# Data API providers per job in 2026

How many providers sell each data job in 2026, counted over the 3,361 jobs, 432 platforms and 310 providers of the looot public catalog.

## Findings

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

- On 2026-11-09, 3,155 of the 3,361 jobs in the looot catalog (94%) were served by exactly one provider, 108 (3%) by two and 98 (3%) by three or more. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#one-provider-jobs)
- The 98 jobs with three or more providers hold 609 of the 4,144 endpoints (15%). (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#three-provider-endpoints)
- 2,479 of the 4,144 endpoints (60%) run without a provider key of your own, because they need no key or looot holds one. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#runnable-endpoints)
- Douyin has the most endpoints of the 432 platforms: 300 of 4,144 (7%), across 299 jobs. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#top-platform)
- The job with the most providers is "Find companies matching a filter" (Company data): 24 of the 310 providers in the catalog (8%) offer it. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#most-providers-job)
- In Social data, 902 of 946 jobs (95%) have one provider, more than in Enrichment, where 252 of 288 (87%) do. (https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026#categories-compared)

## Jobs by number of providers, per category

Categories with at least 20 jobs. A job is one task on one platform, such as finding a work email.

| Category | Jobs | Endpoints | Run without your key | 1 provider | 2 providers | 3 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 1,268 | 1,436 | 197 (14%) | 96% | 2% | 2% |
| Social data | 946 | 1,064 | 1,041 (98%) | 95% | 4% | 1% |
| Enrichment | 288 | 527 | 446 (85%) | 87% | 5% | 8% |
| Search & SERP | 283 | 327 | 236 (72%) | 96% | 2% | 2% |
| Ads intelligence | 193 | 217 | 215 (99%) | 94% | 5% | 1% |
| Market data | 99 | 115 | 65 (57%) | 93% | 6% | 1% |
| Connected apps | 83 | 121 | 0 (0%) | 76% | 12% | 12% |
| Maps & local | 49 | 80 | 52 (65%) | 92% | 0% | 8% |
| Scrapers | 30 | 65 | 56 (86%) | 70% | 7% | 23% |
| E-commerce | 28 | 40 | 40 (100%) | 96% | 4% | 0% |
| Reviews & apps | 21 | 25 | 23 (92%) | 95% | 0% | 5% |
| Generative AI | 20 | 48 | 33 (69%) | 80% | 0% | 20% |

## The platforms with the most endpoints

Up to 15 platforms with at least 20 endpoints. "At least" marks a platform split over several categories, where the count is the largest one.

| Platform | Endpoints | Jobs | Run without your key | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douyin | 300 | 299 | 300 | at least 2 |
| Search engines | 234 | 180 | 185 | at least 20 |
| People & contact data | 188 | 61 | 179 | 36 |
| Api | 186 | 174 | 25 | at least 32 |
| TikTok | 166 | 121 | 166 | at least 6 |
| Company data | 139 | 61 | 116 | 42 |
| Instagram | 119 | 91 | 119 | 4 |
| Markets | 114 | 83 | 0 | 12 |
| Web data | 109 | 50 | 103 | at least 19 |
| Bilibili | 86 | 86 | 86 | at least 1 |
| Businesses | 64 | 43 | 0 | 2 |
| Search engine results | 60 | 54 | 60 | at least 1 |
| Xiaohongshu | 60 | 55 | 60 | at least 2 |
| Email outreach | 59 | 27 | 0 | 9 |
| YouTube | 58 | 48 | 54 | at least 7 |

## The jobs with the most providers

The 10 jobs the most providers offer, where an agent has the widest choice and a fallback.

| Job | Platform | Providers | Endpoints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find companies matching a filter | Company data | 24 | 30 |
| Enrich a company from its domain or name | Company data | 21 | 26 |
| Find people matching a filter | People & contact data | 20 | 30 |
| Find a work email from a name and domain | People & contact data | 17 | 21 |
| Search the web and get ranked results | Search engines | 16 | 17 |
| Enrich a person from a name and company | People & contact data | 13 | 20 |
| Verify an email address is deliverable | People & contact data | 13 | 15 |
| Find a phone number for a person | People & contact data | 11 | 12 |
| Scrape a web page into markdown | Web data | 10 | 11 |
| Completions llm chat | Llm | 10 | 10 |

## 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.

A job is one task on one platform (for example finding a work email); an endpoint is one provider's operation for a job. A provider counts once per job however many endpoints it has for it.

Exclusions: a category or platform with fewer than 20 jobs or endpoints is left out of the tables, and the category comparison leaves out "Other", which holds what the taxonomy places nowhere. Two shares within 3 percentage points are called about the same.

"Run without your key" means the endpoint needs no key or looot holds a platform key for it, as GET /v1/catalog/overview reports it. It says nothing about how often a call succeeds.

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 providers 2026: 3,361 jobs compared", https://looot.ai/research/data-api-providers-2026, read November 2026.

## Questions

### How many providers offer each data API job?

On 2026-11-09, 3,155 of the 3,361 jobs in the looot catalog (94%) were served by exactly one provider, 108 (3%) by two and 98 (3%) by three or more. The 98 jobs with three or more providers hold 609 of the 4,144 endpoints (15%).

### Which platform has the most data API endpoints?

Douyin has the most endpoints of the 432 platforms: 300 of 4,144 (7%), across 299 jobs.

### Which data API job has the most providers?

The job with the most providers is "Find companies matching a filter" (Company data): 24 of the 310 providers in the catalog (8%) offer it.

### How many data API endpoints run without your own key?

2,479 of the 4,144 endpoints (60%) run without a provider key of your own, because they need no key or looot holds one.