# Palm, free, Pay as you go, POST /v1/business/registry/search: Business verification API

> Find any registered US business by name, jurisdiction, or location, read in real time from the primary source.

Palm's business verification API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Formation date, Principal address.
We rank 634 plans by price. [cnpjob's R$349 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cnpjob/r-349-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.023. cnpjob's plan covers companies in Brazil only. cnpjob's R$349 monthly plan covers up to 3,000,000 companies a month at no extra cost.
[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/palm/free-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-business-registry-search
- [Best business verification API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.getpalm.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.getpalm.com/v1/business/registry/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.getpalm.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.getpalm.com/api-reference/v1/registry/search-business-registries.md
- Sold by: Palm (https://www.getpalm.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get business from registry · Check business name eligibility · Verify business · Verify user identity · Verify TIN · Form an LLC · Form a corporation · Apply for an EIN

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find any registered US business by name, jurisdiction, or location, read in real time from the primary source.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: Use, reproduction, modification, distribution or storage of any Content for any purpose other than using the Services is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from us.
- Use data: You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not provide or contribute anything, including any Content or Member Data (as those terms are defined below), to the Services, or otherwise use or interact with the Services, in a manner that: infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Palm), violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control laws, privacy laws or any other purpose not reasonably intended by Palm, [...] “crawls,” “scrapes,” or “spiders” any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Services or Content (through use of manual or automated means), copies or stores any significant portion of the Content, decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services, [...] accesses the Services for the purpose of building, improving, marketing, or evaluating a competing product or service, benchmarks, scrapes, or systematically collects data about the performance, features, pricing, or functionality of the Services for competitive analysis, or accesses the Services on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a direct competitor of Palm without Palm’s prior written consent, or circumvents, manipulates, or interferes with any usage metering, rate limit, spending limit, or billing mechanism of the Services, or uses multiple accounts or API credentials to avoid fees or usage limits. [...] you won’t use, copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell, commercialize or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content not owned by you, (i) without the prior consent of the owner of that Content or (ii) in a way that violates someone else’s (including Palm's) rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 calls
- Expires: 12 months

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of name, associate.name or palm_id. Optional: registration_jurisdiction, formation_jurisdiction, location_street, location_city, location_region, location_postal_code, entity_type, status, formation_date.from, formation_date.to
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/business/registry/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone, Free Credits are limited to one allocation per individual, per entity, or per affiliated group of entities

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

Palm ID, legal name, formation jurisdiction, registration jurisdiction, registration status, entity type, formation date, registration number, principal address

## Palm's plans (2)

- [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
- [Palm, contact us, Custom pricing, POST /v1/business/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/palm/contact-us-custom-pricing-post-v1-business-registry-search/llms.txt): 45% complete, live

## Palm's calls (2)

- `POST /v1/business/registry/search`: [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)
- `POST /v1/business/verification`: [Palm, free, Pay as you go, POST /v1/business/verification](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/palm/free-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-business-verification/llms.txt)

## Palm's APIs (1)

- [Palm: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/business/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/palm/free-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-business-registry-search/llms.txt)

## Palm: 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
- [RIK, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/rik/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live
- [Scavio, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scavio/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://docs.getpalm.com/api-reference/v1/registry/search-business-registries.md
- https://docs.getpalm.com/get-started/authentication.md
- https://docs.getpalm.com/onboard/registry-search.md
- https://www.getpalm.com
- https://www.getpalm.com/pricing
- https://www.getpalm.com/terms-of-use