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GLEIF pricing and alternatives: business verification API

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64% complete: 7 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesHalf of the 523 plans we rank by price cost $5.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 523 plans.
Plan: Free GLEIF's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/lei-records GLEIF's only call
API: Business verification API GLEIF's only API

About this item

  • Stored. You get records from GLEIF's copy of the register. GLEIF doesn't say how old the records are.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address, Filings.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You send filter[entity.legalName] to GET /api/v1/lei-records. The call returns the register's record of each company you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GLEIF: business verification API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

This planGLEIF, freeOpenSOSData, free cached, POST /v1/lookupOneShot, freeOpenCorporates, freeInfyner, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness64%100%55%55%27%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0₹0
Enough forno limit100 calls a month200 calls, once200 calls a month15,000 calls a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneevery accountanyone, consumer or business, not in a country under a U.S. government embargo or on a U.S. restricted-party list, with a new personal workspace (its console claims the credit)open data projects: the product or database the data goes into is also released under an open licence (share-alike attribution)anyone with an Infyner account and an API key

Business verification API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. api.gleif.org/api/v1/fields
  2. api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter%5Bentity.legalName%5D=Apple%20Inc.
  3. documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU
  4. gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-api
  5. gleif.org/en/meta/lei-data-terms-of-use

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
  • Tax ID, not in the answer
  • Entity type
  • Status
  • Good standing, not in the answer
  • Formation date
  • Registered agent, not in the answer
  • Principal address
  • Officers, not in the answer
  • Filings
Score
Overall score0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Data score is 0.
Price score100
Data score0
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0.
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe GLEIF API gives developers access to the full LEI Data search engine functionality, including filters, full-text and single-field searches of legal entity and ownership data, and “fuzzy” matching of relevant data fields such as names and addresses.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe data available through the Access Service are provided under the CC0 licence, see CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0). [...] By using our Access Service, you agree with the following terms: (a) You acknowledge that you do not have, and will not acquire, any intellectual property or other proprietary rights in the LEIs and LE-RD as provided by the Access Service, and that you do not, and will not, claim such rights. (b) You agree that you access LEIs and/or LE-RD on http(s)://www.gleif.org only by way of using the Access Service, and that you refrain from trying to obtain access to our Global LEI Repository or any other of our files or databases other than through using the Access Service as offered by us and, in particular, that you refrain from trying to circumvent technical restrictions or infecting the Global LEI Repository with malware of any kind. (c) [...] You agree that you shall refrain from creating, in whatever way, the impression that, data and/or services, except the original LEI and LE-RD downloaded by you through the Access Service, are provided or supported or authorized or granted or otherwise associated by or with GLEIF. You further agree to refrain from any actions or statements which may mislead the public and/or your customers to believe that any products or services provided by you, even if LEIs and LE-RD may be a part of such product or service, are services or products of GLEIF or any LOU, or that you are part of, or in a special relationship to, GLEIF and/or the GLEIS and/or any LOU.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Per second1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendfilter[entity.legalName]. Optional: filter[entity.jurisdiction], filter[entity.legalAddress.country], filter[entity.registeredAs], filter[fulltext], filter[lei], filter[entity.status], filter[registration.status], filter[entity.category], page[number], page[size], sort
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/lei-records
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 65 fields the plan's answer can hold

LEI, legal name, legal name language, other names, transliterated other names, legal address lines, legal address number, legal address number within building, legal address mail routing, legal address city, legal address region, legal address country, legal address postal code, legal address language, headquarters address lines, headquarters address number, headquarters address number within building, headquarters address mail routing, headquarters address city, headquarters address region, headquarters address country, headquarters address postal code, headquarters address language, other addresses, registered at, registered at (other), registered as, jurisdiction of formation, general category, sub category, legal form code, legal form (other), associated LEI, associated entity name, entity status, expiration date, expiration reason, successor LEI, successor entity name, successor entities, entity creation date, event group type, event type, event status, event effective date, event recorded date, event validation documents, initial registration date, last update date, registration status, next renewal date, managing LOU, corroboration level, validated at, validated as, other validation authorities, BIC, MIC, OCID, QCC, GEM, S&P Global company ID, conformity flag, golden copy publish date, total results

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