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FirmenData pricing: company discovery API, search, Advanced search, full

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$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run FirmenData through our company discovery API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,009 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 companies. See the best free company discovery API plan.StackScan's $189 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $0.03.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and PeopleSearch.im are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest FirmenData plan for that many companies. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Account, 800 free credits a month one of FirmenData's 2 plans
Call: GET /v1/companies/search, Advanced search, full one of FirmenData's 4 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of FirmenData's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. FirmenData searches for companies when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 13 fields on our checklist. Type and status, Employees, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 800 credits a month, enough for 160 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of each month.
  • One call. You send q or company_name to GET /v1/companies/search. You set fetch_realtime to "true". The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FirmenData: company discovery API alternatives

FirmenData alternatives: other company discovery API providers by price

The table starts with FirmenData's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to FirmenData's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

FirmenData, top-up from €5, Account, credits from €5 (500 credits), GET /v1/companies/search, Advanced search, fullNeuralVerge, $1,000 monthly, Enterprise, POST /functions/v1/run-tracxn-unicorns-searchUnifAPI, top-up, Starter top-up, POST /maps/searchFindymail, $3,990 yearly, Business Plus, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leadsParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 companies$1.125$1.00$1.00$1.108$1.333
Completeness31%54%38%31%38%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstyearlymonthly
Pay€5$1,000any amount$3,990$1,000
Enough for100 pages1,000,000 results a month2,000 results, once3,600,000 results a year50,000 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an account, prices net of VATbusiness and professional use, 18 or overanyone, on their workspace's first top-upanyone 18 or overanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

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.

  1. api.firmendata.com/v1/openapi.json
  2. firmendata.com/en/developer/apis
  3. firmendata.com/en/plans
  4. firmendata.com/en/terms-and-conditions
  5. firmendata.com/llms-full.txt

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
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Autocomplete · Company detail · Register history · Financials · Shareholders · Beneficial owners (UBO) · List register documents · Document download · New-company feed · Insolvency feed · Create subscription
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text + filter search over German, Swiss and Austrian commercial registers. Cursor-paginated, up to 50 hits per page.
Data
Freshnesslive
CountriesGermany, Austria, Switzerland
Keep datano limit
Use data§ 7: "The user is granted a simple, non-transferable right to use the platform within the scope of the selected plan. Reproduction, distribution or commercial exploitation of the data beyond contractual use is not permitted without prior written consent from the Provider. Systematic reading, scraping, crawling or automated downloading of data from the platform is expressly prohibited."
Plan
Pay$0
You get800 credits a month
Enough for160 pages a month
Expiresat the end of each month
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendfetch_realtime "true", one of q or company_name. Optional: eu_id, limit, sort, sort_direction, register_number, country, canton, register_type, register_court, city, bundesland, founded_from, founded_to, revenue_min, revenue_max, profit_min, profit_max, total_assets_min, total_assets_max, employee_count_min, employee_count_max, wz_2025_code, industry_slug, rechtsform, person_name, cpv_code, avg_birth_year_min, avg_birth_year_max, legal_status, company_size, membership, lei_code, ust_idnr, has_website, has_email, tender_role, family_managed, founder_led, succession_risk
MethodGET
Path/v1/companies/search
About the plan
PlanAccount, 800 free credits a month
Who can get itanyone with a free account (signing up is free, with no payment details and no subscription)
The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

EU ID, country code, legal name, display name, registered seat, register court, register type, register number, register canton, UID, is branch, address street, address house number, address postal code, address city, address federal state, address country code, address latitude, address longitude, formatted address, legal status, founding date, employee count, employee count year, revenue, revenue year, profit, profit year, total assets, total assets year, financial year, website, CPV award codes, total results, total results is capped, has more results, next cursor, previous cursor, filters echo, execution time, freshness last checked at, freshness real-time fetching status, companies found live in the register

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