# BESS x402, pay as you go: Company enrichment API

> Validate an EU VAT number live against the official EU VIES service, returning valid/invalid and the registered company name and address where the member state shares them. Use for B2B invoicing, reverse charge checks and KYC. Unavailable member states return an error and are not charged.

BESS x402's x402 pay per call plan for the company enrichment API costs $3.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. BESS x402's docs list 1: Headquarters.
We haven't run BESS x402 through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
We rank 2,823 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $9.091 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 67% of the 2,823 plans.
[Coldlytics's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/coldlytics/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. Coldlytics's company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Pokt Agent's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pokt-agent/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-kr-entity-resolve/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: $1.00.
[APIs Peru's PEN 30 (about $9) 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 (about $9) monthly plan costs less up front than Coldlytics's $49 monthly plan.
[GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt), [TrustMRR](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/trustmrr/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/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go
- [Company enrichment API: the best of 240+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/finance/vat`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1finance~1vat
- Sold by: BESS x402 (https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Validate an EU VAT number live against the official EU VIES service, returning valid/invalid and the registered company name and address where the member state shares them. Use for B2B invoicing, reverse charge checks and KYC. Unavailable member states return an error and are not charged.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: vat_number
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/finance/vat

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

VAT number, valid, legal name, address, country code, checked at, source

## BESS x402's plans (1)

- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## BESS x402's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/finance/vat`: [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402's APIs (13)

- [BESS x402: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402: company enrichment API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /indeed/v1/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/reefapi/15-monthly-pro-monthly-post-indeed-v1-company/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-post-v2-serp/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Macaroon Network, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /execute/vat-validate-v1](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/macaroon-network/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-execute-vat-validate-v1/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [OnchainCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /vat/validate](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/onchaincheck/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-vat-validate/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing