# Hackford, £2,400 yearly: Company discovery API

> Generate structured JSON or CSV exports for defined firm populations, target lists and recurring analysis workflows.

Hackford's Professional plan for the company discovery API costs $53.34 per 1,000 companies. Hackford's docs list 1 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Technologies.
£40.00 per 1,000 companies is $53.34 at the European Central Bank's rate of $1.3335 for £1.
We haven't run Hackford through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 966 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 15% of the 966 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. 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/hackford/2400-yearly
- [Company discovery API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hackforddata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.hackforddata.com/v1/exports/firms`
- API key: with the plan, on https://hackforddata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.hackforddata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Hackford (https://hackforddata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Technologies: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $53.34
- Per: result
- Billing: yearly
- $ a month: $266.70

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 5,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Target-list export

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Generate structured JSON or CSV exports for defined firm populations, target lists and recurring analysis workflows.

## Data

- Keep data: The licence in clause 3 continues for Acquired Data after the service period ends, subject to payment of the fees due for that data or the period in which it was acquired and continued compliance with the Agreement. [...] If the Order expressly specifies a duration for use of Acquired Data, that duration applies
- Use data: Subject to the Customer paying applicable fees and complying with the Agreement, Hackford grants the Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to use Hackford Data for the Customer's internal business purposes within the scope of the Order [...] The Customer must not: provide, disclose or make Hackford Data available to its clients, including selected records, extracts or Hackford Data embedded in customer-created materials, resell, sublicense, distribute or otherwise commercialise raw Hackford Data, provide any third party with general access to the platform, API, database, exports or substantial parts of Hackford Data, publish substantial datasets, bulk exports or raw record-level extracts publicly, use substantial quantities of Hackford Data, bulk exports, replicated datasets or Hackford's non-public classifications or methods to create or maintain a data product that materially substitutes for the Hackford service, systematically extract, download or replicate Hackford Data beyond agreed export, API or usage limits, scrape the platform or use unauthorised automated access, share credentials, API keys or named-user accounts, circumvent export limits, API restrictions, rate limits, paywalls, access controls or usage controls, use Hackford Data for indiscriminate bulk marketing, harassment, nuisance communications or irrelevant outreach, use Hackford Data as the sole basis for employment, credit, regulatory, disciplinary, licensing, access-to-services or other materially adverse decisions about any person or organisation, imply endorsement, approval or sponsorship by the FCA, SEC, any other regulator, public authority or third-party source, knowingly use inaccurate Hackford Data after receiving a correction or update from Hackford or another reliable source. The Customer must not upload bulk Hackford Data, bulk exports or replicated Hackford datasets to public or shared AI services. The Customer must not use Hackford Data to train, fine-tune or otherwise improve a general-purpose AI model.

## Plan

- Pay: £2,400
- You get: 5,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 5,000 results a month

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: format, limit, firm_type, firm_type.category, firm_type.tag, firm_type.tag_dimension, mifid_firm, financial.sec_regulated_aum_gte_usd, financial.sec_regulated_aum_lte_usd, financial.turnover_gte_gbp, financial.turnover_lte_gbp, role.code
- Method: GET
- Path: /exports/firms

## About the plan

- Plan: Professional
- Who can get it: one named user

## The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

delivery ID, format, total results, exported count, limit, fields, profile URL, Hackford ID, name, Hackford URL, normalised status, regulators, FCA FRN, SEC CRD, SEC file number, SEC CIK, Companies House number, LEI, firm type category code, firm type category, firm type code, firm type, strategy tags, client focus tags, technology tags, service tags, Annex 1 status, Annex 1 FRNs, Annex 1 effective dates, Annex 1 match basis, Annex 1 data as at, AML registration types, AML registration FRNs, AML registration effective dates, AML registration match basis, AML registration data as at, credits consumed, credits remaining, credit quota, quota owner type, quota resets at

## Hackford's plans (2)

- [Hackford, £2,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt): $53.34 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Hackford, £4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hackford/4800-yearly/llms.txt): 8% complete

## Hackford's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /exports/firms`: [Hackford, £2,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt)

## Hackford's APIs (4)

- [Hackford: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt)
- [Hackford: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt)
- [Hackford: company hierarchy API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt)
- [Hackford: people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/hackford/2400-yearly/llms.txt)

## Hackford: company discovery API alternatives

- [TheirStack, $169 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/theirstack/169-monthly/llms.txt): $50.70 per 1,000, 77% complete, stored
- [WebTechSurvey, $1,250 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/webtechsurvey/1250-yearly/llms.txt): $52.083 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [Instantly, $500 monthly, Hyper credits 3, POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/company-lists, Create a company list build, Store Leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/500-monthly/llms.txt): $55.556 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Aidenix, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/aidenix/39-monthly/llms.txt): $55.714 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 month
- [Multiples, $1,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/multiples/1499-monthly/llms.txt): $74.95 per 1,000, 38% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://api.hackforddata.com/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://hackforddata.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://hackforddata.com/data-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://hackforddata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://hackforddata.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing