The Swarm
The Swarm helps companies and investors use relationship data for sales, recruiting, and fundraising.
What The Swarm is
The Swarm helps companies and investors use relationship data for sales, recruiting, and fundraising. Its web app lets teams search a combined network, assess connection strength, and request email introductions. Users can import LinkedIn connections, Google contacts, and Google Calendar connections, and add former colleagues identified through work history. The service describes a database of 580M+ people, daily-refreshed job data, and real-time job-change monitoring across 100M+ profiles. Its data on 100M+ companies includes funding rounds, investor networks, valuation tracking, team-size changes, locations, and industries. Shared pipelines, lists, tags, and role-based access controls support team workflows. Integrations include HubSpot and Clay; API and MCP access can connect a Swarm network to tools and AI workflows. The free plan costs nothing and includes 10 connectors but no API access. Premium is $99 a month, billed at $99 per company per month, with 50 connectors and 12,000 API credits. Some actions use credits, and live profile enrichment is Enterprise-only.
Good
- Searches a combined team network and supports email intro requests.
- Imports LinkedIn, Google Contacts, and Calendar connections.
- Team pipelines, lists, tags, and role-based access controls.
- API and MCP access connect networks to tools and AI workflows.
Watch out
- Free plan has no API access.
- People and company exports cost one credit.
- Live profile enrichment is Enterprise-only.
- Premium overage costs $0.10 per credit.
Who it suits
The Swarm suits sales, recruiting, and fundraising teams that want to search shared connections and pursue warm introductions. Its listed use cases also include AI prospecting, sales intelligence, and VC deal sourcing.
Verdict
The Swarm combines relationship search, introduction requests, and team workflow tools, with integrations and API options on paid plans. Check connector and credit limits against your intended use; Premium costs $99 a month.
Plans and prices
From The Swarm's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 connectors · no API access · no CSV exports · core features |
| Premium 50 | $99 a month | 50 connectors · 1,000 API credits/month · $0.10/credit overage · monthly |
| Premium 150 | $199 a month | 150 connectors · 2,500 API credits/month · $0.08/credit overage · monthly |
| Premium 500 | $299 a month | 500 connectors · 10,000 API credits/month · $0.03/credit overage · monthly |
| Premium 1000 | $500 a month | 1,000 connectors · 50,000 API credits/month · $0.01/credit overage · monthly |
| Premium 2000 | $750 a month | 2,000 connectors · 100,000 API credits/month · $0.0075/credit overage · monthly |
| Premium | $2,990 a year | 50 connectors · 12,000 API credits included · $0.10/credit overage · full API · CSV exports · $2,990/company/year |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | custom connectors · custom API credits · custom overage rates |
The facts
Each one read from The Swarm's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- AI Network Mapper
- The Network Mapper API discovers and ranks warm paths into target companies and people for partner products.checked 15 Oct 2026
What it does
- API authentication
- API calls use an x-api-key header, and API access requires a team owner or administrator on an eligible plan.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API credit charging
- Searches are free; profile and company fetches cost one credit per returned record, while team relationships are free and partner Network Mapper responses cost one credit when non-empty.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API design
- The public API uses REST endpoints and JSON responses for profiles, companies and relationship data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API endpoints
- Documented endpoints cover profile search and fetch, company search and fetch, relationships and partner Network Mapper operations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance status
- The company says it supports GDPR, offers a DPA, maintains privacy-rights processes and was undergoing a SOC 2 Type II audit in June 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Connection strength
- The product displays relationship strength between team members and their connections.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The homepage says The Swarm will not rent or sell user data to third parties for advertising or promotional use.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Data limitations
- The API FAQ says phone numbers and company-revenue filters are unavailable, and fake profiles are not currently detected or filtered.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation index includes API references, endpoint schemas, OpenSearch mappings, examples, rate limits, pagination, MCP tools and data-subject-request APIs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Enriched profiles
- Profiles can include email addresses, skills, interests, work history and social links.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Flat-file hosting
- Flat files are offered as bulk database dumps for customers that want to host and ingest the data themselves.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founders
- Crunchbase identifies David Connors, Michal Bil and Olivier Roth as founders.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding record
- Crunchbase shows four funding rounds, including convertible-note entries, but masks the dollar amounts on the public page.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations and destinations include HubSpot, Clay, Attio, Unify, Instantly, Clarify, Airtable and Cargo.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site presents use cases including GTM and recruiting technology, AI prospecting, VC deal sourcing, sales intelligence, and warm-introduction paths.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Intro requests
- Users can send email introduction requests through connections held by other team members.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Swarm Holdings, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: data accuracy
- An independent 2026 comparison cites a G2 reviewer who estimated inaccurate data affected about 5% of prospects.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: email capture
- An independent comparison says The Swarm imports LinkedIn, Google Contacts and Calendar data but does not capture Outlook email automatically.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company data
- The homepage describes data on 100M+ companies, including funding rounds, investor networks, valuation tracking, team-size changes, locations, and industries.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists The Swarm as a privately held software-development company with 11–50 employees, headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2021.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company search
- Company-level filters support searching by company size and location to find potential introduction paths.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Limit: annual-price discrepancy
- An independent comparison notes that the $2,990 annual price is higher than twelve $99 monthly payments totaling $1,188.checked 15 Oct 2026
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