# HowToRomania, free: Business verification API

> Checks CUI, name, registration number, VAT status, company status, address, IBAN and (optional) legal representative an AI extracted from an invoice or contract against ANAF and ONRC, verdict per field and a confidence score (pass / review / reject).

HowToRomania's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields: Registered name, Entity number, Tax ID, Entity type and 7 more. HowToRomania's docs list none of the 11.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), the best plan from HowToRomania scores 68.5 out of 100.
This plan is free. We rank 719 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 or less per 1,000 companies. [211 business verification API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) [GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 1,000 results. GovFiles is the best business verification API in our benchmark for companies in any country.
[Jsonpage's €129 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/jsonpage/129-monthly-pro-get-v2-validate/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies, for 33 countries only, with no charge per call. You get as many companies as Jsonpage's rate limit allows. [ApiZero's CNY 399 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apizero/cny-399-yearly-diamond-membership-get-api-company-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: about $4.97.
[eucompliance.tools' €20 monthly plan (/v1/vat)](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/20-monthly-business-get-v1-vat/llms.txt) covers any number of companies, and costs less up front than Jsonpage's €129 monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) and [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/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/howtoromania/free
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://howtoromania.io/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.howtoromania.io/v1/validate`
- API key: with the plan, on https://howtoromania.io/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.howtoromania.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#validate_extracted_company_data
- Sold by: HowToRomania (https://howtoromania.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Extra fields: legal representative match: +$0.00 · invoice check: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Company lookup · Financial statements · Legal representatives (ONRC) · Risk report (KYB) · Company court cases · Court case by number · Validate invoice XML · Generate invoice XML · Parse invoice XML · Invoice PDF · Search acts · Act (in force) · Article (in force) · Amendment history · New acts

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Checks CUI, name, registration number, VAT status, company status, address, IBAN and (optional) legal representative an AI extracted from an invoice or contract against ANAF and ONRC, verdict per field and a confidence score (pass / review / reject).

## Data

- Countries: Romania
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Normal use inside your own products is allowed: showing results to your users, storing results you need for a specific purpose, and using them in your own workflows and agents. You must not: Resell, sublicense or redistribute bulk data: dumps, mirrors, databases, feeds or datasets built from our responses, whether directly or through an Agent, and whether for free or for payment, Scrape or systematically extract the Service to rebuild or replicate its datasets, or to build a competing data product, Profile individuals unlawfully, including tracking, monitoring or building profiles of company representatives, sole traders or court parties beyond a lawful, specific purpose, Make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about natural persons (for example credit, employment, housing, insurance) based on the Service without meaningful human review, Try to re-identify masked persons in court data, Break the law, including data protection, consumer, competition and sanctions law, Circumvent rate limits, credit metering or key limits, share keys publicly, or create multiple keys to get free credits, Attack, overload, probe or reverse engineer the Service, or send malware or abusive traffic, Present our data as an official certificate or as issued by a public authority. You must not sell, resell, rent, lease, sublicense, broker, redistribute, syndicate, or otherwise commercially exploit, directly or indirectly [...] any data, score, report or other output obtained through the Service [...]. ONRC open data is licensed under CC-BY 4.0, if you republish it, attribute the source (ONRC / data.gov.ro).

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.10 s

## The call

- You send: party. Optional: party.cui, party.name, party.registrationNumber, party.vatRegistered, party.address, party.iban, party.legalRepresentative, asOfDate, invoice.number, invoice.date, invoice.currency, invoice.net, invoice.vat, invoice.total, invoice.vatRates
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/validate

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with an email address, one key each (a free key from one POST to /v1/keys)

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

field verdicts, registered values, confidence score, overall verdict

## HowToRomania's plans (5)

- [HowToRomania, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [HowToRomania, €5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/5-pack/llms.txt): $11.253 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [HowToRomania, €20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/20-pack/llms.txt): $9.002 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [HowToRomania, €100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/100-pack/llms.txt): $7.502 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [HowToRomania, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

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

- `POST /v1/validate`: [HowToRomania, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/free/llms.txt)

## HowToRomania's APIs (2)

- [HowToRomania Business verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/free/llms.txt)
- [HowToRomania Company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/company/{cui}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/howtoromania/free-get-v1-company-cui/llms.txt)
- [HowToRomania Company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/company/{cui}/representatives](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/howtoromania/free-get-v1-company-cui-representatives/llms.txt)
- [HowToRomania Company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/company/{cui}/risk-report](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/howtoromania/free-get-v1-company-cui-risk-report/llms.txt)

## HowToRomania: business verification API alternatives

[HowToRomania alternatives: every business verification API plan in Romania compared](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-api-pricing/romania.md)

We list HowToRomania's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to HowToRomania in price per 1,000 companies.

- [HowToRomania, €100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/howtoromania/100-pack/llms.txt): $7.502 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [RFCCheck, $449 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/rfc/verify](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/rfccheck/449-monthly-growth-post-v1-rfc-verify/llms.txt): $7.483 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [handelsregister.ai, €499 monthly, Max, GET /v1/search-organizations](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/handelsregister-ai/499-monthly-max-get-v1-search-organizations/llms.txt): $7.487 per 1,000, 45% complete, 1 month
- [2s.io, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/business/entity-profile](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/2s-io/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-business-entity-profile/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 82% complete
- [OpenSOSData, $250 monthly, Growth Cached, POST /v1/bulk-lookup/upload](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/250-monthly-growth-cached-post-v1-bulk-lookup-upload/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 100% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://api.howtoromania.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.howtoromania.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://api.howtoromania.io/v1/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://howtoromania.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://howtoromania.io/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#pricing
- https://howtoromania.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing