# Fokals, free: Company discovery API

> Finds companies by what they show: a technology they run, a buying topic they show signs of, whether they are hiring, an announcement they made lately (funding, a launch, a partnership, a leadership change), a project their job ads state [...]

Fokals's company discovery API on its Free credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Fokals's docs list 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Technologies, Headquarters.
We haven't run Fokals through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 881 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. StackScan's $189 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as StackScan's rate limit allows.
[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/fokals/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fokals.com/v1/find_companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.fokals.com/connect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Fokals (https://www.fokals.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Industry: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 30 days
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich a list of companies · Company profile · What changed at my companies · Search job postings · Similar companies and competitors · company_connections · Market breakdown · Find companies by description · Companies described alike · Vendor scorecard · Companies like my customers · Company health · Buying intent week by week · Sales team from job ads · Funding filings · Headcount over time · Website traffic month by month · Buying signals across companies · Announcements across companies · Website changes across companies · Stock listings · Market trends over time · Biggest market movers · Sales pay benchmarks · Enrich a long list into a file · Likely next technologies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Finds companies by what they show: a technology they run, a buying topic they show signs of, whether they are hiring, an announcement they made lately (funding, a launch, a partnership, a leadership change), a project their job ads state [...]

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: while your access lasts, Data downloaded in bulk is deleted within 30 days after it ends
- Use data: While you comply with these terms and have paid any fees due, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service and the Data for your internal business purposes. You may create analyses, reports and presentations from the Data for your internal use and for your own clients, provided that they do not contain the Data in bulk or in a form that could substitute for the Service. Any other use, including resale, redistribution, sublicensing or embedding the Data in a product for others, requires a separate written agreement with us. [...] What you must not do: Sell, resell, rent, license, redistribute or publish the Data, or give third parties access to it, except as section 4 or a separate written agreement allows. Use the Data to identify, profile, contact or make decisions about any individual person, or to infer sensitive characteristics of anyone. Copy, scrape or crawl the Service, access it by automated means other than an interface we provide for that purpose, or reverse-engineer it. Share accounts, sign-in links or API keys, or exceed the limits of your plan. Use the Service in breach of any law, or of any rights or terms of a third party that apply to your use. Use the Service to build a competing product or dataset. [...] Under these terms alone, the Service and the Data are not provided for investment purposes. You must not use them, or allow them to be used, to make or inform decisions to buy, sell or hold securities or other financial instruments, or provide them to any investment fund, asset manager or trading firm, unless we have agreed to that use in a separate written agreement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: 25 results, once
- Expires: 12 months

## Rate limit

- Per day: 2,000
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of technology, buying_topic, hiring, industry, business_model, country, listed, changed_since, region, sic, announcement, announced_since, name_contains, agent_ready_min, agent_ready_part, agent_ready_part_min, project, project_detail, project_days, price_change, price_changed_since, health_band, shift. Optional: limit, cursor, max_usd
- Method: POST
- Path: /find_companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, 18 or over

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, website, industry, country, market country, technologies, open roles, buying topics, agent readiness score, projects, health band

## Fokals's plans (5)

- [Fokals, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 10,000 companies a month](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-10000-companies-a-month/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 100,000 companies a month](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-100000-companies-a-month/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Fokals, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete, 1 day

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

- `POST /find_companies`: [Fokals, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/companies`: [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Fokals's APIs (8)

- [Fokals: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company funding API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company headcount API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company open jobs API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: job postings API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans, POST /companies_like_customers](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-companies-like-customers/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /company_profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-company-profile/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /enrich_companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-enrich-companies/llms.txt)

## Fokals: company discovery API alternatives

- [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
- [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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

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