# Coldlytics, free: Company discovery API

> Deep data on millions of local businesses, with verified decision-makers to reveal.

Coldlytics's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 8 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Revenue and budgets, Phones.
You get 25 credits a month. You spend the credits on Coldlytics's other calls. This call is free for up to 50 pages a month.
We haven't run Coldlytics through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 752 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.188 per 1,000 companies or less.
[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/coldlytics/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.coldlytics.com/v3/search/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.coldlytics.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#tag/search/POST/v3/search/companies
- Sold by: Coldlytics (https://www.coldlytics.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 62%
- Description: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 75
- Also pays for: Look up company · Look up person · Find email · Find person · Reveal contact · from the same budget: Search people

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Deep data on millions of local businesses, with verified decision-makers to reveal.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Users are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or modification of Coldlytics' intellectual property is prohibited." [...] "You may not: Scrape, harvest, or extract data from Coldlytics using bots, automation, or any other method. Attempt to reverse-engineer, copy, or resell Coldlytics’ data without authorization. Misrepresent your business or use our data for fraudulent activities. Violate any applicable laws when using our Service." [...] "Coldlytics does not provide consumer (B2C) data and must not be used for B2C marketing."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits a month
- Enough for: 50 pages a month
- Expires: reset each month, none roll over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, filters.locations[].name, filters.locations[].radius_miles, filters.postal_codes, filters.categories.include, filters.categories.exclude, filters.technologies.include, filters.technologies.exclude, filters.headcount.min, filters.headcount.max, filters.revenue.min, filters.revenue.max, filters.founded_year.min, filters.founded_year.max, filters.customer_type, filters.google_reviews.count.min, filters.google_reviews.count.max, filters.google_reviews.rating.min, filters.google_reviews.rating.max, filters.ad_pixels.include, filters.ad_pixels.exclude, filters.has_website_email, filters.franchise, filters.location_count.min, filters.location_count.max, filters.website_features.include, filters.website_features.exclude, filters.service_offerings.include, filters.service_offerings.exclude, filters.website_grade.min, filters.website_grade.max, filters.copyright_year.min, filters.copyright_year.max, filters.credentials.include, filters.credentials.exclude, filters.hiring.now, filters.hiring.functions.include, filters.hiring.functions.exclude, filters.languages.include, filters.languages.exclude, filters.brands.include, filters.brands.exclude, filters.ownership.include, filters.ownership.exclude, filters.exclude_owned, filters.exclude_listed, filters.exclude_suppressed, filters.domains, voyager_url, page, page_size
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/search/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, domain, website title, street address, city, state, ZIP code, country, phone, categories, customer type, ad pixels, headcount, revenue, founded year, website email, LinkedIn URL, Facebook URL, Instagram URL, Twitter URL, YouTube URL, TikTok URL, Google profile URL, Google claimed, Google review count, Google review score, page speed, contact count, location ID, company URL, total results

## Coldlytics's plans (5)

- [Coldlytics, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [Coldlytics, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.196 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [Coldlytics, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [Coldlytics, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/299-monthly/llms.txt): $1.196 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [Coldlytics, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/contact-us/llms.txt): 62% complete

## Coldlytics's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v3/search/companies`: [Coldlytics, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)

## Coldlytics's APIs (5)

- [Coldlytics: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: email finder API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v3/people/find, Find person](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-people-find-find-person/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v3/people/find, Find person, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-people-find-find-person-full/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt)

## Coldlytics: company discovery API alternatives

- [Tomba, $2,909 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/tomba/2909-pack/llms.txt): $0.194 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [AI Ark, $23,510 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ai-ark/23510-yearly/llms.txt): $0.196 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [Apollo, $588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apollo/588-yearly/llms.txt): $0.196 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [CNPJa, R$99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cnpja/r-99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.197 per 1,000, 38% complete, 30 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://api.coldlytics.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://api.coldlytics.com/v3/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing