Company Live API Benchmark
Does the provider fetch the company profile as it is right now, or serve a cached copy? 200 companies with a known recent change (headcount, funding, rebrand, acquisition) are requested from each live endpoint and diffed against the public profile at the same minute.
Not measured yet. The first run of this sub-report will follow the method below.
Methodology
- 01Test set
200 public company profiles are selected for having a documented change in the previous 7 days (headcount, new funding, rebrand, new office, hiring surge, layoffs, acquisition, IPO, shutdown, domain migration) plus a control group. Each provider's live endpoint is called and captured within 60 seconds of a reference snapshot.
- 02Grading
Fetch success is the share of requests returning a profile. Field parity is the share of changed fields already reflecting the change. Staleness is the median age of the served copy where a change was missed. Rate-limit headroom is the sustained requests-per-minute before the first 429.
What we measure
Questions about the Company Live API Benchmark
What does the Company Live API Benchmark measure?
It grades providers on 5 metrics: fetch success, field parity, staleness, latency p50 and rate-limit headroom. It has not been run yet, so no provider is ranked on it.
How will the Company Live API Benchmark be measured?
Every provider will answer the same frozen, verified test set (200 companies · 10 change scenarios · set v2026-08-07.1) in the same window, graded by live-profile diff (objective). Each value will get a letter grade against the rest of the field, A for the top fifth down to D for the bottom fifth.