Apollo pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

Apollo's site llms.txt Best cached people search API in 2026

8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 people

Plan: Free one of Apollo's 7 plans

Call: POST /mixed_people/api_search Apollo's only call

POST /mixed_people/api_searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

About this item

A copy at most 1 month old. You get people from Apollo's database.
1 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience.
Nothing to pay. You get up to 18,000 calls a month. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over.
One call. You call POST /mixed_people/api_search. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Apollo: cached people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 people. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old, like this plan.

	This planApollo, free	AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark	Renidly, free	The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetch	People Data Labs, free, Free, GET /v5/person/identify
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	8%	85%	0%	85%	31%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	18,000 calls a month	about 5 results, once	100 results, once	1,000 results, once	100 pages a month
Freshness	1 month	30 days	1 month	1 day	1 month
Who can get it	an Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age	anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone 18 or over with a work email (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted)	anyone over 18	anyone 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 2026-10-23.

Product details

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

Experience
Education, not in the answer
Skills, not in the answer
Headline, not in the answer
About, not in the answer
Location, not in the answer
Photo, not in the answer
Followers, not in the answer
Connections, not in the answer
Certifications, not in the answer
Languages, not in the answer
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	page of 100
Most per search	50,000
Also pays for	Search for contacts · Search for accounts

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Use the people API search endpoint to find new prospects. Several filters are available to help narrow your search.

Data
Freshness	1 month
Keep data	people's business contact information put into your own records, CRM or database during the term: no limit, past it too. The rest: until the term ends
Use data	"Term License. [...] solely for your internal business purposes to: [...] communicate with a person in a manner that relates to such person’s profession, business, or employment using any Business Contact Information, identify prospective sales opportunities, research your existing customers and prospects, and otherwise analyze the Contributor Database in a manner relating to your business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities", "General Usage Restrictions. You will not, and will not permit any third party to: use the Services, the Platform, or data derived therefrom to create, develop, or offer a product or service to third parties that competes with Apollo's products or services. This restriction does not apply to your internal systems or processes that are not commercially offered to third parties, resell, distribute, disclose, sublicense, transfer, sell, offer for sale, or make available any of the Contributor Database or any part of the Services to any third party, [...]", "Business Contact Information Restrictions. You will not: distribute, sell, or license Business Contact Information to third parties, except to the extent expressly authorized by Apollo in writing, use Business Contact Information to create competing databases or services, combine Business Contact Information with other data sources in a manner that would circumvent the usage restrictions applicable to the underlying Apollo data, [...] or use Business Contact Information to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, except (1) for your own internal models used solely for your internal business purposes and not commercially offered to third parties, or (2) to the extent otherwise expressly authorized by Apollo in writing.", "Technical and Access Restrictions. [...] You may not: [...] Disclose the results of any Platform or program benchmark tests to any third parties without Apollo’s prior written consent.", "Prohibited Uses. You are expressly prohibited from doing any of the following: selling, sublicensing, or otherwise providing access to any API to any third party, using any API with LinkedIn automations, using any API in a manner that allows any third party to use Apollo data to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, [...]"

Plan
Pay	$0
Enough for	18,000 calls a month
Expires	at the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over

Rate limit
Per day	600
Per second	0.056
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: person_titles[], include_similar_titles, person_not_titles[], person_not_past_titles[], q_keywords, q_person_name, person_locations[], person_not_locations[], person_seniorities[], organization_locations[], organization_not_locations[], organization_industry_tag_ids[], organization_not_industry_tag_ids[], organization_industries[], organization_naics_codes[], not_organization_naics_codes[], organization_sic_codes[], not_organization_sic_codes[], q_organization_domains_list[], contact_email_status[], organization_ids[], organization_num_employees_ranges[], revenue_range[min], revenue_range[max], currently_using_all_of_technology_uids[], currently_using_any_of_technology_uids[], currently_not_using_any_of_technology_uids[], q_organization_job_titles[], organization_job_locations[], organization_num_jobs_range[min], organization_num_jobs_range[max], organization_job_posted_at_range[min], organization_job_posted_at_range[max], organization_headcount_growth_past_n_months, organization_headcount_growth_range[min], organization_headcount_growth_range[max], lookalike_organization_ids[], not_organization_websites_list[], page, per_page
Method	POST
Path	/mixed_people/api_search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	an Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age

The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, person ID, first name, last name, obfuscated, job title, last refreshed date, has email, has city, has state, has country, has direct phone, company name, company has industry, company has phone, company has city, company has state, company has country, company has postal code, company has revenue, company has employee count