# Vancouver Open Data, free, API key: Business verification API

> This dataset includes business licence records from 2024 onwards with the new categories (BusinessType).

Vancouver Open Data's API key plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Vancouver Open Data's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
Vancouver 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 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.](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/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records`
- API key: with the plan, on https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#tag/Dataset/operation/getRecords
- Sold by: Vancouver Open Data (https://opendata.vancouver.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 87.1
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 93
- 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: This dataset includes business licence records from 2024 onwards with the new categories (BusinessType).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 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. [...] 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

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.00 s

## The call

- You send: dataset_id "business-licences". Optional: where, select, group_by, order_by, limit, offset, refine, exclude, lang, timezone, include_links, include_app_metas
- Method: GET
- Path: /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records

## About the plan

- Plan: API key
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Vancouver Open Data's plans (2)

- [Vancouver Open Data, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [Vancouver Open Data, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day

## Vancouver Open Data's calls (1)

- `GET /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records`: [Vancouver Open Data, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## Vancouver Open Data's APIs (2)

- [Vancouver Open Data: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Vancouver Open Data: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## Vancouver 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
- [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

## 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://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/explore/v2.1/swagger.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/business-licences/information/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/help/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/home/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/licence/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/signup/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://vancouver.ca/your-government/terms-of-use.aspx?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing