# 44API, free: Company enrichment API

> Real-time validation for 53 countries. Get company data, ensure compliance, and stop fraud.

44API's company enrichment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. 44API's docs list 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Headquarters.
We haven't run 44API through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,003 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.957 per 1,000 companies or less.
[Extruct's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/extruct/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. Extruct's company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[APIs Peru's PEN 30 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/apis-peru/pen-30-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in Peru only. APIs Peru's PEN 30 monthly plan costs less up front than Extruct's $49 monthly plan.
[ROIC.ai](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/roic-ai/89-monthly/llms.txt), [GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt) and [GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-companies-enrich/llms.txt) are the best company enrichment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/free
- [Company enrichment API: the best of 160+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://44api.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.44api.dev/webhook/validate-vat`
- API key: with the plan, on https://44api.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.44api.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#tag/vat-validation/POST/webhook/validate-vat
- Sold by: 44API (https://44api.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time validation for 53 countries. Get company data, ensure compliance, and stop fraud.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Israel, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia, Serbia, Russia
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree NOT to: Use the Service for illegal purposes or to validate fraudulent transactions, Attempt to circumvent rate limits or security measures, Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, Resell API access without authorization, Use automated tools to scrape or harvest data beyond API limits, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation, Use the Service to send spam or malicious content. [...] EU VAT validation, Permitted Use: B2B transaction validation for VAT exemption purposes, Invoice verification and tax compliance, Real-time checkout validation for cross-border EU sales, Audit and record-keeping requirements. Prohibited Use: Mass extraction of EU business registry data, Building commercial databases from VIES queries, Automated enumeration or scraping of VAT numbers, Any use that violates European Commission VIES Terms of Use. [...] UK VAT validation, Permitted Use: Real-time validation of individual VAT numbers for B2B compliance, Invoice verification and checkout validation, Tax compliance and audit purposes. Prohibited Use: Bulk extraction or harvesting of UK business data, Building databases of UK companies from validation requests, Automated scraping or mass querying of UK VAT numbers, Any use that violates HMRC's API Terms of Use

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 250 requests a month
- Enough for: 250 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: vatNumber, countryCode, Content-Type header "application/json"
- Method: POST
- Path: /webhook/validate-vat

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over, or with legal authority to enter contracts

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, cached, VAT number, country code, valid, company name, company address, verification date

## 44API's plans (4)

- [44API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 7 days
- [44API, €9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/9-monthly/llms.txt): $2.026 per 1,000, 8% complete, 7 days
- [44API, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.305 per 1,000, 8% complete, 7 days
- [44API, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/99-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 8% complete, 7 days

## 44API's calls (1)

- `POST /webhook/validate-vat`: [44API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/free/llms.txt)

## 44API's APIs (1)

- [44API: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/44api/free/llms.txt)

## 44API: company enrichment API alternatives

- [Bright Data, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vijqt9jfj7olije](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/499-monthly-scale-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l1vijqt9jfj7olije/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [EDINET DB, $39 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/companies/{code}/profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/edinet-db/39-monthly-pro-get-v1-companies-code-profile/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 38% complete, 24 hours
- [JobsPipe, $650 monthly, Business, GET /v1/jobs/companies/{key}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/jobspipe/525-monthly-business-get-v1-jobs-companies-key/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 hour
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly, Enterprise monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/reefapi/200-monthly-enterprise-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 46% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://44api.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://44api.dev/features?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://44api.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://44api.dev/refund?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://44api.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://docs.44api.dev/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing