# The Hog, free: Company discovery API

> Search for companies by firmographics, technographics, and signals.

The Hog's company discovery API on its 500 free calls every month plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Technologies, Employees, Locations, Funding, Revenue and budgets.
The cheapest of the 149 plans we rank by price is [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), at $0.005 per 1,000 companies.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly/llms.txt) and [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://thehog.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://developer.thehog.ai/api/v1/companies/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://thehog.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.thehog.ai/api/companies/company-search.md
- Sold by: The Hog (https://thehog.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-26

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Search for companies by firmographics, technographics, and signals.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: query. 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 500 free calls every month
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## The Hog's plans (3)

- [The Hog, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Hog, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/top-up/llms.txt): $0.052 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Hog, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/contact-us/llms.txt): 54% complete

## The Hog's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/companies/search`: [The Hog, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)

## The Hog's APIs (12)

- [The Hog: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: email finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: phone finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)

## The Hog: company discovery API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/15-monthly-pro-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/context-dev/20-monthly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [RocketReach, $899 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/rocketreach/899-yearly/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1beta/findall/entity-search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1beta-findall-entity-search/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-10-26.

- https://docs.thehog.ai/api/companies/company-search.md
- https://docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-profile.md
- https://docs.thehog.ai/concepts/company-first-search
- https://docs.thehog.ai/concepts/credits
- https://docs.thehog.ai/concepts/sync-vs-async
- https://docs.thehog.ai/guides/search-companies
- https://docs.thehog.ai/llms.txt
- https://docs.thehog.ai/reference/idempotency
- https://docs.thehog.ai/reference/rate-limits
- https://thehog.ai/pricing
- https://thehog.ai/privacy
- https://thehog.ai/terms