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The Swarm pricing and alternatives: people search API, POST /v3/profiles/search

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0% complete: none 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: 14-day free trial one of The Swarm's 18 plans
Call: POST /v3/profiles/search one of The Swarm's 3 calls for this API
API: People search API one of The Swarm's 15 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get people from The Swarm's database.
  • None of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, which pay for The Swarm's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 1,209,600 pages in all. Unused credits expire at the end of the 14-day trial.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v3/profiles/search. You can also send limit, pagination_token, stable_pagination, in_network_only and x-authenticate-team. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone over 18. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

The Swarm: people search API alternatives

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

The Swarm, $990 yearly, Premium 50, POST /v3/profiles/searchExploreYC, $50 monthlyPubrio, $495 packAutobound, $40,000 pack, Enterprise credit pack, 11.5M credits, POST /v1/buyer-intent/contactsNinjaPear, $22,788 yearly
$ per 1,000 people$0.000032$0.033$1.08$3.478$7.714
Completeness0%0%31%38%8%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$990$50$495$40,000$22,788
Enough for2,592,000 pages a month500 pages a dayas many as you pay for11,500,000 results211,000 results a month
Freshness1 day1 day1 day1 daylive
Who can get itanyone over 18anyoneAI agents with a registered agent credential, for themselves or their human, through Pubrio's agent storefront, business use only, of ageanyone who signs up, the agreement licenses use for internal business purposesanyone, for their 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 2026-10-19.

  1. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/credits-usage.md
  2. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/pagination.md
  3. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/rate-limiting.md
  4. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-profile.md
  5. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/search-profiles.md
  6. docs.theswarm.com/docs/examples/search-endpoint.md
  7. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/faq.md
  8. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
  9. help.theswarm.com/en/articles/14121950-plans-billing-connector-limits-api-credits
  10. theswarm.com/pricing
  11. theswarm.com/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, not in the answer
  • 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 1,000
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forSearch Companies · Relationships · Add Connector · from the same budget: Fetch Profile · Fetch Company · Refresh a Profile · Get Profile/Company Posts · Get Comments / Reactions / Reshares · Network Mapper (for Partners)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for profiles using OpenSearch DSL queries. Returns a list of profile IDs that can be passed to the Fetch Profile endpoint.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep dataUpon termination of your subscription or access to the Service: Your license to use Swarm Data ends immediately. At The Swarm’s request, you must delete all Swarm Data in your possession, including backups. You may retain internal Derived Materials that do not contain identifiable Swarm Data fields. You must certify deletion upon request.
Use dataSubject to your compliance with these Terms, The Swarm grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the data, insights, relationship mappings, and related information made available through the Service (“Swarm Data”) for your own internal business purposes. “Internal business purposes” includes, but is not limited to: Sales prospecting, Recruiting and talent sourcing, Partnerships and BD research, Investor outreach, Relationship mapping and warm intro workflows, CRM enrichment, Go-to-market operations and analytics, Executive dashboards and internal reporting. You may store, analyze, enrich, combine, and use Swarm Data inside your own systems, tools, CRMs, or internal workflows, as long as such use is internal to your organization. Except as expressly permitted by The Swarm in writing, you may not, directly or indirectly: Sell, resell, license, sublicense, publish, or otherwise redistribute Swarm Data to any third party. Provide Swarm Data to customers, clients, partners, vendors, contractors, affiliates, or the public. Include Swarm Data in any commercial data product, enrichment service, dataset, marketplace offering, or AI model intended for external use. Use Swarm Data to build, train, or improve any AI or ML model that is accessible to third parties. Use Swarm Data to develop or enhance any product or service that competes with The Swarm or provides relationship-mapping or people-data features. Upload or share raw Swarm Data into third-party platforms for any purpose other than your internal business operations. Any use of Swarm Data outside your organization requires prior written approval from The Swarm. If you wish to redistribute, resell, or otherwise make Swarm Data available to third parties (including in workflows where they can view or access data), you must obtain The Swarm’s prior written consent. You may create internal analyses, models, segments, reports, dashboards, or insights derived from Swarm Data (“Derived Materials”), provided these remain internal to your organization and are not sold, published, shared externally, or used to train publicly available AI systems.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,209,600 pages, once
Expiresat the end of the 14-day trial
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, pagination_token, stable_pagination, in_network_only, x-authenticate-team
MethodPOST
Path/v3/profiles/search
About the plan
Plan14-day free trial
Who can get itanyone over 18
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile IDs, total results, next page token

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