Head to head · Lead search · October 2026 research run

Dievio vs People Data Labs

People Data Labs scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Dievio's 43 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dievio leads on security & auth. Both do lead search.

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Which one, for what

Dievio E

Best for Agents building small prospect lists by title, seniority, department, location, company size and industry at a low published price per lead, previewing the count for free first, and handing the user a CSV, JSON or JSONL file from a shared list without opening the dashboard.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 56 against 43

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page, incident history or SLA; the terms say uptime is not guaranteed and the service may change at any time

People Data Labs B

Best for Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 28
  • Schema & documentation, 70 against 50
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 63
  • Maintenance & community, 79 against 28
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 27

Watch for

No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Maintenance & community People Data Labs +51

Dievio 28

Closed service with no changelog, release notes or version numbers. The latest dated changes on the vendor's pages are the terms and privacy policy of 31 October 2026, which describe the agent integration, token lifetimes and export expiry, and blog posts of 21 and 30 October 2026 on API billing; the MCP server, absent from the February and May 2026 archived copies, carries no date, and the API landing pages say content reviewed May 2026 (20 of 30). No release record, so no three dated entries in 90 days; 84 dated blog posts from 29 March to 30 October 2026 are articles, not releases (0). Support is one address, support@dievio.com, with email support on Starter and priority support on Growth; no public changelog, community channel, forum or issue tracker, and the Fazier launch page's comments are from other makers (3 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry and no official SDKs (0). No packages to judge (5 of 10). 20+0+3+0+5 = 28.

People Data Labs 79

The latest release notes are dated 15 September 2026 and the JavaScript SDK 14.6.0 followed on 16 September (30). Release notes on 21 July, 18 August and 15 September, plus three JavaScript SDK releases in the same 90 days (20). Public release notes, a Canny board for bugs and feature requests and a support address. We did not test support (11 of 15). Five official SDKs. JavaScript is current, while the Python package on PyPI is 6.4.13 from 12 January 2026 and the repository's April job posting commit is not published (11 of 15). Both SDK repositories have test and publish workflows and dependency updates (7 of 10).

Reliability People Data Labs +50

Dievio 28

Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server it shares a database with. No public status page was found. None is linked from the docs or the footer, https://dievio.com/status answers 404 and status.dievio.com does not resolve (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). No rate limit is published for the REST API or the MCP tools. The only numbers are the export cap of 10 download starts a minute per connection and 100,000 contacts a file, the OAuth timers and input bounds such as 500 LinkedIn URLs a call, and the privacy policy mentions hashed rate-limit keys without a figure (5 of 15). No 429 or Retry-After is documented, and the REST errors are 401, 402, 500 and 502 with no retry guidance; every MCP mutation takes a request_id UUID replayed when retried with identical arguments, the workflows page says never to repeat a paid lookup with a new ID and to reconcile against the job list first, and a low balance returns fewer rows rather than failing, while a retried REST search has no idempotency key and is charged again (8 of 15). No SLA. The terms (last updated 31 October 2026) say uptime is not guaranteed and the service may change at any time (0). The REST API and the 30-tool MCP server carry no beta label, though the search response documents search_id as currently null and counting as currently false, and the server is unversioned (10). 0+5+5+8+0+10 = 28.

People Data Labs 78

Statuspage at status.peopledatalabs.com with a component for each API and the sandbox, and history back to 2021 (20). Two incidents in the 90 days to 8 October 2026, both minor. Requests carrying a location failed for about 10 minutes during the 15 September release, and IP enrichment was slow or timing out on 9 August, duration not given (25 of 30). Rate limits are published with numbers, 100 a minute free and 1,000 paid on person enrichment, 10 a minute on person search, five on the sandbox (15). A 429 body and the x-ratelimit-reset header are documented with a fixed-window explanation, and no back-off or retry guidance was found (8 of 15). No SLA was found in the agreement or on the pricing page (0). The v5 endpoints are generally available (10).

Transparency & trust People Data Labs +41

Dievio 27

Closed service. The terms (last updated 31 October 2026) cover use, credits, connected agents, a 30-day refund and availability in about 300 words but name no legal entity, address, governing law or jurisdiction, so the contracting party is unknown (8 of 30). The privacy policy (31 October 2026) lists the categories processed, the purposes, recipients by category, the agent connection data, and the access periods (authorization requests 10 minutes, codes 5, access tokens an hour, refresh 30 days, export links 15 minutes), says lead search uses Dievio's own contact database without saying where records are collected from, lets people in the database ask for access, correction, deletion or suppression by email, keeps records for as long as needed with no periods, and agrees with the terms and the docs on credits, revocation and link expiry; no DPA was found (14 of 30). No deprecation policy or notices; the terms allow the service to change at any time, and plan allowances and API prices changed between the 20 May and 31 October 2026 copies of the pricing pages with no dated notice (0 of 20). Service providers are named by category only (hosting, databases, authentication, contact processing, analytics, email delivery, payments), with no names, locations or transfer basis (4 of 20). 8+14+0+4 = 26.

People Data Labs 68

Closed service under a published Services Subscription Agreement and Acceptable Data Use Policy that name People Data Labs, Inc. (15 of 30). The privacy policy, a GDPR Article 14 notice and a DPA are published. The DPA commits to deleting customer personal data within 90 days of termination and to breach notice within 72 hours, and describes blind logging of API inputs. Retention in the privacy policy is described by criteria with no periods, and the text we read carried no effective date (20 of 30). The agreement says data and services may be modified without prior notice. Release notes flag parameters that will lose support, such as from on search, with no dates or policy (6 of 20). The DPA names Amazon Web Services and points to the trust centre for other sub-processors, which our reader could not load. The security page places hosting in Oregon and Northern California (12 of 20).

Schema & documentation People Data Labs +20

Dievio 50

API reading, with the MCP server described. No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract for the REST API; the MCP tool reference says clients discover exact input schemas through tools/list, that unknown fields and unlisted arguments are rejected, and the server publishes a dievio://schema/search-filters JSON resource, but no session was opened to read them (10 of 25). llms.txt and llms-full.txt on docs.dievio.com, generated on each build, plus llms.txt, pricing.md and product.md on dievio.com (10). The MCP reference says what each tool does, which tools are free, which scope each needs, when to prefer export_list_file over export_list and how to retry; the REST pages say what each endpoint returns and little about when to use search against lookup, and the MCP page says a preview does not unlock contacts and a count is not a guaranteed result (12 of 20). Filters are typed as strings, string arrays, booleans and integers with enumerations listed for seniority, department, employee size, business model, salary and email_status, bounds on page, limit, max_results and array length, and UUID ids; industries and locations are examples only, the funding dates are a year over REST and an ISO date over MCP, and the contact object for add_leads_to_list carries a free JSON lead_data field (10 of 15). curl examples with example responses for both REST endpoints, a pagination loop and six MCP worked prompts; errors are four status codes with one line each and no documented body, and the MCP error shape is not shown (8 of 15). No version in the path (/api/public), no changelog or release notes on either host, and plan allowances and API prices changed between the May and October 2026 copies of the pricing pages with no dated notice (0 of 15). 10+10+12+10+8+0 = 50.

People Data Labs 70

No OpenAPI file was found at the docs root or in the docs index. A public Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings for each dataset stand in (8 of 25). llms.txt on the docs site and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Each API has overview, reference, input, output, examples and FAQ pages that state purpose and billing (15 of 20). Enrichment inputs are typed with canonical value lists, while search takes an Elasticsearch 7.7 query or an SQL string, both free-form (9 of 15). Examples in five languages and a six-row error table with sample bodies (13 of 15). A v5 path, numbered dataset versions and monthly release notes back to 2019 (15).

Agent ergonomics People Data Labs +14

Dievio 63

API reading. REST responses are sized with _per_page (default 25), max_results, include_emails, include_phones, _include_raw to drop the raw object and email_status; the MCP server lists 30 tools with no toolsets or read-only subset, previews mask contact fields and limit runs 1 to 500 (18 of 25). Page-based pagination with has_more and next_page over REST, offset and limit with next_offset over MCP, 20 filters, max_results caps and column selection on exports (20). Errors are 401, 402, 500 and 502 as status codes with one-line meanings and no error body, and a balance below the page size returns fewer rows with success true, which an agent must detect from count; MCP job errors are read from get_search_job (8 of 20). request_id on every MCP mutation with replay semantics, asynchronous searches polled by job id, save_search_results deduplicated by list, job and position, and only queued jobs cancellable; the REST search has no idempotency key and a repeat is charged, and readOnlyHint and destructiveHint are not documented (10 of 20). Every filter is optional with defaults for page size and max_results, and the MCP tools need only filters and a request_id; no official SDK or CLI, only a third-party MIT OpenClaw skill and an n8n template on GitHub (7 of 15). 18+20+8+10+7 = 63.

People Data Labs 77

data_include selects or excludes fields, size caps records at 1 to 100, gzip is supported and a 1 MB response limit is documented (20 of 25). Search pages with scroll_token and filters on any mapped field, with dataset to narrow the source (18 of 20). Errors carry a status, a type and a short message across six documented codes, with 404 meaning no match (13 of 20). The API is read-only and charges only on a 200, so a repeat is safe, though no retry guidance or idempotency key was found (12 of 20). Enrichment needs one identifier, defaults are sensible, and SDKs exist for Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go and Rust (14 of 15).

Security & auth Dievio +13

Dievio 56

MCP uses OAuth with the authorization code flow, PKCE S256, dynamic registration of public clients, refresh tokens of 30 days, a revocation endpoint and six scopes, revoked per connection on the dashboard; REST uses a plain API key from the dashboard as a bearer or X-API-Key header, with no documented scopes, rotation, expiry or revocation, and nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). mcp:read is the required baseline and cannot spend credits, leads:search, lists:write, leads:export and team:manage are separate consents, team:manage works for the owner only, the permissions page asks agents to confirm before deleting saved data and to invite or remove people only when asked, and the terms ask users to review filters and the maximum result count before authorising a paid operation; nothing asks for confirmation inside the server and REST keys have no least-privilege mode (16 of 20). Returned records are third-party contact data, and the permissions page says to treat names, descriptions, URLs and other field values as data rather than instructions, with no further mitigation (8 of 15). get_account reports the selected account, permissions and balances, list_search_jobs lists recent jobs, the dashboard lists and revokes each connection, and the privacy policy says operation results are kept to prevent duplicate actions; no audit log or per-call record is exposed to the operator (7 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no disclosure policy, bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (0 of 20). 25+16+8+7+0 = 56.

People Data Labs 43

One revocable API key type with no scopes, with 1, 3 or 5 active keys by plan (20), less 10 because the docs show the key as api_key in the URL query string (10 of 30). The data endpoints only read, and there is no restricted or per-endpoint key (12 of 20). Records come from public and third-party sources and include free-text fields, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (2 of 15). The dashboard Usage tab and per-call credit headers give the operator visibility, with no audit log found (7 of 15). The security page states SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance and quarterly external penetration tests. No security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy was found (12 of 20).

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDievioPeople Data LabsEdge
Reliability16%202878People Data Labs +50
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25070People Data Labs +20
Agent ergonomics13%16.26377People Data Labs +14
Security & auth14%17.55643Dievio +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53535even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82879People Data Labs +51
Transparency & trust7%8.82768People Data Labs +41
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 43/100B 64.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDievioPeople Data Labs
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorDievioPeople Data Labs, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://dievio.com/api/publichttps://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under Dievio's Terms of Service (last updated 31 October 2026). No source is published; the only public code is a third-party MIT OpenClaw skill and an n8n template on GitHubProprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT
Tools exposed30none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-16
Terms last updatednot read yetcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatednot read yetcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot read yetcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot read yetcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot read yetcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot read yetcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot read yetcouldn't be read
Popularitynone40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.8/5 (4)

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Dievio

A documented REST search and LinkedIn lookup with published prices per 1,000 credits, free count previews and an OAuth MCP server with six scopes and idempotent mutations. No status page, OpenAPI file, changelog, rate limits or security.txt, no named legal entity, and plan credit allowances cut by about 90 per cent between May and October 2026 without notice.

People Data Labs

Monthly dated release notes, a free sandbox with synthetic data, response headers that report credits and rate limits, and a free plan of 100 records a month make the API easy to start with. No OpenAPI file was found, keys carry no scopes and may travel in the URL, and the agreement allows changes without notice.

Before you call either

Dievio

  1. Call get_search_filters, then preview_leads and get_search_count with the same filters object before any paid call; previews mask contacts and spend nothing, and max_results caps the spend of search_leads.
  2. Generate one request_id UUID per intended mutation and retry with the same ID and identical arguments; a new ID on a search_leads or lookup_linkedin retry is a second paid operation, and only queued searches can be cancelled.
  3. Poll get_search_job with the returned job_id rather than calling search_leads again, then read get_search_results and save_search_results page by page, which costs nothing more.
  4. Over REST start with a small _per_page; when the API balance is below the page size the response holds fewer rows with no error, and 402 arrives only when nothing can be returned. Retry 500 and 502, never 401 or 402.
  5. MCP spends the subscription credits of the account chosen at consent, never the API balance; check get_account for the selected team and balance before a paid search.
  6. Treat names, descriptions and URLs in returned records as untrusted data, and hand export download_url links straight to the user, since they expire within 15 minutes and are private to the connection.

People Data Labs

  1. Send the key in the X-Api-Key header. The api_key query parameter puts the secret in URLs and logs
  2. Build and test queries against https://sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/... first. It costs no credits and allows five calls a minute
  3. Set size deliberately on search. Every record returned costs one credit, and responses over 1 MB fail
  4. Treat 404 on enrichment as no match, not an error, and 402 as credits exhausted. Neither is worth a retry
  5. On 429, wait until the x-ratelimit-reset time. Limits are fixed-window per key and per endpoint

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Dievio or People Data Labs?

People Data Labs scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Dievio's 43 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dievio leads on security & auth.

Do Dievio and People Data Labs need an API key?

Dievio takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. People Data Labs needs an API key.

Can an agent call Dievio and People Data Labs without installing anything?

Yes. Dievio has a hosted endpoint at https://dievio.com/api/public and People Data Labs at https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5.

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