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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: cached company enrichment API, GET /companies/{company_id}

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest cached company enrichment API in 2026
62% complete: 8 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 416 plans we rank by price is Extruct, $49 monthly. Extruct's cached company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and CompanyEnrich are the best cached company enrichment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /companies/{company_id} one of ExploreYC's 2 calls for this API
API: Cached company enrichment API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get company profiles from ExploreYC's database.
  • 8 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send company_id to GET /companies/{company_id}. The call returns the company profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: cached company enrichment API alternatives

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

ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /companies/{company_id}DanskCVRAPI, DKK 99 monthlyJobsPipe, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /v1/jobs/companies/{key}Skrapp, $5,388 yearly, Enterprise 100K, GET /api/v3/companies/snapshotHirebase, $2,390.40 yearly
$ per 1,000 companies$3.333$0.298$1.96$2.993$3.984
Completeness62%62%85%54%69%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay$50DKK 99$49$5,388$2,390.40
Enough for500 calls a day50,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month150,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month
Freshness1 day1 minute6 hours24 hours1 hour
Who can get itanyoneanyone, billed in advance with no binding period, Danish companies (CVR numbers), Norwegian ones need Proanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone 16 or over who can form a binding contract (the terms: "You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract", commercial use requires an API plan)

Every cached company enrichment 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 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Company by slug · Distinct YC batches · Distinct countries · Distinct industries · Founder leaderboards (ranked) · Founder profile + stats + companies · Full-text company search · Geo-located companies · List / filter companies · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator)
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFetch a single company by its numeric id. Returns 404 if not found.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendcompany_id
MethodGET
Path/companies/{company_id}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, source, source ID, company name, slug, website, one-liner, description, team size, batch, status, industry, subindustry, all locations, is hiring, top company, nonprofit, stage, country, latitude, longitude, logo thumbnail URL, founders, year founded, exit type, acquirer, ticker symbol, funded date, source URL, total funding, last round amount, last round name, last round date, valuation, employee count, employee growth 6 months, created at, updated at

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