FindCompanyDomain.com vs Clearbit Name to Domain API (2026)

⚠ Clearbit API Discontinued — April 30, 2025

FindCompanyDomain.com vs Clearbit Name to Domain API

What happened to the free Clearbit API thousands of developers relied on — and the purpose-built replacement that restores everything it offered, and then some.

By FindCompanyDomain.com Team · Updated January 2026 · 16 min read

⚡ Quick Status Check

Free API (new users)Discontinued

Legacy accessUnsupported

Paid replacement$3,600+/yr

Self-serve APIGone

FindCompanyDomain.comActive ✓

Price per query$0.0025

Credits expireNever

Section 01

What Happened to Clearbit's Name to Domain API

In December 2023, Clearbit was acquired by HubSpot. What followed was a systematic dismantling of the free tools that made Clearbit a developer favourite.

Was: Free API

Discontinued April 30, 2025

Free up to 50,000 requests/month

Simple REST API — no credit card

Instant self-serve signup

No subscription, no contract

● Discontinued

Now: Enterprise Only

Breeze Intelligence by HubSpot

$3,600–$100,000+/year

Requires paid HubSpot subscription

Sales call required — no public pricing

Monthly credits reset with no rollover

⚠ Enterprise contract

FindCompanyDomain.com

Purpose-built replacement

$0.0025/query — $0.0012 at volume

REST API open to all users

Self-serve, instant, no contract

Credits never expire

● Fully active

The gap it leaves: The combination that made Clearbit's API indispensable — free, high-volume, reliable, simple REST API with no subscription — no longer exists. FindCompanyDomain.com restores that model with better accuracy, confidence scoring, and a price that doesn't require a sales call to discover.

Section 02

What Clearbit Costs Now vs FindCompanyDomain.com

There is no public pricing page for Clearbit today. No pay-as-you-go option. No self-serve tier. To get API access, you need a HubSpot subscription, a sales call, and a contract.

Clearbit Free (What You Had)

Discontinued April 30, 2025

No longer available for new users

Legacy users: unsupported, no SLA

Could stop working at any time

Clearbit Paid (Their Ask Now)

$3,600/yr+

Up to $100,000+/year at scale

Annual contract — no monthly option

Requires paid HubSpot subscription

Credits reset monthly — no rollover

Sales call required for any quote

FindCompanyDomain.com

$0.0025

per query · $0.0012 at volume

✓

No subscription, no contract

✓

Credits never expire

✓

500 free credits, no card required

✓

REST API open to all users

Volume / Month

Clearbit (Enterprise)

FindCompanyDomain.com

200 lookups/month

$300+/month (min contract)

$0.50

3,000 lookups/month

$300+/month (min contract)

$7.50/month

10,000 lookups/month

$1,000s+/month

$12–$25/month

50,000 lookups/month

Custom enterprise contract

~$60/month at volume

Section 03

Accuracy: Where FindCompanyDomain.com Goes Further

Clearbit's free API used a single-factor matching algorithm — fine for straightforward names, but known to struggle with the edge cases common in real B2B lists.

FindCompanyDomain.com

94%

Standard company names

Edge case accuracy

87%

vs industry avg 75–80%

Purpose-built algorithms. Same price per query — no surcharge for hard cases.

Clearbit Free (Legacy)

~85%

Standard names — single-factor match

Edge case accuracy

~70%

No context parameters

No confidence scores. No country or industry context. Best-guess single output.

Clearbit Paid / Breeze

N/A

Cannot access without $3,600+/yr contract

Availability

No public accuracy benchmarks. No self-serve testing. Annual contract required to evaluate.

The key difference: FindCompanyDomain.com accepts country and industry alongside the company name, allowing it to disambiguate matches that single-factor algorithms cannot resolve. Legal entity names, subsidiaries, generic names like "National Holdings" or "Apex Group," and international companies with special characters are handled at the standard per-query rate.

Section 04

Full Feature Comparison

A complete side-by-side: the legacy free API, the current enterprise product, and FindCompanyDomain.com.

Feature

Clearbit (Legacy)

Clearbit (Paid)

FindCompanyDomain.com

📋 Status & Access

Current status

Discontinued

Enterprise only

Fully active

Availability

Legacy customers only

Paid HubSpot contract

✓ Self-serve, instant

Self-serve signup

✕ Sales call required

✓

Support

✕ Unsupported

Custom enterprise

✓ Active

💰 Pricing

Pricing model

Was free

Annual contract

Pay-as-you-go

Entry cost

N/A — discontinued

$3,600–$100,000+/yr

$0.0025/lookup

Public pricing page

N/A

✕ No

✓ Yes

Free credits

50,000/mo (discontinued)

✕ None

✓ 500, no card required

Credits expire

N/A

⚠ Monthly resets

✓ Never

Subscription required

No (was free)

✕ Yes — annual

✓ No

⚙️ Technical

REST API access

⚠ Was free, now gone

⚠ Contract required

✓ All users

Bulk CSV processing

Limited

✓ 50,000 rows/batch

Processing speed

Variable

~500 lookups/min

Real-time webhook support

Basic

✓ Sub-second

Context parameters (country/industry)

✕ No

⚠ Limited

✓ Yes

🎯 Accuracy & Output

Confidence scoring

✕ No

✓ Yes

Match method in output

✕ No

✓ Yes

Edge case specialization

Basic

✓ Purpose-built

International / legal entity names

Basic

✓ Multi-language normalization

GDPR compliant

✓

Section 05

The Migration: It's an Afternoon of Work

The API structure is nearly identical to Clearbit's. Swap the endpoint, update the API key, add optional context parameters for better accuracy. Done.

Old Clearbit API call

# Clearbit Name to Domain (discontinued)
GET https://autocomplete.clearbit.com
    /v1/companies/suggest?query=Stripe

Authorization: Bearer {clearbit_api_key}

# Returns: name, domain, logo
# No confidence score
# No context parameters

FindCompanyDomain.com equivalent

# FindCompanyDomain.com — drop-in replacement
GET https://api.findcompanydomain.com
    /v1/lookup?name=Stripe&country=US

Authorization: Bearer {fcd_api_key}

# Returns: domain, confidence score,
# match method, logo
# Optional: country, industry params

Migration is typically an afternoon of work. Swap the endpoint, update the API key, and optionally add country and industry parameters to improve accuracy on ambiguous inputs — a feature Clearbit's free API never offered. The response adds a confidence score and match method that weren't available in the Clearbit version.

Section 06

Real-World Scenario: Rebuilding a Clearbit-Powered Pipeline

A RevOps engineer built a HubSpot enrichment workflow that called Clearbit's Name to Domain API whenever a new company was added to CRM. 3,000 lookups/month. It cost nothing. Now it's broken.

✕ Rebuilding with Clearbit (Current)

Contact HubSpot sales for a Breeze Intelligence quote

Negotiate annual contract — minimum ~$3,600/year

Requires paid HubSpot subscription at the right tier

Navigate updated API endpoints and new authentication

Accept monthly credit resets — unused credits lost every month

✕ Estimated cost: $3,600–$10,000+/year for 3,000 lookups/month

✓ Rebuilding with FindCompanyDomain.com

Get 500 free credits immediately to test on real data

Swap API endpoint in existing code — structure nearly identical to Clearbit

Cost for 3,000 lookups/month: $7.50/month at standard pricing

Credits never expire — lighter months don't waste money

✓ Migration time: a few hours · Annual cost: under $100

Section 07

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions that come up every time a team migrates from Clearbit's deprecated API.

Is Clearbit's Name to Domain API really gone?

For new users, yes. The free implementation was discontinued on April 30, 2025. For existing paid Clearbit customers, a legacy version exists — but it is explicitly described as unsupported, meaning no bug fixes, no SLA, and no guarantee it stays available. Building any new workflow on an unsupported legacy API is a significant reliability risk.

What about Breeze Intelligence — isn't that Clearbit's replacement?

Breeze Intelligence is HubSpot's enterprise data enrichment product, built on Clearbit's technology. It requires a paid HubSpot subscription, is priced for enterprise teams (starting ~$3,600/year), and is not a self-serve API tool. If you need a simple, affordable API to convert company names to domains, Breeze Intelligence is not a viable replacement.

Does FindCompanyDomain.com offer the same API structure as Clearbit?

Very close. Both are simple GET requests with a company name parameter that return a domain. FindCompanyDomain.com adds confidence scoring, match method details, and optional context parameters (country, industry) that improve accuracy on ambiguous inputs — features Clearbit's free API never offered. Migration is typically an afternoon of work.

I only need a few hundred lookups a month. Is it still worth it?

Absolutely. 200 lookups per month costs $0.50. There's no subscription, no minimum spend, and your credits never expire. It's the only viable option for low-volume users who want a reliable, maintained API without committing to an enterprise contract.

I also used Clearbit for full enrichment data — emails, firmographics. What now?

FindCompanyDomain.com is domain-only by design. For full contact enrichment, the recommended approach is to use FindCompanyDomain.com for accurate, cheap domain discovery first — then pass those verified domains into dedicated enrichment tools like Apollo or Hunter. This modular stack costs significantly less than any all-in-one platform at enterprise contract pricing.

What if I'm an existing Clearbit customer with legacy access?

Your legacy access is explicitly unsupported — no bug fixes, no SLA, no guarantee of continued availability. Building critical workflows on an unsupported API exposes you to sudden outages with no recourse. Migrating to FindCompanyDomain.com now, before a failure disrupts your pipeline, is significantly lower risk than waiting for it to break.

The Verdict

Fill the Clearbit Gap — Permanently

Clearbit's Name to Domain API was one of the most useful free developer tools in B2B data. It's gone — discontinued for new users, unsupported for existing ones, and replaced by an enterprise product that requires a five-figure annual contract most teams cannot justify.

FindCompanyDomain.com restores everything the Clearbit API offered — reliable domain lookup, a clean REST API, high-volume processing — and improves on it with confidence scoring, edge case specialization, context parameters, and a pricing model that will never hold your workflow hostage behind a sales call.

💰

Price per lookup

$0.0025 — no contract

🎯

Edge case accuracy

87% vs 70% (Clearbit legacy)

⚡

Migration effort

An afternoon — near-identical API

∞

Credits

Never expire, no minimum spend

If Clearbit's shutdown left a hole in your stack, this is how you fill it — permanently.

Start with 500 free credits — no card required →