# Octave, free: People search API

> Find relevant people at a company or lookalike companies

Octave's Base plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Octave's docs list 6: Experience, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers.
We haven't run Octave 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/octave/free
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.octavehq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.octavehq.com/api/v2/agents/prospector/run`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.octavehq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.octavehq.com/v2-api-reference/agents/prospector-agent?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Octave (https://www.octavehq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Experience: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich Company Agent · Enrich Person Agent · Qualify Company Agent · Qualify Person Agent · Sequence Agent · Content Agent · Call Prep Agent · Context Agent Run · Resolve Profile from Email · Resolve Email from Profile · Context Search · Run a skill

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find relevant people at a company or lookalike companies

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: You will only use the Services for your own professional use, and not on behalf of or for the benefit of any third party, and only in a manner that complies with all laws that apply to you. [...] You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not use or interact with the Services, in a manner that: infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Octave), violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control laws, privacy laws or any other purpose not reasonably intended by Octave, is dangerous, harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, [...] uses the services for activities in violation of CAN-SPAM, or that interfere with the proper working of the Services (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Services' infrastructure), "crawls," "scrapes," or "spiders" any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Services (through use of manual or automated means), copies or stores any significant portion of the Service Content, or decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: companyDomain, agentOId. Optional: limit, minimal, searchContext.playbookOId, searchContext.personaOIds, searchContext.fuzzyTitles, searchContext.exactTitles, searchContext.excludeTitles, searchContext.personCountry, searchContext.personLocation
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/agents/prospector/run

## About the plan

- Plan: Base
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email address, of legal age to form a binding contract

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

found, contacts count, first name, last name, job title, LinkedIn URL, headline, summary, slug, photo URL, country code, location, city, job function, seniority, follower count, positions count, current positions count, position company name, position title, position summary, position is current, position start date, position end date, position seniority, position job function, company name, company domain, company website, company description, company founded year, company employee count, company follower count, company type, company slug, company logo URL, company country code, company region, company city, company postal code, company street address, company specialties, company industry, company funding round count, company funding round date, company funding round name, company investor names, company investor count, company funding round amount, company funding round currency, lookalike source, matched personas

## Octave's plans (2)

- [Octave, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/octave/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete
- [Octave, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/octave/contact-us/llms.txt): 46% complete

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

- `POST /api/v2/agents/prospector/run`: [Octave, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/octave/free/llms.txt)

## Octave's APIs (4)

- [Octave: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/octave/free/llms.txt)
- [Octave: email finder API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/octave/free/llms.txt)
- [Octave: people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/octave/free/llms.txt)
- [Octave: people enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v2/agents/enrich-person/run](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/octave/free-base-post-api-v2-agents-enrich-person-run/llms.txt)
- [Octave: people enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v2/person/resolve-profile](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/octave/free-base-post-api-v2-person-resolve-profile/llms.txt)

## Octave: 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
- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [MORVS, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/morvs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://docs.octavehq.com/concepts/agents?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.octavehq.com/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.octavehq.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.octavehq.com/quickstart?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.octavehq.com/v2-api-reference/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.octavehq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.octavehq.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing