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Apollo pricing and alternatives: people search API

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8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 487 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 people.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Apollo's 7 plans
Call: POST /mixed_people/api_search Apollo's only call for this API
API: People search API one of Apollo's 12 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get people from Apollo's database.
  • 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 18,000 calls a month. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over.
  • One call. You call POST /mixed_people/api_search. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Apollo: people search API alternatives

The table starts with Apollo's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Apollo's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Apollo, $588 yearlyThe Swarm, $750 monthly, Premium 2000, POST /v3/profiles/searchSnov.io, $351 yearly, Starter, POST /v2/database-search/prospects/startAI Ark, $95,990 yearly, Usage-Based Plan, 60M Credits / Year, POST /v1/people/previewExploreYC, $50 monthly
$ per 1,000 people$0.00033$0.00029$0.00056$0.016$0.033
Completeness8%0%15%23%0%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$588$750$351$95,990$50
Enough for1,500,000 calls a month2,592,000 pages a month2,592,000 pages a month60,000,000 pages a year500 pages a day
Freshness1 month1 day1 month30 days1 day
Who can get itbusiness use only, not as a consumer, users of legal ageanyone over 18anyone of legal ageanyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or organization the account is for, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party listanyone

Every people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

  1. app.apollo.io/api/v1/pricing_variants/random
  2. docs.apollo.io/docs/api-pricing
  3. docs.apollo.io/docs/api-pricing.md
  4. docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs
  5. docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs.md
  6. docs.apollo.io/reference/people-api-search
  7. docs.apollo.io/reference/people-api-search.md
  8. docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits
  9. docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits.md
  10. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/45824429846669-Apollo-Data-Overview
  11. apollo.io/email-finder
  12. apollo.io/pricing
  13. apollo.io/pricing/about-credits
  14. apollo.io/product/api
  15. apollo.io/terms
  16. apollo.io/terms/api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search50,000
Also pays forSearch for contacts · Search for accounts
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUse the people API search endpoint to find new prospects. Several filters are available to help narrow your search.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datapeople's business contact information put into your own records, CRM or database during the term: no limit, past it too. The rest: until the term ends
Use data"Term License. [...] solely for your internal business purposes to: [...] communicate with a person in a manner that relates to such person’s profession, business, or employment using any Business Contact Information, identify prospective sales opportunities, research your existing customers and prospects, and otherwise analyze the Contributor Database in a manner relating to your business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities", "General Usage Restrictions. You will not, and will not permit any third party to: use the Services, the Platform, or data derived therefrom to create, develop, or offer a product or service to third parties that competes with Apollo's products or services. This restriction does not apply to your internal systems or processes that are not commercially offered to third parties, resell, distribute, disclose, sublicense, transfer, sell, offer for sale, or make available any of the Contributor Database or any part of the Services to any third party, [...]", "Business Contact Information Restrictions. You will not: distribute, sell, or license Business Contact Information to third parties, except to the extent expressly authorized by Apollo in writing, use Business Contact Information to create competing databases or services, combine Business Contact Information with other data sources in a manner that would circumvent the usage restrictions applicable to the underlying Apollo data, [...] or use Business Contact Information to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, except (1) for your own internal models used solely for your internal business purposes and not commercially offered to third parties, or (2) to the extent otherwise expressly authorized by Apollo in writing.", "Technical and Access Restrictions. [...] You may not: [...] Disclose the results of any Platform or program benchmark tests to any third parties without Apollo’s prior written consent.", "Prohibited Uses. You are expressly prohibited from doing any of the following: selling, sublicensing, or otherwise providing access to any API to any third party, using any API with LinkedIn automations, using any API in a manner that allows any third party to use Apollo data to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, [...]"
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for18,000 calls a month
Expiresat the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over
Rate limit
Per day600
Per second0.056
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: person_titles[], include_similar_titles, person_not_titles[], person_not_past_titles[], q_keywords, q_person_name, person_locations[], person_not_locations[], person_seniorities[], organization_locations[], organization_not_locations[], organization_industry_tag_ids[], organization_not_industry_tag_ids[], organization_industries[], organization_naics_codes[], not_organization_naics_codes[], organization_sic_codes[], not_organization_sic_codes[], q_organization_domains_list[], contact_email_status[], organization_ids[], organization_num_employees_ranges[], revenue_range[min], revenue_range[max], currently_using_all_of_technology_uids[], currently_using_any_of_technology_uids[], currently_not_using_any_of_technology_uids[], q_organization_job_titles[], organization_job_locations[], organization_num_jobs_range[min], organization_num_jobs_range[max], organization_job_posted_at_range[min], organization_job_posted_at_range[max], organization_headcount_growth_past_n_months, organization_headcount_growth_range[min], organization_headcount_growth_range[max], lookalike_organization_ids[], not_organization_websites_list[], page, per_page
MethodPOST
Path/mixed_people/api_search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itan Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, person ID, first name, last name, obfuscated, job title, last refreshed date, has email, has city, has state, has country, has direct phone, company name, company has industry, company has phone, company has city, company has state, company has country, company has postal code, company has revenue, company has employee count

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