# ExploreYC, free, GET /search: Company discovery API

> Full-text search over company name, one-liner, and description.

ExploreYC's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 8 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
We rank 546 plans by price. [Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/49-monthly-mini-post-v2-company-multi-source-search-es-dsl/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 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 to start than Coresignal's $49 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 [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Request: `GET https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Its API docs: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Sold by: ExploreYC (https://exploreyc.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 62%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Parents: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full-text search over company name, one-liner, and description.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5 requests a day
- Enough for: 5 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, offset, source
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## ExploreYC's plans (3)

- [ExploreYC, free, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/50-monthly-pro-get-search/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $500 monthly, Max, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/500-monthly-max-get-search/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 day

## ExploreYC's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /search`: [ExploreYC, free, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /companies`: [ExploreYC, free, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC's APIs (4)

- [ExploreYC: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies/slug/{slug}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-slug-slug/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC: company discovery API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/15-monthly-pro-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [SerpBase, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpbase/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €99 monthly, Pro, POST /companies/crunchbase](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scrapeunblocker/99-monthly-pro-post-companies-crunchbase/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 15% complete, live

## 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.

- https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
- https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- https://exploreyc.com/llms.txt
- https://exploreyc.com/pricing