Kendo pricing and alternatives: cached people enrichment API

Kendo's site llms.txt Best 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 49 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, at $0.042 per 1,000.

Plan: Free one of Kendo's 10 plans

Call: GET /linkedinbyname Kendo's only call

GET /linkedinbynameFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Cached people enrichment API one of Kendo's 7 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get profiles from Kendo's database. Kendo doesn't say how old its data is.
None of the 13 key fields we check.
Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 50 calls.
One call. You call GET /linkedinbyname. You send first, last and domain. The call returns the person's profile.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Kendo: cached people enrichment API alternatives

The table starts with Kendo's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Kendo's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

	Kendo, $1,239 yearly	Parsers VC, $19 monthly, Starter, GET /persons, List people	Context.dev, $3,000 yearly	Reverse Contact, $5,000 pack	Bytemine, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000	$10.325	$9.50	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00
Completeness	0%	15%	46%	100%	8%
Billing	yearly	monthly	yearly	pay first	monthly
Pay	$1,239	$19	$3,000	$5,000	$1,000
Enough for	10,000 calls a month	2,000 results a month	25,000 results a month	500,000 calls	100,000 results a month
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or business the account is for	anyone	anyone aged 18 or over	professionals acting in their professional capacity, not as consumers	business users only: 18 or over, acting on behalf of a company

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 2026-10-21.

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	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	call
Also pays for	from the same budget: Get person linkedin by providing name and email address (/linkedinbyemail, 1 credit each) · Get person email by providing linkedin profile id (/emailbylinkedin, 1 credit each) · Get person email by person name and company (/emailbyname) · Get person first and last name behind email address (/namebyemail, 0.4 credits each) · Get leads by company domain (/companyleads) · Get company domain lead info (/companyleadsinfo) · Get full company profile by domain (/companybydomain) · Get full company profile by company name (/companybyname)

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	get person linkedin by providing name and employee,each profile found costs 1 credit

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	Following termination of these Terms, you may only continue to use the data that was legally obtained through the Services that was stored on your systems during the Term, and subject to the Data Processing Agreement
Use data	You are only granted the right to use the Services and only for the purposes described by the Company in its Websites, these Terms, or any applicable Order or Subscription. You agree not to use, or permit any third party to use, the Services in a manner that violates any legislation or these Terms. You will not provide access to, or give any part of, the Services to any third party, other than setting access for other Users under your Account [...] you will not reproduce, modify, copy, sell, trade, lease, rent or resell the Services. [...] If you're developing an application to interact with the Company's APIs, you must license your application with the Company and meet certain usage, technical, and security requirements. [...] You and your company or business are not a data broker and are not entering into these Terms in order to resell the data received through the Services to third parties.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	50 credits a month
Enough for	50 calls a month

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	first, last, domain
Method	GET
Path	/linkedinbyname

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or business the account is for

The only field the plan's answer can hold

LinkedIn profile ID