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MBIE pricing and alternatives: business verification API

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45% complete: 5 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: NZBN API MBIE's only plan
Call: GET /entities MBIE's only call
API: Business verification API MBIE's only API

About this item

  • Live. MBIE reads the register when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 11 key fields we check. Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You send search-term to GET /entities. You can also send entity-status, entity-type, industry-code, page and page-size. The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

MBIE: 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 live data.

This planMBIE, freeOpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookupStrale, free trial credits, POST /v1/do, Belgian Company DataRIK, freeScavio, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness45%100%64%45%45%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit10 calls, oncenot published1,500,000 calls a month50 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itCustomers with a signed MBIE API Access Agreement whose subscription request MBIE's API support team approvesnew accounts, once on signup, no credit card requiredanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email addressanyone who signs the contract for the use of inquiry systems with RIK (an application in the e-Business Register portal, reviewed within five working days)anyone

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. management.api.business.govt.nz/subscriptions/000/resourceGroups/000/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/apim-ess-map-ae-prd/apis/nzbn?export=true&format=openapi%2Bjson-link&api-version=2022-04-01-preview
  2. portal.api.business.govt.nz/api-details#api=nzbn&operation=EntitiesGet
  3. portal.api.business.govt.nz/api/nzbn
  4. support.api.business.govt.nz/s/article/cloud-subscriptions
  5. support.api.business.govt.nz/s/article/terms-and-conditions
  6. nzbn.govt.nz/about-us/terms-of-use/
  7. nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/api/
  8. nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/bulk-data/

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, not in the answer
  • Officers, not in the answer
  • Filings, not in the answer
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 New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) API provides a range of operations for getting information about a New Zealand business, updating details, managing watchlists, and managing business authorities. There is no fee for using this API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"A signed MBIE API Access Agreement is required before an API subscription request will be approved. This ensures that services and information are used appropriately."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsearch-term. Optional: entity-status, entity-type, industry-code, page, page-size
MethodGET
Path/entities
About the plan
PlanNZBN API
Who can get itCustomers with a signed MBIE API Access Agreement whose subscription request MBIE's API support team approves
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, entity name, entity ID, source register entity ID, entity type, entity type description, entity status code, status, registration date, trading names, trading name start date, trading name end date, industry code, industry, previous entity names

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