Toronto Open Data pricing: business verification API
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$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our business verification API benchmark, this plan scores 73.3 out of 100.We rank 1,422 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 191 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,422 plans. See the best free business verification API plan.Scoris's €19 pack covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €19 pack costs more up front than CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan.GovFiles, CompanyData.com and Didit are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.
Plan: Free Toronto Open Data's only plan
Call:
GET / Toronto Open Data's only callAPI: Business verification API one of Toronto Open Data's 2 APIs
About this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get records from Toronto Open Data's copy of the register.
- 1 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Principal address.
- Nothing to pay. Toronto Open Data limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You call
GET /withapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search resource_set to "169e90ba-3ae0-43dd-8b2f-919e87002f50". The call returns the register's record of the company.id - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Toronto Open Data: business verification API alternatives
Toronto Open Data 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 planToronto Open Data, free | INSEE, free | CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search | eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company | Brreg, free | |
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| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 9% | 45% | 55% | 55% | 64% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | not published | 60,000 calls a month | 150 calls a month | no limit |
| Freshness | 1 day | 24 hours | 24 hours | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone | anyone | businesses only (the terms' Unternehmer within § 1 UGB, not consumers) | anyone |
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.
- ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=169e90ba-3ae0-43dd-8b2f-919e87002f50&limit=2
- ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/api/3/action/package_show?id=municipal-licensing-and-standards-business-licences-and-permits
- docs.ckan.org/en/2.9/maintaining/datastore.html
- open.toronto.ca/dataset/municipal-licensing-and-standards-business-licences-and-permits/
- open.toronto.ca/docs/frequently-asked-questions/
- open.toronto.ca/open-data-licence/
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Registered name, not in the answer
- 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, not in the answer
- Registered agent, not in the answer
- Principal address
- Officers, not in the answer
- Filings, not in the answer
| Overall score | 73.3 |
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| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 58 |
| Cost to get started score | 100 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Some businesses in Toronto require a business licence. Municipal Licensing & Standards (ML&S) issues licences to various types of businesses and trades, as well as some mobile businesses in the City. |
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| Freshness | 1 day |
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| Countries | Canada |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Open Government Licence – Toronto: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use: Personal Information, Information not accessible under the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act or the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, Third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to licence, The names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider, and Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information." |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.17 s |
| You send | resource_id "169e90ba-3ae0-43dd-8b2f-919e87002f50". Optional: q, filters, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/3/action/datastore_search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold
record ID, licence category, licence number, operating name, issue date, client name, business phone, business phone extension, street address, city and province, postal code, ward, conditions, free form conditions line 1, free form conditions line 2, plate number, endorsements, cancel date, last record update