# Foretak, free: Business verification API

> Turn a company name into candidate identifiers

Foretak's business verification API on its Hosted API plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. Foretak's docs list 5 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Registered name, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address.
Foretak limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 90.4 out of 100.
Half of the 935 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 72 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 935 plans. [See how many business verification API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[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/foretak/free
- [Business verification API: the 12 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://foretak.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.foretak.dev/v1/{country}/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.foretak.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#/companies/search_companies_v1__country__search_get
- Sold by: Foretak (https://foretak.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓ town or region

## Score

- Overall score: 90.4
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 100
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 80
- Performance score: 15

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Full report for one registered entity · Next filing deadline of each kind · Check an identifier's format and checksum · List supported countries and registries

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn a company name into candidate identifiers

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: Norway, United Kingdom
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: NLOD requires attribution, and that obligation passes to you. If you republish, display or redistribute this data, credit Brønnøysundregistrene as the source — for example: Contains data from Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysundregistrene, under NLOD 2.0. [...] Where a register marks an entity as protected against direct marketing (advertising_protected: true), that marking is a condition of our passing the record on, and of you passing it on further. Keep it with the contact details: do not use or forward email, phone or an address from such a record for direct-marketing purposes, and do not strip the corresponding notes sentence when you relay the record. [...] Do not bulk-download the register through this service. [...] We may throttle, block or withdraw access to protect the service or to comply with the upstream register's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.69 s

## The call

- You send: country, q. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/{country}/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Hosted API
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

country, registry, query, ID, name, legal form code, legal form, status, city, municipality, registration date, is subunit, confidence, confidence basis, source URL, total results, truncated, cached, fetched at, hint

## Foretak's plans (1)

- [Foretak, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/foretak/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours

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

- `GET /v1/{country}/search`: [Foretak, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/foretak/free/llms.txt)

## Foretak's APIs (2)

- [Foretak: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/foretak/free/llms.txt)
- [Foretak: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/foretak/free/llms.txt)

## Foretak: business verification API alternatives

- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companyverify/free-pilot-get-v1-uk-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Hong Kong Companies Registry, free, GET /cr/api/api/v1/api_builder/json/foreign/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/hong-kong-companies-registry/free-get-cr-api-api-v1-api-builder-json-foreign-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [data.sf.gov, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-sf-gov/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://api.foretak.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.foretak.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.foretak.dev/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.foretak.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.foretak.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.foretak.dev/v1/countries?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://foretak.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing