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People Data Labs: Pricing, Revenue, Funding, and How It Compares in 2026
People Data Labs (PDL) is a San Francisco-based data-as-a-service company that sells access to a person and company database through an API, starting at $98 a month for 350 records. It's raised roughly $55 million since 2015 and doesn't publish revenue, but third-party estimates put it in the high teens of millions in annual recurring revenue as of 2024. Here's what's actually confirmed, what's estimated, and where the dataset model runs into trouble.
Key Takeaways
- PDL's self-serve Person API starts at $98/month ($940/year) for 350 records, roughly $0.28 per credit at the lowest volume tier (Cleanlist pricing guide, Sept 2026).
- The company has raised approximately $55 million across six rounds since 2015, including a $45 million Series B led by Craft Ventures in November 2021 (People Data Labs, 2021).
- PDL doesn't disclose revenue. Third-party aggregator estimates cluster around $17M-$19M ARR based on 2024 data, while new CEO Ben Eisenberg has publicly stated a goal of "$100M ARR and beyond" as a future target, not a reported figure (People Data Labs, August 2025).
- PDL refreshes its dataset monthly, not in real time (People Data Labs, 2026) — a distinction that matters for anyone buying data for time-sensitive sales or recruiting triggers.
What Is People Data Labs?
People Data Labs is a data-as-a-service provider that sells structured person and company records through an API, built for identity resolution, enrichment, and predictive modeling (People Data Labs, 2026). The company started in 2015 under the name TalentIQ before rebranding to People Data Labs (Crunchbase, retrieved 2026).
PDL is headquartered in San Francisco, California (Tracxn, 2026). It was co-founded by Sean Thorne and Henry Nevue. In August 2025, both stepped back from day-to-day leadership — Thorne moved to the board, and longtime team member Ben Eisenberg was promoted to CEO, with the founders remaining the company's two largest shareholders (People Data Labs, August 2025).
Reported employee counts vary a lot depending on who's counting and when: a "team of 80" in a 2021 blog post, 84-92 employees across 2024-2026 third-party estimates, and as high as 123 in one undated aggregator listing (GetLatka; Tracxn; Growjo, 2021-2026). Treat any single headcount figure as a snapshot, not a fixed fact.
If you're evaluating PDL as a vendor, it helps to know how their ICP Search filters or Company Profile endpoints compare on filter depth and field coverage before you commit to a contract.
How Much Does People Data Labs Cost in 2026?
PDL's pricing runs on a per-record credit model with four tiers, from a free testing plan to custom enterprise contracts (Cleanlist pricing guide, September 2026). There's no per-seat pricing — you're billed for records retrieved through a shared API key, not per user.
| Tier | Price | Volume | Per-record cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testing | Free | Up to 100 records/month | $0 | Email, phone, and address fields are obfuscated |
| Self-Serve (Person API) | $98/month or $940/year | From 350 records/month | ~$0.28/credit (monthly), ~$0.224/credit (annual) | Volume discounts step down to ~$0.25/credit above 5,000 credits |
| Full API (Company records) | $100/month | From 1,000 records/month | ~$0.10/record | Separate pricing track from person records |
| Bulk Data / Enterprise | Custom, annual billing | Negotiated | Not published | Flat-file or on-prem licensing, SSO, dedicated success team |
Source: Cleanlist, "People Data Labs Pricing Guide", September 2026; GTM Arena provider page, July 2026. Exact enterprise pricing isn't published by PDL — the figures above are third-party observations, not confirmed list prices, so verify current numbers directly with PDL before budgeting against them.
<!-- [UNIQUE INSIGHT] -->One cross-vendor pricing index put PDL's person-record pricing 306% above the market median and its company-record pricing 34% below median (Cleanlist, 2026). That's a wide spread for a single vendor, and it's worth asking a sales rep to explain the logic before you sign, since it suggests the two datasets are priced against very different competitive sets.
If your use case is closer to real-time monitoring than static lookups, compare this against a pay-as-you-go pricing model that bills per request instead of per monthly credit tier.
How Much Funding Has People Data Labs Raised?
PDL has raised approximately $55 million across six disclosed rounds since 2015, with no publicly disclosed valuation at any stage (Clay.com funding dossier, retrieved 2026).
| Round | Date | Amount | Lead investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | June 2015 | ~$500K-$775K (sources vary) | Undisclosed |
| Seed | February 2016 | $775,000 | Undisclosed |
| Seed | August 2016 | $2,200,000 | Susa Ventures |
| Series A | April 2017 | Undisclosed | 8VC |
| Series A | October 2018 | $7,000,000 | Founders Fund |
| Series B | November 2021 | $45,000,000 | Craft Ventures |
Source: Clay.com, "People Data Labs Funding", retrieved 2026; Series B terms confirmed directly by People Data Labs' own announcement, November 2021.
The Series B is the best-documented round. PDL's own announcement confirms $45 million led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Flex Capital, Next Play Ventures, and Theory Ventures, plus angel investors including Auren Hoffman (People Data Labs, November 2021). Craft Ventures partner Jeff Fluhr joined PDL's board as part of the deal.
Aggregator sites don't always agree on the total. Tracxn shows a lower $47.2 million across only two rounds, which appears to omit the two Series A rounds and the earlier seed rounds (Tracxn, retrieved 2026) — a reminder to cross-check funding totals against more than one aggregator before quoting them as fact.
What Is People Data Labs' Revenue?
People Data Labs doesn't publicly disclose revenue or ARR, and every number circulating online is a third-party estimate rather than a confirmed figure. GetLatka estimates 2024 revenue around $18.7 million with an implied valuation near $56.1 million, while Growjo separately estimates roughly $17.2 million annually (GetLatka; Growjo, 2024-2026 data).
Both aggregators use proprietary estimation models rather than confirmed financials — GetLatka's own page notes it hasn't recorded an interview with PDL's management to verify the number. Read these as directional estimates, not audited figures.
The one number that comes straight from PDL: when Ben Eisenberg took over as CEO in August 2025, the company's own blog post described a goal of "$100M ARR and beyond" under new leadership (People Data Labs, August 2025). That's a stated ambition, not a disclosed current run rate — worth flagging since it's easy to misread as PDL confirming nine-figure revenue today.
How Fresh Is PDL's Data?
PDL states plainly that its dataset is "refreshed each month," not continuously (People Data Labs, 2026). In its July 2026 changelog, the company reported refreshing more than 37 million resume/experience records and over 40 million location records in that single monthly cycle, and detected 3.4 million primary job changes globally in the same window (People Data Labs changelog, July 2026).
That same changelog lists PDL's core "API Dataset" at 2.465 billion person records, alongside a 814.8 million-record resume dataset and a 74.75 million-record company dataset (People Data Labs changelog, July 2026).
<!-- [UNIQUE INSIGHT] -->Here's a discrepancy worth flagging: PDL's own marketing pages describe the person dataset inconsistently, ranging from "1.5 billion unique person profiles" on some pages to "3+ billion person profiles" on others, while the July 2026 technical changelog puts the core API dataset at 2.465 billion. All three numbers come from PDL itself, just from different pages and dates — a sign that "how big is the dataset" doesn't have one clean answer even from the source.
A monthly refresh cycle means a job change detected on day one of the cycle might not surface in your enrichment results until nearly four weeks later. For evergreen firmographic fields like industry or headcount, that lag rarely matters. For anything you're using as a sales or recruiting trigger, it can mean reaching a prospect a month after a competitor already did.
Where PDL's Dataset Model Breaks Down for Real-Time Use Cases
PDL's model is built for batch enrichment against a periodically refreshed database, and it does that well for stable fields like education history or past employers. It's a weaker fit anywhere the trigger itself is the point: a job change alert, a new LinkedIn post signaling intent, or a live search where the requester needs the current state of a profile, not last month's snapshot.
Is a monthly refresh too slow for time-sensitive GTM work? For high-stakes categories like job-change alerts or intent monitoring, the honest answer is: it depends how much a few weeks of lag costs you. A recruiter re-engaging a champion who just left their company, or a rep responding to a buying signal, is racing a clock a monthly-batch dataset can't fully see. Datamagnet's own job-change signal monitoring and company engagement signals fetch LinkedIn activity at request time instead of waiting for the next batch cycle, precisely because static refresh windows miss events that happen between refreshes.
For a full breakdown of how a request-time API differs from a periodically refreshed database — including field-by-field coverage and pricing — see our People Data Labs alternative comparison.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does People Data Labs cost per month?
PDL's self-serve Person API starts at $98/month for 350 records (about $0.28/credit), or $940/year with an annual discount. A separate Company API track starts at $100/month for 1,000 records, roughly $0.10/record (Cleanlist, September 2026). Enterprise and bulk-data pricing is custom and not published.
How much funding has People Data Labs raised?
PDL has raised approximately $55 million across six disclosed rounds since 2015, most recently a $45 million Series B led by Craft Ventures in November 2021 (People Data Labs, 2021). No valuation has been publicly disclosed for any round.
What is People Data Labs' annual recurring revenue?
PDL doesn't publish revenue figures. Third-party estimates from GetLatka and Growjo put 2024 ARR in the $17M-$19M range, while CEO Ben Eisenberg has stated a goal of "$100M ARR and beyond" as a future target rather than a current figure (People Data Labs, August 2025).
How often does People Data Labs update its data?
PDL refreshes its dataset monthly, per its own product documentation (People Data Labs, 2026). Its July 2026 changelog reported over 37 million resume records and 40 million location records refreshed in that single monthly cycle.
Is People Data Labs good for real-time job-change alerts?
PDL's monthly refresh cycle means a job change can take up to four weeks to surface in its dataset, which is a meaningful lag for time-sensitive sales or recruiting triggers. Providers that fetch LinkedIn data at request time, like Datamagnet's signal monitoring, close that gap by design.
Conclusion
People Data Labs is a well-funded, established data vendor: roughly $55 million raised, a multi-billion-record dataset, and transparent self-serve pricing starting under $100 a month. What it isn't is a real-time system — its own documentation confirms a monthly refresh cycle, and its revenue figures remain third-party estimates rather than disclosed facts.
If your use case tolerates a few weeks of data lag, PDL's pricing and dataset size are genuinely competitive. If you're building around live triggers — job changes, engagement signals, or search-time lookups — it's worth comparing PDL's batch model against a request-time LinkedIn data API before you commit to an annual contract.
