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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 298 plans we rank by price is Apollo, $65 monthly, at $0.00043 per 1,000 people. Apollo's plan covers up to 1,500,000 calls a month at no extra cost. The $0.00043 price is for calls that return 100 people each.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best cached people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /founders ExploreYC's only call for this API
API: Cached people search API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get people from ExploreYC's database.
  • None of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day, enough for 5 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You call GET /founders. Every input is optional: metric, batch, limit, offset. The call returns the matching people.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: cached people search API alternatives

The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ExploreYC, $50 monthlyPubrio, $495 packAutobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contactsThe Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/fetchSumble, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v9/people, People
$ per 1,000 people$0.033$1.08$3.478$4.00$10.00
Completeness0%31%38%85%23%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstyearlymonthly
Pay$50$495$40,000$96,000$99
Enough for500 pages a dayas many as you pay for11,500,000 results24,000,000 results a year9,900 results a month
Freshness1 day1 day1 day1 day1 day
Who can get itanyoneAI agents with a registered agent credential, for themselves or their human, through Pubrio's agent storefront, business use only, of ageanyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposesanyone over 18anyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age'), a subscription per user (the pricing page: 'USD 99/month', the terms: 'only by Authorized Users for whom you have purchased a valid subscription or seat license')

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 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/pricing

Product details

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

  • Experience, not in the answer
  • 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 people$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Company by slug · Full-text company search · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder profile + stats + companies
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRanked Y Combinator founder leaderboards — the people behind the companies.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 pages a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: metric, batch, limit, offset
MethodGET
Path/founders
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

founder, derived stats, rank

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