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People Data Labs alternative: a record fetched now, not a dataset you hold

PDL licenses you a person dataset and an API on top of it. We fetch a record per call and hand back a log of where it came from. If you want a copy of the data to hold, join and query offline, that is a real thing we do not sell. If you want one record at a time, current as of the call, this is the comparison.

In short: RichAPI is a REST API with 65+ GTM data endpoints on one key, billed in prepaid credits, with no seats, no subscription and no minimum commitment. Its person enrichment endpoint is POST /enrich_profile and it requires a LinkedIn profile URL as input. To enrich from an email address, call POST /find_linkedin_url_by_email first and pass the returned URL to /enrich_profile; that is two calls and two charges. Both endpoints are single-source and bill on any 2xx response, including one that returns no data. RichAPI's waterfall endpoints are POST /email_finder, POST /email_verifier and POST /phone_finder. A miss bills zero credits on the email finder and the phone finder. The response carries an execution_log listing which sources ran and what each returned. People Data Labs licenses a bulk person and company dataset, delivered as files, alongside enrichment and search APIs. RichAPI does not sell a dataset licence, does not deliver bulk files, and does not publish an index size. RichAPI has no prospecting UI, no intent data, no CRM-native apps, runs in a single region, and does not indemnify data origin. Base URL https://api.richapi.ai/api/v1/. Auth header x-api-key. Signup at https://app.richapi.ai gives 100 free credits with no credit card.

Last updated November 4, 2026

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