# GLEIF, free: Business verification API

> The 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.

GLEIF's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address, Filings.
You get as many calls as you like.
Half 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free
- Get it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU
- Request: `GET https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU
- Sold by: GLEIF (https://www.gleif.org)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓
- Filings: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Data score is 0.
- Price score: 100
- Data score: 0
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0.

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The 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

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The 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 for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: filter[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
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/lei-records

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## GLEIF's plans (1)

- [GLEIF, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored

## GLEIF's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v1/lei-records`: [GLEIF, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt)

## GLEIF's APIs (1)

- [GLEIF: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt)

## GLEIF: business verification API alternatives

- [OpenSOSData, free cached, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-cached-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [OneShot, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/oneshot/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, stored
- [Infyner, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/infyner/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored

## 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.

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