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ExploreYC pricing and alternatives: people search API

ExploreYC's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026

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0% complete: none of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 487 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan 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) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ExploreYC's 3 plans
Call: GET /founders ExploreYC's only call for this API
API: People search API one of ExploreYC's 4 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get people from ExploreYC's database.
  • None of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5 requests a day, enough for 5 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You call GET /founders. Every input is optional: metric, batch, limit, offset. The call returns the matching people.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

ExploreYC: people search API alternatives

The table starts with ExploreYC's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to ExploreYC's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

ExploreYC, $50 monthlyThe Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/searchPubrio, $495 packAutobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contactsNinjaPear, $22,788 yearly
$ per 1,000 people$0.033$0.0031$1.08$3.478$7.714
Completeness0%0%31%38%8%
Billingmonthlyyearlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$50$96,000$495$40,000$22,788
Enough for500 pages a day2,592,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for11,500,000 results211,000 results a month
Freshness1 day1 day1 day1 daylive
Who can get itanyoneanyone over 18AI agents with a registered agent credential, for themselves or their human, through Pubrio's agent storefront, business use only, of ageanyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposesanyone, for their internal business purposes

Every people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
  2. exploreyc.com/api-docs
  3. exploreyc.com/llms.txt
  4. exploreyc.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience, not in the answer
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Company by slug · Full-text company search · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder profile + stats + companies
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRanked Y Combinator founder leaderboards — the people behind the companies.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get5 requests a day
Enough for5 pages a day
Rate limit
Per day5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: metric, batch, limit, offset
MethodGET
Path/founders
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

founder, derived stats, rank

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