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Vancouver Open Data pricing: business verification API

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18% complete: 2 of the 11 fields on our checklistSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our business verification API benchmark, this plan scores 87.1 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest Vancouver Open Data plan for that many companies. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: API key one of Vancouver Open Data's 2 plans
Call: GET /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records Vancouver Open Data's only call
API: Business verification API one of Vancouver Open Data's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get records from Vancouver Open Data's copy of the register.
  • 2 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Principal address.
  • Nothing to pay. Vancouver Open Data limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call GET /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records with dataset_id set to "business-licences". The call returns the register's record of the company.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up for a Huwise account on the portal. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Vancouver Open Data: business verification API alternatives

Vancouver 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 planVancouver Open Data, free, API keyINSEE, freeCompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/searcheucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/companyBrreg, freeToronto Open Data, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness18%45%55%55%64%9%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishednot published60,000 calls a month150 calls a monthno limitnot published
Freshness1 day24 hours24 hourslivelive1 day
Who can get itanyone who signs up for a Huwise account on the portalanyoneanyonebusinesses only (the terms' Unternehmer within § 1 UGB, not consumers)anyoneanyone

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.

  1. help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
  2. opendata.vancouver.ca/api/
  3. opendata.vancouver.ca/api/explore/v2.1/swagger.json
  4. opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/business-licences/information/
  5. opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/help/
  6. opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/home/
  7. opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/licence/
  8. opendata.vancouver.ca/signup/
  9. vancouver.ca/your-government/terms-of-use.aspx

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Registered name
  • 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
Score
Overall score87.1
Price score100
Accuracy score93
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThis dataset includes business licence records from 2024 onwards with the new categories (BusinessType).
Data
Freshness1 day
CountriesCanada
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe 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. [...] If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement [...] you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use: Personal Information, Information or Records not accessible under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (B.C.), Third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to licence, The names, crests, logos, or other official marks of the Information Provider, 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
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.00 s
The call
You senddataset_id "business-licences". Optional: where, select, group_by, order_by, limit, offset, refine, exclude, lang, timezone, include_links, include_app_metas
MethodGET
Path/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records
About the plan
PlanAPI key
Who can get itanyone who signs up for a Huwise account on the portal
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

licence RSN, licence number, licence revision number, licence year, business name, DBA name, licence status, issue date, expiry date, business type, business subtype, unit, unit type, house number, street, city, province, country, postal code, local area, number of employees, fee paid, extract date, latitude and longitude

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