# Fokals, free credit, POST /similar_companies: Similar companies API

> Finds companies like a given one, the most alike first, each with what it shares with the one given: the labels in common [...] and the technologies in common.

Fokals's similar companies API on its Free credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Fokals's docs list 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Employees, Domain.
We haven't run Fokals through [our similar companies API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 135 plans for similar companies APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.33 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.
[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 [Tomba](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/tomba/449-monthly/llms.txt) are the best similar companies API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies
- [Similar companies API: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-similar-companies-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fokals.com/v1/similar_companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.fokals.com/connect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- Sold by: Fokals (https://www.fokals.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Employees: ✓
- Domain: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 30 days
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find companies by signal · Enrich a list of companies · Company profile · What changed at my companies · Search job postings · company_connections · Market breakdown · Find companies by description · Companies described alike · Vendor scorecard · Companies like my customers · Company health · Buying intent week by week · Sales team from job ads · Funding filings · Headcount over time · Website traffic month by month · Buying signals across companies · Announcements across companies · Website changes across companies · Stock listings · Market trends over time · Biggest market movers · Sales pay benchmarks · Enrich a long list into a file · Likely next technologies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Finds companies like a given one, the most alike first, each with what it shares with the one given: the labels in common [...] and the technologies in common.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: while your access lasts, Data downloaded in bulk is deleted within 30 days after it ends
- Use data: While you comply with these terms and have paid any fees due, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service and the Data for your internal business purposes. You may create analyses, reports and presentations from the Data for your internal use and for your own clients, provided that they do not contain the Data in bulk or in a form that could substitute for the Service. Any other use, including resale, redistribution, sublicensing or embedding the Data in a product for others, requires a separate written agreement with us. [...] What you must not do: Sell, resell, rent, license, redistribute or publish the Data, or give third parties access to it, except as section 4 or a separate written agreement allows. Use the Data to identify, profile, contact or make decisions about any individual person, or to infer sensitive characteristics of anyone. Copy, scrape or crawl the Service, access it by automated means other than an interface we provide for that purpose, or reverse-engineer it. Share accounts, sign-in links or API keys, or exceed the limits of your plan. Use the Service in breach of any law, or of any rights or terms of a third party that apply to your use. Use the Service to build a competing product or dataset. [...] Under these terms alone, the Service and the Data are not provided for investment purposes. You must not use them, or allow them to be used, to make or inform decisions to buy, sell or hold securities or other financial instruments, or provide them to any investment fund, asset manager or trading firm, unless we have agreed to that use in a separate written agreement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: 25 results, once
- Expires: 12 months

## Rate limit

- Per day: 2,000
- Per second: 0.2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: company. Optional: kind, limit, max_usd
- Method: POST
- Path: /similar_companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, 18 or over

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

website, shared labels, shared technologies, business model, offering, customer size, pricing model, growth stage, home country

## Fokals's plans (5)

- [Fokals, free credit, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [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
- [Fokals, pay as you go, Past 100,000 companies a month, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/pay-as-you-go-past-100000-companies-a-month-post-similar-companies/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Fokals, top-up from $5, Add funds, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/top-up-from-5-add-funds-post-similar-companies/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt): 8% complete, stored

## Fokals's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /companies_like_customers`: [Fokals, free credit, POST /companies_like_customers](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-companies-like-customers/llms.txt)
- `POST /similar_companies`: [Fokals, free credit, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/lookalikes`: [Fokals, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Fokals's APIs (8)

- [Fokals: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company funding API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company headcount API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company open jobs API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: job postings API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fokals/free/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans, POST /similar_companies](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-similar-companies/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /company_profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-company-profile/llms.txt)
- [Fokals: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /enrich_companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fokals/free-credit-post-enrich-companies/llms.txt)

## Fokals: similar companies API alternatives

- [Klazify, $39.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/klazify/39-99-monthly/llms.txt): $7.998 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Ocean.io, $3,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/ocean-io/3000-yearly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [CompanyEnrich, $549 monthly, Scale, POST /companies/similar, Find similar, full](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/companyenrich/549-monthly-scale-post-companies-similar-find-similar-full/llms.txt): $10.98 per 1,000, 85% complete, stored
- [Pipecorn, $1,490 yearly, Grow, 9,000 credits a month, billed yearly, POST /intents/accounts/lookalikes, Find company lookalikes, from the Pipecorn companies database](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/pipecorn/1490-yearly-grow-9000-credits-a-month-billed-yearly-post-intents-accounts-lookalikes-find-company-lookalikes-from-the-pipecorn-companies-database/llms.txt): $12.417 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://api.fokals.com/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/connect?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing
- https://www.fokals.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=similar-companies-api-pricing