RocketReach pricing and alternatives: people search API

RocketReach's site llms.txt Best cached people search API in 2026

31% complete: 4 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.069per 1,000 peopleThe median plan costs $13.36 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 89% of the 227 priced plans.The cheapest plan is StartupHub.ai, $500 yearly, at $0.0083 per 1,000.

Plan: Essentials one of RocketReach's 7 plans

Call: POST /person/search RocketReach's only call

POST /person/search$69 monthly$0.069 per 1,000

API: People search API one of RocketReach's 5 APIs

About this item

Freshness. RocketReach doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
4 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location, Photo, Connections.
A monthly subscription. You pay $69 for 100 credits a month, which pay for RocketReach's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 10,000 pages a month.
One call. You call POST /person/search. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

RocketReach: people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 people.

	This planRocketReach, $69 monthly	pipe0, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search/run/sync, People search (AI) (people:entitysearch:parallel@1)	OneShot, top-up from $0.01, Top-up (x402, USDC on Base)	StartupHub.ai, pay as you go, Pay as you go	Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1beta/findall/entity-search
$ per 1,000	$0.069	$0.018	$0.02	$0.05	$0.05
Completeness	31%	8%	0%	23%	0%
Billing	monthly	pay first	pay first	pay as you go	pay first
Pay	$69	$10	$0.01	at a threshold	any amount
Enough for	10,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for	1 page	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over	businesses only, in the course of their trade, business or profession	anyone, consumer or business, not in a country under a U.S. government embargo or on a U.S. restricted-party list, with a wallet on Base holding USDC	anyone 18 or over	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars

People search API plans

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

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
Followers, not in the answer
Connections
Certifications, not in the answer
Languages, not in the answer
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.069
Billing	monthly
$ a month	$69

Aggregators
Aggregators	Orthogonal: paid, page size not stated

Charges
Per	page of 100
Most per search	10,000
Also pays for	Company Search API: 15 a minute, 50 an hour, 500 a day and 10,000 a month, no credits · People Lookup API: 15 a minute, 100 an hour, 500 a day and 5,000 a month · Bulk People Lookup API: 10 a minute, 25 an hour and 100 a day

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Use our People Search API endpoint to discover and filter over 700M professional profiles by criteria such as name, company, or more.

Data
Keep data	Without limiting the foregoing, you will: [...] immediately cease all use of Lookup Information after termination of these Terms [...] Retention: as necessary per purpose and law
Use data	Without limiting the foregoing, you will: only use Lookup Information to identify prospective sales opportunities, identify candidates for recruitment purposes, and research your existing customers and prospects, in each case, only in a manner that relates to an individual’s profession, business, or employment [...] prior to relying on or using any Lookup Information, ensure that such Lookup Information: (a) is the most accurate and up-to-date version of such information available through the Services, and (b) does not appear on any RocketReach lists of individuals who have opted out of their inclusion in the Services [...] When you use the Services or any Lookup Information, you will not: use the Services, or any Lookup Information accessed under your account, for any illegal or unauthorized purpose or in any manner that is unlawful, illicit, fraudulent, or detrimental, or in connection with any unlawful, illicit, fraudulent, or detrimental purpose or activity [...] reproduce Lookup Information or content from the Services (including on another website or platform), sell, rent, or sub-license Lookup Information or material derived from the Lookup Information or Services, replicate, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit such material for commercial purposes [...] You may access, use, disclose, or otherwise process Lookup Information solely for the following purposes, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and these Terms: (i) to communicate with an individual or entity for whom Lookup information is available in a manner that relates to such individual’s or entity’s (as applicable) profession, business, or employment, and (ii) to identify prospective sales opportunities, research your existing customers and prospects, and otherwise analyze the Lookup Information in a manner relating to your legitimate internal business activities. [...] You may not duplicate, copy, resell, reuse, exploit or reverse engineer Lookup Information or any portion of the Services without the written consent permission of RocketReach. [...] Without the prior written consent of RocketReach, you may not develop or derive for commercial sale or otherwise commercially exploit any data in any form that incorporates or uses the Lookup Information, and you may not transfer or disclose the Lookup Information to anyone else. [...] By accepting these Terms, you warrant that you will not use the Services or the products of our Services, including Lookup Information, in violation of any third-party agreement, whether currently in force or entered into following acceptance of these Terms. [...] RocketReach grants you a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to generate and use the Exports included in your Subscription Service solely for your personal use.

Plan
Pay	$69
You get	100 credits a month
Enough for	10,000 pages a month
Expires	unused lookup credits roll over and expire after 12 months or when you cancel the subscription, whichever comes first

Rate limit
Per day	500
Per second	0.014
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: start, page_size, order_by, query.all_skills, query.company_competitors, query.company_country_code, query.company_domain, query.company_email, query.company_funding, query.company_funding_max, query.company_funding_min, query.company_geo, query.company_id, query.company_industry, query.company_industry_keywords, query.company_intent, query.company_job_posting_signal, query.company_linkedin_url, query.company_list, query.company_list_id, query.company_naics_code, query.company_name, query.company_news_signal, query.company_news_timestamp, query.company_patent_filing_signal, query.company_product_review_signal, query.company_publicly_traded, query.company_revenue, query.company_sec_filing_signal, query.company_seo_website_traffic_signal, query.company_sic_code, query.company_size, query.company_tag, query.company_website_intelligence_signal, query.company_website_url, query.connections, query.contact_method, query.current_or_previous_title, query.current_title, query.degree, query.department, query.description, query.domain, query.email, query.email_grade, query.employer, query.geo, query.growth, query.handle, query.health_credentials, query.health_license, query.health_npi, query.health_specialization, query.id, query.job_change_range_days, query.job_change_signal, query.keyword, query.keywords, query.link, query.major, query.management_levels, query.name, query.phone, query.phone_grade, query.previous_company_id, query.previous_employer, query.previous_title, query.school, query.skills, query.state, query.update_time, query.years_experience
Method	POST
Path	/person/search

About the plan
Plan	Essentials
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over

The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, lookup status, full name, profile picture, social links, LinkedIn URL, LinkedIn connections, location, city, region, country, country code, job title, company name, company domain, company website, teaser emails, teaser phone numbers, teaser phone premium, teaser office phones, teaser preview, teaser premium phone available, teaser personal emails, teaser professional emails, birth year, company ID, company LinkedIn URL, region latitude, region longitude, suppressed, update date