# handelsregister.ai, free: Company discovery API

> Search and filter German companies, with pagination. At least one of q or filters is required.

handelsregister.ai's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Type and status, Headquarters.
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/handelsregister-ai/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://handelsregister.ai/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://handelsregister.ai/api/v1/search-organizations`
- API key: with the plan, on https://handelsregister.ai/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://handelsregister.ai/en/documentation/search-organizations?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: handelsregister.ai (https://handelsregister.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Type and status: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 30
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: fetch-organization · fetch-person · fetch-document · signals · monitoring

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search and filter German companies, with pagination. At least one of q or filters is required.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: Germany
- Keep data: 24 hours
- Use data: Das Nutzerkonto darf nur für eigene unternehmerische Zwecke des Kunden genutzt werden. [...] Eigene Arbeitsergebnisse des Kunden, die auf eigenen Auswertungen der vertragsgegenständlichen Daten beruhen, dürfen vom Kunden an Dritte bereitgestellt werden. Die Bereitstellung von Daten durch den Kunden an Dritte darf aber nur in einer Form erfolgen, die ohne weitere technische Zwischenschritte nicht zur Weiterverarbeitung der Daten geeignet ist (z.B. grafische Anzeige der Daten auf einer Webseite). Nicht zulässig ist insbesondere die Bereitstellung der vertragsgegenständlichen Daten über eine eigene Schnittstelle oder zum Download in maschinenlesbaren Dateiformaten (z.B. csv oder xls). [...] Die Lizenz berechtigt den Kunden insbesondere nicht dazu, die Plattform selbst oder über die Plattform bzw. die API abgerufene vertragsgegenständliche Daten Dritten zu überlassen. Die Plattform darf nur an verbundene Unternehmen des Kunden unterlizenziert werden.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 150 credits
- Enough for: 150 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of q or filters. Optional: skip, limit, sort, order, match_context
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search-organizations

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: a company or a person acting in the course of their trade or profession: its terms' "in Ausübung ihres Handelsgeschäfts oder Berufs tätig ist"

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity ID, registered name, business purpose, street, house number, postal code, city, county, state, country, coordinates, registration court, register type, register number, registration date, company status, match context, total results, total exact, total relation, credits charged, credits remaining

## handelsregister.ai's plans (9)

- [handelsregister.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/top-up/llms.txt): 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/69-monthly/llms.txt): $0.324 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €129 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/129-monthly/llms.txt): $0.285 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €699 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/699-yearly/llms.txt): $0.273 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €1,299 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/1299-yearly/llms.txt): $0.239 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, €4,999 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/4999-yearly/llms.txt): $0.208 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [handelsregister.ai, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete, 1 month

## handelsregister.ai's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/search-organizations`: [handelsregister.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/free/llms.txt)

## handelsregister.ai's APIs (3)

- [handelsregister.ai: company discovery API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/handelsregister-ai/free/llms.txt)
- [handelsregister.ai: business verification API pricing, 9 plans, fetch-organization, fetch-organization](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-fetch-organization-fetch-organization/llms.txt)
- [handelsregister.ai: business verification API pricing, 9 plans, fetch-organization, fetch-organization, full](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-fetch-organization-fetch-organization-full/llms.txt)
- [handelsregister.ai: business verification API pricing, 9 plans, search-organizations](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-search-organizations/llms.txt)
- [handelsregister.ai: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans, fetch-organization](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-fetch-organization-fetch-organization/llms.txt)
- [handelsregister.ai: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans, fetch-organization, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-fetch-organization-fetch-organization-full/llms.txt)

## handelsregister.ai: company discovery API alternatives

- [Apollo, $4,284 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apollo/4284-yearly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Tomba, $2,035 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/tomba/2035-pack/llms.txt): $0.203 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [AI Ark, $18,710 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/ai-ark/18710-yearly/llms.txt): $0.208 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [CNPJa, R$647.89 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cnpja/r-647-89-yearly/llms.txt): $0.212 per 1,000, 31% complete, 30 days

## 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://handelsregister.ai/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://handelsregister.ai/en/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://handelsregister.ai/en/documentation/data-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://handelsregister.ai/en/documentation/search-organizations?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://handelsregister.ai/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://handelsregister.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing