# The Swarm, free: Company headcount API

> Team size changes, location data, and industry

The Swarm's company headcount API on its 14-day free trial plan, $0.00 per 1,000 companies. 2 of the 5 key fields: Total, Company.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/free
- Get it: https://www.theswarm.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-company.md
- Sold by: The Swarm (https://www.theswarm.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-19

## In the answer

- Completeness: 40%
- Total: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Team size changes, location data, and industry

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: while your license lasts, on termination, delete it at The Swarm's request, backups included (derived materials without identifiable Swarm Data fields may stay)
- Use data: your own internal business purposes only (sales prospecting, recruiting, CRM enrichment and the like), no resale or redistribution to third parties, no commercial data product or AI model for external use, no product that competes with The Swarm

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once
- Expires: at the end of the 14-day trial

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1,000

## The call

- You send: at least one of ids, linkedin_names (LinkedIn company URL slugs) or linkedin_ids, each up to 1,000 values. Optional: fields, x-authenticate-team
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/companies/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: 14-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone over 18

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company slug, name, headcount, historical headcount, size, updated at, matched by

## The Swarm's plans (12)

- [The Swarm, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/99-monthly/llms.txt): $99.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/199-monthly/llms.txt): $79.60 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/299-monthly/llms.txt): $29.90 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
- [The Swarm, $750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/750-monthly/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/990-yearly/llms.txt): $82.50 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $1,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/1990-yearly/llms.txt): $66.333 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $2,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/2990-yearly/llms.txt): $24.917 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $8.333 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $7,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/7500-yearly/llms.txt): $6.25 per 1,000, 40% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/contact-us/llms.txt): 40% complete, stored

## The Swarm's calls (1)

- `POST /v3/companies/fetch`: [The Swarm, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/the-swarm/free/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [BlitzAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/blitzapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete, stored
- [Enrich Layer, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/enrich-layer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-10-19.

- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/credits-usage.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/rate-limiting.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-company.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-profile.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/company/overview.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/company/sample-data.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/faq.md
- https://docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
- https://help.theswarm.com/en/articles/14121950-plans-billing-connector-limits-api-credits
- https://www.theswarm.com
- https://www.theswarm.com/pricing
- https://www.theswarm.com/terms