ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: company enrichment API, GET / companies/ slug/ {slug}
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GET / companies/ slug/ {slug} one of ExploreYC's 2 calls for this API- People search API
- People enrichment API
- Company enrichment API
- Company discovery API
GET /search - Company discovery API
GET /companies
About this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get company profiles from ExploreYC's database.
- 8 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
- Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
slugtoGET /. The call returns the company profile.companies/ slug/ {slug} - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
ExploreYC: company enrichment API alternatives
The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /companies/slug/{slug} | Skrapp, $5,388 yearly, Enterprise 100K, GET /api/v3/companies/snapshot | Context.dev, $9,500 yearly, Scale 2.5M, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by ticker | ReefAPI, $33.75 quarterly, Pro quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/by-id | Scavio, $288 yearly, Project, yearly, POST /api/v1/glassdoor/company | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $3.333 | $2.993 | $3.167 | $3.375 | $3.429 |
| Completeness | 62% | 54% | 62% | 23% | 62% |
| Billing | monthly | yearly | yearly | quarterly | yearly |
| Pay | $50 | $5,388 | $9,500 | $33.75 | $288 |
| Enough for | 500 calls a day | 150,000 calls a month | 250,000 calls a month | about 3,333 calls a month | 7,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 1 day | 24 hours | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone 18 or over | anyone aged 18 or over | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.
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
- Images
- Technologies, not in the answer
- Employees
- Social profiles, not in the answer
- Headquarters
- Locations, not in the answer
- Funding
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents
- Phones, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Full-text company search · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder leaderboards (ranked) · Founder profile + stats + companies |
|---|
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Fetch a single company by slug (the human-readable url segment). |
|---|
| Freshness | 1 day |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 5 requests a day |
| Enough for | 5 calls a day |
| Per day | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | slug |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /companies/slug/{slug} |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold
company ID, source, source ID, company name, slug, website, one-liner, description, team size, batch, status, industry, subindustry, all locations, is hiring, top company, nonprofit, stage, country, latitude, longitude, logo thumbnail URL, founders, year founded, exit type, acquirer, ticker symbol, funded date, source URL, total funding, last round amount, last round name, last round date, valuation, employee count, employee growth 6 months, created at, updated at
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