# Swarmhit, free: People search API

> No Sales Navigator? Search Swarmhit's database of 1B+ contacts across 60M companies, refreshed weekly, through /database/people/search.

Swarmhit's people search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Headline, Location, Photo.
We haven't run Swarmhit through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 603 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.56 per 1,000 people or less.
[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: 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)](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/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/free
- [People lookup API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.swarmhit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.swarmhit.com/api/v1/database/people/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.swarmhit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.swarmhit.com/api-reference/database/searchPeopleDatabase?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Swarmhit (https://www.swarmhit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: Send a connection request · Message a connection · Send an InMail · Visit a profile · Follow a lead · Look up a profile · Like a post · Comment on a post · Start a LinkedIn search import · from the same budget: Search companies in the database · Enrich a person · Enrich a company · Find a person's email · Find a person's phone · Find a lead's email or phone · Find emails or phones for many leads

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: No Sales Navigator? Search Swarmhit's database of 1B+ contacts across 60M companies, refreshed weekly, through /database/people/search.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will not use Swarmhit to: Send unlawful, harassing, deceptive, or discriminatory messages. Impersonate another person or business or misrepresent your affiliation. Scrape, resell, or sublicense Swarmhit’s data, software, or AI outputs. Bypass the sending limits, safeguards, rate limits, or other technical controls we apply. Send messages to prospects in jurisdictions where you lack a lawful basis (for example, B2C contacts under GDPR or CASL without consent). [...] You own your customer content. You grant Swarmhit a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, transmit, and process that content strictly to provide the service. [...] Purchased, scraped, enriched, licensed, or publicly available data may be used only where Customer has assessed the source, rights, notice obligations, accuracy, and lawful basis for the intended use. [...] Customer must not: [...] bypass throttling, rate limits, safety controls, account limits, technical restrictions, or verification measures, use bots, scripts, or tools outside supported functionality to interfere with the Services, create excessive Accounts or use multiple Accounts to evade enforcement, probe, scan, or test Swarmhit systems without written authorization, use the Services in a way that degrades reliability for others.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of filters.titles, filters.excludeTitles, filters.pastTitles, filters.seniorities, filters.departments, filters.functions, filters.keywords, filters.keywordInProfile, filters.minTenure, filters.maxTenure, filters.minYearsExperience, filters.maxYearsExperience, filters.recentlyChangedJobs, filters.companyNames, filters.pastCompanyNames, filters.companyDomains, filters.industries, filters.companyTypes, filters.companyHqCountries, filters.headcountRanges, filters.locations, filters.states, filters.countries, filters.continents, filters.fullName, filters.languages, filters.skills, filters.schools, filters.degrees, filters.fieldsOfStudy, filters.hasVerifiedEmail. Optional: filters.excludeExisting, limit, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /database/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and authorized to bind their organization, with a LinkedIn account to connect as a sender

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, name, first name, last name, headline, job title, location, country, profile picture, LinkedIn URL, current company name, current company job title, current company domain, current company LinkedIn URL, current company ID, current company employee count, current company employee count range, current company industries, current job start date, current job end date, past companies, education school, education degree, education field of study, years of experience, saved as lead, has business email, has personal email, has phone, business emails, phones, next cursor, total results

## Swarmhit's plans (16)

- [Swarmhit, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $16.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/16-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/59-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $94 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/94-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $139 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/139-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/199-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $319 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/319-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $539 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/539-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $859.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/859-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $1,099 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/1099-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $2,347.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/2347-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $3,635.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/3635-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $6,358.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/6358-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, $15,256.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/15256-90-monthly/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, contact us, Cold email 5M+ sends](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/contact-us-cold-email-5m-sends/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week
- [Swarmhit, contact us, LinkedIn senders 2,500+](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/contact-us-linkedin-senders-2500/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 week

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

- `POST /database/people/search`: [Swarmhit, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)

## Swarmhit's APIs (8)

- [Swarmhit: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: company discovery API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: company enrichment API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: people search API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: people enrichment API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: email finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /leads/{id}/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-leads-id-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: email finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /database/people/find-email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-database-people-find-email/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: email finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /leads/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-leads-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: phone finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /leads/{id}/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-leads-id-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: phone finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /database/people/find-phone](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-database-people-find-phone/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: phone finder API pricing, 16 plans, POST /leads/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/swarmhit/free-trial-post-leads-enrich/llms.txt)

## Swarmhit: people search API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/people_search.lusha](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-starting-balance-post-v1-run-people-search-lusha/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 week
- [The Swarm, free, 14-day free trial, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/free-14-day-free-trial-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day
- [Sumble, free, POST /v9/people, People](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/sumble/free-post-v9-people-people/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Voila Norbert, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/voila-norbert/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://app.swarmhit.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://developer.swarmhit.com/database?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/channels/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/profile-visit?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/sales-navigator-import?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing