# The Org, free: Company discovery API

> Search companies with industry, location, size, funding, and hiring filters.

The Org's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Funding.
We haven't run The Org through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 752 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.188 per 1,000 companies or less.
[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: as little as $0.0000015. StackScan's $189 monthly plan covers up to 259,200 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 500,000 companies.
[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/the-org/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://theorg.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.theorg.com/v1.1/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://theorg.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.theorg.com/api/endpoints/company-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#find-companies
- Sold by: The Org (https://theorg.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Most per search: 11,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find Org Chart · Find Executives · Find Reports · Find Manager · Find Positions · Find Jobs

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search companies with industry, location, size, funding, and hiring filters.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: License. Subject to these Terms, Operator grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to use and access the Website solely for your own personal, noncommercial use. Restrictions. The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: You will not use the Website to violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law [...] You will not [...] (ii) subject the Website's network or servers to unreasonable traffic loads [...] or (v) use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Website, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip, scrape, or mine data from) the Website [...] You will not modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Website. You will not access the Website in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits a month
- Enough for: 10 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 15
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: limit, offset, filters. Optional: filters.companyIds, filters.companyDomains, filters.keywords, filters.companyName, filters.industries, filters.locations, filters.locations.country, filters.locations.state, filters.regions, filters.employeeRanges, filters.companyLegalStatuses, filters.latestFundingStages, filters.isHiring
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1.1/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, with a free account

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, total credits used, company ID, slug, name, logo URL, domains, industries, legal status, employee range, latest funding stage, LinkedIn URL, website URL, The Org URL, org chart embed URL, country, state, city, street, postal code, is hiring, position count, published job count, follower count, verified

## The Org's plans (7)

- [The Org, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, top-up, Additional credits on Premium](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/top-up-additional-credits-on-premium/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, top-up, Additional credits on Basic](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/top-up-additional-credits-on-basic/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, top-up, Additional credits on Free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/top-up-additional-credits-on-free/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, $232 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/232-yearly/llms.txt): $19.333 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, $392 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/392-yearly/llms.txt): $16.333 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [The Org, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/contact-us/llms.txt): 54% complete

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

- `POST /v1.1/companies`: [The Org, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/free/llms.txt)

## The Org's APIs (4)

- [The Org: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-org/free/llms.txt)
- [The Org: job postings API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-org/free/llms.txt)
- [The Org: people enrichment API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/the-org/free/llms.txt)
- [The Org: people search API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1.2/companies/org-chart/executives](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-org/free-get-v1-2-companies-org-chart-executives/llms.txt)
- [The Org: people search API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1.2/companies/org-chart](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-org/free-get-v1-2-companies-org-chart/llms.txt)
- [The Org: people search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1.1/positions](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-org/free-post-v1-1-positions/llms.txt)
- [The Org: people search API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1.2/companies/org-chart/reports](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-org/free-get-v1-2-companies-org-chart-reports/llms.txt)

## The Org: company discovery API alternatives

- [Listar, top-up from €50,000](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/listar/top-up-from-50000/llms.txt): $15.754 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Enigma, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/enigma/200-monthly/llms.txt): $16.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [LeadMagic, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadmagic/990-yearly/llms.txt): $16.50 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $1,700 monthly, Hyper credits 6, POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/company-lists, Create a company list build, The Swarm](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/1700-monthly-hyper-credits-6-post-api-v2-supersearch-enrichment-company-lists-create-a-company-list-build-the-swarm/llms.txt): $17.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Wappalyzer, $450 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/wappalyzer/450-monthly/llms.txt): $22.50 per 1,000, 69% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://blog.theorg.com/more-credits-more-possibilities?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api/change-log?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api/data-models/company?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api/endpoints/company-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api/get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.theorg.com/api/key-concepts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://theorg.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://theorg.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing