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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: cached people enrichment API

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest people enrichment API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 61 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, at $0.042 per 1,000 people. GetLeads's plan covers up to 6,000,000 people a month at no extra cost.Context.dev, Autobound and Reverse Contact are the best cached people enrichment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /founders/{slug} ExploreYC's only call for this API
API: Cached people enrichment API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get profiles from ExploreYC's database.
  • None of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send slug to GET /founders/{slug}.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: cached people enrichment API alternatives

The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ExploreYC, $50 monthlySumble, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v9/people, PeopleImplisense, €379 pack
$ per 1,000 people$3.333$10.00$171.046
Completeness0%23%0%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$50$99€379
Enough for500 calls a day9,900 results a month2,500 calls
Freshness1 day1 day1 day
Who can get itanyoneanyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age'), a subscription per user (the pricing page: 'USD 99/month', the terms: 'only by Authorized Users for whom you have purchased a valid subscription or seat license')businesses (§ 14 BGB), legal entities under public law and special funds under public law, not consumers

Every cached people enrichment 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 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/pricing

Product details

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, not in the answer
  • 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 people$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Company by slug · Full-text company search · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder leaderboards (ranked)
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne founder: derived stats, the YC companies they built, every leaderboard rank, and enrichment.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendslug
MethodGET
Path/founders/{slug}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

founder, derived stats, companies, leaderboard ranks, enrichment

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