# ExploreYC, free, GET /companies/{company_id}: Cached company enrichment API

> Fetch a single company by its numeric id. Returns 404 if not found.

ExploreYC's cached company enrichment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 8 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
The cheapest of the 416 plans we rank by price is [Extruct, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/extruct/49-monthly/llms.txt). Extruct's cached company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-companies-enrich/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/hunter/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [CompanyEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/companyenrich/149-monthly/llms.txt) are the best cached company enrichment API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id
- [Best cached company enrichment API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-cached-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Request: `GET https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/companies/{company_id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Its API docs: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Sold by: ExploreYC (https://exploreyc.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 62%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Parents: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a single company by its numeric id. Returns 404 if not found.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5 requests a day
- Enough for: 5 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: company_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /companies/{company_id}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## ExploreYC's plans (3)

- [ExploreYC, free, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/50-monthly-pro-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $500 monthly, Max, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/500-monthly-max-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day

## ExploreYC's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /companies/{company_id}`: [ExploreYC, free, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt)
- `GET /companies/slug/{slug}`: [ExploreYC, free, GET /companies/slug/{slug}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-slug-slug/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC's APIs (4)

- [ExploreYC: cached people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: cached people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: cached company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: cached company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: cached company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC: cached company enrichment API alternatives

- [DanskCVRAPI, DKK 99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.298 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 minute
- [JobsPipe, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /v1/jobs/companies/{key}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/jobspipe/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 85% complete, 6 hours
- [Skrapp, $5,388 yearly, Enterprise 100K, GET /api/v3/companies/snapshot](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/skrapp/5388-yearly-enterprise-100k-get-api-v3-companies-snapshot/llms.txt): $2.993 per 1,000, 54% complete, 24 hours
- [Hirebase, $2,390.40 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/hirebase/2390-40-yearly/llms.txt): $3.984 per 1,000, 69% complete, 1 hour

## 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.

- https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
- https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- https://exploreyc.com/llms.txt
- https://exploreyc.com/pricing