# The Companies API, free: LinkedIn company data API

> Transform any social network URL into a comprehensive company profile with over 80 data points.

The Companies API's LinkedIn company data API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry and type, Images, Technologies, Employees, Followers, Headquarters, Revenue, Contact.
We rank 591 plans by price. [Village's $1 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-companies-enrich-enrich-company-cached-only/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000039. Village's $1 monthly plan covers up to 259,200,000 companies a month at no extra cost.
Village's $1 monthly plan covers any number of companies on the call named “[Enrich Company (Bulk), cached only](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-companies-enrich-bulk-enrich-company-bulk-cached-only/llms.txt)”.
[DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) and [BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/blitzapi/99-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn company data API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/free
- [Best LinkedIn company data API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-company-data-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.thecompaniesapi.com/v2/companies/by-social`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/enrich-company-from-social-network-url?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- Sold by: The Companies API (https://www.thecompaniesapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Industry and type: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue: ✓
- Contact: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich a company from a domain · Enrich a company from an email · Search companies · Search companies (POST) · Search companies by name · Search companies using a prompt · Search for similar companies · Ask questions about a company using our AI model · Fetch the context of a company

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Transform any social network URL into a comprehensive company profile with over 80 data points.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 4.1. You may only access and utilise the Site, Service and Data for your internal business purposes only and in accordance with the applicable law or regulation(s) [...]. 3.3. [...] this license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Site, Service or the Data, any derivative use of the Site, Service or the Data or any use of data mining, scraping, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction software, technology or tools. 5.1. [...] you may not do, permit, or authorise the doing of any of the following acts in relation to the Site or Services: in a way that is unlawful, [...] use in any manner in which simultaneous access by multiple unauthorised users is permitted, use a personal or proxy account to register an account with the Company to access and utilise the Site for the purposes of downloading, transferring or copying Data for the benefit of another merchant or business, frame, inline link or utilise other techniques to associate or juxtapose any of the Company's name, logos, or other materials with advertisements and/or other information not originating from the Site, translate, edit, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Site or attempt to do so.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of: dribbble, facebook, github, instagram, linkedin, pinterest, snapchat, tiktok, twitter, wellfound, youtube. Optional: refresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/companies/by-social

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 56 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company type, industries, industry, name, alternative names, legal name, employee count range, employee count, founded year, founding date, monthly visitors, cover image, logo, NAICS code, SIC code, acquisitions, parent company, emails, phone, description, tagline, domain, estimated revenue range, stock exchange, stock ticker, headquarters address, headquarters latitude, headquarters longitude, headquarters city, headquarters postal code, headquarters continent, headquarters country, headquarters country code, headquarters state, followers, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, Facebook URL, Instagram URL, TikTok URL, Discord URL, Pinterest URL, GitHub URL, Reddit URL, Xing URL, YouTube URLs, social media network, social media ID, social media URL, technologies, technology category, website, Crunchbase URL, Sales Navigator URL, contact URL

## The Companies API's plans (7)

- [The Companies API, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $95 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/95-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $295 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/295-monthly/llms.txt): $1.18 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $595 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/595-monthly/llms.txt): $1.19 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/950-yearly/llms.txt): $1.583 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $2,950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/2950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.983 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, $5,950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/5950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.992 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored

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

- `GET /v2/companies/by-social`: [The Companies API, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt)

## The Companies API's APIs (5)

- [The Companies API: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: similar companies API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: tech stack API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies/{domain}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies-domain/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies/by-social](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies-by-social/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies/by-email](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies-by-email/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies/by-name](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies-by-name/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free-post-v2-companies/llms.txt)
- [The Companies API: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v2/companies/by-prompt](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free-get-v2-companies-by-prompt/llms.txt)

## The Companies API: LinkedIn company data API alternatives

- [Reverse Contact, $699 monthly, Max, POST /v2/enrich/companies](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/reverse-contact/699-monthly-max-post-v2-enrich-companies/llms.txt): $0.162 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [BlitzAPI, top-up from $0.60](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/blitzapi/top-up-from-0-60/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored
- [WebAutomation, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/webautomation/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [CompanyEnrich, $549 monthly, Scale, POST /companies/enrich, Enrich by properties](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/companyenrich/549-monthly-scale-post-companies-enrich-enrich-by-properties/llms.txt): $1.098 per 1,000, 62% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://api.thecompaniesapi.com/v2/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/datapoints?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/enrich-company-from-social-network-url?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api/search-similar-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing
- https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/product/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-data-api-pricing