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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: company discovery API, GET /search

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026

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62% complete: 8 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 533 plans by price. Deepline's top-up costs the least per 1,000 companies. Deepline's company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /search one of ExploreYC's 2 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get companies from ExploreYC's database.
  • 8 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day, enough for 5 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search. You can also send limit, offset and source. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: company discovery API alternatives

The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /searchPrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/maps/searchReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/searchSerpBase, $500 packScrapeUnblocker, €99 monthly, Pro, POST /companies/crunchbase
$ per 1,000 companies$0.033$0.015$0.03$0.033$0.034
Completeness62%23%23%38%15%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$50$5$15$500€99
Enough for500 pages a day16,667 pages10,000 pages a month750,000 pages132,000 pages a month
Freshness1 daylivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")

Every company discovery API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Industry
  • Type and status
  • Images
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Company by slug · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder leaderboards (ranked) · Founder profile + stats + companies
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text search over company name, one-liner, and description.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 pages a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: limit, offset, source
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 42 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, limit, offset, has more, company ID, source, source ID, company name, slug, website, one-liner, description, team size, batch, status, industry, subindustry, all locations, is hiring, top company, nonprofit, stage, country, latitude, longitude, logo thumbnail URL, founders, year founded, exit type, acquirer, ticker symbol, funded date, source URL, total funding, last round amount, last round name, last round date, valuation, employee count, employee growth 6 months, created at, updated at

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