# Tolca, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/qc-licence: Business verification API

> Quebec contractor licence check (RBQ): contractor license verification in one call, cheapest tier. Is this Québec contractor's RBQ licence ACTIVE right now? Returns active true/false, licence number, name, NEQ, city, restriction flag and authorized work categories.

Tolca's x402 pay per call plan for the business verification API costs $10.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Tolca's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
We haven't run Tolca through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
We rank 719 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 49% of the 719 plans.
[Jsonpage's €129 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/jsonpage/129-monthly-pro-get-v2-validate/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies, for 33 countries only, with no charge per call. You get as many companies as Jsonpage's rate limit allows. [ApiZero's CNY 399 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apizero/cny-399-yearly-diamond-membership-get-api-company-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: about $4.97.
[eucompliance.tools' €20 monthly plan (/v1/vat)](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/20-monthly-business-get-v1-vat/llms.txt) covers any number of companies, and costs less up front than Jsonpage's €129 monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) and [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/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/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-qc-licence
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tolca.tonbot.ca/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://tolca.tonbot.ca/v1/qc-licence`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://tolca.tonbot.ca/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1qc-licence
- Sold by: Tolca (https://tolca.tonbot.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓ town or region

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $10.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Quebec contractor licence check (RBQ): contractor license verification in one call, cheapest tier. Is this Québec contractor's RBQ licence ACTIVE right now? Returns active true/false, licence number, name, NEQ, city, restriction flag and authorized work categories.

## Data

- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not: (a) resell, redistribute or sublicense web search results as a standalone search service, or use Tolca to build a search index or a competing search API, (b) store web search results beyond what the task you called Tolca for requires, or build a database from them, (c) use Tolca for anything illegal, including sanctions evasion, or to decide an individual's eligibility for credit, employment, housing or insurance, (d) try to get around payments, quotas or rate limits, or disrupt the service, (e) misrepresent Tolca's results or receipts. [...] Public data reproduced with attribution (CC-BY 4.0).

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of name, neq or licence
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/qc-licence

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet that pays each call in USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API key

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

licence active, licence number, legal name, NEQ, municipality, restricted, licence categories, source ID, source extracted at, source license

## Tolca's plans (1)

- [Tolca, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/qc-licence](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-qc-licence/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 18% complete

## Tolca's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/qc-contractor-check`: [Tolca, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/qc-contractor-check](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-qc-contractor-check/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/qc-licence`: [Tolca, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/qc-licence](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-qc-licence/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/verify-business`: [Tolca, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/verify-business](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-verify-business/llms.txt)

## Tolca's APIs (2)

- [Tolca Company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/company-enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-company-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Tolca Company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/company-fit](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-company-fit/llms.txt)
- [Tolca Business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/qc-licence](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/tolca/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-qc-licence/llms.txt)

## Tolca: business verification API alternatives

[Tolca alternatives: other business verification API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/tolca-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

- [eucompliance.tools, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), GET /x402/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-get-x402-company/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Verif Entreprise FR, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/verify](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verif-entreprise-fr/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-verify/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [GovFiles, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, stored
- [Croma, $20 monthly, Hobby, POST /us/delaware/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/20-monthly-hobby-post-us-delaware-entity-v1/llms.txt): $10.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://tolca.tonbot.ca/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://tolca.tonbot.ca/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://tolca.tonbot.ca/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://tolca.tonbot.ca/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://tolca.tonbot.ca/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing