# Datahyena, free: Company discovery API

> Company directory records with search and firmographic filters.

Datahyena's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters.
The cheapest of the 149 plans we rank by price is [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt), at $0.005 per 1,000 companies.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly/llms.txt) and [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datahyena.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.datahyena.com/v1/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datahyena.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://datahyena.com/docs/api-reference/companies
- Sold by: Datahyena (https://datahyena.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: List funding events · List acquisitions · List executive moves · List hiring signals · List investors · Company timeline · Company timelines (bulk) · Company hiring profile · Company hiring profiles (bulk)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Company directory records with search and firmographic filters.

## Data

- Keep data: during your subscription
- Use data: What you may do: Query the Service and use the returned signals inside your own products, workflows, and analyses, Store and process signals as needed to operate your product, subject to these Terms, Surface insights and results derived from the signals to the users of your own product. [...] The license is for your internal business use and to power your own products. It does not permit reselling, redistributing, syndicating, or otherwise transferring the signals or dataset to any third party as data, in whole or in part, in raw or substantially raw form. What you may not do: Resell, sublicense, redistribute, republish, or syndicate the signals or dataset as data, in whole or in part, in raw or substantially raw form, whether or not for a fee, and whether as a feed, file, export, dataset, or API, Provide the signals to any third party as data, or transfer or make them available outside your organization, except as insights surfaced to the users of your own product, Build, train, or populate a competing signals database, dataset, or model by systematically exporting or replaying the API, MCP, or webhooks, Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract our source code or methods, Bypass rate limits, credit metering, access controls, or other security measures, Share API keys outside your organization or exceed the seats on your plan, Use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of any applicable data-protection law

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 50 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: cursor, since, limit, search, domain, includeTotal, countries, industryGroups, naicsCode, employeeCountBuckets, foundedYearMin, foundedYearMax, sort, order, minFundingUsdLast12mo, minKnownPeople, hasKnownFounder
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with the legal authority to enter the agreement, using the Service for a legitimate business purpose

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, domain, website, description, LinkedIn handle, LinkedIn URL, LinkedIn geo ID, LinkedIn industry ID, NAICS code, NAICS level, HQ city, HQ country, industry group, industry sub-tags, verticals, employee count bucket, founded year, business model, total results

## Datahyena's plans (6)

- [Datahyena, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Datahyena, $30 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/30-pack/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Datahyena, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/49-monthly/llms.txt): $49.00 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Datahyena, $129 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/129-monthly/llms.txt): $43.00 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Datahyena, $449 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/449-monthly/llms.txt): $37.417 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Datahyena, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/contact-us/llms.txt): 46% complete

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

- `GET /v1/companies`: [Datahyena, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt)

## Datahyena's APIs (4)

- [Datahyena: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt)
- [Datahyena: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt)
- [Datahyena: company funding API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt)
- [Datahyena: leadership change API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/datahyena/free/llms.txt)

## Datahyena: company discovery API alternatives

- [StableEnrich, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stableenrich/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [Explorium, $7,499.99 pack, Scale, POST /v2/businesses, Fetch businesses, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/explorium/7499-99-pack-scale-post-v2-businesses-fetch-businesses-full/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1beta/findall/runs](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1beta-findall-runs/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Pipecorn, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/pipecorn/1199-monthly-scale-96000-credits-a-month-post-intents-accounts-hiring/llms.txt): $37.469 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://api.datahyena.com/v1/openapi.json
- https://datahyena.com
- https://datahyena.com/docs/api-reference/companies
- https://datahyena.com/docs/coverage
- https://datahyena.com/docs/guides/credits
- https://datahyena.com/docs/guides/data-lifecycle
- https://datahyena.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- https://datahyena.com/docs/help/faq
- https://datahyena.com/pricing
- https://datahyena.com/terms