# BESS x402, pay as you go: Business verification API

> Look up legal entities in the global LEI register (GLEIF) by company name or 20-character LEI: exact legal name, status, legal form, jurisdiction, registration number, address and LEI renewal date. Use for KYC, counterparty checks and company identification.

BESS x402's x402 pay per call plan for the business verification API costs $3.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. BESS x402's docs list 5: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Principal address.
We haven't run BESS x402 through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,561 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 58% of the 1,561 plans.
[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), [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) and [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/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/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/finance/lei`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1finance~1lei
- Sold by: BESS x402 (https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up legal entities in the global LEI register (GLEIF) by company name or 20-character LEI: exact legal name, status, legal form, jurisdiction, registration number, address and LEI renewal date. Use for KYC, counterparty checks and company identification.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: country, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/finance/lei

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, results returned, legal name, LEI, LEI status, status, category, legal form, jurisdiction, registration number, address, country code, LEI registered at, next renewal, record URL

## BESS x402's plans (1)

- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 45% complete

## BESS x402's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/finance/lei`: [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402's APIs (13)

- [BESS x402: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402: business verification API alternatives

- [Companyfacts, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companyfacts/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Greeneris, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402, GET /v1/ie/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/greeneris/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-get-v1-ie-company/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 1 day
- [hihat, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /lei](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/hihat/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-lei/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 7 days
- [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/entities/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 36% 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://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing