# data.calgary.ca, free, Application token: Business verification API

> This file includes the licensed businesses in the City of Calgary.

data.calgary.ca's Application token plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. data.calgary.ca's docs list 1: Principal address.
You get as many calls as you like.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 0.0 out of 100.
We rank 1,422 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 191 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,422 plans. [See the best free business verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris's €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €19 pack costs more up front than CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) and [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/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/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.calgary.ca/resource/vdjc-pybd.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.calgary.ca/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.calgary.ca (https://data.calgary.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- 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.

## 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: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This file includes the licensed businesses in the City of Calgary.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/vdjc-pybd.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Application token
- 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)

## data.calgary.ca's plans (2)

- [data.calgary.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 day
- [data.calgary.ca, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 day

## data.calgary.ca's calls (1)

- `GET /resource/vdjc-pybd.json`: [data.calgary.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.calgary.ca's APIs (2)

- [data.calgary.ca: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)
- [data.calgary.ca: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.calgary.ca: business verification API alternatives

- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companyverify/free-pilot-get-v1-uk-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/free-no-key-get-free-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [data.brla.gov, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-brla-gov/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 day

## 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://data.calgary.ca/Business-and-Economic-Activity/Calgary-Business-Licenses/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.calgary.ca/api/views/vdjc-pybd.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.calgary.ca/d/Open-Data-Terms/u45n-7awa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/q.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.calgary.ca/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing