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ABN Lookup pricing and alternatives: business verification API

ABN Lookup's sitellms.txtABN Lookup: business verification API alternatives

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36% complete: 4 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesHalf of the 523 plans we rank by price cost $5.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 523 plans.
Plan: Free ABN Lookup's only plan
Call: GET /AbrXmlSearch.asmx/ABRSearchByNameAdvancedSimpleProtocol2017 ABN Lookup's only call
API: Business verification API ABN Lookup's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 hour old. You get records from ABN Lookup's copy of the register.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Registered name, Entity number, Status, Principal address.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You send Name to GET /AbrXmlSearch.asmx/ABRSearchByNameAdvancedSimpleProtocol2017. The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

ABN Lookup: business verification API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planABN Lookup, freeOpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookupCobalt Intelligence, free lookups, GET /v1/searchMBIE, freeRIK, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness36%100%91%45%45%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit10 calls, once20 callsno limit1,500,000 calls a month
Freshness1 hourlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who accepts the web services agreement and registers: the authentication GUID is emailed to them once their application is processednew accounts, once on signup, no credit card requiredanyoneCustomers with a signed MBIE API Access Agreement whose subscription request MBIE's API support team approvesanyone who signs the contract for the use of inquiry systems with RIK (an application in the e-Business Register portal, reviewed within five working days)

Business verification API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/DataDictionary
  2. abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceMethods
  3. abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceRegistration
  4. abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceResponse
  5. abr.business.gov.au/FAQ/ABNLookup
  6. abr.business.gov.au/Home/Disclaimer
  7. abr.business.gov.au/Tools/WebServices
  8. abr.business.gov.au/Tools/WebServicesAgreement
  9. abr.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearch/AbrXmlSearch.asmx?op=ABRSearchByNameAdvancedSimpleProtocol2017

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Registered name
  • Entity number
  • Tax ID, not in the answer
  • Entity type, not in the answer
  • Status
  • Good standing, not in the answer
  • Formation date, not in the answer
  • Registered agent, not in the answer
  • Principal addresstown or region
  • Officers, not in the answer
  • Filings, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe ABN Lookup web services allow you to integrate ABN Lookup validation and data into your own applications.
Data
Freshness1 hour
Keep datano limit, except information ABN Lookup notifies you has been withdrawn: "you must immediately take all reasonable action to delete all copies of that information in your possession or control"
Use data"We grant you, during the term of this agreement and subject to these terms and conditions, a non-exclusive non-transferable licence to access and use the ABN Lookup Web Services." "You may, at your own risk, provide relevant extracts of the ABN Lookup Web Services to third parties." "You must not misrepresent your rights under this agreement or use the ABN Lookup Web Services in any way that is or may be false, misleading or deceptive." "You must not represent or imply, or allow any associated person to represent or imply, that the Commonwealth endorses, approves, or is affiliated in any way with you or any use you may make of the ABN Lookup Web Services or any of your products or services." "You acknowledge that details that form part of the ABN Lookup Web Services may subsequently be withdrawn from the ABN Lookup database (for example to protect the privacy of an individual). If we notify you that specific information has been withdrawn you must immediately take all reasonable action to delete all copies of that information in your possession or control."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendName. Optional: Postcode, legalName, businessName, tradingName, NSW, SA, ACT, VIC, WA, NT, QLD, TAS, searchWidth, minimumScore, maxSearchResults, activeABNsOnly
MethodGET
Path/AbrXmlSearch.asmx/ABRSearchByNameAdvancedSimpleProtocol2017
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who accepts the web services agreement and registers: the authentication GUID is emailed to them once their application is processed
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

ABN, ABN status, matched name, name is current, match score, state, postcode, register last updated, retrieved at

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