# ContactOut, contact us, Team / API, POST /v1/people/search: Cached people search API

> Get profiles matching the search criteria.

ContactOut's cached people search API on its Team / API plan. 10 of the 13 key fields: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Certifications, Languages.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/contactout/contact-us-team-api-post-v1-people-search
- Get it: https://contactout.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.contactout.com/#people-search-api
- Sold by: ContactOut (https://contactout.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid $140.00 per 1,000 results · Monid: paid $20.00 per 1,000 results · treg: your key free, paid $20.00 per 1,000 results

## Charges

- Per: result
- Extra fields: emails, work emails, work email status, personal emails · phones
- Also pays for: People Count API · Contact Checker API - Personal Email Checker · Contact Checker API - Work Email Checker · Contact Checker API - Phone Number Checker · Email Verifier API - Single · Email Verifier API - Bulk · from the same budget: LinkedIn Profile API from LinkedIn URL · LinkedIn Profile API from email address · People Enrich API · Contact Info API - Single · V1 Bulk ContactInfo · V2 Bulk ContactInfo · Company information from domains · Decision Makers API · Company Search API · Email to LinkedIn API · Hashed Email API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get profiles matching the search criteria.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: governed by the subscription agreement and subscription order form entered into between you and ContactOut, they prevail over its Terms of Use
- Use data: governed by the subscription agreement and subscription order form entered into between you and ContactOut, they prevail over its Terms of Use

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: name, job_title, past_job_title, job_function, seniority, current_titles_only, include_related_job_titles, match_experience, skills, languages, education, educations, location, location_radius, current_work_location, past_work_location, company, past_company, company_filter, current_company_only, domain, industry, keyword, company_size, years_of_experience, years_in_current_role, recently_changed_jobs, is_currently_working, page, page_size, data_types, reveal_info, detailed_experience, detailed_education, exclude_job_titles, exclude_companies, exclude_companies_filter, output_fields
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Team / API
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 83 fields the plan's answer can hold

status code, page, page size, total results, LinkedIn URL, LinkedIn vanity, full name, job title, headline, company name, company LinkedIn URL, company LinkedIn ID, company domain, company email domain, company description, company type, company size, company country, company revenue, company founded year, company industry, company headquarters, company website, company logo, company specialties, company locations, location, country, industry, experience, experience title, experience description, experience location, experience company name, experience company LinkedIn URL, experience company domain, experience company logo, experience start date, experience end date, experience is current, education, education school, education degree, education field of study, education description, education start date, education end date, education school URL, skills, summary, language, language proficiency, certification name, certification authority, certification license, certification start date, certification end date, publication URL, publication title, publication description, publisher, publication authors, publication date, project title, project description, project start date, project end date, volunteering role, volunteering company name, volunteering company URL, volunteering cause, volunteering company ID, volunteering start date, volunteering end date, followers, updated at, profile picture URL, job function, seniority, work status, has personal email, has work email, has phone

## ContactOut's plans (1)

- [ContactOut, contact us, Team / API, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/contactout/contact-us-team-api-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): 77% complete, 1 hour

## ContactOut's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/people/decision-makers`: [ContactOut, contact us, Team / API, GET /v1/people/decision-makers](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/contactout/contact-us-team-api-get-v1-people-decision-makers/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/people/search`: [ContactOut, contact us, Team / API, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/contactout/contact-us-team-api-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt)

## 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://api.contactout.com/
- https://api.contactout.com/#rate-limits
- https://contactout.com
- https://contactout.com/ai-info
- https://contactout.com/api-feature
- https://contactout.com/contactsheets-enrichment
- https://contactout.com/data-enrichment-feature
- https://contactout.com/gmail-enrichment-feature
- https://contactout.com/pricing
- https://contactout.com/terms