# VerifNow, free: Business verification API

> Validate VAT numbers and verify them against VIES for EU VAT numbers.

VerifNow's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. VerifNow's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
We haven't run VerifNow through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 634 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.469 or less per 1,000 companies. [200 business verification API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) [GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 1,000 results. GovFiles is the best business verification API in our benchmark for companies in any country.
[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, for China only: 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), [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/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/verifnow/free
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.verifnow.io/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.verifnow.io/api/v1/validate/vat`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.verifnow.io/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.verifnow.io/guides/validate-vat?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: VerifNow (https://verifnow.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Validate a phone number · Validate an email address · Validate an IBAN · Validate a Canadian Social Insurance Number (NAS/SIN) · Validate a Spanish NIF · Validate a US Social Security Number

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Validate VAT numbers and verify them against VIES for EU VAT numbers.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Northern Ireland
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to misuse the Service, including but not limited to: attempting to bypass rate limits or quotas, reverse engineering or copying the API, using the Service for illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, reselling or redistributing access without authorization, interfering with or disrupting the Service

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 requests a month
- Enough for: 250 calls a month
- Expires: quotas reset at the start of each billing period

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: value. Optional: traderName, X-VerifNow-SDK header
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/validate/vat

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, message, normalized value, original value, validation level, format valid, registered, country code, verdict source, checked at, registered name, registered address, VIES available, consultation number, trader name match, trader name match source

## VerifNow's plans (7)

- [VerifNow, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $182 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/182-yearly/llms.txt): $1.517 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $470 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/470-yearly/llms.txt): $0.783 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifNow, $950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.528 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours

## VerifNow's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/validate/vat`: [VerifNow, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/free/llms.txt)

## VerifNow's APIs (3)

- [VerifNow Business verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/free/llms.txt)
- [VerifNow Email verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/verifnow/free/llms.txt)
- [VerifNow Phone validation API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/verifnow/free/llms.txt)

## VerifNow: business verification API alternatives

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

We list VerifNow's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to VerifNow in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [VerifNow, $950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/verifnow/950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.528 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [Societe.com, €8,890 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/societe-com/8890-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day
- [companydata.dk, DKK 19,950 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-dk/dkk-19950-yearly/llms.txt): $0.501 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [SelskabsInfo, DKK 999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/selskabsinfo/dkk-999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.501 per 1,000, 36% complete, 15 minutes
- [cvr.dev, DKK 1,799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cvr-dev/dkk-1799-monthly/llms.txt): $0.542 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 minute

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

- https://api.verifnow.io/docs.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.verifnow.io/guides/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.verifnow.io/guides/validate-email?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.verifnow.io/guides/validate-phone?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.verifnow.io/guides/validate-vat?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://verifnow.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.verifnow.io/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.verifnow.io/en/company/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.verifnow.io/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing