# The Companies API, $950 yearly: Company discovery API

> Search and filter through millions of companies with more than 50 segmentation criteria.

The Companies API's company discovery API on its Startup plan, $1.583 per 1,000 companies.
The median plan costs $4.176 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 73% of the 364 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/950-yearly
- Get it: https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/search-companies
- Sold by: The Companies API (https://www.thecompaniesapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-17

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $1.583
- Billing: yearly
- $ a month: $79.17

## Charges

- Per: result

## Overage

- $ per 1,000: $2.50

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search and filter through millions of companies with more than 50 segmentation criteria.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 4.1. You may only access and utilise the Site, Service and Data for your internal business purposes only and in accordance with the applicable law or regulation(s) [...]. 3.3. [...] this license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Site, Service or the Data, any derivative use of the Site, Service or the Data or any use of data mining, scraping, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction software, technology or tools. 5.1. [...] you may not do, permit, or authorise the doing of any of the following acts in relation to the Site or Services: in a way that is unlawful, [...] use in any manner in which simultaneous access by multiple unauthorised users is permitted, use a personal or proxy account to register an account with the Company to access and utilise the Site for the purposes of downloading, transferring or copying Data for the benefit of another merchant or business, frame, inline link or utilise other techniques to associate or juxtapose any of the Company's name, logos, or other materials with advertisements and/or other information not originating from the Site, translate, edit, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Site or attempt to do so.

## Plan

- Pay: $950
- You get: 50,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 50,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query (conditions on industry, industries, business type, name, employees, year founded, monthly visitors, apps, NAICS and SIC codes, contacts, domain, TLD, revenue, stock exchange, city, county, state, country and continent of the headquarters, lists, data score, sync date, social networks, LinkedIn ID, technologies, technology categories, URLs, or an AI search), actionId, domainsToExclude, linkedinToExclude, page, search, searchFields, simplified, size, sortFields, sortKey, sortOrder
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Startup
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 132 fields in the plan's answer

company ID, company type, industries, industry, languages, name, alternative names, legal name, employee range, employee count, year closed, founded, founding place, Lighthouse accessibility score, Lighthouse best practices score, Lighthouse performance score, Lighthouse SEO score, max server latency, page font count, page request count, page script count, page stylesheet count, page task count, cumulative layout shift, largest contentful paint, time to interactive, total blocking time, estimated monthly visits, published app ID, published app name, published app rating, published app review count, published app type, published apps, primary color, cover image, logos, NAICS codes, SIC codes, acquisitions, parent company, subsidiaries, contact category, emails, LINE accounts, phone numbers, WhatsApp numbers, podcasts, podcast rating, podcast review count, Knowledge Graph description, LinkedIn description, description, tagline, website description, Wikipedia description, alias domains, domain registered date, domain, alternate domains, domain name, domain expiry date, NSFW, redirects to, domain registrant country, domain registrant phone, domain registrar, root domain, website status, HTTP status, domain TLD, domain updated date, estimated revenue range, stock exchange, ticker, coordinates, street address, city, ZIP code, continent, country code, country, county, state, data score, source count, last indexed, email patterns, followers, following, social profile ID, social likes, social members, social monthly views, social posts, social rating, social review count, social talking about count, social profiles, social video count, social check-ins, technologies, technology categories, technology detected at, technology detection method, technology versions, about us page, blog URL, careers page, contact page, Crunchbase URL, developers page, docs page, events page, Glassdoor URL, partnership page, pricing page, privacy policy page, domain registrar URL, Sales Navigator URL, sitemap URL, status page, terms page, updates page, website URL, Wellfound URL, Wikidata URL, Wikipedia URL, embedding vector, match score, similar attributes, total results

## The Companies API's plans (7)

- [The Companies API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $95 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/95-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $295 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/295-monthly/llms.txt): $1.18 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $595 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/595-monthly/llms.txt): $1.19 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/950-yearly/llms.txt): $1.583 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $2,950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/2950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.983 per 1,000, stored
- [The Companies API, $5,950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/5950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.992 per 1,000, stored

## The Companies API's calls (1)

- `GET /v2/companies`: [The Companies API, $950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/950-yearly/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [TheirStack, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/theirstack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [DataForSEO, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/dataforseo/50-pack/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

- https://api.thecompaniesapi.com/v2/openapi
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/datapoints
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/rate-limits
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/search-companies
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/search-similar-companies
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/product/terms