# GlobalEntity API, free: Company discovery API

> For Norway, France & Ireland the NACE code searches the register directly — you can even leave the name blank and browse a whole industry.

GlobalEntity API's company discovery API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets.
We rank 659 plans by price. [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: as little as $0.0000015. StackScan's $189 monthly plan covers up to 259,200 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 500,000 companies.
[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 to start 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 [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.globalentityapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.globalentityapi.com/api/registry/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.globalentityapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.globalentityapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: GlobalEntity API (https://www.globalentityapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 200
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,200
- Also pays for: Verify VAT / EORI / LEI · Identity & Trust Score · Deduplication · Corporate graph · Ownership & UBO · Entity monitoring · Sanctions screening · Chat with a company · KYB report · IBAN check · VAT rates · Insolvency · Digital footprint · Company signals · Buying signals · from the same budget: Decision makers (Norway)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: For Norway, France & Ireland the NACE code searches the register directly — you can even leave the name blank and browse a whole industry.

## Data

- Countries: Norway, France, Ireland
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The free trial gives access to the Starter tier and ends automatically. [...] You may not use screen scraping, crawlers, bots or other automated techniques to extract data, and you may not integrate the data or functionality into your own products or systems. [...] Regardless of tier, you may not (a) exceed the usage limits of your plan, (b) circumvent authentication, rate limits or seat controls, (c) redistribute, resell, sublicense or otherwise make the data available to third parties except as expressly permitted by your tier, (d) use the service in breach of the terms of the underlying official registries, or (e) perform wildcard or mass queries, bulk-export whole registers, or scan or enumerate identifier ranges (for example sequential registration numbers). [...] You must comply with any attribution or licensing requirements of those registries, and the rights we grant you do not exceed the rights we are ourselves permitted to pass on. [...] before using company data for direct marketing, sales outreach or profiling, you must check and respect any advertising or marketing protection, opt-out or do-not-contact status that applies in the relevant country [...] as well as applicable data protection and e-marketing law (including the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules).

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 pages
- Expires: 7 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: country, at least one of nace, postnr, city, county, municipality, orgform, employees_min, employees_max, revenue_min, revenue_max, growth_min or growth_max. Optional: active, lei, limit, revenue_prev_min, sort, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/registry/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: companies, sole proprietors and other professionals who use company data as part of a trade, business, craft or profession (B2B only), not sold to anyone subject to sanctions administered by Norway, the EU or the UN, nor for use in a sanctioned country

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, answer mode, source register, country, registered name, entity number, status, status detail, legal entity type, industry, address, registration date, VAT registered, LEI, served from cache, county, municipality, revenue, revenue growth, revenue by year, operating result, net result, equity

## GlobalEntity API's plans (6)

- [GlobalEntity API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [GlobalEntity API, €59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [GlobalEntity API, €390 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/390-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [GlobalEntity API, €590 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/590-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [GlobalEntity API, €3,900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/3900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [GlobalEntity API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete

## GlobalEntity API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/registry/search`: [GlobalEntity API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt)

## GlobalEntity API's APIs (5)

- [GlobalEntity API: business verification API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt)
- [GlobalEntity API: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt)
- [GlobalEntity API: company hierarchy API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt)
- [GlobalEntity API: people search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/globalentity-api/free/llms.txt)
- [GlobalEntity API: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, GET /api/company/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/globalentity-api/free-trial-get-api-company-id/llms.txt)
- [GlobalEntity API: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/company/resolve](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/globalentity-api/free-trial-post-api-company-resolve/llms.txt)

## GlobalEntity API: company discovery API alternatives

- [StackScan, $79 monthly, Business, POST /v1/tech-lookup/lists](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stackscan/79-monthly-business-post-v1-tech-lookup-lists/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [ReefAPI, $33.75 quarterly, Pro quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/33-75-quarterly-pro-quarterly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Openapi.com, top-up, Single request, GET /FR-search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/openapi-com/top-up-single-request-get-fr-search/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [PrismCrawl, $50 pack, Basic, POST /v1/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/prismcrawl/50-pack-basic-post-v1-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 23% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://www.globalentityapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.globalentityapi.com/app?plan=enterprise&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.globalentityapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.globalentityapi.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.globalentityapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.globalentityapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing