# Crunchbase, contact us: Similar companies API

> Retrieve ranked organizations similar to a known company, including any available reasons for the matches.

Crunchbase's similar companies API on its Custom Data Solutions plan. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Match, Locations.
We haven't run Crunchbase through [our similar companies API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt) yet.
Crunchbase gives this plan's price on request. We rank 119 plans for similar companies APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 per 1,000 companies or less.
[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/pay-as-you-go/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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/crunchbase/contact-us
- [Similar companies API: 9 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.crunchbase.com/buy/select-product?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/searches/org_similarities`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.crunchbase.com/buy/select-product?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://data.crunchbase.com/reference/searchorgsimilarities?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Sold by: Crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Match: ✓
- Locations: ✓

## Price

- Per: page of 1,000
- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Data warehouses delivery · from the same budget: Entity Lookup API · Autocomplete API

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve ranked organizations similar to a known company, including any available reasons for the matches.

## Data

- Keep data: the Order Form's Term, then destroyed within ten (10) days
- Use data: Crunchbase grants the Licensee listed in the Order Form "a nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable, limited license to use Crunchbase’s application programming interface, the Crunchbase data described in Licensee’s Order Form [...] solely as specifically set forth in Licensee’s Order Form". "Except as expressly and unambiguously authorized in Licensee’s Order Form, Licensee may not (and will not permit or assist any third party to) (i) sell, rent, lease, loan, license, reproduce, modify, transfer, assign, sublicense, display, publish, distribute, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile [...] any part of the Crunchbase Materials, (ii) use or allow the Crunchbase Materials to be used to train models (including generative artificial intelligence technologies), (iii) use or allow the Crunchbase Materials to be used in a manner that makes it impossible for the Crunchbase Materials to be expunged, (iv) otherwise use the Crunchbase Materials on behalf of any third party, (v) use the Crunchbase Materials in any infringing, defamatory, harmful, fraudulent, illegal, deceptive, threatening, harassing, or obscene way, (vi) use or distribute AI Content in a misleading way [...], or (vii) disclose the terms and conditions of the Order Form or this Agreement (including, without limitation, pricing terms) to any third party." Enterprise Access: "Licensee may only use the Crunchbase data for internal research and analysis. Each license is applicable for a single department and / or use-case within an organization." "Unless otherwise noted in your license [...], you may not license, sublicense, sell, offer to sell, distribute or otherwise provide any of the Crunchbase data to any third parties." "Licensee must attribute content sourced or derived from Crunchbase when made available or visible to any third party."

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: field_ids, query. Optional: order, limit, after_id, before_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /v4/data/searches/org_similarities

## About the plan

- Plan: Custom Data Solutions
- Who can get it: organizations and applications that submit an Order Form Crunchbase accepts, the call is in the Predictions & Insights Package reference, for a key provisioned with Fundamentals with Insights and Predictions

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

UUID, similarity name, source company, target company, similarity score, shared industries, shared industry groups, shared micro-industries, location overlap, product similarities, additional reasons, created at, updated at, total results

## Crunchbase's plans (1)

- [Crunchbase, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete

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

- `POST /v4/data/searches/org_similarities`: [Crunchbase, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Crunchbase's APIs (4)

- [Crunchbase: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Crunchbase: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Crunchbase: company funding API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Crunchbase: similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/crunchbase/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Crunchbase: similar companies API alternatives

- [Skrapp, contact us, Custom plan, POST /api/v3/companies/bulk-enrich](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/skrapp/contact-us-custom-plan-post-api-v3-companies-bulk-enrich/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [Edges, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/edges/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [EnvoAPI, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v1/companies/similar/by-slug](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/envoapi/contact-us-enterprise-get-v1-companies-similar-by-slug/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Implisense, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/companies/{id}/peers](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/implisense/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-companies-id-peers/llms.txt): 15% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/api-packages-overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/find-similar-companies.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/license-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/using-search-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/using-the-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/docs/welcome-to-crunchbase-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/reference/searchorgsimilarities?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://data.crunchbase.com/reference/searchorgsimilarities.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.crunchbase.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.crunchbase.com/buy/select-product?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing