# Recent Funding, free: People search API

> People at active companies, one row per person and company, with role, picture, links and the page that names them. Email addresses and phone numbers are never published.

Recent Funding's Free plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Recent Funding's docs list 2: Experience, Photo.
We haven't run Recent Funding through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 787 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.78 or less per 1,000 people. [275 people search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) [Companies House's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-company-company-number-officers/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 64.8 out of 100. Companies House covers people in the United Kingdom only.
[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, with no charge 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, and 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/recent-funding/free
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://recentfunding.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/founders`
- API key: with the plan, on https://recentfunding.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://recentfunding.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#get-api-v1-founders
- Sold by: Recent Funding (https://recentfunding.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 2,000
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000,000
- Also pays for: People to contact at a company, with confirmed work emails · from the same budget: List companies · Get one company and all its rounds · Compare recent capital deployment by industry · Inspect the companies counted in a market-map industry, or across all of them · List recent funding rounds · List recent acquisitions · List new venture capital funds · List private equity firms · A private equity firm and the companies it bought · Counts by stage, industry, and source · Rank companies on one metric · List categories with capital raised · Companies in a category, ranked · List market landscapes · A market landscape by segment, with every company's rounds · Investor leaderboard · One investor's portfolio · Accelerator programs · One accelerator's companies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: People at active companies, one row per person and company, with role, picture, links and the page that names them. Email addresses and phone numbers are never published.

## Data

- Freshness: 14 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may browse the site, share links to it, and use the API. You agree not to: use the service in a way that breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights, overload, disrupt or attack the service, or get around rate limits or access controls, send spam or unsolicited messages to people or companies listed on the service, use the service to harass, track or profile individuals, present our data as your own. If you republish it, credit Recent Funding and link back. [...] If you use API data in something you publish, credit "Recent Funding" with a link to https://recentfunding.com.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits a day
- Enough for: 50 pages a day
- Expires: daily, at midnight UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: scope, team, q, role, profile, archetype, stage, category, crypto, photo, raised, country, serial, sort, limit, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /founders

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, role, avatar, X handle, LinkedIn URL, source URL, company ID, company name, crypto company, first seen at, latest round amount in USD, total raised in USD, company logo, founders at company, team, profile URL, archetype, stage, raised at, category, headquarters city, headquarters country, other companies, total results

## Recent Funding's plans (6)

- [Recent Funding, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 14 days
- [Recent Funding, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/10-pack/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [Recent Funding, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/150-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day

## Recent Funding's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /founders`: [Recent Funding, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)

## Recent Funding's APIs (4)

- [Recent Funding Company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding Company funding API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding People search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/free/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding Company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-companies/llms.txt)
- [Recent Funding Company discovery API pricing, 6 plans, GET /rounds](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/recent-funding/free-get-rounds/llms.txt)

## Recent Funding: people search API alternatives

[Recent Funding alternatives: other people search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/recent-funding-alternatives.txt)

We list Recent Funding's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Recent Funding in price per 1,000 people. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [Recent Funding, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recent-funding/150-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [InvestorLists, $997 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/investorlists/997-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 8% complete, 24 hours
- [Loopster, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/179-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day
- [CompanyBook, €249.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companybook/249-99-yearly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [SelskabsInfo, DKK 449 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/selskabsinfo/dkk-449-monthly/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://recentfunding.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recentfunding.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recentfunding.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recentfunding.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing