Exploding Topics pricing: company discovery API
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46% complete: 6 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$10.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run Exploding Topics through our company discovery API benchmark yet.Half of the 771 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 28% of the 771 plans.StackScan's $189 monthly plan 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 covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and PeopleSearch.im are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: 1,000 requests per month one of Exploding Topics's 4 plans
- $1,000 monthly1,000 requests per month$10.00 per 1,000
- $2,000 monthly5,000 requests per month$4.00 per 1,000
- $4,000 monthly25,000 requests per month$1.60 per 1,000
- Contact usMore than 25,000 requests per month, or commercial use
Call:
GET / Exploding Topics's only call for this APIAPI: Company discovery API one of Exploding Topics's 2 APIs
About this item
- A copy at most 24 hours old. You get companies from Exploding Topics's database.
- 6 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Type and status, Images, Employees, Locations, Funding.
- A monthly subscription. You pay $1,000 a month for 1,000 requests, enough for 1,000 pages.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching companies.startups - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Exploding Topics: company discovery API alternatives
Exploding Topics alternatives: every company discovery API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This planExploding Topics, $1,000 monthly | Findymail, $49 monthly, Basic, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads | Hirebase, $99 monthly | Sumble, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations | Bytemine, pay as you go | |
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| $ per 1,000 companies | $10.00 | $4.90 | $9.90 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Completeness | 46% | 31% | 69% | 54% | 54% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly | pay as you go |
| Pay | $1,000 | $49 | $99 | $99 | per call |
| Enough for | 1,000 pages a month | 10,000 results a month | 10,000 results a month | 9,900 results a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | 24 hours | live | 1 hour | 1 day | 1 day |
| Who can get it | anyone with an Exploding Topics Pro Business plan (from $249 a month): the API is an add-on to it | anyone 18 or over | anyone 16 or over who can form a binding contract (the terms: "You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract", commercial use requires an API plan) | anyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age'), a subscription per user (the pricing page: 'USD 99/month', the terms: 'only by Authorized Users for whom you have purchased a valid subscription or seat license') | anyone |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Description
- Industry, not in the answer
- Type and status
- Images
- Technologies, not in the answer
- Employees
- Social profiles, not in the answer
- Headquarters, not in the answer
- Locations
- Funding
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents, not in the answer
- Phones, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 companies | $10.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 100 |
| Billing | monthly |
| $ a month | $1,000 |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Retrieve a list of ET topics · Retrieve a specific ET topic by keyword or path · Retrieve a list of ET products · Retrieve all ET meta trends · Retrieve a specific ET topic by keyword |
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| Their pitch | The ET API is designed to allow programmatic access to pull our full Trends Database, Trending Products, Trending Startups and all their associated data including global search data. |
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| Freshness | 24 hours |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | 6. Proprietary Rights [...] You are prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works or using any content available on or through the Site for commercial or public purposes. Unauthorized use of the Site may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offense. [...] If you need more than 25,000 requests per month or want to use the API for commercial purposes (like integrating it into your product), contact us for custom pricing. |
| Pay | $1,000 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 requests a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 pages a month |
| Per second | 1 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: type, categories, sort, order, timeframe, offset, limit, response_timeframe, total_funding, latest_round, founded_date, number_of_employees |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /startups |
| Plan | 1,000 requests per month |
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| Who can get it | anyone with an Exploding Topics Pro Business plan (from $249 a month): the API is an add-on to it |
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold
name, description, categories, topic path, date added, location, website, total funding, latest funding type, founded date, logo URL, employee count, search volume, growth, growth classification, growth trend line, monthly searches, search volume forecast, channel breakdown, related keywords, key indicators, total results