# ExploreYC, free: People enrichment API

> One founder: derived stats, the YC companies they built, every leaderboard rank, and enrichment.

ExploreYC's people enrichment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns none of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
We rank 115 plans by price. [GetLeads's $249 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/getleads/249-monthly-partner-post-api-v1-enrich-csv/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.042. GetLeads's $249 monthly plan covers up to 6,000,000 people a month at no extra cost.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/reverse-contact/500-pack/llms.txt) and [Autobound](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/49-pack/llms.txt) are the best people enrichment API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free
- [Best people enrichment API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Request: `GET https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/founders/{slug}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Its API docs: https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- Sold by: ExploreYC (https://exploreyc.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: List / filter companies · Company by id · Company by slug · Full-text company search · Portfolio stats (Y Combinator) · Available sources (incubators / VCs) · Distinct YC batches · Distinct industries · Distinct countries · Geo-located companies · Batch 'wrapped' analytics · Founder leaderboards (ranked)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One founder: derived stats, the YC companies they built, every leaderboard rank, and enrichment.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5 requests a day
- Enough for: 5 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: slug
- Method: GET
- Path: /founders/{slug}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

founder, derived stats, companies, leaderboard ranks, enrichment

## ExploreYC's plans (3)

- [ExploreYC, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/50-monthly/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [ExploreYC, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/500-monthly/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day

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

- `GET /founders/{slug}`: [ExploreYC, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC's APIs (4)

- [ExploreYC: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies/{company_id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-company-id/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies/slug/{slug}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies-slug-slug/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-search/llms.txt)
- [ExploreYC: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, GET /companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/free-get-companies/llms.txt)

## ExploreYC: people enrichment API alternatives

- [Mawsool International FZCO on Apify, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/mawsool-international-fzco-on-apify/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Clair, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/clair/300-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [NeuralVerge, $50 monthly, Base, POST /functions/v1/run-tracxn-people](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/neuralverge/50-monthly-base-post-functions-v1-run-tracxn-people/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Sumble, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v9/people, People](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/sumble/99-monthly-pro-post-v9-people-people/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day

## 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://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1/openapi.json
- https://exploreyc.com/api-docs
- https://exploreyc.com/llms.txt
- https://exploreyc.com/pricing