# OpenRegistry, free, GET /api/v1/companies: Business verification API

> OpenRegistry - the world's first MCP and API for live company filings directly from official government registries worldwide.

OpenRegistry's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Status, Formation date, Principal address.
Half of the 634 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 52 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 634 plans.
[INSEE](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt), [CZ Agents](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cz-agents/free/llms.txt) and [ARES](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ares/free/llms.txt) are the best business verification API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-get-api-v1-companies
- [Best business verification API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/api/v1/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/docs
- Sold by: OpenRegistry (https://openregistry.sophymarine.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: OpenRegistry - the world's first MCP and API for live company filings directly from official government registries worldwide.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 8.2 The Customer represents and warrants that (a) the Customer has a lawful basis to request the information in question in the Customer's jurisdiction, (b) the Customer will comply with the terms, licensing conditions and fair-use policies of each Registry whose data the Customer requests through Openregistry, and (c) the Customer will use, retain and (where applicable) onward-disclose the returned information only for purposes permitted by applicable law. [...] 2.2 You agree to access and utilise the information, services and products provided by Sophymarine only for purposes that are permitted by the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices in your respective country. [...] 2.5 You agree not to access the Services through any automated means, including but not limited to, the use of automated scripts, web scrapers or web crawlers except in the case of search engine crawling. 2.6 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the web servers hosting the Services and any networks connected therein including but not limited to excessive usage, requests, or downloads.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, jurisdiction
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity number, company name, status, jurisdiction, formation date, address, register record

## OpenRegistry's plans (2)

- [OpenRegistry, free, GET /api/v1/companies](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-get-api-v1-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [OpenRegistry, free, Anonymous](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-anonymous/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, live

## OpenRegistry's calls (2)

- `GET /api/v1/companies`: [OpenRegistry, free, GET /api/v1/companies](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-get-api-v1-companies/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/search`: [OpenRegistry, free, Anonymous](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-anonymous/llms.txt)

## OpenRegistry's APIs (1)

- [OpenRegistry: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openregistry/free-get-api-v1-companies/llms.txt)

## OpenRegistry: business verification API alternatives

- [OpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Parse, free, GET /scraper/8ceea6f9-34d2-4d7f-adf1-fc7bdd90b476/search_entities](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/parse/free-get-scraper-8ceea6f9-34d2-4d7f-adf1-fc7bdd90b476-search-entities/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Palm, free, Pay as you go, POST /v1/business/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/palm/free-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-business-registry-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [RIK, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/rik/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://github.com/sophymarine/openregistry
- https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/docs
- https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/llms.txt
- https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/solutions/kyb
- https://www.sophymarine.com/pricing
- https://www.sophymarine.com/terms