# data.gov.sg, free, Without API Key: Business verification API

> This collection provides datasets of registered entities in Singapore. Updated monthly, it is organized into 27 CSV files, one for each letter in the alphabet, and an 'others' dataset.

data.gov.sg's business verification API on its Without API Key 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, Principal address.
You get up to 1,036,800 calls a month.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 87.1 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-sg/free-without-api-key
- [Business verification API: 11 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/api-overview/api-rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/dataset-apis/search-and-filter-within-dataset?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.gov.sg (https://data.gov.sg?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: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 87.1
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 93
- Cost to get started score: 100
- 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: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This collection provides datasets of registered entities in Singapore. Updated monthly, it is organized into 27 CSV files, one for each letter in the alphabet, and an 'others' dataset.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Singapore
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Singapore Open Data Licence: "You can use, access, download, copy, distribute, transmit, modify and adapt the datasets, or any derived analyses or applications, whether commercially or non-commercially". "This Licence does not grant you any rights over: any personal data in the dataset, third party rights that the Agency is not authorised to license, and patents, trademarks and design rights." "You must not use the datasets in a way that suggests any official status or that an Agency endorses you or your Use of the datasets." Attribution: "You must include in your products, applications or websites that Use the datasets, a conspicuous notice acknowledging the source of the datasets and including a link to the most recent version of this Licence." API terms of service: "You can use, access, call, command, query or request the API, whether commercially or non-commercially", "Your right to Use APIs may be subject to additional terms, including limitations on Use, found on the individual pages of each API." "You shall not mis-present or mask your API Client's identity when Using the API." "You shall not interfere with or disrupt the API or the servers or networks providing the API. You shall not exploit any vulnerability of the API or servers, inject any unauthorised or malicious scripts, codes, commands, queries or requests, or introduce any Unauthorised Code through the API."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 1,036,800 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.4
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.08 s

## The call

- You send: resource_id. Optional: limit, offset, fields, filters, q, sort
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Without API Key
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 54 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, UEN, issuance agency ID, entity name, entity type description, business constitution description, company type description, PAF constitution description, entity status description, registration or incorporation date, UEN issue date, address type, block, street name, level number, unit number, building name, postal code, other address line 1, other address line 2, account due date, annual return date, primary SSIC code, primary SSIC description, primary user described activity, secondary SSIC code, secondary SSIC description, secondary user described activity, number of officers, former entity name 1, former entity name 2, former entity name 3, former entity name 4, former entity name 5, former entity name 6, former entity name 7, former entity name 8, former entity name 9, former entity name 10, former entity name 11, former entity name 12, former entity name 13, former entity name 14, former entity name 15, audit firm 1 UEN, name of audit firm 1, audit firm 2 UEN, name of audit firm 2, audit firm 3 UEN, name of audit firm 3, audit firm 4 UEN, name of audit firm 4, audit firm 5 UEN, name of audit firm 5

## data.gov.sg's plans (3)

- [data.gov.sg, free, Without API Key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-sg/free-without-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 month
- [data.gov.sg, free, With Dev API Key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-sg/free-with-dev-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 month
- [data.gov.sg, free, With Prod API Key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-sg/free-with-prod-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 month

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

- `GET /api/action/datastore_search`: [data.gov.sg, free, Without API Key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-sg/free-without-api-key/llms.txt)

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

- [data.gov.sg: business verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-sg/free-without-api-key/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.sg: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-sg/free-without-api-key/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.sg: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-sg/free-without-api-key/llms.txt)

## data.gov.sg: 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
- [ARES, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ares/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 14 days
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [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

## 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://data.gov.sg/collections/2/view?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4e3db8955fdcda6f9944097bef3d2724/view?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.sg/privacy-and-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/api-overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/api-overview/api-rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/api-overview/how-to-request-an-api-key?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/dataset-apis/search-and-filter-within-dataset?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing