# LeadOcean, free, POST /v1/people/search: People search API

> Search 693M profiles by filter, enrich one person from a LinkedIn URL, and pull contact points.

LeadOcean's Free plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. LeadOcean's docs list 2: Experience, Headline.
We haven't run LeadOcean through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 724 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.75 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/leadocean/free-post-v1-people-search
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://leadocean.io/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: LeadOcean (https://leadocean.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Headline: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search companies · Enrich one person · Look up one company · Get the current work email · Get personal email addresses · Get phone numbers · Find the phone numbers for one person · Find who holds an email or phone · The people we hold at a company, paged · Start a bulk CSV export of people

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search 693M profiles by filter, enrich one person from a LinkedIn URL, and pull contact points.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: until your account ends, except for records you still have a lawful basis to hold
- Use data: You may use the data for legitimate business-to-business purposes: sales, marketing, recruitment, research, verification and building products. You may not use it to: contact people about consumer products, or in any way unrelated to their professional role, make decisions about credit, insurance, employment, housing or any other purpose regulated by consumer-reporting law, harass, stalk, defraud or endanger anyone, or to compile profiles for those purposes, discriminate on the basis of a protected characteristic, train a model on bulk personal data retrieved from the API, or build a competing dataset or directory, resell, redistribute or publish the raw records as a dataset, list or service, circumvent rate limits or usage limits, including by opening multiple accounts.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 results
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, profileKeywords, excludeProfileKeywords, title, excludeTitle, excludeViewed, viewedSet, excludeIds, seniority, jobLevel, jobFunction, country, continent, salesRegion, city, excludeCity, education, minConnections, domain, companyName, excludeCompanyName, companyLinkedin, industry, excludeIndustry, companyType, employeeRange, minEmployees, maxEmployees, minFounded, maxFounded, minFollowers, fundingType, minFunding, maxFunding, minLastFundingYear, maxLastFundingYear, investors, sic, naicsSector, keywords, excludeKeywords, companyKeywords, hqCountry, hqCity, hqState, hqContinent, hqSalesRegion, technologies, technologyCategories, emailStatus, emailType, hasEmail, hasPhone, reachable, cursor, limit, facets, facetCompanies, slim, fields, order
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email (free mailbox providers are not accepted)

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, LinkedIn URL, first name, last name, full name, headline, address, current experiences, has email, email status, email type, has phone, source IDs, success, total results, next cursor, depth capped, unsupported filters, distinct companies, facets

## LeadOcean's plans (5)

- [LeadOcean, free, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $97 monthly, Solo, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/97-monthly-solo-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): 15% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $247 monthly, Creators, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/247-monthly-creators-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): $0.0099 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $497 monthly, Agency, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/497-monthly-agency-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [LeadOcean, $1,997 monthly, Platform, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/1997-monthly-platform-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt): 15% complete, 1 month

## LeadOcean's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/people/search`: [LeadOcean, free, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/companies/{domain}/people`: [LeadOcean, free, GET /v1/companies/{domain}/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-get-v1-companies-domain-people/llms.txt)

## LeadOcean's APIs (7)

- [LeadOcean: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: reverse email lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/leadocean/free/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/people/phone](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/leadocean/free-get-v1-people-phone/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/phone](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-phone/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/email/personal](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-email-personal/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v2/people/email/work](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/leadocean/free-get-v2-people-email-work/llms.txt)
- [LeadOcean: people search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadocean/free-post-v1-people-search/llms.txt)

## LeadOcean: people search API alternatives

- [Snov.io, $6,642 yearly, Ultra, POST /v2/database-search/prospects/start](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/snov-io/6642-yearly-ultra-post-v2-database-search-prospects-start/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [Loopster, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/179-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [CompanyBook, €249.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companybook/249-99-yearly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [AI Ark, $95,990 yearly, Usage-Based Plan, 60M Credits / Year, POST /v1/people/preview](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/ai-ark/95990-yearly-usage-based-plan-60m-credits-year-post-v1-people-preview/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 23% complete, 30 days

## 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://api.leadocean.io/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://api.leadocean.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/filters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://leadocean.io/product/people-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing