# DataLayer, free: Company discovery API

> Search across 60M+ company profiles with technographic, funding, traffic, and growth filters.

DataLayer's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Images, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Funding, Revenue and budgets.
We haven't run DataLayer 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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datalayer.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datalayer.sh/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://datalayer.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.datalayer.sh/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#tag/search/POST/v1/companies/search
- Sold by: DataLayer (https://datalayer.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich a person profile · Enrich a company profile · Bulk enrich person profiles · Bulk enrich company profiles · Lookup a person · Lookup a company · Search people · Get company employees · Get company headcount by department · Get company open roles · Get company tech stack · Companies with buying intent

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search across 60M+ company profiles with technographic, funding, traffic, and growth filters.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: industries, country_codes, employee_ranges, founded_after, founded_before, has_website, revenue_ranges, crm_tech, cloud_provider, cms_tech, marketing_automation, sales_automation, analytics_tech, ecommerce_tech, has_mobile_app, has_web_app, min_monthly_traffic, max_monthly_traffic, min_google_adspend, max_google_adspend, min_total_funding, max_total_funding, last_funding_types, last_funded_after, min_employee_growth_rate, page, per_page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, name, domain, website, LinkedIn URL, description, industry, employee count range, founding year, revenue range, headquarters city, headquarters state, headquarters country, headquarters country code, headquarters region, logo URL, website is working, specialties, monthly traffic, organic traffic, paid traffic, Google ad spend, total funding, last funding type, last funding date, lead investors, employee growth rate, CRM technology, cloud provider, CMS technology, marketing automation technology, sales automation technology, analytics technology, ecommerce technology, has mobile app, has web app, total results, page, page size, has more pages

## DataLayer's plans (6)

- [DataLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [DataLayer, top-up from $30](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/top-up-from-30/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [DataLayer, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/49-monthly/llms.txt): $49.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [DataLayer, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/499-monthly/llms.txt): $49.90 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [DataLayer, $1,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/1499-monthly/llms.txt): $29.98 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [DataLayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/contact-us/llms.txt): 69% complete, stored

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

- `POST /v1/companies/search`: [DataLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt)

## DataLayer's APIs (5)

- [DataLayer: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: company headcount API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: tech stack API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/datalayer/free/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/enrich/company/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datalayer/free-post-v1-enrich-company-bulk/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/enrich/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datalayer/free-post-v1-enrich-company/llms.txt)
- [DataLayer: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, GET /v1/companies/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datalayer/free-get-v1-companies-lookup/llms.txt)

## DataLayer: company discovery API alternatives

- [Diffbot, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/diffbot/299-monthly/llms.txt): $29.90 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Pipecorn, $5,399 monthly, Scale, 540,000 credits a month, POST /intents/accounts/stack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/pipecorn/5399-monthly-scale-540000-credits-a-month-post-intents-accounts-stack/llms.txt): $29.994 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $300 monthly, Hyper credits 2, POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/company-lists, Create a company list build, The Swarm](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/300-monthly-hyper-credits-2-post-api-v2-supersearch-enrichment-company-lists-create-a-company-list-build-the-swarm/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $1,500 monthly, Premium, GET /v2/company_multi_source/collect/{company_id}, Collect: Company API, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/1500-monthly-premium-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api-full/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://api.datalayer.sh/docs/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://api.datalayer.sh/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datalayer.sh/articles/enrichment-api-pricing-comparison.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datalayer.sh/articles/enrichment-api-response-schema.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datalayer.sh/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://datalayer.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing