# GovConAPI, free: Company discovery API

> Filter-based entity search. Every filter works on every plan, including the free trial [...]. The DSBS replacement: programmatic NAICS x state x certification x active-status filtering across the SAM directory.

GovConAPI's Free trial plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. GovConAPI's docs list 3 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Industry, Type and status, Headquarters.
You get up to 1,500 calls a month.
We haven't run GovConAPI through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 971 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. [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/govconapi/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://govconapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://govconapi.com/api/v1/entities/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://govconapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://govconapi.com/api-guide/entities-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: GovConAPI (https://govconapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## 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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Filter-based entity search. Every filter works on every plan, including the free trial [...]. The DSBS replacement: programmatic NAICS x state x certification x active-status filtering across the SAM directory.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Within these terms and your plan, you may use GovCon API to: build internal tools, and commercial software and services, run market research and analysis, bring federal procurement data into your own applications and workflows, use it from AI assistants and coding tools through the MCP server, publish work that analyzes, summarizes or adds to the results. The free trial is for evaluating GovCon API. Using it in production, or in a product or service you sell, requires a paid plan. You may not: resell or redistribute the data as a competing data service, share one API key between different organizations, page or script through the endpoints to copy, mirror or reconstruct all or a substantial part of the dataset, bypass, or try to bypass, rate limits, plan restrictions or other access controls, use the service in a way that degrades it for other customers

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 1,500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 0.25
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of q, naics, naics_small, state, business_type or active_only. Optional: limit, offset, fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/entities/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with an email address: a 14-day key for evaluation, not for production use, one trial per address

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, limit, offset, total results, has more results, UEI, legal name, DBA name, registration status, registration expiration date, primary NAICS, business types, business type labels, city, state, country

## GovConAPI's plans (3)

- [GovConAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [GovConAPI, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.000026 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [GovConAPI, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/entities/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/39-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-entities-search/llms.txt): $0.000054 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month

## GovConAPI's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /api/v1/entities/search`: [GovConAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/companies/search`: [GovConAPI, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/39-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/entities/expiring`: [GovConAPI, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/entities/expiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/39-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-entities-expiring/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/partners/search`: [GovConAPI, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/partners/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/39-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-partners-search/llms.txt)

## GovConAPI's APIs (4)

- [GovConAPI: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/govconapi/free/llms.txt)
- [GovConAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /api/v1/entities/by-cage/{cage}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/govconapi/free-trial-get-api-v1-entities-by-cage-cage/llms.txt)
- [GovConAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, GET /api/v1/entities/{uei}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/govconapi/free-trial-get-api-v1-entities-uei/llms.txt)
- [GovConAPI: similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/govconapi/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [GovConAPI: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/govconapi/39-monthly/llms.txt)

## GovConAPI: company discovery API alternatives

- [Store Leads, $450 monthly, Elite, GET /json/api/v1/all/domain](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/store-leads/450-monthly-elite-get-json-api-v1-all-domain/llms.txt): $0.000017 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 week
- [cnpjob, R$349 monthly, Business, GET /empresas](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cnpjob/r-349-monthly-business-get-empresas/llms.txt): $0.000023 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [PrimoDato, $499 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/primodato/499-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00008 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month (technology name, technology slug, technology category, technology confidence: 1 week)
- [EDINET DB, $2,490 yearly, Developer, GET /v1/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/edinet-db/2490-yearly-developer-get-v1-companies/llms.txt): $0.00014 per 1,000, 0% complete, 24 hours

## 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://govconapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://govconapi.com/api-guide/entities-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://govconapi.com/api-guide/guides/plan-matrix?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://govconapi.com/federal-contractor-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://govconapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://govconapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing