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Cala pricing: company discovery API, POST /v1/knowledge/query

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$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run Cala through our company discovery API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 881 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less.StackScan's $189 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. StackScan's $189 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as StackScan's rate limit allows.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 PeopleSearch.im are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Cala plan for that many companies. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Cala's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/knowledge/query one of Cala's 2 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of Cala's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Type and status.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 100 pages.
  • One call. You send input to POST /v1/knowledge/query. You can also send return_entities. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Cala: company discovery API alternatives

Cala alternatives: other company discovery API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

This planCala, free, POST /v1/knowledge/queryGetProspect, freeHunter, free, POST /discoverPeopleSearch.im, freeAnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness8%62%54%38%23%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 pages a monthno limit2,160,000 pages a monthno limitno limit
Freshnessunknownstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone 16 or overanyone 18 or overnew accountsanyone 18 or over, for their own internal business purposes

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. api.cala.ai/openapi.json
  2. cala.ai/pricing
  3. docs.cala.ai/api-reference/query.md
  4. docs.cala.ai/features/structured-answer
  5. docs.cala.ai/index.md
  6. docs.cala.ai/llms.txt

Product details

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

  • Description, not in the answer
  • Industry, not in the answer
  • Type and status
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees, not in the answer
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters, not in the answer
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet structured, typed JSON rows plus matching entities from Cala's knowledge base.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for100 pages a month
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendinput. Optional: return_entities
MethodPOST
Path/v1/knowledge/query
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity ID, company name, entity type, mentions

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