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The Hog pricing and alternatives: people search API

The Hog's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026
15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 150 plans we rank by price is StartupHub.ai, pay as you go, x402, at $0.01 per 1,000 people.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best cached people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 500 free calls every month one of The Hog's 3 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/people/search The Hog's only call for this API
API: People search API one of The Hog's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month, enough for 500 pages.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v1/people/search. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone the waitlist invites. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The Hog: people search API alternatives

The table starts with The Hog's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to The Hog's.

The Hog, top-upOneShot, top-up from $0.01, Top-up (x402, USDC on Base)StartupHub.ai, pay as you go, Pay as you goParallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1beta/findall/entity-searchRocketReach, $69 monthly
$ per 1,000 people$0.066$0.02$0.05$0.05$0.069
Completeness15%0%23%0%31%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay as you gopay firstmonthly
Payany amount$0.01at a thresholdany amount$69
Enough foras many as you pay for1 pageas many as you pay foras many as you pay for10,000 pages a month
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invitesanyone, 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 USDCanyone 18 or overanyone outside the jurisdictions export law barsanyone 18 or over

People search API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. docs.thehog.ai/api/people/people-search-estimate.md
  2. docs.thehog.ai/api/people/people-search.md
  3. docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-profile.md
  4. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/company-first-search
  5. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/credits
  6. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/sync-vs-async
  7. docs.thehog.ai/guides/find-people
  8. docs.thehog.ai/llms.txt
  9. docs.thehog.ai/quickstart
  10. docs.thehog.ai/reference/idempotency
  11. docs.thehog.ai/reference/rate-limits
  12. docs.thehog.ai/reference/response-shapes
  13. thehog.ai/pricing
  14. thehog.ai/privacy
  15. thehog.ai/terms

Product details

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

  • Experiencecurrent job
  • 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
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: POST /api/v1/companies/search · POST /api/deep-research · POST /api/enrichments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/image/deepfake-detection · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/finder · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/keyword-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/followers · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/following · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-details · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/tiktok/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/web/scrape · POST /api/v1/search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for people by role, seniority, company, and more.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any law or third-party right. Attempt to access, probe, or disrupt our systems or other users’ data. Reverse engineer, scrape, or resell the Services except as permitted. Upload malicious code or use the Services to send spam or abusive content.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, includeSignals, includeContacts, contactFields, maxCredits, filters.titles, filters.titleMatch, filters.locations, filters.industries, filters.employeeCount.min, filters.employeeCount.max, filters.signals, filters.company.names, filters.company.domains, filters.company.linkedinUrls, filters.company.industries, filters.company.employeeCount.min, filters.company.employeeCount.max, filters.company.signals, confirm, Idempotency-Key header
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/people/search
About the plan
Plan500 free calls every month
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invites
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

person ID, canonical person ID, full name, title, company name, location, email status, phone status, emails, email address, email type, email verified, phone numbers, phone number, phone type, phone verified, from cache, company match evidence, signals, estimated credits, actual credits, target account search mode, target account outcome, provider outcome, message

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