# Parlel, free, company API key: Company discovery API

> An account looking for who to sell to uses this endpoint with filters on -- the ICP query, in the language of the people who will run it.

Parlel's "Free, company API key" plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Parlel's docs list 5: Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Locations.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run Parlel 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/parlel/free-company-api-key
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://parlel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.parlel.com/api/public/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://parlel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.parlel.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#/companies/list_public_companies_api_public_companies_get
- Sold by: Parlel (https://parlel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 60
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An account looking for who to sell to uses this endpoint with filters on -- the ICP query, in the language of the people who will run it.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free to read, see terms [...] Do not use watches to track named private individuals. [...] Do not publish content you do not have the right to share, scrape in ways that break the law, or use Parlel to send spam. [...] Honour `Cache-Control`. [...] Send a `User-Agent` naming your agent and a contact URL. [...] Do not scrape the HTML for data that is in the JSON.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, industry, size, location, hiring, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/public/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free, company API key
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up as a company and copies the key from Settings

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

handle, name, tagline, location, size, industry, founded year, website URL, open role count

## Parlel's plans (3)

- [Parlel, free, company API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Parlel, free, no API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parlel/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Parlel, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parlel/19-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete

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

- `GET /api/public/companies`: [Parlel, free, company API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)

## Parlel's APIs (6)

- [Parlel: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Parlel: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Parlel: job posting details API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Parlel: job postings API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Parlel: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Parlel: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/parlel/free-company-api-key/llms.txt)

## Parlel: company discovery API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Hunter, free, POST /discover](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/free-post-discover/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [AnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anvendor/free-post-v1-leads-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [OFData, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ofdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.parlel.com/api/public/index?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://api.parlel.com/api/public/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://parlel.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://parlel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://parlel.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://parlel.com/search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://parlel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing