# FastCAC, top-up: Business verification API

> Search CAC's register by name or number for free, and get a business's full record with its officers and shareholders for ₦200.

FastCAC's Prepaid wallet plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. FastCAC's docs list 4 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Registered name, Entity number, Status, Formation date.
This call is free. FastCAC limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run FastCAC 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 and 73 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,062 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 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/fastcac/top-up
- [Business verification API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fastcac.com/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.fastcac.com/v1/businesses/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fastcac.com/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.fastcac.com/api-reference/lookup/search-cacs-register?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: FastCAC (https://fastcac.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: ✓
- Formation date: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search CAC's register by name or number for free, and get a business's full record with its officers and shareholders for ₦200.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: Nigeria
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: use FastCAC for anything unlawful or fraudulent, or to register a business in someone else's name without their consent, submit false documents or another person's ID, try to break, overload, copy or get unauthorised access to FastCAC or its data, scrape our tools or use them to build a competing service.

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/businesses/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Prepaid wallet
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract (terms, section 2), live keys need the business verified on its CAC record with an owner or admin's BVN and a face check

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

registration number, register, register label, company name, status, active, registration date, has more

## FastCAC's plans (1)

- [FastCAC, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/fastcac/top-up/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/businesses/search`: [FastCAC, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/fastcac/top-up/llms.txt)

## FastCAC's APIs (2)

- [FastCAC: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/fastcac/top-up/llms.txt)
- [FastCAC: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fastcac/top-up/llms.txt)

## FastCAC: business verification API alternatives

- [eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/free-no-key-get-free-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Charity Commission, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charity-commission/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [W System EU Business Data, free, Without a key, POST /company/batch](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/w-system-eu-business-data/free-without-a-key-post-company-batch/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.fastcac.com/api-basics/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.fastcac.com/api-reference/lookup/search-cacs-register?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.fastcac.com/going-live?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.fastcac.com/guides/balance?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.fastcac.com/guides/business-lookups?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://fastcac.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://fastcac.com/api/cac-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://fastcac.com/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://fastcac.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing