# datos.gov.co, free, With an app token: Business verification API

> Extracción que contiene los datos básicos del Registro Mercantil que administran las Cámaras de Comercio a nivel Nacional para Personas Naturales, Personas Jurídicas y Entidades Sin Animo de Lucro (ESADLs), que se encuentran sincronizados en el Registro Único Empresarial y Social (RUES).

datos.gov.co's business verification API on its With an app token plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Tax ID, 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 84.8 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/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token
- [Business verification API: 11 providers 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://www.datos.gov.co/resource/c82u-588k.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/www.datos.gov.co/c82u-588k?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: datos.gov.co (https://www.datos.gov.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Tax ID: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 84.8
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 93
- 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: Extracción que contiene los datos básicos del Registro Mercantil que administran las Cámaras de Comercio a nivel Nacional para Personas Naturales, Personas Jurídicas y Entidades Sin Animo de Lucro (ESADLs), que se encuentran sincronizados en el Registro Único Empresarial y Social (RUES).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Colombia
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: “Los datos y la información publicados en este Portal son públicos, por esta razón, conforme a los mandatos de la Ley 1712 de 2014, se podrá hacer uso, aprovechamiento y/o transformación de forma libre y sin restricciones, para hacer aplicaciones por parte de terceros y contenidos de su propia creación [...] El usuario que haga uso, aprovechamiento y/o transformación, de los datos y/o de la información publicada en este Sitio Web deberá hacer la cita textual: “Fuente: Portal de Datos Abiertos www.datos.gov.co”, y mencionar la fecha de la última actualización de los datos objeto del uso y/o transformación, cuando esta se encuentre incluida en el dato original. En cualquier caso, está prohibido desnaturalizar el sentido de los datos y/o de la información publicada en este portal, por lo tanto, no deben alterarse ni suprimirse los metadatos sobre la fecha de actualización y las condiciones de uso y/o transformaciones aplicables.” The dataset's license: “Creative Commons Attribution | Share Alike 4.0 International”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.06 s

## The call

- You send: $where. Optional: $select, $order, $limit, $offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/c82u-588k.json

## About the plan

- Plan: With an app token
- Who can get it: anyone with a Socrata account, which registers an application token in its profile

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

chamber of commerce code, chamber of commerce, commercial registration number, bidder registration number, business name, first surname, second surname, first name, middle name, acronym, identification type code, identification type, identification number, NIT, NIT check digit, main CIIU activity code, secondary CIIU activity code, other activity code 1, other activity code 2, registration date, last renewal date, last year renewed, validity date, cancellation date, company type code, company type, legal organization code, legal organization, registration category code, registration category, registration status code, registration status, legal representative identification type, legal representative identification number, legal representative name, last update date

## datos.gov.co's plans (2)

- [datos.gov.co, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 month
- [datos.gov.co, free, Without an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/datos-gov-co/free-without-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 month

## datos.gov.co's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /resource/c82u-588k.json`: [datos.gov.co, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

## datos.gov.co's APIs (3)

- [datos.gov.co: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)
- [datos.gov.co: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)
- [datos.gov.co: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datos-gov-co/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

## datos.gov.co: 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.oregon.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-oregon-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 7 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- 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/select.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/www.datos.gov.co/c82u-588k?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://herramientas.datos.gov.co/terminos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.datos.gov.co/Comercio-Industria-y-Turismo/Personas-Naturales-Personas-Jur-dicas-y-Entidades-Sin/c82u-588k?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.datos.gov.co/api/views/c82u-588k.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.datos.gov.co/resource/c82u-588k.json?$limit=2