PEARCH AI
World's leading
candidate sourcing API

Pearch AI is an API that powers candidate sourcing for HR tech platforms. It lets developers of AI recruiting apps and applicant tracking systems integrate natural‑language search without building their own search engine or maintaining a talent database. The API returns candidate profiles with work history, education, skills, contact information and more; you can then apply your own filters or ranking on top.

Pearch has the most accurate candidate search engine on the market. Its proprietary search technology outperforms traditional tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox (PeopleGPT) and Gem in blind tests. In an independent study (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02463), recruiters judged Pearch’s results far more relevant than those from major platforms. Whereas keyword searches on LinkedIn and generative searches on Juicebox scored low on relevance, Pearch’s semantic search API yields much higher match rates.

Other vendors—such as Apollo or People Data Labs—act primarily as recruitment data providers. They sell data with standard filters (job title, location) but lack a sophisticated semantic search API or AI‑powered recruiting backend which leads to extremely low candidate relevance. Pearch is a natural language candidate search API built specifically for AI recruitment: it accepts conversational queries, ranks candidates semantically and supports dozens of parameters to tailor search in your product.

Pearch’s dataset spans worldwide markets — https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/24339193/. It focuses primarily on the USA (~190 million profiles) and Europe (~150 million) but includes candidates from other regions as well (i.e. 89 million profiles from India or 47 million from Brazil), providing global reach for your hiring needs.

Pearch has a unique capacity of providing realtime candidate data to ensure the latest job changes and skills are reflected whenever you call the API.

Traditional recruiting platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter or SeekOut focus on end‑user interfaces and don’t offer a people search API. Pearch is purely a candidate sourcing API—a backend service that you embed into your own product. You retain control over the user experience.

Developing an equivalent deep candidate search engine requires enormous data, AI research and infrastructure investments. Even companies with much larger budgets cannot match Pearch’s relevance. By leveraging Pearch, you avoid these costs and benefit from continuous improvements.

Yes. The candidate discovery API can return verified professional emails and phone numbers. You can choose whether to include contact details.

Yes. You can perform a search across multiple talent databases—combining your proprietary data with Pearch’s global index. Reach out to us and let’s see how we can help you get the most out of your data: https://calendly.com/all_pearch/15-min-intro

Yes. Pearch’s API can accept search queries in any language, and its AI will interpret your request to return relevant candidates. Your users can describe their ideal candidates in whatever language suits them.

Pearch’s REST API candidate search is billed via credits. You buy credits, and each API call that returns candidate data uses credits proportional to the number of profiles returned.

Normally, customers start with a starter credit package to test and implement Pearch. If you’re an early-stage startup without funding, we may be able to provide a complimentary free trial to support your development. Just reach out and tell us your story — we’d love to help you succeed.

Yes. Our pricing scales with volume — larger packages include millions of credits and offer up to 10× better value compared to the smallest plan, with mid-sized options available as well. You can get all the details on a call here: https://calendly.com/all_pearch/15-min-intro

We take a very hands-on approach with every customer, even small teams. During onboarding we guide you through the integration, provide direct developer support, and make sure your product is up and running quickly. After integration, we remain available for troubleshooting, feature guidance, and even custom endpoint adjustments if your use case requires it. Our goal is to make Pearch.ai feel like part of your own engineering team.

Because Pearch.ai operates as a white-label sourcing API, most of our customer implementations aren’t public. Many AI recruiting platforms rely on us as their default sourcing backend, but those details stay behind the scenes. What we can share is that our technology also powers matching in consumer-facing products like Boardy.ai, showing the flexibility of our engine across both B2B and B2C use cases. If you’d like to explore examples that are closer to your use case, reach out to us directly.

We only work with publicly available data and support data deletion requests at https://pearch.ai/gdpr-compliance. We are also finalizing our full compliance with both GDPR and CCPA to give our customers confidence that our candidate sourcing API meets international data privacy standards.