# data.calgary.ca, free, Application token: Company discovery API

> This file includes the licensed businesses in the City of Calgary.

data.calgary.ca's Application token plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. data.calgary.ca's docs list 1: Headquarters.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run data.calgary.ca through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,165 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.525 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 170 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,165 plans. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[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/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.calgary.ca/resource/vdjc-pybd.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.calgary.ca/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.calgary.ca (https://data.calgary.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This file includes the licensed businesses in the City of Calgary.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Open Government Licence - City of Calgary, the dataset's licence: "2. The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. [...] 3. Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: 4. Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this license. [...] 6. This licence does not grant you any right to use: a. Personal Information, b. Information or Records that are not accessible under applicable laws, c. third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license, d. the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider, and e. Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks. 7. This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: $where, $select, $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/vdjc-pybd.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Application token
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

business licence ID, trade name, home-based business indicator, address, community district code, community name, licence types, licence first issued date, licence expiry date, licence status, latitude and longitude, global ID, city quadrant, Calgary community region, ward, community district (2021 boundaries), ward (2021 boundaries), ward (2013-2017 boundaries)

## data.calgary.ca's plans (2)

- [data.calgary.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 day
- [data.calgary.ca, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 day

## data.calgary.ca's calls (1)

- `GET /resource/vdjc-pybd.json`: [data.calgary.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.calgary.ca's APIs (2)

- [data.calgary.ca: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)
- [data.calgary.ca: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-calgary-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.calgary.ca: company discovery API alternatives

- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/sumble/free-post-v9-organizations-organizations/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 day
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [data.brla.gov, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-brla-gov/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://data.calgary.ca/Business-and-Economic-Activity/Calgary-Business-Licenses/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.calgary.ca/api/views/vdjc-pybd.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.calgary.ca/d/Open-Data-Terms/u45n-7awa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/select.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.calgary.ca/vdjc-pybd?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing