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The Companies API pricing and alternatives: cached similar companies API

The Companies API's sitellms.txt
92% complete: 12 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 44 plans we rank by price is Tomba, pay as you go, at $0.125 per 1,000.
Plan: Free one of The Companies API's 7 plans
Call: GET /v2/companies/similar The Companies API's only call
API: Cached similar companies API one of The Companies API's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get similar companies from The Companies API's database. The Companies API doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 12 of the 13 key fields we check. Match, Description, Industry and type, Images, Technologies, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Revenue, Domain, Followers, Contact.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits, enough for 500 results.
  • One call. You send domains to GET /v2/companies/similar. You can also send page, proximityExact, proximityTerm, simplified, size, sortFields, sortKey and sortOrder. The call returns companies similar to the companies you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The Companies API: cached similar companies API alternatives

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

The Companies API, $2,950 yearlyExtruct, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/companies/{company_identifier}/similarTomba, $49 monthlyCompanyEnrich, $549 monthly, Scale, POST /companies/similar, Find similarOcean.io, $3,000 yearly
$ per 1,000$0.983$0.392$0.784$5.49$10.00
Completeness92%46%15%85%92%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,950$49$49$549$3,000
Enough for250,000 results a month500 pages a month2,500 pages a month100,000 results a month300,000 results a year
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, for internal business or professional useanyone 18 or overanyone of legal ageanyone with a company email (no Gmail or other personal address)

Cached similar companies API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

  1. api.thecompaniesapi.com/v2/openapi
  2. thecompaniesapi.com/
  3. thecompaniesapi.com/api
  4. thecompaniesapi.com/api/datapoints
  5. thecompaniesapi.com/api/enrich-company-from-email
  6. thecompaniesapi.com/api/rate-limits
  7. thecompaniesapi.com/api/search-similar-companies
  8. thecompaniesapi.com/pricing
  9. thecompaniesapi.com/product/terms

Product details

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

  • Match
  • Description
  • Industry and type
  • Images
  • Technologies
  • Employees
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding
  • Revenue
  • Domain
  • Followers
  • Contact
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Enrich a company from a domain · Enrich a company from an email · Enrich a company from a social network url · Search companies · Search companies by name · Search companies using a prompt · Ask questions about a company using our AI model · Fetch the context of a company
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSend us one or more domains and we will return a list of similar companies.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use data4.1. You may only access and utilise the Site, Service and Data for your internal business purposes only and in accordance with the applicable law or regulation(s) [...]. 3.3. [...] this license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Site, Service or the Data, any derivative use of the Site, Service or the Data or any use of data mining, scraping, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction software, technology or tools. 5.1. [...] you may not do, permit, or authorise the doing of any of the following acts in relation to the Site or Services: in a way that is unlawful, [...] use in any manner in which simultaneous access by multiple unauthorised users is permitted, use a personal or proxy account to register an account with the Company to access and utilise the Site for the purposes of downloading, transferring or copying Data for the benefit of another merchant or business, frame, inline link or utilise other techniques to associate or juxtapose any of the Company's name, logos, or other materials with advertisements and/or other information not originating from the Site, translate, edit, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Site or attempt to do so.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough for500 results
Rate limit
Batch100
The call
You senddomains. Optional: page, proximityExact, proximityTerm, simplified, size, sortFields, sortKey, sortOrder
MethodGET
Path/v2/companies/similar
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 132 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company type, industries, industry, languages, name, alternative names, legal name, employee range, employee count, year closed, founded year, founding place, Lighthouse accessibility score, Lighthouse best practices score, Lighthouse performance score, Lighthouse SEO score, max server latency, page font count, page request count, page script count, page stylesheet count, page task count, cumulative layout shift, largest contentful paint, time to interactive, total blocking time, estimated monthly visits, published app ID, published app name, published app rating, published app review count, published app type, published apps, primary color, cover image, logos, NAICS code, SIC code, acquisitions, parent company, subsidiaries, contact category, emails, LINE accounts, phone numbers, WhatsApp numbers, podcasts, podcast rating, podcast review count, Knowledge Graph description, LinkedIn description, description, tagline, website description, Wikipedia description, alias domains, domain registered date, domain, alternate domains, domain name, domain expiry date, NSFW, redirects to, domain registrant country, domain registrant phone, domain registrar, root domain, website status, HTTP status, domain TLD, domain updated date, estimated revenue range, stock exchange, ticker, coordinates, street address, city, ZIP code, continent, country code, country, county, state, data score, source count, last indexed, email patterns, followers, following, social profile ID, social likes, social members, social monthly views, social posts, social rating, social review count, social talking about count, social profiles, social video count, social check-ins, technologies, technology category, technology detected at, technology detection method, technology versions, about us page, blog URL, careers page, contact page, Crunchbase URL, developers page, docs page, events page, Glassdoor URL, partnership page, pricing page, privacy policy page, domain registrar URL, Sales Navigator URL, sitemap URL, status page, terms page, updates page, website URL, Wellfound URL, Wikidata URL, Wikipedia URL, embedding vector, similarity score, similar attributes, total results

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