# FINRA API, free: People search API

> Access CRD Numbers for registered individuals.

FINRA API's SRO plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more. FINRA API's docs list none of the 13.
FINRA API limits how many results you get but gives no number.
We haven't run FINRA API through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 741 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.705 or less per 1,000 people. [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. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: $0.03.
[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/finra-api/free
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developer.finra.org/fees?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.finra.org/data/group/registration/name/RegisteredIndividualSearch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developer.finra.org/fees?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.finra.org/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#query_api-registration-registered_individual_search
- Sold by: FINRA API (https://developer.finra.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 505,000
- Also pays for: Individual Registration Validation · Individual Registration Validation Details

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access CRD Numbers for registered individuals.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, FINRA hereby grants to Developer a nonexclusive, non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 13.1), non-sublicensable, limited license to access and use the Licensed APIs to access and use the Licensed Data. [...] Developer shall not nor attempt to, nor permit or enable any other Person to (a) transfer, sell, lease, license, sublicense, distribute, disclose, divulge, or make available the Licensed Materials to, or permit use of or access to the Licensed Materials by, any Person, other than an Authorized User, (b) decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, distribute, or create derivative works or improvements from the Licensed Materials or any portion thereof, [...] (c) use the Licensed Materials to create any algorithm, product, or service that competes with FINRA’s products or services, (d) use any process other than the Licensed APIs to monitor or copy the Licensed Materials in bulk, or use any data mining, scraping, or harvesting tools (including robots), or any similar data-gathering or extraction tools. or (e) access or use the Licensed Materials in a manner that would be typically categorized as a bulk distributor or a service bureau.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: compareFilters, data-version header "2". Optional: fields, limit, offset
- Method: POST
- Path: /data/group/registration/name/RegisteredIndividualSearch

## About the plan

- Plan: SRO
- Who can get it: holders of an SRO credential

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

first name, middle name, last name, individual CRD number

## FINRA API's plans (3)

- [FINRA API, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/finra-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [FINRA API, $1,650 monthly, Firm](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/finra-api/1650-monthly-firm/llms.txt): 0% complete
- [FINRA API, $1,650 monthly, Organization](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/finra-api/1650-monthly-organization/llms.txt): 0% complete

## FINRA API's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /data/group/registration/name/RegisteredIndividualSearch`: [FINRA API, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/finra-api/free/llms.txt)

## FINRA API's APIs (3)

- [FINRA API: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/finra-api/free/llms.txt)
- [FINRA API: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /data/group/registration/name/registrationValidationIndividual/id/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/finra-api/free-sro-get-data-group-registration-name-registrationvalidationindividual-id-id/llms.txt)
- [FINRA API: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /data/group/registration/name/IndividualRegistrationValidationDetails](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/finra-api/free-sro-get-data-group-registration-name-individualregistrationvalidationdetails/llms.txt)
- [FINRA API: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/finra-api/1650-monthly-firm/llms.txt)

## FINRA API: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [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
- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://developer.finra.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/fees?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/finra-api-terms-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/platform-usage-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.finra.org/support?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing