Ploid: people search API pricing, 4 plans
POST / v1/ search Ploid's only callAbout this item
- Freshness. Ploid doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
- 2 of the 13 key fields. Experience, Location.
- Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
- One call. You send query or filters to
POST /. Optional: type, category, num_results, criteria, async, webhook_url, freshness, contents. The call returns the matching people.v1/ search - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Compare with similar plans
Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000.
| This planPloid, free | SignalHire, free, Free, POST /candidate/searchByQuery, 5 credits | Seamless.AI, free | ScraperCity, free | Signalbase, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 15% | 31% | 15% | 8% | 8% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | not published | 500 results, once | about 100 results, once | not published |
| Freshness | not published | not published | live | not published | not published |
| Who can get it | anyone who creates an account, for lawful business and professional outreach (its terms: not for personal, non-business use) | anyone acting in a business capacity, signing up with a business email | anyone 18 or over, for B2B purposes, not a competitor of Seamless.AI | at least 18 years old, with legal capacity to enter binding agreements | smaller recruitment agencies and solo recruiters running their own business development |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.
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
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 150 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Fetch a LinkedIn profile (GET /v1/linkedin/profile) · Enrich a social profile (POST /v1/socials) · GitHub search (POST /v1/github/search) · Datasets (POST /v1/datasets) · Contacts (POST /v1/enrich) · Person (POST /v1/person) · Monitors (POST /v1/monitors) · Sets (POST /v1/sets) |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Describe who you're looking for and get back a list of matching people instantly. Search by role, company, skills, location, or anything else. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | The Services are intended for lawful business and professional outreach (for example recruiting and sales) only, not for personal, non-business use, harassment, stalking, spam, or unpermitted surveillance. [...] you must not use the Services to obtain or process sensitive data unlawfully. [...] You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law, including privacy, employment, anti-discrimination, anti-spam, and data protection laws. Use the Services or people data for personal, non-business purposes in a way that violates applicable law or reasonable privacy expectations (including harassment, stalking, or doxxing). Scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract data from the Services in an automated way except through documented APIs or features we expressly permit. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our or others’ systems. Use the Services to send spam, phishing, malware, or deceptive communications. Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code of the Services except where prohibited by law. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or outputs in a way that competes with Ploid or breaches your agreement. [...] You are solely responsible for your use of people data obtained through the Services, including obtaining any required notices, consents, or legal bases, honoring individual rights requests where applicable, and complying with regulations governing recruiting, marketing, and background screening in your jurisdiction. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 50 credits |
| Expires | 30 days |
| Per second | 0.17 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query or filters. Optional: type, category, num_results, criteria, async, webhook_url, freshness, contents |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free trial |
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| Who can get it | anyone who creates an account, for lawful business and professional outreach (its terms: not for personal, non-business use) |
The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold
person ID, name, job title, company name, location, LinkedIn URL, profile URL, confidence, contact status, social accounts, identity verified, resolution source, location match, score, result URL, result title, filter match, verification, criterion ID, criterion, verification status, verification reasoning, verification references, namesakes, disambiguation, grounding status, grounding results, grounding source counts, grounding provider outcomes, search time, total time, rows indexed, candidates checked, has more, candidates seen, request ID, credits charged, credits remaining, cursor, message
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