# Seltz, free tier, POST /v1/search, Search, pro: Company discovery API

> The `companies` scope contains over 35 million company profiles from social media and company sites. Each result in the response is a different company matching your search.

Seltz's company discovery API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Employees, Headquarters.
We rank 533 plans by price. [Deepline's top-up](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/deepline/top-up/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies. Deepline's company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[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 [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://seltz.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.seltz.ai/v1/search`, Search, pro
- API key: with the plan, on https://seltz.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/search
- Sold by: Seltz (https://seltz.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, base · Answer · Fetch · Monitor · Agent

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The `companies` scope contains over 35 million company profiles from social media and company sites. Each result in the response is a different company matching your search.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not [...] (ii) store, aggregate, or reuse Output to serve multiple End Customers or requests, (iii) use the Output to create, compile, or build a dataset or database
- Use data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not (i) reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or otherwise make available any Third-Party Data on a standalone basis, [...] (iv) commercialize, resell, or sublicense the Output or any Third-Party Data or (v) represent that Output was human-generated when it is not, you may not [...] (iii) use Output from the Platform to develop models that compete with Seltz, (iv) use the Platform for the purpose of benchmarking, performance testing, or competitive analysis, or publicly disclose the results of any such activities, without Seltz’s prior written consent, (v) use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Platform, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction, you may use the free tier for non-commercial purposes only, if you make the Platform or any Output available to third parties or end users as part of your products or services, you must enter into a binding written agreement with each End Customer that contains terms that are no less protective of Seltz

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $20
- Enough for: 4,000 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, scope "companies". Optional: tier "pro", max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, from_date, to_date, fields.content, fields.content.max_characters_per_result, fields.snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets, fields.snippets.max_snippets_per_result, fields.snippets.max_tokens, fields.snippets.max_tokens_per_result
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, for non-commercial use only

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, URL, content, published date, snippets, name, industry, ownership type, headquarters location, company details, about, categories, talent, workforce, headcount by country, key executives, company updates, products and technology, web presence, reviews and ratings, competitors, recent news, financials, acquisitions, hiring

## Seltz's plans (4)

- [Seltz, free tier, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [Seltz, free, Seltz for startups, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-seltz-for-startups-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [Seltz, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 month

## Seltz's calls (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, base: [Seltz, free tier, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, pro: [Seltz, free tier, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)

## Seltz's APIs (3)

- [Seltz: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)

## Seltz: company discovery API alternatives

- [Store Leads, $450 monthly, Elite, GET /json/api/v1/all/company/{name}](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/store-leads/450-monthly-elite-get-json-api-v1-all-company-name/llms.txt): $0.0012 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 week
- [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [DanskCVRAPI, DKK 99 monthly, Basis, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-99-monthly-basis-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 minute
- [PrismCrawl, $1,000 pack, Volume, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/1000-pack-volume-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.0075 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/search
- https://docs.seltz.ai/data/companies
- https://docs.seltz.ai/pricing
- https://seltz.ai
- https://seltz.ai/pricing
- https://seltz.ai/terms