MoltSets pricing and alternatives: cached people search API, POST /search_people

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

23% complete: 3 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 people

Plan: Free one of MoltSets's 5 plans

Call: POST /search_people one of MoltSets's 2 calls

API: Cached people search API one of MoltSets's 7 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 14 days old. You get people from MoltSets's database.
3 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Headline, Location.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 results.
One call. You call POST /search_people with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

MoltSets: 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 live data or data at most a month old, like this plan.

	This planMoltSets, free, Free, POST /search_people	AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark	Renidly, free	The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetch	People Data Labs, free, Free, GET /v5/person/identify	LeadIQ, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	23%	85%	0%	85%	31%	23%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	100 results, once	about 5 results, once	100 results, once	1,000 results, once	100 pages a month	500 results
Freshness	14 days	30 days	1 month	1 day	1 month	1 month
Who can get it	a company's employees or service providers of the age of majority, not a MoltSets competitor, with a work email on the company's domain (no Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Hotmail or iCloud, not a very recently registered domain), one account per company domain	anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone 18 or over with a work email (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted)	anyone over 18	anyone with a work email	anyone, for their internal business purpose only, 18 or over with authority to bind it when accepting for a company, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted list

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.

Experiencecurrent job
Education, not in the answer
Skills, not in the answer
Headline
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
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Most per search	100
Also pays for	LinkedIn to Best Email · LinkedIn to Business Email · LinkedIn to Personal Email (US-only) · LinkedIn to Best Personal Email (US-only) · Reverse Email Lookup · Reverse LinkedIn Lookup · Email to LinkedIn · IP to Company · Email to MAID · Business Email to SHA256 · LinkedIn to SHA256 · from the same budget: Search for Companies · Search for LinkedIn Profile · Search Business Email by Name · Search Business Profile by Name

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Find the right people at any company. Search by job title, seniority, department, industry, company size, or revenue to build targeted lists of decision-makers, each with a verified business email included.

Data
Freshness	14 days
Keep data	Customer may store Cached Data during the Term and only during the Term. [...] Upon termination of this Agreement, Customer must delete all Data it has received from MoltSets from the Term (including Cached Data) within 30 days of termination.
Use data	Customer may not open multiple accounts for its use under a self-serve offering or otherwise take any actions which would allow Customer to circumvent the credit or rate limits which apply to self-serve offerings. [...] Customer therefore may not use the Service, including any Output Data, to create any derivative work, service or product, on Customer's own or on behalf of any other organization, and Customer may not resell or re-license the Output Data in any manner or form. Subject to Customer's compliance with this Agreement and any Order Forms, Customer is granted a non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable license, throughout the term of Customer's subscription to: (i) use the Service solely for Customer's personal and/or internal business purposes, and (ii) store, print or make a copy of Output Data solely for Customer's personal or internal business purposes. [...] Customer may not resell, distribute or otherwise disclose or make available the Service, including any functionally similar or equivalent version of the Output Data (the "Resale Restriction"). [...] Customer may not access the Service, including any functionally similar or equivalent version of the Output Data, on behalf of any third-party entity or organization. Customer may not transmit information to or through the Service that is fake or fictitious, impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Customer's affiliation with a person or entity in connection with Customer's use of the Service. Customer may not develop any service, product, toolset, dataset or derivative work from the Service, whether in aggregated or non-aggregated form, and whether in identified or de-identified form. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service (in whole or in part). Customer may not access the Service or extract data from the Service in a way that exceeds Customer's authority from Company or violates this Agreement or other policies or restrictions Company has implemented. Customer may obtain Output Data solely through the APIs and interfaces provided by Company. Customer shall not use any other manual or automated means (including "data scraping," crawlers or bots) in order to access or obtain the Service. Customer may not leverage, consult with, use, review or rely upon the Service to develop or create a product or feature that is competitive with the Service (or any portion thereof). Customer may not remove any proprietary notices or labels. [...] Customer may not use the Service (including use of the Service to send email, mail, SMS, push notifications, fax, phone or other communications): to advertise or promote any illegal service or product (or send any other communications) that are illegal in the place offered or consumed. to advertise or promote tobacco or marijuana products, firearms, ammunition or other weapons, counterfeit or pirated goods or services, adult content or services (such as pornography or escort services), unlicensed gambling, investment schemes, astrology or psychic services, lotteries, credit repair services, payday loan services, or any type of hate speech. to violate any securities or commodities regulations. in a manner that violates any applicable laws, including without limitation any marketing or data privacy and security laws or industry best practices. In particular, Customer agrees not to use the Service in a manner that would violate the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), the U.S. TCPA, the Telemarketing Sales Rules or any similar such laws in any jurisdiction. to defraud, deceive, mislead, discriminate against, harass, libel or defame any person, group or entity. to promote any product or service that is in violation of any person's or entity's intellectual property rights. to threaten, promote or commit violence or fraud, or to violate any person's or entity's rights. for any purpose subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, including without limitation for the modeling of, or determination of, consumer credit worthiness, consumer credit approval, a consumer's eligibility for employment or insurance. [...] Without limitation of any of the above restrictions, Customer may not use the Services for the following: to send emails from a group distribution email such as hello@ or marketing@, etc. to send commercial emails without including appropriate opt-out mechanisms in or complying with applicable laws or best practices related to opt-outs or user choice and control principles. to use a fictional identity, pseudonym or alias to send emails. to send emails that generate an unacceptable (as determined in Company's reasonable and exclusive discretion) level of bounces, spam or complaints. to transmit material that contains or links to a virus, trojan horse, worm, or any malicious or harmful software program. to use Company's Service in conjunction with any unsolicited or harassing messages (commercial or otherwise) including but not limited to unsolicited emails, text messages or phone calls. [...] We designed our Fair Use Policy to have 5-hour windows that allow for bursts for the actual prospecting use case, while limiting weekly total records to prevent scraping our entire database.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits
Enough for	100 results, once

Rate limit
Concurrent	3
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	at least one of query, title, company, company_domain, country, state, city, seniority, industry, department, functional_area, employee_range, revenue_range, naics_code, linkedin_industry, User-Agent header. Optional: exclude_company_domain, exclude_country, exclude_state, exclude_industry, exclude_seniority, exclude_employee_range, limit, offset
Method	POST
Path	/search_people

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	a company's employees or service providers of the age of majority, not a MoltSets competitor, with a work email on the company's domain (no Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Hotmail or iCloud, not a very recently registered domain), one account per company domain

The 37 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, first name, last name, title, headline, seniority, city, state, country, current industry, functional area, LinkedIn URL, business email, business email risk score, business email validated at, current role start date, last updated at, company name, company size, company industry, company website URL, company domain, company LinkedIn URL, company NAICS codes, company NAICS titles, company LinkedIn industry, company logo URL, record ID, match score, total results, status, records remaining 5h, records reset 5h, records remaining 1w, records reset 1w, tokens used, tokens remaining