# Qonoro, pay as you go: People search API

> Search for people matching criteria (title, seniority, company, industry, or location) instead of enriching one known name. Returns a list of matches.

Qonoro's Pay per call with x402 plan for the people search API costs $5.00 per 1,000 people. Qonoro's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location.
We haven't run Qonoro through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 700 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.807 or less per 1,000 people. This plan costs less per 1,000 people than 47% of the 700 plans.
[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/qonoro/pay-as-you-go
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/person/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/person/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#/Person%20Enrichment/search_people_v1_person_search_post
- Sold by: Qonoro (https://qonoro.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $5.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for people matching criteria (title, seniority, company, industry, or location) instead of enriching one known name. Returns a list of matches.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of title, seniority, company_name, industry or location. Optional: limit, buyer_region
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/person/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call with x402
- Who can get it: anyone paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402)

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, criteria, result count, full name, title, seniority, department, decision maker, company name, LinkedIn URL, location, confidence score, sources, quality warnings, cache hit, response time

## Qonoro's plans (1)

- [Qonoro, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 15% complete

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

- `POST /v1/person/search`: [Qonoro, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Qonoro's APIs (11)

- [Qonoro: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: people search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/company/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-post-v1-company-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Qonoro: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/company/research](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/qonoro/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-post-v1-company-research/llms.txt)

## Qonoro: people search API alternatives

- [MillionPhones, top-up from $5, One-off credits, GET /search/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/millionphones/top-up-from-5-one-off-credits-get-search-people/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Hunter, $50 yearly, Data Platform, 1,000 Search credits, GET /domain-search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/hunter/50-yearly-data-platform-1000-search-credits-get-domain-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $72,000 yearly, Enterprise 15000, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/72000-yearly-enterprise-15000-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day
- [FindMeMail, $5 monthly, Pro (Founding price), POST /api/v1/prospects/unlock](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/findmemail/5-monthly-pro-founding-price-post-api-v1-prospects-unlock/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 15% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/person/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/person/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://api.qonoro.ai/v1/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://qonoro.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://qonoro.ai/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://qonoro.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing