# Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect: People search API

> Queue an asynchronous contact-prospect job that finds people in NAICS industries matching desired job titles

Minerva's people search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience.
We haven't run Minerva through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. 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/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect
- [People lookup API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.minerva.io/person-search/v0/contact-prospect`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/person-search-contact-prospect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Minerva (https://www.minerva.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Experience: ✓ current job

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 year
- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: Person Search · Async Person Search · Validate Emails · from the same budget: Enrich v2 · Get LinkedIn Contact Info · Contact Append

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Queue an asynchronous contact-prospect job that finds people in NAICS industries matching desired job titles

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: "Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement: (i) the rights granted pursuant to Section 4(a) and Section 8 will terminate, and (ii) Customer will return or destroy, at Minerva’s sole option, all Minerva Confidential Information in its possession or control" [...]
- Use data: "a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except in compliance with Section 13(b)) right to use (and permit Authorized Users to use) the Services and Output Data in accordance with the Documentation and the terms of this Agreement for Customer’s internal business purposes." [...] "Customer will not and will not permit any person or entity (including, without limitation, Authorized Users) to, directly or indirectly:" "I. Use the Services or Output Data to develop or supplement a “Consumer Report” that is subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act [...]" "II. Copy, modify or create any derivative work of any portion of the Services, Output Data or the Documentation, " "IV. Frame, mirror, sell, resell, market, sublicense, publish, distribute, reproduce, assign, transfer, rent, lease or loan any portion of the Services or Output Data to any other person or entity [...]" "VII. Access or search the Services (or download any data or content contained therein or transmitted thereby, including Output Data) through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, or any other similar data mining tools) other than software or Services features provided by Minerva for use expressly for such purposes, "

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 results
- Enough for: 100 results
- Expires: 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: naics_codes, job_titles, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: Idempotency-Key header, size
- Method: POST
- Path: /person-search/v0/contact-prospect

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone: "No card required. 100 records free in your trial."

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, job type, Minerva PID, matched job title, current job title, matched company, matched NAICS code, enrichment payload, total results, returned results, limit, offset, billable count, unlocked at

## Minerva's plans (8)

- [Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $400 monthly, Growth 10k records, monthly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/400-monthly-growth-10k-records-monthly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $480.192 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $1,200 monthly, Growth 50k records, monthly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/1200-monthly-growth-50k-records-monthly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $287.977 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $2,000 monthly, Growth 100k records, monthly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/2000-monthly-growth-100k-records-monthly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $240.01 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $4,000 yearly, Growth 10k records, yearly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/4000-yearly-growth-10k-records-yearly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $400.16 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $12,000 yearly, Growth 50k records, yearly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/12000-yearly-growth-50k-records-yearly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $239.981 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $20,000 yearly, Growth 100k records, yearly, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/20000-yearly-growth-100k-records-yearly-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): $200.008 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Minerva, contact us, Enterprise, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/contact-us-enterprise-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt): 8% complete, stored

## Minerva's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /person-search/v0/search-jobs`: [Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/search-jobs](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search-jobs/llms.txt)
- `POST /person-search/v0/contact-append`: [Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/contact-append](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-append/llms.txt)
- `POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect`: [Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt)
- `POST /person-search/v0/search`: [Minerva, free, Trial, POST /person-search/v0/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search/llms.txt)

## Minerva's APIs (7)

- [Minerva: email verification API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people enrichment API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone validation API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: reverse email lookup API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)

## Minerva: people search API alternatives

- [Nymeria, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/nymeria/159-monthly/llms.txt): $159.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Enrich.so, $149 monthly, Scale, POST /lead-finder/export, Export leads to CSV (async), full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/enrich-so/149-monthly-scale-post-lead-finder-export-export-leads-to-csv-async-full/llms.txt): $162.708 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datafiniti/19-monthly/llms.txt): $190.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Coldlytics, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v3/people/find, Find person](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coldlytics/49-monthly-starter-post-v3-people-find-find-person/llms.txt): $196.00 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/billing-usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/person-search-contact-job-results?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/person-search-contact-prospect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing