Lightcast pricing: people search API

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46% complete: 6 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

Contact usWe haven't run Lightcast through our people search API benchmark yet.Lightcast gives this plan's price on request. 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 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) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Worker Profiles (with contact information) Lightcast's only plan

Contact usWorker Profiles (with contact information)

Call: POST /search Lightcast's only call for this API

POST /searchContact us

API: People search API one of Lightcast's 5 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
6 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, About, Location, Languages.
No public price. You ask Lightcast for one.
One call. You send filter to POST /search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send limit, offset, new_taxonomy_versions, lot_version, naics_version, area_version and area_laa_version. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Lightcast: people search API alternatives

Lightcast alternatives: every people search API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

	This planLightcast, contact us	Village, contact us	NeuralVerge, contact us, Custom, POST /functions/v1/run-company-employees	ContactOut, contact us, Team / API, GET /v1/people/decision-makers, Decision Makers API	Swarmhit, contact us, Cold email 5M+ sends
Completeness	46%	38%	54%	46%	38%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Pay	not published	$10,000	not published	not published	not published
Freshness	unknown	stored	unknown	1 hour	1 week
Who can get it	Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations, contact information is available only for legitimate interest purposes	anyone	business and professional use by individuals at least 18 years old	anyone	anyone at least 18 and authorized to bind their organization

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

Product details

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

Experience
Education
Skills
Headline, not in the answer
About
Location
Photo, not in the answer
Followers, not in the answer
Connections, not in the answer
Certifications, not in the answer
Languages
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work, not in the answer

Price
Billing	contact

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	10,000

In their words
Their pitch	Lightcast Profiles with contact information provide the missing link between insight and action. Organizations gain compliant, up-to-date professional and contact data that enables deeper understanding and more effective engagement.

Data
Countries	Worldwide
Keep data	Customer shall delete all Content within 30 business days following the end of the Agreement
Use data	The Software Services are solely and exclusively for your use in the ordinary course of conducting your primary business and shall not be provided to any third party, except as expressly authorized in an Order Form. [...] Unless expressly permitted by Lightcast in an Order Form, Customer will not (and will not permit anyone else to) do any of the following: (a) provide access to, distribute, sell or sublicense the Software Services to any third party, including affiliates of Customer, (b) use the Software Services on behalf of, or to provide any product or service to, third parties, (c) use the Software Services to develop a similar or competing product or service, (d) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or seek to access the source code or non-public APIs to the Software Services, (e) modify or create derivative works of the Software Services or copy any element of the Software Services, (f) remove or obscure any proprietary notices in the Software Services, (g) use any automated means or process to access the Software Services, (h) interfere with the Software Service's operation, circumvent its access restrictions or conduct any security or vulnerability test of the Software Services, or (i) transmit any viruses or other harmful materials to or via the Software Services. [...] Unless otherwise expressly authorized by Lightcast, you agree not to use the Services either alone or in concert with any other information, to re-identify anonymized data, share profile data with any third party, create a profile database, attempt to contact or advertise to any individual and except as permitted under the Business Contact Terms (when applicable), or make any hiring, lending, or other material decisions about an individual.

Rate limit
Per second	10
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	filter, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, offset, new_taxonomy_versions, lot_version, naics_version, area_version, area_laa_version
Method	POST
Path	/search

About the plan
Plan	Worker Profiles (with contact information)
Who can get it	Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations, contact information is available only for legitimate interest purposes

The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, name, first name, last name, email, email type, phone, profile URL, job title, normalized job title, company name, company ID, city, state or province, country, metro area, summary, skills, education, employment history, occupation, career area, industry, O*NET occupation, language, profile tags, last updated date, last seen date, total results