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Swarmhit pricing and alternatives: cached people search API

Swarmhit's sitellms.txtBest cached people search API in 2026
38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 223 plans we rank by price is Apollo, $65 monthly, at $0.00043 per 1,000.
Plan: Free trial one of Swarmhit's 16 plans
Call: POST /database/people/search Swarmhit's only call
API: Cached people search API one of Swarmhit's 8 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 week old. You get people from Swarmhit's database.
  • 5 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Headline, Location, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You call POST /database/people/search with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Swarmhit: 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 week old.

This planSwarmhit, freeAnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/people_search.lushaThe Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetchAutobound, free, Free, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contactsLusha, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness38%15%85%38%15%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishedabout 1 page, once1,000 results, once1,000 results, once1,000 results a month
Freshness1 week1 week1 day1 day1 week
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and authorized to bind their organization, with a LinkedIn account to connect as a senderone new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone over 18anyone who signs up, no credit card requiredanyone 18 or over with a business email

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 2026-10-24.

  1. app.swarmhit.com/openapi.yaml
  2. developer.swarmhit.com/database
  3. swarmhit.com/acceptable-use
  4. swarmhit.com/channels/linkedin
  5. swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/profile-visit
  6. swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/sales-navigator-import
  7. swarmhit.com/pricing
  8. swarmhit.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo
  • 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
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat freenever
Perresult
Also pays forSend a connection request · Message a connection · Send an InMail · Visit a profile · Follow a lead · Look up a profile · Like the lead's last post · Comment on the lead's last post · Start a LinkedIn search import · from the same budget: Search companies in the database · Enrich a person · Enrich a company · Find a person's email · Find a person's phone · Find a lead's email or phone · Find emails or phones for many leads
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchNo Sales Navigator? Search Swarmhit's database of 1B+ contacts across 60M companies, refreshed weekly, through /database/people/search.
Data
Freshness1 week
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou will not use Swarmhit to: Send unlawful, harassing, deceptive, or discriminatory messages. Impersonate another person or business or misrepresent your affiliation. Scrape, resell, or sublicense Swarmhit’s data, software, or AI outputs. Bypass the sending limits, safeguards, rate limits, or other technical controls we apply. Send messages to prospects in jurisdictions where you lack a lawful basis (for example, B2C contacts under GDPR or CASL without consent). [...] You own your customer content. You grant Swarmhit a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, transmit, and process that content strictly to provide the service. [...] Purchased, scraped, enriched, licensed, or publicly available data may be used only where Customer has assessed the source, rights, notice obligations, accuracy, and lawful basis for the intended use. [...] Customer must not: [...] bypass throttling, rate limits, safety controls, account limits, technical restrictions, or verification measures, use bots, scripts, or tools outside supported functionality to interfere with the Services, create excessive Accounts or use multiple Accounts to evade enforcement, probe, scan, or test Swarmhit systems without written authorization, use the Services in a way that degrades reliability for others.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendat least one of filters.titles, filters.excludeTitles, filters.pastTitles, filters.seniorities, filters.departments, filters.functions, filters.keywords, filters.keywordInProfile, filters.minTenure, filters.maxTenure, filters.minYearsExperience, filters.maxYearsExperience, filters.recentlyChangedJobs, filters.companyNames, filters.pastCompanyNames, filters.companyDomains, filters.industries, filters.companyTypes, filters.companyHqCountries, filters.headcountRanges, filters.locations, filters.states, filters.countries, filters.continents, filters.fullName, filters.languages, filters.skills, filters.schools, filters.degrees, filters.fieldsOfStudy, filters.hasVerifiedEmail. Optional: filters.excludeExisting, limit, cursor
MethodPOST
Path/database/people/search
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and authorized to bind their organization, with a LinkedIn account to connect as a sender
The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, name, first name, last name, headline, job title, location, country, profile picture, LinkedIn URL, current company name, current company job title, current company domain, current company LinkedIn URL, current company ID, current company employee count, current company employee count range, current company industries, current job start date, current job end date, past companies, education school, education degree, education field of study, years of experience, saved as lead, has business email, has personal email, has phone, next cursor, total results

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