# LeadOcean, free: Company discovery API

> Find people and companies by ICP rather than one at a time. 693M people, 67M companies, with cursor paging, a stable response envelope, and a free company count with breakdowns for sizing a market before you buy a single record.

LeadOcean's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. LeadOcean's docs list 12: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Locations, Funding and 2 more.
We haven't run LeadOcean through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,165 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.525 or less per 1,000 companies. [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. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $0.03.
[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/leadocean/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.leadocean.io/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://leadocean.io/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: LeadOcean (https://leadocean.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 92%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Locations: ✓ count
- Funding: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search people · Enrich one person · Look up one company · Get the current work email · Get personal email addresses · Get phone numbers · Find the phone numbers for one person · Find who holds an email or phone · The people we hold at a company, paged · Start a bulk CSV export of people

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people and companies by ICP rather than one at a time. 693M people, 67M companies, with cursor paging, a stable response envelope, and a free company count with breakdowns for sizing a market before you buy a single record.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: until your account ends, except for records you still have a lawful basis to hold
- Use data: You may use the data for legitimate business-to-business purposes: sales, marketing, recruitment, research, verification and building products. You may not use it to: contact people about consumer products, or in any way unrelated to their professional role, make decisions about credit, insurance, employment, housing or any other purpose regulated by consumer-reporting law, harass, stalk, defraud or endanger anyone, or to compile profiles for those purposes, discriminate on the basis of a protected characteristic, train a model on bulk personal data retrieved from the API, or build a competing dataset or directory, resell, redistribute or publish the raw records as a dataset, list or service, circumvent rate limits or usage limits, including by opening multiple accounts.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 results
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, name, excludeName, domain, linkedin, industry, excludeIndustry, companyType, employeeRange, minEmployees, maxEmployees, minRevenue, maxRevenue, minFollowers, minFounded, maxFounded, fundingType, minFunding, maxFunding, minLastFundingYear, maxLastFundingYear, investors, naics, naicsPrimary, naicsSector, sic, keywords, excludeKeywords, hqCountry, hqCity, hqState, hqContinent, hqSalesRegion, technologies, technologyCategories, hasMailableContacts, cursor, limit, slim, fields, order
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email (free mailbox providers are not accepted)

## The 60 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company name, domain, description, logo URL, company type, alternative names, website, website aliases, domain aliases, social links, company phones, company emails, tags, specialties, date founded, date closed, entity type, ownership type, publicly traded, small business, Fortune 500 rank, company status, employee count, employee count band, LinkedIn followers, total funding raised, last funding round type, last funding round date, last funding round year, lead investors, NAICS code, primary NAICS code, NAICS sector, SIC code, yearly financials, revenue, revenue band, industries, headquarters address, office count, profile count, detected technology count, technology categories, decision maker count, last modified date, last seen date, detected technologies, completion score, marketability score, sources, source IDs, fetched at, success, total results, next cursor, depth capped, unsupported filters, distinct companies, facets

## LeadOcean's plans (5)

- [LeadOcean, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $97 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/97-monthly/llms.txt): 92% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $247 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/247-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0099 per 1,000, 92% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $497 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/497-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 92% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $1,997 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/1997-monthly/llms.txt): 92% complete, 1 month

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

- `POST /v1/companies/search`: [LeadOcean, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)

## LeadOcean's APIs (7)

- [LeadOcean: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: reverse email lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/people/phone](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/leadocean/free-get-v1-people-phone/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/phone](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-phone/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/email/personal](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-email-personal/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/email/work](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-email-work/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: people search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/companies/{domain}/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-get-v1-companies-domain-people/llms.txt)

## LeadOcean: company discovery API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, $200 pack, Pro, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/200-pack-pro-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.0095 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/50-monthly-ultra-monthly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [cvr.dev, DKK 499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cvr-dev/dkk-499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 minute
- [EDINET DB, $390 yearly, Pro, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/edinet-db/390-yearly-pro-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.leadocean.io/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://api.leadocean.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/filters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/product/people-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing