Parents, not in the answer
Phones, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 companies	$0.00
Per	page of 1,000
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	1,000
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search, pro · Answer · Fetch · Monitor · Agent

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The `companies` scope contains over 35 million company profiles from social media and company sites. Each result in the response is a different company matching your search.

Data
Freshness	1 month
Keep data	Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not [...] (ii) store, aggregate, or reuse Output to serve multiple End Customers or requests, (iii) use the Output to create, compile, or build a dataset or database
Use data	Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not (i) reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or otherwise make available any Third-Party Data on a standalone basis, [...] (iv) commercialize, resell, or sublicense the Output or any Third-Party Data or (v) represent that Output was human-generated when it is not, you may not [...] (iii) use Output from the Platform to develop models that compete with Seltz, (iv) use the Platform for the purpose of benchmarking, performance testing, or competitive analysis, or publicly disclose the results of any such activities, without Seltz’s prior written consent, (v) use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Platform, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction, you may use the free tier for non-commercial purposes only, if you make the Platform or any Output available to third parties or end users as part of your products or services, you must enter into a binding written agreement with each End Customer that contains terms that are no less protective of Seltz

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$20
Enough for	about 6,666 pages, once

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, scope "companies", tier "base". Optional: max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, from_date, to_date, fields.content, fields.content.max_characters_per_result, fields.snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets_per_result, fields.snippets.max_tokens, fields.snippets.max_tokens_per_result
Method	POST
Path	/v1/search

About the plan
Plan	Free tier
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over, for non-commercial use only

The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, URL, content, published date, snippets, name, industry, ownership type, headquarters location, company details, about, categories, talent, workforce, headcount by country, key executives, company updates, products and technology, web presence, reviews and ratings, competitors, recent news, financials, acquisitions, hiring