# Firmenakte, free, GET /api/v2/companies: Company discovery API

> The same operation as POST companies/search with q, place, isDeleted, legalForm, industry, trade and court as query parameters.

Firmenakte's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Firmenakte's docs list 1: Type and status.
We haven't run Firmenakte through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,165 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.525 or less per 1,000 companies. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[StackScan's $189 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stackscan/189-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-tech-lookup-lists/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. StackScan's $189 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as StackScan's rate limit allows. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $0.03.
[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/firmenakte/free-get-api-v2-companies
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://firmenakte.at/preise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.firmenakte.at/api/v2/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://firmenakte.at/preise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.firmenakte.at/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#tag/companies/GET/api/v2/companies
- Sold by: Firmenakte (https://firmenakte.at?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 100 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The same operation as POST companies/search with q, place, isDeleted, legalForm, industry, trade and court as query parameters.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Countries: Austria
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Sie dürfen firmenakte.at und die bereitgestellten Daten nur im Rahmen dieser Nutzungsbedingungen und der anwendbaren Gesetze verwenden. Unzulässig ist insbesondere: die Nutzung zu rechtswidrigen Zwecken, die Umgehung technischer Schutzmaßnahmen, Zugriffsbeschränkungen oder Nutzungsgrenzen, die Beeinträchtigung der Sicherheit, Integrität oder Verfügbarkeit unseres Dienstes, das automatisierte massenhafte Auslesen, Abrufen oder Spiegeln der Inhalte außerhalb der dafür vorgesehenen Funktionen oder der von uns bereitgestellten API, die Verwendung von Bots, Skripten, Crawlern oder ähnlichen Technologien zur unzulässigen Lastverursachung oder zum systematischen Datenabgriff, die Weitergabe von Zugangsdaten an unberechtigte Dritte. Personenbezogene Daten natürlicher Personen, insbesondere Namen von Geschäftsführern, Prokuristen und Gesellschaftern, dürfen nicht für Direktwerbung an diese Personen als Privatpersonen verwendet werden. Es ist insbesondere nicht gestattet, ausschließlich auf Grundlage der auf firmenakte.at bereitgestellten Informationen Bonitätsbewertungen vorzunehmen oder Kredit-, Finanzierungs- oder vergleichbare Entscheidungen zu treffen. Wenn Sie von uns bereitgestellte Daten verändern, anreichern, mit anderen Daten zusammenführen oder daraus eigene Auswertungen ableiten und diese weitergeben, haben Sie deutlich kenntlich zu machen, dass es sich nicht mehr um unveränderte Ausgangsdaten handelt.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 216.67 credits a month
- Enough for: about 216 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, place, isDeleted, legalForm, industry, trade, court, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v2/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Firmenakte account

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

ID, type, name, identifier scheme, identifier value, identifier source, total results, as of, next cursor

## Firmenakte's plans (7)

- [Firmenakte, free, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/free-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, €10 pack, 1 000 credits, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/10-pack-1-000-credits-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.113 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, €100 pack, 10 000 credits, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/100-pack-10-000-credits-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.113 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, €1,000 pack, 100 000 credits, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/1000-pack-100-000-credits-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.113 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, €9 monthly, Starter, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/9-monthly-starter-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.047 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, €60 monthly, Business, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/60-monthly-business-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 hour
- [Firmenakte, contact us, Enterprise, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/contact-us-enterprise-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt): 8% complete, 1 hour

## Firmenakte's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/v2/companies`: [Firmenakte, free, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/free-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v2/companies/search`: [Firmenakte, free, POST /api/v2/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/free-post-api-v2-companies-search/llms.txt)

## Firmenakte's APIs (5)

- [Firmenakte: business verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/firmenakte/free/llms.txt)
- [Firmenakte: company hierarchy API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/firmenakte/free/llms.txt)
- [Firmenakte: similar companies API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/firmenakte/free/llms.txt)
- [Firmenakte: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, POST /api/v2/companies/batch-get](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/firmenakte/free-post-api-v2-companies-batch-get/llms.txt)
- [Firmenakte: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /api/v2/companies/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/firmenakte/free-get-api-v2-companies-id/llms.txt)
- [Firmenakte: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans, GET /api/v2/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/firmenakte/free-get-api-v2-companies/llms.txt)

## Firmenakte: company discovery API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/15-monthly-pro-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [GloryCloud, $120 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/glorycloud/120-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, €299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly-business-post-companies-crunchbase/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 15% complete, live

## 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://docs.firmenakte.at/getting-started.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.firmenakte.at/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.firmenakte.at/openapi-v2.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://docs.firmenakte.at/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://firmenakte.at/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://firmenakte.at/nutzungsbedingungen?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://firmenakte.at/preise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://firmenakte.at/preise/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing