# data.wprdc.org, free: Business verification API

> Current and historical business licenses for the City of Pittsburgh ranging from entertainment to contract workers.

data.wprdc.org's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. data.wprdc.org's docs list 3: Registered name, Formation date, Principal address.
data.wprdc.org limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run data.wprdc.org through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
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-wprdc-org/free
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/business-contractors-trades?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/help_show?name=datastore_search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.wprdc.org (https://data.wprdc.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Registered name: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## 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: Current and historical business licenses for the City of Pittsburgh ranging from entertainment to contract workers.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Creative Commons CCZero, the dataset's licence, and the Data Use Agreement: "UCSUR hereby grants User permission to access and use the Data from the WPRDC pursuant to the license terms, restrictions, or designations placed upon the Data by the Data owner and depositor. This grant shall not include permission to use Non-Public Information which is inadvertently deposited in the WPRDC." The licence: "[...] for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes (the "Waiver") [...] No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: resource_id "e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1". Optional: filters, q, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, records_format, include_next_page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, license number, license type name, NAICS code, business name, license state, initial issue date, most recent issue date, effective date, expiration date, parcel number, street address, email address, primary phone number, insurance expiration date, number of buildings, number of employees, number of large signs, number of small signs, total number of signs, number of handicap spaces, number of non-leased public spaces, number of revenue-generating spaces, total number of spaces, number of jukeboxes, number of gambling machines, number of rooms, number of seats, number of pool tables, number of units

## data.wprdc.org's plans (1)

- [data.wprdc.org, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-wprdc-org/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 week

## data.wprdc.org's calls (1)

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

## data.wprdc.org's APIs (2)

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

## data.wprdc.org: 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
- [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 2026-11-09.

- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1&limit=2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1&limit=40000&fields=_id&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/help_show?name=datastore_search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/business-contractors-trades?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing