# RecruitMCP, free, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts: Email finder API

> Email and phone, only charged when found.

RecruitMCP's Free plan for the email finder API costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. RecruitMCP's docs list 1 of the 10 fields on our checklist: Confidence.
In [our email finder API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-finder-api.txt), the best plan from RecruitMCP scores 35.5 out of 100. RecruitMCP ranks 80th of 97 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 1,683 plans for email finder APIs by price. Half the plans cost $20.00 per 1,000 emails or less. [See how many email finder API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-finder-api.txt)
[ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/clearbounce/3-20-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 emails. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many emails as ClearBounce's rate limit allows.
[ClearBounce's $4 pack](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/clearbounce/4-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of emails. ClearBounce's $4 pack costs more up front than ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/getprospect/399-monthly-growth-50k-post-v2-email-find/llms.txt), [DiscoLike](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/discolike/399-monthly-team-post-email-find/llms.txt) and [Icypeas](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/icypeas/499-monthly-hypergrowth-100000-credits-a-month-post-email-search/llms.txt) are the best email finder API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts
- [Email finder API: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-finder-api.txt)
- Get it: https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.recruitmcp.com/v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://recruitmcp.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing#lookupPersonContacts
- Sold by: RecruitMCP (https://recruitmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 10%
- Confidence: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 emails: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: found live

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Email and phone, only charged when found.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Do not use RecruitMCP to harass people or to evade a do-not-contact mark.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 1,250 credits
- Enough for: 50 calls
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling
- Median: 85.88 s

## The call

- You send: profile_id, Idempotency-Key header. Optional: prefer, dry_run, confirm_token
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, one free grant per email address

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, canonical ID, contact status, email, email type, email line, email confidence, email flagged, email flag reason, best email, best email type, best email line, best email confidence, best email reason, contacts expire at, credits charged, request ID

## RecruitMCP's plans (5)

- [RecruitMCP, free, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [RecruitMCP, €99 pack, Top-up, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/99-pack-top-up-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt): $371.349 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [RecruitMCP, €49 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/49-monthly-starter-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt): $275.699 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [RecruitMCP, €149 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/149-monthly-growth-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt): $167.67 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [RecruitMCP, €399 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/399-monthly-scale-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt): $112.249 per 1,000, 10% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts`: [RecruitMCP, free, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/people/contacts:fetch`: [RecruitMCP, free, POST /v1/people/contacts:fetch](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-contacts-fetch/llms.txt)

## RecruitMCP's APIs (4)

- [RecruitMCP: people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people:enrich](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-enrich/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people:match](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-match/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/contacts:fetch](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-contacts-fetch/llms.txt)

## RecruitMCP: email finder API alternatives

- [Lix, $1,332 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/lix/1332-yearly/llms.txt): $111.00 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [Forager, $50 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v2/{account_id}/datastorage/person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/forager/50-monthly/llms.txt): $111.111 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $672 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/phantombuster/672-yearly/llms.txt): $112.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [BetterEnrich, $288 pack, One-time Payment, 10K credits, POST /api/v1/find-personal-email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/betterenrich/288-pack-one-time-payment-10k-credits-post-api-v1-find-personal-email/llms.txt): $115.20 per 1,000, 20% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://recruitmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/docs/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/legal/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-finder-api-pricing