25 Foundry alternatives in 2026

By Wayne Hamadi, founder of Datacircle. Last updated: November 9, 2026

The best alternatives to Foundry for web scraping APIs: Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks, by our benchmark. Foundry's website is minty-sprout.onrender.com.

Web scraping API alternatives

Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 pages first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 pages
APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API	$1.00
Scrappa, pay as you go	$1.00
SerpKite, $10 pack	$1.00
WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering	$1.00

Compare every web scraping API plan: Web scraping API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Tech stack API alternatives

JobsPipe, DetectZeStack and GetProspect are the best tech stack API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 companies first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 companies
The Companies API, $5,950 yearly	$0.992
StartupHub.ai, pay as you go, x402	$1.00
WhatCMS, $500 monthly, 500,000 Detections, GET /API/Tech	$1.00
Outsend, top-up	$1.01

Compare every tech stack API plan: Tech stack API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Domain WHOIS API alternatives

WhoisJSON, Enterno and IPAddress.to are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 domains first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 domains
Otto AI, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /whois-lookup	$1.00
ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go	$1.00
SnoopScan, $120 yearly	$1.00
WhoisFreaks, $1,000 monthly, Monthly Subscription, 1,000,000 API Credits, POST /v2.0/bulkwhois/live	$1.00

Compare every domain WHOIS API plan: Domain WHOIS API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Email verification API alternatives

pingutil, Validemail.co and looot are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 emails first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 emails
BillionVerify, $20 pack, Starter, POST /verify/bulk	$1.00
DeBounce, top-up from $200, 200K credits, GET /v1/, Single email validation	$1.00
FiatDock, pay as you go	$1.00
MillionPhones, $100 monthly	$1.00
Prime Verifier, $200 pack, Pay-As-You-Go 200,000 credits, POST /v1/verify/single	$1.00

Compare every email verification API plan: Email verification API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

IP company lookup API alternatives

IPKit, MxToolbox and Enterno are the best IP company lookup API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 IP addresses first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 IP addresses
DomScan, $10 pack	$1.00
Tanod, pay as you go	$1.00
WhoisFreaks, $1,000 monthly, Monthly Subscription, 1,000,000 API Credits, POST /v1.0/geolocation	$1.00
ip2geo.dev, $10 monthly, Starter, POST /convert	$1.00

Compare every IP company lookup API plan: IP company lookup API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Phone validation API alternatives

Trestle, Data247 and Abstract API are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 phones first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 phones
CallerAPI, $12,000 monthly, Enterprise transparency $12,000, GET /api/lookup/{phone}	$1.00
DomScan, $10 pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/phone/validate/bulk	$1.00
ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /phone-validate/v1/validate	$1.00
apipick, $5 pack, 5,000 credits, POST /api/check-china-phone	$1.00

Compare every phone validation API plan: Phone validation API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

GitHub repository API alternatives

Scrappa, Litescrape and Pushbuild are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our Foundry plan pages, we compare each Foundry plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 repositories first.

Provider and plan	$ per 1,000 repositories
Anysite, $1,199 monthly	$0.999
API.SH, $50 monthly	$1.00
ReefAPI, $50 monthly	$1.00
Scrappa, pay as you go	$1.00

Compare every GitHub repository API plan: GitHub repository API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared