# Brazilayer, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, GET /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}: Business verification API

> Is this company a Central Bank-authorized financial institution (bank, credit union, consortium manager, regulated society)? Includes the institution's officially VERIFIED internet domains (anti-phishing).

Brazilayer's Pay per call over x402 plan for the business verification API costs $5.00 per 1,000 companies. Brazilayer's docs list 1 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Entity number.
We haven't run Brazilayer through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,165 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $8.182 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 55% of the 1,165 plans.
[CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/15-monthly-paid-get-api-organizations-ein/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. CharityAPI's plan covers companies in the United States only. CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as CharityAPI's rate limit allows. [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 more up front than CharityAPI's $15 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/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-bcb-instituicao-cnpj
- [Business verification API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.brazilayer.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.brazilayer.com/v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.brazilayer.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Brazilayer (https://brazilayer.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Entity number: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Is this company a Central Bank-authorized financial institution (bank, credit union, consortium manager, regulated society)? Includes the institution's officially VERIFIED internet domains (anti-phishing).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Brazil
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: O acesso é aberto a qualquer cliente (humano ou agente de IA) mediante pagamento por chamada via x402. [...] É vedado usar o serviço para tentar reidentificar pessoas físicas a partir dos dados mascarados, ou para qualquer finalidade ilícita sob a lei brasileira (incluindo a LGPD, Lei nº 13.709/2018).

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: cnpj
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- Who can get it: anyone, human or AI agent, who pays each call in USDC on Base over x402

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

CNPJ root, authorized, institution type, institution name, institution segment, institution city, institution state, institution website, verified domains, source name, source loaded at

## Brazilayer's plans (1)

- [Brazilayer, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, GET /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-bcb-instituicao-cnpj/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 day

## Brazilayer's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/cnpj/situacao/{cnpj}`: [Brazilayer, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, GET /v1/cnpj/situacao/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-situacao-cnpj/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}`: [Brazilayer, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, GET /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-bcb-instituicao-cnpj/llms.txt)

## Brazilayer's APIs (3)

- [Brazilayer: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/bcb/instituicao/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-bcb-instituicao-cnpj/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/cnpj/empresa/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-empresa-cnpj/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/cnpj/empresa/{cnpj}/socios](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-empresa-cnpj-socios/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/cnpj/empresa/{cnpj}/completo](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-empresa-cnpj-completo/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/empresa/enriquecer/{cnpj}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-empresa-enriquecer-cnpj/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/cnpj/busca](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-busca/llms.txt)
- [Brazilayer: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/cnpj/socio/busca](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brazilayer/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-get-v1-cnpj-socio-busca/llms.txt)

## Brazilayer: business verification API alternatives

- [CelerAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Greeneris, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402, GET /v1/fr/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/greeneris/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-get-v1-fr-company/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 day
- [firmafind, €576 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/firmafind/576-yearly/llms.txt): $5.401 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://api.brazilayer.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.brazilayer.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.brazilayer.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.brazilayer.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.brazilayer.com/termos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.brazilayer.com/v1/bcb/amostra?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://brazilayer.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing