About Spokeo People Intelligence API
Spokeo’s people intelligence platform delivers robust people, contact, social, and property data to enrich your understanding of customers and leads, so you can target communications, customize your outreach, and generate more revenue.
Common Use Cases and Industries
Contact Enrichment
Update and enrich customer databases
Risk Management and Fraud Investigation
Validate identities, prevent account takeover
Law Enforcement and Security
Investigations, skip tracing, finding persons of interest
Real Estate and Property Data
Verify ownership, leads, and resident details
Accounts Receivable and Collections
Locate debtors, improve recovery rates
Nonprofits and Fundraising
Reach donors, verify supporter data
E-commerce and SMB
Reduce fraud, improve outreach success
How Spokeo People Intelligence API is Different
Unprecedented Scale and Coverage
The Spokeo API delivers people intelligence at unmatched scale, with 300+ unique data attributes across 300M+ US adults, 630M+ emails, 540M+ social profiles, 500M+ phones, and 130M+ addresses. This coverage is powered by 5,200+ data sources and 60B+ public records.
Entity Resolution, Not Waterfall
Other providers return the first available match, even if it’s wrong. Spokeo corroborates across multiple trusted sources to maximize accuracy.
Industry-Leading API Security
Protect your data with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and ES256 elliptic-curve encryption, plus TLS and 256-bit end-to-end encryption. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS standards.
Dependable Service Levels
Sub-200ms response times and enterprise-grade SLAs. Built and operated in the US, and trusted by leading businesses and government agencies since 2006.
Verified Badge for Data Accuracy
Spokeo’s Verified Badge identifies data that has been cross-checked against authoritative sources — including government datasets and other official records — to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness.
Best Badge for Data Freshness
Spokeo’s Best Badge highlights data identified by machine learning models as the most current and reliable available, ensuring that your contacts and identity checks remain up to date.
Request a Test Key
Want to test out Spokeo for free before you commit? Email us at apisupport@spokeo.com or call us at (888) 585-2370 to get your test API key, then run a test.