# Vancouver Open Data, free, API key: Company discovery API

> This dataset includes business licence records from 2024 onwards with the new categories (BusinessType).

Vancouver Open Data's API key plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Vancouver Open Data's docs list 3: Type and status, Employees, Headquarters.
Vancouver Open Data limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Vancouver Open Data through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,165 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.525 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 170 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,165 plans. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[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/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records`
- API key: with the plan, on https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing#tag/Dataset/operation/getRecords
- Sold by: Vancouver Open Data (https://opendata.vancouver.ca?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 9,999
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This dataset includes business licence records from 2024 onwards with the new categories (BusinessType).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: Canada
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. [...] You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. [...] If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement [...] you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use: Personal Information, Information or Records not accessible under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (B.C.), Third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to licence, The names, crests, logos, or other official marks of the Information Provider, Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks. [...] This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: dataset_id "business-licences". Optional: where, select, group_by, order_by, limit, offset, refine, exclude, lang, timezone, include_links, include_app_metas
- Method: GET
- Path: /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records

## About the plan

- Plan: API key
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up for a Huwise account on the portal

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

licence RSN, licence number, licence revision number, licence year, business name, DBA name, licence status, issue date, expiry date, business type, business subtype, unit, unit type, house number, street, city, province, country, postal code, local area, number of employees, fee paid, extract date, latitude and longitude, total results

## Vancouver Open Data's plans (2)

- [Vancouver Open Data, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Vancouver Open Data, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day

## Vancouver Open Data's calls (1)

- `GET /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records`: [Vancouver Open Data, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## Vancouver Open Data's APIs (2)

- [Vancouver Open Data: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Vancouver Open Data: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vancouver-open-data/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## Vancouver Open Data: company discovery API alternatives

- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/sumble/free-post-v9-organizations-organizations/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 day
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Vainu, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vainu/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/explore/v2.1/swagger.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/business-licences/information/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/help/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/home/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/licence/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://opendata.vancouver.ca/signup/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://vancouver.ca/your-government/terms-of-use.aspx?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing