Companies House pricing: company discovery API
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23% complete: 3 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our company discovery API benchmark, this plan scores 0.0 out of 100. Companies House ranks 59th of 65 providers.Half of the 771 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 56 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 771 plans.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and PeopleSearch.im are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free Companies House's only plan
Call:
GET / Companies House's only call for this APIAPI: Company discovery API one of Companies House's 5 APIs
- Company discovery API
- Company enrichment API
- People enrichment API
- Business verification API
GET /advanced-search/ companies - Business verification API
GET /search/ companies - People search API
GET /company/ {company_ number}/ officers - People search API
GET /company/ {company_ number}/ persons-with-significant-control - People search API
GET /search/ officers
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 3 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Type and status, Headquarters.
- Nothing to pay. You get up to 5,184,000 pages a month.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching companies.advanced-search/ companies - Who can get it: anyone with a Companies House user account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Companies House: company discovery API alternatives
Companies House alternatives: every company discovery API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.
| This planCompanies House, free | GetProspect, free | Hunter, free, POST /discover | PeopleSearch.im, free | AnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search | AdLibrarySpy, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 23% | 62% | 54% | 38% | 23% | 0% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 5,184,000 pages a month | no limit | 2,160,000 pages a month | no limit | no limit | 30,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | stored | stored | stored | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a Companies House user account | anyone 16 or over | anyone 18 or over | new accounts | anyone 18 or over, for their own internal business purposes | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.
- developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/api.ch.gov.uk-specifications/swagger-2.0/spec/search-companies.json
- developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/search/advanced-company-search
- developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/guides/rateLimiting
- developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/developer-guidelines
- developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-started
- api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
- gov.uk/government/publications/companies-house-accreditation-to-information-fair-traders-scheme/public-task-copyright-and-crown-copyright
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Description, not in the answer
- Industry
- Type and status
- Images, not in the answer
- Technologies, not in the answer
- Employees, not in the answer
- Social profiles, not in the answer
- Headquarters
- Locations, not in the answer
- Funding, not in the answer
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents, not in the answer
- Phones, not in the answer
| Overall score | 0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0. |
|---|---|
| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 0 |
| Cost to get started score | 100 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| Performance score | 0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0. |
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 5,000 |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Advanced search for a company |
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| Countries | United Kingdom |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "Companies House imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used." "We place no restriction on how the information is used after purchase, other than the following:" "all customers, including bulk customers, must take their own legal advice regarding possible breach of third party copyright" "customers cannot reproduce the Crown insignia" "if information is used from guidance notes, the website, publications or statistical tables the customer must credit Companies House as the source of the information". Developer guidelines: "We reserve the right to ban without notice applications that regularly exceed or attempt to bypass the rate limits." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| Enough for | 5,184,000 pages a month |
| Per second | 2 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: company_name_includes, company_name_excludes, company_status, company_subtype, company_type, dissolved_from, dissolved_to, incorporated_from, incorporated_to, location, sic_codes, size, start_index |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /advanced-search/companies |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a Companies House user account |
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold
ETag, kind, total results, top hit, company name, company number, company status, company type, company subtype, date of creation, date of cessation, address line 1, address line 2, locality, region, postal code, country, SIC code, link to company