data.calgary.ca pricing: business verification API
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- Free, Application tokenApplication token$0.00 per 1,000
- Free, No application tokenNo application token$0.00 per 1,000
GET / resource/ vdjc-pybd.json data.calgary.ca's only callAbout this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get records from data.calgary.ca's copy of the register.
- 1 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Principal address.
- Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
- One call. You send
$qtoGET /. You can also sendresource/ vdjc-pybd.json $where,$limit,$offsetand$order. The call returns the register's record of the company. - Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
data.calgary.ca: business verification API alternatives
data.calgary.ca alternatives: every business verification API plan in Calgary compared
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This plandata.calgary.ca, free, Application token | INSEE, free | CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search | eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company | Brreg, free | data.brla.gov, free, Application token | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 9% | 45% | 55% | 55% | 64% | 27% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | no limit | not published | 60,000 calls a month | 150 calls a month | no limit | no limit |
| Freshness | 1 day | 24 hours | 24 hours | live | live | 1 day |
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile | anyone | anyone | businesses only (the terms' Unternehmer within § 1 UGB, not consumers) | anyone | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile |
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.
- data.calgary.ca/Business-and-Economic-Activity/Calgary-Business-Licenses/vdjc-pybd
- data.calgary.ca/api/views/vdjc-pybd.json
- data.calgary.ca/d/Open-Data-Terms/u45n-7awa
- dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/q.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html
- dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.calgary.ca/vdjc-pybd
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Registered name, not in the answer
- Entity number, not in the answer
- Tax ID, not in the answer
- Entity type, not in the answer
- Status, not in the answer
- Good standing, not in the answer
- Formation date, not in the answer
- Registered agent, not in the answer
- Principal address
- Officers, not in the answer
- Filings, not in the answer
| Overall score | 0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0. |
|---|---|
| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 0 |
| Cost to get started score | 77 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| Performance score | 0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0. |
| $ 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 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | This file includes the licensed businesses in the City of Calgary. |
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| Freshness | 1 day |
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| Countries | Canada |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Open Government Licence - City of Calgary, the dataset's licence: "2. The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. [...] 3. Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: 4. Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this license. [...] 6. This licence does not grant you any right to use: a. Personal Information, b. Information or Records that are not accessible under applicable laws, c. third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license, d. the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider, and e. Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks. 7. This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| Enough for | no limit |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /resource/vdjc-pybd.json |
| Plan | Application token |
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| Who can get it | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile |
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold
business licence ID, trade name, home-based business indicator, address, community district code, community name, licence types, licence first issued date, licence expiry date, licence status, latitude and longitude, global ID, city quadrant, Calgary community region, ward, community district (2021 boundaries), ward (2021 boundaries), ward (2013-2017 boundaries)