# OpenCorporates, free: Cached company enrichment API

> This returns the core data for the given company.

OpenCorporates's cached company enrichment API on its Open data plan, $0.00 per 1,000 companies. 2 of the 13 key fields: Industry, Type and status.

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

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: call
- Also pays for: from the same budget: companies/search · companies/:jurisdiction_code/:company_number/statements

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This returns the core data for the given company.

## 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 calls a month
- Expires: usage refreshes at midnight UTC on the last day of the month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: jurisdiction_code, company_number. Optional: sparse
- Method: GET
- Path: /v0.4/companies/:jurisdiction_code/:company_number

## 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 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, company number, jurisdiction code, company type, current status, incorporation date, dissolution date, inactive, OpenCorporates URL, previous names, alternative names, alternate registration entities, previous registration entities, subsequent registration entities, registered address in full, registered address, industry codes, identifiers, registry URL, controlling entity, ultimate beneficial owners, ultimate controlling company, branch, branch status, home company, corporate groupings, officers, filings, most recent data, source publisher, source URL, source terms, source retrieved at, created at, updated at, retrieved at

## OpenCorporates's plans (6)

- [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £2,250 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/2250-yearly/llms.txt): $500.063 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £6,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/6600-yearly/llms.txt): $293.37 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, £12,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/12000-yearly/llms.txt): $266.70 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, contact us, Public benefit](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/contact-us-public-benefit/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/opencorporates/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 15% complete, stored

## OpenCorporates's calls (1)

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

## Similar plans of other providers

- [The Companies API, free, Free, GET /v2/companies/{domain}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/the-companies-api/free-free-get-v2-companies-domain/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [UpLead, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/uplead/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Parsers VC, free, Free, GET /startups/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/parsers-vc/free-free-get-startups-id/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [TechnologyChecker, free, Free, POST /v1/companies/batch](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/technologychecker/free-free-post-v1-companies-batch/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