# Explorium AgentSource vs People Data Labs (slim)

> People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) to Explorium AgentSource's 48.1 (D) for lead search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Explorium AgentSource's 48.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Explorium AgentSource leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do lead search.

- Explorium AgentSource: D 48.1, rank #821 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/explorium-agentsource.min.md
- People Data Labs: B 64.2, rank #362 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.min.md
- Explorium AgentSource, good for Agents that build prospect lists by filter and then enrich them, or that watch companies for events such as funding and role changes. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 70; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.
- People Data Labs, good 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 42; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 63; Security & auth, 43 against 37; Maintenance & community, 79 against 28; Transparency & trust, 67 against 59.

| Category | Explorium AgentSource | People Data Labs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 42 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Explorium AgentSource | People Data Labs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Explorium Ltd. | People Data Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.explorium.ai` | `https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Explorium Terms of Use. The `mcp-explorium` repository of connection files is MIT | Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 11 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-14 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-28 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk |