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Lusha pricing and alternatives: people search API, POST /v3/contacts/prospecting, Prospecting Contacts

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15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 499 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan 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) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Lusha's 100 plans
Call: POST /v3/contacts/prospecting, Prospecting Contacts one of Lusha's 2 calls for this API
API: People search API one of Lusha's 7 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 week old. You get people from Lusha's database.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 40 credits a month, enough for 1,000 results. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset: unused credits do not carry over.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/contacts/prospecting. You send pagination.page, pagination.size and filters. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a business email. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Lusha: people search API alternatives

The table starts with Lusha's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Lusha's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

Lusha, $9,539.10 yearly, Premium, 120,000 credits a year, POST /v3/contacts/prospecting, Prospecting ContactsAnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/people_search.lushaPubrio, $125 monthlyAutobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contactsThe Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/fetch
$ per 1,000 people$3.18$0.84$2.50$3.478$4.00
Completeness15%15%31%38%85%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$9,539.10$10$125$40,000$96,000
Enough for3,000,000 results a yearabout 119 pages2,000 pages a month11,500,000 results24,000,000 results a year
Freshness1 week1 week1 day1 day1 day
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a business emailanyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listbusiness users who have reached the age of majority, not consumersanyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposesanyone over 18

Every people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-25.

  1. docs.lusha.com/_llms/api-docs/v3.txt
  2. docs.lusha.com/account/usage
  3. docs.lusha.com/api-reference/prospecting/prospecting-contacts
  4. docs.lusha.com/api-reference/search-&-enrich/search-and-enrich-contacts
  5. docs.lusha.com/data-catalog/search-layer
  6. docs.lusha.com/faq/api
  7. docs.lusha.com/faq/billing
  8. docs.lusha.com/faq/data
  9. docs.lusha.com/introduction
  10. docs.lusha.com/legal/terms
  11. docs.lusha.com/openapi.json
  12. docs.lusha.com/prospecting/overview
  13. docs.lusha.com/prospecting/search-contacts
  14. docs.lusha.com/rate-limiting
  15. docs.lusha.com/user-guide/billing-and-plans
  16. docs.lusha.com/user-guide/getting-started/how-credits-work-in-lusha
  17. docs.lusha.com/user-guide/lushas-api/all-there-is-to-know-about-lushas-api
  18. docs.lusha.com/user-guide/plans-and-upgrades/lushas-pricing-system-2
  19. docs.lusha.com/user-guide/usage-analytics/how-credits-are-counted
  20. lusha.com/
  21. lusha.com/api-terms/
  22. lusha.com/api/
  23. lusha.com/legal/terms_and_conditions-2/
  24. lusha.com/pricing/

Product details

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

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsAnyAPI: paid $0.84, this call or another Lusha call · Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, this call or another Lusha call · treg: your key free, paid $4.992 per 1,000 results, this call or another Lusha call
Charges
Extra fieldssignal types: +$0.00
Also pays forCreate Subscription: 100 requests per minute · List Subscriptions: 100 requests per minute · Get Subscription by ID: 100 requests per minute · Update Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Delete Subscriptions: 100 requests per minute · Test Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Create Opt-Out Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Get Audit Logs: 100 requests per minute · Get Audit Log Statistics: 100 requests per minute · Get Account Secret: 100 requests per minute · Regenerate Account Secret: 100 requests per minute · from the same budget: Search Contacts · Search Companies · Enrich Contacts · Enrich Companies · Search and Enrich Contacts · Search and Enrich Companies · Prospecting Companies · Get Contacts Table Entities · Get Companies Table Entities · Add Entities to Companies Table · Run Column on Contacts Table · Run Column on Companies Table · Contact Lookalikes · Company Lookalikes · Contact Recommendations · Company Recommendations · Contact Signals · Company Signals · Score Contacts by ICP Fit · Score Companies by ICP Fit · Get Buying Group Contacts · Search Conversations · Get Conversation Transcript
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for contacts that match your Ideal Customer Profile using rich filter criteria.
Data
Freshness1 week
Keep dataAPI terms: no limit while the agreement lasts, then "Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason [...] Customer, Users and Data Recipients (as applicable) will irrecoverably delete any and all Data they have received from using the API Service", general terms: "Customer may continue to use the Data after the termination of the Agreement, provided that such termination was not a termination by Lusha pursuant to Sections 15.2, 15.3, 15.3 or 16", deleted when the person asks: "If you receive a notification from an individual requiring that you shall delete individual’s Personal Data obtained by you through the API Service, you shall respect such request and shall: (i) delete such Personal Data from your database and cease Processing it"
Use datause and access the Platform and obtain Data only for the Customer’s internal business uses and operations, and only for one or more of the following objectives: B2B sales/marketing to prospective and current customers, recruitment, business intelligence or fraud prevention purposes [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: [...] use the Data for any reason or in any way other than for the Purpose (such as for business-to-consumer (B2C) activities, including but not limited to marketing, advertising, and the direct solicitation of individuals) [...] publish, distribute, share, sell, lease, transfer, or otherwise make the Data available to any third person or entity [...] input, upload, transmit, or otherwise provide the Data (including any derivatives, extracts, or summaries thereof) to any External AI System, where such External AI System may use the Data for training, fine-tuning, model development, or otherwise incorporating the Data into such system’s capabilities or outputs [...] liquidated damages from Customer in the amount equal to $2.00 per Business Contact record that is so disclosed, used, or made available per third party recipient or beneficiary [...] it is not a data broker and is not entering into this Agreement in order to resell, or with the intention of reselling, the Data to third parties [...] must not use such Data for the purposes of cookie tracking, ad exchanges, ad networks, data brokerages, SPAM or any other purpose in violation of any applicable law [...] you agree not to disclose, distribute, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, resell or otherwise transfer any Business Profiles or other information received from or through your use of the API Service [...] You hereby warrant that you will not: [...] Use the API Service in connection with any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, spamming or any other commercial communication [...] You shall not make use of any communication method to send Communications to recipients who have not explicitly consented (opt-in) or subscribed in some way to receive such Communications
Plan
Pay$0
You get40 credits a month
Enough for1,000 results a month
Expiresat the monthly reset: unused credits do not carry over
Rate limit
Per day100
Per second0.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendpagination.page, pagination.size, filters. Optional: filters.contacts include and exclude: names, jobTitles, jobTitlesExactMatch, normalizedJobTitles, searchText, countries, locations, seniorityIds, departments, linkedinUrls, existingDataPoints, existingDataPointsCondition, signals, emails, previousEmails, previousJobTitle, skills, certifications, awards, ids, jobChangedAfterDate, jobChangedLastViewDate, education, score, geographicDetails, filters.companies include and exclude: names, domains, ids, locations, sizes, revenues, technologies, technologiesCondition, industriesLabels, mainIndustriesIds, subIndustriesIds, intentTopics, intentTopicsCondition, intentMinScore, intentMaxScore, intentTopicsOperator, topicCountThreshold, sicCodes, naicsCodes, funding, foundedYear, businessModel, companyType, linkedinUrls, keywords, specialities, exactSpecialities, exactKeywords, keywordsSearchFields, previousCompanyDomains, previousCompanyNames, geographicDetails, locationsZipcodes, headquarterZipcodes, tableId, options.includePartialProfiles, options.excludeDnc, options.maxContactsPerCompany
MethodPOST
Path/v3/contacts/prospecting
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a business email
The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, client reference ID, person ID, first name, last name, job title, departments, seniority, company ID, company name, company domain, country, state, city, LinkedIn URL, available data points, revealable field, reveal credits, page, page size, total results, total exact, total description, table ID, table rows added, table rows already present, table columns created, table rows processed, table rows charged, table rows already paid, table credits charged, credits charged, results returned

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