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Charity Commission pricing and alternatives: business verification API

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36% complete: 4 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesHalf of the 626 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 52 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 626 plans.INSEE, Companies House and Annuaire des Entreprises are the best business verification API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Register of Charities Charity Commission's only plan
Call: GET /searchCharityName/{charityname} Charity Commission's only call
API: Business verification API Charity Commission's only API

About this item

  • Live. Charity Commission reads the register when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Registered name, Entity number, Status, Formation date.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send charityname to GET /searchCharityName/{charityname}. The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Charity Commission: business verification API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planCharity Commission, freeOpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookupCobalt Intelligence, free lookups, GET /v1/searchMBIE, freeOpenRegistry, free, GET /api/v1/companies
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness36%100%91%45%45%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published10 calls, once20 callsno limitnot published
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a Developer Hub account (name, email address and password), one subscription each, the Developer Hub is not for use by children under the age of 16new accounts, once on signup, no credit card requiredanyoneCustomers with a signed MBIE API Access Agreement whose subscription request MBIE's API support team approvesanyone

Every business verification API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/developer/apis/register-of-charities-api/operations/get-getsearchcharitybyname?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
  2. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/developer/apis/register-of-charities-api/schemas/1614959693466?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
  3. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/developer/apis?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
  4. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/developer/products?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
  5. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/hub
  6. api-portal.charitycommission.gov.uk/terms
  7. register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/
  8. register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/documentation-on-the-api

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, not in the answer
  • Status
  • Good standing, not in the answer
  • Formation date
  • Registered agent, not in the answer
  • Principal address, not in the answer
  • Officers, not in the answer
  • Filings, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Charity Commission API lets you search for and retrieve the latest information on charities in England and Wales.
Data
Freshnesslive
CountriesEngland, Wales
Keep datano limit, but you must delete an individual's personal data when the Charity Commission notifies you that the law requires it
Use dataYou will not use the Developer Hub or the APIs, or any API response to encourage or promote illegal activity or breach third-party rights. You may not misrepresent the source or ownership of data returned set out in an API response. You must acknowledge the source of the data set out in an API response in accordance with the terms of the Open Government Licence [...] you must not use or share any personal data for marketing purposes without obtaining the data subject's prior consent [...] When accessing the Developer Hub or using the APIs, you may not: Perform an action with the intent of introducing to CCEW services any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, malware, or any items of a destructive nature. Interfere with or disrupt the APIs or the servers or networks providing the APIs. Remove, obscure, or alter any of these Terms or any links to or notices of these Terms. [...] You will not make any statement regarding your use of the Developer Hub or an API which suggests partnership with, sponsorship by, or any endorsement by CCEW without CCEW's prior written approval
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendcharityname
MethodGET
Path/searchCharityName/{charityname}
About the plan
PlanRegister of Charities
Who can get itanyone with a Developer Hub account (name, email address and password), one subscription each, the Developer Hub is not for use by children under the age of 16
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

organisation number, entity number, subsidiary suffix, registered name, status, registration date, removal date

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