# Alion, free, No account: People search API

> Find people for a role, read their open profile, check that your offer passes their filters, and write to them. All of it is free within daily limits that rise with trust.

Alion's No account plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Alion's docs list 3: Skills, Headline, Location.
You get up to 600 calls a month.
We haven't run Alion through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 724 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.75 or less per 1,000 people. This plan and 9 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 people of the 724 plans. [See the best free people search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/399-monthly-gtm-unlimited-get-api-employees-dataset-search/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-no-account
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://alion.io/developers/people?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://alion.io/mcp/rest/search_people`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://alion.io/developers/people?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Alion (https://alion.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people for a role, read their open profile, check that your offer passes their filters, and write to them. All of it is free within daily limits that rise with trust.

## Data

- Keep data: profiles obtained through the Services: not longer than the purpose they were obtained for requires
- Use data: You also agree that you will not: [...] copy, disclose or distribute Content except as expressly permitted by the Terms, including through automated harvesting or "scraping", use the Services to compile, sell, license, broker, redistribute or otherwise commercialise databases of personal data about Candidates or any other person, in whole or in part, or keep profiles obtained through the Services longer than the purpose they were obtained for requires, ranking people for one specific vacancy or request is allowed, [...] use any Content acquired from the Site for commercial activity or in a manner that directly or indirectly competes with Alion, [...] rent, lease, resell, sublicense, distribute, or otherwise transfer access to any of the Services

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 600 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one or more of role, technology, query or company. Optional: open_to, min_years, seniority, country, city, can_work_in, work_mode, relocation, languages, english_level, employment_type, availability, budget_usd, education, has_github, active_within_days, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /mcp/rest/search_people

## About the plan

- Plan: No account
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account (counted per network)

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

person, name, headline, seniority, years of experience, skills, recent jobs, location, can work in, work modes, relocation, availability, pay expectation, last active, why it fits, profile URL, MCP URL, total results

## Alion's plans (4)

- [Alion, free, No account](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-no-account/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Alion, free, Wallet signed in with SIWX](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-wallet-signed-in-with-siwx/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Alion, free, Alion account](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-alion-account/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Alion, free, Verified company](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-verified-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete

## Alion's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /mcp/rest/search_people`: [Alion, free, No account](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-no-account/llms.txt)

## Alion's APIs (9)

- [Alion: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: company funding API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: similar companies API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: job posting details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: job postings API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/alion/free/llms.txt)
- [Alion: similar people API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-people-apis/alion/free-no-account/llms.txt)
- [Alion: people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/alion/free-no-account/llms.txt)

## Alion: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [A-Leads, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/a-leads/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://alion.io/catalog.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/developers/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/developers/people?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/mcp/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://alion.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing