# Beauhurst, contact us, Subscription, GET /legalentity/gb/search: Business verification API

> Use company_registration_number or registered_name to identify a UK Legal Entity.

Beauhurst's Subscription plan lets you call the business verification API. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Beauhurst's docs list 2: Registered name, Entity number.
We haven't run Beauhurst through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
Beauhurst gives this plan's price on request. We rank 1,667 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies.
[SafeDeal's ₸50,000 (about $110) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/safedeal/50000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. SafeDeal's business verification API costs nothing beyond the plan price. SafeDeal's plan covers companies in Kazakhstan only. [ApiZero's CNY 399 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apizero/cny-399-yearly-diamond-membership-get-api-company-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: about $4.97.
[Scoris's €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €19 pack costs less up front than SafeDeal's ₸50,000 (about $110) monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-gb-search
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.beauhurst.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://platform.beauhurst.com/_api/v2.0/legalentity/gb/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.beauhurst.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.beauhurst.com/reference/legalentity_gb_search_list?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Beauhurst (https://www.beauhurst.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use company_registration_number or registered_name to identify a UK Legal Entity.

## Data

- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: Upon termination or expiry of your Subscription Order [...] You must also delete and ensure that every Data User deletes any and all Beauhurst Data obtained from Beauhurst through whatever means (except in the case of data that has been Published in accordance with the Data Policy).
- Use data: we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, non-exclusive licence to access and use the Beauhurst API, only for your own internal purposes in relation to integrating your software with the Beauhurst Platform to enable it to interact with the Beauhurst Platform on an automated basis [...] you agree that you shall not under any circumstances (without our prior written consent): disclose or make available the Beauhurst API (or any part thereof) to any third party, license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit the Beauhurst API, use the Beauhurst API to provide data compilation, aggregation, or any other services to any third party, enable or assist the use of the Beauhurst API by any third party [...] You may not systematically access, download, copy, store, Publish, or share Beauhurst Data with a view to creating or compiling any form of comprehensive collection, compilation, directory or database or any product or service that is directly or indirectly competitive with any product or service of ours, including [...] in relation to putting any Beauhurst Data into any CRM application.

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: company_registration_number, registered_name, registered_name_filter_type, modified_since, sort, limit, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /legalentity/gb/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Subscription
- Who can get it: business subscribers with a Fixed Term Subscription (not consumers, individuals or students)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

company registration number, true company ID, registered name, total results, results per page, offset, results on page

## Beauhurst's plans (1)

- [Beauhurst, contact us, Subscription, GET /legalentity/gb/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-gb-search/llms.txt): 18% complete

## Beauhurst's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /legalentity/de/search`: [Beauhurst, contact us, Subscription, GET /legalentity/de/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-de-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /legalentity/ie/search`: [Beauhurst, contact us, Subscription, GET /legalentity/ie/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-ie-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /legalentity/gb/search`: [Beauhurst, contact us, Subscription, GET /legalentity/gb/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-gb-search/llms.txt)

## Beauhurst's APIs (7)

- [Beauhurst: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/beauhurst/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: people search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/beauhurst/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-v1-companies/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /legalentity/de/{company_registration_number}/summary](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-de-company-registration-number-summary/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /legalentity/ie/{company_registration_number}/summary](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-ie-company-registration-number-summary/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /truecompany/{true_company_id}/summary](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-truecompany-true-company-id-summary/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /legalentity/gb/{company_registration_number}/summary](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-gb-company-registration-number-summary/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/people](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-v1-people/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /person/{person_id}/summary](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-person-person-id-summary/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company funding API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/transactions/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-v1-transactions-company/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company funding API pricing, 1 plan, GET /truecompany/{true_company_id}/fundraisings](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-truecompany-true-company-id-fundraisings/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies/quicksearch](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-v1-companies-quicksearch/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /truecompany/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-truecompany-search/llms.txt)
- [Beauhurst: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /legalentity/gb/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/beauhurst/contact-us-subscription-get-legalentity-gb-search/llms.txt)

## Beauhurst: business verification API alternatives

- [Scoris, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/contact-us/llms.txt): 18% complete, 1 week
- [Societe.com, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/societe-com/contact-us/llms.txt): 18% complete, 1 day
- [Jid, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v1/entities/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/jid/contact-us-enterprise-get-v1-entities-id/llms.txt): 18% complete, stored
- [Croma, contact us, Contract, POST /ve/seniat/rif/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/contact-us-contract-post-ve-seniat-rif-v1/llms.txt): 18% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://docs.beauhurst.com/reference/authentication-1.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.beauhurst.com/reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.beauhurst.com/reference/legalentity_gb_search_list.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.beauhurst.com/reference/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.beauhurst.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.beauhurst.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing