# BusinessMCP, top-up from $10: Similar companies API

> Given a company domain, return companies that look like it: the same industry (and category where the seed has one), the same country unless same_country is false, a neighbouring employee band, and, when both sides have a technology profile, companies sharing its key technologies ranked first.

BusinessMCP's Prepaid balance plan for the similar companies API costs $20.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. BusinessMCP's docs list 7: Description, Industry and type, Employees, Headquarters, Revenue, Domain, Contact.
We haven't run BusinessMCP through [our similar companies API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt) yet.
We rank 169 plans for similar companies APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 18% of the 169 plans. BusinessMCP has no free similar companies API plan. [95 similar companies API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt) [ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 100 pages of companies in total. ScrapeAtlas is the best similar companies API in our benchmark.
[GovConAPI's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/govconapi/39-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies, for the United States only, with no charge per call. You get as many companies as GovConAPI's rate limit allows. [Tomba's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/tomba/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $1.25.
[ZoomInfo's $45 pack](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/zoominfo/45-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies, and costs more up front than GovConAPI's $39 monthly plan.
[ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/scrapeatlas/19-pack/llms.txt), [LeadMagic](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/leadmagic/499-monthly-professional-post-v3-companies-lookalike/llms.txt) and [Findymail](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/findymail/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best similar companies API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10
- [Similar companies API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt)
- Get it: https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/companies/similar`
- API key: with the plan, on https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/tools/similar_companies.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Sold by: BusinessMCP (https://businessmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 54%
- Description: ✓
- Industry and type: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue: ✓
- Domain: ✓
- Contact: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $20.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 42 other BusinessMCP calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Given a company domain, return companies that look like it: the same industry (and category where the seed has one), the same country unless same_country is false, a neighbouring employee band, and, when both sides have a technology profile, companies sharing its key technologies ranked first.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not copy, scrape or resell the data you receive as a dataset or a service that competes with ours. Using results inside your own product and workflows is what the Hub is for. Do not use any result to discriminate unlawfully against anyone, or to decide anyone’s eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or any other purpose covered by the US Fair Credit Reporting Act. Do not contact, or keep contacting, anyone who has opted out, with us or with you. Do not probe, overload or try to get around rate limits, caps, key scopes or the controls on any tool, and keep your keys secret. [...] Use people records only for the purpose you declared, and only for a legitimate business-to-business purpose.

## Plan

- Pay: $10
- You get: $10
- Enough for: 500 results
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain. Optional: same_country, limit, exclude_domains
- Method: POST
- Path: /companies/similar

## About the plan

- Plan: Prepaid balance
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, name, industry, category, employee range, employee count, founded year, revenue range, industry code, entity type, NAICS sector, revenue estimate, revenue estimate method, revenue estimate source, last crawled at, country, region, city, phone, LinkedIn URL, description, tech stack, brand only, website status, source, shared technologies, seed domain, seed industry, seed country, seed employee range, returned

## BusinessMCP's plans (1)

- [BusinessMCP, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 54% complete

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

- `POST /companies/similar`: [BusinessMCP, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)

## BusinessMCP's APIs (13)

- [BusinessMCP Company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/businessmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/businessmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Company funding API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Phone finder API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/email-finder](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-email-finder/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/linkedin-to-email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-linkedin-to-email/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Reverse email lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/email-to-linkedin](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-email-to-linkedin/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Reverse email lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/reverse-email](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-reverse-email/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-get-ip-ip/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/fp.ip.lookup/call](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-tools-fp-ip-lookup-call/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/org-chart](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-org-chart/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-search/llms.txt)

## BusinessMCP: similar companies API alternatives

[BusinessMCP alternatives: other similar companies API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/businessmcp-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 10,000 companies a month, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-10000-companies-a-month-post-similar-companies/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [NinjaPear, $899 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/ninjapear/899-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 5,001-10,000 API Calls](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-5001-10000-api-calls/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 2 weeks
- [Pipecorn, $490 yearly, Build, 3,000 credits a month, billed yearly, POST /intents/accounts/lookalikes, Find company lookalikes](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/pipecorn/490-yearly/llms.txt): $20.417 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 2026-11-12.

- https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/tools/similar_companies.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/docs/hub?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/terms/hub?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing