# Katalis, free, GET /api/v1/company-search: Business verification API

> A name or number → the right registered company, ranked by confidence.

Katalis's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 3 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Status.
We haven't run Katalis through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 821 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less.
[EuroValidate's €149 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/149-monthly-scale-post-v1-validate/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: $0.017. EuroValidate's plan covers companies in 31 countries only.
[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 less up front than EuroValidate's €149 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/katalis/free-get-api-v1-company-search
- [Business verification API: the 11 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://meetkatalis.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://meetkatalis.com/api/v1/company-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://meetkatalis.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://meetkatalis.com/apis/company-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Katalis (https://meetkatalis.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Status: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: UK Company Enrichment · UK Business Score · Industry & SIC Classifier · Modern Slavery Statement Intelligence · Website Accessibility Audit · Ofsted Report-Card Intelligence · Fit & Approach Assessment · CQC Report-Card Intelligence · Charity Report Intelligence · Director ID Verification Check · Public Contracts Won · Gender Pay Gap Report Card · Licences & Registers Check · Generative Art · Brand Kit · Effect Embeds · Change Feed · HMRC AML Register Check · SRA Law Firm Check · CQC Care Provider Check · Charity Register Check · Ownership Chain · Carbon Reduction Plan Check · Filed Accounts · PPN 018 Payment Check · Secured Borrowing · Will They Pay Me On Time? · Late Payment Calculator · Sponsor Licence Check · Website Legal Check · Company Deadlines · UK Company Public Record · Tender Match · AI Visibility Check · Company Distress Signals · Supplier Payment Practices

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A name or number → the right registered company, ranked by confidence.

## Data

- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to call the APIs within your plan's limits and these terms. [...] Company data contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright), and you must keep that attribution and licence link if you pass the data on. [...] Please use the APIs lawfully and reasonably. You must not: rebuild or redistribute a bulk copy of an underlying source (e.g. mirror a public register), attempt to re-identify individuals or use the APIs to process other people's personal data unlawfully, publish any score or output in a false, misleading or defamatory way, resell raw API responses as a competing dataset, or try to bypass rate limits, credit metering or security.

## Plan

- Pay: £0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits don't carry over: the free plan's credits refresh 30 days after its month began

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/company-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address and one further proof of being a real person: a verified mobile number or, where it can't text you, a bank-checked card (nothing charged), one free account per person and per verified mobile number

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, total results, company number, company name, company status, match confidence

## Katalis's plans (9)

- [Katalis, free, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/free-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £29 monthly, Starter, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/29-monthly-starter-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $38.672 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £49 monthly, Growth, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/49-monthly-growth-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $26.137 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £99 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/99-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $13.202 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £299 monthly, Scale, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/299-monthly-scale-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $8.001 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £290 yearly, Starter (annual), GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/290-yearly-starter-annual-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $32.226 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £490 yearly, Growth (annual), GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/490-yearly-growth-annual-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $21.780 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £990 yearly, Pro (annual), GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/990-yearly-pro-annual-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $11.001 per 1,000, 27% complete
- [Katalis, £2,990 yearly, Scale (annual), GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/2990-yearly-scale-annual-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $6.645 per 1,000, 27% complete

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

- `GET /api/v1/public-record`: [Katalis, free, GET /api/v1/public-record](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/free-get-api-v1-public-record/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/company-search`: [Katalis, free, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/free-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt)

## Katalis's APIs (3)

- [Katalis: company hierarchy API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/katalis/free/llms.txt)
- [Katalis: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans, POST /api/v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/katalis/free-post-api-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [Katalis: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans, GET /api/v1/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/katalis/free-get-api-v1-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Katalis: business verification API pricing, 9 plans, GET /api/v1/company-search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/katalis/free-get-api-v1-company-search/llms.txt)

## Katalis: business verification API alternatives

- [KVKBase, €348 yearly, Pro, yearly, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/kvkbase/348-yearly-pro-yearly-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $6.527 per 1,000, 36% complete
- [firmafind, €60 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/firmafind/60-monthly/llms.txt): $6.752 per 1,000, 27% complete, 1 day
- [Pappers, €300 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/pappers/300-pack/llms.txt): $6.752 per 1,000, 45% complete
- [overheid.io, €15 monthly, Small, GET /v3/openkvk](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/overheid-io/15-monthly-small-get-v3-openkvk/llms.txt): $6.752 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 day (street, house number, postal code, city, country, mailing address: 1 week)

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://meetkatalis.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://meetkatalis.com/apis.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://meetkatalis.com/apis/company-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://meetkatalis.com/apis/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://meetkatalis.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://meetkatalis.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing