Smartlead pricing and alternatives: cached people search API, POST /search-contacts

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

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

$94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contactsThe cheapest of the 223 plans we rank by price is Apollo, $65 monthly, at $0.00043 per 1,000.

Plan: Pro one of Smartlead's 6 plans

Call: POST /search-contacts one of Smartlead's 2 calls

API: Cached people search API one of Smartlead's 2 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get people from Smartlead's database. Smartlead doesn't say how old its data is.
2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
A monthly subscription. You pay $94.
One call. You send limit to POST /search-contacts. The call returns the matching people.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Smartlead: 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.

	This planSmartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contacts	GetProspect, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v2/people/search, People Search	QuickEnrich, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /api/employees/contact-finder	graph8, $99 monthly	Instantly, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000	not published	no limit	not published	no limit	not published
Completeness	15%	15%	15%	15%	15%
Billing	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$94	$49	$29	$99	$9
Enough for	not published	no limit	not published	no limit	not published
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone	anyone 16 or over	anyone	verified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposes	anyone with authority to bind the entity they represent, on an Outbound plan, which API access comes with

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

Score
Overall score	27.6
Price score	0
Data score	42
Cost to get started score	74
Bundle score	50
Performance score	12

Price
Billing	monthly
$ a month	$94

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	PATCH /campaigns/{id}/status (email sends: 90,000 a month)

In their words
Their pitch	Search for contacts with filters

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	We may remove or delete all User Data after one month has passed from the day of termination
Use data	for your ordinary business use or as otherwise set out in the Fair Use Policy and your Subscription Plan. You must not: use the Service for any purpose other than the Permitted Purpose, use the Service in any way which is in breach of any applicable laws or which infringes any person’s rights, including Intellectual Property Rights, use the Service to conduct fraudulent activity [...], use the Service for the purpose of sending unsolicited commercial electronic messages or making unsolicited phonecalls, as defined by the Spam Laws, use bots or other automated tools to operate the Service other than automated tools provided by Smartlead in the Service, [...] resell, assign, transfer, distribute or make available the Service to third parties without our prior written consent

Plan
Pay	$94

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.87 s

The call
You send	limit. Optional: name, firstName, lastName, title, excludeTitle, excludeCompany, excludeCompanyDomain, includeTitle, includeCompany, includeCompanyDomain, department, level, companyName, companyDomain, companyKeyword, companyHeadCount, companyRevenue, companyIndustry, companySubIndustry, city, state, country, dontDisplayOwnedContact, scroll_id, titleExactMatch, companyExactMatch, companyDomainExactMatch
Method	POST
Path	/search-contacts

About the plan
Plan	Pro
Who can get it	anyone

The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, message, person ID, first name, last name, full name, job title, company name, company website, department, level, industry, sub-industry, company headcount, company revenue, country, state, city, email, LinkedIn URL, email deliverability, address, scroll ID, filter ID, total results