# Data API prices in 2026

What a data API call costs in 2026, counted over the 4,144 endpoints of the looot public catalog: the median and lowest price per 1,000 calls and per 1,000 results by category, and how endpoints are billed.

## Findings

Read on 2026-11-09 from the looot public catalog.

- On 2026-11-09, 2,237 of the 4,144 endpoints in the looot public catalog (54%) had a price above $0, and 1,907 (46%) were listed at $0, which means free or run on your own provider key. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#priced-endpoints)
- Of the 2,237 priced endpoints, 2,057 (92%) are billed per call and 180 (8%) per result, such as per row or per profile returned. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#billing-basis)
- Across the 2,057 endpoints billed per call, the median price is $2.00 per 1,000 calls, and the lowest in a category with at least 20 of them is $0.10 per 1,000 calls. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#per-call-median)
- 82 of the 2,057 per-call endpoints (4%) cost under $1 per 1,000 calls. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#under-one-dollar)
- Of the 9 categories with at least 20 per-call endpoints, Finance has the lowest median price, $0.90 per 1,000 calls across 33 endpoints. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#cheapest-category)
- People has the highest median per-call price of those 9 categories, $50.00 per 1,000 calls across 37 endpoints. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#dearest-category)
- In Social, the largest per-call category with 1,252 endpoints, the median price of $1.88 per 1,000 calls is lower than the $4.00 median of Search (205 endpoints). (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#largest-categories-compared)
- The 180 endpoints billed per result have a median price of $10.00 per 1,000 results, and the lowest in a category with at least 20 of them is $0.25 per 1,000 results. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026#per-result-median)

## Price per 1,000 calls, by category

Endpoints priced above $0 and billed per call, in categories with at least 20 of them. Free endpoints are not in these rows.

| Category | Endpoints | Lowest | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social | 1,252 | $1.00 per 1,000 calls | $1.88 per 1,000 calls |
| Search | 205 | $0.10 per 1,000 calls | $4.00 per 1,000 calls |
| SEO | 179 | $0.13 per 1,000 calls | $2.00 per 1,000 calls |
| Company | 93 | $1.90 per 1,000 calls | $12.50 per 1,000 calls |
| Contact data | 71 | $1.45 per 1,000 calls | $32.66 per 1,000 calls |
| Web data | 58 | $0.20 per 1,000 calls | $2.00 per 1,000 calls |
| People | 37 | $5.00 per 1,000 calls | $50.00 per 1,000 calls |
| Finance | 33 | $0.90 per 1,000 calls | $0.90 per 1,000 calls |
| Contacts | 29 | $1.90 per 1,000 calls | $8.90 per 1,000 calls |

## Price per 1,000 results, by category

Endpoints priced above $0 and billed per result, in categories with at least 20 of them. Free endpoints are not in these rows.

| Category | Endpoints | Lowest | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact data | 48 | $1.20 per 1,000 results | $20.00 per 1,000 results |
| Company | 35 | $0.25 per 1,000 results | $10.00 per 1,000 results |

## Per-call price bands

All 2,057 endpoints billed per call, by price per 1,000 calls. Each endpoint sits in exactly one band.

| Band | Endpoints | Share |
|---|---|---|
| under $1 per 1,000 calls | 82 | 4% |
| $1 to under $5 per 1,000 calls | 1,229 | 60% |
| $5 to under $20 per 1,000 calls | 419 | 20% |
| $20 or more per 1,000 calls | 327 | 16% |

## Billing basis, by category

Every endpoint with a known price, in categories with at least 20 endpoints. "At $0" is free or run on your own key, counted and never priced.

| Category | Endpoints | Per call | Per result | At $0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social | 1,290 | 1,252 (97%) | 3 (0%) | 35 (3%) |
| Company | 412 | 93 (23%) | 35 (8%) | 284 (69%) |
| SEO | 285 | 179 (63%) | 0 (0%) | 106 (37%) |
| Markets | 226 | 2 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 224 (99%) |
| Search | 220 | 205 (93%) | 5 (2%) | 10 (5%) |
| People | 210 | 37 (18%) | 5 (2%) | 168 (80%) |
| Contact data | 144 | 71 (49%) | 48 (33%) | 25 (18%) |
| SEO AEO | 114 | 6 (5%) | 0 (0%) | 108 (95%) |
| Web data | 114 | 58 (51%) | 12 (10%) | 44 (39%) |
| Research | 101 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 101 (100%) |
| Enrichment | 94 | 12 (13%) | 9 (9%) | 73 (78%) |
| Market research | 94 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 94 (100%) |
| Outreach | 85 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 85 (100%) |
| Geo | 70 | 14 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 56 (80%) |
| AI models | 59 | 0 (0%) | 10 (17%) | 49 (83%) |
| CRM | 59 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 59 (100%) |
| Finance | 55 | 33 (60%) | 0 (0%) | 22 (40%) |
| Analytics | 53 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 53 (100%) |
| Contacts | 51 | 29 (57%) | 15 (29%) | 7 (14%) |
| Travel | 47 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 47 (100%) |
| Productivity | 41 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 41 (100%) |
| Ecommerce | 39 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 39 (100%) |
| Security | 38 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 38 (100%) |
| LinkedIn data | 31 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 31 (100%) |
| Scrape | 23 | 10 (43%) | 13 (57%) | 0 (0%) |
| Weather | 23 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 23 (100%) |

## Methodology

Source: the public looot catalog, GET https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog (one record per endpoint, with its price and unit) and GET https://api.looot.ai/v1/catalog/overview?depth=full (jobs, platforms and provider counts), catalog revision 118269, read 2026-11-09 23:00 UTC. No run data and no customer data is used.

Prices as listed by looot from each provider's pricing page, read on 2026-11-09. A price is what one run through looot charges for one call or one result.

Exclusions: an endpoint listed at $0 is free or runs on your own provider key, so it is counted on its own line and never averaged in as a price of $0. Per-call and per-result prices are never mixed in one number. A category with fewer than 20 endpoints is left out of the tables and comparisons, because a median of a handful of rows moves with one provider.

Category is the first category of each public record. Two medians within 10% of the larger one are called about the same.

Rounding: shares are whole percents, rounded so that each breakdown adds up to exactly 100%. Prices per 1,000 are shown in dollars and cents from $0.10 up, and with more digits below that.

Refresh: the page rereads the catalog at most once an hour. Its date is the day of the catalog revision it was built from, so the date moves only when the catalog does.

## What these numbers do not say

- How often a call succeeds, how fast it answers, or how good the data is. A count of endpoints is not a quality score.
- Prices outside the looot catalog, or discounts a provider gives on a contract.
- How much anyone uses an endpoint. No run data and no customer data is counted.

## Use looot to run the cheapest provider

Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md, then search the looot catalog for the job I need, show me the price per call of each provider before you run anything, and run the cheapest one.

## How to cite

looot, "Data API prices 2026: 2,237 priced endpoints", https://looot.ai/research/data-api-prices-2026, read November 2026.

## Questions

### How much does a data API call cost?

Across the 2,057 endpoints billed per call, the median price is $2.00 per 1,000 calls, and the lowest in a category with at least 20 of them is $0.10 per 1,000 calls. 82 of the 2,057 per-call endpoints (4%) cost under $1 per 1,000 calls.

### Are data APIs priced per call or per result?

Of the 2,237 priced endpoints, 2,057 (92%) are billed per call and 180 (8%) per result, such as per row or per profile returned. The 180 endpoints billed per result have a median price of $10.00 per 1,000 results, and the lowest in a category with at least 20 of them is $0.25 per 1,000 results.

### Which kind of data API is cheapest per call?

Of the 9 categories with at least 20 per-call endpoints, Finance has the lowest median price, $0.90 per 1,000 calls across 33 endpoints. People has the highest median per-call price of those 9 categories, $50.00 per 1,000 calls across 37 endpoints.

### How many data API endpoints are free?

On 2026-11-09, 2,237 of the 4,144 endpoints in the looot public catalog (54%) had a price above $0, and 1,907 (46%) were listed at $0, which means free or run on your own provider key.