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The Hog pricing and alternatives: company discovery API

The Hog's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026
54% complete: 7 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 149 plans we rank by price is ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby, at $0.005 per 1,000 companies.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 500 free calls every month one of The Hog's 3 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/companies/search The Hog's only call for this API
API: Company discovery API one of The Hog's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 7 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Type and status, Technologies, Employees, Locations, Funding, Revenue and budgets.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month, enough for 500 pages.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v1/companies/search. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone the waitlist invites. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The Hog: company discovery API alternatives

The table starts with The Hog's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to The Hog's.

The Hog, top-upReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/searchContext.dev, $20 monthlyRocketReach, $899 yearlyParallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1beta/findall/entity-search
$ per 1,000 companies$0.052$0.03$0.04$0.05$0.05
Completeness54%23%46%15%8%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlyyearlypay first
Payany amount$15$20$899any amount
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 pages a month5,000 pages a month15,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invitesanyoneanyone aged 18 or overanyone 18 or overanyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars

Company discovery API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. docs.thehog.ai/api/companies/company-search.md
  2. docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-profile.md
  3. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/company-first-search
  4. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/credits
  5. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/sync-vs-async
  6. docs.thehog.ai/guides/search-companies
  7. docs.thehog.ai/llms.txt
  8. docs.thehog.ai/reference/idempotency
  9. docs.thehog.ai/reference/rate-limits
  10. thehog.ai/pricing
  11. thehog.ai/privacy
  12. thehog.ai/terms

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
  • Employees
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters, not in the answer
  • Locations
  • Funding
  • Revenue and budgets
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: POST /api/deep-research · POST /api/enrichments · POST /api/v1/people/search · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/image/deepfake-detection · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/finder · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/keyword-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/followers · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/following · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-details · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/tiktok/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/web/scrape · POST /api/v1/search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for companies by firmographics, technographics, and signals.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any law or third-party right. Attempt to access, probe, or disrupt our systems or other users’ data. Reverse engineer, scrape, or resell the Services except as permitted. Upload malicious code or use the Services to send spam or abusive content.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, includeSignals, filters.titles, filters.titleMatch, filters.locations, filters.industries, filters.employeeCount.min, filters.employeeCount.max, filters.signals, filters.company.names, filters.company.domains, filters.company.linkedinUrls, filters.company.industries, filters.company.employeeCount.min, filters.company.employeeCount.max, filters.company.signals, confirm, Idempotency-Key header
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/companies/search
About the plan
Plan500 free calls every month
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invites
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, domain, website, industry, employee count, location, founded, revenue minimum, revenue maximum, technologies, hiring, recent funding, growth band, match score, credits charged, estimated max credits, estimated credits, actual credits

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