# Instantly, $9 monthly: People search API

> Preview the leads matching a SuperSearch query without enriching them

Instantly's people search API on its Nano credits plan. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Location.
In [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt), Instantly scores 49.6 out of 100 on this plan.
This plan costs $9 a month. We rank 606 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.574 per 1,000 people or less.
[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: 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 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/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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/9-monthly
- [People lookup API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://instantly.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://instantly.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.instantly.ai/api-reference/supersearchenrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Instantly (https://instantly.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 49.6
- Price score: 0
- Accuracy score: 91
- Cost to get started score: 67
- Bundle score: 95
- Performance score: 22

## Price

- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $9

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Work email enrichment · Lead Verification · Fully Enriched Profile · AI Enrichment · Job Listings · Technologies · News · Funding Type · Engagement Score · AI Reply Agent · AI Sales Agent · AI Recruiting Agent · AI Investment Agent · AI User Research Agent · AI Partnership Agent · Website Visitors · Find Local Businesses · Find Creators

## In their words

- Their pitch: Preview the leads matching a SuperSearch query without enriching them

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subscriber shall not, and shall procure that its Users shall not: [...] (k) engage in any Data Resale Activity or otherwise provide, disclose, or make available any data obtained from or through the Instantly Service to any third party, except as strictly necessary to achieve the Permitted Purpose through Subscriber’s own employees or service providers bound by written confidentiality and processor obligations, (l) disclose, provide access to, or make available Outputs, Performance Data, Third-Party Data, Visitor ID Information, Warmup data, or any other data obtained through the Instantly Service to any third party, except to Subscriber’s processors who (i) act on Subscriber’s documented instructions solely for the Permitted Purpose, and (ii) are bound by written terms at least as protective as this Agreement, (m) use the Instantly Service or data obtained through it to build, train, or augment any public or commercial dataset, data product, contact list, look-alike audience, data broker service, or competitive database, (n) upload to or merge any such data into any public or shared repository or any tool designed for third-party access, resale, or redistribution, (o) circumvent, mask, or remove any flags, validity determinations, or other Performance Data indicators when providing data to any third party, or (p) use Supersearch/enrichment outputs or Visitor ID Information for any purpose other than the Permitted Purpose [...] "Permitted Purpose" means Subscriber’s business use of the Instantly Service to manage and conduct Subscriber’s own direct business-to-business (B2B) sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities of Subscriber, and expressly excludes any Data Resale Activity.

## Plan

- Pay: $9
- You get: 150 credits a month
- Expires: 2 months after purchase

## Rate limit

- Per second: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.46 s

## The call

- You send: search_filters. Optional: search_filters.company_list_id, search_filters.locations, search_filters.department, search_filters.level, search_filters.employeeCount, search_filters.revenue, search_filters.news, search_filters.jobListing, search_filters.title, search_filters.name, search_filters.company_name, search_filters.look_alike, search_filters.technologies, search_filters.funding_type, search_filters.location_mode, search_filters.keyword_filter, search_filters.industry, search_filters.subIndustry, search_filters.domains, search_filters.website_visitors, search_filters.signals, skip_owned_leads, show_one_lead_per_company
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch

## About the plan

- Plan: Nano credits
- Who can get it: anyone with authority to bind the entity they represent, on an Outbound plan, which API access comes with

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, redacted results, first name, last name, full name, job title, location, LinkedIn URL, company name, company logo, company ID, already owned, identity hidden

## Instantly's plans (21)

- [Instantly, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $47 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/47-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $77 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/77-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $94 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/94-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $97 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/97-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $147 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/147-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $194 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/194-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $197 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/197-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/300-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/500-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $555 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/555-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $997 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/997-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $1,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/1400-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $1,700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/1700-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $451.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/451-20-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $1,020 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/1020-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $1,047.60 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/1047-60-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $2,100 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/2100-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $2,127.60 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/2127-60-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, $6,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/6000-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Instantly, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored

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

- `POST /api/v2/supersearch-enrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch`: [Instantly, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt)

## Instantly's APIs (4)

- [Instantly: email verification API pricing, 21 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Instantly: email finder API pricing, 21 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Instantly: people search API pricing, 21 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Instantly: company discovery API pricing, 21 plans, Create a company list build, Store Leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Instantly: company discovery API pricing, 21 plans, Create a company list build, The Swarm](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/9-monthly-nano-credits-post-api-v2-supersearch-enrichment-company-lists-create-a-company-list-build-the-swarm/llms.txt)
- [Instantly: company discovery API pricing, 21 plans, Create a company list build, TheirStack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/instantly/9-monthly-nano-credits-post-api-v2-supersearch-enrichment-company-lists-create-a-company-list-build-theirstack/llms.txt)

## Instantly: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): no limit, 15% complete, stored
- [Argorant, $49 monthly, Starter 2,000 credits a month, GET /api/v1/companies/{domain}/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/argorant/49-monthly-starter-2000-credits-a-month-get-api-v1-companies-domain-people/llms.txt): no limit, 15% complete, stored
- [Smartlead, $94 monthly, Pro, POST /search-contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/smartlead/94-monthly-pro-post-search-contacts/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Exellius Systems Inc, $59 monthly, Basic, GET /api/v1/people/search/domain/email](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exellius-systems-inc/59-monthly-basic-get-api-v1-people-search-domain-email/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored

## 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://api.instantly.ai/openapi/api_v2.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.instantly.ai/api-reference/supersearchenrichment/preview-leads-from-supersearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.instantly.ai/getting-started/rate-limit?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/10273259-instantly-plans-overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/10432807-api-v2?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/11364248-supersearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/11364341-waterfall-enrichment?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/11381241-supersearch-credit-system?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.instantly.ai/en/articles/7917050-outbound-data-credits-add-on-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://instantly.ai/b2b-lead-finder?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://instantly.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://instantly.ai/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://instantly.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing