# Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/entities/lei/search: Business verification API

> Find Legal Entity Identifiers by company name, optionally within one country — the identifier bridge between national company registers.

Eckari's x402 plan for the business verification API costs $3.00 per 1,000 companies. Eckari's docs list 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Registered name, Entity number, Status, Principal address.
We haven't run Eckari through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 1,062 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 58% of the 1,062 plans.
[CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/15-monthly-paid-get-api-organizations-ein/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. CharityAPI's plan covers companies in the United States only. CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as CharityAPI's rate limit allows.
[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), [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/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search
- [Business verification API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://eckari.com/capabilities?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.eckari.com/v1/entities/lei/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://eckari.com/capabilities/entity.lei.search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Eckari (https://eckari.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find Legal Entity Identifiers by company name, optionally within one country — the identifier bridge between national company registers.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: Worldwide
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: When meta.attribution is present the source licence requires it: republish it with the data.

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: country, limit, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/entities/lei/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account: each call is paid in USDC on Base (eip155:8453)

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, name, legal name language, registration status, entity status, jurisdiction, address, registration authority, registration number, match source, total results

## Eckari's plans (1)

- [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/entities/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live

## Eckari's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /v1/companies/us/resolve`: [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/companies/us/resolve](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-companies-us-resolve/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/companies/uk/search`: [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/companies/uk/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-companies-uk-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/entities/lei/search`: [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/entities/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search/llms.txt)

## Eckari's APIs (3)

- [Eckari: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/domains/{domain}/expiry](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-domains-domain-expiry/llms.txt)
- [Eckari: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/domains/{domain}/registration](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-domains-domain-registration/llms.txt)
- [Eckari: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/entities/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search/llms.txt)
- [Eckari: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/entities/lei/{lei}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-lei/llms.txt)
- [Eckari: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies/uk/{company_number}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-companies-uk-company-number/llms.txt)
- [Eckari: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies/us/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-companies-us-id/llms.txt)

## Eckari: business verification API alternatives

- [NeuralVerge, $1,000 monthly, Enterprise, POST /functions/v1/run-lei-lookup-companies-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/neuralverge/1000-monthly-enterprise-post-functions-v1-run-lei-lookup-companies-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [eucompliance.tools, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), GET /x402/vat/{vat_id}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-get-x402-vat-vat-id/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [W System EU Business Data, €49 monthly, Pro, GET /company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/w-system-eu-business-data/49-monthly-pro-get-company/llms.txt): $2.206 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Scavio, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scavio/250-monthly/llms.txt): $2.941 per 1,000, 45% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.eckari.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.eckari.com/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eckari.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eckari.com/capabilities?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eckari.com/capabilities/entity.lei.search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eckari.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing