# Bradshaw Data, free: Company discovery API

> Companies matching the shared filter vocabulary, most priced rounds first.

Bradshaw Data's Free trial plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Bradshaw Data's docs list 5: Industry, Type and status, Images, Headquarters, Funding.
We haven't run Bradshaw Data through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,326 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.498 or less per 1,000 companies. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[StackScan's $189 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stackscan/189-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-tech-lookup-lists/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. StackScan's $189 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as StackScan's rate limit allows. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $0.03.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly-starter-post-discover/llms.txt) and [PeopleSearch.im](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/free
- [Company discovery API in 2026: the best of 100+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bradshawdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bradshawdata.com/v1/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://bradshawdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://bradshawdata.com/v1/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bradshaw Data (https://bradshawdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Images: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: One company · Quality rounds · Balance-sheet history · Corporate holders · One investor and its portfolio · Signals · Search companies and investors · Corporate events · Public grants · Your organisation's lists · One list and its companies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Companies matching the shared filter vocabulary, most priced rounds first.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: You may keep copies of API data so your product runs well. Refresh what you keep at least daily.
- Use data: You may use API data in your own products and analysis. You must not resell it, or give it to others in bulk, as a data set, a feed or a copy of our database. You must not use it to build a service that competes with Bradshaw by offering the same data. [...] You must not use API data to contact, profile or track individual people, or to build lists of people. [...] Where you show Bradshaw data publicly, in a product, report or web page, add this line next to it: “Data from Companies House via Bradshaw”. [...] Do not spread calls over extra keys or accounts to get more than your plan allows.

## Plan

- Pay: £0
- You get: 1,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, status, sector, region, ceremonial_county, constituency, local_authority, postcode, inc, rounds, last, raised, net_assets, employees, accounts_size, turnover_band, employees_band, grant, corp_investor, company_class, sort, page, per
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone: a new account starts a 14-day trial, no card

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

company number, company name, status, incorporation date, sector, region, rounds count, last round date, total raised, currency, trading name, website, logo URL, company class, total results, data date

## Bradshaw Data's plans (4)

- [Bradshaw Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Bradshaw Data, £100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Bradshaw Data, £1,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/1000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.111 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Bradshaw Data, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 day

## Bradshaw Data's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/companies`: [Bradshaw Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/free/llms.txt)

## Bradshaw Data's APIs (3)

- [Bradshaw Data: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bradshaw-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bradshaw Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bradshaw-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bradshaw Data: company funding API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/bradshaw-data/free/llms.txt)

## Bradshaw Data: company discovery API alternatives

- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Implisense, €49 pack, 500 Implicents, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/implisense/49-pack-500-implicents-post-v2-search/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 day
- [Firmenakte, €10 pack, 1 000 credits, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/10-pack-1-000-credits-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.113 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [ScrapeIt, €169 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scrapeit/169-monthly/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 46% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://bradshawdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/api-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/docs/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/method?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://bradshawdata.com/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing