# Particle, pay as you go: People enrichment API

> Returns the comprehensive Person payload including display name, slug, headshot, curated bio, the Person's company-role history (most recent first), known third-party profile links, and an optional knowledge-graph cross-reference.

Particle's x402 / MPP plan for the people enrichment API costs $10.00 per 1,000 people. Particle's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Photo.
We haven't run Particle through [our people enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
We rank 269 plans for people enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $19.60 or less per 1,000 people. This plan costs less per 1,000 people than 52% of the 269 plans.
[Coldlytics's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/49-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 people. Coldlytics's people enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [API CPF's R$358.80 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/api-cpf/r-358-80-yearly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: about $5.88.
[LeadMCP](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/leadmcp/49-monthly/llms.txt), [GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/getprospect/399-monthly-growth-50k-post-v2-people-enrich/llms.txt) and [Bytemine](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/bytemine/top-up-from-0-50/llms.txt) are the best people enrichment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go
- [People enrichment API: the 18 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.particle.pro/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.particle.pro/v1/people/{id}`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.particle.pro/api-reference/people/get-a-person?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- Sold by: Particle (https://particle.pro?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns the comprehensive Person payload including display name, slug, headshot, curated bio, the Person's company-role history (most recent first), known third-party profile links, and an optional knowledge-graph cross-reference.

## Data

- Keep data: reasonable caching necessary for real-time display or operational functionality (6.7: You will not "download, save, or locally store Clips, Transcripts, or other API Output outside of reasonable caching necessary for real-time display or operational functionality"), on termination, delete all API Output from production systems within thirty (30) days (15.6)
- Use data: 4.1: a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to (a) access the API Services using your API Keys, (b) integrate the API Services into your Customer Applications, and (c) display API Output to end users of your Customer Applications. 5.1: You must display all attribution information included in the API Output. 6.1: You will not, and will not permit any third party to: (a) use the API Services or API Output to train, fine-tune, or otherwise develop any machine learning model, artificial intelligence system, or similar technology, (b) redistribute, resell, sublicense, or otherwise make API Output available to third parties outside of your Customer Application [...], (c) use API Output as a substitute for, or in a manner that reduces the need for end users to access, the original source content [...], (g) use the API Services for any competitive intelligence purpose or to build a product or service that competes with the API Services [...]. 6.9: You will not use the API Services for any commercial purpose unless you are subscribed to the Growth, Business, or Enterprise plan.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/people/{id}

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 / MPP
- Who can get it: non-commercial use only, the API terms' 6.9 say 'You will not use the API Services for any commercial purpose unless you are subscribed to the Growth, Business, or Enterprise plan', so commercial use needs a Business or Enterprise plan, no account or API key, each call paid in USDC on Base from a wallet (x402 or MPP)

## The 55 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, slug, name, image URL, description, detailed description, current role title, current role started at, current role ended at, current role is current, current role company ID, current role company slug, current role company name, current role company domain, current role company ticker, current role company description, current role company image URL, role title, role started at, role ended at, role is current, role company ID, role company slug, role company name, role company domain, role company ticker, role company description, role company image URL, external link platform name, external link platform display name, external link platform type, external link identifier, external link URL, external link attribute category, external link attribute name, external link attribute observed at, external link attribute value, knowledge graph entity ID, knowledge graph entity slug, Wikipedia URL, current team name, current team league, current team as of, current team entity slug, sports, team name, team role, team start year, team end year, team entity slug, team leagues, league name, league start year, league end year, league entity slug

## Particle's plans (4)

- [Particle, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Particle, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/29-monthly/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Particle, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/399-monthly/llms.txt): $3.99 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Particle, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete

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

- `GET /v1/people/{id}`: [Particle, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Particle's APIs (4)

- [Particle: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Particle: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Particle: people enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Particle: people search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/people/expertise](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go-x402-mpp-get-v1-people-expertise/llms.txt)
- [Particle: people search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/companies/{id}/people](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/particle/pay-as-you-go-x402-mpp-get-v1-companies-id-people/llms.txt)

## Particle: people enrichment API alternatives

- [Bytemine, pay as you go, POST /contacts/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/bytemine/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Reverse Contact, $5,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/reverse-contact/5000-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Context.dev, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored
- [Autobound, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/19-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://api.particle.pro/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://api.particle.pro/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://api.particle.pro/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://docs.particle.pro/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://particle.pro/legal/tos-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://particle.pro/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-enrichment-api-pricing