# The Hog, free: Email finder API

> Get verified email addresses and phone numbers for your prospects.

The Hog's email finder API on its 500 free calls every month plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. It returns none of the 10 key fields we check: Verification, Confidence, Catch-all domain, Where found and 6 more.
The cheapest of the 741 plans we rank by price is [Anysite, $300 monthly, Scale, POST /api/linkedin/user/email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/anysite/300-monthly-scale-post-api-linkedin-user-email/llms.txt), at $0.158 per 1,000 emails.
[OrbiSearch](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/orbisearch/207-pack-enterprise-post-v1-email-lookup/llms.txt), [treg](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/free
- [Best email finder API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-finder-api.txt)
- Get it: https://thehog.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://developer.thehog.ai/api/enrichments`
- API key: with the plan, on https://thehog.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.thehog.ai/api/enrichments/submit-enrichment.md
- Sold by: The Hog (https://thehog.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-26

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Strengths

- Strengths: 100+ people a request

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get verified email addresses and phone numbers for your prospects.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any law or third-party right. Attempt to access, probe, or disrupt our systems or other users’ data. Reverse engineer, scrape, or resell the Services except as permitted. Upload malicious code or use the Services to send spam or abusive content.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 100

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: fields "contact.email", one of identifier.linkedin_url, identifier.email, identifier.x_handle or identifier.github_username. Optional: signals_config, Idempotency-Key header
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/enrichments

## About the plan

- Plan: 500 free calls every month
- Who can get it: anyone the waitlist invites

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

email

## The Hog's plans (3)

- [The Hog, free](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [The Hog, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/top-up/llms.txt): $65.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [The Hog, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

## The Hog's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/enrichments`: [The Hog, free](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)

## The Hog's APIs (12)

- [The Hog: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: email finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: phone finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)
- [The Hog: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-hog/free/llms.txt)

## The Hog: email finder API alternatives

- [Anysite, $549 monthly, Pro, POST /api/linkedin/user/find_email_by_url](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/anysite/549-monthly-pro-post-api-linkedin-user-find-email-by-url/llms.txt): $64.588 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [Enrich Layer, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/enrich-layer/1000-pack/llms.txt): $64.799 per 1,000, 10% complete
- [SignalHire, $469 yearly, Emails](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/signalhire/469-yearly-emails/llms.txt): $65.139 per 1,000, 60% complete, live
- [Dropcontact, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/dropcontact/29-monthly/llms.txt): $65.267 per 1,000, 60% 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 2026-10-26.

- https://docs.thehog.ai/api/enrichments/get-enrichment.md
- https://docs.thehog.ai/api/enrichments/submit-enrichment.md
- https://docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-profile.md
- https://docs.thehog.ai/concepts/credits
- https://docs.thehog.ai/concepts/sync-vs-async
- https://docs.thehog.ai/guides/enrich-contacts
- https://docs.thehog.ai/llms.txt
- https://docs.thehog.ai/reference/idempotency
- https://docs.thehog.ai/reference/rate-limits
- https://thehog.ai/pricing
- https://thehog.ai/privacy
- https://thehog.ai/terms