People Search API

What it means

People search APIs sit at the intersection of consumer "find a person" sites and B2B contact-data providers. They differ from B2B enrichment APIs (Clearbit, Apollo) because they're built around residential identity — the person at home — rather than work email and job title.

Key things to evaluate:

• Pricing model. Per-match billing (no charge on a miss) is dramatically better than per-query billing for any workflow with a non-trivial miss rate.
• Refresh cadence. Monthly snapshots produce stale phones; daily refreshes catch disconnects sooner.
• Rate limits and async bulk. A 60 req/min synchronous endpoint is fine for CRM enrichment; CSV upload with async polling is required for list processing.

How Ava Data handles people search api

Ava Data's API is per-match priced (you pay nothing on a miss), refreshed daily, and offers both a synchronous endpoint at 60 requests per minute and an asynchronous bulk CSV upload for list workflows. Authentication is a single Bearer token; responses are standard JSON.

If you don't need the API at all, the same data is available in the Ava Data dashboard — search by name and address, get a contact card, export to CSV. The dashboard is what most non-developer customers use day to day; the API is for teams wiring Ava Data into a CRM, dialer, or AI pipeline.

For developers: example API call

If you'd rather click than code, the Ava Data dashboard returns the same data without a single line of JSON. The snippet below is for teams wiring Ava Data into a CRM, dialer, or AI pipeline.

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "returns": ["phone", "email"]
}

{
  "matchFound": true,
  "creditsCharged": 2,
  "subject": {
    "phones": [{ "number": "5125551234", "type": "mobile" }],
    "emails": [{ "address": "john@example.com" }]
  }
}

Related terms

• Skip Tracing — Skip tracing is the process of locating a person's current contact information — phone numbers, email addresses, and known associates — by stitching together public records, utility data, and proprietary identity graphs.
• CRM Enrichment — CRM enrichment is the process of automatically appending missing fields — phone, email, mailing address, related persons — to records already in your CRM, usually via webhook or scheduled batch job.
• Bulk Skip Tracing — Bulk skip tracing runs a skip trace over a list of records — typically a CSV of names and addresses — and returns matched contact information as a downloadable file or via async API.