Skip Trace — Owner Phones & Emails | Pay Only for Hits

Find phone numbers (ranked, with type & carrier and a 0–100 confidence score), emails, current & past addresses, relatives and associates — by name, address, phone number, email, or property owner. Up to 7 US people-search sources, cross-source corroboration, per-record provenance. You are charged only for verified matches — never for misses, never for a namesake in another state, and never for someone who doesn't match the address, phone or owner you searched.

Not for FCRA purposes (employment, credit, or tenant screening). Lawful B2B use only.

Pricing

Event	What you pay for	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
person-found	a verified person record (≥1 phone or email)	$0.007	$0.0065	$0.006	$0.005
Actor start	once per run, per GB of run memory (2 GB default = $0.02)	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01

Columns are your Apify subscription plan; higher plans get lower prices.

You are never charged for lookups that return nothing. In the default smart mode you get (and pay for) one verified record per person found. Set a hard per-run spending cap in the run options.

Right person, verified

Every search type is checked before anything is charged:

• Names — "Maria Garcia; Houston, TX" only expands listings whose name matches and whose current or past address is in that state (the same city ranks first). Namesakes elsewhere are skipped for free. Without a location, the name must still match.
• Addresses — only people whose address history includes the searched street address are charged, not everyone who ever appeared on the page.
• Phone numbers — only records that list the searched number.
• Owner + property — only the named owner. If the owner doesn't live at the property (absentee owners), smart mode looks them up by name in the property's city and state instead of billing a tenant.
• Emails — the people tied to the email are looked up by name and city; a record is charged only if it lists the searched email.

Every row carries input: your original input line, so results map back to your list even when an owner or email was resolved through a name.

Search modes

Mode	What it does	Best for
Smart (default)	Tries the fast sources (fastbackgroundcheck, searchpeoplefree, fastpeoplesearch) one at a time and stops as soon as the person is found with contact data	Bulk lists, dialers — lowest cost per person
Smart + Deep search	Same, but if the fast sources miss, also tries truepeoplesearch, familytreenow and radaris	Hard-to-find people; slower
All sources	Queries every selected source and returns one record per source that has the person	Maximum coverage, manual cross-checking

For a single merged record with phones ranked by how many sources list them, turn on cross-source corroboration.

Example output

Sample record, abbreviated — real rows also carry search_input, search_type, name_match, akas, associates and more.

{
  "name": "Jane Sample",
  "age": 54,
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "phones": [
    {
      "number": "(555) 010-0199",
      "line_type": "Wireless",
      "carrier": "AT&T",
      "confidence": 85,
      "confidence_reasons": ["base", "mobile", "reported 2 months ago"]
    },
    {
      "number": "(555) 010-0142",
      "line_type": "Landline",
      "carrier": "Frontier",
      "confidence": 28,
      "confidence_reasons": ["base", "landline", "reported 96 months ago"]
    }
  ],
  "emails": [{"address": "jane.sample@example.com", "status": "Current"}],
  "address_history": [
    {"address": "1200 Sample St, Austin, TX 78701",
     "county": "Travis County", "recorded": "Mar 2019 - Aug 2026"}
  ],
  "relatives": [{"name": "John Sample", "age": 57,
                 "relationship": "Spouse"}],
  "source": "fastpeoplesearch",
  "person_link": "https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/jane-sample_id_G000"
}

Benchmark (September 2026)

Default settings (smart mode, 2 GB), 18 searches: 16 common US names with city and state, 1 property address, 1 phone number.

Metric	Result
Searches with a verified record	17 of 18 (94%)
Name searches returning the searched name in the searched state (current or past address)	15 of 16 found, all 15 matching
Phones per record (mobile)	10.8 (3.9)
Emails per record	6.8
Whole run, all 18 searches	15 seconds

A small sample: indicative, not a guarantee. Results depend on what the sources hold for each person.

Inputs

Input	Format
Names	"Amalia Castillo; Dallas, TX 75228" (one per line)
Addresses	"13770 Paseo Central Ave; Horizon City TX 79928 | Maria Harper"
Phone numbers	"(208) 794-8562 | Alan Harper"
Owner names + property addresses	two lists paired line by line ("Maria Harper" + "13770 Paseo Central Ave; Horizon City TX 79928") — built for property-lead lists
Emails	"jane.sample@example.com" — reverse lookup returning the full record of the person who uses it

Options: search mode, deep search, sources (5 by default, 7 available), cross-source corroboration, direct connections, output profiles (dialer / address_verification / investigation / estate / raw), min phone confidence, concurrency and request-rate caps (automatic by default), and a fallback proxy (US residential by default).

FAQ

Is this FCRA-compliant? No — not for employment, credit, or tenant screening. Lawful B2B use only.

What if a source blocks my run? In smart mode the search simply moves on to the next source; in all-sources mode every search fans out at once. Either way one blocked source never zeroes your run, and skipped sources are reported in the run log. Requests go through the actor's own proxy network first, retry blocked pages on fresh IPs, and fall back to a residential proxy automatically.

When is truepeoplesearch used? In all-sources mode, or in smart mode with Deep search on. Many of its pages need a real browser to render, so it is slower than the fast sources.

Do I pay for empty results? Never.

Support

Run logs explain skipped records, blocked sources and their fixes. For anything else, contact the actor author via the Issues page — issues are answered quickly.

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