# data.gov.au, free: Company discovery API

> The datastore_search action allows you to search data in a resource.

data.gov.au's company discovery API on its Open data plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Type and status.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run data.gov.au through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
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](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-gov-au/free
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#ckanext.datastore.logic.action.datastore_search
- Sold by: data.gov.au (https://data.gov.au?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 32,000
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The datastore_search action allows you to search data in a resource.

## Data

- 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## 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

## About the plan

- 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

## data.gov.au's plans (1)

- [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 week

## data.gov.au's calls (1)

- `GET /data/api/3/action/datastore_search`: [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au's APIs (3)

- [data.gov.au: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au: company discovery API alternatives

- [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
- [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% 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.ct.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-ct-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2&q=qantas&limit=2
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_show?id=asic-companies&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing