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Bright Data pricing: company discovery API, POST /search/company, Search companies (Ludicrous)

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77% complete: 10 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.02per 1,000 companiesHalf of the 725 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 725 plans.StackScan's $189 monthly plan 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 covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go Bright Data's only plan
Call: POST /search/company, Search companies (Ludicrous) one of Bright Data's 3 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of Bright Data's 60 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get companies from Bright Data's database.
  • 10 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Parents.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search/company. You set mode to "ludicrous". You can also send source, view, offset and limit. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Bright Data: company discovery API alternatives

Bright Data alternatives: every company discovery API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

This planBright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search/company, Search companies (Ludicrous)overheid.io, €40 monthlyapipj, R$599.90 monthlyReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/searchGloryCloud, $1,199 monthly
$ per 1,000 companies$0.02$0.018$0.02$0.02$0.02
Completeness77%23%23%23%8%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Payany amount€40R$599.90$50$1,199
Enough foras many as you pay for25,000 pages a month6,000,000 results a month50,000 pages a month1,500,000 pages a month
Freshness1 month1 day (street, house number, postal code, city, country, mailing address: 1 week)1 monthlivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a business email (Beta early access), not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone who registers an accountanyone aged 18 or over, or a company through an authorized representativeanyoneanyone

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.

  1. brightdata.com/acceptable-use-policy
  2. brightdata.com/legal-governance
  3. brightdata.com/license
  4. brightdata.com/llms.txt
  5. brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper
  6. brightdata.com/products/business-search-api
  7. docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/business-search/search-company.md
  8. docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier
  9. docs.brightdata.com/general/policy/acceptable-use-policy
  10. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/company-search.md
  11. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/error-codes.md
  12. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/introduction.md
  13. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pagination.md
  14. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/pricing.md
  15. docs.brightdata.com/products/business-search/select-fields.md
  16. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction
  17. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/scrapers-library/faqs

Product details

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

  • Description
  • Industry
  • Type and status
  • Images
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Social profiles
  • Headquarters
  • Locations
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.02
Perpage of 100
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$2.00
In their words
Their pitchRun field conditions exactly as your application defines them.
Data
Freshness1 month
CountriesWorldwide
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe 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 second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendmode "ludicrous", query. Optional: source, view, offset, limit
MethodPOST
Path/search/company
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone 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

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