# API Direct, free: Similar companies API

> Get detailed information about a LinkedIn company page by URL. Returns company name, description, employee count, locations, specialities, website, industry, headquarters, similar companies, and more.

API Direct's similar companies API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry and type, Images, Followers.
We rank 120 plans by price. [PublicWWW's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/publicwww/499-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies: $0.000055. PublicWWW charges for each page of results. We count 1,000,000 companies on each page to get the $0.000055 price.
[ZoomInfo's $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/zoominfo/45-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. ZoomInfo's $45 pack costs less up front than PublicWWW's $499 monthly plan.
[LeadMagic](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/leadmagic/499-monthly-professional-post-v3-companies-lookalike/llms.txt), [Tomba](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/tomba/449-monthly/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/social-fetch/14-pack/llms.txt) are the best similar companies API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/api-direct/free
- [Best similar companies API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://apidirect.io/v1/linkedin/company`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apidirect.io/docs/linkedin-company?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Sold by: API Direct (https://apidirect.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Industry and type: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: 142 other calls: 50 requests a month each, 20 for Places Search, Place Reviews and Place Photos

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get detailed information about a LinkedIn company page by URL. Returns company name, description, employee count, locations, specialities, website, industry, headquarters, similar companies, and more.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, or impair the Service, Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limits, usage limits, or security measures, Use automated means to create accounts or generate API keys, Harass, abuse, or harm individuals using data obtained through the Service, Scrape our Service [...] You acknowledge that: [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the underlying platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) when using data obtained through our Service [...] You agree that: You have a lawful basis for requesting, receiving, and using the data you obtain through the Service [...] You will comply with applicable data protection law, including providing any notices and honouring any rights owed to individuals by you as controller [...] You will not use the Service to identify or target individuals on the basis of special categories of personal data

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a month
- Enough for: 50 pages a month
- Expires: reset on the 1st of each month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.39
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/company

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms

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

name, company URL, industry, followers, logo

## API Direct's plans (2)

- [API Direct, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 23% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/linkedin/company`: [API Direct, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt)

## API Direct's APIs (32)

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- [API Direct: SERP API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/web/search, Web Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: Instagram post API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: Instagram profile API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: Instagram profile API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/instagram/user](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-instagram-user/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: company headcount API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: company headcount API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-linkedin-company/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/company](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/person](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/job](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: Reddit profile API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [API Direct: Reddit profile API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/reddit/user](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-reddit-user/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: Threads profile API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: TikTok video API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: Truth Social post API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/truthsocial/user/posts, Truth Social User Posts](https://datacircle.dev/truth-social-post-apis/api-direct/free-tier-get-v1-truthsocial-user-posts/llms.txt)
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- [API Direct: X profile API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/api-direct/free-tier-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
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## API Direct: similar companies API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [ZenRows, free (agent storefront)](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/zenrows/free-agent-storefront/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Bridgly, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/bridgly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://apidirect.io/docs/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/docs/linkedin-company?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/dpa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://apidirect.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing