# Coresignal, free: Similar companies API

> Companies similar to the record company

Coresignal's similar companies API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry and type, Locations.
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/coresignal/free
- [Best similar companies API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt)
- Get it: https://coresignal.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.coresignal.com/cdapi/v2/company_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://coresignal.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.coresignal.com/company-data/api/collect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing#collection-using-shorthand-names
- Sold by: Coresignal (https://coresignal.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Industry and type: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Elasticsearch DSL: Company API · Search Preview: Company API · Enrich: Company API · Bulk Collect: Company API · Webhooks: Company API · Elasticsearch DSL: Employee API · Search Preview: Employee API · Collect: Employee API · Bulk Collect: Employee API · Webhooks: Employee API · Contact Enrichment API · Real-time Employee API · Elasticsearch DSL: Jobs API · Search Preview: Jobs API · Collect: Jobs API · Bulk Collect: Jobs API · Search Filters: Company Posts API · Elasticsearch DSL: Company Posts API · Collect: Company Posts API · Search Filters: Employee Posts API · Elasticsearch DSL: Employee Posts API · Collect: Employee Posts API · Historical Headcount API · POST /v2/agentic_search/fast · POST /v2/agentic_search/reasoning

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Companies similar to the record company

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: “Upon written request, either Party will return or destroy all copies of the other Party’s Confidential Information that are in its possession or control”, the Data being “a confidential, proprietary, trade secret and copyrighted work of Coresignal”
- Use data: “a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license to use the Data for internal business purposes” [...] “The Client has no right to communicate or display to the public the Data, Substantial part of the Data, or the Data’s logic and structure.” [...] “Client shall not re-utilize the Data. For the purpose of the Agreement, ‘Re-utilization’ shall mean any form of making available to the public the Data or a Substantial part of the Data by the distribution of copies, renting, online, or other forms of transmission (including but not limited to sub-licensing).” “Notwithstanding Article 1.2. of the Agreement, the Client is permitted to create derivative works using the Data and license such works to its clients as long as the Client complies with the terms and conditions of the Agreement. [...] works created by the Client shall entail sufficient alteration of the Data to constitute derivate works (e.g., integration of individual data points taken from the Data to the Client’s own product or service).” “The Client shall not, directly or indirectly, use the Data or any of the contents of the Data to conduct or operate any bulk mail activity” [...] “The Client shall only use or otherwise process such information in accordance with all applicable data protection laws. The Client shall be solely responsible for assessment and compliance of the Data’s use by the Client with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits
- Enough for: 200 pages, once
- Expires: 7 days after sign-up

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of profile_url or shorthand_name, bundle "core_company_data". Optional: fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/company_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: the first to sign up with a business email from each company email domain

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

company ID, name, industry, company URL, location

## Coresignal's plans (14)

- [Coresignal, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/199-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/499-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/1000-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $1,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/1500-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/3000-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $2,149 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/2149-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $5,389 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/5389-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $10,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/10800-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $16,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/16200-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $32,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/32400-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $54,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/54000-yearly/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored

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

- `GET /v2/company_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}`: [Coresignal, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)

## Coresignal's APIs (14)

- [Coresignal: company funding API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: tech stack API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: job posting details API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: job postings API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: leadership change API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/leadership-change-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: people search API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company headcount API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: similar companies API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company discovery API pricing, 14 plans, GET collect/{company_id}, Collect: Company API](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company discovery API pricing, 14 plans, GET collect/{company_id}, Collect: Company API, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api-full/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company discovery API pricing, 14 plans, POST search/es_dsl](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/free-trial-post-v2-company-multi-source-search-es-dsl/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, Collect: Company API](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, Collect: Company API, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-company-id-collect-company-api-full/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 14 plans, Collect: Company API](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-profile-url-shorthand-name-collect-company-api/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 14 plans, Collect: Company API, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-company-multi-source-collect-profile-url-shorthand-name-collect-company-api-full/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 14 plans, GET /v2/employee_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/free-trial-get-v2-employee-multi-source-collect-profile-url-shorthand-name/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 14 plans, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/free-trial-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/employee_post/search/es_dsl](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/coresignal/free-trial-post-v2-employee-post-search-es-dsl/llms.txt)
- [Coresignal: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/employee_post/search/filter](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/coresignal/free-trial-post-v2-employee-post-search-filter/llms.txt)

## Coresignal: similar companies API alternatives

- [Tomba, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/tomba/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [The Companies API, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/the-companies-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Extruct, free, GET /v1/companies/{company_identifier}/similar](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/extruct/free-get-v1-companies-company-identifier-similar/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored
- [ZoomInfo, free](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/zoominfo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/company/, Enrich company from database, people also follow](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-company-enrich-company-from-database-people-also-follow/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-02.

- https://coresignal.com/data-transparency/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://coresignal.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions-api-dashboard/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
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- https://dashboard.coresignal.com/sign-up?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://docs.coresignal.com/additional-sources/professional-network-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
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