# Autobound, free, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts: People search API

> Given one or more topic IDs (from `/v1/buyer-intent/topics`), returns enriched contacts at companies showing intent for those topics.

Autobound's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, Location.
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/autobound/free-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.autobound.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/buyer-intent/contacts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.autobound.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchbuyerintentcontacts
- Sold by: Autobound (https://www.autobound.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /v1/companies/enrich · POST /v1/contacts/enrich · POST /v1/companies/search · POST /v1/contacts/search · POST /v1/buyer-intent/companies · POST /v1/buyer-intent/export

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Given one or more topic IDs (from `/v1/buyer-intent/topics`), returns enriched contacts at companies showing intent for those topics.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: license to access and use the Services solely for Customer’s internal business purposes during the term of this Agreement [...] Customer shall retain a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, copy, and distribute any Reports generated through the Services prior to the date of termination or expiration, solely for Customer’s internal business purposes
- Use data: Company hereby grants Customer a non-exclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and use the Services solely for Customer’s internal business purposes during the term of this Agreement. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, or underlying structure of the Services or any component thereof, Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based upon the Services, Resell, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, distribute, or otherwise make the Services available to any third party, except as expressly authorized in writing by Company, Remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices, labels, or markings on or in the Services, Use the Services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Company’s servers, networks, or infrastructure.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: topic_ids. Optional: seniority, department, job_title, industry, company_revenue_min, company_size_min, country, company_country, company_domain, has_email, has_linkedin, has_mobile, email_validated, page_size, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/buyer-intent/contacts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no credit card required

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

topic ID, intent score, ID, first name, last name, email, email validation status, job title, LinkedIn URL, mobile phone, direct number, personal email, headline, skills, interests, education, job start date, country, opted out, seniority, department, company name, company domain, company LinkedIn URL, company description, company country, company industry, company revenue, company employee count, count, page size, next cursor, query time ms

## Autobound's plans (10)

- [Autobound, free, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $19 pack, Starter, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/19-pack-starter-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $49 pack, Growth, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/49-pack-growth-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $9.001 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $149 pack, Scale, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/149-pack-scale-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $499 pack, Pro, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/499-pack-pro-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $1,299 pack, Business, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/1299-pack-business-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $4,999 pack, Enterprise, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/4999-pack-enterprise-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $10,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 2.6M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/10000-pack-enterprise-credit-pack-2-6m-credits-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $3.846 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/40000-pack-enterprise-credit-pack-11-5m-credits-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $3.478 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Autobound, contact us, Custom volume, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/contact-us-custom-volume-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 day

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

- `POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts`: [Autobound, free, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/contacts/search`: [Autobound, free, POST /v1/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-contacts-search/llms.txt)

## Autobound's APIs (9)

- [Autobound: company enrichment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: company funding API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: people enrichment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: leadership change API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-companies-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: leadership change API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-contacts-search/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: company discovery API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/buyer-intent/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: company discovery API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [Autobound: people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/free-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt)

## Autobound: people search API alternatives

- [ExploreYC, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exploreyc/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [Pubrio, $125 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/pubrio/125-monthly/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 day
- [The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/96000-yearly-enterprise-20000-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day
- [NinjaPear, $22,788 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/ninjapear/22788-yearly/llms.txt): $7.714 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## 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://autobound-api.readme.io/docs/credits
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchbuyerintentcompanies
- https://autobound-api.readme.io/reference/searchbuyerintentcontacts
- https://www.autobound.ai/apis/company-enrichment-api
- https://www.autobound.ai/apis/contact-enrichment-api
- https://www.autobound.ai/master-services-agreement
- https://www.autobound.ai/pricing