# HeroHunt, free, Trial, POST /search, Search: People search API

> The people profile data API with the highest count of findable profiles, 1 billion across channels like GitHub, Stack Overflow and the web, with the freshest real-time data.

HeroHunt's people search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 10 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, 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/herohunt/free-trial-post-search-search
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-api/docs
- Request: `POST https://api.herohunt.ai/api/v1/people-search/search`, Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-api/docs
- Its API docs: https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-api/docs
- Sold by: HeroHunt (https://www.herohunt.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Extra fields: emails, phones: +$0.00
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The people profile data API with the highest count of findable profiles, 1 billion across channels like GitHub, Stack Overflow and the web, with the freshest real-time data.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Customer will not, directly or indirectly: reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas, know-how or algorithms relevant to the Services or any software, documentation or data related to the Services (“Software”), modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Services or any Software (except to the extent expressly permitted by Company or authorized within the Services), use the Services or any Software for time sharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third, or remove any proprietary notices or labels. [...] Customer represents, covenants, and warrants that Customer will use the Services only in compliance with Company’s standard published policies then in effect and all applicable laws and regulations. [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 50 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: searchId, filters, filters.locations, filters.platforms, filters.skills, filters.languages, filters.currentCompany, maxResults, enrich, per_page, page, timeoutMs
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone who signs in with a Google or Microsoft account

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, total results, status, profile ID, platform, first name, last name, headline, summary, current title, current company, location, profile URL, profile picture URL, skills, languages, match score, experiences, education, certifications, username, avatar URL, public repos, followers, top repositories, reputation, badges, answer count, question count, page, results per page, total pages, has more

## HeroHunt's plans (3)

- [HeroHunt, free, Trial, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/free-trial-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [HeroHunt, contact us, HeroHunt API Starter, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/contact-us-herohunt-api-starter-post-search-search/llms.txt): 77% complete, live
- [HeroHunt, contact us, HeroHunt API Pro, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/contact-us-herohunt-api-pro-post-search-search/llms.txt): 77% complete, live

## HeroHunt's calls (2)

- `POST /search`, Search: [HeroHunt, free, Trial, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/free-trial-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, full: [HeroHunt, free, Trial, POST /search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/free-trial-post-search-search-full/llms.txt)

## HeroHunt's APIs (1)

- [HeroHunt: people search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/herohunt/free-trial-post-search-search/llms.txt)

## HeroHunt: people search API alternatives

- [Listar, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/listar/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Voila Norbert, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/voila-norbert/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Anymail Finder, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anymail-finder/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Implisense, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/implisense/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

- https://www.herohunt.ai/llms.txt
- https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-api
- https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-api/docs
- https://www.herohunt.ai/people-search-mcp
- https://www.herohunt.ai/saas-terms-and-conditions