# Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Instant): Company discovery API

> Describe the people or companies you need and retrieve a large candidate set at interactive speed.

Bright Data's company discovery API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.02 per 1,000 companies. It returns 10 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Parents.
Half of the 729 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 76% of the 729 plans.
[StackScan's $189 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stackscan/189-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-tech-lookup-lists/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000015. StackScan's $189 monthly plan covers up to 259,200 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 500,000 companies.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly-starter-post-discover/llms.txt) and [PeopleSearch.im](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-company-search-companies-instant
- [Best company discovery API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.brightdata.com/search/company`, Search companies (Instant)
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/business-search/search-company?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bright Data (https://brightdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Parents: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 52.2
- Price score: 39
- Accuracy score: 85
- Cost to get started score: 70
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 10

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.02
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $2.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Describe the people or companies you need and retrieve a large candidate set at interactive speed.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Client shall not use the Services in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights) and not use the Service in any manner or for any purpose other than as stated in the intended use case provided to Bright Data, if applicable. [...] the Client will only use the Service in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy, as may be amended from time to time. [...] When using the Data Services, the Client shall not distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer, or sell any Data in order to offer a similar or competitive product. [...] Client’s use of the data collector service is subject to all applicable laws, including without limitation data protection and privacy laws. To the extent applicable to processing of personal data, Client is solely responsible for determining the lawful grounds, providing notices, respecting data subject rights and all other related obligations. [...] Bright Data’s platform, technology, and network (collectively, “Services”) are meant for legitimate and legal purposes only and are subject to the Bright Data Master Service Agreement. [...] Any use of the Bright Data Services for illegal, fraudulent, or abusive activities is strictly prohibited. [...] Forbidden activities include, but are not limited to: Collection of nonpublic information (i.e data behind login), DDoS attacks, Spam: mass posting any mail/message boards/IRC/comments messages and images, Ad fraud or click fraud, Impersonation or spoofing for fraudulent purposes, Creating fake accounts or content, Use of automatic ticket purchasing (ticket-bots), Raffles, lottery, or gambling, Fake engagement (likes, comments, shares, etc.), Gaming or trading of in games items/currency, Reselling of proxies without Bright Data’s prior written approval (see our partners programs), Use of streaming related domains (videos, music or images streaming), Trading crypto/virtual currency or NFT, Any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manipulation (i.e: fake clicks in search engines results), Posting on classified, used, and resell sites (such as Craig’s list), Completion of surveys in return for a benefit or anything of value, Any form of activity that is in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.02 s

## The call

- You send: mode "instant", query. Optional: source, view, offset, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /search/company

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a business email (Beta early access), not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon

## The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

Bright ID, company ID, LinkedIn ID, name, slogan, industry, headquarters location, headquarters country code, headquarters city, office cities, office country codes, office addresses, directions URL, company size from, company size to, LinkedIn employee count, LinkedIn followers, LinkedIn follower to employee ratio, website, domain, LinkedIn URL, logo, image, scraped at, about, specialties, organization type, founded year, funding stage, funding raised, investor names, similar company IDs, affiliated company IDs, Crunchbase ID, alumni count, alumni information, employee IDs, total results, coverage percent, request ID

## Bright Data's plans (1)

- [Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Instant)](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-company-search-companies-instant/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 77% complete, 1 month

## Bright Data's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /search/company`, Search companies (Instant): [Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Instant)](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-company-search-companies-instant/llms.txt)
- `POST /search/company`, Search companies (Ludicrous): [Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Ludicrous)](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-company-search-companies-ludicrous/llms.txt)
- `POST /search/company`, Search companies (Smart): [Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Smart)](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-company-search-companies-smart/llms.txt)

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## Bright Data: company discovery API alternatives

- [overheid.io, €40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/overheid-io/40-monthly/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day (street, house number, postal code, city, country, mailing address: 1 week)
- [apipj, R$599.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apipj/r-599-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [GloryCloud, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/glorycloud/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://brightdata.com/acceptable-use-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightdata.com/legal-governance?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightdata.com/license?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightdata.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightdata.com/products/business-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/business-search/search-company.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/general/policy/acceptable-use-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/company-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/error-codes.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/introduction.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pagination.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/select-fields.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/scrapers-library/faqs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing