# pingutil, free API key, POST /v1/lookup: Company enrichment API

> Industry, headquarters, employee range and funding stage come back with the lookup, so your CRM record is useful before anyone opens it.

pingutil's company enrichment API on its Free API key plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters, Funding, Parents.
You get up to 60,000 calls a month.
We haven't run pingutil through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 1,542 plans we rank by price cost $7.96 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 96 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,542 plans.
[CNPJ API's R$99 monthly plan (/bulk-cnpj)](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cnpj-api/r-99-monthly-pro-post-bulk-cnpj/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in Brazil only. CNPJ API's R$99 monthly plan costs less up front than Extruct's $49 monthly plan.
[GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt), [SEC EDGAR](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/sec-edgar/free/llms.txt) and [GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-companies-enrich/llms.txt) are the best company enrichment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-lookup
- [Company enrichment API: 130+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://pingutil.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://pingutil.com/v1/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://pingutil.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://pingutil.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Sold by: pingutil (https://pingutil.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓
- Parents: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Verify one email address · Verify up to 50 addresses · Read a domain from cache only

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Industry, headquarters, employee range and funding stage come back with the lookup, so your CRM record is useful before anyone opens it.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 60,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 2,000
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: input. Optional: skip_enrichment, check_dns, refresh, check_reputation, include_raw
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free API key
- Who can get it: anyone who signs in with an email address

## The 49 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, domain in Unicode, category, subcategory, is email, normalized input, cached, fetched at, last refreshed at, name, legal name, tagline, description, industry, sub-industry, technology categories, founded year, headquarters city, headquarters region, headquarters country, employee size estimate, website, LinkedIn URL, Twitter handle, Crunchbase URL, GitHub organization, parent company, funding stage, total funding, notable customers, public company, ticker, confidence score, randomized address, randomness score, role address, system-generated address, sales outreach address, random-looking domain, domain exists, can receive email, has website, spam, low trust, verdict reason, source model, categorization source, categorization confidence, grounding sources

## pingutil's plans (1)

- [pingutil, free API key, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored

## pingutil's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/lookup`: [pingutil, free API key, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/domains/{domain}`: [pingutil, free API key, GET /v1/domains/{domain}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-get-v1-domains-domain/llms.txt)

## pingutil's APIs (2)

- [pingutil: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt)
- [pingutil: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify/llms.txt)
- [pingutil: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/verify/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify-batch/llms.txt)

## pingutil: company enrichment API alternatives

- [GLEIF, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [data.texas.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [CZ Agents, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cz-agents/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [CNPJa, free, Plano Gratuito, GET /office/{taxId}, Consulta CNPJ (cache)](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cnpja/free-plano-gratuito-get-office-taxid-consulta-cnpj-cache/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://pingutil.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/api/explorer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/blog/best-free-email-validation-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/blog/free-domain-intelligence-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/compare/abstract-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/email-verification?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://pingutil.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing