# Crustdata, free, $20 free credits: People search API

> Find people with the Person Search API, from a simple name lookup to a query with many filters.

Crustdata's people search API on its $20 free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 10 of the 13 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Experience, Headline, Location. 7 cost extra: Education, Skills, About, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages.
We rank 499 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/crustdata/free-20-free-credits
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crustdata.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.crustdata.com/person/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crustdata.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/search-people-using-filters-and-sorting
- Sold by: Crustdata (https://crustdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Experience: ✓ current job, the rest costs more
- Education: ✓ costs more
- Skills: ✓ costs more
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓ costs more
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓ costs more
- Connections: ✓ costs more
- Certifications: ✓ costs more
- Languages: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Extra fields: current jobs, past jobs, job company, job company ID, job company profile ID, job company profile URL, job company status, job company logo, job title, job start date: +$0.00 · schools, school name, school degree, school location, school description, school logo: +$0.00 · skills: +$0.00 · certifications: +$0.00 · followers, connections, open to cards, languages: +$0.00 · summary: +$0.00 · honors: +$0.00 · research profiles: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: People enrich (/person/enrich) · People identify (/person/identify) · Person verify (/batch/person/verify) · Company search (/company/search) · Company enrich (/company/enrich) · Job search (/job/search) · Web search (/web/search/live) · Web fetch (/web/enrich/live) · Social post search (/social_post/search) · Company search watcher (/watch/company/search) · Job search watcher (/watch/job/search) · Social post search watcher (/watch/social_post/search) · Person watcher (/watch/person) · Company watcher (/watch/company)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people with the Person Search API, from a simple name lookup to a query with many filters.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.10 s

## The call

- You send: filters, and x-api-version header "2025-11-01". Optional: fields, sorts, limit, cursor, preview, explain
- Method: POST
- Path: /person/search

## About the plan

- Plan: $20 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

Crustdata person ID, name, headline, current title, normalized title, profile name, location, has business email, profile URL, GitHub URL, Twitter handle, total results

## Crustdata's plans (4)

- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, free, Crustdata University Program](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/free-crustdata-university-program/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /person/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-search/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days
- [Crustdata, contact us, In-DB API access](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-in-db-api-access/llms.txt): 77% complete, 30 days

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

- `POST /person/search`: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- `POST /batch/person/search`: [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access, POST /batch/person/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-search/llms.txt)

## Crustdata's APIs (9)

- [Crustdata: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: job postings API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: web search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /company/search, Search Companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /company/search, Search Companies, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits-post-company-search-search-companies-full/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /batch/person, Batch Contact Enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-contact-enrich-batch-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /batch/person, Batch Contact Enrich, full](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-contact-enrich-batch-contact-enrich-full/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /person, Contact Enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-contact-enrich-contact-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /person, Contact Enrich, full](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-contact-enrich-contact-enrich-full/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /batch/person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-batch-person-identify/llms.txt)
- [Crustdata: reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans, POST /person/identify](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access-post-person-identify/llms.txt)

## Crustdata: people search API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [GetLeads, free, 1,000 credits, POST /api/v1/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getleads/free-1000-credits-post-api-v1-contacts-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 month
- [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day
- [Renidly, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/renidly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 month

## 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://crustdata.com/apis/people-enrichment
- https://crustdata.com/pricing
- https://crustdata.com/terms
- https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/search-people-using-filters-and-sorting
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/credits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/data-updates
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/rate-limits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/search/introduction
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/search/reference