# Seltz, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, base: Cached people search API

> This scope is useful for questions about people, such as their professional background, current role, and career history.

Seltz's cached people search API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Certifications, Languages, Recommendations.
The cheapest of the 278 plans we rank by price is [Apollo, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/apollo/65-monthly/llms.txt), at $0.00043 per 1,000 people.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/quickenrich/399-monthly-gtm-unlimited-post-api-employees-contact-finder/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best cached people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://seltz.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.seltz.ai/v1/search`, Search, base
- API key: with the plan, on https://seltz.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/search
- Sold by: Seltz (https://seltz.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓
- Recommendations: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 1,000
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, pro · Answer · Fetch · Monitor · Agent

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This scope is useful for questions about people, such as their professional background, current role, and career history.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not [...] (ii) store, aggregate, or reuse Output to serve multiple End Customers or requests, (iii) use the Output to create, compile, or build a dataset or database
- Use data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not (i) reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or otherwise make available any Third-Party Data on a standalone basis, [...] (iv) commercialize, resell, or sublicense the Output or any Third-Party Data or (v) represent that Output was human-generated when it is not, you may not [...] (iii) use Output from the Platform to develop models that compete with Seltz, (iv) use the Platform for the purpose of benchmarking, performance testing, or competitive analysis, or publicly disclose the results of any such activities, without Seltz’s prior written consent, (v) use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Platform, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction, you may use the free tier for non-commercial purposes only, if you make the Platform or any Output available to third parties or end users as part of your products or services, you must enter into a binding written agreement with each End Customer that contains terms that are no less protective of Seltz

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $20
- Enough for: about 6,666 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, scope "people", tier "base". Optional: max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, from_date, to_date, fields.content, fields.content.max_characters_per_result, fields.snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets_per_result, fields.snippets.max_tokens, fields.snippets.max_tokens_per_result
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, for non-commercial use only

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, URL, content, published date, snippets, name, headline, location, connections count, followers count, recommendations count, about, experience, education, skills, languages, certifications, awards and honors, organizations, projects, volunteer experience, recommendations, websites

## Seltz's plans (4)

- [Seltz, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Seltz, free, Seltz for startups, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-seltz-for-startups-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt): $0.003 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Seltz, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt): 69% complete, stored

## Seltz's calls (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, base: [Seltz, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, pro: [Seltz, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)

## Seltz's APIs (3)

- [Seltz: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: cached company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: cached people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: cached web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: cached web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)

## Seltz: cached people search API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402 and MPP, POST /v1/run/people_search.quickenrich](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-and-mpp-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [LeadMagic, $4,990 yearly, Professional, POST /v3/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/leadmagic/4990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Enrich.so, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /lead-finder/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/enrich-so/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Fundable, $100 monthly, Pro+, GET /person/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/fundable/100-monthly-pro-get-person-search/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/search
- https://docs.seltz.ai/data/people
- https://docs.seltz.ai/pricing
- https://seltz.ai
- https://seltz.ai/pricing
- https://seltz.ai/terms