People search API: find people by job title, company or location

What 100 of these actually costs

Subscription figures are provider list prices recorded in trio.town’s own catalog grid; per-call prices are what trio.town charges today, with $0.000 added.

What’s the best way to ask ChatGPT?

set up trio — https://trio.town/llms.txt

Using trio, find 25 heads of growth at US SaaS companies with 50 to 200 employees. Show me the price first, keep the result set small, and give me name, title, company and LinkedIn URL.

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Why this prompt works

Why go through trio.town

What ChatGPT sees before it calls

trio.town does not choose for you. It hands ChatGPT this comparison, with the price shown before any call, and ChatGPT picks. Or you tell it how: "cheapest", "most reliable", "the one that takes what I have", or a provider by name.

Which is cheapest?

Those units are not interchangeable: one call can return many results, so compare on the unit you will actually be billed in.

How do they compare?

LinkedIn

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
Just One API	$0.0295 per found	name, firstName, lastName, title, company, school	not yet measured	unverified

People & contact data

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
Icypeas	$0.00038 per result	query, pagination	not yet measured	2026-08-20
LeadMagic	$0.00125 per result	job_title, company_domain, company_name, limit, company_filters, titles	not yet measured	2026-07-28
Hunter	$0.00245 per result	companies, type, limit, per_domain, domain, company	not yet measured	2026-07-31
▚Aviato	$0.0025 per found	dsl, page, perPage, enrich, fullName, headline	not yet measured	2026-08-25
Lusha	$0.00499 per result	pages, filters	not yet measured	2026-07-28
▚Crustdata	$0.009 per result	filters, fields, sorts, limit, cursor	not yet measured	2026-08-25
CompanyEnrich	$0.0196 per result	expand, page, pageSize, domains, positionQuery, seniority	not yet measured	2026-08-20
Findymail	$0.0198 per result	website, job_titles, count	not yet measured	unverified
Fiber AI	$0.02 per result	searchParams, currentCompanies, pageSize, cursor	not yet measured	unverified
▚Diffbot	$0.0299 per result	query, type, size, from, format, jsonmode	not yet measured	2026-07-28
▚People Data Labs	$0.38 per result	sql, query, size, scroll_token, dataset, titlecase	not yet measured	2026-07-31
Apollo.io	free, your own account	person_titles[], person_seniorities[], person_locations[], organization_locations[], q_organization_domains_list[], organization_num_employees_ranges[]	not yet measured	unverified
▚Coresignal	free, your own account	query	not yet measured	unverified
Crunchbase	no dollar rate published	field_ids, query, order, limit, after_id	not yet measured	unverified
LeadsForge	free, your own account	cursor, companyDomains, companyNames, companyIndustries, companyTypes, companyFundingRounds	not yet measured	2026-08-20
Ocean.io	no dollar rate published	size, peopleFilters, companiesFilters, peoplePerCompany, jobTitleThreshold, searchAfter	not yet measured	2026-08-20

Run one

trio call aviato.people.search --data '{"dsl":{"filters":[{"country":{"operation":"eq","value":"United States"}},{"headline":{"operation":"fts","value":"software engineer"}}],"limit":1,"offset":0}}'

Swap the id for any provider above. All 23 endpoints behind this job, with their parameters and captured responses, are on the LinkedIn, People & contact data shelf.

How these numbers are made

What people actually struggle with

The complaints here are less about accuracy than about access: the search that does not exist, the bill that scales with rows, and the seat licence. From ~180 Reddit and X posts in August 2026, vendor rings excluded.

The primitive people actually want

“I need an open search option where I can find people across companies by job title (e.g., 'CTO' or 'Product Manager') and other filters.” Reddit

What this page can do about it: That is this job. The comparison below marks which providers support unbounded search by title and location, and which can only list people at a company you already named.

Seat pricing locks small teams out

“zoominfo has the best mobile numbers by far, but at like 15k/seat minimum they're pricing out anyone who isn't enterprise” r/CRM

What this page can do about it: There are no seats here and no minimum. Calls are metered per row or per call from a shared team balance that starts with $1.00 free, so a hundred-row test costs cents.

Doing it yourself gets the account banned

“scraping twitter directly got my accounts banned pretty fast. linkedin is even worse, flags you almost immediately.” r/openclaw, 72 points

What this page can do about it: The providers here run their own infrastructure, so your accounts are not in the loop. That is an operational answer, not a legal one: check each provider's terms for your use, because trio.town relays their answer and makes nothing lawful that was not.

Coverage outside the US and outside tech is a guess

“I've heard of ZoomInfo, Apollo, LeadSquared, IndiaMART but no idea about quality for Indian market specifically.” r/b2bmarketing

What this page can do about it: No comparison table can answer this, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. Per-row pricing makes the real test cheap: run the same 100-row query of your actual market through three providers and keep the one that holds up.

What actually differs

Search and reveal are priced separately almost everywhere.

Apollo's people search is free precisely because it returns no emails or phone numbers, Hunter's multi-domain search is free until you unlock an address, and Lusha's search returns masked previews. Budget for the reveal, not the search.

Per-row billing is where the money goes.

People Data Labs charges one credit for every record in the response, so a size=1000 call is a thousand credits; Icypeas charges 0.02 credits a row. Both are legitimate, but only one survives an agent that forgets to set a limit. Cap the result set in the prompt.

The join key decides whether the results are right.

LeadMagic and CompanyEnrich want a company domain; a bare company name is ambiguous and quietly returns people from the wrong company. Give the domain wherever you have it.

What is a people search API?

It queries a provider's index of working professionals by attributes rather than by name: job title, seniority, department, company, headcount, industry, location. It answers “who are the people like this”, where an enrichment API answers “who is this person”. Most of these return the person without contact details, which you then resolve separately.

Before you start

Do these return email addresses?

Usually not, and that is why the search is cheap or free. You get the person and then resolve the address with a separate call, which is a separate price.

How do I stop a search costing more than I expect?

Set a limit. Providers that bill per row charge for every record they return, so a thousand-row response is a thousand charges. Ask the agent for a small result set first.

Can I search across all companies, or only within one?

Both exist here, and they are different products. The comparison marks which providers support open search by title and location and which need a company first.

What is the cheapest way to build a list?

Search on a free or per-row-cheap provider, filter down to the people you actually want, then spend on contact details only for those. The two-step flow is why search and reveal are priced separately.

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