# Financial Modeling Prep, free, Basic, GET /stable/historical-employee-count: Company headcount API

> Access historical employee count data for a company based on specific reporting periods. The FMP Company Historical Employee Count API provides insights into how a company’s workforce has evolved over time, allowing users to analyze growth trends and operational changes.

Financial Modeling Prep's company headcount API on its Basic plan, $0.00 per 1,000 companies. 1 of the 5 key fields: Total.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/free-basic-get-stable-historical-employee-count
- Get it: https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/pricing-plans
- Its API docs: https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/stable/historical-employee-count
- Sold by: Financial Modeling Prep (https://site.financialmodelingprep.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-20

## In the answer

- Completeness: 20%
- Total: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: call
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Company Employee Count · the other 150+ endpoints of its plan (its pricing page's "Experience over 150+ Endpoints" and compare table: Company Profile Data, Financial Statements, SEC Filings, Stock Quote, Charts, News...)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access historical employee count data for a company based on specific reporting periods. The FMP Company Historical Employee Count API provides insights into how a company’s workforce has evolved over time, allowing users to analyze growth trends and operational changes.

## Data

- Keep data: "Upon termination of this Agreement, Customer must delete all Data it has received from FMP under all applicable Order Forms, including data cached, and sign the Data Deletion Agreement in Exhibit A." On the Personal Use plans: "The Customer may not copy or download any content from the Services except with the prior written approval of FMP."
- Use data: "This license may only be used by a Customer who is an individual, and strictly for their own personal, non-business and non-commercial purposes. In no event may the Customer use this licence on behalf of a company, partnership, organization, group, entity or any other third party. This license is personal to the Customer, and the Customer may not share FMP Services or Data, resell, permit other users access to our Services through the Customer’s account, integrate the Data or Services into any tools or applications accessible by any third parties, or use the Services to host, share, display, or provide content for others. [...] Without limiting the foregoing, Customer may not use the Data or Services for any Commercial Use." "Commercial Use" includes "Collecting, aggregating, or analyzing data using FMP Services or Data for commercial purposes or to support commercial activities, including market research, business intelligence, or data-driven decision-making." "Without a specific agreement with FMP, customers are prohibited from showcasing FMP Services or Data on platforms including but not limited to websites, blogs, software products, or applications designed for utilization by multiple individuals, irrespective of whether such usage is complimentary or paid, and whether it pertains to internal or external organizational purposes." "Customer shall comply with, Customer shall not, and shall not permit its clients to: (i) resell, sublicense, distribute or otherwise provide access to The Services, or data or information contained in or derived from The Services, to any third party or use The Services outside the scope of the license granted herein, (ii) copy, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile The Services or otherwise attempt to discover any source code or trade secrets related to The Services, or (iii) use the trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features or any copyright or other proprietary rights associated with The Services for any purpose without the express written consent of FMP." "Displaying or redistributing data sourced from FMP requires a specific Data Display and Licensing Agreement with FMP."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 requests a day
- Enough for: 250 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 250
- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: symbol. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /stable/historical-employee-count

## About the plan

- Plan: Basic
- Who can get it: an individual, strictly for their own personal, non-business and non-commercial purposes (Terms of Service 2.2.1: "In no event may the Customer use this licence on behalf of a company, partnership, organization, group, entity or any other third party")

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

headcount history, period of report, filing date, form type, SEC filing link

## Financial Modeling Prep's plans (8)

- [Financial Modeling Prep, free, Basic, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/free-basic-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $29 monthly, Starter, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/29-monthly-starter-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $69 monthly, Premium, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/69-monthly-premium-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $139 monthly, Ultimate, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/139-monthly-ultimate-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $228 yearly, Starter, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/228-yearly-starter-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $588 yearly, Premium, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/588-yearly-premium-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, $1,188 yearly, Ultimate, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/1188-yearly-ultimate-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Financial Modeling Prep, contact us, Enterprise, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/contact-us-enterprise-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt): 20% complete

## Financial Modeling Prep's calls (2)

- `GET /stable/employee-count`: [Financial Modeling Prep, free, Basic, GET /stable/employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/free-basic-get-stable-employee-count/llms.txt)
- `GET /stable/historical-employee-count`: [Financial Modeling Prep, free, Basic, GET /stable/historical-employee-count](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/free-basic-get-stable-historical-employee-count/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Renidly, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/renidly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete, 20 minutes
- [BlitzAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/blitzapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [CompanyEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/companyenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [The Swarm, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% 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 2026-10-20.

- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/stable/employee-count
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/developer/docs/stable/historical-employee-count
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/enterprise-contact
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/faqs
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/pricing-plans
- https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/terms-of-service