# CBE2JSON, free: Business verification API

> Search enterprises by their name (denomination) or the name of one of their establishments. Uses 1 credit per enterprise returned.

CBE2JSON's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. CBE2JSON's docs list 3: Status, Formation date, Principal address.
We tested CBE2JSON on companies from Belgium. The best plan from CBE2JSON scores 79.5 out of 100. For our business verification API ranking, we test providers on a different list of companies. Don't compare this 79.5 with scores in [our business verification API ranking](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt).
This plan is free. We rank 634 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.469 or less per 1,000 companies. [200 business verification API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) [GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 1,000 results. GovFiles is the best business verification API in our benchmark for companies in any country.
[Jsonpage's €129 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/jsonpage/129-monthly-pro-get-v2-validate/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies, for 33 countries only, with no charge per call. You get as many companies as Jsonpage'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, for China only: about $4.97.
[eucompliance.tools' €20 monthly plan (/v1/vat)](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/20-monthly-business-get-v1-vat/llms.txt) covers any number of companies, and costs less up front than Jsonpage's €129 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/cbe2json/free
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.cbe2json.be/byDenomination`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.cbe2json.be/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: CBE2JSON (https://cbe2json.be?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find enterprise by CBE number · Find enterprises by activity, address or legal status · Find enterprise numbers by activity, address or legal status

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search enterprises by their name (denomination) or the name of one of their establishments. Uses 1 credit per enterprise returned.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: Belgium
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You covenant that you shall not (i) use the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services in any illegal or unlawful manner or for any illegal or unlawful purposes, or (ii) perform any act, which interferes with or disrupts the API and Services. [...] You agree that when using the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services, you will not: use any Deliverables, material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available by Creacore through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party, upload files which contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another, violate any applicable laws or regulations, use the Website, Subdomain URLs, Services or API in any manner that may overburden or threatens the integrity, performance or availability of the Website, Subdomain URLs, Services, create a false identity for the purpose of misleading Creacore or its vendors/suppliers, use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof, take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the API infrastructure, and (sub)license or (re-)sell our API and Services. [...] Unless otherwise specified, the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services are provided by Creacore for your personal and business uses only, and you may not use the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services for any other purposes. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, (sub-)license, create derivative works from, (re-)sell or transfer the API and/or Services which are provided to you by Creacore. [...] the KBO Open Data licence excludes direct marketing.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 50 credits a month
- Enough for: 50 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.14 s

## The call

- You send: data.denomination. Optional: data.limit, data.offset
- Method: POST
- Path: /byDenomination

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account, for personal or business use (the terms' 19.1)

## The 57 fields the plan's answer can hold

enterprise number, status, status description, juridical situation, juridical situation description, type of enterprise, type of enterprise description, juridical form, juridical form description, start date, activity group, activity group description, NACE version, NACE code, NACE code description, activity classification, activity classification description, denomination, denomination language, denomination language description, denomination type, denomination type description, contact entity, contact entity description, contact type, contact type description, contact value, address type, address type description, country in Dutch, country in French, ZIP code, municipality in Dutch, municipality in French, street in Dutch, street in French, house number, box, extra address info, date striking off, establishment number, establishment start date, establishment denominations, establishment contacts, establishment activities, establishment addresses, total results, limit, offset, has next page, total capped, dataset source, dataset date, credits used, credits remaining, credits limit, credits reset time

## CBE2JSON's plans (5)

- [CBE2JSON, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/9-monthly/llms.txt): $10.128 per 1,000, 27% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/29-monthly/llms.txt): $3.263 per 1,000, 27% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.228 per 1,000, 27% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/contact-us/llms.txt): 27% complete, 24 hours

## CBE2JSON's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /byDenomination`: [CBE2JSON, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)

## CBE2JSON's APIs (2)

- [CBE2JSON Business verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)
- [CBE2JSON Company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)

## CBE2JSON: business verification API alternatives

[CBE2JSON alternatives: every business verification API plan in Belgium compared](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-api-pricing/belgium.md)

We list CBE2JSON's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to CBE2JSON in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [CBE2JSON, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.228 per 1,000, 27% complete, 24 hours
- [DataAndAPIs, $6.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dataandapis/6-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.559 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [NeuralVerge, $1,000 monthly, Enterprise, POST /functions/v1/run-lei-lookup-companies-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/neuralverge/1000-monthly-enterprise-post-functions-v1-run-lei-lookup-companies-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [VerifNow, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [Tanod, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tanod/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 27% 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 2026-11-12.

- https://www.cbe2json.be/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/swagger.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/terms_of_service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing