Enrich Layer Review

Enrich Layer, rebranded from Proxycurl, is a B2B data API rather than a front-end app: it sells programmatic access to people, company, job, and school records for teams building enrichment into a CRM, recruiting tool, or internal pipeline. This review covers verified pricing, what the API actually offers, and where the evidence runs out.

Verdict at a glance

What is Enrich Layer?

It's an API-first data platform, not a lookup app you click around in. Enrich Layer's own site advertises a database of over a billion records — roughly 790 million people, 70 million companies, and 216 million contacts, refreshed by about 150 million records a month. Rather than searching for a single contact, teams call the API from code (or a CLI tool the vendor also ships) to fill gaps in existing records: adding verified emails to a lead list, pulling firmographic detail onto a company row, or checking live job postings for hiring-signal plays.

The Proxycurl-to-Enrich-Layer rebrand is confirmed in the vendor's own developer docs, which include a "migrating from Proxycurl" transition guide — worth knowing if you're evaluating this after seeing either name in older comparison posts.

How it works

There's no seat-based dashboard to onboard into; access is an API key plus documentation, with a CLI tool and Postman collection for testing calls before wiring them into a pipeline. Each of the seven APIs (People, Company, Jobs, Contact, Search, School, Logo) draws from a shared credit balance, and each call costs a different number of credits — a person lookup runs 1-3 credits, a company lookup 1-10, a job record 2, and a search query 3. That variability means your effective cost per enriched record depends heavily on which endpoints you call most, so it's worth mapping expected call volume by API type before picking a plan.

Enrich Layer pricing (2026)

Pay-as-you-go is the alternative to committing annually: $10 buys 100 credits ($0.10 each), scaling down to $0.0216 per credit at the $1,000 tier. The real-cost gap is the thing to notice — PAYG at the smallest bucket is roughly 6-10x more expensive per credit than an annual plan, so PAYG only makes sense for testing the API or genuinely light, irregular usage. Credits carry over and don't expire, with one catch: the vendor's terms void unused credits after 18 months without a payment on the account. There's no published free trial, so budget for at least a $10 PAYG top-up to test integration before committing to a plan.

What we could and couldn't verify

We verified pricing, credit costs, and feature descriptions directly from Enrich Layer's own site and developer docs. What we could not verify: independent third-party sentiment. Enrich Layer's G2 and Trustpilot listing pages both returned access-blocked responses rather than loadable review content, and no independent Reddit or forum threads with substantive discussion turned up in available searches. The vendor's own about page carries a single attributed customer quote, but a vendor-hosted testimonial isn't independent evidence and we're not treating it as one. In short: there's no verifiable public rating to cite here, positive or negative — a real gap for a tool this technical, where integration reliability and data freshness complaints (if any exist) would normally surface on G2 or developer forums.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Seven APIs under one credit pool covers people, company, jobs, contact, search, and school data without separate contracts
• Pay-as-you-go option exists for testing before an annual commitment
• Credits don't expire under normal, active use
• Rebrand from Proxycurl is transparently documented, not buried

Cons

• No independent reviews were locatable to confirm real-world reliability or support quality
• Per-call credit costs vary by endpoint (1-10 credits), making true cost-per-record hard to predict until you know your API mix
• No free trial; entry-level testing means an actual PAYG purchase
• Enterprise pricing is opaque until you talk to sales

Enrich Layer alternatives

Teams evaluating API-based enrichment typically also look at:

• Clearbit (now part of HubSpot as Breeze Intelligence) — company and contact enrichment tightly tied into the HubSpot ecosystem.
• People Data Labs — a comparably large people/company dataset sold API-first, similar developer-led positioning.
• Apollo.io — bundles enrichment with a built-in sales engagement and prospecting UI, useful if you want a front-end, not just an API.
• Clay — a workflow layer that often sits on top of enrichment APIs (including this one) rather than replacing them, for teams that want no-code orchestration.

Who should use Enrich Layer — and who shouldn't

Good fit: engineering-capable sales, recruiting, or RevOps teams that want to build enrichment directly into an existing CRM or internal tool, and are comfortable estimating credit usage across multiple endpoint types.

Poor fit: non-technical teams wanting a point-and-click enrichment app with no integration work; anyone who needs a documented third-party track record before trusting a vendor with production data flows, since none was verifiable here.