# Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/: LinkedIn company search API

> Search cached companies. Database mode returns results in under 1 second. Billed per result returned.

Generect's LinkedIn company search API on its "Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 8 of the 12 key fields we check: Description, Industry and type, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Locations, Domain, Contact.
We rank 159 plans by price. [Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/kooperativa/499-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.00046. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan covers up to 21,600,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 50 companies.
[Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan (/v2/search/organizations)](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-organizations/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan costs less to start than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.
[Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/up2data/200-pack-100k-post-v1-search-companies/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-organizations/llms.txt) and [BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-companies/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn company search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-search-database-companies
- [Best LinkedIn company search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-company-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://generect.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.generect.com/api/v1/search/database/companies/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://generect.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/search/database-companies
- Sold by: Generect (https://generect.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-26

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Description: ✓
- Industry and type: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Locations: ✓
- Domain: ✓
- Contact: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,600
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Database search & enrich · Real-time search & enrich · Real-time count · Email Finder · Email Validation · Preview

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search cached companies. Database mode returns results in under 1 second. Billed per result returned.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for the duration of Your paid use of Our Services [...] the User can continue to use the results of the request at any time while lawful using Our Services
- Use data: a worldwide, non-exclusive right to use the business contact records You export from the Services for Your own internal sales, marketing and recruiting purposes (or, for agencies, on behalf of your clients), provided such use complies with applicable data protection and anti-spam laws [...] the Services will be used exclusively by You and/or users, who are subject to the same obligations, as You are using Your personal account in Our SaaS product “Generect” [...] You agree not to apply the following non-exhaustive list of practices that are not considered “Legitimate Use” of Our Services: using Our Services for unreasonable workloads We determine (in Our sole discretion) to be unrelated to the deployment and maintenance of Your own services, re-selling Our Services or parts thereof to another third party, using Our Services, violate any laws in Your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright, spam, or trademark laws), use a robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Services, using Our Services in a manner We determine (in our sole discretion) could cause harm to Our Services or another third party, or unusual usage patterns inconsistent with those We reasonably consider as normal use when compared to other customers

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $10
- Enough for: 500 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: industries, exclude_industries, sub_industries, headcounts, locations, exclude_locations, company_types, exclude_ids, exclude_domains, limit_by, offset_by, strict, apply_domain_blocklist, founded_year
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search/database/companies/

## About the plan

- Plan: Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a work email

## The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, company ID, company URN, company URL, name, raw name, tagline, description, website, domain, industry, specialties, hashtag, company type, founded year, headcount range, employee count, location, headquarters address line 1, headquarters city, headquarters area, headquarters postal code, headquarters country, headquarters country code, headquarters address line 2, raw location, location count, locations, location country, location area, location city, location address line 1, location postal code, location address line 2, location description, phone, logo, cover image, acquired by, Crunchbase URN, Sales Navigator URL, cached logo, total results, amount charged

## Generect's plans (3)

- [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-search-database-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-search-database-companies/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Generect, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-search-database-companies/llms.txt): 67% complete, stored

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

- `POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/`: [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-search-database-companies/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/search/realtime/companies/`: [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/search/realtime/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/free/llms.txt)

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- [Generect: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 3 plans, realtime/company, Enrich company in realtime, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-realtime-company-enrich-company-in-realtime-full/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 3 plans, database/companies/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-companies-bulk/llms.txt)
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- [Generect: similar companies API pricing, 3 plans, database, Enrich company from database, people also follow](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-company-enrich-company-from-database-people-also-follow/llms.txt)
- [Generect: similar companies API pricing, 3 plans, database, Enrich company from database, people also viewed](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-company-enrich-company-from-database-people-also-viewed/llms.txt)
- [Generect: similar companies API pricing, 3 plans, realtime, Enrich company in realtime, people also follow](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-realtime-company-enrich-company-in-realtime-people-also-follow/llms.txt)
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- [Generect: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/company/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-company/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/realtime/company/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/generect/free/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans, database/lead](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans, realtime/lead, Enrich lead in realtime](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-realtime-lead-enrich-lead-in-realtime/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans, realtime/lead, Enrich lead in realtime, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-realtime-lead-enrich-lead-in-realtime-full/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans, database/leads/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-leads-bulk/llms.txt)
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- [Generect: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt)
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- [Generect: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/realtime/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/generect/free/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt)
- [Generect: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/enrich/realtime/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-realtime-lead/llms.txt)
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- [Generect: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/search/database/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-search-database-companies/llms.txt)
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## Generect: LinkedIn company search API alternatives

- [Reverse Contact, $100 pack, Pay-as-you-go, 5K credits, POST /v2/search/organizations/prompt](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/100-pack-pay-as-you-go-5k-credits-post-v2-search-organizations-prompt/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Fiber AI, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/fiber-ai/300-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Pipecorn, $490 yearly, Build, 3,000 credits a month, billed yearly, POST /accounts/search, Search accounts by filters, from the Pipecorn companies database](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/pipecorn/490-yearly-build-3000-credits-a-month-billed-yearly-post-accounts-search-search-accounts-by-filters-from-the-pipecorn-companies-database/llms.txt): $20.417 per 1,000, 42% complete, stored
- [Enrich Layer, $22,788 yearly, Ultra, GET /api/v2/search/company, Company Search Endpoint](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/enrich-layer/22788-yearly-ultra-get-api-v2-search-company-company-search-endpoint/llms.txt): $23.143 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-10-26.

- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/database-vs-realtime.md
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/search/database-companies.md
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/introduction
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/limits.md
- https://docs.generect.com/billing/faq.md
- https://docs.generect.com/billing/pricing
- https://docs.generect.com/billing/pricing.md
- https://docs.generect.com/docs/cached-databases.md
- https://docs.generect.com/docs/faq
- https://generect.com/pricing
- https://generect.com/privacy
- https://generect.com/terms