Fonoa pricing: business verification API, POST /
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45% complete: 5 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
Contact us, Contact sales, POST /
Plan: Contact sales Fonoa's only plan
Call:
POST / one of Fonoa's 4 callsPOST /Contact us, Contact salesinstant-lookup/ v1/ find POST /Contact us, Contact saleslookup/ v2/ batch-validations POST /Contact us, Contact saleslookup/ v2/ single-searches POST /Contact us, Contact saleslookup/ v2/ single-validations
API: Business verification API Fonoa's only API
About this item
- Stored. You get records from Fonoa's copy of the register. Fonoa doesn't say how old the records are.
- 5 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Tax ID, Status, Formation date, Principal address.
- No public price. You ask Fonoa for one.
- One call. You send
country_andiso_ code tax_toidentification_ number POST /. You can also sendinstant-lookup/ v1/ find fuzzy_andmatching.name fuzzy_. The call returns the register's record of the company.matching.match_ legal_ name_ only - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Fonoa: business verification API alternatives
Fonoa alternatives: other business verification API providers by price
We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives stored data.
| This planFonoa, contact us, Contact sales, POST /instant-lookup/v1/find | Infocredit Group, contact us, API4ALL access, GET /a4a/3.0/api/report/kyb/code/{code} | OpenCorporates, contact us, Public benefit | Credify, contact us, Comercial, POST /pjrazao | Croma, contact us, Contract, POST /us/ct-sos/business/v1 | |
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| Completeness | 45% | 55% | 55% | 45% | 45% |
| Billing | contact | contact | contact | contact | contact |
| Freshness | stored | stored | stored | stored | stored |
| Who can get it | businesses that contact Fonoa for an API subscription key, its terms bar a direct competitor of Fonoa | customers whose Infocredit account manager issues a username, password and project code during onboarding | investigative journalists, NGOs, universities and anti-crime-and-corruption research groups, and projects that improve the use, quality and understanding of legal-entity data or shine a light on the business world for the greater good | Companies with a CNPJ that sign a Proposta Comercial | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Registered name
- Entity number, not in the answer
- Tax ID
- Entity type, not in the answer
- Status
- Good standing, not in the answer
- Formation date
- Registered agent, not in the answer
- Principal address
- Officers, not in the answer
- Filings, not in the answer
| Billing | contact |
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| Aggregators | none |
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| Their pitch | Fonoa Instant Lookup delivers lightning-fast business TIN validation, giving you all the benefits of Fonoa Lookup - accurate VAT status checks and compliance assurance - with instant response times. |
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| Freshness | stored |
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| Countries | Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, Poland, France, Colombia, Germany, Spain |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | 2.2. [...] we hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services solely for your internal business operations. 2.3. You shall not, and shall not permit the Authorized Users to: a) [...] i) attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of the Software in any form or media or by any means, or ii) attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Software, or b) access all or any part of the Services in order to build a product or service which competes with the Services, or c) use the Services to provide services to third parties, except where explicitly indicated on the Site, or d) license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the Services available to any third party except you or the Authorized Users, or e) attempt to obtain, or assist third parties in obtaining, access to the Services and/or Documentation, other than as provided under these Terms of Service. [...] you may not access the Services if you are our direct competitor, except with our prior written consent. In addition, you may not access the Services for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes. |
| Per second | 100 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | country_iso_code, tax_identification_number. Optional: fuzzy_matching.name, fuzzy_matching.match_legal_name_only |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /instant-lookup/v1/find |
| Plan | Contact sales |
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| Who can get it | businesses that contact Fonoa for an API subscription key, its terms bar a direct competitor of Fonoa |
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold
found tax ID, found in official database, tax registered, tax ID format, registered name, expected name, name similarity percentage, name matched field, business status, is business, legal entity type, registration type, registration date, deregistration date, address, tax registered in VIES, country-specific fields, last updated