# Niftibot, free preview, GET /v1/companies/search: Business verification API

> Search the Companies House register by full or partial company name.

Niftibot's Free preview plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Niftibot's docs list 5: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Status, Formation date.
Niftibot limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 90.9 out of 100.
We rank 1,667 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 220 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,667 plans. [See the best free business verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[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 SafeDeal's ₸50,000 (about $110) 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/niftibot/free-preview-get-v1-companies-search
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.niftibot.com/agents/services/uk-compliance.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.niftibot.com/v1/companies/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.niftibot.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Niftibot (https://www.niftibot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 45%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 90.9
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 100
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 100

## 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: Search the Companies House register by full or partial company name.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are responsible for how you use the services and for ensuring your use complies with applicable law and third-party source terms. Do not use the services to make a high-impact decision about a person, to create an unreasonable burden on source providers, to bypass access controls, or to interfere with the services. [...] Do not redistribute, resell or use results for model training unless the service's rights section explicitly permits it. [...] Preserve the attribution listed in `rights.attribution` and per source in `data.sources`. Respect `rights.prohibited_uses`.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.05 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, payment "false"
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free preview
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, total results, company number, company name, company status, company type, incorporation date, source, source URL, retrieval time, SHA-256 hash, licence, notice, request ID, payment required, payment mode, credits charged, credits remaining

## Niftibot's plans (1)

- [Niftibot, free preview, GET /v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/niftibot/free-preview-get-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/screen`: [Niftibot, free preview, GET /v1/screen](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/niftibot/free-preview-get-v1-screen/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/companies/search`: [Niftibot, free preview, GET /v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/niftibot/free-preview-get-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)

## Niftibot's APIs (2)

- [Niftibot: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/niftibot/free/llms.txt)
- [Niftibot: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/niftibot/free-preview-get-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)

## Niftibot: business verification API alternatives

- [eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/free-no-key-get-free-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [Charity Commission, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charity-commission/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [FastCAC, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/fastcac/top-up/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live

## 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.niftibot.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://niftibot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/agents/licensing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/agents/payments.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/agents/services/uk-compliance.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/manifests/uk-compliance/0.1.5.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/services.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.niftibot.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing