# Fokals, free: Company headcount API

> How many people each of the person's companies employed over the years, oldest first, each figure with the date it is as of and whether it comes from the company's annual report or a public record.

Fokals's company headcount API on its Free credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Fokals's docs list none of the 5 key fields we check: Total, By location, By department, By seniority and Company.
We haven't run Fokals through [our company headcount API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-headcount-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 238 plans for company headcount APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.888 per 1,000 companies or less.
[Financial Modeling Prep's $139 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/financial-modeling-prep/139-monthly-ultimate-get-stable-employee-count/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. Financial Modeling Prep's $139 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as Financial Modeling Prep's rate limit allows.
[ROIC.ai's $89 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/roic-ai/89-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. ROIC.ai's $89 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Modeling Prep's $139 monthly plan.
[Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/bridgly/300-pack/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best company headcount API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free
- [Company headcount API: the 17 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-headcount-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fokals.com/v1/headcount_history`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.fokals.com/connect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- Sold by: Fokals (https://www.fokals.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 30 days
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find companies by signal · Enrich a list of companies · Company profile · What changed at my companies · Search job postings · Similar companies and competitors · company_connections · Market breakdown · Find companies by description · Companies described alike · Vendor scorecard · Companies like my customers · Company health · Buying intent week by week · Sales team from job ads · Funding filings · Website traffic month by month · Buying signals across companies · Announcements across companies · Website changes across companies · Stock listings · Market trends over time · Biggest market movers · Sales pay benchmarks · Enrich a long list into a file · Likely next technologies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: How many people each of the person's companies employed over the years, oldest first, each figure with the date it is as of and whether it comes from the company's annual report or a public record.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: while your access lasts, Data downloaded in bulk is deleted within 30 days after it ends
- Use data: While you comply with these terms and have paid any fees due, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service and the Data for your internal business purposes. You may create analyses, reports and presentations from the Data for your internal use and for your own clients, provided that they do not contain the Data in bulk or in a form that could substitute for the Service. Any other use, including resale, redistribution, sublicensing or embedding the Data in a product for others, requires a separate written agreement with us. [...] What you must not do: Sell, resell, rent, license, redistribute or publish the Data, or give third parties access to it, except as section 4 or a separate written agreement allows. Use the Data to identify, profile, contact or make decisions about any individual person, or to infer sensitive characteristics of anyone. Copy, scrape or crawl the Service, access it by automated means other than an interface we provide for that purpose, or reverse-engineer it. Share accounts, sign-in links or API keys, or exceed the limits of your plan. Use the Service in breach of any law, or of any rights or terms of a third party that apply to your use. Use the Service to build a competing product or dataset. [...] Under these terms alone, the Service and the Data are not provided for investment purposes. You must not use them, or allow them to be used, to make or inform decisions to buy, sell or hold securities or other financial instruments, or provide them to any investment fund, asset manager or trading firm, unless we have agreed to that use in a separate written agreement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: 25 results, once
- Expires: 12 months

## Rate limit

- Per day: 2,000
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 25

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: companies. Optional: max_usd
- Method: POST
- Path: /headcount_history

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, 18 or over

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

employees, as of date, source

## Fokals's plans (5)

- [Fokals, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 10,000 companies a month](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-10000-companies-a-month/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 100,000 companies a month](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-100000-companies-a-month/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Fokals, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, stored

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

- `POST /headcount_history`: [Fokals, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/companies/{id}/headcount`: [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Fokals's APIs (8)

- [Fokals: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company funding API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company headcount API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company open jobs API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: job postings API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans, POST /companies_like_customers](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-companies-like-customers/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /company_profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-company-profile/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /enrich_companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-enrich-companies/llms.txt)

## Fokals: company headcount API alternatives

- [Skrapp, $1,499 monthly, Enterprise 500K, GET /api/v3/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/skrapp/1499-monthly-enterprise-500k-get-api-v3-companies-enrich/llms.txt): $8.994 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [Pipecorn, $5,399 monthly, Scale, 540,000 credits a month, POST /accounts/headcount, Department headcount](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/pipecorn/5399-monthly-scale-540000-credits-a-month-post-accounts-headcount-department-headcount/llms.txt): $9.998 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/500-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [Enrich Layer, $899 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v2/company/employees/count, Employee Count Endpoint](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/enrich-layer/899-monthly-pro-get-api-v2-company-employees-count-employee-count-endpoint/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 20% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://api.fokals.com/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/connect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing