# Coldlytics, free, POST /v3/search/people: People search API

> Search the decision-makers at millions of small businesses by job title, department and seniority, cap it to one person per company, and reveal verified emails and direct dials straight from the results.

Coldlytics's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Location.
You get 25 credits a month. You spend the credits on Coldlytics's other calls. This call is free for up to 50 pages a month.
We haven't run Coldlytics through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 603 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.56 per 1,000 people or less.
[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: 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 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/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/coldlytics/free-post-v3-search-people
- [People lookup API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.coldlytics.com/v3/search/people`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.coldlytics.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#tag/search/POST/v3/search/people
- Sold by: Coldlytics (https://www.coldlytics.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 75
- Also pays for: Look up company · Look up person · Find email · Find person · Reveal contact · from the same budget: Search companies

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the decision-makers at millions of small businesses by job title, department and seniority, cap it to one person per company, and reveal verified emails and direct dials straight from the results.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Users are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or modification of Coldlytics' intellectual property is prohibited." [...] "You may not: Scrape, harvest, or extract data from Coldlytics using bots, automation, or any other method. Attempt to reverse-engineer, copy, or resell Coldlytics’ data without authorization. Misrepresent your business or use our data for fraudulent activities. Violate any applicable laws when using our Service." [...] "Coldlytics does not provide consumer (B2C) data and must not be used for B2C marketing."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits a month
- Enough for: 50 pages a month
- Expires: reset each month, none roll over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, filters.locations[].name, filters.locations[].radius_miles, filters.postal_codes, filters.categories.include, filters.categories.exclude, filters.technologies.include, filters.technologies.exclude, filters.headcount.min, filters.headcount.max, filters.revenue.min, filters.revenue.max, filters.founded_year.min, filters.founded_year.max, filters.customer_type, filters.google_reviews.count.min, filters.google_reviews.count.max, filters.google_reviews.rating.min, filters.google_reviews.rating.max, filters.ad_pixels.include, filters.ad_pixels.exclude, filters.has_website_email, filters.franchise, filters.location_count.min, filters.location_count.max, filters.website_features.include, filters.website_features.exclude, filters.service_offerings.include, filters.service_offerings.exclude, filters.website_grade.min, filters.website_grade.max, filters.copyright_year.min, filters.copyright_year.max, filters.credentials.include, filters.credentials.exclude, filters.hiring.now, filters.hiring.functions.include, filters.hiring.functions.exclude, filters.languages.include, filters.languages.exclude, filters.brands.include, filters.brands.exclude, filters.ownership.include, filters.ownership.exclude, filters.exclude_owned, filters.exclude_listed, filters.exclude_suppressed, filters.domains, voyager_url, page, page_size, seniorities.include, seniorities.exclude, departments.include, departments.exclude, job_titles.include, job_titles.exclude, has_dial, has_linkedin, max_per_company
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/search/people

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

contact ID, first name, last name, job title, seniority, department, LinkedIn URL, has email, has direct dial, owned CRM contact ID, location ID, company ID, company name, company domain, company city, company state, company country, company URL, total results

## Coldlytics's plans (5)

- [Coldlytics, free, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Coldlytics, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/49-monthly-starter-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt): $0.196 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Coldlytics, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/99-monthly-growth-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Coldlytics, $299 monthly, Pro, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/299-monthly-pro-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt): $1.196 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Coldlytics, contact us, Agency, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/contact-us-agency-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt): 15% complete

## Coldlytics's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v3/people/find`, Find person: [Coldlytics, free, POST /v3/people/find, Find person](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-people-find-find-person/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/people/find`, Find person, full: [Coldlytics, free, POST /v3/people/find, Find person, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-people-find-find-person-full/llms.txt)
- `POST /v3/search/people`: [Coldlytics, free, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt)

## Coldlytics's APIs (5)

- [Coldlytics: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: email finder API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/free/llms.txt)
- [Coldlytics: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v3/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/free-post-v3-search-people/llms.txt)

## Coldlytics: people search API alternatives

- [Enrich.so, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /lead-finder/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/enrich-so/499-monthly-pro-post-lead-finder-search/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Bytemine, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/bytemine/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Fundable, $100 monthly, Pro+, GET /person/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/fundable/100-monthly-pro-get-person-search/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [RocketReach, $1,699 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/rocketreach/1699-yearly/llms.txt): $0.202 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://api.coldlytics.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://api.coldlytics.com/v3/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/product/people-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.coldlytics.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing