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HarvestAPI vs People Data Labs

No suite in this run measured both HarvestAPI and People Data Labs; each block below shows one of them alone.

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

People Data Labs

Dataset-first people, company and job-posting data: search / enrichment APIs, batch CSV enrichment and licensed datasets.

★ 4.3 · 17 reviewsB

Access: API · CSV · Dataset · Batch · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	People Data Labs · #20 of 29
Match rate	-	69.4%
Valid email rate	-	52.9%
Latency p50	-	672ms
Cost / valid email	-	$0.654
Invalid rate	-	11.8%
Catch-all share	-	35.3%
Business email	-	100.0%
Right-person rate	-	100.0%
Decoy hit rate	-	0.0%
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	-	9

Phone Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not in suite	People Data Labs · #15 of 24
Match rate	-	59.2%
Valid / reachable rate	-	89.7%
Latency p50	-	672ms
Cost / mobile number	-	$0.511
Right-person rate	-	82.6%
Mobile coverage	-	46.9%
Disconnected rate	-	0.0%
Low-activity share	-	10.3%
Landline / mobile classification	-	100.0%
Country accuracy	-	79.3%
Geographic coverage	-	7

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	People Data Labs · #13 of 24
Profile match rate	-	95.9%
Identity accuracy	-	95.7%
Latency p50	-	672ms
Price / matched profile	-	$0.240
Current employer accuracy	-	93.6%
Move detection	-	40.0%
Decoy hit rate	-	0.0%
Job title accuracy	-	80.9%
Seniority label accuracy	-	65.8%
Location accuracy	-	93.6%
Work history completeness	-	7.7
Education completeness	-	95.7%
Skills present	-	89.4%
Social / profile URLs	-	95.7%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	-	66.7%

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	People Data Labs · #8 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	100.0%
Company name accuracy	-	95.6%
Latency p50	-	524ms
Price / matched company	-	$0.075
Industry accuracy	-	80.0%
Employee count ±20%	-	16.7%
HQ / location accuracy	-	75.6%
Description present	-	97.8%
Founding year accuracy	-	64.4%
Domains / social profiles	-	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	100.0%

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5	People Data Labs · not in suite
Current-job accuracy	93.1%	-
Fetch success	99.0%	-
Latency p50	3,350ms	-
Cost / profile	$0.0037	-
Move detection	94.2%	-
Still at previous employer	2.4%	-
Control accuracy	91.8%	-
Work history completeness	9.1	-
Education completeness	99.0%	-

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6	People Data Labs · not measured
Employer coverage	95.0%	-
Postings recall	59.3%	-
Latency p50	4,579ms	-
Cost / job	$0.0001	-
Closed or unknown postings	10.6%	-
Duplicate postings	33.8%	-
Location accuracy	96.3%	-
Posted-date accuracy	32.8%	-
Description present	0.0%	-
Coverage by country	91.7%	-

Questions about HarvestAPI vs People Data Labs

Which is better, HarvestAPI or People Data Labs?

No benchmark in this run measured both, so they have no metric in common. HarvestAPI is ranked on Live Profile Data and Jobs Data; People Data Labs is ranked on Email Data, Phone Data, People Data and Company Data.

How do HarvestAPI and People Data Labs compare in user reviews?

HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot; People Data Labs holds 4.3 / 5 across 17 reviews on G2. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.