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Shovels pricing and alternatives: people search API

Shovels's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026

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8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 487 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 people.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Shovels's 4 plans
Call: GET /addresses/{geo_id}/residents one of Shovels's 2 calls for this API
API: People search API one of Shovels's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 2 weeks old. You get people from Shovels's database.
  • 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 results. Credits reset monthly.
  • One call. You send geo_id to GET /addresses/{geo_id}/residents. You can also send cursor and size. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: while this Agreement is in effect. Use data: with conditions.

Shovels: people search API alternatives

The table starts with Shovels's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Shovels's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Shovels, $999 monthly, Pro, GET /addresses/{geo_id}/residentsVoila Norbert, $99 monthlyAnymail Finder, $499 monthlyPeople Data Labs, $4,800 yearlyAutobound, $19 pack, Starter, POST /v1/contacts/search
$ per 1,000 people$19.98$19.80$19.96$20.00$20.00
Completeness8%8%8%31%38%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$999$99$499$4,800$19
Enough for50,000 results a month5,000 results a month25,000 results a month12,000 pages a year950 results
Freshness2 weekslivelive1 month1 month
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposesanyone 18 or overbusinesses onlyanyone with a work emailanyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposes

Every people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

  1. docs.shovels.ai/api-reference/addresses/get-residents
  2. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/credit-limits
  3. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/rate-limits
  4. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/api/basics/request-counts
  5. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/company/data-usage-terms
  6. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/data/quality/refresh-frequency
  7. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/data/residents/resident-data
  8. docs.shovels.ai/docs/knowledge-base/getting-started/free-trial-guide
  9. shovels.ai/api
  10. shovels.ai/pricing
  11. shovels.ai/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience, not in the answer
  • 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
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search10
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Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThis returns contact info like name, phone, and email for occupants associated with the address.
Data
Freshness2 weeks
Keep datawhile this Agreement is in effect
Use dataShovels data is licensed for your internal business use. You can use it for internal research, prospecting, lead generation, building it into your own product (API customers), exporting and storing it internally, sharing with colleagues, and contacting contractors or property owners directly. You cannot upload it to ad platforms for audience targeting, resell or redistribute it, share it externally without written permission, or use it to build a competing data product. [...] a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use such Data (or Third-Party Content) solely for its internal business purposes while this Agreement is in effect. [...] Customer shall not at any time, directly or indirectly, and shall not permit any of its employees, contractors, agents, or users (“Authorized Users”) to: (i) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Services, in whole or in part, (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of the Services, in whole or in part, (iii) remove any proprietary notices from the Services, (iv) use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, or (v) use the Services for the purpose of competing with Shovels’ business or gathering information for a competitor or potential competitor of Shovels’ business. [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to, resell, transfer, distribute, publish, sublicense, or otherwise make available the Services or the Data (or any portion thereof), nor to copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or the Data (including any datasets, models, data products, or other works that are based on or trained on the Data), except as expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Shovels.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough for500 results a month
Expirescredits reset monthly
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendgeo_id. Optional: cursor, size
MethodGET
Path/addresses/{geo_id}/residents
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and able to accept the Terms of Service ("You may not access or use the Service [...] if you are not legally authorized to accept and be bound by its Terms and Conditions or are not at least 18 years of age"), for their internal business purposes
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, personal email, phone, LinkedIn URL, net worth, income range, homeowner, street number, street, city, state, ZIP code, ZIP code extension, total results

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