# Toronto Open Data, free: Business verification API

> 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.

Toronto Open Data's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Toronto Open Data's docs list 1: Principal address.
Toronto Open Data limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris's €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €19 pack costs more up front than CharityAPI's $15 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/toronto-open-data/free
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://open.toronto.ca/docs/frequently-asked-questions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.9/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#ckanext.datastore.logic.action.datastore_search
- Sold by: Toronto Open Data (https://open.toronto.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 73.3
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 58
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.17 s

## The call

- You send: resource_id "169e90ba-3ae0-43dd-8b2f-919e87002f50". Optional: q, filters, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## Toronto Open Data's plans (1)

- [Toronto Open Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/toronto-open-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 day

## Toronto Open Data's calls (1)

- `GET /api/3/action/datastore_search`: [Toronto Open Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/toronto-open-data/free/llms.txt)

## Toronto Open Data's APIs (2)

- [Toronto Open Data: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/toronto-open-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Toronto Open Data: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/toronto-open-data/free/llms.txt)

## Toronto Open Data: business verification API alternatives

- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companyverify/free-pilot-get-v1-uk-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/free-no-key-get-free-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=169e90ba-3ae0-43dd-8b2f-919e87002f50&limit=2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/api/3/action/package_show?id=municipal-licensing-and-standards-business-licences-and-permits&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.9/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/municipal-licensing-and-standards-business-licences-and-permits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://open.toronto.ca/docs/frequently-asked-questions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://open.toronto.ca/open-data-licence/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing