# Layrcake, free tier, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring: Company discovery API

> Discover canonical company domains from live hiring evidence, technology names, or one exclusive lookalike seed.

Layrcake's Free tier plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Layrcake's docs list 7 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Funding.
We haven't run Layrcake through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 966 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[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/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring
- [Company discovery API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.layrcake.dev/v1/find_companies`, find_companies, hiring
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.layrcake.dev/reference.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#find_companies
- Sold by: Layrcake (https://layrcake.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: find_leads · enrich · verify_email · find_intent · check_companies · enrich_company · find_posts · research_company · prospect_picture · llm

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover canonical company domains from live hiring evidence, technology names, or one exclusive lookalike seed.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Data returned by our business-data providers is licensed to you for your own prospecting. You must not resell it, redistribute it, use it to build or enrich a database for third parties, or use it for any purpose other than your own business outreach.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 credits
- Enough for: about 27 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: hiring. Optional: hiring.titles, hiring.description_contains, hiring.posted_within_days, industries, country_codes, company_headcount.min, company_headcount.max, limit, exclude_domains, route, budget_credits, dry_run, include_handled
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/find_companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: any business, account holder 18 or over

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

company domain, company name, description, description source, LinkedIn URL, headcount, industry, country, city, rating, review count, founded year, total funding, jobs in the last 30 days, last funding round date, last funding round amount, matched signal, signal summary, evidence URL, signal observed at, signal score, match confidence, signal excerpt, company domains, more available, match check status, match check kept, match check withheld, credits charged, credits available, request ID

## Layrcake's plans (2)

- [Layrcake, free tier, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [Layrcake, top-up from $20, Top-up, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/top-up-from-20-top-up-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring/llms.txt): $110.00 per 1,000, 54% complete

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

- `POST /v1/find_companies`, find_companies, hiring: [Layrcake, free tier, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/find_companies`, find_companies, technologies: [Layrcake, free tier, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, technologies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-technologies/llms.txt)

## Layrcake's APIs (14)

- [Layrcake: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: company funding API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: tech stack API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: email finder API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: X post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: similar companies API pricing, 2 plans, find_companies, lookalikes](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-lookalikes/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: similar companies API pricing, 2 plans, find_companies, lookalikes narrowed by country or size](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-lookalikes-narrowed-by-country-or-size/llms.txt)

## Layrcake: company discovery API alternatives

- [Lusha, $718.65 monthly, Premium, 6,800 credits a month, POST /v3/companies/prospecting, Prospecting Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/lusha/718-65-monthly-premium-6800-credits-a-month-post-v3-companies-prospecting-prospecting-companies-full/llms.txt): $109.911 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 week
- [NordicContacts, €49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/nordiccontacts/49-monthly/llms.txt): $110.279 per 1,000, 31% complete, 3 months
- [Findymail, $5,490 yearly, Scale 50K, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/5490-yearly-scale-50k-post-api-intellimatch-search-search-leads-full/llms.txt): $110.715 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Instantly, $555 monthly, Agency, POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/company-lists, Create a company list build, The Swarm](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/555-monthly-agency-post-api-v2-supersearch-enrichment-company-lists-create-a-company-list-build-the-swarm/llms.txt): $111.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored

## 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.layrcake.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/reference.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing