# Apollo, free: People search API

> Use the people API search endpoint to find new prospects. Several filters are available to help narrow your search.

Apollo's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience.
You get up to 18,000 calls a month.
We rank 487 plans by price. [Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) 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)](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 to start 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/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/free
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.apollo.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.apollo.io/api/v1/mixed_people/api_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.apollo.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.apollo.io/reference/people-api-search
- Sold by: Apollo (https://www.apollo.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Experience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50,000
- Also pays for: Search for contacts · Search for accounts

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use the people API search endpoint to find new prospects. Several filters are available to help narrow your search.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: people'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 for: 18,000 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over

## Rate limit

- Per day: 600
- Per second: 0.056
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /mixed_people/api_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: an 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

## Apollo's plans (7)

- [Apollo, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00043 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00066 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, $588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/588-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00033 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/948-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00053 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, $4,284 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/4284-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0024 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 month
- [Apollo, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/contact-us/llms.txt): 8% complete, 1 month

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

- `POST /mixed_people/api_search`: [Apollo, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)

## Apollo's APIs (12)

- [Apollo: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company open jobs API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: people search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: people enrichment API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, POST /organizations/bulk_enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/apollo/free-post-organizations-bulk-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-id/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company headcount API pricing, 7 plans, POST /organizations/bulk_enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/apollo/free-post-organizations-bulk-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company headcount API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-id/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company headcount API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company hierarchy API pricing, 7 plans, POST /organizations/bulk_enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/apollo/free-post-organizations-bulk-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company hierarchy API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: email finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/bulk_match, Bulk people enrichment](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/apollo/free-post-people-bulk-match-bulk-people-enrichment/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: email finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/bulk_match, Bulk people enrichment, full](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/apollo/free-post-people-bulk-match-bulk-people-enrichment-full/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: email finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/match, People enrichment](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/apollo/free-post-people-match-people-enrichment/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: email finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/match, People enrichment, full](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/apollo/free-post-people-match-people-enrichment-full/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: phone finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/bulk_match](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/apollo/free-post-people-bulk-match/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: phone finder API pricing, 7 plans, POST /people/match](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/apollo/free-post-people-match/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company funding API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-id/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: company funding API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: tech stack API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-id/llms.txt)
- [Apollo: tech stack API pricing, 7 plans, GET /organizations/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/apollo/free-get-organizations-enrich/llms.txt)

## Apollo: people search API alternatives

- [The Swarm, $750 monthly, Premium 2000, POST /v3/profiles/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/750-monthly-premium-2000-post-v3-profiles-search/llms.txt): $0.00029 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [Snov.io, $351 yearly, Starter, POST /v2/database-search/prospects/start](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/snov-io/351-yearly-starter-post-v2-database-search-prospects-start/llms.txt): $0.00056 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [AI Ark, $95,990 yearly, Usage-Based Plan, 60M Credits / Year, POST /v1/people/preview](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/ai-ark/95990-yearly-usage-based-plan-60m-credits-year-post-v1-people-preview/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 23% complete, 30 days
- [ExploreYC, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exploreyc/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day

## 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.

- https://app.apollo.io/api/v1/pricing_variants/random
- https://docs.apollo.io/docs/api-pricing
- https://docs.apollo.io/docs/api-pricing.md
- https://docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs
- https://docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs.md
- https://docs.apollo.io/reference/people-api-search
- https://docs.apollo.io/reference/people-api-search.md
- https://docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits
- https://docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits.md
- https://knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/45824429846669-Apollo-Data-Overview
- https://www.apollo.io/email-finder
- https://www.apollo.io/pricing
- https://www.apollo.io/pricing/about-credits
- https://www.apollo.io/product/api
- https://www.apollo.io/terms
- https://www.apollo.io/terms/api