Candid pricing: company discovery API
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38% complete: 5 of the 13 fields on our checklistSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run Candid through our company discovery API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,326 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.498 or less per 1,000 companies. See the best free company discovery API plan.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. Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $0.03.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.
Plan: Free trial one of Candid's 3 plans
- FreeFree trial$0.00 per 1,000
- Contact us, Production subscriptionProduction subscription
- Contact us, Sandbox subscriptionSandbox subscription
Call:
POST / Candid's only call for this APIAPI: Company discovery API one of Candid's 3 APIs
- Company discovery API
- News API
- Company enrichment API
GET /v1/ {ein} - Company enrichment API
POST /v1 - Company enrichment API
GET /v4/ {ein}
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 13 fields on our checklist. Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Phones.
- Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests, enough for 500 pages. Unused requests expire after 30 days.
- One call. You call
POST /. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching companies.v4 - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Candid: company discovery API alternatives
Candid alternatives: other company discovery API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.
| This planCandid, free | GetProspect, free | Hunter, free, POST /discover | PeopleSearch.im, free | AnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search | Builders in Fintech, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 38% | 62% | 54% | 38% | 23% | 8% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 500 pages | no limit | 2,160,000 pages a month | no limit | no limit | 500 pages a day |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | stored | stored | stored | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone who submits the free trial request form, Candid replies by email on how to claim the subscription keys | anyone 16 or over | anyone 18 or over | new accounts | anyone 18 or over, for their own internal business purposes | anyone: no key and no account |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
- candid.org/api-free-trial
- candid.org/api-info-request
- developer.candid.org
- developer.candid.org/page/candid-api-terms-of-service
- developer.candid.org/reference/essentials_v4
- developer.candid.org/reference/get-started-with-essentials
- developer.candid.org/reference/getting-access
- developer.candid.org/reference/rate-limits-and-thresholds
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
- Technologies, not in the answer
- Employees
- Social profiles, not in the answer
- Headquarters
- Locations, not in the answer
- Funding, not in the answer
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents, not in the answer
- Phones
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 25 |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Boost your organization search with data on over 1.6 million nonprofits. Access information such as cause area, location, financials, and more. |
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| Keep data | Licensee shall not [...] store, copy, reproduce [...] other than as specifically permitted herein [...] Upon termination or expiration of the Term [...] Licensee shall cease, and shall cause its Authorized Users to cease, all use of the Candid Data |
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| Use data | Licensee may [...] Provide access to the Candid Data through the Licensee Site to Licensee Customers by means of the Candid API solely in order to allow Licensee Customers to learn about nonprofit organizations, and Use the Candid Marks within Licensee's Site(s) and in marketing and promotional materials to identify Candid as the source of the Candid Data, and Provide access to the Candid Data by means of the Candid API for additional purposes expressly outlined in Exhibit(s). Licensee shall not, and shall not permit any Authorized User, to: use the Candid API or the Candid Data other than is expressly authorized by this Agreement, republish or distribute information from the Candid API [...] except as expressly permitted herein, modify information from the Candid API, [...] store, copy, reproduce, publish, republish, modify, upload, post, translate, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, sublicense [...] or in any manner commercially exploit the materials or the Candid API or otherwise distribute in any way the content on the Site other than as specifically permitted herein, [...] create any derivative product from the Candid Data, [...] use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction methods with respect to the Candid API or the Candid Data in order to (1) create or compile a database or other collection or aggregation of information other than for Licensee's own internal business use, (2) license, sell or otherwise make available to others any such database or collection of information, or (3) to create a service or database that is directly competitive with Candid. [...] Licensee agrees that any web page of the Licensee Site on or through which any Candid Data may be accessed shall display conspicuously the phrase "Powered by Candid" and the following legend: "© Candid. (www.candid.org)". |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 500 requests |
| Enough for | 500 pages |
| Expires | 30 days |
| Per second | 0.17 (10 a minute) |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: search_terms, from, size, sort.sort_by, sort.sort_order, filters.geography.state, filters.geography.zip, filters.geography.radius, filters.geography.msa, filters.geography.city, filters.geography.county, filters.organization.profile_levels, filters.organization.subject_codes, filters.organization.population_served_codes, filters.organization.ntee_major_codes, filters.organization.ntee_minor_codes, filters.organization.subsection_codes, filters.organization.foundation_codes, filters.organization.group_exemption, filters.organization.number_of_employees.min, filters.organization.number_of_employees.max, filters.organization.ruling_year.min, filters.organization.ruling_year.max, filters.organization.properties.bmf_status, filters.organization.properties.pub78_verified, filters.organization.properties.allow_online_giving, filters.organization.properties.dei_submitted, filters.organization.properties.exclude_revoked_organizations, filters.organization.properties.exclude_defunct_or_merged_organizations, filters.organization.properties.relationship_type.parent, filters.organization.properties.relationship_type.subordinate, filters.organization.properties.relationship_type.independent, filters.organization.properties.relationship_type.headquarters, filters.financials.most_recent_year.form_types.f990, filters.financials.most_recent_year.form_types.f990pf, filters.financials.most_recent_year.form_types.f990ez, filters.financials.most_recent_year.form_types.f990n, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_revenue.min, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_revenue.max, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_expenses.min, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_expenses.max, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_assets.min, filters.financials.most_recent_year.total_assets.max, filters.financials.required_to_file_990t, filters.financials.a_133_audit_performed, filters.last_updated.start_date, filters.last_updated.end_date, filters.last_updated.date_type |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v4 |
| Plan | Free trial |
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| Who can get it | anyone who submits the free trial request form, Candid replies by email on how to claim the subscription keys |
The 60 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, page count, Candid entity ID, organization ID, EIN, organization name, also known as, group exemption, mission, website URL, logo URL, donation page, profile level, profile year, profile link, profile logo, leader name, leader title, contact name, contact email, contact phone, contact title, number of employees, ruling year, BMF status, Pub 78 verified, allows online giving, DEI submitted, revoked, defunct or merged, relationship type, address line 1, address line 2, city, state, ZIP code, MSA, congressional district, county, latitude, longitude, subject codes, population served codes, NTEE code, subsection code, foundation code, form types, fiscal year, total revenue, total expenses, total assets, BMF gross receipts, BMF assets, required to file 990-T, A-133 audit performed, seal last modified, profile last modified, DEI last modified, financials last modified, last modified