# CBE2JSON, free: Company enrichment API

> Returns one enterprise by its CBE number. Uses 1 credit when found.

CBE2JSON's Free plan for the company enrichment API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. CBE2JSON's docs list 2: Type and status, Headquarters.
We haven't run CBE2JSON through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 3,159 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.96 or less per 1,000 companies. [1,102 company enrichment API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) [g0v Taiwan Company's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/g0v-taiwan-company/free-get-api-bulkquery/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 81.0 out of 100. g0v Taiwan Company covers companies in Taiwan only.
[TrustLookup's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/trustlookup/19-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies, for the United States only. TrustLookup's company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Zodipe's PEN 45 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/zodipe/pen-45-yearly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month, for Peru only: about $1.09.
[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, and costs less up front than TrustLookup's $19 monthly plan.
[GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt), [Tapline](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/tapline/49-monthly/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/cbe2json/free
- [Company enrichment API in 2026: the best of 300+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.cbe2json.be/byCBE`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.cbe2json.be/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Sold by: CBE2JSON (https://cbe2json.be?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find enterprises by Denomination · Find enterprises by activity, address or legal status · Find enterprise numbers by activity, address or legal status

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns one enterprise by its CBE number. Uses 1 credit when found.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Countries: Belgium
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You covenant that you shall not (i) use the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services in any illegal or unlawful manner or for any illegal or unlawful purposes, or (ii) perform any act, which interferes with or disrupts the API and Services. [...] You agree that when using the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services, you will not: use any Deliverables, material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available by Creacore through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party, upload files which contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another, violate any applicable laws or regulations, use the Website, Subdomain URLs, Services or API in any manner that may overburden or threatens the integrity, performance or availability of the Website, Subdomain URLs, Services, create a false identity for the purpose of misleading Creacore or its vendors/suppliers, use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof, take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the API infrastructure, and (sub)license or (re-)sell our API and Services. [...] Unless otherwise specified, the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services are provided by Creacore for your personal and business uses only, and you may not use the Website, Subdomain URLs, API and Services for any other purposes. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, (sub-)license, create derivative works from, (re-)sell or transfer the API and/or Services which are provided to you by Creacore. [...] the KBO Open Data licence excludes direct marketing.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 50 credits a month
- Enough for: 50 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: data.cbe
- Method: POST
- Path: /byCBE

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account, for personal or business use (the terms' 19.1)

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

enterprise number, status, status description, juridical situation, juridical situation description, type of enterprise, type of enterprise description, juridical form, juridical form description, start date, activity group, activity group description, NACE version, NACE code, NACE code description, activity classification, activity classification description, denomination, denomination language, denomination language description, denomination type, denomination type description, contact entity, contact entity description, contact type, contact type description, contact value, address type, address type description, country in Dutch, country in French, ZIP code, municipality in Dutch, municipality in French, street in Dutch, street in French, house number, box, extra address info, date striking off, establishment number, establishment start date, establishment denominations, establishment contacts, establishment activities, establishment addresses, dataset source, dataset date, credits used, credits remaining, credits limit, credits reset time

## CBE2JSON's plans (5)

- [CBE2JSON, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/9-monthly/llms.txt): $10.128 per 1,000, 15% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/29-monthly/llms.txt): $3.263 per 1,000, 15% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.228 per 1,000, 15% complete, 24 hours
- [CBE2JSON, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/contact-us/llms.txt): 15% complete, 24 hours

## CBE2JSON's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /byCBE`: [CBE2JSON, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)

## CBE2JSON's APIs (2)

- [CBE2JSON Business verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)
- [CBE2JSON Company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/free/llms.txt)

## CBE2JSON: company enrichment API alternatives

[CBE2JSON alternatives: other company enrichment API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/cbe2json-alternatives.txt)

We list CBE2JSON's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to CBE2JSON in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [CBE2JSON, €99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cbe2json/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.228 per 1,000, 15% complete, 24 hours
- [VATapi, $332.68 monthly, Tier 4 - Monthly Subscription, GET /vat-number-check](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatapi/332-68-monthly-tier-4-monthly-subscription-get-vat-number-check/llms.txt): $2.218 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Piloterr, $1,068 yearly, Premium+, GET /v2/owler/company/info](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/piloterr/1068-yearly-premium-get-v2-owler-company-info/llms.txt): $2.225 per 1,000, 54% complete, live
- [KVKBase, €1,190 yearly, Business, yearly, POST /v1/lookup/batch, Batch Lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/kvkbase/1190-yearly-business-yearly-post-v1-lookup-batch-batch-lookup/llms.txt): $2.232 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Provjera, €199 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/companies/{oib}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/provjera/199-monthly-pro-get-v1-companies-oib/llms.txt): $2.239 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 2026-11-12.

- https://www.cbe2json.be/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/swagger.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.cbe2json.be/terms_of_service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing