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Bright Data pricing: company headcount API

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40% complete: 2 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 206 plans by price. Financial Modeling Prep's $139 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0011. Financial Modeling Prep's $139 monthly plan covers up to 129,600,000 companies a month at no extra cost.Up2Data, BlitzAPI and Skrapp are the best company headcount API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Tier one of Bright Data's 4 plans
Call: POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vikfnt1wgvvqz95w Bright Data's only call for this API
API: Company headcount API one of Bright Data's 60 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Bright Data counts the company's staff when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 5 key fields we check. Total, Company.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 results a month. Unused results expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send url to POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vikfnt1wgvvqz95w. You can also send notify, include_errors and custom_output_fields. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Bright Data: company headcount API alternatives

Bright Data alternatives: every company headcount API provider ranked

The table starts with Bright Data's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to Bright Data's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Bright Data, $499 monthlyScrappa, pay as you goScrapeAtlas, $249 packUp2Data, $12,500 pack, 10M, POST /v1/companies/headcountFetchGoblin, top-up from $500
$ per 1,000 companies$1.30$1.00$1.245$1.25$1.342
Completeness40%40%40%40%40%
Billingmonthlypay as you gopay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$499per call$249$12,500$500
Enough for384,000 results a monthas many as you pay for200,000 calls10,000,000 calls372,606 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement, a business's account holder must be authorized to bind itanyoneanyone with a Google account or a permanent email address, who has authority to enter the terms for themselves or their organization

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. brightdata.com/acceptable-use-policy
  2. brightdata.com/legal-governance
  3. brightdata.com/license
  4. brightdata.com/llms.txt
  5. brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper
  6. docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/scrapers/social-media-apis/linkedin-companies-collect-by-url
  7. docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/scrapers/synchronous-requests
  8. docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier
  9. docs.brightdata.com/general/policy/acceptable-use-policy
  10. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/error-codes
  11. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/limits
  12. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction
  13. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/send-first-request
  14. docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/scrapers-library/faqs
  15. docs.brightdata.com/scrapers/gd_l1vikfnt1wgvvqz95w.json

Product details

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

  • Total
  • By location, not in the answer
  • By department, not in the answer
  • By seniority, not in the answer
  • Company
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Web Unlocker API · SERP API · other scrapers in the Web Scraper API library · Scraper Studio · Browser API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCollect structured LinkedIn company data by URL using the Bright Data Scraper API with dataset ID gd_l1vikfnt1wgvvqz95w for company profiles and metadata.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe Client shall not use the Services in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights) and not use the Service in any manner or for any purpose other than as stated in the intended use case provided to Bright Data, if applicable. [...] the Client will only use the Service in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy, as may be amended from time to time. [...] When using the Data Services, the Client shall not distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer, or sell any Data in order to offer a similar or competitive product. [...] Client’s use of the data collector service is subject to all applicable laws, including without limitation data protection and privacy laws. To the extent applicable to processing of personal data, Client is solely responsible for determining the lawful grounds, providing notices, respecting data subject rights and all other related obligations. [...] Bright Data’s platform, technology, and network (collectively, “Services”) are meant for legitimate and legal purposes only and are subject to the Bright Data Master Service Agreement. [...] Any use of the Bright Data Services for illegal, fraudulent, or abusive activities is strictly prohibited. [...] Forbidden activities include, but are not limited to: Collection of nonpublic information (i.e data behind login), DDoS attacks, Spam: mass posting any mail/message boards/IRC/comments messages and images, Ad fraud or click fraud, Impersonation or spoofing for fraudulent purposes, Creating fake accounts or content, Use of automatic ticket purchasing (ticket-bots), Raffles, lottery, or gambling, Fake engagement (likes, comments, shares, etc.), Gaming or trading of in games items/currency, Reselling of proxies without Bright Data’s prior written approval (see our partners programs), Use of streaming related domains (videos, music or images streaming), Trading crypto/virtual currency or NFT, Any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manipulation (i.e: fake clicks in search engines results), Posting on classified, used, and resell sites (such as Craig’s list), Completion of surveys in return for a benefit or anything of value, Any form of activity that is in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights
Plan
Pay$0
You get5,000 results a month
Enough for5,000 results a month
Expiresend of the month
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendurl. Optional: notify, include_errors, custom_output_fields
MethodPOST
Path/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vikfnt1wgvvqz95w
About the plan
PlanFree Tier
Who can get itnew accounts of anyone 18 or over, not on a subscription or custom pay-as-you-go pricing, and not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

employee count, company URL, company ID, company slug, name, website, size, industry, company type, location, country, followers

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