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Diffbot pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

Diffbot's sitellms.txtBest cached people search API in 2026
69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 493 priced plans is Apollo, $588 yearly, at $0.00033 per 1,000.
Plan: Free one of Diffbot's 5 plans
Call: GET /kg/v3/dql Diffbot's only call
API: Cached people search API one of Diffbot's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get people from Diffbot's database. Diffbot doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 9 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Certifications, Languages.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits a month, enough for 400 results. Unused credits expire at the monthly refresh, no rollover.
  • One call. You send query (in DQL) to GET /kg/v3/dql. You can also send type, from, size, filter, filterExclude, jsonmode, nonCanonicalFacts and report. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone 13 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Diffbot: 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 stored data, not live data, like this plan.

This planDiffbot, free, FreeGetProspect, freeQuickEnrich, freeAnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/people_search.prospeograph8, freeCoresignal, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness69%15%8%31%15%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for400 results a monthno limit300 results a monthabout 1 page, onceno limitno limit
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone 13 or overanyone 16 or overanyoneone new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listverified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposesthe first to sign up with a business email from each company email domain

Every cached people search API provider we score, ranked

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. kg.diffbot.com/kg/ontology
  2. diffbot.com
  3. diffbot.com/company/privacy
  4. diffbot.com/company/terms
  5. diffbot.com/docs/credits
  6. diffbot.com/docs/dql/
  7. diffbot.com/docs/dql/concepts/origin
  8. diffbot.com/docs/dql/faq/data-sourcing
  9. diffbot.com/docs/dql/get
  10. diffbot.com/docs/dql/reference/query-types
  11. diffbot.com/docs/ontology/person
  12. diffbot.com/docs/rate-limits
  13. diffbot.com/pricing
  14. diffbot.com/products/knowledge-graph
  15. diffbot.com/technology

Product details

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

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications
  • Languages
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsDatabar: your key 0 credits a call on the Build or Scale plan, paid, page size not stated · treg: your key free, paid $29.90 per 1,000 results
Charges
Perresult
Most per searchno limit
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract API · Natural Language API · Web Search API · Search (DQL) API for organizations · Search (DQL) API for job postings · Enhance API for an organization · Enhance API for a person
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the Knowledge Graph using DQL
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataUSE RESTRICTIONS [...] You agree that you will not: sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share, or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party (However, you may display and use the facts generated by the Service as part of a commercial application.), use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities, use the Service to attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group, use another user’s account without permission, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Site or Service, modify, adapt or hack the Service to, or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks, use the API or the Data in any manner that violates the rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or rights of publicity, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service, bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Site or Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Site or Service or harvest or manipulate data, or publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser, computer, or mobile device.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 credits a month
Enough for400 results a month
Expiresat the monthly refresh, no rollover
Rate limit
Per second0.083
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery (in DQL). Optional: type, from, size, filter, filterExclude, jsonmode, nonCanonicalFacts, report
MethodGET
Path/kg/v3/dql
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 13 or over
The 77 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity ID, Diffbot URI, entity type, entity types, name, name parts, all names, summary, description, all descriptions, descriptors, image, images, homepage URL, all URIs, URI details, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, Facebook URL, Instagram URL, YouTube URL, GitHub URL, Google+ URL, AngelList URL, Crunchbase URL, blog URL, Wikipedia URL, email addresses, phone numbers, location, locations, employment history, education, skills, languages, interests, industries of employers, colleagues, articles written, awards, follower count, net worth, NPI numbers, SEP professional license numbers (Mexico), age, gender, birth date, birth place, death date, death place, nationalities, height, weight, eye color, religion, political affiliation, parents, children, siblings, unions, importance, incoming edges, crawl timestamp, origins, number of origins, origin details, origin hashes, non-canonical facts, Wikipedia pageviews last month, Wikipedia pageviews month-over-month growth, Wikipedia pageviews last quarter, Wikipedia pageviews quarter-over-quarter growth, Wikipedia pageviews last year, Wikipedia pageviews year-over-year growth, total results, score, KG version

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