# California Secretary of State (CALICO), free: Company enrichment API

> An entity matching the entered entity-number was found in and returned from the SOS database.

California Secretary of State's Developer portal subscription plan for the company enrichment API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. California Secretary of State's docs list 1: Type and status.
California Secretary of State (CALICO) limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run California Secretary of State (CALICO) through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
We rank 3,112 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $9.00 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 219 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 3,112 plans. [See the best free company enrichment API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
[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 TrustLookup's $19 monthly plan.
[Venture Atlas](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/venture-atlas/free/llms.txt), [GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt) and [TrustMRR](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/trustmrr/free/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/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free
- [Company enrichment API in 2026: the best of 280+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://calico.sos.ca.gov/cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityDetails`
- API key: with the plan, on https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#page=5
- Sold by: California Secretary of State (CALICO) (https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## 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 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An entity matching the entered entity-number was found in and returned from the SOS database.

## Data

- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: entity-number
- Method: GET
- Path: /cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityDetails

## About the plan

- Plan: Developer portal subscription
- Who can get it: anyone who creates an account on the developer portal, confirms the email and subscribes to a product

## The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity number, entity type, CID, filing date, status code, pending status code, status date, prior status code, status change, status description, management description, agent 1505 status code, entity name, foreign entity name, jurisdiction, entity street address 1, entity street address 2, entity city, entity state, entity ZIP code, agent name, agent address 1, agent address 2, agent city, agent state, agent ZIP code, mailing street address 1, mailing street address 2, mailing city, mailing state, mailing ZIP code, SI frequency, standing VCFCF, standing VCFCF date, standing SOS, standing SOS date, standing agent, standing agent date, standing FTB, standing FTB date

## California Secretary of State's plans (1)

- [California Secretary of State (CALICO), free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete

## California Secretary of State's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /cbc/v1/api/BusinessEntityDetails`: [California Secretary of State (CALICO), free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)

## California Secretary of State's APIs (3)

- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)
- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)
- [California Secretary of State (CALICO): company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/california-secretary-of-state-calico/free/llms.txt)

## California Secretary of State (CALICO): company enrichment API alternatives

- [GovConAPI, free trial, 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): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [g0v Taiwan Company, free, GET /api/bulkquery](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/g0v-taiwan-company/free-get-api-bulkquery/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month (tax registry county or city, tax registry district, tax registry business name, tax registry capital, tax registry establishment date, tax registry uses uniform invoices, tax registry industry, tax registry industry code, tax registry business address, tax registry person in charge surname, tax registry head office unified business number, tax registry organization type name, tax registry unit name, tax registry authority county or city, tax registry last change reason, tax registry last change date, tax registry reason description: 1 day)
- [Latinfo, free, GET /pe/ruc/{ruc}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/latinfo/free-get-pe-ruc-ruc/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [data.ct.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-ct-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Bosco Labs, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bosco-labs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete

## 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://calicodev.sos.ca.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/apiguide?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/content/California%20SOS%20BE%20Public%20Search%20API%20Guide%20v1.0.4.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/products?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://calicodev.sos.ca.gov/signup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing