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EnvoAPI, $499 monthlyN/A88N/A6298N/A$0.10monthly$499page of 20from the same budget: 57 other callsFind profiles similar to a given profile by username with EnvoAPI.livea limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use Output Data during the applicable term for Permitted Business Purposes. [...] Customer may store Output Data in Customer’s internal systems, including CRM, data warehouse, applicant tracking system, sales engagement platform, customer support system, or analytics system, only as reasonably necessary for Permitted Business Purposes and subject to Customer’s legal obligations. [...] Customer must delete Output Data where required by law, these Terms, an Order Form, or EnvoAPI’s written instructionCustomer must use the Services only for lawful, professional, and B2B purposes. [...] a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use Output Data during the applicable term for Permitted Business Purposes. [...] “Permitted Business Purposes” means lawful B2B sales operations, CRM hygiene, account enrichment, company research, professional profile matching, recruiting workflow support, talent sourcing support, fraud prevention, business analytics, and other professional business purposes that comply with these Terms and applicable law. [...] Unless an Order Form expressly permits embedded or external use, the Services and Output Data may be used only for Customer’s internal business purposes. [...] Customer must not use the Services to request, obtain, infer, reconstruct, or process non-public data or Sensitive Data. [...] Customer must not use the Services or Output Data as the sole or determinative basis for decisions involving: credit, lending, insurance, housing, education admissions, government benefits, healthcare eligibility, criminal justice, or similar eligibility determinations, employment eligibility, hiring, firing, promotion, compensation, disciplinary action, or other adverse employment decisions, consumer reports, investigative consumer reports, background checks, tenant screening, creditworthiness, or insurance underwriting, legally significant decisions based solely on automated processing where prohibited or restricted by applicable law. [...] Customer must not use the Services to collect, infer, classify, profile, target, segment, rank, or make decisions based on Sensitive Data or protected characteristics, including race, ethnicity, religion, political opinion, union membership, health, disability, genetic data, biometric data, sexual orientation, age, gender, pregnancy status, citizenship, immigration status, veteran status, or other legally protected categories. [...] Customer must not use the Services or Output Data to send unlawful, deceptive, excessive, or non-compliant email, SMS, calls, direct messages, ads, or other communications. [...] Except as expressly allowed in an Order Form, Customer must not: resell, sublicense, rent, lease, publish, disclose, distribute, or make available Output Data as a standalone dataset, database, data feed, API, enrichment service, lead list, or data brokerage product, use the Services or Output Data to build, train, validate, benchmark, or improve a product or service that competes with EnvoAPI, use the Services to create a persistent shadow database substantially similar to EnvoAPI’s proprietary databases, remove, obscure, or alter proprietary notices, source metadata, suppression flags, field timestamps, or compliance indicators. [...] Customer must not knowingly use the Services to re-identify, re-add, enrich, sell, contact, or otherwise process a person or record that EnvoAPI has identified as suppressed, opted out, deleted, or restricted.$499250,000 credits a month250,000 pages a monthmonthly credits reset at renewal51usernameGET/v1/profiles/similarScaleanyone, for lawful, professional B2B purposes, not in a sanctioned jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list
InsightSocial, $2 packN/A13N/A93100N/Apay first$0.00neverpage, size not statedfrom the same budget: 301 other callsReturns members LinkedIn groups with a given profile, each with handle, headline, profile URL, and picture.liveno limitYou are responsible for using InsightSocial in compliance with the terms of service of each platform or site you scrape, and with applicable law (including data protection laws such as GDPR and CCPA where they apply to you) [...] You agree not to use the Service to harvest personal data for harassment, stalking, mass unsolicited contact, or any unlawful purpose.$2250 credits5 pagesnever1101url. Optional: dry_runGET/v1/linkedin/profile/similar250 creditsanyone
Lusha, $49.90 monthlyN/A0N/A6897N/Amonthly$49.90Create Subscription: 100 requests per minute · List Subscriptions: 100 requests per minute · Get Subscription by ID: 100 requests per minute · Update Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Delete Subscriptions: 100 requests per minute · Test Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Create Opt-Out Subscription: 100 requests per minute · Get Audit Logs: 100 requests per minute · Get Audit Log Statistics: 100 requests per minute · Get Account Secret: 100 requests per minute · Regenerate Account Secret: 100 requests per minute · from the same budget: Search Contacts · Search Companies · Enrich Contacts · Enrich Companies · Search and Enrich Contacts · Search and Enrich Companies · Prospecting Contacts · Prospecting Companies · Get Contacts Table Entities · Get Companies Table Entities · Add Entities to Companies Table · Run Column on Contacts Table · Run Column on Companies Table · Company Lookalikes · Contact Recommendations · Company Recommendations · Contact Signals · Company Signals · Score Contacts by ICP Fit · Score Companies by ICP Fit · Get Buying Group Contacts · Search Conversations · Get Conversation TranscriptFind contacts similar to a set of seed contacts using AI-powered recommendations.API terms: no limit while the agreement lasts, then "Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason [...] Customer, Users and Data Recipients (as applicable) will irrecoverably delete any and all Data they have received from using the API Service", general terms: "Customer may continue to use the Data after the termination of the Agreement, provided that such termination was not a termination by Lusha pursuant to Sections 15.2, 15.3, 15.3 or 16", deleted when the person asks: "If you receive a notification from an individual requiring that you shall delete individual’s Personal Data obtained by you through the API Service, you shall respect such request and shall: (i) delete such Personal Data from your database and cease Processing it"use and access the Platform and obtain Data only for the Customer’s internal business uses and operations, and only for one or more of the following objectives: B2B sales/marketing to prospective and current customers, recruitment, business intelligence or fraud prevention purposes [...] Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: [...] use the Data for any reason or in any way other than for the Purpose (such as for business-to-consumer (B2C) activities, including but not limited to marketing, advertising, and the direct solicitation of individuals) [...] publish, distribute, share, sell, lease, transfer, or otherwise make the Data available to any third person or entity [...] input, upload, transmit, or otherwise provide the Data (including any derivatives, extracts, or summaries thereof) to any External AI System, where such External AI System may use the Data for training, fine-tuning, model development, or otherwise incorporating the Data into such system’s capabilities or outputs [...] liquidated damages from Customer in the amount equal to $2.00 per Business Contact record that is so disclosed, used, or made available per third party recipient or beneficiary [...] it is not a data broker and is not entering into this Agreement in order to resell, or with the intention of reselling, the Data to third parties [...] must not use such Data for the purposes of cookie tracking, ad exchanges, ad networks, data brokerages, SPAM or any other purpose in violation of any applicable law [...] you agree not to disclose, distribute, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, resell or otherwise transfer any Business Profiles or other information received from or through your use of the API Service [...] You hereby warrant that you will not: [...] Use the API Service in connection with any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, spamming or any other commercial communication [...] You shall not make use of any communication method to send Communications to recipients who have not explicitly consented (opt-in) or subscribed in some way to receive such Communications$49.90400 credits a month1000.67100seeds: linkedinUrls, emails, ids, contactIds, contacts. Optional: dedupeSessionId, exclude, limit, tableIdPOST/v3/contacts/lookalikeStarteranyone 18 or over with a business email
Social Fetch, $14 packN/A0N/A91100N/Apay first$42.00neverpage, size not statedfrom the same budget: 263 other callsList similar LinkedIn people.liveno limitYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law. Use outputs to harass, surveil, discriminate against, or harm individuals or groups. Send spam, manipulate platforms, or engage in deceptive or fraudulent activity. Infringe intellectual property or other rights of third parties. Attempt to access non-public data, bypass rate limits or technical controls, or probe our systems in ways that could harm availability or security. Resell or redistribute the Services in ways that misrepresent their source, or use them to build a substantially similar competing API without our written consent. [...] On any plan you may incorporate Social Fetch data outputs into your own products and services, present them under your own brand without attribution to us, and supply them to your own customers. You may not share or resell API keys or other access credentials, expose the Social Fetch API itself as a like-for-like API, or build a substantially similar competing API. This gives you no right beyond what we hold ourselves in the underlying data: the terms of the source platforms, restrictions that apply to us and applicable law, including data-protection law, still apply, and you remain responsible for how your own customers use what you supply. [...] Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for your internal business purposes or to power your applications for your end users, in each case as intended.$141,000 creditsabout 333 pagesnever2001entityIdGET/v2/linkedin/people/{entityId}/similarStarteranyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it
SocialCrawl, £15 packN/A13N/A88100N/Apay first$0.00page, size not statedfrom the same budget: 674 other callsReturns members LinkedIn groups with a given public profile, as a canonical AuthorList: `username`, `display_name`, `bio` (headline), `url`, `avatar_url`, and `author.ext.urn`. The roster is a single window (`pagination.has_more` is `false`). Pass the same profile URL `/v1/linkedin/profile` takes.liveno limitYou may use the Service for lawful purposes that comply with these Terms, applicable laws, and the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data is retrieved. [...] You must not: Resell raw data: You may not redistribute, resell, or sublicense raw Platform Data retrieved through the Service without adding meaningful transformation, analysis, or value. You must not operate a service that merely proxies or mirrors SocialCrawl responses. Violate platform terms: You must not use the Service in a manner that violates the terms of service of any social media platform from which data is retrieved. Harass or harm: You must not use the Service to stalk, harass, doxx, or otherwise harm any individual. Surveillance and identification of individuals: You must not use the Service or Platform Data to (a) perform facial recognition, biometric identification, or biometric verification of any individual, or build or enrich any facial-recognition or biometric database, (b) conduct surveillance, tracking, or behavioural monitoring of identified or identifiable individuals, including for law-enforcement, intelligence, or employment-vetting purposes, (c) re-identify individuals from aggregated, pseudonymised, or anonymised data, (d) profile individuals based on special categories of personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, or sexual orientation), or (e) compile databases of individuals' personal data for sale or licensing as such. Circumvent restrictions: You must not attempt to bypass any usage limits, access controls, or security measures of the Service. Reverse engineer: You must not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service or its underlying infrastructure. Overload the Service: You must not engage in activity designed to degrade, disrupt, or place an unreasonable burden on the Service or its infrastructure. Illegal activity: You must not use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including but not limited to data protection legislation, intellectual property law, or export control regulations. Automated abuse: You must not use automated systems to create accounts, generate API Keys, or consume Credits in a manner intended to exploit the Service. [...] You are solely responsible for: Ensuring your use of Platform Data complies with all applicable laws, including data protection and privacy legislation (such as the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). Respecting the intellectual property rights of content creators whose data is accessed through the Service. [...] Complying with the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data originates. [...] Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your internal business or personal purposes. You retain ownership of any data, applications, or materials that you create using Platform Data retrieved through the Service, subject to: The intellectual property rights of the original content creators on social media platforms. Any applicable terms of service of the social media platforms from which the data originates. The restrictions set out in Section 7 (Acceptable Use Policy) of these Terms.£152,500 credits500 pagesnever10501urlGET/v1/linkedin/profile/similarStarteranyone 18 or over
Zooq, $20 packN/A0N/A8889N/Apay first$80.00page, size not statedfrom the same budget: other Profile endpoints · Companies endpoints · Search endpoints · Jobs endpoints · Posts endpoints · Comments endpoints · Lookups endpoints · Email endpointsSimilar professional profiles — expand a shortlist from one example.liveno limitComply with all applicable laws (GDPR, CASL, CAN-SPAM, etc.). Don't use Zooq for harassment, scraping protected data, or anything in our AUP. Honor opt-out requests from individuals whose data you process. [...] You agree not to use Zooq to: Harass, stalk, or threaten any individual. Send unsolicited bulk messaging (spam) in violation of CAN-SPAM, CASL, or other anti-spam laws. Build databases of EU residents' personal data without a lawful basis under GDPR. Resell raw LinkedIn data to third parties (you may use it in your own products and analytics). Attempt to circumvent our rate limits, credit accounting, or abuse free trials. Use Zooq to enrich profiles of minors, protected classes for discriminatory purposes, or anyone who has explicitly opted out. Run automated content generation that misleads the recipients about its origin.$202,500 credits250 pagesnever21one of handle or entityIdGET/api/v1/profile/similarBuilderanyone
EnvoAPI, free
gtm-api.com, free
InsightSocial, free
Lusha, free
Social Fetch, free
SocialCrawl, free
Zooq, free

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