# Crustdata, free, $20 free credits: Cached people search API

> Find people with the Person Search API, from a simple name lookup to a query with many filters.

Crustdata's cached people search API on its $20 free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 10 of the 13 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Experience, Headline, Location. 7 cost extra: Education, Skills, About, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits
- Get it: https://crustdata.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/search-people-using-filters-and-sorting
- Sold by: Crustdata (https://crustdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Experience: ✓ current job, the rest costs more
- Education: ✓ costs more
- Skills: ✓ costs more
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓ costs more
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓ costs more
- Connections: ✓ costs more
- Certifications: ✓ costs more
- Languages: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: no limit
- Extra fields: current jobs, past jobs, job company, job company ID, job company profile ID, job company profile URL, job company status, job company logo, job title, job start date: +$0.00 · schools, school name, school degree, school location, school description, school logo: +$0.00 · skills: +$0.00 · certifications: +$0.00 · followers, connections, open to cards, languages: +$0.00 · summary: +$0.00 · honors: +$0.00 · research profiles: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: People enrich (/person/enrich) · People identify (/person/identify) · Person verify (/batch/person/verify) · Company search (/company/search) · Company enrich (/company/enrich) · Job search (/job/search) · Web search (/web/search/live) · Web fetch (/web/enrich/live) · Social post search (/social_post/search) · Company search watcher (/watch/company/search) · Job search watcher (/watch/job/search) · Social post search watcher (/watch/social_post/search) · Person watcher (/watch/person) · Company watcher (/watch/company)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people with the Person Search API, from a simple name lookup to a query with many filters.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: filters, and x-api-version header "2025-11-01". Optional: fields, sorts, limit, cursor, preview, explain
- Method: POST
- Path: /person/search

## About the plan

- Plan: $20 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

Crustdata person ID, name, headline, current title, normalized title, profile name, location, has business email, profile URL, GitHub URL, Twitter handle, total results

## Crustdata's plans (4)

- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, free, Crustdata University Program](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-crustdata-university-program/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /person/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-search/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, In-DB API access](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-in-db-api-access/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days

## Crustdata's calls (2)

- `POST /person/search`: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- `POST /batch/person/search`: [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /batch/person/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-search/llms.txt)

## Crustdata's APIs (8)

- [Crustdata: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached job postings API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-job-posting-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /batch/person/contact/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /person/contact/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /batch/person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/cached-reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-identify/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: cached reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/cached-reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-identify/llms.txt)

## Crustdata: cached people search API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [Renidly, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/renidly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 month
- [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day
- [People Data Labs, free, Free, GET /v5/person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/people-data-labs/free-free-get-v5-person-identify/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% 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 2026-10-23.

- https://crustdata.com/apis/people-enrichment
- https://crustdata.com/pricing
- https://crustdata.com/terms
- https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/search-people-using-filters-and-sorting
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/credits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/data-updates
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/rate-limits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/search/introduction
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/search/reference