# BrightQuery, free: Company discovery API

> Firmographic, Legal Entity, and Location - level data on Organizations returned in a single API call, sorted by company size.

BrightQuery's company discovery API on its 7-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Employees, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets.
BrightQuery limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run BrightQuery through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 752 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.188 per 1,000 companies or less.
[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: as little as $0.0000015. StackScan's $189 monthly plan covers up to 259,200 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 500,000 companies.
[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/brightquery/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://brightquery.com/products/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://brightquery.com/products/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://brightquery.com/products/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: BrightQuery (https://brightquery.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Firmographic, Legal Entity, and Location - level data on Organizations returned in a single API call, sorted by company size.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: Upon termination or expiration, Licensee must delete all copies of BQ Data and BQ Services and cease use. Licensee shall return all copies in any media format to Licensor within five (5) days of termination and provide written certification of deletion within ten (10) days.
- Use data: During the Term, Licensor grants Licensee a personal, revocable, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, subject to the Terms and Conditions and the following: BQ Data and BQ Services must be used solely for Licensee’s internal use. [...] Any use of the BQ Data and BQ Services not expressly authorized in the Terms and Conditions is strictly prohibited. Without limiting the foregoing, Licensee is expressly prohibited from: Using the BQ Data and BQ Services in connection with any service offered by Licensee to third parties unless explicitly agreed upon by both Licensor and Licensee. Sublicensing Licensee’s rights to use BQ Data and BQ Services Reselling or redistributing the Licensed BQ Data and BQ Services unless explicitly agreed upon by both Licensor and Licensee in writing. Disassembling, decompiling, reverse engineering, modifying, or otherwise altering the BQ Data and BQ Services or any part thereof. Using the Licensed BQ Data and BQ Services in connection with any mobile application (for example, iOS or Android). [...] Licensee shall not submit any false or misleading information to access BQ Data and BQ Services. Licensee shall only develop applications designed to access BQ Data and BQ Services and use them only as allowed by the Terms and Conditions. Licensee shall not falsify or alter any unique identifier or identity, including the BQ ID, or otherwise obscure the source of searches coming from Licensee’s application. [...] Licensee shall not violate or attempt to violate the security of BQ Data and BQ Services. Licensee shall not transmit or make available any material containing software viruses or code intended to interrupt, destroy, or limit functionality. Licensee shall not use BQ Data and BQ Services in any manner that harms, harasses, or invades the privacy of any person. Licensee shall not expose Licensor to harm or liability, nor make representations or warranties about BQ Data and BQ Services to any third party. Licensee shall not use BQ Data and BQ Services in violation of any laws, rules, or regulations. Licensee shall not use any automated tools to retrieve or index any portion of BQ Data and BQ Services or allow any third party to do so.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: 7-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, for internal use only: BrightQuery's terms license its data solely for the licensee's internal use

## The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

BQ ID, name, legal name, website, company type, legal form, corporate structure, year founded, NAICS code, IRS industry, sector code, headquarters address, legal address, geo-coordinates, MSA name, ticker, CIK, S&P 500 membership, OFAC watchlist status, IRS tax lien indicator, active indicator, legal entity ID, legal entity status, immediate child entity count, child entity count, revenue range, employee count range, confidence score

## BrightQuery's plans (2)

- [BrightQuery, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brightquery/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [BrightQuery, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brightquery/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 month

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

- Docs behind sign-up: [BrightQuery, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brightquery/free/llms.txt)

## BrightQuery's APIs (5)

- [BrightQuery: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/brightquery/free/llms.txt)
- [BrightQuery: company headcount API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/brightquery/free/llms.txt)
- [BrightQuery: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, Extraction API: Financials & employment](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brightquery/free-7-day-free-trial-extraction-api-financials-employment/llms.txt)
- [BrightQuery: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, Search API](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brightquery/free-7-day-free-trial-search-api/llms.txt)
- [BrightQuery: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/brightquery/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [BrightQuery: people search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/brightquery/contact-us/llms.txt)

## BrightQuery: company discovery API alternatives

- [AnVendor, free, POST /v1/scans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anvendor/free-post-v1-scans/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 30 days
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/company_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-company-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 30 days
- [GetLeads, free, 1,000 credits, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getleads/free-1000-credits-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 month
- [Bloomberry, free API key, GET /accounts/tech.json](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bloomberry/free-api-key-get-accounts-tech-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 14 days
- [ARES, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ares/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 14 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://brightquery.com/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightquery.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightquery.com/products/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://brightquery.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing