# Messari, pay as you go, Pay-Per-Request with x402, GET /funding/v1/projects: Company discovery API

> Crypto’s biggest fundraising database for funding rounds, M&A deals, and investors.

Messari's Pay-Per-Request with x402 plan for the company discovery API costs $15.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Messari's docs list 4: Description, Industry, Type and status, Locations.
We haven't run Messari through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,326 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.498 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 22% of the 1,326 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. [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/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-projects
- [Company discovery API in 2026: the best of 100+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/x402-payments?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.messari.io/funding/v1/projects`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/endpoints/funding/entities/get-v1-projects?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Messari (https://messari.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $15.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Crypto’s biggest fundraising database for funding rounds, M&A deals, and investors.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: id, category, sector, tags, foundedBefore, foundedAfter, limit, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /funding/v1/projects

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay-Per-Request with x402
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each request in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company name, description, category, sector, tags, founded date, location, links, background, overview, organizations, primary asset, secondary assets, total results

## Messari's plans (2)

- [Messari, pay as you go, Pay-Per-Request with x402, GET /funding/v1/projects](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-projects/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Messari, contact us, Enterprise, GET /funding/v1/projects](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/contact-us-enterprise-get-funding-v1-projects/llms.txt): 31% complete

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

- `GET /funding/v1/organizations`: [Messari, pay as you go, Pay-Per-Request with x402, GET /funding/v1/organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-organizations/llms.txt)
- `GET /funding/v1/projects`: [Messari, pay as you go, Pay-Per-Request with x402, GET /funding/v1/projects](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-projects/llms.txt)

## Messari's APIs (3)

- [Messari: company funding API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Messari: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Messari: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, GET /funding/v1/projects](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/messari/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-get-funding-v1-projects/llms.txt)

## Messari: company discovery API alternatives

- [Coresignal, $1,500 monthly, Premium, GET /v2/company_multi_source/collect/{company_id}, Collect: Company API](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/1500-monthly-premium-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Canonical, top-up, Extra credits (Lite), GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/canonical/top-up-extra-credits-lite-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored (total funding (USD), funding round count, latest funding date, latest funding amount (USD), latest funding series, latest post-money valuation, latest lead investor, investors: 1 day)
- [StableEnrich, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stableenrich/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [Explorium, $7,499.99 pack, Scale, POST /v2/businesses, Fetch businesses](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/explorium/7499-99-pack-scale-post-v2-businesses-fetch-businesses/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 54% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/endpoints/funding/entities/get-v1-projects.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.messari.io/api-reference/x402-payments.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.messari.io/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing