California Secretary of State (CALICO) pricing: business verification API
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GET / California Secretary of State's only call for this APIAbout this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 6 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Good standing, Formation date.
- Nothing to pay. California Secretary of State (CALICO) limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
search-termtoGET /. You can also sendcbc/ v1/ api/ BusinessEntityKeywordSearch created-date-start,created-date-endandbegins-with. The call returns the register's record of the company. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
California Secretary of State (CALICO): business verification API alternatives
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.
| This planCalifornia Secretary of State (CALICO), free | Latinfo, free, GET /co/rues/registry/search | INSEE, free | Scoris, free | Milquery, free | BZSt eVatR, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 55% | 27% | 45% | 18% | 27% | 0% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | 1,296,000 calls a month | not published | 2,592,000 calls a month | not published | not published |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | 24 hours | 1 week | stored | live |
| Who can get it | anyone who creates an account on the developer portal, confirms the email and subscribes to a product | anyone with a GitHub or Google account, one account per person or organization | anyone | anyone | anyone | Holders of a German VAT ID (USt-IdNr.): "Abfrageberechtigt ist jeder Inhaber einer deutschen USt-IdNr." |
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.
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
- Status
- Good standing
- Formation date
- Registered agent, not in the answer
- Principal address, not in the answer
- Officers, not in the answer
- Filings, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | The details for the top 150 entities that match the entered criteria will be returned in JSON format. |
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| Countries | United States |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | search-term. Optional: created-date-start, created-date-end, begins-with |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityKeywordSearch |
| Plan | Developer portal subscription |
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| Who can get it | anyone who creates an account on the developer portal, confirms the email and subscribes to a product |
The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold
entity number, entity type, CID, filing date, status code, pending status code, status date, prior status code, status change, status description, management description, agent 1505 status code, entity name, foreign entity name, jurisdiction, entity street address 1, entity street address 2, entity city, entity state, entity ZIP code, agent name, agent address 1, agent address 2, agent city, agent state, agent ZIP code, mailing street address 1, mailing street address 2, mailing city, mailing state, mailing ZIP code, SI frequency, standing VCFCF, standing VCFCF date, standing SOS, standing SOS date, standing agent, standing agent date, standing FTB, standing FTB date