# Datagalactica, free, Start, GET /companies/search: Company discovery API

> Companies by industry, size and place, people by title, employer, its industry and size, with reach flags. Up to 100 rows a page, Rs 0.40 per 25 rows.

Datagalactica's Start plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Datagalactica's docs list 4 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Industry, Type and status, Employees, Headquarters.
We haven't run Datagalactica through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 966 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[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. 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](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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-companies-search
- [Company discovery API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datagalactica.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.datagalactica.com/api/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datagalactica.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://datagalactica.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#companies-search
- Sold by: Datagalactica (https://datagalactica.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: People lists · Search by name and filters · Ask in plain words (AI) · An organisation · A person · Company due-diligence summary · Person due-diligence summary · Organisation by domain · People at a company · Many records in one call · Verify a company · Verify a person in a role · Match rows to records · Resolve an identifier to its Galactica ID · Check a person · Same entity or not · An e-mail you already have · Openings and workforce roles · A person against a role · Full contact for one person · An organisation's own contact · Parent, ultimate parent and subsidiaries · E-mail format · E-mail finder · Who runs an organisation

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Companies by industry, size and place, people by title, employer, its industry and size, with reach flags. Up to 100 rows a page, Rs 0.40 per 25 rows.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: as long as you need them for your internal business purposes
- Use data: API and MCP: use the data you receive for your internal business purposes, show individual records to your own users inside your product, and cache responses as long as you need them for those purposes. Not allowed without a separate written licence from us: reselling or redistributing the data as data (a database, file, feed or bulk list), building a competing directory with it, scraping the website, and training or evaluating AI models on it. Use Data Galactica lawfully. Do not use it to harass, stalk, discriminate against or defraud anyone, to send unsolicited messages in breach of law, or to break, overload or scrape the service. Contact details: Use them only for a lawful purpose you state (recruiting, sales, vendor checks, support, press or research), in line with applicable law including India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: honour any request from a person to stop contacting them, do not send spam, and do not use the data to profile private life or to decide about employment, credit or insurance.

## Plan

- Pay: ₹0
- You get: 125 requests
- Enough for: 3,125 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, industry, size, status, kind, country, city, region, domain, email_format, hiring, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Start
- Who can get it: anyone with a confirmed e-mail

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

Galactica ID, name, website, size, industry, founded, status, email pattern, people count, openings count, data grade, kind, city, country, profile URL

## Datagalactica's plans (5)

- [Datagalactica, free, Start, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Datagalactica, ₹500 pack, Pay as you go: top up Rs 500, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/500-pack-pay-as-you-go-top-up-rs-500-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.169 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Datagalactica, ₹5,000 pack, Pay as you go: top up Rs 5,000, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/5000-pack-pay-as-you-go-top-up-rs-5000-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.169 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Datagalactica, ₹50,000 pack, Pay as you go: top up Rs 50,000, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/50000-pack-pay-as-you-go-top-up-rs-50000-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.169 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Datagalactica, contact us, Volume and custom terms, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/contact-us-volume-and-custom-terms-get-companies-search/llms.txt): 31% complete

## Datagalactica's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /find`: [Datagalactica, free, Start, GET /find](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-find/llms.txt)
- `GET /companies/search`: [Datagalactica, free, Start, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-companies-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /search`: [Datagalactica, free, Start, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-search/llms.txt)

## Datagalactica's APIs (7)

- [Datagalactica: business verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/datagalactica/free/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company hierarchy API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/datagalactica/free/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: reverse email lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/datagalactica/free/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /person/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-person-id/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /batch](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-post-batch/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /person/{id}/diligence](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-person-id-diligence/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-company-id/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/{id}/diligence](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-company-id-diligence/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /batch](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-post-batch/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/by-domain](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-company-by-domain/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /find](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-find/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/{id}/employees](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-company-id-employees/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-people-search/llms.txt)
- [Datagalactica: people search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datagalactica/free-start-get-search/llms.txt)

## Datagalactica: company discovery API alternatives

- [Skrapp, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/skrapp/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [CNPJa, R$424.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cnpja/r-424-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 38% complete, 30 days
- [Oppora, $34 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/oppora/34-monthly/llms.txt): $0.17 per 1,000, 77% complete
- [RocketReach, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/rocketreach/119-monthly/llms.txt): $0.17 per 1,000, 15% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://datagalactica.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datagalactica.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datagalactica.com/api/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datagalactica.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datagalactica.com/prospecting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datagalactica.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing