# data.gov.au, free: Business verification API

> Select data from the ASIC's Company Register will be uploaded each week to www.data.gov.au. The data made available will be a snapshot of the register at a point in time.

data.gov.au's business verification API on its Open data plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date.
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 82.8 out of 100.
Half of the 793 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 60 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 793 plans.
[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 less up front than EuroValidate's €149 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-gov-au/free
- [Business verification API: 11 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#ckanext.datastore.logic.action.datastore_search
- Sold by: data.gov.au (https://data.gov.au?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 82.8
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 100
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 11

## 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: Select data from the ASIC's Company Register will be uploaded each week to www.data.gov.au. The data made available will be a snapshot of the register at a point in time.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Countries: Australia
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. [...] Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits." Data.gov.au's terms: "This website requires that you use the following form of attribution: Attribution to: Organisation name, jurisdiction, title of dataset, date the content was sourced, dataset URL", "You agree to use Data.gov.au only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of Data.gov.au by any third party."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.35 s

## The call

- You send: resource_id "5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2". Optional: filters, q, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format
- Method: GET
- Path: /data/api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Open data
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, company name, ACN, company type, company class, company sub class, status, registration date, deregistration date, previous state of registration, state registration number, modified since last report, current name indicator, ABN, current name, current name start date, relevance rank, total results

## data.gov.au's plans (1)

- [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 week

## data.gov.au's calls (1)

- `GET /data/api/3/action/datastore_search`: [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au's APIs (3)

- [data.gov.au: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au: 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
- [Scoris, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [data.gov.il, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-il/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2&q=qantas&limit=2
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_show?id=asic-companies&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing