# Exploding Topics, $1,000 monthly: Company discovery API

> 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.

Exploding Topics's company discovery API on its "1,000 requests per month" plan. It costs $10.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Type and status, Images, Employees, Locations, Funding.
We haven't run Exploding Topics through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) 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](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/exploding-topics/1000-monthly
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://explodingtopics.com/feature/et-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.explodingtopics.com/api/v1/startups`
- API key: with the plan, on https://explodingtopics.com/feature/et-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.explodingtopics.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#/default/get_startups
- Sold by: Exploding Topics (https://explodingtopics.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Description: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $10.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $1,000

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- 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

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $1,000
- You get: 1,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: type, categories, sort, order, timeframe, offset, limit, response_timeframe, total_funding, latest_round, founded_date, number_of_employees
- Method: GET
- Path: /startups

## About the plan

- Plan: 1,000 requests per month
- 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

## Exploding Topics's plans (4)

- [Exploding Topics, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 24 hours
- [Exploding Topics, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 24 hours
- [Exploding Topics, $4,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/4000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.60 per 1,000, 46% complete, 24 hours
- [Exploding Topics, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/contact-us/llms.txt): 46% complete, 24 hours

## Exploding Topics's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /startups`: [Exploding Topics, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/1000-monthly/llms.txt)

## Exploding Topics's APIs (2)

- [Exploding Topics: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploding-topics/1000-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Exploding Topics: keyword research API pricing, 4 plans, GET /database-search](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/exploding-topics/1000-monthly-1000-requests-per-month-get-database-search/llms.txt)
- [Exploding Topics: keyword research API pricing, 4 plans, GET /topic](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/exploding-topics/1000-monthly-1000-requests-per-month-get-topic/llms.txt)

## Exploding Topics: company discovery API alternatives

- [Findymail, $49 monthly, Basic, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/49-monthly/llms.txt): $4.90 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Hirebase, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hirebase/99-monthly/llms.txt): $9.90 per 1,000, 69% complete, 1 hour
- [Sumble, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/sumble/99-monthly-pro-post-v9-organizations-organizations/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 day
- [Bytemine, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bytemine/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 day

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