# OpenCorporates, free: Cached company discovery API

> This returns a collection of companies whose name matches the given search term (submitted as :q in the query parameters).

OpenCorporates's cached company discovery API on its Open data plan, $0.00 per 1,000 companies. 1 of the 13 key fields: Type and status.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/free
- Get it: https://opencorporates.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.opencorporates.com/documentation/API-Reference#get-companies/search
- Sold by: OpenCorporates (https://opencorporates.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-20

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: page of 100
- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: companies/:jurisdiction_code/:company_number · companies/:jurisdiction_code/:company_number/statements

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This returns a collection of companies whose name matches the given search term (submitted as :q in the query parameters).

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: "a licence to use the API data for the duration of this agreement"
- Use data: "we grant you a licence to use the API data for the duration of this agreement in the form of an 'internal use licence'. [...] The internal use licence, is a worldwide, fixed-term, revocable, non-exclusive and non-sublicensable licence to do anything with the API data which our intellectual property rights would entitle us to do, subject to the following rules: a) API data may be used solely by your staff or your contractors, and b) You may not communicate the API data or any part of it to any third party, nor may any third party be given access to the API data or any part of it. c) No product or service usable by any third party may make use of our API in order to function, regardless of whether the third party is able to make use of specific API data and regardless of the form in which the product or service is delivered." "External distribution licence. [...] a worldwide, fixed-term, revocable, non-exclusive and non-sublicensable licence to distribute the API data but only in the form of a derivative work or works consisting of some or all of the API data amalgamated with other data such that: a) any recipient of the derivative work or works does not receive any substantial part of the API data that is not combined with other data, and b) a reasonable person in your industry would consider the derivative work or works to have 'added value' to the API data." "Where the 'restricted_for_marketing' field has been set in any API data returned to you ('restricted data') [...] you: a) shall ensure that you have consulted the restrictions advertised for that specific jurisdiction, before making use of any of the restricted data, b) may not use the restricted data for any purpose prohibited by that jurisdiction, c) may not use the restricted data for marketing or advertising purposes in any event." "If you distribute API data in the form of a derivative work or works, you shall identify us as the original source of the API data in a manner customary for the medium which you are using [...] by displaying the phrase 'Powered by OpenCorporates' together with our logo."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 requests a month
- Enough for: 200 pages a month
- Expires: usage refreshes at midnight UTC on the last day of the month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, jurisdiction_code, country_code, company_type, current_status, industry_codes, registered_address, created_at, incorporation_date, dissolution_date, updated_at, inactive, branch, nonprofit, identifier_uids, fields, normalise_company_name, types_of_data_held, order, per_page, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /v0.4/companies/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Open data
- Who can get it: open data projects: the product or database the data goes into is also released under an open licence (share-alike attribution)

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, company number, jurisdiction code, company type, current status, incorporation date, dissolution date, inactive, branch, branch status, OpenCorporates URL, previous names, registered address in full, registry URL, source publisher, source URL, source terms, source retrieved at, created at, updated at, retrieved at, total results, total pages

## OpenCorporates's plans (6)

- [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £2,250 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/2250-yearly/llms.txt): $5.001 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £6,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/6600-yearly/llms.txt): $2.934 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £12,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/12000-yearly/llms.txt): $2.667 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, contact us, Public benefit](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/contact-us-public-benefit/llms.txt): 8% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 8% complete, stored

## OpenCorporates's calls (1)

- `GET /v0.4/companies/search`: [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [The Companies API, free, Free, GET /v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/the-companies-api/free-free-get-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Parsers VC, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/parsers-vc/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [StartupHub.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/startuphub-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored
- [TechnologyChecker, free, Free, GET /v1/technology/{id}/companies](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/technologychecker/free-free-get-v1-technology-id-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-20.

- https://api.opencorporates.com/documentation/API-Reference
- https://opencorporates.com/legal-information/enterprise-api-terms-of-service
- https://opencorporates.com/legal-information/self-service-api-terms-of-service
- https://opencorporates.com/pricing