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Alion Similar Companies Lookup
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Alion Similar Companies Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from alion.io, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).
Returns a ranked list of companies similar to a given company, including hiring activity, tech stack overlap, shared industry segments, and similarity scores.
Price / call$0.02
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How this service works
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Output
A ranked list of companies similar to the queried company, each with: similarity score, size band gap, shared industry segments, shared technologies, hiring status (is_hiring, open_jobs, new_jobs_30d, last_job_posted), ATS vendor, headquarters city and country, industry segment, employer type, and founding year. Also includes metadata about the target company itself, pagination cursor, and any applied filters.
Example use cases
Expanding job search beyond one target
“I really want to work at Stripe but it's competitive — can you show me up to 20 companies that are similar to Stripe, especially ones that share Python and Go in their stack and are actively hiring right now?”
Competitor intelligence for a recruiter
“I'm a recruiter at Datadog and want to know which similar companies are aggressively hiring engineers this month — pull me a list of lookalike companies with their open job counts and ATS vendors.”
Industry mapping for a career pivot
“I'm trying to pivot into fintech from traditional banking — can you find me companies similar to Plaid or Square, show me the detail-level breakdown of their industry segments and how many new roles they've posted in the last 30 days?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://alion.io/mcp/rest/similar_companies?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to discover companies that are peer or lookalike firms to a known company, especially to expand a job search, benchmark hiring activity, or map competitive landscapes. It is superior to a plain company search because it returns a ranked similarity score with shared technology and industry segment signals, and live hiring data. Prefer this over a generic job search when the user already has a reference company in mind and wants to broaden their target list intelligently.
Side effects
- Company name not resolved — ambiguous or unknown company name returns no results or a resolution warning
- No similar companies found for very niche or small companies
- Country filter narrows results to zero matches
- Limit parameter out of bounds (must be 1–25)
- Rate limit or payment failure returns 402 error
- Stale data if a company's hiring board hasn't been re-crawled recently
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"items": [
{
"id": 4808,
"url": "https://alion.io/company/fis",
"name": "FIS",
"domain": "fisglobal.com",
"hiring": {
"is_hiring": true,
"open_jobs": 397,
"new_jobs_30d": 271,
"last_job_posted": "2026-10-19"
},
"coverage": "ats_board",
"industry": "Financial Services",
"size_band": "1001-5000",
"ats_vendor": "Workday",
"similarity": {
"score": 14.85,
"size_band_gap": 0,
"same_hq_country": true,
"shared_segments": [
"Payment Processing & Gateways"
],
"shared_technologies": [
"Python",
"Go",
"Java",
"TypeScript"
]
},
"founded_year": 1968,
"headquarters": {
"city": "Jacksonville",
"country": {
"iso": "US",
"name": "United States"
}
},
"employer_type": "direct",
"industry_segment": "Financial Software & Embedded Finance"
}
],
"target": {
"id": 64,
"name": "Stripe",
"domain": "stripe.com",
"industry": "Financial Services",
"open_jobs": 693,
"size_band": "1001-5000",
"hq_country": "US",
"founded_year": 2010
},
"has_more": false,
"returned": 1,
"warnings": [],
"next_cursor": null,
"filters_applied": {
"company": {
"id": 64,
"name": "Stripe",
"domain": "stripe.com",
"resolved_by": "domain_exact"
}
}
}
}Tags
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