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GovFiles pricing and alternatives: business verification API

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91% complete: 10 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 646 plans by price. cnpjob's R$349 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.023. cnpjob's plan covers companies in Brazil only. cnpjob's R$349 monthly plan covers up to 3,000,000 companies a month at no extra cost.INSEE, CZ Agents and ARES are the best business verification API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of GovFiles's 3 plans
Call: POST /v2/companies/search GovFiles's only call
API: Business verification API GovFiles's only API

About this item

  • Stored. You get records from GovFiles's copy of the register. GovFiles doesn't say how old the records are.
  • 10 of the 11 key fields we check. Registered name, Entity number, Tax ID, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Registered agent, Principal address, Officers, Filings.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 results.
  • One call. You send q to POST /v2/companies/search. You can also send match_alternative_names, match_previous_names, jurisdictions, status, order_by, limit and page. The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GovFiles: business verification API alternatives

The table starts with GovFiles's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to GovFiles's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

GovFiles, top-upPrometiam, €99.90 yearly, Starter, GET /companies/searchOpenSOSData, $100 monthly, Starter Cached, POST /v1/lookupCNPJa, R$755.89 yearlyCompanyLens, £39 monthly
$ per 1,000 companies$10.00$9.368$10.00$10.327$10.401
Completeness91%64%100%36%45%
Billingpay firstyearlymonthlyyearlymonthly
Payany amount€99.90$100R$755.89£39
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000 calls a month10,000 calls a month1,200 results a month5,000 calls a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itusers in the United States, at least 18 years old, with an account and an API key, no card required to startanyoneanyoneanyone: "Any individual or legal entity may create an account on the Platform."anyone with an account

Every business verification API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. docs.govfiles.dev/api-reference/endpoints/getcredits
  2. docs.govfiles.dev/api-reference/endpoints/searchcompanies
  3. docs.govfiles.dev/api-reference/endpoints/searchcompanies.md
  4. docs.govfiles.dev/guides/company-schema
  5. docs.govfiles.dev/openapi.json
  6. govfiles.dev
  7. govfiles.dev/legal/terms
  8. govfiles.dev/pricing

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
  • Entity type
  • Status
  • Good standing, not in the answer
  • Formation date
  • Registered agent
  • Principal address
  • Officers
  • Filings
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search officers · Get a company by id · Start an ownership search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch every Secretary of State registry through one API. Look up a business by name or filing number. Get its legal name, status, formation date, officers, and registered agents in a consistent format across all 50 states. [...] Only pay for results. [...] Company & officer search: 1 credit per result
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these Terms and your payment of fees, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the data you retrieve from the Service for your internal business purposes, and to incorporate it into your own products and analyses. You may: store retrieved records, cache them, enrich them with your own data, and surface derived insights to your customers. You may not: resell, redistribute, sublicense, or otherwise make retrieved data available to third parties as a standalone dataset or data product without our prior written permission, systematically extract the Service in order to reconstruct or offer a substantially similar bulk dataset or competing company-data API. You agree not to: Circumvent metering, rate limits, or authentication, or share keys to evade per-account limits, Interfere with or unduly burden the Service, or probe it for vulnerabilities outside a good-faith security report, Use the Service to harass, stalk, dox, defraud, or threaten anyone, Use the data in violation of any law, including anti-discrimination, telemarketing, anti-spam, and consumer-protection law, Misrepresent GovFiles data as sourced from, or endorsed by, a government agency, Resell, redistribute, or sublicense the data except as section 5 permits. [...] BYOQ is not a consumer reporting agency, and GovFiles data is not a consumer report as those terms are defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. We do not collect the data for, and you may not use it for, any purpose that would make it a consumer report. In particular, you may not use GovFiles data, in whole or in part, as a factor in establishing an individual’s eligibility for credit or insurance for personal, family, or household purposes, for employment, for housing or tenancy, for a government license or benefit, or for any other purpose enumerated in 15 U.S.C. § 1681b.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 results
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: match_alternative_names, match_previous_names, jurisdictions, status, order_by, limit, page
MethodPOST
Path/v2/companies/search
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itusers in the United States, at least 18 years old, with an account and an API key, no card required to start
The 63 fields the plan's answer can hold

matched field, matched value, record kind, jurisdiction code, entity number, legal name, status, raw status, legal form, raw legal form, domicile, formation date, dissolution date, registered address, headquarters address, mailing address, names, name kind, name start date, name end date, parties, party type, party name, party address, role kind, role title, ownership percentage, role start date, role end date, filings, filing ID, filing title, filing date, filing type, filing URL, filing description, relationships, relationship kind, related entity name, related entity jurisdiction code, related entity number, relationship effective date, websites, phone, fax, industry code, industry code scheme, industry code description, EIN, SEC CIK, LEI, other identifiers, identifier scheme, identifier value, entity URL, registry search URL, as of date, total results, total results capped, results returned, next page, jurisdictions searched, page

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