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Companies House pricing and alternatives: company enrichment API

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31% complete: 4 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companiesHalf of the 848 plans we rank by price cost $12.45 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 4 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 848 plans.GetProspect, Companies House and Hunter are the best company enrichment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Companies House's only plan
Call: GET /company/{company_number} Companies House's only call for this API
API: Company enrichment API one of Companies House's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Type and status, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 5,184,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You send company_number to GET /company/{company_number}. The call returns the company profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Companies House user account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Companies House: company enrichment API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

This planCompanies House, freeGetProspect, free, POST /v2/companies/enrichHunter, freeScrapeUnblocker, free, POST /companies/crunchbaseThe Companies API, free, GET /v2/companies/{domain}treg, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness31%69%100%85%92%46%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0$0
Enough for5,184,000 calls a monthno limit250 calls a month500 calls, once500 callsabout 1,754 calls, once
Freshnessunknownstored (technologies: 30 days)storedlivestoredunknown
Who can get itanyone with a Companies House user accountanyone 16 or overanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")anyonea new account once its email is verified, for one team (aliases of one inbox share one), 16 or over

Every company enrichment API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/company-profile/company-profile
  2. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/resources/companyprofile?v=latest
  3. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/guides/rateLimiting
  4. developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/developer-guidelines
  5. developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-started
  6. api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
  7. gov.uk/government/publications/companies-house-accreditation-to-information-fair-traders-scheme/public-task-copyright-and-crown-copyright

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description, not in the answer
  • Industry
  • Type and status
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees, not in the answer
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters
  • Locations, not in the answer
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Score
Overall score67.8
Price score100
Data score36
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet the basic company information
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Companies House imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used." "We place no restriction on how the information is used after purchase, other than the following:" "all customers, including bulk customers, must take their own legal advice regarding possible breach of third party copyright" "customers cannot reproduce the Crown insignia" "if information is used from guidance notes, the website, publications or statistical tables the customer must credit Companies House as the source of the information". Developer guidelines: "We reserve the right to ban without notice applications that regularly exceed or attempt to bypass the rate limits."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for5,184,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.00 s
The call
You sendcompany_number
MethodGET
Path/company/{company_number}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Companies House user account
The 95 fields the plan's answer can hold

ETag, company name, company number, company status, company status detail, company type, company subtype, jurisdiction, date of creation, date of cessation, can file, has been liquidated, has charges, has insolvency history, is community interest company, external registration number, last full members list date, partial data available, registered office is in dispute, undeliverable registered office address, super secure managing officer count, SIC code, previous company names, previous name effective from, previous name ceased on, premises, address line 1, address line 2, care of, locality, region, postal code, country, PO box, service premises, service address line 1, service address line 2, service care of, service locality, service region, service postal code, service country, service PO box, accounting reference date day, accounting reference date month, last accounts made up to, last accounts period end date, last accounts period start date, last accounts type, next accounts due date, next accounts overdue, next accounts period end date, next accounts period start date, accounts next due, accounts next made up to, accounts overdue, annual return last made up to, annual return next due, annual return next made up to, annual return overdue, confirmation statement last made up to, confirmation statement next due, confirmation statement next made up to, confirmation statement overdue, branch business activity, branch parent company name, branch parent company number, corporate annotation created on, corporate annotation description, corporate annotation type, foreign accounting requirement account type, foreign terms of account publication, foreign account period from day, foreign account period from month, foreign account period to day, foreign account period to month, foreign must file within months, foreign business activity, foreign company type, foreign governed by, foreign is a credit finance institution, foreign originating registry country, foreign originating registry name, foreign registration number, link to charges, link to exemptions, link to filing history, link to insolvency, link to officers, link to overseas, link to persons with significant control, link to persons with significant control statements, link to registers, link to self, link to UK establishments

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