The Swarm pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, POST /v3/companies/fetch

The Swarm's site llms.txt Best cached company discovery API in 2026

69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companies

Plan: 14-day free trial one of The Swarm's 18 plans

Call: POST /v3/companies/fetch one of The Swarm's 2 calls

API: Cached company discovery API one of The Swarm's 17 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get companies from The Swarm's database. The Swarm doesn't say how old its data is.
9 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Locations, Funding.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for 1,000 results. Unused credits expire at the end of the 14-day trial.
One call. You call POST /v3/companies/fetch. You send at least one of ids, linkedin_names or linkedin_ids. You can also send fields and x-authenticate-team. The call returns the matching companies.
Who can get it: anyone over 18. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

The Swarm: 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 planThe Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/companies/fetch	GetProspect, free	Hunter, free, Free, POST /discover	graph8, free	AnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/company_search.prospeo
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	69%	62%	54%	69%	85%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	1,000 results, once	no limit	no limit	no limit	about 1 page, once
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone over 18	anyone 16 or over	anyone 18 or over	verified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposes	one new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

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

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	Search Profiles · Search Companies · Relationships · Add Connector · from the same budget: Fetch Profile · Refresh a Profile · Get Profile/Company Posts · Get Comments / Reactions / Reshares · Network Mapper (for Partners)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Retrieve detailed information about companies by their unique identifiers.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	Upon termination of your subscription or access to the Service: Your license to use Swarm Data ends immediately. At The Swarm’s request, you must delete all Swarm Data in your possession, including backups. You may retain internal Derived Materials that do not contain identifiable Swarm Data fields. You must certify deletion upon request.
Use data	Subject to your compliance with these Terms, The Swarm grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the data, insights, relationship mappings, and related information made available through the Service (“Swarm Data”) for your own internal business purposes. “Internal business purposes” includes, but is not limited to: Sales prospecting, Recruiting and talent sourcing, Partnerships and BD research, Investor outreach, Relationship mapping and warm intro workflows, CRM enrichment, Go-to-market operations and analytics, Executive dashboards and internal reporting. You may store, analyze, enrich, combine, and use Swarm Data inside your own systems, tools, CRMs, or internal workflows, as long as such use is internal to your organization. Except as expressly permitted by The Swarm in writing, you may not, directly or indirectly: Sell, resell, license, sublicense, publish, or otherwise redistribute Swarm Data to any third party. Provide Swarm Data to customers, clients, partners, vendors, contractors, affiliates, or the public. Include Swarm Data in any commercial data product, enrichment service, dataset, marketplace offering, or AI model intended for external use. Use Swarm Data to build, train, or improve any AI or ML model that is accessible to third parties. Use Swarm Data to develop or enhance any product or service that competes with The Swarm or provides relationship-mapping or people-data features. Upload or share raw Swarm Data into third-party platforms for any purpose other than your internal business operations. Any use of Swarm Data outside your organization requires prior written approval from The Swarm. If you wish to redistribute, resell, or otherwise make Swarm Data available to third parties (including in workflows where they can view or access data), you must obtain The Swarm’s prior written consent. You may create internal analyses, models, segments, reports, dashboards, or insights derived from Swarm Data (“Derived Materials”), provided these remain internal to your organization and are not sold, published, shared externally, or used to train publicly available AI systems.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 credits
Enough for	1,000 results, once
Expires	at the end of the 14-day trial

Rate limit
Per second	1
Batch	1,000

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.25 s

The call
You send	at least one of ids, linkedin_names or linkedin_ids. Optional: fields, x-authenticate-team
Method	POST
Path	/v3/companies/fetch

About the plan
Plan	14-day free trial
Who can get it	anyone over 18

The 68 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, canonical name, alternative names, description, summary, contact email, contact phone, contact URL, founded, industries, websites, LinkedIn slugs, headcount, historical headcount, size class, technologies, stock ticker, DUNS code, CAGE code, NAICS code, customer types, stock exchange, is acquired, is exited, is government, is non-profit, is shut down, is startup, is stealth, ownership status, ownership status detailed, patent count, financing status, IPO date, outstanding shares, market cap, social media network, social media ID, social media slug, social media URL, location name, location country, location is primary, logo URL, investor type, investor specialties, investments, investor geography focus, total funding amount, last funding round type, last funding round amount, last funding round date, last funding round investors, funding round type, funding round amount, funding round date, funding round investors, investor ID, investor kind, investor name, investor Crunchbase slug, tags, tag ID, tag name, updated at, matched by, not found identifiers