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Clay pricing and alternatives: cached LinkedIn company search API

Clay's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn company search API in 2026
67% complete: 8 of the 12 key fields we checkSee the 12 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companies
Plan: Free one of Clay's 34 plans
Call: POST /search/query-mode/{search_id}/run Clay's only call

About this item

  • Stored. You get companies from Clay's copy of LinkedIn. Clay doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 8 of the 12 key fields we check. Description, Industry and type, Employees, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Revenue, Domain.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, which pay for Clay's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 100 results a month. Unused credits expire at the end of the monthly cycle.
  • One call. You send search_id to POST /search/query-mode/{search_id}/run. You can also send limit. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Clay: cached LinkedIn company search 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 planClay, freeBlitzAPI, freeReverse Contact, free, trial, POST /v2/search/organizations/promptEnrich Layer, freeGenerect, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%50%67%58%8%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 results a month1,000 results, once100 pages, oncenot published500 results, once
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneprofessional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitorsprofessionals acting in their professional capacity, not as consumers, one trial per customeranyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over with a work email

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

  1. developers.clay.com/api-reference/search/run-the-query-mode-iterator-and-return-the-next-page-of-results
  2. developers.clay.com/openapi.json
  3. developers.clay.com/public-api/rate-limits
  4. developers.clay.com/searches
  5. developers.clay.com/searches/advanced
  6. university.clay.com/docs/actions-data-credits
  7. university.clay.com/docs/clay-api-cli
  8. university.clay.com/docs/finding-companies-and-people-in-clay
  9. university.clay.com/docs/plans-and-billing
  10. university.clay.com/docs/work-email-waterfall
  11. clay.com/pricing
  12. clay.com/terms-of-service

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Industry and type
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Headquarters
  • Locations
  • Funding
  • Revenue
  • Domain
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Contact, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000 · Monid: paid $1.00 per 1,000 results
Charges
Perresult
Most per search50
Also pays forActions: 500 a month · from the same budget: Searches of people
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches let you find companies and people in Clay's GTM database, then fetch structured records to use in your application, workflow, or agent.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to license, sell, or transfer your account without our prior written approval. If you purchase credits from us ("Clay Credits"), you agree not to sell or transfer your Clay Credits to any other user without our prior written approval. You also agree not to re-sell any data you obtain from Clay.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for100 results a month
Expiresend of the monthly cycle
The call
You sendsearch_id. Optional: limit
MethodPOST
Path/search/query-mode/{search_id}/run
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, size, company type, domain, country, industry, location, description, company URL, annual revenue, total funding range, has more

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