# Recent Funding, free, GET /companies: Company discovery API

> Lists startups, newest first by default. Amount filters and sort=raise use the company's latest round.

Recent Funding's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Recent Funding's docs list 6: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Headquarters, Funding.
We haven't run Recent Funding through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,345 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 or less per 1,000 companies. [649 company discovery API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) [AdLibrarySpy's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/adlibraryspy/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 67.3 out of 100.
[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, with no charge 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, and 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/recent-funding/free-get-companies
- [Company discovery API in 2026: the best of 100+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://recentfunding.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://recentfunding.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://recentfunding.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#get-api-v1-companies
- Sold by: Recent Funding (https://recentfunding.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 2,000
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000,000
- Also pays for: People to contact at a company, with confirmed work emails · from the same budget: Get one company and all its rounds · Compare recent capital deployment by industry · Inspect the companies counted in a market-map industry, or across all of them · List recent funding rounds · List recent acquisitions · List new venture capital funds · List private equity firms · A private equity firm and the companies it bought · Counts by stage, industry, and source · Rank companies on one metric · List categories with capital raised · Companies in a category, ranked · List market landscapes · A market landscape by segment, with every company's rounds · Investor leaderboard · One investor's portfolio · Founders and operators · Accelerator programs · One accelerator's companies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Lists startups, newest first by default. Amount filters and sort=raise use the company's latest round.

## Data

- Freshness: 14 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may browse the site, share links to it, and use the API. You agree not to: use the service in a way that breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights, overload, disrupt or attack the service, or get around rate limits or access controls, send spam or unsolicited messages to people or companies listed on the service, use the service to harass, track or profile individuals, present our data as your own. If you republish it, credit Recent Funding and link back. [...] If you use API data in something you publish, credit "Recent Funding" with a link to https://recentfunding.com.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits a day
- Enough for: 50 pages a day
- Expires: daily, at midnight UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: limit, offset, stage, industry, city, crypto, accelerator, q, min_raise, sort
- Method: GET
- Path: /companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, stage, industry, subcategory, sector, description, crypto company, first seen at, website, X handle, followers, logo, latest round amount in USD, latest round announced at, latest round source URL, latest round source publisher, latest round source provider, discovery sources, source links, investors, flagged before announcement, flagged at, X account created at, domain registered at, team size, team source URL, smart follows, days early, new follows in 7 days, trending rank, headquarters city, headquarters country, founded year, categories

## Recent Funding's plans (6)

- [Recent Funding, free, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 14 days
- [Recent Funding, $10 pack, Pay as you go ($10 top-up), GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/10-pack-pay-as-you-go-10-top-up-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $25 pack, Pay as you go ($25 top-up), GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/25-pack-pay-as-you-go-25-top-up-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $50 pack, Pay as you go ($50 top-up), GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/50-pack-pay-as-you-go-50-top-up-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $49 monthly, Pro, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/49-monthly-pro-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $150 monthly, Max, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/150-monthly-max-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day

## Recent Funding's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /companies`: [Recent Funding, free, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-companies/llms.txt)
- `GET /rounds`: [Recent Funding, free, GET /rounds](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-rounds/llms.txt)

## Recent Funding's APIs (4)

- [Recent Funding Company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding Company funding API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding People search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding Company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-companies/llms.txt)

## Recent Funding: company discovery API alternatives

[Recent Funding alternatives: other company discovery API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/recent-funding-alternatives.txt)

We list Recent Funding's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Recent Funding in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [Recent Funding, $150 monthly, Max, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/150-monthly-max-get-companies/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [SelskabsInfo, DKK 229 pack, Booster M, GET /v1/nyevirksomheder](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/selskabsinfo/dkk-229-pack-booster-m-get-v1-nyevirksomheder/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [overheid.io, €130 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/overheid-io/130-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 day (street, house number, postal code, city, country, mailing address: 1 week)
- [PrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/15-monthly-pro-monthly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 23% complete, live

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