# Coresignal, free: Cached people search API

> Search employee profiles with Elasticsearch DSL or semantic search queries.

Coresignal's cached people search API on its Free trial plan, $0.00 per 1,000 people. 0 of the 13 key fields.
You get 2,000 credits, which pay for Coresignal's other calls. This call costs none of them: you can get as many pages as you like.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/free
- Get it: https://coresignal.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/api/elasticsearch-dsl
- Sold by: Coresignal (https://coresignal.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-18

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: treg: your key free, paid $0.00

## Charges

- Per: page of 1,000
- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Jobs API · Employee Posts API · Company Posts API · Historical Headcount API · Real-time Employee API · Multi-source Company API · Multi-source Employee API · Search Preview · Agentic Search API · Employee contact enrichment · Bulk Collect

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search employee profiles with Elasticsearch DSL or semantic search queries.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: “Upon written request, either Party will return or destroy all copies of the other Party’s Confidential Information that are in its possession or control”, the Data being “a confidential, proprietary, trade secret and copyrighted work of Coresignal”
- Use data: “a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license to use the Data for internal business purposes” [...] “The Client has no right to communicate or display to the public the Data, Substantial part of the Data, or the Data’s logic and structure.” [...] “Client shall not re-utilize the Data. For the purpose of the Agreement, ‘Re-utilization’ shall mean any form of making available to the public the Data or a Substantial part of the Data by the distribution of copies, renting, online, or other forms of transmission (including but not limited to sub-licensing).” “Notwithstanding Article 1.2. of the Agreement, the Client is permitted to create derivative works using the Data and license such works to its clients as long as the Client complies with the terms and conditions of the Agreement. [...] works created by the Client shall entail sufficient alteration of the Data to constitute derivate works (e.g., integration of individual data points taken from the Data to the Client’s own product or service).” “The Client shall not, directly or indirectly, use the Data or any of the contents of the Data to conduct or operate any bulk mail activity” [...] “The Client shall only use or otherwise process such information in accordance with all applicable data protection laws. The Client shall be solely responsible for assessment and compliance of the Data’s use by the Client with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits
- Enough for: no limit
- Expires: 7 days after sign-up

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query (an Elasticsearch DSL query). Optional: sort, after, items_per_page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/employee_multi_source/search/es_dsl

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: the first to sign up with a business email from each company email domain

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

employee ID, total results, total pages, next page token

## Coresignal's plans (14)

- [Coresignal, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/199-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/499-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/1000-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $1,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/1500-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/3000-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $2,149 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/2149-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $5,389 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/5389-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $10,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/10800-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $16,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/16200-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $32,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/32400-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $54,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/54000-yearly/llms.txt): no limit per 1,000, 0% complete, stored

## Coresignal's calls (1)

- `POST /v2/employee_multi_source/search/es_dsl`: [Coresignal, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Enrich.so, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/enrich-so/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/exa/free-world-agentkit-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, stored
- [Fundable, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/fundable/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, stored
- [GetProspect, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/getprospect/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

- https://coresignal.com/data-transparency/
- https://coresignal.com/pricing/
- https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions-api-dashboard/
- https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions/
- https://dashboard.coresignal.com/sign-up
- https://docs.coresignal.com/additional-sources/professional-network-data
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/credits
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/rate-limits
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/requests/elasticsearch-dsl
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/requests/elasticsearch-dsl/results-pagination
- https://docs.coresignal.com/company-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/api
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/api/elasticsearch-dsl
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/api/elasticsearch-dsl/pagination
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/data-and-compliance
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/faq
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/product-comparison
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/welcome-to-coresignal
- https://docs.coresignal.com/jobs-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/pricing/pricing
- https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes/october-2026
- https://docs.coresignal.com/social-posts-data/employee-posts