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OpenDataPhilly pricing: business verification API

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27% complete: 3 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our business verification API benchmark, this plan scores 75.0 out of 100.We rank 1,735 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 227 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,735 plans. See the best free business verification API plan.Scoris' €19 pack covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris' €19 pack costs less up front than SafeDeal's ₸50,000 (about $110) monthly plan.GovFiles, Didit and CompanyData.com are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.
Type a number to see the cheapest OpenDataPhilly plan for that many companies. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Keyless OpenDataPhilly's only plan
Call: GET /api/v2/sql OpenDataPhilly's only call
API: Business verification API one of OpenDataPhilly's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get records from OpenDataPhilly's copy of the register.
  • 3 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Formation date, Principal address.
  • Nothing to pay. OpenDataPhilly limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v2/sql. The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

OpenDataPhilly: business verification API alternatives

OpenDataPhilly alternatives: other business verification API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

This planOpenDataPhilly, freeINSEE, freePaianjenul, free, check_vatCompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/searcheucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness27%45%0%55%55%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0€0$0$0
Enough fornot publishednot publishedno limit60,000 calls a month150 calls a month
Freshness1 day24 hourslive24 hourslive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone with a free accountanyonebusinesses only (the terms' Unternehmer within § 1 UGB, not consumers)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. opendataphilly.org/FAQ/
  2. opendataphilly.org/datasets/licenses-and-inspections-business-licenses/
  3. phl.carto.com/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT%20*%20FROM%20business_licenses%20LIMIT%202

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, not in the answer
  • Tax ID, not in the answer
  • Entity type, not in the answer
  • Status, not in the answer
  • Good standing, not in the answer
  • Formation date
  • Registered agent, not in the answer
  • Principal address
  • Officers, not in the answer
  • Filings, not in the answer
Score
Overall score75.0
Price score100
Accuracy score63
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchInformation includes license application type, applicant, property for which the license would be issued, application date, issue date, and expiration date.
Data
Freshness1 day
CountriesUnited States
Keep datano limit
Use dataTERMS OF USE: Browsing City data on this site constitutes acceptance of the license, the City's terms of use and your agreement to be bound by them. The City of Philadelphia reserves all rights in the database and any data contained therein, and the end user's use of the data does not constitute a transfer of, nor does the end user receive, any title or interest in the database or any other City data. [...] The user of this data will assume complete responsibility for any and all occurrences resulting from its use or display and will hold the City of Philadelphia harmless from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, obligations, damages, suits, judgments or settlements [...] that arise from use of this data.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.25 s
The call
You sendq
MethodGET
Path/api/v2/sql
About the plan
PlanKeyless
Who can get itanyone
The 49 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, geometry, web Mercator geometry, object ID, POSSE job ID, address object ID, council district, street address, unit type, unit number, ZIP code, census tract, parcel ID number, OPA account number, OPA owner, owner occupied, addressed license, license number, revenue code, license type, rental category, initial issue date, most recent issue date, expiration date, inactive date, license status, number of units, legal first name, legal last name, legal name, legal entity type, business name, business mailing address, owner contact 1 name, owner contact 1 mailing address, owner contact 1 city, owner contact 1 state, owner contact 1 ZIP code, owner contact 2 name, owner contact 2 mailing address, owner contact 2 city, owner contact 2 state, owner contact 2 ZIP code, geocode X, geocode Y, geodatabase geometry attributes, owner is managing agent in Philadelphia, CAL number, effective date

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