# gankdat, free: Company discovery API

> The newest companies on the UK register, from the official Companies House API — name, number, type, SIC codes, incorporation date, and registered-office area. Officer/PSC data never ingested.

gankdat's free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. gankdat's docs list 3 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Industry, Type and status, Headquarters.
We haven't run gankdat through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 966 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. [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.
[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/gankdat/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://gankdat.com/v1/data/uk-companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: gankdat (https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 2,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: UK planning applications · UK procurement notices · UK contract awards (Contracts Finder) · UK sanctions designations · EU procurement notices (TED) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) · UK corporate insolvency notices · UK food hygiene ratings (FSA) · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) · UK company lookup (Companies House) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) — changes since a date · UK food hygiene ratings (FSA) — changes since a date · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) — changes since a date · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) — changes since a date · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) — changes since a date · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) — changes since a date · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) — changes since a date · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) — changes since a date · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) — changes since a date

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The newest companies on the UK register, from the official Companies House API — name, number, type, SIC codes, incorporation date, and registered-office area. Officer/PSC data never ingested.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use API responses in your own products, analyses, and services, including commercially, subject to the dataset's source licence above. [...] uk-companies: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-company-profiles: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-food-hygiene: Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Food Standards Agency, rating artwork is not covered and is not served [...] You may not resell, mirror, or redistribute the API itself (i.e. offering our service, or wholesale access to it, as your product). Where a dataset runs Blind Mode, you may not use it to attempt to identify or profile individuals, alone or combined with other sources. [...] No unlawful use, and no use that disrupts, overloads, reverse-engineers, or circumvents the service's security, rate limits, or metering. No attempting to re-identify individuals from any data, alone or combined with other sources.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: company, company_number, status, company_type, sic_codes, locality, postal_code, incorporated_on_after, incorporated_on_before, page, per_page, q
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/data/uk-companies

## About the plan

- Plan: free
- Who can get it: anyone with an email address, for business and professional use

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

company name, company number, company status, company type, date of creation, SIC code, locality, region, postal code, country, link to company, total results, last refreshed at

## gankdat's plans (6)

- [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/5-monthly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £23 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/23-monthly/llms.txt): $0.061 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.053 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £239 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/239-monthly/llms.txt): $0.032 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day

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

- `GET /v1/data/uk-companies`: [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/data/uk-companies`: [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## gankdat's APIs (4)

- [gankdat: business verification API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)

## gankdat: company discovery API alternatives

- [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
- [ExploreYC, $50 monthly, Pro, GET /search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exploreyc/50-monthly-pro-get-search/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 62% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing