Shovels pricing and alternatives: company discovery API

Name: Shovels company discovery API
Brand: Shovels
Price: 599 USD

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54% complete: 7 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 533 plans by price. Deepline's top-up costs the least per 1,000 companies. Deepline's company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Shovels's 4 plans

Call: GET /contractors/search Shovels's only call for this API

GET /contractors/searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Company discovery API one of Shovels's 3 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 2 weeks old. You get companies from Shovels's database.
7 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Type and status, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets, Phones.
Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 results. Credits reset monthly.
One call. You call GET /contractors/search. You send permit_from, permit_to and geo_id. The call returns the matching companies.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: while this Agreement is in effect. Use data: with conditions.

Shovels: company discovery API alternatives

The table starts with Shovels's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to Shovels's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

	Shovels, $999 monthly	PredictLeads, pay as you go, 10,001-100,000 API Calls, GET /discover/extended_companies	Hirebase, $480 yearly	Autobound, $19 pack, Starter, POST /v1/companies/search	AnyAPI, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402 and MPP, POST /v1/run/company_search.fullenrich
$ per 1,000 companies	$19.98	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$25.20
Completeness	54%	85%	69%	54%	62%
Billing	monthly	pay as you go	yearly	pay first	pay as you go
Pay	$999	monthly	$480	$19	per call
Enough for	50,000 results a month	as many as you pay for	2,000 results a month	950 results	as many as you pay for
Freshness	2 weeks	2 weeks	1 hour	1 month	1 month
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes	anyone	anyone 16 or over who can form a binding contract (the terms: "You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract", commercial use requires an API plan)	anyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposes	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list, paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402) or a Tempo wallet (MPP)

Every company discovery API provider we score, ranked

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From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Description, not in the answer
Industry
Type and status
Images, not in the answer
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees
Social profiles
Headquarters
Locations, not in the answer
Funding, not in the answer
Revenue and budgets
Parents, not in the answer
Phones

Price
$ per 1,000 companies	$0.00
Per	result
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	10
Also pays for	from the same budget: Get Contractors By Id · Search Permits · Get Permits By Id · Get Residents

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Search contractors by location, license, or specialty and connect them to permits, inspections, employees, and project history.

Data
Freshness	2 weeks
Keep data	while this Agreement is in effect
Use data	Shovels data is licensed for your internal business use. You can use it for internal research, prospecting, lead generation, building it into your own product (API customers), exporting and storing it internally, sharing with colleagues, and contacting contractors or property owners directly. You cannot upload it to ad platforms for audience targeting, resell or redistribute it, share it externally without written permission, or use it to build a competing data product. [...] a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use such Data (or Third-Party Content) solely for its internal business purposes while this Agreement is in effect. [...] Customer shall not at any time, directly or indirectly, and shall not permit any of its employees, contractors, agents, or users (“Authorized Users”) to: (i) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Services, in whole or in part, (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of the Services, in whole or in part, (iii) remove any proprietary notices from the Services, (iv) use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, or (v) use the Services for the purpose of competing with Shovels’ business or gathering information for a competitor or potential competitor of Shovels’ business. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to, resell, transfer, distribute, publish, sublicense, or otherwise make available the Services or the Data (or any portion thereof), nor to copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or the Data (including any datasets, models, data products, or other works that are based on or trained on the Data), except as expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Shovels.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	500 credits a month
Enough for	500 results a month
Expires	credits reset monthly

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	permit_from, permit_to, geo_id. Optional: cursor, size, include_count, include_tallies, permit_q, permit_status, permit_min_approval_duration, permit_min_construction_duration, permit_min_inspection_pr, permit_min_job_value, permit_min_fees, permit_tags, property_type, property_min_market_value, property_min_building_area, property_min_lot_size, property_min_story_count, property_min_unit_count, contractor_classification_derived, contractor_name, contractor_website, contractor_min_total_job_value, contractor_min_total_permits_count, contractor_min_inspection_pr, contractor_license
Method	GET
Path	/contractors/search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes

The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

contractor ID, license number, name, business name, business type, classification, derived classifications, license issue date, license expiration date, license inactive date, license active date, primary phone, primary email, phones, emails, website, doing business as, SIC code, NAICS code, LinkedIn URL, revenue, employee count, primary industry, review count, rating, permit status tally, permit tag tally, permit count, average job value, total job value, average construction duration, average inspection pass rate, first seen date, street number, street, city, county, ZIP code, ZIP code extension, state, jurisdiction, address ID, latitude and longitude, total results

Shovels pricing and alternatives: company discovery API

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