# Shovels, free: Cached company enrichment API

> Access contractor records with project history

Shovels's cached company enrichment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets, Phones.
The cheapest of the 574 priced plans is [SalesQL, $1,071 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/salesql/1071-yearly/llms.txt), at $0.149 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/free
- Get it: https://www.shovels.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.shovels.ai/api-reference/contractors/get-contractors-by-id
- Sold by: Shovels (https://www.shovels.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search Contractors · Search Permits · Get Permits By Id · Get Residents

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access contractor records with project history

## Data

- Freshness: 2 weeks
- Keep data: while this Agreement is in effect
- Use data: Shovels data is licensed for your internal business use. You can use it for internal research, prospecting, lead generation, building it into your own product (API customers), exporting and storing it internally, sharing with colleagues, and contacting contractors or property owners directly. You cannot upload it to ad platforms for audience targeting, resell or redistribute it, share it externally without written permission, or use it to build a competing data product. [...] a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use such Data (or Third-Party Content) solely for its internal business purposes while this Agreement is in effect. [...] Customer shall not at any time, directly or indirectly, and shall not permit any of its employees, contractors, agents, or users (“Authorized Users”) to: (i) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Services, in whole or in part, (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of the Services, in whole or in part, (iii) remove any proprietary notices from the Services, (iv) use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, or (v) use the Services for the purpose of competing with Shovels’ business or gathering information for a competitor or potential competitor of Shovels’ business. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to, resell, transfer, distribute, publish, sublicense, or otherwise make available the Services or the Data (or any portion thereof), nor to copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or the Data (including any datasets, models, data products, or other works that are based on or trained on the Data), except as expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Shovels.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 results a month
- Expires: credits reset monthly

## Rate limit

- Batch: 50

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /contractors

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes

## The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

contractor ID, license number, name, business name, business type, classification, derived classifications, license issue date, license expiration date, license inactive date, license active date, primary phone, primary email, phones, emails, website, doing business as, SIC code, NAICS code, LinkedIn URL, revenue, employee count, primary industry, review count, rating, permit status tally, permit tag tally, permit count, average job value, total job value, average construction duration, average inspection pass rate, first seen date, street number, street, city, county, ZIP code, ZIP code extension, state, jurisdiction, address ID, latitude and longitude

## Shovels's plans (4)

- [Shovels, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 2 weeks
- [Shovels, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/599-monthly/llms.txt): $23.96 per 1,000, 54% complete, 2 weeks
- [Shovels, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/999-monthly/llms.txt): $19.98 per 1,000, 54% complete, 2 weeks
- [Shovels, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/contact-us/llms.txt): 54% complete, 2 weeks

## Shovels's calls (1)

- `GET /contractors`: [Shovels, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/free/llms.txt)

## Shovels's APIs (3)

- [Shovels: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/shovels/free/llms.txt)
- [Shovels: cached company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/shovels/free/llms.txt)
- [Shovels: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/shovels/free/llms.txt)

## Shovels: cached company enrichment API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/apollo.organization](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-apollo-organization/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 month
- [JobsPipe, free, Free, GET /v1/jobs/companies/{key}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/jobspipe/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 24 hours
- [Autobound, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [People Data Labs, free, Free, POST /v5/company/enrich/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/people-data-labs/free-free-post-v5-company-enrich-bulk/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

- https://docs.shovels.ai/api-reference/contractors/get-contractors-by-id
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/credit-limits
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/rate-limits
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/request-counts
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/company/data-usage-terms
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/data/quality/refresh-frequency
- https://docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/getting-started/free-trial-guide
- https://www.shovels.ai/api
- https://www.shovels.ai/pricing
- https://www.shovels.ai/terms