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Tomba pricing and alternatives: cached email finder API, GET /author-finder

Tomba's sitellms.txtBest cached email finder API in 2026
90% complete: 9 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsThe cheapest of the 316 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, From LinkedIn profile URL: CSV bulk, at $0.042 per 1,000.
Plan: Free one of Tomba's 28 plans
Call: GET /author-finder one of Tomba's 3 calls for this API
API: Cached email finder API one of Tomba's 11 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get emails from Tomba's database.
  • 9 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification, Confidence, Catch-all domain, Where found, Name, Job title, Company, LinkedIn URL, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 25 credits a month, enough for 25 calls. Unused credits expire at each 30-day reset: unused credits don't carry over.
  • One call. You send url to GET /author-finder. You can also send webhook_url. The call returns the email.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Tomba: cached email finder API alternatives

The table starts with Tomba's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to Tomba's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Tomba, $59,988 yearly, Enterprise, GET /author-finderGetLeads, $497 monthly, Unlimited, POST /api/v1/enrich/from-personStableEnrich, pay as you go, Pay per request with x402 or MPP, POST /api/minerva/enrichBlitzAPI, top-up from $0.60Skrapp, $13,488 yearly, Enterprise 500K, POST /api/v2/find_bulk
$ per 1,000 emails$1.666$0.083$0.10$1.00$2.248
Completeness90%50%60%10%30%
Billingyearlymonthlypay as you gopay firstyearly
Pay$59,988$497per call$0.60$13,488
Enough for3,000,000 calls a month6,000,000 results a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for500,000 results a month
Freshness1 month1 month1 day30 days30 days
Who can get itanyone 18 or over, on requestanyoneanyone 18 or over, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying in USDC from a wallet on Base, Solana or TempoAI agents, on their own or for their human, through BlitzAPI's agent storefront, no BlitzAPI account neededanyone 18 or over

Every cached email finder API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. docs.tomba.io/api/finder#author-finder
  2. docs.tomba.io/attributes/person
  3. docs.tomba.io/data
  4. docs.tomba.io/data-quality-guarantee
  5. docs.tomba.io/data/updates
  6. docs.tomba.io/faqs
  7. docs.tomba.io/openapi.md
  8. docs.tomba.io/rate-limits
  9. docs.tomba.io/usage-and-quotas
  10. tomba.io/_nuxt/DNrNyzjN.js
  11. tomba.io/legal/api-terms
  12. tomba.io/legal/terms-of-service
  13. tomba.io/linkedin-finder
  14. tomba.io/pricing

Product details

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

  • Verification
  • Confidence
  • Catch-all domain
  • Where found
  • Personal email, not in the answer
  • Name
  • Job title
  • Company
  • LinkedIn URL
  • Location
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat free30 days
Also pays forGET /email-count · GET /email-format · GET /location · GET /email-sources · from the same budget: GET /domain-search · GET /email-finder · GET /enrich · GET /linkedin · GET /phone-finder · GET /phone-validator · POST /reveal/search · GET /similar · GET /people/find · GET /companies/find · GET /combined/find · Bulk jobs
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.00
Bounce
Bounce refundthe credit, for a hard bounce of an address scored 60 or higher, reported from the API or the dashboard and confirmed after review
In their words
Their pitchFinds the email address of the author of an article or blog post from its URL.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep dataRefresh or purge cached contact data at least every twelve (12) months, delete cached data for any contact when we notify you that the contact has exercised a right of erasure, or when you receive such a request directly, delete all cached and stored API data within ninety (90) days of terminating your subscription, not store API data longer than necessary for your permitted use
Use datawe grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to: [...] Use data returned by the API for your own internal business purposes, or to deliver functionality to your own end users where your plan permits This licence does not permit you to make the API, or data obtained through it, available as a standalone data product, lookup service, or competing dataset. [...] In addition to the prohibitions in Section 5 of the Terms of Service, you must not: Mirror, republish, resell, or redistribute API data, or expose it through a public endpoint, free tool, or open dataset, Build or contribute to a product that competes with Tomba, or use the API to benchmark for a competing service without our prior written consent, Store API data longer than necessary for your permitted use, or build a persistent shadow copy of our database, Use the API to enrich or resolve data about individuals in their personal capacity, [...] Present API data in a way that suggests Tomba endorses your product, or misrepresent the source or accuracy of the data, Use the API for any FCRA-regulated purpose described in Section 2 of the Terms of Service [...] Where you display data obtained through the API to end users, you must attribute Tomba as the source unless your written agreement with us says otherwise. [...] You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to: Reproduce, duplicate, sell, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or redistribute the Service or its data, or build a competing product or dataset from it, [...] Use the Service to send spam, phishing, malware, harassment, or any unlawful, deceptive, or misleading communication, Use the Service to compile data about individuals for purposes unrelated to legitimate business-to-business outreach, Target individuals in their personal capacity, or seek personal (non-business) contact details, Collect or infer special categories of personal data, including data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, health data, or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, Use the Service for any FCRA-regulated purpose described in Section 2, Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including data protection, anti-spam, and marketing laws [...] You agree to: Attribute Tomba when publishing data or metrics obtained through the Service
Plan
Pay$0
You get25 credits a month
Enough for25 calls a month
Expiresat each 30-day reset: unused credits don't carry over
Rate limit
Per day5
Per second0.033
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: webhook_url
MethodGET
Path/author-finder
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 50 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, first name, last name, full name, company domain, company name, job title, country, gender, Twitter URL, LinkedIn URL, confidence score, accept-all domain, has phone number, verification date, verification status, source URL, source domain, source first seen date, source last seen date, source still on page, article URL, article title, article description, article image URL, article domain, publication name, article publish date, candidate full name, candidate first name, candidate last name, candidate email, candidate job title, candidate bio, candidate image URL, candidate image from Gravatar, candidate author page URL, candidate website, candidate LinkedIn URL, candidate Twitter URL, candidate Facebook URL, candidate GitHub URL, candidate Instagram URL, candidate YouTube URL, candidate Mastodon URL, candidate Bluesky URL, candidate name sources, candidate name confidence, candidate score, candidate name count

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