# RecruitMCP, free: People search API

> Find people by title, location, company and seniority.

RecruitMCP's Free plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. RecruitMCP's docs list 3 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location, Photo.
We haven't run RecruitMCP through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 686 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.99 per 1,000 people or less. [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.
[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/recruitmcp/free
- [People lookup API: 40+ people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.recruitmcp.com/v1/people/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://recruitmcp.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#searchPeople
- Sold by: RecruitMCP (https://recruitmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich profiles · Find one person by name and current company · Look up email and phone · Look up email and phone for many people · Resolve company names to company URLs

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people by title, location, company and seniority.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Do not use RecruitMCP to harass people or to evade a do-not-contact mark.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 1,250 credits
- Enough for: 1,250 results
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: filters, Idempotency-Key header. Optional: filters.current_job_titles, filters.exclude_current_job_titles, filters.past_job_titles, filters.exclude_past_job_titles, filters.geo_ids, filters.exclude_geo_ids, filters.current_companies, filters.exclude_current_companies, filters.past_companies, filters.exclude_past_companies, filters.schools, filters.exclude_schools, filters.industry_ids, filters.exclude_industry_ids, filters.function_ids, filters.exclude_function_ids, filters.seniority_level_ids, filters.exclude_seniority_level_ids, filters.years_of_experience_ids, filters.years_at_current_company_ids, filters.company_headcount, filters.profile_languages, filters.first_names, filters.last_names, filters.recently_changed_jobs, filters.search, limit, cursor, exclude_seen, dry_run, confirm_token
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, one free grant per email address

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, alternate ID, name, location, profile URL, profile picture, current title, current company, current company ID, current company URL, current job description, start date, years in position, months in position, years in company, months in company, identity key, already seen, total results, next cursor

## RecruitMCP's plans (5)

- [RecruitMCP, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [RecruitMCP, €99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/99-pack/llms.txt): $14.854 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [RecruitMCP, €49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/49-monthly/llms.txt): $11.028 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [RecruitMCP, €149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/149-monthly/llms.txt): $6.707 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [RecruitMCP, €399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/399-monthly/llms.txt): $4.49 per 1,000, 23% complete

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

- `POST /v1/people/search`: [RecruitMCP, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/free/llms.txt)

## RecruitMCP's APIs (4)

- [RecruitMCP: people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/recruitmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people:enrich](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-enrich/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people:match](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-match/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/contacts:fetch](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-contacts-fetch/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/{profile_id}/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-profile-id-contacts/llms.txt)
- [RecruitMCP: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/people/contacts:fetch](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/recruitmcp/free-post-v1-people-contacts-fetch/llms.txt)

## RecruitMCP: people search API alternatives

- [Argorant, $449 monthly, Scale 100,000 credits a month, POST /api/v1/people/reveal](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/argorant/449-monthly-scale-100000-credits-a-month-post-api-v1-people-reveal/llms.txt): $4.49 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Context.dev, $90 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/90-monthly-pro-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Autobound, $1,299 pack, Business, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/autobound/1299-pack-business-post-v1-buyer-intent-contacts/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [LeadIQ, $130.50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadiq/130-50-monthly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month

## 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://recruitmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/docs/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/legal/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://recruitmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing