# Entia, free: Business verification API

> Verify any business entity. Returns BORME, VIES, GLEIF, Wikidata, trust score.

Entia's TRACE plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Entia's docs list 2 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Registered name, Principal address.
We haven't run Entia through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,062 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. [See how many business verification API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[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/entia/free
- [Business verification API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://entia.systems/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.entia.systems/api/v1/v3/entity_lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://entia.systems/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://entia.systems/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Entia (https://entia.systems?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓ town or region

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: the same UTC day
- Also pays for: from the same budget: search_entities · verify_vat · search · fetch · get_entia_home

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Verify any business entity. Returns BORME, VIES, GLEIF, Wikidata, trust score.

## Data

- Countries: France, United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Czechia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Ireland
- Keep data: 30 days
- Use data: "The Client may use the API Outputs in accordance with the contracted tier and the applicable licence under the Data Licensing Framework." License Read: "Scope: consultation of Outputs via API or MCP for internal use by the Client or presentation to the Client's own human end-users." "Permitted: Consult entities, scores, JSON-LD and derived data. Display Outputs in the Client's internal interfaces (CRM, ERP, BI dashboards) accessible to Client employees. Display Outputs to the Client's end-users where such users are humans (not third-party AI agents) in an experience identifiable as the Client's. Persist Outputs in temporary cache for up to 30 days for performance optimisation." "Restricted: Do not redistribute. Do not expose in the Client's public API accessible to unauthenticated third parties. Do not use as a training dataset." "When the Client publicly exposes API-derived Outputs in a B2C product or in a publicly accessible page, the Client must include a reasonable attribution to ENTIA, unless the specific commercial contract expressly authorises the omission of attribution." "In addition to the general prohibitions of the Acceptable Use Policy, in relation to API use, the following are strictly prohibited:" "a) Making mass requests with the purpose of building a parallel, mirror or competing dataset of the ENTIA corpus. b) Replicating or systematically synchronising significant volumes of the entity catalogue. c) Combining API requests with scraping of public Entia Home content to reconstruct the corpus. d) Systematically distributing API Outputs to third parties without specific commercial licence." "a) Using API Outputs as a training, fine-tuning, persistent RAG indexing or distillation dataset for AI models for commercial purposes without an express License Train Enterprise granted by ENTIA. b) Reusing Outputs as ground truth for training competing models in entity verification, credit scoring, reputation or attribution." "a) Circumventing, bypassing or disabling authentication, rate-limiting, circuit breaker, WAF, CAPTCHA or any other protection layer. b) Using forged User-Agent or headers to evade control mechanisms. c) Using residential proxy networks, bot networks or anonymisation services with the specific purpose of evading Platform restrictions. d) Performing reverse engineering of scoring algorithms (Trust Score, Risk Score) or canonicalisation processes through massive queries designed to infer the underlying model (model extraction attack)." "a) Reselling, sublicensing or redistributing API access to third parties without a formal partner agreement with ENTIA. b) Building products in which the essential value proposition consists of exposing ENTIA Outputs under another brand without attribution and without licence. c) Operating as an intermediary that conceals ENTIA as the real source from the end-user, except in machine-to-machine (MCP) use cases where attribution is provided via source-chain." "a) Executing load tests, stress tests, competitive load testing or fuzz testing against production endpoints without ENTIA's express authorisation. b) Publishing comparative benchmarks based on unrepresentative or biased samples of the service." "It is prohibited to use API Outputs as the sole source for automated decisions producing significant legal effects on natural persons, within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR and Annex III of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)."

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 100 results a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: at 00:00 UTC on the 1st of each calendar month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: country
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/v3/entity_lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: TRACE
- Who can get it: anyone who registers with a work email, no card

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

found, company name, legal ID, country code, city, VIES status, BORME status

## Entia's plans (12)

- [Entia, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete
- [Entia, top-up from €0.50](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/top-up-from-0-50/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [Entia, €25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/25-pack/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [Entia, €100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/100-pack/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [Entia, €500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/500-pack/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [Entia, €9.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/9-90-monthly/llms.txt): $1.114 per 1,000, 18% complete
- [Entia, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/29-monthly/llms.txt): $65.267 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Entia, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/99-monthly/llms.txt): $44.562 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Entia, €399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/399-monthly/llms.txt): $44.90 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Entia, €1,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/1499-monthly/llms.txt): $16.868 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Entia, contact us, ENTERPRISE](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 45% complete
- [Entia, contact us, SCALE](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/contact-us-scale/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 45% complete

## Entia's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/v3/entity_lookup`: [Entia, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/free/llms.txt)

## Entia's APIs (3)

- [Entia: business verification API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/entia/free/llms.txt)
- [Entia: company discovery API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/entia/free/llms.txt)
- [Entia: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, GET /api/v1/v3/entity_lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/entia/free-trace-get-api-v1-v3-entity-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Entia: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, GET /api/v1/v3/verify_vat](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/entia/free-trace-get-api-v1-v3-verify-vat/llms.txt)

## Entia: business verification API alternatives

- [ApiZero, CNY 3,999 yearly, Enterprise membership, GET /api/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apizero/cny-3999-yearly-enterprise-membership-get-api-company-search/llms.txt): $1.092 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [Societe.com, €1,990 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/societe-com/1990-pack/llms.txt): $1.12 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [cnpj.ia.br, R$200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cnpj-ia-br/r-200-pack/llms.txt): $1.124 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 month
- [CompanyBook, €29.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companybook/29-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.125 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 day

## 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://entia.systems/.well-known/ai-pricing.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/api/v1/mcp/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/legal/en/api-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/legal/en/data-licensing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/mcp-company-lookup-ai-agents?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://entia.systems/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing