# data.gov.au, free: Company enrichment API

> Australian companies are required to keep their details up to date on ASIC's Company Register. Information contained in the register is made available to the public to search via ASIC's website.

data.gov.au's company enrichment API on its Open data plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Type and status.
You get as many calls as you like.
In [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt), this plan scores 52.9 out of 100. data.gov.au ranks 114th of 130 providers.
Half of the 1,542 plans we rank by price cost $7.96 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 96 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,542 plans.
[CNPJ API's R$99 monthly plan (/bulk-cnpj)](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/cnpj-api/r-99-monthly-pro-post-bulk-cnpj/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in Brazil only. CNPJ API's R$99 monthly plan costs less up front than Extruct's $49 monthly plan.
[GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt), [SEC EDGAR](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/sec-edgar/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/data-gov-au/free
- [Company enrichment API: 130+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#ckanext.datastore.logic.action.datastore_search
- Sold by: data.gov.au (https://data.gov.au?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Type and status: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 52.9
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 19
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 7

## 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: Australian companies are required to keep their details up to date on ASIC's Company Register. Information contained in the register is made available to the public to search via ASIC's website.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Countries: Australia
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. [...] Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits." Data.gov.au's terms: "This website requires that you use the following form of attribution: Attribution to: Organisation name, jurisdiction, title of dataset, date the content was sourced, dataset URL", "You agree to use Data.gov.au only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of Data.gov.au by any third party."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.42 s

## The call

- You send: resource_id "5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2", filters.ACN. Optional: q, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format
- Method: GET
- Path: /data/api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Open data
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, company name, ACN, company type, company class, company sub class, status, registration date, deregistration date, previous state of registration, state registration number, modified since last report, current name indicator, ABN, current name, current name start date

## data.gov.au's plans (1)

- [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 week

## data.gov.au's calls (1)

- `GET /data/api/3/action/datastore_search`: [data.gov.au, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au's APIs (3)

- [data.gov.au: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)
- [data.gov.au: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-gov-au/free/llms.txt)

## data.gov.au: company enrichment API alternatives

- [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
- [Decolecta, free, GET /v1/sunat/ruc/full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/decolecta/free-get-v1-sunat-ruc-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [PRH, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/prh/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-02.

- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=5c3914e6-413e-4a2c-b890-bf8efe3eabf2&q=qantas&limit=2
- https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_show?id=asic-companies&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.11/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing