# Dato Capital, free: Business verification API

> Search by name: Full-text search on company names, scoped by country.

Dato Capital's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address, Filings.
We haven't run Dato Capital through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 706 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less.
[Scoris's €99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.021. Scoris's €99 monthly plan covers companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €99 monthly plan covers up to 5,184,000 companies a month at no extra cost.
[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 Scoris's €99 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 our benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/free
- [Business verification API: 9 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.datocapital.com/docs/entitlements?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.datocapital.com/v3/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api.datocapital.com/docs/entitlements?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.datocapital.com/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#tag/companies/GET/v3/companies
- Sold by: Dato Capital (https://www.datocapital.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓
- Filings: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Single company profile · Filings for a company (most recent first) · Officers of a company (directors, secretaries, auditors, liquidators) · Resolve (country, registry id) to canonical UEC profile · Full-text person search · Single individual profile by opaque id · Typeahead · Country catalog · Caller identity, current plan, full entitlement summary

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search by name: Full-text search on company names, scoped by country.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Malta, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Panama, Bermuda
- Keep data: "The CLIENT is strictly prohibited to: [...] Store the Information in any database, [...] Copy the Information, including in transformed form, except where reproduction is strictly necessary for the use of the Information for the purposes provided in these TERMS" [...] "the right of use granted in respect of marketing databases or listings is for an initial period of three (3) months from the date on which each specific marketing database or listing is made available to the CLIENT, unless the parties establish a different term at the time of order. After this period, the CLIENT shall destroy or return any medium that contains the said marketing database or listing."
- Use data: "the Service Provider grants the CLIENT a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Information available, for the CLIENT's internal use and for informational purposes only." [...] "The CLIENT is strictly prohibited to: Transfer, assign, sublet, sub-license, sell or otherwise dispose of the Information, either for free or for profit, unless expressly authorised in writing by the Service Provider, Communicate or disclose the Information to third parties, except to authorised employees and only where strictly necessary for the exercise of their duties, Store the Information in any database, Engage in massive processing of the Information by electronic, computer or mechanical tools, Alter, transform or otherwise amend the Information, Copy the Information, including in transformed form, except where reproduction is strictly necessary for the use of the Information for the purposes provided in these TERMS, Remove or reuse the Information, partially or fully, contrary to the existing legislation on intellectual property, Use the Information for the benefit of third parties or for the provision of services to third parties, Request the Information knowing that it will be used by third parties." [...] "The Information refers only to the business activities of the persons included in it and may only be used in the business sphere." [...] "Without the required authorization, users and third parties are prohibited from: a) Systematically extracting or harvesting company records, director information, shareholder information, financial data, corporate relationships or any other information made available through Dato Capital. b) Creating, maintaining, updating or enriching third-party databases, business intelligence platforms, directories or commercial information services using systematically extracted Dato Capital content. c) Using protected website content or database materials for artificial intelligence model training, fine-tuning, dataset creation or other text and data mining activities where such use requires authorization. d) Circumventing or attempting to circumvent technical access restrictions, authentication mechanisms, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, IP restrictions or other measures implemented to protect Dato Capital's systems and databases. e) Redistributing, licensing, reselling or commercially exploiting information obtained through unauthorized automated extraction."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: country, language, page_size, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v3/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, original name, commercial name, country, country of origin, company number, secondary company number, incorporation date, published date, dissolution date, company type ID, company type code, company type local name, company type country, status ID, status, status closed, registered address line 2, registered address city, registered address region, registered address country, website, principal activity, corporate purpose, superseded by company ID, superseded reason, superseded by URL, profile URL, representatives URL, filings URL, connections URL, sources URL, total results, next page token, has more results

## Dato Capital's plans (4)

- [Dato Capital, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored
- [Dato Capital, €49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.221 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored
- [Dato Capital, €249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.14 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored
- [Dato Capital, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/contact-us/llms.txt): 64% complete, stored

## Dato Capital's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v3/companies`: [Dato Capital, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt)

## Dato Capital's APIs (5)

- [Dato Capital: business verification API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt)
- [Dato Capital: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt)
- [Dato Capital: people search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt)
- [Dato Capital: people enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/dato-capital/free/llms.txt)
- [Dato Capital: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v3/{country}/{company_number}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/dato-capital/free-get-v3-country-company-number/llms.txt)
- [Dato Capital: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v3/companies/{uec}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/dato-capital/free-get-v3-companies-uec/llms.txt)

## Dato Capital: business verification API alternatives

- [CNPJa, R$21,653.89 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cnpja/r-21653-89-yearly/llms.txt): $0.142 per 1,000, 36% complete, stored
- [Infyner, ₹60,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/infyner/60000-pack/llms.txt): $0.632 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [Prometiam, €999.90 yearly, Scale, POST /companies/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/prometiam/999-90-yearly-scale-post-companies-lookup/llms.txt): $1.875 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored
- [OpenSOSData, $1,000 monthly, Enterprise Cached, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/1000-monthly-enterprise-cached-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $3.14 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://api.datocapital.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.datocapital.com/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.datocapital.com/docs/entitlements?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.datocapital.com/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.datocapital.com/docs/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.datocapital.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://en.datocapital.com/terms-of-service.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.datocapital.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing