# Leadpoet, free: Company discovery API

> Starts a lead request: Leadpoet researches companies and contacts that match the targeting and delivers them to Pipeline, with a typical turnaround of 1–2 days.

Leadpoet's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Leadpoet's docs list 5: Description, Industry, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters.
We haven't run Leadpoet 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/leadpoet/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://leadpoet.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://leadpoet.com/api/v1/requests`
- API key: with the plan, on https://leadpoet.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://leadpoet.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#reference
- Sold by: Leadpoet (https://leadpoet.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find more contacts at a company

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Starts a lead request: Leadpoet researches companies and contacts that match the targeting and delivers them to Pipeline, with a typical turnaround of 1–2 days.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms and your payment of any applicable fees, Leadpoet grants you a limited, non exclusive, non transferable, non sublicensable license during your subscription term to: Access and use the Services for your internal business purposes. View and use Leadpoet Data and Output Data solely: To identify and prioritize business to business prospects. To conduct lawful sales, marketing, recruiting, or business development related to your business. In accordance with all applicable laws and these Terms. You may not use the Services or any Data to build or train a competing product or service, or for any purpose not expressly permitted in these Terms. [...] During and after your subscription, you may use Output Data that you obtained in compliance with these Terms for your internal business purposes, provided you continue to comply with all applicable laws and use restrictions. [...] You may not: Resell Leadpoet Data or Output Data as a data product or service. Use Leadpoet Data or Output Data to build a competing database or intent intelligence platform. Claim ownership of any Leadpoet algorithms, models, or compilation of data. [...] You agree that you and your Authorized Users will not: [...] Use Leadpoet Data or Output Data for consumer marketing unrelated to legitimate business to business outreach. Use the Services to send spam, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading communications. Use Business Contact Data in a way that violates individuals' privacy rights or fails to provide required notices or opt out mechanisms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 10 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: Idempotency-Key header, credit_budget, contacts_per_company, included_contacts_per_company. Optional: lead_type, request_description, product_description, intent_signals, max_leads, countries, states, cities, company_sizes, requested_roles, filters, natural_language_query, icp_id, icp_name, contact_methods.email, contact_methods.linkedin, contact_methods.phone, require_phone, phone_enrichment_included, supplied_companies[].company_name, supplied_companies[].domain, supplied_companies[].linkedin_url, signal_profile, saved_product, recurrence, funding_source, free_lead_entitlement_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /requests

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: Business use only: at least 18 years old, lawful business to business purposes, not as a consumer for personal, family or household purposes

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

company name, domain, website, LinkedIn URL, industry, sub-industry, HQ city, HQ state, HQ country, employee count, description, ICP details

## Leadpoet's plans (4)

- [Leadpoet, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Leadpoet, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/100-monthly/llms.txt): $5,000.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Leadpoet, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/500-monthly/llms.txt): $5,000.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Leadpoet, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete

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

- `POST /requests`: [Leadpoet, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/free/llms.txt)

## Leadpoet's APIs (2)

- [Leadpoet: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadpoet/free/llms.txt)
- [Leadpoet: people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadpoet/free/llms.txt)

## Leadpoet: company discovery API alternatives

- [Findymail, $49 monthly, Basic, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/49-monthly-basic-post-api-intellimatch-search-search-leads-full/llms.txt): $592.90 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [GoodLeads.Club, pay as you go, Both Channels](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/goodleads-club/pay-as-you-go-both-channels/llms.txt): $700.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 24 hours
- [AnVendor, $99 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/scans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anvendor/99-monthly-starter-post-v1-scans/llms.txt): $990.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 30 days
- [akta.pro, $1,000 monthly, Subscription, 25,000 credits a month, POST /api/v1/list/generate/companies/, List Generation API, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/akta-pro/1000-monthly-subscription-25000-credits-a-month-post-api-v1-list-generate-companies-list-generation-api-full/llms.txt): $1,008.00 per 1,000, 92% 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 2026-11-06.

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