# Smartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contacts: Cached people search API

> Search for contacts with filters

Smartlead's cached people search API on its Pro plan. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Location.
The cheapest of the 223 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-search-contacts
- [Best cached people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-cached-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.smartlead.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.smartlead.ai/api-reference/smart-prospect/search-contacts
- Sold by: Smartlead (https://www.smartlead.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓
- Location: ✓

## 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: 0.83 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

## Smartlead's plans (6)

- [Smartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $174 monthly, Unlimited Smart, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/174-monthly-unlimited-smart-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $379 monthly, Unlimited Prime, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/379-monthly-unlimited-prime-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $939.60 yearly, Pro (billed annually), POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/939-60-yearly-pro-billed-annually-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $1,734 yearly, Unlimited Smart (billed annually), POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/1734-yearly-unlimited-smart-billed-annually-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $3,775.20 yearly, Unlimited Prime (billed annually), POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/3775-20-yearly-unlimited-prime-billed-annually-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored

## Smartlead's calls (2)

- `POST /fetch-contacts`: [Smartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /fetch-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-fetch-contacts/llms.txt)
- `POST /search-contacts`: [Smartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-search-contacts/llms.txt)

## Smartlead's APIs (2)

- [Smartlead: email finder API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/smartlead/94-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Smartlead: cached people search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-search-contacts/llms.txt)

## Smartlead: cached people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /api/employees/contact-finder](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/quickenrich/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [graph8, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/graph8/99-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt): 15% 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 2026-10-23.

- https://api.smartlead.ai/api-reference/smart-prospect/search-contacts.md
- https://smartlead.ai/b2b-lead-finder
- https://www.smartlead.ai/fair-use-policy
- https://www.smartlead.ai/llms.txt
- https://www.smartlead.ai/new-terms-and-conditions
- https://www.smartlead.ai/pricing
- https://www.smartlead.ai/pricing.md