# The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/companies/fetch: Cached company discovery API

> Retrieve detailed information about companies by their unique identifiers.

The Swarm's cached company discovery API on its 14-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Locations, Funding.
The cheapest of the 460 priced plans is [Deepline, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/deepline/top-up/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-companies-fetch
- Get it: https://www.theswarm.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-company.md
- Sold by: The Swarm (https://www.theswarm.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## 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

## The Swarm's plans (18)

- [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $99 monthly, Premium 50, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/99-monthly-premium-50-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $99.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $199 monthly, Premium 150, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/199-monthly-premium-150-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $79.60 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $299 monthly, Premium 500, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/299-monthly-premium-500-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $29.90 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $500 monthly, Premium 1000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/500-monthly-premium-1000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $750 monthly, Premium 2000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/750-monthly-premium-2000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $990 yearly, Premium 50, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/990-yearly-premium-50-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $82.50 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $1,990 yearly, Premium 150, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/1990-yearly-premium-150-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $66.333 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $2,990 yearly, Premium 500, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/2990-yearly-premium-500-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $24.917 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $5,000 yearly, Premium 1000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/5000-yearly-premium-1000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $8.333 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $7,500 yearly, Premium 2000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/7500-yearly-premium-2000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $6.25 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $12,000 yearly, Enterprise 2500, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/12000-yearly-enterprise-2500-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $24,000 yearly, Enterprise 5000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/24000-yearly-enterprise-5000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $48,000 yearly, Enterprise 7500, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/48000-yearly-enterprise-7500-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $60,000 yearly, Enterprise 10000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/60000-yearly-enterprise-10000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $5.556 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $72,000 yearly, Enterprise 15000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/72000-yearly-enterprise-15000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/96000-yearly-enterprise-20000-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/contact-us-enterprise-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt): 69% complete, stored

## The Swarm's calls (2)

- `POST /v3/companies/fetch`: [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/companies/search`: [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)

## The Swarm's APIs (17)

- [The Swarm: cached company headcount API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached LinkedIn company data API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn person post API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached company enrichment API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached company funding API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-funding-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached company technology API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-technology-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached email finder API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached company discovery API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v3/companies/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-companies-fetch/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached LinkedIn profile API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached leadership change API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached leadership change API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v3/profiles/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached people search API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: cached people search API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v3/profiles/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)
- [The Swarm: people search API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)

## The Swarm: 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
- [graph8, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/graph8/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% 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

## 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.

- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/credits-usage.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/rate-limiting.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-company.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-profile.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/company/overview.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/company/sample-data.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/faq.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
- https://help.theswarm.com/en/articles/14121950-plans-billing-connector-limits-api-credits
- https://www.theswarm.com/pricing
- https://www.theswarm.com/terms