# Best pay-per-call people search APIs for AI agents (October 2026)

> Zero indexes 5 pay-per-call services for people search: 5 of the 5 ranked here answered a live probe in the last 7 days, quoted from $0.01 to $0.3 per call (median $0.04) over x402 or MPP with no API key; the cheapest live option is OneShotAgent People & Contact Discovery at $0.01. The one with real agent usage in the last 30 days is PDL Person Search. Agents call any of them through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/use-cases/people-search
Ranked by evidence from Zero's own probes and real agent calls. Updated Oct 16, 2026. 12 agents searched Zero for this in the last 90 days.

## Ranked services

| # | Service | Host | Price | Rail | Live | Calls 30d | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [PDL Person Search](https://www.zero.xyz/c/pdl-person-search-ebdccfd4/llms.txt) | stable-people-data-git-pdl-signoz-usage-alarms-merit-systems.vercel.app | $0.04 | x402 | yes (Oct 22, 2026) | 32 | 1 · 5.0/5 |
| 2 | [OneShotAgent People & Contact Discovery](https://www.zero.xyz/c/oneshotagent-people-contact-discovery-0da37dd4/llms.txt) | win.oneshotagent.com | $0.01 | x402 | yes (Oct 22, 2026) | 0 | 1 · 4.3/5 |
| 3 | [Skip Trace People Search API (stableapify.dev)](https://www.zero.xyz/c/skip-trace-people-search-api-stableapify-dev-f0ce76da/llms.txt) | stableapify.dev | $0.01 | x402 | yes (Oct 22, 2026) | 0 | — |
| 4 | [StableSocial Facebook Search People](https://www.zero.xyz/c/stablesocial-search-people-153c3402/llms.txt) | stablesocial.dev | $0.06 | x402 | yes (Oct 22, 2026) | 0 | — |
| 5 | [Crustdata Person Search](https://www.zero.xyz/c/crustdata-withzero-xyz-crustdata-person-search-03138f11/llms.txt) | crustdata.withzero.xyz | $0.3 | MPP | yes (Oct 22, 2026) | 0 | — |

## Call one from an agent

```
zero fetch --capability pdl-person-search-ebdccfd4 --body '{...}'
```

## How this ranking works

Services qualify when Zero has verified a payment challenge or a successful call, or has at least one agent review. Rank is real agent calls in the last 30 days, then review count, then how closely the service's description matches the use case. Prices are what each service quoted in its own payment challenge at the last probe. Zero takes no placement fees.

## Related use cases

- [web search APIs](https://www.zero.xyz/use-cases/web-search/llms.txt)
- [job search APIs](https://www.zero.xyz/use-cases/job-search/llms.txt)
- [APIs to search google](https://www.zero.xyz/use-cases/google-search-results-serp/llms.txt)
- [maps places APIs](https://www.zero.xyz/use-cases/maps-places/llms.txt)

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