Fetchin vs Piloterr
Piloterr is one of the better-designed competitors here. One credit per request, billing only on success, 500 free credits with no card, and rate limits published per plan rather than hidden behind sales.
Pricing runs from $2.72 per 1,000 on the $49 plan down to $2.26 on the $249 plan. Fetchin is $1.00 per 1,000 from the first plan.
Their published rate limits are genuinely good: 7 req/s at entry, rising to 15. That is above our 5 req/s self-serve default, though we lift it on request.
Piloterr is a general web data API with professional data as one library among many. Fetchin is built only for this, which is where the endpoint depth comes from.
- requests served per month
- 40M+requests served per month
- uptime
- 99.9%uptime
- median response time
- 1smedian response time
- serving production traffic since
- 2023serving production traffic since
Fetchin vs Piloterr, feature by feature
| Feature | Fetchin | Piloterr |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price per 1,000 requests | $1.00 | $2.26 |
| Data freshness | Fetched live on every request | Live, collected at request time |
| Response time | 1s median, 1.5s P95 | |
| Delivery | Synchronous, or asynchronous via the Apify compatibility layer | Synchronous HTTP |
| Rate limit | 5 req/s self-serve, 10 to 100+ on request | 7 req/s entry, 10 to 15 req/s on higher plans |
| Uptime | 99.9% | |
| Endpoints | Profile, company, posts, comments, reactions, engagement | Profile, company, jobs, plus a broad web data library |
| Your own account required | ||
| Billed on failed lookups | No, successful requests only | |
| Free trial | 1,000 credits, no credit card | 500 credits, no credit card |
| Commitment | None, cancel anytime | Monthly subscription |
| Support | Live chat and email, same-day | Email and ticketing |
| Public status page | Yes, at status.fetchin.io |
Piloterr figures are taken from their own public pages and were last verified in August 2026. Pricing and limits change, so check the sources below before making a decision.
Fetchin pricing: Starter plan, $50 for 50,000 credits. Drops to $0.90 per 1,000 at 1M credits.
Piloterr pricing: $2.72 per 1,000 on the $49 Premium plan, $2.48 on the $99 plan, $2.26 on the $249 Startup plan. Pay-as-you-go from $1.88 per 1,000 on basic endpoints.
Where Fetchin wins
- $1.00 per 1,000 from the first plan, against $2.72 on theirs, and their best published rate is still $2.26.
- Published latency and uptime, 1s median and 99.9%. Piloterr publishes neither.
- A public status page at status.fetchin.io. Piloterr does not publish one.
- Deeper professional-data coverage: posts, comments, reactions and engagement, not just profile and company.
- 1,000 free credits against their 500.
Where Piloterr wins
- Higher default rate limits: 7 req/s at entry against our 5, rising to 15 req/s.
- Job postings, which Fetchin does not cover today.
- A broad general-purpose web data library if you need sources beyond professional data.
- Billing only on success, exactly as we do. No advantage either way, but worth stating that they get this right.
Choose Fetchin if…
- Unit cost matters: the gap is roughly 2.3x at entry.
- You want published latency and uptime numbers rather than inferring them.
- You need post, comment, reaction or engagement data.
Choose Piloterr if…
- You need more than 5 req/s immediately and would rather not ask for a raise.
- You need job postings or general web data from the same vendor.
Fetchin vs Piloterr, answered
- Is Fetchin cheaper than Piloterr?
- Yes at every published tier. Fetchin is $1.00 per 1,000 from the $50 Starter plan. Piloterr runs $2.72 per 1,000 on its $49 plan and reaches $2.26 only on the $249 Startup plan.
- Which has the better rate limit?
- Piloterr, by default. They publish 7 req/s at entry rising to 15 req/s, against our 5 req/s self-serve. Fetchin raises that to 10, 20, 50 or 100+ req/s on request, but Piloterr gives you more without asking.
- Do both bill for failed lookups?
- Neither does. Piloterr states you pay only for successful requests, and Fetchin does not bill failed lookups either.
- What does Piloterr cover that Fetchin does not?
- Job postings and a general web data library spanning sources outside professional data. Fetchin is deeper on professional data specifically: posts, comments, reactions and engagement.
Sources, verified August 2026
Fetchin figures are our own measured values. Live availability is published here.
Try it against your own data
1,000 credits, no credit card. Run the same sample through Fetchin and Piloterr and compare field coverage and response times yourself.