Data8 pricing and alternatives: company discovery API, POST /CompaniesHouse/FindCompanyByNameOrPostcode.json

Data8's site llms.txt Best company discovery API in 2026

8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 111 plans we rank by price is Context.dev, $500 monthly, at $0.01 per 1,000.

Plan: Free trial Data8's only plan

Free, trialFree trial$0.00 per 1,000

Call: POST /CompaniesHouse/FindCompanyByNameOrPostcode.json one of Data8's 2 calls

API: Company discovery API one of Data8's 6 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
1 of the 13 key fields we check. Type and status.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, which pay for Data8's other calls. This call costs none of them. Data8 limits how many results you get, but doesn't say how many. Unused credits expire after 14 days, the free trial’s length.
One call. You send one of companyname or postcode to POST /CompaniesHouse/FindCompanyByNameOrPostcode.json. You can also send companystatus and options. The call returns the matching companies.
Who can get it: businesses, for their own internal business purposes. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Data8: company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

	This planData8, free, trial, POST /CompaniesHouse/FindCompanyByNameOrPostcode.json	NinjaPear, free	Findymail, free, Trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads	Dropleads, free	Explorium, free, Trial, POST /v2/businesses, Fetch businesses
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	8%	0%	31%	77%	54%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	not published	5 pages, once	not published	1,000 results a month	100 results, once
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	unknown
Who can get it	businesses, for their own internal business purposes	anyone, for their internal business purposes	anyone 18 or over	anyone aged 18 or over	anyone 18 or over, not a direct competitor of Explorium

Company discovery API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

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

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	nothing else

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Checks to find any matching companies filtered on company name and/or postcode. You can filter on any partial name or partial postcode - a wildcard is assumed.

Data
Keep data	until the Contract ends, then the Customer must "permanently erase the Licensed Programs, Data and, all related files from the Customer’s computer systems"
Use data	General Terms 5.4 Data8 grants to the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable limited licence to access the Website and purchased Services for the Customer’s own business purposes and upon the terms of the Contract. [...] 6.1 The Customer shall ensure that the Services are not used: 6.1.1 To send, upload, download, use or re-use any information or material which is offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of confidence, copyright, privacy or any other rights, 6.1.2 To store or transmit infringing, libellous, or otherwise unlawful or tortious material, or to store or transmit material in violation of third-party privacy rights, 6.1.3 To send or provide unsolicited advertising or promotional material or to receive responses to any unsolicited advertising or promotional material sent or provided using the Service by any third party, or 6.1.4 Other than in accordance with the acceptable use policies of Data8 and of any connected networks. [...] 6.3 The Customer shall not: 6.3.1 sell, resell, or distribute the Services save where the Customer is a reseller who complies with the terms of clause 5.5, 6.3.2 rent or lease the Services, 6.3.3 interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or third-party data contained therein, 6.3.4 attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Services or their related systems or networks. 6.4 The Services must not be used in a way that is in any way unlawful or does not comply with any licence applicable to the Customer or the Services. Specific Terms 7.1 The Customer agrees to: 7.1.1 use the Licensed Products strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract and in accordance with the Documentation and any reasonable procedures, instructions and guidelines issued by Data8, 7.1.2 use the Licensed Products only for its own internal business purposes, save that where the Customer is a reseller, it shall have a licence contained in, subject to compliance with, clause 5.5 of the General Terms. 7.1.3 ensure that the Customer and Users do not exceed the Authorised Use and that all persons who operate or access the Licensed Programs and Data are employees (including temporary employees) or individual independent contractors of the Customer only, and are made aware of and contracted to abide by all relevant terms and conditions of the Contract. [...] 7.2 The Customer agrees not to: 7.2.1 without Data8’s prior written consent or save as permitted by law, copy, reproduce, translate or do any act which infringes the copyright in the Licensed Products, 7.2.2 create a derivative work from the Licensed Products by any means, 7.2.3 decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Licensed Programs or Data save as permitted by law, 7.2.4 give, lease, licence, rent, assign, transfer, disclose or otherwise make available the Licensed Products (in any form) to any other person without Data8’s prior written consent, 7.2.5 permit any other person or company (including their related or associated companies) to use the Licensed Products without Data8’s prior written consent, 7.2.6 use the Licensed Products for the business purposes of any other person (either conventionally or on the internet, an intranet or an extranet), 7.2.7 do anything which adversely affects or damages Data8’s interests or the interests of Data8’s related or associated companies or of any of the Data Providers, including ownership interests in the Licensed Products.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits
Expires	14 days, the free trial’s length

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	one of companyname or postcode. Optional: companystatus, options
Method	POST
Path	/CompaniesHouse/FindCompanyByNameOrPostcode.json

About the plan
Plan	Free trial
Who can get it	businesses, for their own internal business purposes

The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits remaining, name, company number, company category, company status, town