# Best company database API: ranked by live price The best company database API is the one whose filters match how you describe your market: industry and headcount, technologies, a plain-language prompt or lookalikes of your customers. This page ranks the looot catalog providers by live price per company returned, so a list of 1,000 accounts costs what the ranking shows. ## Live prices Prices read on 2026-11-04 from the live looot catalog. They change when a provider changes its price. Cheapest today for companies that match industry, size, location or tech filters: Anysite at $0.00036 per company. | Rank | Provider | Price per company | Per 1,000 companys | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | Anysite (anysite) | $0.00036 per company | $0.36 | | 2 | Icypeas (icypeas) | $0.00038 per company | $0.38 | | 3 | AI Ark (ai-ark) | $0.0012 per company | $1.20 | | 4 | Dropleads (dropleads) | $0.00145 per company | $1.45 | | 5 | The Companies API (thecompaniesapi) | $0.0019 per company | $1.90 | | 6 | Limadata (limadata) | $0.0020 per company | $2.00 | | 7 | Lusha (lusha) | $0.0050 per company | $5.00 | | 8 | CompanyEnrich (companyenrich) | $0.0098 per company | $9.80 | | 9 | TheirStack (theirstack) | $0.0981 per company | $98.10 | | 10 | People Data Labs (people-data-labs) | $0.2800 per company | $280.00 | ## Providers - anysite: Searches LinkedIn company pages by keywords, industry, location and employee count. It needs at least a keyword and returns LinkedIn results, not a full firmographic record. Also: LinkedIn company profile, Employee count, People search. - icypeas: Filters by name, LinkedIn id, industry, headcount and revenue, with pages of up to 200. Returns address, description, employee growth and revenue range, and a count endpoint sizes a query before you pay for it. Also: Result count, People search, Email finder. - ai-ark: Filters company profiles for account lists and runs a lookalike search from up to five domains or LinkedIn company URLs. Each result carries an id its people search takes, so the next step matches the exact company. Also: People search, Email finder, Phone finder. - dropleads: Searches companies by filters and charges for each company on the returned page. The catalog description is short, so read the endpoint's inputs before a large pull. Also: Result count, People search, Email verifier. - thecompaniesapi: Finds companies from a plain-language prompt or a segmentation query, with sort fields and a similarity setting. Results depend on how you word the prompt, so check the first page. Also: Similar companies, Company enrichment, Email pattern. - limadata: Takes a plain-English prompt, structured include and exclude filters, or a filter expression. The default page is ten records, and a call has a minimum charge even when it returns few. Also: Company enrichment, People search, Web search. - lusha: Filters by domain, size, revenue, industry, technologies, location and SIC or NAICS codes. Pages hold ten to a hundred companies, and contacts at them are a separate search. Also: People search, Phone finder, Company enrichment. - companyenrich: Filters by name, domain, industry, employees, revenue and founded year, up to a hundred companies per request, with a scroll endpoint for deep lists. An empty search still has a minimum charge. Also: Lookalike companies, Result count, Company enrichment. - theirstack: Filters by firmographics, funding, technology stack and hiring signals, and returns the jobs and technologies that matched. Pages hold up to 25 companies. Also: Technographics, Job postings search, Buying intent. - people-data-labs: Takes a SQL WHERE clause or an Elasticsearch query, not free text, and returns full company records. Powerful for exact segments, but you write the query. Also: Company enrichment, Company name cleaner, People search. ## How we rank Every provider here has a company search endpoint in the looot catalog, billed per company returned. We rank by the price per company of that endpoint, read live from the catalog. A cheaper company ranks higher. Search endpoints billed per call are left out, because a call can return one company or a hundred, so the units do not compare. Search endpoints with no looot price are left out, because a zero price says nothing about the data. The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints, so this page does not rank by one and quotes none. Providers outside the looot catalog are not ranked. ## Cheapest company database API per 1,000 companies On 2026-11-04 the cheapest company database API in the looot catalog is Anysite at $0.36 per 1,000 companies ($0.00036 per company), then Icypeas at $0.38 and AI Ark at $1.20. The dearest, People Data Labs, costs $280.00 per 1,000 companies. The ranking shows each provider's live price per company and per 1,000 companies. That is the cost of a target account list of that size, before any contact lookup. Some endpoints charge a minimum per call even when the page is short. Ask for full pages when you compare. Build a company list, step by step: /use-cases/company-list-builder ## Company search API or company data by domain A company search API answers "which companies match". You send filters and get a list back. Company enrichment answers "tell me about this company". You send one domain and get one record. If you already have the domains, the B2B data API list ranks company enrichment by price per call. Best B2B data API, for enrichment by domain: /best/b2b-data-api ## Every company data job in one place Search, enrichment, technographics, funding and news are separate jobs with separate endpoints. The company data hub groups them by job, with live prices. Company data API for AI agents: /platforms/company-data ## Choosing one - Companies by tech stack or hiring signals: theirstack - Describe the market in plain language: thecompaniesapi - Lookalikes of your best customers: ai-ark - Count the matches before you pay for the list: icypeas - An exact segment written as a SQL query: people-data-labs ## Prompt Use looot to build a list of 200 B2B software companies in Germany with 50 to 500 employees: use the cheapest company search endpoint billed per company, return name, domain, industry, headcount and city in a table, and tell me the cost before you fetch more than the first page. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost. ## What is the best company database API? The one whose filters match how you describe your market. This page ranks the looot catalog providers by live price per company returned. Pick TheirStack for tech and hiring filters, AI Ark for lookalikes, or the cheapest for a plain industry and size list. ## What is the cheapest company database API? The first row of the ranking above, read live from the catalog. Prices can change, so the page reads them on each refresh and shows no number when the catalog is unreachable. ## What is a company search API? An endpoint that takes filters such as industry, headcount, location, revenue or technologies and returns the companies that match, usually with name, domain and size. It is how agents build a target account list. ## How is this different from a B2B data API? A B2B data API in our other list enriches one company you already know, from its domain. A company database API finds companies you do not know yet, from filters. Most lead lists use search first, then enrichment. ## Is there a free company database API? This page ranks priced endpoints. A few company search endpoints in the catalog carry no looot price, and they are not ranked here because a zero price says nothing about the data. ## What are the best ZoomInfo alternatives for company search? ZoomInfo is not in the looot catalog, so this page does not rank it. The providers above return company lists from filters, and your agent can call any of them with one key. ## Can I search companies by the technology they use? Yes. TheirStack filters by technology stack and hiring signals, and Lusha takes technologies as a filter. For the tech stack of companies you already have, use a technographics endpoint instead. ## Can I find companies similar to my customers? Yes. AI Ark runs a lookalike search from a few domains or LinkedIn company URLs. CompanyEnrich and TheCompaniesAPI also have lookalike or similar-company endpoints, shown as extras. ## How do I get contacts at the companies I found? Run a people search on the companies, then an email finder on the people. AI Ark returns a company id its people search takes, so the match is exact. ## How does an agent call a company database API? Paste the prompt on this page into your agent. It sets up looot, finds the company search endpoints, checks the price per company and runs the cheapest one that takes your filters. ## Can I get new companies that match my filters every week? Re-running the same search by hand and keeping the new rows works today. Doing it on a timer needs scheduled runs, not available yet. ## Why does this page not show success rates? The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints. A search either matches companies or not, so run one page with your filters and check the rows. ## Related pages - /best/b2b-data-api - /best/data-enrichment-api - /best/lead-finder - /best/email-verification-api - /best/linkedin-api - /best/serp-api - /best/rank-tracker-api - /best/news-api - /best/tiktok-api - /best/reddit-api - /best/web-scraping-api - /best/web-search-api - /best/google-maps-scraper-api - /use-cases/company-list-builder - /use-cases/enrich-a-company - /recipes/enrich-a-company-list - /recipes/ceo-emails-for-fintechs - /gtm ## Last reviewed 2026-11-03. The ranking by price per company is read live from the catalog on the web page. ## Agent skill for this page https://looot.ai/best/company-database-api/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below. ## For agents ### Give this to your agent ```text set up looot for Best company database API - https://looot.ai/best/company-database-api/skill.md ```