# Earnings Feed, free: Company discovery API

> Search companies by name or ticker

Earnings Feed's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Images.
We haven't run Earnings Feed through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 771 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 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/earnings-feed/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://earningsfeed.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://earningsfeed.com/api/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://earningsfeed.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://earningsfeed.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Earnings Feed (https://earningsfeed.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get company profile · List SEC filings · Get filing details · List insider transactions · List institutional holdings

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search companies by name or ticker

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: access and use the Service for your own internal research, analysis, and informational purposes, and if applicable, integrate our APIs and alerts into your internal systems, tools, or workflows. [...] You may not: copy, frame, mirror, or reproduce substantial portions of the Service in another product or service, rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or its outputs as a standalone data feed or competing product, attempt to circumvent any usage limits, rate limits, technical protections, or access controls, remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices or attributions that appear on the Service, or use the Service to create a product or service that competes with or substantially replicates Earnings Feed. [...] No redistribution as a data feed. You may not use the APIs to build a general-purpose SEC data feed, filings terminal, or alerts service that competes with Earnings Feed, or to resell or redistribute the data in bulk to third parties, without our express written permission. Internal use. API access is intended for your internal research, analysis, and operational purposes. If you wish to use API data in a commercial product or service offered to external users, contact us to discuss licensing. No abuse. Do not use the APIs to circumvent the web interface's usage limits, or to systematically replicate our entire database. [...] Attribution. Where reasonably practical, you should indicate that data surfaced through your internal tools originates from Earnings Feed.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 5,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.25

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, ticker, sicCode, category, entityType, state, hasInsiderTransactions, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone of the age of majority in their jurisdiction (typically 18+)

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

CIK, company name, ticker, exchange, entity type, filer category, SIC code, SIC description, logo URL

## Earnings Feed's plans (5)

- [Earnings Feed, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Earnings Feed, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0006 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Earnings Feed, $75 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/75-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00038 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Earnings Feed, $120 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/120-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0004 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Earnings Feed, $600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/600-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00025 per 1,000, 23% complete

## Earnings Feed's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/companies/search`: [Earnings Feed, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/free/llms.txt)

## Earnings Feed's APIs (2)

- [Earnings Feed: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/earnings-feed/free/llms.txt)
- [Earnings Feed: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/earnings-feed/free/llms.txt)

## Earnings Feed: company discovery API alternatives

- [The Swarm, $7,500 yearly, Premium 2000, POST /v3/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-swarm/7500-yearly-premium-2000-post-v3-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00024 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [KVK, €6.40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/kvk/6-40-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00024 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Hunter, $636.50 yearly, Data Platform, 67,000 Search credits, POST /discover](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/636-50-yearly-data-platform-67000-search-credits-post-discover/llms.txt): $0.00025 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [EDINET DB, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/edinet-db/39-monthly-pro-get-v1-companies/llms.txt): $0.00026 per 1,000, 0% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://earningsfeed.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://earningsfeed.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://earningsfeed.com/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://earningsfeed.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://earningsfeed.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing