# Village, free: Company discovery API

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

Village's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Employees, Social profiles, Locations.
The cheapest of the 128 priced plans is [Context.dev, $9,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/context-dev/9500-yearly/llms.txt), at $0.0063 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/free
- Get it: https://www.village.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/companies/search-companies
- Sold by: Village (https://village.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-22

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## 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

## Village's plans (8)

- [Village, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/25-pack/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/50-pack/llms.txt): $6.818 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/100-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $1 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/1-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/149-monthly/llms.txt): $5.96 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, $1,608 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/1608-yearly/llms.txt): $5.36 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Village, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete

## Village's calls (1)

- `POST /v2/companies/search`: [Village, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/free/llms.txt)

## Village's APIs (8)

- [Village: LinkedIn person post API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/village/free/llms.txt)
- [Village: company discovery API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/village/free/llms.txt)
- [Village: people search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/village/free/llms.txt)
- [Village: reverse email lookup API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/village/free/llms.txt)
- [Village: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/village/free-free-post-v2-companies-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Village: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/companies/enrich/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/village/free-free-post-v2-companies-enrich-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Village: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/people/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/free-free-post-v2-people-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Village: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/people/enrich/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/free-free-post-v2-people-enrich-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Village: cached email finder API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-email-apis/village/free/llms.txt)
- [Village: email finder API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/village/free/llms.txt)

## Village: company discovery API alternatives

- [NinjaPear, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ninjapear/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Findymail, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [BetterContact, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bettercontact/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete
- [Autobound, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% 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 2026-10-22.

- https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/companies/search-companies
- https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/credits
- https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/introduction
- https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/people/enrich-person
- https://docs.village.ai/api-reference/rate-limits
- https://www.village.ai/pricing
- https://www.village.ai/terms