# ManyPI, free: People search API

> Describe your ideal customer in a sentence. Get matching companies and the people who sign.

ManyPI's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. ManyPI's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location.
We haven't run ManyPI through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 642 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.77 per 1,000 people or less. [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.
[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/manypi/free
- [People lookup API: 40+ people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://manypi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.manypi.com/api/leads/research`
- API key: with the plan, on https://manypi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.manypi.com/api-reference/leads/start-research?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ManyPI (https://manypi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: Verify email addresses · from the same budget: Create an agent run · Run a scraper · Invoke an endpoint · Draft an email with AI

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Describe your ideal customer in a sentence. Get matching companies and the people who sign.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Right of use. For the term of the Agreement we grant you the non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable right to access and use the Service for your own business purposes, within the limits of your Plan. [...] Restrictions. You shall not: rent, lend, sell, sublicense or otherwise make the Service available to third parties, except as permitted in clause 4.5, [...] use the Service to develop or operate a competing product or service, [...] Agencies and service providers. You may use the Service to provide services to your own clients [...] You may not resell bare access to the Service. [...] Ownership of Customer Data. As between you and us, you retain all rights in Customer Data. We acquire no ownership of it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: one of criteria, profile_id or seed_lead_ids. Optional: criteria.description, criteria.count, criteria.locations, criteria.industries, criteria.company_size, criteria.titles, criteria.keywords, criteria.exclusions, criteria.required_fields, criteria.extra_columns, criteria.sources, criteria.notes, save, name, kind, check_intent, force_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/leads/research

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses only: ManyPI is sold to businesses, not consumers

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

lead ID, company, full name, title, email, phone, domain, LinkedIn URL, location, source URL, score, email status, email provider, role address, email validated at, custom columns, lead search ID

## ManyPI's plans (4)

- [ManyPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [ManyPI, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/25-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete
- [ManyPI, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/50-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete
- [ManyPI, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/150-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete

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

- `POST /api/leads/research`: [ManyPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/free/llms.txt)

## ManyPI's APIs (2)

- [ManyPI: email verification API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/manypi/free/llms.txt)
- [ManyPI: people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manypi/free/llms.txt)

## ManyPI: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [MillionPhones, free, GET /search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/millionphones/free-get-search-people/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 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 2026-11-05.

- https://docs.manypi.com/api-reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.manypi.com/api-reference/leads/get-lead.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.manypi.com/api-reference/leads/start-research.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.manypi.com/platform/plans-and-credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/help/account/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/help/account/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/help/api/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://manypi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing