# Equivista, free anonymous request: Business verification API

> The API tries to search both by exact name and, if no company is found, by a fuzzy search.

Equivista's business verification API on its Free anonymous request plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Equivista's docs list 1 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Entity number.
We haven't run Equivista through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 935 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/equivista/free-anonymous-request
- [Business verification API: the 12 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://equivista.be/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://equivista.be/api/v1/companies/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://equivista.be/api/docs/company-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Equivista (https://equivista.be?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Entity number: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 day
- Also pays for: from the same budget: KBO information · Financial information · Employee information · Mandates · Held mandates · Shareholders · Participations

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The API tries to search both by exact name and, if no company is found, by a fuzzy search.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Belgium
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use Equivista for lawful internal professional, informational and analytical purposes, within the limits of your plan and applicable legislation. It is prohibited to: abuse the Service, disrupt, overload or circumvent its security measures, seek unauthorised access to another person's accounts, systems or data, use personal data for harassment, discrimination, identity fraud or unlawful profiling, automatically extract data at scale outside the API or expressly agreed usage limits, resell or republish the Service, API access or a substantial part of our compiled database without permission, transmit malware, harmful code or content that infringes the rights of others. Data from public sources shall remain subject to the rules of their holder and the applicable law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1 request a day
- Enough for: 1 call a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1
- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: name. Optional: locale
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free anonymous request
- Who can get it: anyone, with no key and no account: one distinct request per IP address a day

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

match, match type, company number, candidates, candidate company number, candidate name, candidate city, candidate postcode, candidate status, candidate similarity, truncated

## Equivista's plans (3)

- [Equivista, free anonymous request](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, stored
- [Equivista, free requests for registered users](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/equivista/free-requests-for-registered-users/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, stored
- [Equivista, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/equivista/contact-us/llms.txt): 9% complete, stored

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

- `GET /api/v1/companies/search`: [Equivista, free anonymous request](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt)

## Equivista's APIs (5)

- [Equivista: business verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt)
- [Equivista: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt)
- [Equivista: company headcount API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt)
- [Equivista: people search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request/llms.txt)
- [Equivista: company hierarchy API pricing, 3 plans, GET /api/v1/companies/{company_number}/participations](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request-get-api-v1-companies-company-number-participations/llms.txt)
- [Equivista: company hierarchy API pricing, 3 plans, GET /api/v1/companies/{company_number}/shareholders](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/equivista/free-anonymous-request-get-api-v1-companies-company-number-shareholders/llms.txt)

## Equivista: business verification API alternatives

- [CZ Agents, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cz-agents/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, stored
- [data.texas.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [GovFiles, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, stored
- [Leadgen Romania, free, No key, GET /lookup_business](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/leadgen-romania/free-no-key-get-lookup-business/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://equivista.be/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://equivista.be/api/docs/company-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://equivista.be/api/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://equivista.be/en/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing