Instantly pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

Instantly's site llms.txt Best cached people search API in 2026

15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$9 monthlyThe cheapest of the 493 priced plans is Apollo, $588 yearly, at $0.00033 per 1,000.

Plan: Nano credits one of Instantly's 21 plans

Call: POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch Instantly's only call

POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch$9 monthly

API: Cached people search API one of Instantly's 4 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get people from Instantly's database. Instantly doesn't say how old its data is.
2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
A monthly subscription. You pay $9 for 150 credits. Unused credits expire 2 months after purchase.
One call. You send search_filters to POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Instantly: cached people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans billed monthly. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

	This planInstantly, $9 monthly	GetProspect, $49 monthly	QuickEnrich, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /api/employees/contact-finder	graph8, $99 monthly	Hunter, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /multi-domain-search
$ per 1,000	not published	no limit	not published	no limit	no limit
Completeness	15%	15%	15%	15%	8%
Billing	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$9	$49	$29	$99	$49
Enough for	not published	no limit	not published	no limit	no limit
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone with authority to bind the entity they represent, on an Outbound plan, which API access comes with	anyone 16 or over	anyone	verified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposes	anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)

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 2026-10-23.

Product details

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

Experience
Education, not in the answer
Skills, not in the answer
Headline, not in the answer
About, not in the answer
Location
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
Billing	monthly
$ a month	$9

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Work email enrichment · Lead Verification · Fully Enriched Profile · AI Enrichment · Job Listings · Technologies · News · Funding Type · Engagement Score · AI Reply Agent · AI Sales Agent · AI Recruiting Agent · AI Investment Agent · AI User Research Agent · AI Partnership Agent · Website Visitors · Find Local Businesses · Find Creators

In their words
Their pitch	Preview the leads matching a SuperSearch query without enriching them

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	no limit
Use data	Subscriber shall not, and shall procure that its Users shall not: [...] (k) engage in any Data Resale Activity or otherwise provide, disclose, or make available any data obtained from or through the Instantly Service to any third party, except as strictly necessary to achieve the Permitted Purpose through Subscriber’s own employees or service providers bound by written confidentiality and processor obligations, (l) disclose, provide access to, or make available Outputs, Performance Data, Third-Party Data, Visitor ID Information, Warmup data, or any other data obtained through the Instantly Service to any third party, except to Subscriber’s processors who (i) act on Subscriber’s documented instructions solely for the Permitted Purpose, and (ii) are bound by written terms at least as protective as this Agreement, (m) use the Instantly Service or data obtained through it to build, train, or augment any public or commercial dataset, data product, contact list, look-alike audience, data broker service, or competitive database, (n) upload to or merge any such data into any public or shared repository or any tool designed for third-party access, resale, or redistribution, (o) circumvent, mask, or remove any flags, validity determinations, or other Performance Data indicators when providing data to any third party, or (p) use Supersearch/enrichment outputs or Visitor ID Information for any purpose other than the Permitted Purpose [...] "Permitted Purpose" means Subscriber’s business use of the Instantly Service to manage and conduct Subscriber’s own direct business-to-business (B2B) sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities of Subscriber, and expressly excludes any Data Resale Activity.

Plan
Pay	$9
You get	150 credits a month
Expires	2 months after purchase

Rate limit
Per second	100
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	search_filters. Optional: search_filters.company_list_id, search_filters.locations, search_filters.department, search_filters.level, search_filters.employeeCount, search_filters.revenue, search_filters.news, search_filters.jobListing, search_filters.title, search_filters.name, search_filters.company_name, search_filters.look_alike, search_filters.technologies, search_filters.funding_type, search_filters.location_mode, search_filters.keyword_filter, search_filters.industry, search_filters.subIndustry, search_filters.domains, search_filters.website_visitors, search_filters.signals, skip_owned_leads, show_one_lead_per_company
Method	POST
Path	/api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch

About the plan
Plan	Nano credits
Who can get it	anyone with authority to bind the entity they represent, on an Outbound plan, which API access comes with

The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, redacted results, first name, last name, full name, job title, location, LinkedIn URL, company name, company logo, company ID, already owned, identity hidden