# Thinknum, contact us, Request Demo, GET /companies/metrics: Company headcount API

> Track the number of employees listed on LinkedIn for companies.

Thinknum's company headcount API on its Request Demo plan. It returns 1 of the 5 key fields we check: Total.
We haven't run Thinknum through [our company headcount API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-headcount-api.txt) yet.
Thinknum gives this plan's price on request. We rank 213 plans for company headcount APIs by price. Half the plans cost $9.00 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: 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.
[BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-enrichment-company-distribution-by-country/llms.txt), [Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/up2data/25-pack-10k-post-v1-companies-headcount/llms.txt) and [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/skrapp/349-monthly-enterprise-50k-get-api-v3-companies-enrich/llms.txt) are the best company headcount API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/thinknum/contact-us-request-demo-get-companies-metrics
- [Company headcount API: 8 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-headcount-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.thinknum.com/demo/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.thinknum.com/companies/metrics`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.thinknum.com/demo/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.thinknum.com/docs/company-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing#company-metric-endpoint
- Sold by: Thinknum (https://www.thinknum.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 20%
- Total: ✓

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- Their pitch: Track the number of employees listed on LinkedIn for companies.

## Data

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: X-API-Version header "20151130", ticker
- Method: GET
- Path: /companies/metrics

## About the plan

- Plan: Request Demo
- Who can get it: a Thinknum subscriber (its docs: "you must first obtain a client_id and client_secret from your assigned Thinknum account manager")

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

metric ID, metric name, metric description, dataset ID, dataset name, dataset description, date updated, metric value, metric format, headcount

## Thinknum's plans (1)

- [Thinknum, contact us, Request Demo, GET /companies/metrics](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/thinknum/contact-us-request-demo-get-companies-metrics/llms.txt): 20% complete

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

- `GET /companies/metrics`: [Thinknum, contact us, Request Demo, GET /companies/metrics](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/thinknum/contact-us-request-demo-get-companies-metrics/llms.txt)
- `POST /datasets/linkedin_company/query/`: [Thinknum, contact us, Request Demo, POST /datasets/linkedin_company/query/](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/thinknum/contact-us-request-demo-post-datasets-linkedin-company-query/llms.txt)

## Thinknum's APIs (4)

- [Thinknum: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/thinknum/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Thinknum: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/thinknum/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Thinknum: job postings API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/thinknum/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Thinknum: company headcount API pricing, 1 plan, GET /companies/metrics](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/thinknum/contact-us-request-demo-get-companies-metrics/llms.txt)

## Thinknum: company headcount API alternatives

- [Pipecorn, contact us, Scale, custom volume, POST /accounts/count_profiles, # people at company](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/pipecorn/contact-us-scale-custom-volume-post-accounts-count-profiles-people-at-company/llms.txt): 20% complete, stored
- [BrightQuery, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/brightquery/contact-us/llms.txt): 20% complete, 1 month
- [Direct Data, contact us, Pós-pago, GET /api/CadastroPessoaJuridica](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/direct-data/contact-us-pos-pago-get-api-cadastropessoajuridica/llms.txt): 20% complete, stored
- [Enrich Layer, contact us, Enterprise, GET /api/v2/company/employees/count, Employee Count Endpoint](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/enrich-layer/contact-us-enterprise-get-api-v2-company-employees-count-employee-count-endpoint/llms.txt): 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.thinknum.com/docs/-etc.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://docs.thinknum.com/docs/authenticating.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://docs.thinknum.com/docs/company-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.thinknum.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.thinknum.com/datasets?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.thinknum.com/datasets/linkedin_company?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.thinknum.com/demo/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing
- https://www.thinknum.com/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-headcount-api-pricing