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

> A list of businesses with a valid licence to operate in Edmonton.

data.edmonton.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.edmonton.ca's docs list 2: Registered name, 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 79.1 out of 100.
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/data-edmonton-ca/free-application-token
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best 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.edmonton.ca/resource/qhi4-bdpu.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.edmonton.ca/qhi4-bdpu?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.edmonton.ca (https://data.edmonton.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 79.1
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 79
- Cost to get started score: 77
- Bundle score: 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 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A list of businesses with a valid licence to operate in Edmonton.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Open Government Licence - Edmonton, version 1.0 (July 2022), the portal's Terms of Use: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. You are free to: 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: 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 licence. If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton. The terms of this licence are important, and if you fail to comply with any of them, the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Information Provider, will end automatically. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use: Personal Information, Information or Records that are not accessible under applicable laws, third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license, the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider, and Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks. [...] 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
- Median: 0.05 s

## The call

- You send: $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/qhi4-bdpu.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Application token
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

licence number, business name, business address, business licence category, licence type, licence duration, original issue date, most recent issue date, licence expiry date, business improvement area, neighbourhood ID, neighbourhood, ward, latitude and longitude, licence count

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

- [data.edmonton.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-edmonton-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [data.edmonton.ca, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-edmonton-ca/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day

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

- `GET /resource/qhi4-bdpu.json`: [data.edmonton.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-edmonton-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

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

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

## data.edmonton.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
- [Paianjenul, free, check_vat](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/paianjenul/free-check-vat/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [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

## 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.edmonton.ca/Urban-Planning-Economy/City-of-Edmonton-Business-Licences/qhi4-bdpu?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.edmonton.ca/api/views/qhi4-bdpu.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.edmonton.ca/stories/s/City-of-Edmonton-Open-Data-Terms-of-Use/msh8-if28/?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.edmonton.ca/qhi4-bdpu?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing