Village pricing and alternatives: company discovery API

Village's site llms.txt Best cached company discovery API in 2026

38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companies

Plan: Free one of Village's 8 plans

Call: POST /v2/companies/search Village's only call

POST /v2/companies/searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Company discovery API one of Village's 8 APIs

About this item

Freshness. Village doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
5 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Employees, Social profiles, Locations.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for about 333 results. Unused credits expire: monthly plan credits reset at the start of each billing cycle: no rollover.
One call. You call POST /v2/companies/search. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching companies.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Village: company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

	This planVillage, free	NinjaPear, free	Findymail, free	BetterContact, free	Autobound, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	38%	0%	31%	85%	31%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	about 333 results a month	5 pages, once	not published	500 results, once	1,000 results, once
Freshness	not published	not published	live	not published	not published
Who can get it	anyone	anyone, for their internal business purposes	anyone 18 or over	any legal entity or natural person acting in the course of their professional activities	anyone who signs up, no credit card required

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-22.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Description
Industry
Type and status, not in the answer
Images, not in the answer
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees
Social profiles
Headquarters, not in the answer
Locations
Funding, not in the answer
Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
Parents, not in the answer
Phones, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Start fee	$0.00
Also pays for	from the same budget: Enrich Person · Enrich Person (Bulk) · Get Person Email · Get Person Email (Bulk) · Reverse Lookup by Email · Get Person LinkedIn Posts · Enrich Company · Enrich Company (Bulk) · Search People · list building · project agents · email reveals · realtime profile enrichment · warm intro paths

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Search for companies using natural language queries. [...] Use this to find companies matching specific criteria like industry, location, funding stage, or technology.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party rights, Send spam, unsolicited messages, or bulk communications in violation of applicable laws, Harvest, scrape, or collect data from the Service by automated means beyond authorized API usage, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other accounts, or systems connected to the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, Use the Service to stalk, harass, or harm another individual, Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization, Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service except as permitted by applicable law, Use data obtained through the Service for surveillance, unauthorized profiling, or purposes that violate individual privacy rights. If you access the Service through our API, you agree to: Comply with any API documentation, rate limits, and usage policies we publish, Not exceed applicable rate limits or use the API in a way that degrades the Service for other users, Keep your API credentials confidential and not share them with unauthorized parties

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits a month
Enough for	about 333 results a month
Expires	monthly plan credits reset at the start of each billing cycle: no rollover

Rate limit
Per second	100
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: prompt, filters.name, filters.domain, filters.linkedinUrl, filters.linkedinId, filters.industry, filters.industryNot, filters.companySize, filters.companySizeNot, filters.includeEstimatedHeadcount, filters.companyType, filters.companyTypeNot, filters.investorType, filters.investorTypeNot, filters.fundingStage, filters.fundingStageNot, filters.locations, filters.locationsNot, filters.country, filters.countryNot, filters.city, filters.cityNot, filters.foundedAfter, filters.foundedBefore, filters.companyKeywords, filters.hiring, filters.hiringMinOpenings, filters.totalFundingMinUsd, filters.totalFundingMaxUsd, filters.lastRoundMinUsd, filters.lastRoundMaxUsd, filters.lastFundingDateAfter, filters.lastFundingDateBefore, filters.backedBy, filters.backedByNot, filters.portfolio, filters.portfolioNot, filters.investorStages, filters.investorStagesNot, filters.investorCategories, filters.investorCategoriesNot, filters.investorRoundSizeMinUsd, filters.investorRoundSizeMaxUsd, filters.hiringWorkplace, filters.hiringCountry, filters.hiringEmploymentType, filters.hiringDepartment, filters.hiringPostedWithinDays, limit, mode, stream, scope, cursor, network_filters.connection_degrees, network_filters.introducer_linkedin_ids, network_filters.user_to_introducer_types, network_filters.user_to_introducer_min_score, network_filters.introducer_to_target_types, network_filters.introducer_to_target_min_score, network_filters.exclude_teams, network_filters.exclude_community, include_counts, list_filter.people_list_id, list_filter.company_list_id, screening_handoff
Method	POST
Path	/v2/companies/search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone

The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, domain, LinkedIn URL, website, employee count, industry, description, location, warmth score, warmth label, request ID, search mode, search source, network stage complete, generated SQL, search engine, counts token, search execution token, total results, total results capped, total results cap, network total results, network total results estimated, cache hit, plan disclosure, plan approximations, next cursor, has more, results returned