Shovels pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

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

8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 people

Plan: Free one of Shovels's 4 plans

Call: GET /addresses/{geo_id}/residents one of Shovels's 2 calls

API: Cached people search API one of Shovels's 3 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 2 weeks old. You get people from Shovels's database.
1 of the 13 key fields we check. Location.
Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 results. Credits reset monthly.
One call. You send geo_id to GET /addresses/{geo_id}/residents. You can also send cursor and size. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: while this Agreement is in effect. Use data: with conditions.

Shovels: 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 planShovels, free	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
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	8%	85%	0%	85%	31%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	500 results a month	about 5 results, once	100 results, once	1,000 results, once	100 pages a month
Freshness	2 weeks	30 days	1 month	1 day	1 month
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes	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

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From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

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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
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	10
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search Contractors · Get Contractors By Id · Search Permits · Get Permits By Id

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	This returns contact info like name, phone, and email for occupants associated with the address.

Data
Freshness	2 weeks
Keep data	while this Agreement is in effect
Use data	Shovels data is licensed for your internal business use. You can use it for internal research, prospecting, lead generation, building it into your own product (API customers), exporting and storing it internally, sharing with colleagues, and contacting contractors or property owners directly. You cannot upload it to ad platforms for audience targeting, resell or redistribute it, share it externally without written permission, or use it to build a competing data product. [...] a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use such Data (or Third-Party Content) solely for its internal business purposes while this Agreement is in effect. [...] Customer shall not at any time, directly or indirectly, and shall not permit any of its employees, contractors, agents, or users (“Authorized Users”) to: (i) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Services, in whole or in part, (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of the Services, in whole or in part, (iii) remove any proprietary notices from the Services, (iv) use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, or (v) use the Services for the purpose of competing with Shovels’ business or gathering information for a competitor or potential competitor of Shovels’ business. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to, resell, transfer, distribute, publish, sublicense, or otherwise make available the Services or the Data (or any portion thereof), nor to copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or the Data (including any datasets, models, data products, or other works that are based on or trained on the Data), except as expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Shovels.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	500 credits a month
Enough for	500 results a month
Expires	credits reset monthly

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	geo_id. Optional: cursor, size
Method	GET
Path	/addresses/{geo_id}/residents

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes

The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, personal email, phone, LinkedIn URL, net worth, income range, homeowner, street number, street, city, state, ZIP code, ZIP code extension, total results

Shovels pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

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