# TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/companies/search: Company discovery API

> Search company names, websites or registration numbers before selecting a record to enrich.

TargetWise's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. TargetWise's docs list 1 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Type and status.
We haven't run TargetWise through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,009 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 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/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-companies-search
- [Company discovery API: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://targetwise.ai/api/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://targetwise.ai/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: TargetWise (https://targetwise.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search employees · Get employee details · Autocomplete company fields · Find a work email · Find a business phone · Enrich a contact · Enrich a company · Reverse email lookup · Search companies · Search contacts

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search company names, websites or registration numbers before selecting a record to enrich.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to payment and these terms, you receive a non-exclusive licence to use lawfully obtained results for your internal business operations, including your internal software and AI-assisted workflows. You may retain results already obtained for those purposes after subscription expiry, subject to privacy rights, lawful retention limits and any valid removal requirement. [...] Reselling a database, redistributing results to customers, embedding them in a third-party product, providing an agency service or training a model requires an order form that expressly permits that activity. [...] Do not use the data as a consumer report or for decisions about consumer credit, insurance, housing or employment eligibility.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits a day
- Expires: unused free credits do not roll over, they reset daily at midnight UTC

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of name, website_url or registration_number. Optional: country_code, page, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses with a verified work email: the terms are for business use, not personal or household use

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, request ID, company ID, company name, total results, retrieved at, source provenance

## TargetWise's plans (2)

- [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [TargetWise, contact us, Volume pricing, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/contact-us-volume-pricing-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): 8% complete

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

- `POST /api/v1/companies/search`: [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/prospecting/companies/search`: [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/prospecting/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-companies-search/llms.txt)

## TargetWise's APIs (7)

- [TargetWise: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: email finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: phone finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: people enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: people search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: people search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/employees/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-employees-search/llms.txt)

## TargetWise: 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
- [Tami, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/tami/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://targetwise.ai/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/developers/agents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/products/waterfall-enrichment-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing