# People Data Labs (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.md (~6,800 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

**B · 64.2/100 · rank #326 of 842 · #2 in Lead & company data · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 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.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: People Data Labs, Inc. · category: Lead & company data · legal entity: People Data Labs, Inc. · provenance 80/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Modes: Enrichment (person, company, IP, job title, skill, and bulk person and company up to 100 a request), identity resolution (Person Identify), lead search (person, company and job posting search by Elasticsearch or SQL query). No email verification endpoint
- Base URL: https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/{entity}/{endpoint}. GET on every endpoint, POST on enrichment, search, autocomplete, cleaner and job title endpoints
- Credits: 1 per enrichment match, 1 per record returned by search, up to 100 per bulk request. Autocomplete and cleaner calls use no credits. `402` when credits run out
- Free tier: 100 records a month, core fields, contact data obfuscated, 1 API key
- Rate limits: Person and company enrichment 100 a minute free and 1,000 paid (vendor docs also state 10 free on one page). Person search 10 a minute by default. Sandbox 5 a minute. Fixed window, per key, per endpoint
- Response limits: 1 MB per response. `data_include` to select fields, `size` 1 to 100, `scroll_token` for paging, gzip supported
- Sandbox: sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com for person enrich, search, identify and bulk, company enrich and search, and job posting search. Synthetic data, no credits
- SDKs: Python `peopledatalabs` 6.4.13 (12 January 2026), JavaScript `peopledatalabs` 14.6.0 (16 September 2026), Ruby, Go and Rust. A public Postman collection
- MCP server: None found in the docs index
- Webhooks: Person data change notifications, Enterprise customers only, registered through the PDL team
- Datasets: Vendor figures for v35.2. About 2.42 billion person records in the full dataset, 76.6 million companies, 46.2 million job postings
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 per the security page. Hosting on AWS and Elastic Cloud in Oregon and Northern California. DPA with standard contractual clauses published
- Status: status.peopledatalabs.com on Statuspage, a component per API. Two minor incidents between 10 July and 8 October 2026
- Open source: No. SDKs only
- Prices: Pro plan, person data $98 per month (plan); Pro plan, company data $100 per month (plan); Person record $0.28 per record; Company record $0.10 per record

- Scores: Reliability 78, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 70, Agent ergonomics 77, Security & auth 43, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 79, Transparency & trust 67 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Statuspage at status.peopledatalabs.com with a component for each API and the sandbox, and history back to 2021 (20). · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI file was found at the docs root or in the docs index. · Agent ergonomics, `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… · Security & auth, 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 th… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, The latest release notes are dated 15 September 2026 and the JavaScript SDK 14.6.0 followed on 16 September (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service under a published Services Subscription Agreement and Acceptable Data Use Policy that name People Data Labs, Inc.
- Sources: 21, open questions: 7, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: lead.search, lead.enrichment, data.company, data.person
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/people-data-labs.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs from a page on peopledatalabs.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-python, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

## Connect

```bash
pip install peopledatalabs
```

```bash
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'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/people-data-labs

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