# California Secretary of State (CALICO), free: Business verification API

> The details for the top 150 entities that match the entered criteria will be returned in JSON format.

California Secretary of State's Developer portal subscription plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. California Secretary of State's docs list 6: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Good standing, Formation date.
California Secretary of State (CALICO) limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run California Secretary of State (CALICO) through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,735 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 227 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,735 plans. [See the best free business verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris' €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris' €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/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://calico.sos.ca.gov/cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityKeywordSearch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#page=6
- Sold by: California Secretary of State (CALICO) (https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Good standing: ✓
- Formation date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The details for the top 150 entities that match the entered criteria will be returned in JSON format.

## Data

- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: search-term. Optional: created-date-start, created-date-end, begins-with
- Method: GET
- Path: /cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityKeywordSearch

## About the plan

- Plan: Developer portal subscription
- 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

## California Secretary of State's plans (1)

- [California Secretary of State (CALICO), free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete

## California Secretary of State's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityKeywordSearch`: [California Secretary of State (CALICO), free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)

## California Secretary of State's APIs (3)

- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)
- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)
- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)

## California Secretary of State (CALICO): business verification API alternatives

- [Latinfo, free, GET /co/rues/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/latinfo/free-get-co-rues-registry-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [Scoris, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week
- [Milquery, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/milquery/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [BZSt eVatR, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bzst-evatr/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/apiguide?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/products?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/signup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing