data.gov.au pricing: company discovery API
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GET / data/ api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search data.gov.au's only callAbout this item
- A copy at most 1 week old. You get companies from data.gov.au's database.
- 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Type and status.
- Nothing to pay. You get as many pages as you like.
- One call. You call
GET /withdata/ api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search resource_set to "5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2". The call returns the matching companies.id - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
data.gov.au: company discovery API alternatives
data.gov.au alternatives: every company discovery API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.
| This plandata.gov.au, free | Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads | SerpKite, free | Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations | Captapi, free | data.ct.gov, free, With an app token | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 8% | 31% | 23% | 54% | 38% | 38% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | no limit | not published | 1,000 pages a month | 500 results a month | 50 pages, once | no limit |
| Freshness | 1 week | live | live | 1 day | live | 1 day |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone 18 or over | anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked) | anyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age') | anyone at least 18 years old, once their email is verified | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile |
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.
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
- data.gov.au/about
- data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2&q=qantas&limit=2
- data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_show?id=asic-companies
- data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies
- docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html
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, not in the answer
- 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, not in the answer
- 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
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 32,000 |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | The datastore_search action allows you to search data in a resource. |
|---|
| Freshness | 1 week |
|---|---|
| Countries | Australia |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. [...] Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits." Data.gov.au's terms: "This website requires that you use the following form of attribution: Attribution to: Organisation name, jurisdiction, title of dataset, date the content was sourced, dataset URL", "You agree to use Data.gov.au only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of Data.gov.au by any third party." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| Enough for | no limit |
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | resource_id "5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2". Optional: filters, q, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /data/api/3/action/datastore_search |
| Plan | Open data |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, record ID, company name, ACN, company type, company class, company sub class, status, registration date, deregistration date, previous state of registration, state registration number, modified since last report, current name indicator, ABN, current name, current name start date