# Xverum, free: People search API

> Search for people with a natural-language query — or companies, by sending `target: company`.

Xverum's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Headline, Location.
We rank 487 plans by price. [Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) 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)](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 to start 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/xverum/free
- [Best people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ask.xverum.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://search-api.xverum.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ask.xverum.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://ask.xverum.com/docs/search
- Sold by: Xverum (https://ask.xverum.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Experience: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search for companies · Get profile · Get company · Predict job change

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 people: $39.00

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for people with a natural-language query — or companies, by sending `target: company`.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: "Aggregate, cache, archive, store, copy, replicate, redistribute, or create derivative datasets from any Data or Outputs obtained through the Products or Services except as expressly permitted under these Terms" (the terms' 2.2(k), among what "You shall not, nor shall you authorize or encourage any third party to" do), no length of time is set. The API docs ask you to store a result's id: "Store it — any id you already hold stays fetchable."
- Use data: "XVERUM grants you a revocable, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable non-assignable and non-sublicensable license, to download, access and use the Products or Services solely for the purpose of your internal business operations" (2.1). "You shall not, nor shall you authorize or encourage any third party to: (a) Competitive Use. Use the Products , Services, Data, Documentation, Deliverables, Outputs, or any information obtained through the Products or Services to develop, train, test, benchmark, improve, support, market, or operate any Products, service, database, model, platform, or offering that competes with, replicates, substitutes for, or is substantially similar to the Products, Services, or any Products s or services offered by XVERUM. [...] (f) Harassment and Harmful Conduct. Use the Products, Services, Data, or Outputs to harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, defame, discriminate against, surveil, unlawfully profile, exploit, target, harm, or otherwise adversely affect any individual, group, entity, or organization. [...] (i) Unauthorized Distribution. Resell, sublicense, distribute, lease, rent, transfer, assign, publish, disclose, provide access to, or otherwise make available the Products, Services, Data, Documentation, or Outputs to any third party except as expressly authorized by XVERUM in writing. (j) Privacy and Compliance Violations. Use the Products or Services in violation of any applicable privacy, data protection, consumer protection, anti-spam, sanctions, export control, or other applicable laws and regulations. (k) Unauthorized Retention or Replication of Data. Aggregate, cache, archive, store, copy, replicate, redistribute, or create derivative datasets from any Data or Outputs obtained through the Products or Services except as expressly permitted under these Terms." (2.2). "Except as expressly permitted under these Terms or with XVERUM’s prior written consent, you may not, directly or indirectly, copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, republish, display, transmit, disclose, license, sell, lease, transfer, publish, scrape, extract, download, store, aggregate, index, or otherwise use any portion of the Website, Products, Services, Content, Data, Outputs, Documentation, or any information made available through the Website. [...]" (2.5). The API is licensed "during the applicable subscription term [...] solely for your internal business purposes" (2.7).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 results a month
- Expires: at the start of the next billing month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: page, page_size, target
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: a person over 18 or a business entity, not a public authority of, domiciled in or controlled from a Foreign Adversary Country (North Korea, China, Russia, Iran), per the terms' 3.1 and 3.2, no credit card required

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, social profile URL, full name, headline, location, company name, job title, industry, evidence summary, total results

## Xverum's plans (9)

- [Xverum, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $1 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/1-monthly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/49-monthly/llms.txt): $24.50 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/199-monthly/llms.txt): $22.111 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/750-monthly/llms.txt): $20.833 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $528 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/528-yearly/llms.txt): $22.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $2,148 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/2148-yearly/llms.txt): $19.889 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, $8,100 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/8100-yearly/llms.txt): $18.75 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [Xverum, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/contact-us/llms.txt): 23% complete, stored

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [Xverum, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/free/llms.txt)

## Xverum's APIs (3)

- [Xverum: company discovery API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/xverum/free/llms.txt)
- [Xverum: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/xverum/free/llms.txt)
- [Xverum: people search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/xverum/free/llms.txt)

## Xverum: people search API alternatives

- [LeadMagic, $849 monthly, Ultimate, POST /v1/people/employee-finder](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadmagic/849-monthly-ultimate-post-v1-people-employee-finder/llms.txt): $0.424 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Enrich.so, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /lead-finder/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/enrich-so/49-monthly-growth-post-lead-finder-search/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Prospeo, $2,241 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/prospeo/2241-yearly/llms.txt): $0.498 per 1,000, 31% complete, stored
- [Fundable, top-up, Pay as you go: additional credits, GET /person/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/fundable/top-up-pay-as-you-go-additional-credits-get-person-search/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://ask.xverum.com
- https://ask.xverum.com/docs/overview
- https://ask.xverum.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://ask.xverum.com/docs/search
- https://ask.xverum.com/faq
- https://ask.xverum.com/pricing
- https://www.xverum.com/terms-of-service