# EuroValidate, free, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}: Business verification API

> VIES averages 70% uptime and requires SOAP. EuroValidate gives you a REST API with sub-100ms cached responses, per-country circuit breakers, and confidence scoring across all 27 EU member states — plus UK (GB) VAT numbers, checked against HMRC’s public API, on paid plans.

EuroValidate's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 2 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Principal address.
We haven't run EuroValidate through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 753 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less.
[EuroValidate's €149 monthly plan (/v1/validate)](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-validate/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: $0.017. EuroValidate's €149 monthly plan covers companies in 31 countries only.
[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/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-vat-vat-number
- [Business verification API: 9 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://eurovalidate.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.eurovalidate.com/v1/vat/{vat_number}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://eurovalidate.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.eurovalidate.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#/VAT%20Validation/get_vat_validation_v1_vat__vat_number__get
- Sold by: EuroValidate (https://eurovalidate.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Validate an IBAN · Validate an EORI number · Look up a company by LEI · Look up a company by VAT number · Unified validation — validate VAT, IBAN, and EORI in one call

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: VIES averages 70% uptime and requires SOAP. EuroValidate gives you a REST API with sub-100ms cached responses, per-country circuit breakers, and confidence scoring across all 27 EU member states — plus UK (GB) VAT numbers, checked against HMRC’s public API, on paid plans.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Australia
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose. Attempt to circumvent rate limits or authentication. Resell API access without authorization. Use the Service to perform denial-of-service attacks on upstream government APIs. Scrape or bulk-download data beyond your tier's rate limits. [...] The Service may not be accessed, used, or re-exported by: Residents of, or entities established in, countries subject to comprehensive EU or US sanctions [...] Persons or entities appearing on the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, the OFAC SDN list, or any equivalent restricted-party list. Users who would be in breach of EU Dual-Use Regulation (EU) 2021/821 or any applicable export-control law by accessing the Service.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: vat_number. Optional: country, requester_vat
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/vat/{vat_number}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a valid email address to register, but not residents of countries under comprehensive EU or US sanctions nor persons on sanctions lists

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

VAT ID, country code, validation status, company name, company address, request ID, consultation number, entity active, VAT registered, VAT registration date, format valid, confidence, source register, cached, response time, last verified, upstream status

## EuroValidate's plans (7)

- [EuroValidate, free, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €19 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/19-monthly-starter-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.043 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €49 monthly, Growth, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/49-monthly-growth-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €149 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/149-monthly-scale-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €180 yearly, Starter (annual), GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/180-yearly-starter-annual-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €468 yearly, Growth (annual), GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/468-yearly-growth-annual-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [EuroValidate, €1,428 yearly, Scale (annual), GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/1428-yearly-scale-annual-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours

## EuroValidate's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /v1/validate`: [EuroValidate, free, POST /v1/validate](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/free-post-v1-validate/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}`: [EuroValidate, free, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/eori/{eori_number}`: [EuroValidate, free, GET /v1/eori/{eori_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-eori-eori-number/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/batch`: [EuroValidate, €19 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/19-monthly-starter-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)

## EuroValidate's APIs (2)

- [EuroValidate: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/company/lei/{lei}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-company-lei-lei/llms.txt)
- [EuroValidate: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/company/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-company-vat-vat-number/llms.txt)
- [EuroValidate: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/vat/{vat_number}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/free-get-v1-vat-vat-number/llms.txt)

## EuroValidate: business verification API alternatives

- [CBEAPI, €1,290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbeapi/1290-yearly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 day
- [DanskCVRAPI, DKK 599 monthly, Enterprise, GET /companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-599-monthly-enterprise-get-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 minute
- [Societe.com, €8,890 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/societe-com/8890-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [NeuralVerge, $50 monthly, Base, POST /functions/v1/run-lei-lookup-companies-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/neuralverge/50-monthly-base-post-functions-v1-run-lei-lookup-companies-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 55% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://api.eurovalidate.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eurovalidate.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eurovalidate.com/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://eurovalidate.com/vat-validation-api.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing