Search companies API: 4 providers compared

Overview

Hit: A query that returned at least one matching company. Accuracy: Share of returned companies that matched every filter.

Best value
Apollo
$0.0017 / verified
Highest fill
Apollo
94.0%
Most accurate
Crustdata
93.0%
Fastest
People Data Labs
600 ms p50
Most reliable
People Data Labs
99.6%

Endpoints

Every provider of this capability, ranked by Grid score: reliability, fill, accuracy, speed and cost per verified hit, weighted.

Endpoints under 1,000 calls are marked low sample.
#	Provider	Grid score	Price	Reliability	Fill rate	Accuracy	p50	Freshness	Per verified hit	Reviews	Last verified
Rank 1	Apollo Grid Choice Verified Benchmarked BYOK	81	$0.0015per row	98.2%n=38K	94.0%	86.0%	1.4 s	50 days	$0.0017	Rated 4.1 out of 5(33 reviews)	Sep 26, 13:47 UTC
Rank 2	People Data Labs Verified Benchmarked BYOK	81	$0.004per row	99.6%n=17K	90.0%	91.0%	600 ms	30 days	$0.0044	Rated 4.4 out of 5(16 reviews)	Sep 26, 13:51 UTC
Rank 3	Coresignal Verified Benchmarked BYOK	79	$0.003per row	99.4%n=10.3K	89.0%	92.0%	1.0 s	9 days	$0.0033	Rated 4.4 out of 5(9 reviews)	Sep 26, 13:41 UTC
Rank 4	Crustdata Verified Benchmarked BYOK	75	$0.0035per row	99.0%n=12.4K	92.0%	93.0%	1.3 s	2 days	$0.0038	Rated 4.5 out of 5(14 reviews)	Sep 26, 13:44 UTC

Pricing

List price per call, and what one verified hit costs once misses are counted. Failed calls are free.

Provider	List price	Unit	Per verified hit	Your own key
Apollo	$0.0015	per row	$0.0017	Free, not metered
People Data Labs	$0.004	per row	$0.0044	Free, not metered
Coresignal	$0.003	per row	$0.0033	Free, not metered
Crustdata	$0.0035	per row	$0.0038	Free, not metered

Performance

Fill rate, accuracy, success and gateway latency per provider over the trailing 30 days, with the sample behind each number.

Provider	Fill rate	Accuracy	Success	p50	p95	Samples
Apollo	94.0%	86.0%	98.2%	1.4 s	4.0 s	38K
People Data Labs	90.0%	91.0%	99.6%	600 ms	1.9 s	17K
Coresignal	89.0%	92.0%	99.4%	1.0 s	2.8 s	10.3K
Crustdata	92.0%	93.0%	99.0%	1.3 s	3.5 s	12.4K

Uptime

Share of calls without a vendor-side failure (errors, timeouts, capacity). Caller mistakes and refusals don't count against a vendor. Last 30 days, daily.

Sample dataIllustrative figures from the catalog's quality samples until live traffic is published

Apolloapollo/company.search
Uptime
97.6%
p50 / p95
1.4 s4.0 s
Calls
40.8K
People Data Labspeople-data-labs/company.search
Uptime
98.4%
p50 / p95
600 ms1.9 s
Calls
17.2K
Crustdatacrustdata/company.search
Uptime
98.9%
p50 / p95
1.3 s3.5 s
Calls
8.6K
Coresignalcoresignal/company.search
Uptime
99.0%
p50 / p95
1.0 s2.8 s
Calls
8.2K

Apps

Public apps that identify themselves with X-Grid-App or HTTP-Referer and X-Title, over the last 30 days.

All apps

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Activity

Routed calls per day over the last 30 days.

Calls per day by provider74.8K calls

Apollo
People Data Labs
Crustdata
Coresignal

Calls per day by provider
Day	Apollo	People Data Labs	Crustdata	Coresignal
Aug 28, 2026	1513	577	302	298
Aug 29, 2026	863	370	146	167
Aug 30, 2026	750	330	164	148
Aug 31, 2026	1417	736	321	279
Sep 1, 2026	1785	571	293	327
Sep 2, 2026	1448	626	361	280
Sep 3, 2026	1580	558	330	296
Sep 4, 2026	1593	788	332	345
Sep 5, 2026	713	344	160	175
Sep 6, 2026	777	376	185	180
Sep 7, 2026	1445	706	318	350
Sep 8, 2026	1734	615	334	343
Sep 9, 2026	1802	732	391	322
Sep 10, 2026	1750	732	320	342
Sep 11, 2026	1759	699	310	276
Sep 12, 2026	898	334	162	178
Sep 13, 2026	742	374	202	182
Sep 14, 2026	1757	735	394	324
Sep 15, 2026	1410	714	339	359
Sep 16, 2026	1408	714	380	325
Sep 17, 2026	1470	624	339	304
Sep 18, 2026	1444	715	311	355
Sep 19, 2026	881	363	162	148
Sep 20, 2026	801	377	163	166
Sep 21, 2026	1523	607	397	342
Sep 22, 2026	1707	621	330	363
Sep 23, 2026	1586	613	322	290
Sep 24, 2026	1746	752	353	287
Sep 25, 2026	1638	588	324	331
Sep 26, 2026	870	311	154	143

API

Same input for every provider. Add route=waterfall to fall through on misses, or provider=<slug> to pin one.

Inputs for company.search
Input	Description
industries	Industries to match
employee_range	Headcount band, e.g. 51-200
limit	Rows to return, billed per row

Request

curl https://api.gridrouter.io/v1/call/company.search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRID_KEY" \
  -d '{"industries":"Software","employee_range":"51-200","limit":50,"route":"best_value"}'

Fields

The normalized output every provider maps into. Suppliers come from integrated endpoint mappings (verified) or field names in each vendor's API docs (vendor-claimed).

Every capability's fields

Output fields for Search companies
Field	Type	PII	Description	Supplied by
companies	array<object>	None	Matching companies (company fields)	BR GD NY+4
total	integer	None	Total matches	NY
name	string	None	Company name	AL +14
domain	string · domain	None	Primary website domain	SP
industry	string	None	Industry label	GD NY
employee_count	integer	None	Employee headcount
hq_country	string · country	None	Headquarters country	GD NY

Reviews

No written reviews yet. Reviews open after 100 routed calls on an endpoint.

Questions about this capability

What does a verified search companies result cost?

Apollo is the lowest at $0.0017 per verified result once misses and wrong answers are counted. Its list price is $0.0015 per row.

Which search companies API is the most accurate?

Crustdata, at 93.0% across 12.4K calls in the last 30 days. Accuracy here is the share of returned companies that matched every filter.

Which search companies API is fastest?

People Data Labs answers in 600 ms at the median and 1.9 s at p95.

What counts as a hit for search companies?

A query that returned at least one matching company. Fill rate is the share of calls that produced a hit. Per-hit endpoints bill only hits, and failed calls are never billed.

Can I use my own provider key?

Yes for Apollo, People Data Labs, Coresignal, and Crustdata. Calls on your own key are routed and scored like any other, and never metered.