{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "dropcontact", "name": "Dropcontact API + MCP", "vendor": "Dropcontact", "vendorUrl": "https://www.dropcontact.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lead-data", "summary": "Batch contact enrichment from a name and company.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropcontact", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropcontact.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropcontact.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dropcontact.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.dropcontact.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`X-Access-Token` header on REST. Hosted MCP at mcp.dropcontact.com uses OAuth, or the API key as `Authorization: Bearer`.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Prices are in euros only. 50 free credits to try. Starter €79 a month for 500 credits, Growth €120 a month for 500 credits with carry-over, LinkedIn URL enrichment and company data, both scaling to 150,000 credits a month. Yearly billing is 20 per cent off. Enterprise from 200,000 credits a month. A credit is spent only when a verified email comes back (refunded if none is found), or 1 credit per email you send in for verification (https://www.dropcontact.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 mention in the API docs, MCP docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.dropcontact.com", "capabilities": [ "lead.enrichment", "email.finder", "email.verification", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "enrichment", "email-verification", "hosted", "no-card", "mcp", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 679, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 41, "security": 59, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Pay on success, with credits refunded when no email is found. No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog.", "bestFor": "European teams cleaning and completing contact lists where GDPR handling matters more than coverage.", "strengths": [ "Pay on success, with credits refunded when no email is found", "50 free credits with no card", "Statuspage with its own API component", "Per-contact error and warning codes that say what to add", "security.txt with a HackerOne programme, and a published DPA" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog", "No prospect search, so it only enriches people you already have", "Asynchronous only, with webhooks that can arrive out of order or twice", "One unscoped API key per account", "Remote MCP labelled early by the vendor and not in the official registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send a company name or website with every contact, or you get `only_contact_data`", "Send only documented fields. New accounts get a 400 for unknown ones", "Match webhook results by `request_id`, since order isn't guaranteed and duplicates happen", "Poll no faster than every 30 seconds, as the not-ready response asks", "Post an empty contact to read the credit balance at no cost" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 41, "security": 59, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 87 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.dropcontact.com/v1/enrich/all -H \"X-Access-Token: $DROPCONTACT_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"data\":[{\"first_name\":\"John\",\"last_name\":\"Smith\",\"website\":\"corporation.com\"}],\"language\":\"en\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http dropcontact https://mcp.dropcontact.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.enrichment", "tool": "https://letme.dev/dropcontact" }, "area": "web-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Dropcontact SAS", "domain": "dropcontact.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-03-21", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.dropcontact.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.dropcontact.com/personal-data-charter", "statusPage": "https://status.dropcontact.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Terms name a simplified joint stock company (SAS) registered in Bobigny, no. 823 752 647" ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropcontact.json", "live": { "slug": "dropcontact", "probe": { "target": "https://api.dropcontact.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:27.20462668Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 66, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 56, "p95ms24h": 96, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2311, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.dropcontact.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:38:57.381985931Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://dropcontact.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-04-09T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:52.594646388Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "dropcontact.com", "registered": "2016-03-21", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/dropcontact.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:07.299993098Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.dropcontact.com", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:11.504549907Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ff96d39467bb" }, { "url": "https://www.dropcontact.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:34.985725878Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "65a790ec5310" }, { "url": "https://www.dropcontact.com/personal-data-charter", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:32.961579925Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e25877e6f61c" }, { "url": "https://www.dropcontact.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:36.984918508Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bd33bd1bd813" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:27.20462668Z" } }, "answer": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Dropcontact API + MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dropcontact API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "people-data-labs", "name": "People Data Labs", "vendor": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.peopledatalabs.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lead-data", "summary": "People Data Labs sells person, company and job posting data through a REST API. Agents enrich a known person or company, resolve an identity, or search the datasets with Elasticsearch or SQL queries, using an API key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json", "repo": "https://github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-python", "license": "Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "peopledatalabs" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "peopledatalabs" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard after a free signup, sent in the `X-Api-Key` header or as an `api_key` query parameter. Keys have no scopes. A Free account holds 1 active key, Pro 3 and Enterprise 5. Webhooks and data licence deliveries are arranged through sales.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with up to 100 records a month and emails, phone numbers and addresses obfuscated. Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 person records or $100 for 1,000 company records, with 20 per cent off on annual terms. Enterprise is priced by sales. One credit per match or per search record returned, and requests without a match are not charged. The sandbox is free. Higher volume steps and field-bundle prices are shown in the dashboard only (https://www.peopledatalabs.com/pricing, https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/create-an-account, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$98 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or the Services Subscription Agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 40, "npmWeekly": 132937, "pypiWeekly": 29514, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "lead.search", "lead.enrichment", "data.company", "data.person" ], "tags": [ "lead-search", "enrichment", "hosted", "api-key", "free-tier", "sandbox", "llms-txt", "python", "javascript", "go", "ruby", "rust", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 326, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 35, "reliability": 78, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.", "strengths": [ "Credits are charged only on a match (a `200`), and each response reports credits spent and remaining in headers", "Seven sandbox endpoints at `sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com` return synthetic records at no charge on every plan", "Release notes are dated monthly, the latest on 15 September 2026 (dataset v35.2), with schema changes labelled", "`data_include`, `size` and `scroll_token` let a caller limit fields and page through search results", "The published DPA commits to deletion within 90 days of termination and breach notice within 72 hours" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings", "API keys have no scopes, and the docs show the key passed as `api_key` in the URL query string", "The Services Subscription Agreement says data and services may be modified without prior notice", "Free-plan records have emails, phone numbers and addresses obfuscated, and person search defaults to 10 requests a minute", "No SLA, security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy was found in the reviewed pages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-Api-Key` header. The `api_key` query parameter puts the secret in URLs and logs", "Build and test queries against `https://sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/...` first. It costs no credits and allows five calls a minute", "Set `size` deliberately on search. Every record returned costs one credit, and responses over 1 MB fail", "Treat `404` on enrichment as no match, not an error, and `402` as credits exhausted. Neither is worth a retry", "On `429`, wait until the `x-ratelimit-reset` time. Limits are fixed-window per key and per endpoint" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 35, "reliability": 78, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install peopledatalabs", "http": "curl -X GET -G 'https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/person/enrich' -H 'X-Api-Key: YOUR API KEY' --data-urlencode 'profile=linkedin.com/in/seanthorne'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/people-data-labs" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan, person data", "unit": "month", "usd": 98, "note": "350 person records a month, entry step" }, { "item": "Pro plan, company data", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "1,000 company records a month, entry step" }, { "item": "Person record", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.28, "note": "Derived from $98 for 350 records at the Pro entry step" }, { "item": "Company record", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Derived from $100 for 1,000 records at the Pro entry step" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "domain": "peopledatalabs.com", "domainRegistered": "2017-07-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://privacy.peopledatalabs.com/policies?name=services-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://privacy.peopledatalabs.com/policies?name=privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.peopledatalabs.com", "changelog": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/links/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Services Subscription Agreement names People Data Labs, Inc., 455 Market St Ste 1940, PMB 25778, San Francisco, CA 94105, and is governed by California law. It applies to accounts opened on peopledatalabs.com as well as order forms.", "The legal pages on privacy.peopledatalabs.com are drawn by script. We read their text from the data file the page itself loads, `/static/privacy.peopledatalabs.com/privacyCenterMessages-en.json`. A plain HTML reader sees only the page title.", "The API answers at api.peopledatalabs.com and the sandbox at sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com.", "www.peopledatalabs.com/.well-known/security.txt and the same path on the docs host return 404.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2017-07-16 for peopledatalabs.com.", "The privacy policy says PDL is registered as a data broker in Texas and has certified to the EU-U.S., UK and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.json", "live": { "slug": "people-data-labs", "probe": { "target": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:36.909299896Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 590, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 591, "p95ms24h": 643, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.peopledatalabs.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:16.332808148Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:36.909299896Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Dropcontact", "b": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.dropcontact.com/v1", "b": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2020-06-04", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Dropcontact API + MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dropcontact API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Dropcontact API + MCP or People Data Labs?" }, { "answer": "Dropcontact API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. People Data Labs needs an API key.", "question": "Do Dropcontact API + MCP and People Data Labs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Dropcontact API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.dropcontact.com/v1 and People Data Labs at https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5.", "question": "Can an agent call Dropcontact API + MCP and People Data Labs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "European teams cleaning and completing contact lists where GDPR handling matters more than coverage.", "slug": "dropcontact", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 57", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 41", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 18" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.", "slug": "people-data-labs", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings" } ], "job": { "capability": "lead.enrichment", "name": "Lead enrichment" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Apollo API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-people-data-labs" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Coresignal API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-people-data-labs" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crustdata-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Crustdata API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crustdata-vs-people-data-labs" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enrich-layer-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Enrich Layer API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": 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Dropcontact API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do lead enrichment.", "verdicts": { "dropcontact": "Pay on success, with credits refunded when no email is found. No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs.min.md" }, "markdown": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Dropcontact API + MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dropcontact API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do lead enrichment.\n\n- Dropcontact API + MCP: grade D, 50.9/100, rank #679 of 842. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Dropcontact API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: European teams cleaning and completing contact lists where GDPR handling matters more than coverage.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog\n\n### People Data Labs (B)\n\nGood for: Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 57\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 41\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 18\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Dropcontact API + MCP | People Data Labs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 78 | People Data Labs +21 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 70 | People Data Labs +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 77 | People Data Labs +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 43 | Dropcontact API + MCP +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Dropcontact API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 18 | 79 | People Data Labs +61 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 67 | Dropcontact API + MCP +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.9 · D** | **64.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Dropcontact API + MCP | People Data Labs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Dropcontact | People Data Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.dropcontact.com/v1` | `https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2020-06-04 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Dropcontact API + MCP.** Pay on success, with credits refunded when no email is found. No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or changelog.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Dropcontact API + MCP\n\n1. Send a company name or website with every contact, or you get `only_contact_data`\n2. Send only documented fields. New accounts get a 400 for unknown ones\n3. Match webhook results by `request_id`, since order isn't guaranteed and duplicates happen\n4. Poll no faster than every 30 seconds, as the not-ready response asks\n5. Post an empty contact to read the credit balance at no cost\n\n### People Data Labs\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-Api-Key` header. The `api_key` query parameter puts the secret in URLs and logs\n2. Build and test queries against `https://sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/...` first. It costs no credits and allows five calls a minute\n3. Set `size` deliberately on search. Every record returned costs one credit, and responses over 1 MB fail\n4. Treat `404` on enrichment as no match, not an error, and `402` as credits exhausted. Neither is worth a retry\n5. On `429`, wait until the `x-ratelimit-reset` time. Limits are fixed-window per key and per endpoint\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Dropcontact API + MCP or People Data Labs?\n\nPeople Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Dropcontact API + MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dropcontact API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Dropcontact API + MCP and People Data Labs need an API key?\n\nDropcontact API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. People Data Labs needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Dropcontact API + MCP and People Data Labs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Dropcontact API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.dropcontact.com/v1 and People Data Labs at https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-people-data-labs.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"dropcontact\", \"b\": \"people-data-labs\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare dropcontact people-data-labs`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dropcontact.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Dropcontact API + MCP or People Data Labs\n\n- [Apollo API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Coresignal API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Crustdata API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crustdata-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Enrich Layer API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enrich-layer-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [FullEnrich API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fullenrich-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Fuse MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fuse-mcp-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Gojiberry vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gojiberry-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Hunter API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [LeadMagic API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leadmagic-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [Lusha API + MCP vs People Data Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lusha-vs-people-data-labs.md)\n- [People Data Labs vs Prospeo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/people-data-labs-vs-prospeo.md)\n- [People Data Labs vs ZoomInfo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/people-data-labs-vs-zoominfo.md)\n- [Apollo API + MCP vs Dropcontact API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-dropcontact.md)\n- [Coresignal API + MCP vs Dropcontact API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-dropcontact.md)\n- [Crustdata API + MCP vs Dropcontact API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crustdata-vs-dropcontact.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Enrich Layer API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-enrich-layer.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs FullEnrich API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-fullenrich.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Fuse MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-fuse-mcp.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Gojiberry](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-gojiberry.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Hunter API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-hunter.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs LeadMagic API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-leadmagic.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Lusha API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-lusha.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs Prospeo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-prospeo.md)\n- [Dropcontact API + MCP vs ZoomInfo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropcontact-vs-zoominfo.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Dropcontact API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "" } ], "description": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Dropcontact API + MCP's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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