# gankdat, free: Business verification API

> One UK company by number or name, live from the official Companies House API — status, SIC codes, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, charges, latest filings, corporate PSCs. Officers and individual PSCs never ingested. Cached 24 h, one credit a lookup.

gankdat's free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. gankdat's docs list 6 of the 11 fields on our checklist: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address.
We haven't run gankdat through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,062 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/gankdat/free
- [Business verification API: the 13 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://gankdat.com/v1/data/uk-company-profiles`
- API key: with the plan, on https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-company-profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: gankdat (https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓ town or region

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: UK planning applications · UK procurement notices · UK contract awards (Contracts Finder) · UK sanctions designations · EU procurement notices (TED) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) · UK corporate insolvency notices · UK new company incorporations · UK food hygiene ratings (FSA) · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) — changes since a date · UK food hygiene ratings (FSA) — changes since a date · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) — changes since a date · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) — changes since a date · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) — changes since a date · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) — changes since a date · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) — changes since a date · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) — changes since a date · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) — changes since a date

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One UK company by number or name, live from the official Companies House API — status, SIC codes, accounts and confirmation-statement due dates, charges, latest filings, corporate PSCs. Officers and individual PSCs never ingested. Cached 24 h, one credit a lookup.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use API responses in your own products, analyses, and services, including commercially, subject to the dataset's source licence above. [...] uk-companies: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-company-profiles: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-food-hygiene: Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Food Standards Agency, rating artwork is not covered and is not served [...] You may not resell, mirror, or redistribute the API itself (i.e. offering our service, or wholesale access to it, as your product). Where a dataset runs Blind Mode, you may not use it to attempt to identify or profile individuals, alone or combined with other sources. [...] No unlawful use, and no use that disrupts, overloads, reverse-engineers, or circumvents the service's security, rate limits, or metering. No attempting to re-identify individuals from any data, alone or combined with other sources.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of company_number or company. Optional: page, per_page, q
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/data/uk-company-profiles

## About the plan

- Plan: free
- Who can get it: anyone with an email address, for business and professional use

## The 54 fields the plan's answer can hold

company name, company number, company status, company status detail, company type, company subtype, jurisdiction, date of creation, date of cessation, SIC codes, previous company names, previous name ceased on, locality, region, postal code, country, registered office is in dispute, last accounts type, last accounts period end date, accounts next due, accounts overdue, confirmation statement last made up to, confirmation statement next due, confirmation statement overdue, has charges, has insolvency history, has been liquidated, total charges, outstanding charges, satisfied charges, charge code, charge status, charge classification, charge created on, charge satisfied on, total filings, filing date, filing category, filing subcategory, filing type, filing description, active controllers, ceased controllers, individual controllers, corporate controller name, corporate controller kind, corporate controller legal form, corporate controller country registered, corporate controller registration number, corporate controller natures of control, corporate controller notified on, corporate controller ceased on, link to company, last refreshed at

## gankdat's plans (6)

- [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [gankdat, £5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/5-monthly/llms.txt): $6.668 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [gankdat, £23 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/23-monthly/llms.txt): $6.134 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [gankdat, £79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/79-monthly/llms.txt): $5.267 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [gankdat, £239 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/239-monthly/llms.txt): $3.187 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours

## gankdat's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/data/uk-company-profiles`: [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/data/uk-company-profiles`: [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## gankdat's APIs (4)

- [gankdat: business verification API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)

## gankdat: business verification API alternatives

- [Eckari, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/entities/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eckari/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-entities-lei-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [firmafind, €1,728 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/firmafind/1728-yearly/llms.txt): $3.241 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 day
- [Scavio, $288 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scavio/288-yearly/llms.txt): $3.429 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [Societe.com, €16.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/societe-com/16-90-monthly/llms.txt): $3.804 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 2026-11-07.

- https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-company-profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing