Explorium pricing and alternatives: people search API

Explorium's site llms.txt Best people search API in 2026

23% complete: 3 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 141 plans we rank by price is StartupHub.ai, pay as you go, x402, at $0.01 per 1,000.

Plan: Free Trial one of Explorium's 6 plans

Call: POST /v2/prospects Explorium's only call

POST /v2/prospectsFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: People search API one of Explorium's 14 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
3 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Skills, Location.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 results. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
One call. You send page_size to POST /v2/prospects. You set mode to "full". The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, not a direct competitor of Explorium. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Explorium: people search API alternatives

The table starts with Explorium's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Explorium's. We also show the Bytemine plan. Its price is farther from the price of Explorium's cheapest paid plan.

	Explorium, $7,499.99 pack	Bytemine, pay as you go	LeadMagic, $8,490 yearly	Scrupp, $351 yearly, 2,000 credits / month, yearly, POST /contact/decision-maker/name	StableEnrich, pay as you go, Pay per request with x402 or MPP, POST /api/fullenrich/people-search	Voila Norbert, $948 yearly
$ per 1,000	$15.00	$10.00	$14.15	$14.625	$15.00	$15.80
Completeness	23%	15%	8%	8%	38%	8%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	yearly	yearly	pay as you go	yearly
Pay	$7,499.99	per call	$8,490	$351	per call	$948
Enough for	500,000 results	as many as you pay for	600,000 results a year	2,000 results a month	as many as you pay for	5,000 results a month
Freshness	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	live
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over, not a direct competitor of Explorium	anyone	businesses and individuals acting in a business or professional capacity, with an active organization subscription, users 18 or over	anyone at least 18 years old	anyone 18 or over, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying in USDC from a wallet on Base, Solana or Tempo	anyone 18 or over

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 2026-10-25.

Product details

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

Experience
Education, not in the answer
Skills
Headline, not in the answer
About, not in the answer
Location
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	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	from the same budget: Generate · Enrichments · Events

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The Fetch Prospects endpoint allows users to retrieve a list of prospect records based on filtering criteria such as job level, department, or other professional attributes.

Data
Keep data	Explorium grants You during the Term, a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license [...] Your license terminates immediately upon cancellation or termination of your account or if we believe you are in violation of this Agreement
Use data	YOU MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICES IF YOU ARE A DIRECT COMPETITOR OF EXPLORIUM UNLESS EXPLICITLY AGREED BY EXPLORIUM IN WRITING. FURTHERMORE, YOU MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICES FOR BENCHMARKING OR ANY OTHER COMPETITIVE PURPOSE. [...] a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to: a) access the Content and Services available through the Explorium Web Site, (b) use the Content and Service subject to the terms of this Agreement. You may not use the Content or Service in a manner that exceeds the rights granted for your use of the Content and Service and its Content, (c) to access and use the Platform APIs made available to you through the website solely for your internal business purposes (unless otherwise agreed in a separate enterprise Agreement between you and Explorium). Explorium may monitor your use of the APIs to ensure quality, improve the Platform, Content and Services, and verify your compliance with this Agreement. Upon Explorium’s request, you shall provide information about your use of the APIs to assist Explorium in its monitoring efforts. [...] You may not: resell, sublicense, distribute, transfer, share, reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit the Content and Services, Platform Data, API and any predictive models or derived insights or data analysis obtained by use of the Platform, other than your internal business purposes. translate, disassemble, decompile or reverse-engineer in whole or in part the Content and Services, Platform, API or Platform Data or seek to reconstruct or discover source code, object code, HTML, Javascript, other code, know-how or algorithms associated with the API and Platform Data. use the Content and Services, Platform Data or API in any way that is unlawful, illegal, discriminatory, abusive, fraudulent or harmful, and in non-compliance with any applicable laws, including without limitation any applicable privacy regulation nor shall it assist or allow others to do so. Remove or modify any copyright, trademark, legal notices, or other proprietary notices from the Content, Services, Platform, API or Platform Data or any other content available on the Site, remove, disable, or otherwise create or implement any workaround to, any security features, rate limit of the Content and Services, Platform or API. use the Content and Services, the Platform or the API in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Content and Services, Platform or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Platform or to any third party. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to the Content and Services. develop, support, or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape the Explorium web site, Content and Services. and will not allow anyone else to use the Content and Services, the Platform, API, or Platform Data for decisions about any individual’s suitability for: (i) credit or loans, (ii) insurance, (iii) employment, (iv) a license or other benefit granted by a governmental authority, where such decision involves considering one’s financial responsibility or status, (v) housing, or (vi) any eligibility or other determinations that would cause the Platform or Platform Data to be deemed a consumer report for purposes of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. use or allow any third party to use the Content and Services, the Platform, API, or Platform Data will not be used to send unsolicited emails, false advertising, place unsolicited calls or any other action by or on behalf of Customer that may be considered spam or otherwise in violation of CAN-SPAM or related regulations. For clarity, this does not prohibit You from engaging in communications that are otherwise permissible. [...] You may use the Content, API, Platform Data and Service for lawful purposes only.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits
Enough for	100 results, once
Expires	90 days

Rate limit
Per second	3.33

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	mode "full", page_size. Optional: request_context, exclude, filters.prospect_id, filters.has_contact_details, filters.job_level, filters.job_department, filters.business_id, filters.total_experience_months, filters.country_code, filters.region_country_code, filters.current_role_months, filters.company_size, filters.company_revenue, filters.company_age, filters.company_number_of_locations, filters.google_category, filters.naics_category, filters.linkedin_category, filters.job_title, filters.skills, filters.interests, filters.company_country_code, filters.company_region_country_code, filters.city_region_country, filters.company_name, filters.has_website, filters.is_public_company, page, next_cursor, credit-usage
Method	POST
Path	/v2/prospects

About the plan
Plan	Free Trial
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over, not a direct competitor of Explorium

The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

prospect ID, first name, last name, full name, hashed professional email, country, region, city, LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn URL variations, job title, main job level, job levels, main job department, job departments, experience, skills, interests, company name, company website, company LinkedIn, business ID, request ID, request status, time taken in seconds, total results, page size, page number, total pages, next cursor, credits consumed, results billed