NinjaPear and LinkFinder AI are often searched together, but they solve different problems — and NinjaPear's 12-month contracts send a lot of people looking. Here's an honest breakdown of which tool fits which job.
Last updated: May 30, 2026
It's worth being upfront, because most "alternative" pages aren't. NinjaPear is a B2B company intelligence API built by Nubela — the same team behind Proxycurl. Its flagship is the Customer Listing endpoint, which tells you which companies are customers of a given business. That's competitive and partnership intelligence at the company level, and it's a genuinely useful, fairly unique capability.
LinkFinder AI is a people-and-contact platform: look up LinkedIn profiles, enrich contacts, find work emails, and discover leads by describing them in plain English. There's overlap on company data, but the core jobs are different.
A fair side-by-side. The checkmarks reflect what each tool is actually built to do — not a points-scoring exercise.
NinjaPear details verified from public sources, May 2026. Check nubela.co / NinjaPear's pricing page for current terms.
NinjaPear's pricing is where most NinjaPear-alternative searches start. Two things tend to surprise people:
2. Credit math that compounds. Plans scale up to around $1,899/month, with ala-carte credits about $0.009 each on the top tier. But several endpoints charge per request plus per result. The flagship Customer Listing endpoint costs 1 credit per request + 2 credits per company returned — so a query that returns 15 companies is 31 credits (~$0.28), and you're charged even when a query comes back empty. Subscription credits also expire each billing cycle.
LinkFinder AI is the opposite shape: 1 credit = 1 request on any endpoint, billed monthly with no lock-in, and 25 free credits to start. No per-result multipliers, no 12-month contract, no remaining-months cancellation fee. See the pricing page for current limits.
There's no shame in the second column — NinjaPear's Customer Listing is a real, fairly distinctive capability. We just don't pretend to do it. What LinkFinder AI does well is the people-and-contact side: the part of the old Proxycurl workflow that NinjaPear largely moved away from.
The profile, contact, and lead-finding side of the old Proxycurl workflow — without the contract.
The AI Lead Finder returns up to 100 matching profiles from a natural-language prompt — lead discovery NinjaPear doesn't target. See the API docs.
Monthly billing, cancel anytime, 1 credit = 1 request, and 25 free credits to start — no remaining-months cancellation fees and no per-result credit multipliers.
B2B Data Lookup pulls profiles, work emails, and company data without using your LinkedIn account — the people-side jobs NinjaPear stepped away from.
If your NinjaPear use is profile or contact enrichment, migration is quick — both are REST + JSON. LinkFinder requests go to one endpoint with a type field:
curl -X POST "https://api.linkfinderai.com" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"type": "leads_finder_ai",
"input_data": "VP Sales at B2B SaaS startup in the United States",
"fetch_count": 50
}'
Read status and result from the JSON response. One honest caveat: NinjaPear's Customer Listing has no direct LinkFinder equivalent — we focus on people and contacts, not which companies buy from a given business. Full reference in the API documentation.
https://api.linkfinderai.com, set the type field, pass a Bearer key, and read status/result. Customer Listing has no direct equivalent. See the API documentation.Start with 25 free credits, describe the leads you want in plain English, and pay monthly with no lock-in. If you need company-customer mapping instead, NinjaPear's your tool — no hard feelings.
No credit card required • Monthly billing • No 12-month commitment