# Zephira, free: Business verification API

> Find the correct legal entity by name, registration number, VAT/EIN, or ticker within a jurisdiction.

Zephira's business verification API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 1 of the 11 key fields we check: Entity number.
We rank 31 plans by price. [OpenSOSData's $500 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/500-monthly-scale-cached-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: $5.00.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/free
- Get it: https://zephira.ai/price
- Request: `POST https://dashboard.zephira.ai/api/v2/kyb/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://zephira.ai/price
- Its API docs: https://zephira.ai/api-docs
- Sold by: Zephira (https://zephira.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Entity number: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get company profile · List company officers · Search officers · List disclosed shareholders · Search shareholders · Get immediate group structure · Get complete group structure · Get filed financials · Get complete KYB record

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find the correct legal entity by name, registration number, VAT/EIN, or ticker within a jurisdiction.

## Data

- Keep data: Where an order is silent, lawfully retained records may be kept for internal audit and legal compliance, but continued commercial use beyond the licence must be agreed.
- Use data: "we grant a non-exclusive licence to access the purchased service and use lawfully obtained outputs for your business workflows, including company research, due diligence, internal analytics, enrichment and integration through the documented APIs. The licence covers the purchased delivery methods, territories, volumes, users and use cases." "Resale, redistribution, embedding data in a customer-facing product, sublicensing, bulk redistribution and model training or fine-tuning must be expressly included in your order or another written licence." "Do not create duplicate accounts or keys to circumvent a shared allowance." "Do not remove source, timestamp, attribution or rights information where supplied and required." Acceptable use: "Do not share personal sign-in credentials, expose API secrets, evade quotas with additional accounts, access another customer’s information, interfere with service availability or extract data through unauthorised scraping." "Keep required provenance, timestamps and attribution with delivered records." Pricing page: "Starter and Pro plans are for internal use only." "Resale rights are included from the Business plan upward, allowing you to integrate, display, or resell the data as part of your own product or service."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits a day
- Enough for: 3 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: location, at least one of name, registration_number, vat_number or ticker. Optional: city_or_state, include_provenance
- Method: POST
- Path: /kyb/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, at least 18 and authorised to act for the organisation, no credit card required

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

company ID, company name, registration number, VAT number, country code, region, jurisdiction, source category, source comment, source ID, source name, source URL

## Zephira's plans (8)

- [Zephira, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete
- [Zephira, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/99-monthly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/199-monthly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/499-monthly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/999-monthly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, $2,028 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/2028-yearly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, $10,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/10190-yearly/llms.txt): 9% complete
- [Zephira, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/contact-us/llms.txt): 9% complete

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

- `POST /kyb/search`: [Zephira, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/free/llms.txt)

## Zephira's APIs (3)

- [Zephira: business verification API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/zephira/free/llms.txt)
- [Zephira: company enrichment API pricing, 8 plans, GET /kyb/{id}/lite](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/zephira/free-trial-get-kyb-id-lite/llms.txt)
- [Zephira: company enrichment API pricing, 8 plans, GET /kyb/{id}/full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/zephira/free-trial-get-kyb-id-full/llms.txt)
- [Zephira: company hierarchy API pricing, 8 plans, GET /kyb/{id}/group-structures/full](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/zephira/free-trial-get-kyb-id-group-structures-full/llms.txt)
- [Zephira: company hierarchy API pricing, 8 plans, GET /kyb/{id}/group-structures/lite](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/zephira/free-trial-get-kyb-id-group-structures-lite/llms.txt)

## Zephira: business verification API alternatives

- [OpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Cobalt Intelligence, free lookups, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cobalt-intelligence/free-lookups-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [Companies House, free, GET /advanced-search/companies](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companies-house/free-get-advanced-search-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

- https://zephira.ai/acceptable-use
- https://zephira.ai/api
- https://zephira.ai/api-docs
- https://zephira.ai/price
- https://zephira.ai/terms-and-conditions