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

> List of co-operatives that are registered at the Registry of Joint Stock Companies as of June 8, 2026. Information includes: registry identification number, co-operative name, year of incorporation, mailing address. This list also identifies whether a co-operative is incorporated as a non-profit or for-profit association, and the co-op type [...]

data.novascotia.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.novascotia.ca's docs list 1: Headquarters.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run data.novascotia.ca through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,252 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.40 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 199 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,252 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-novascotia-ca/free-application-token
- [Company discovery API in 2026: the best of 100+ 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.novascotia.ca/resource/k29k-n2db.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.novascotia.ca/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.novascotia.ca (https://data.novascotia.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## 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: List of co-operatives that are registered at the Registry of Joint Stock Companies as of June 8, 2026. Information includes: registry identification number, co-operative name, year of incorporation, mailing address. This list also identifies whether a co-operative is incorporated as a non-profit or for-profit association, and the co-op type [...]

## Data

- Freshness: as of 2026-06-08
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Nova Scotia Open Government Licence, the dataset's licence on its metadata: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below." "You must, where you do any of the above: 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 licence. If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement [...] you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia" "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/k29k-n2db.json

## About the plan

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

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

registry ID, co-operative name, incorporation year, address, town, province or state, postal code, non-profit or for-profit, co-operative type

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

- [data.novascotia.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, as of 2026-06-08
- [data.novascotia.ca, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, as of 2026-06-08

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

- `GET /resource/k29k-n2db.json`: [data.novascotia.ca, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-novascotia-ca/free-application-token/llms.txt)

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

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

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

- [GetProspect, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Hunter, free, POST /discover](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/free-post-discover/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [data.virginia.gov, free, Public datastore, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Business Trusts (State Corporate Commission)](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-virginia-gov/free-public-datastore-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-business-trusts-state-corporate-commission/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, as of 2024-11-14

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://data.novascotia.ca/Business-and-Industry/Nova-Scotia-Co-operatives/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/k29k-n2db.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.novascotia.ca/resource/k29k-n2db.json?$limit=2&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.novascotia.ca/k29k-n2db?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://novascotia.ca/opendata/licence.asp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing