# Canonical, free, POST /api/v1/people/lookup: People search API

> Specific people by name — current role and company.

Canonical's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. Canonical's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location.
We haven't run Canonical through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 642 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.77 per 1,000 people or less. [See the best free people search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Coresignal's rate limit allows.
[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/canonical/free-post-api-v1-people-lookup
- [People lookup API: 40+ people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trycanonical.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://trycanonical.ai/api/v1/people/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trycanonical.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://trycanonical.ai/documentation/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#tag/people/POST/api/v1/people/lookup
- Sold by: Canonical (https://trycanonical.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Location: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search companies (natural language) · Search companies (NL or structured) · Look up companies by name · Find similar companies · Get company details · Find people

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Specific people by name — current role and company.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: during the Subscription Term
- Use data: licence "to access and use the Service and Content solely for your internal personal or business use as expressly permitted by the Service". "You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: copy, reproduce, modify, translate, adapt, create derivative works of, publicly display, publish, distribute, sell, sublicense or otherwise exploit any portion of the Service or the Content, except as expressly permitted by these Terms, redistribute, resell, lease, share, host or otherwise make available the Service or any Content (in original or derivative form) to or for the benefit of any third party, including by way of any service bureau, data feed, white-label or syndication arrangement, use the Service or Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence, machine learning or large language model, or to create any product or service that is competitive with the Service, scrape, crawl, harvest, index, mine or otherwise extract data or Content from the Service by automated or manual means, except via interfaces and to the extent expressly authorised by us in writing, [...] circumvent, disable, interfere with or attempt to bypass any security, authentication, rate-limiting, billing, usage tracking or access-control feature of the Service, [...] remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice, attribution or branding contained in the Service or the Content"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits
- Enough for: 250 results

## Rate limit

- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: people[].name. Optional: people[].company, k
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/people/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter a binding contract, no card required

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, role, title, company name, company domain, location, LinkedIn URL, prior company name, prior company domain, prior company title, confidence, last verified date, matched name, company match, unmatched names, unconfirmed names

## Canonical's plans (7)

- [Canonical, free, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, top-up, Extra credits (Pro), POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/top-up-extra-credits-pro-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, top-up, Extra credits (Starter), POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/top-up-extra-credits-starter-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, top-up, Extra credits (Lite), POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/top-up-extra-credits-lite-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, $10 monthly, Lite, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/10-monthly-lite-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $15.015 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/20-monthly-starter-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Canonical, $100 monthly, Pro, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/100-monthly-pro-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored

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

- `POST /api/v1/people/search`: [Canonical, free, POST /api/v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-people-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/people/lookup`: [Canonical, free, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt)

## Canonical's APIs (5)

- [Canonical: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/canonical/free/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: company hierarchy API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/canonical/free/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: similar companies API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/canonical/free/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: people search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /api/v1/people/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-people-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, POST /api/v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/canonical/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [Canonical: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, POST /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/canonical/free-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt)

## Canonical: people search API alternatives

- [Village, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/village/25-pack/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Argorant, $2,388 yearly, Pro 25,000 credits a month, billed annually, POST /api/v1/people/reveal](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/argorant/2388-yearly-pro-25000-credits-a-month-billed-annually-post-api-v1-people-reveal/llms.txt): $7.96 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [GetProspect, $399 monthly, Growth 50k, POST /v2/people/search, People Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/399-monthly-growth-50k-post-v2-people-search-people-search-full/llms.txt): $7.98 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [CompanyEnrich, $149 monthly, Pro, POST /people/search/scroll, Scroll, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companyenrich/149-monthly-pro-post-people-search-scroll-scroll-full/llms.txt): $8.94 per 1,000, 31% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://trycanonical.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/documentation/people?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/documentation/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/documentation/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/refund-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://trycanonical.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing