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

> List of co-operatives that are registered at the Registry of Joint Stock Companies as of June 8, 2026. Information includes: registry identification number, co-operative name, year of incorporation, mailing address. This list also identifies whether a co-operative is incorporated as a non-profit or for-profit association, and the co-op type [...]

data.novascotia.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.novascotia.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 71.0 out of 100.
We rank 1,667 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 220 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,667 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 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-novascotia-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.novascotia.ca/resource/k29k-n2db.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.novascotia.ca/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.novascotia.ca (https://data.novascotia.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 71.0
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 58
- 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: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: List of co-operatives that are registered at the Registry of Joint Stock Companies as of June 8, 2026. Information includes: registry identification number, co-operative name, year of incorporation, mailing address. This list also identifies whether a co-operative is incorporated as a non-profit or for-profit association, and the co-op type [...]

## Data

- Freshness: as of 2026-06-08
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Nova Scotia Open Government Licence, the dataset's licence on its metadata: "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 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 [...] you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia" "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: 0.06 s

## The call

- You send: $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/k29k-n2db.json

## About the plan

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

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

registry ID, co-operative name, incorporation year, address, town, province or state, postal code, non-profit or for-profit, co-operative type

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

- [data.novascotia.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, as of 2026-06-08
- [data.novascotia.ca, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, as of 2026-06-08

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

- `GET /resource/k29k-n2db.json`: [data.novascotia.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

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

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

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

- [Latinfo, free, GET /co/rues/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/latinfo/free-get-co-rues-registry-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [data.virginia.gov, free, Public datastore, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Business Trusts (State Corporate Commission)](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-virginia-gov/free-public-datastore-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-business-trusts-state-corporate-commission/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, as of 2024-11-14
- [OpenMercantil, free, Gratuito, GET /api/v1/company/{slug}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openmercantil/free-gratuito-get-api-v1-company-slug/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, as of 2026-08-21

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://data.novascotia.ca/Business-and-Industry/Nova-Scotia-Co-operatives/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/k29k-n2db.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.novascotia.ca/resource/k29k-n2db.json?$limit=2&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/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.novascotia.ca/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://novascotia.ca/opendata/licence.asp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing