# How.is, free: Company enrichment API

> Who runs this site? Name, what they do, location, socials, mail/DNS/hosting providers, registration — each with a source and confidence. Unknown = not charged

How.is's company enrichment API on its Free calls plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. How.is's docs list 5 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Description, Type and status, Technologies, Social profiles, Headquarters.
We haven't run How.is through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,096 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $8.562 per 1,000 companies or less. [See the best free company enrichment API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
[Intrinio's $150 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/intrinio/150-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies. Intrinio's company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[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 Intrinio's $150 monthly plan.
[Intrinio](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/intrinio/150-monthly/llms.txt), [ROIC.ai](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/roic-ai/89-monthly/llms.txt) and [GLEIF](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/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/how-is/free
- [Company enrichment API: the best of 170+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://how.is?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://how.is/v1/company`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://how.is/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#company_lookup
- Sold by: How.is (https://how.is?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: URL pre-flight · Read a page (with verdict) · DNS records · WHOIS / RDAP · Domain age · Domain availability · Domain change history · TLS certificate · DNSSEC · Email authentication · Security score · Blacklist status · IP intelligence · Site status · Page-change watch · Crawler identity check · Crawler identity check (batch)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Who runs this site? Name, what they do, location, socials, mail/DNS/hosting providers, registration — each with a source and confidence. Unknown = not charged

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use the service to break the law, attack the hosts you look up, or resell it as a bulk mirror.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20 requests a day
- Enough for: 20 calls a day
- Expires: 00:00 UTC each day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/company

## About the plan

- Plan: Free calls
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

company name, legal name, description, categories, kind, audience, business model, locality, region, country, social links, DNS provider, mail provider, hosting provider, registrar, created date, expiry date, domain age, registrant organization, ownership continuity, overall confidence, confidence per field, sources, not checked

## How.is's plans (4)

- [How.is, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [How.is, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [How.is, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [How.is, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete

## How.is's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/company`: [How.is, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt)

## How.is's APIs (3)

- [How.is: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt)
- [How.is: domain WHOIS API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt)
- [How.is: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt)

## How.is: company enrichment API alternatives

- [Context.dev, $500 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by domain](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/500-monthly-scale-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-domain/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 3 months
- [MillionPhones, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/millionphones/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 month
- [The Swarm, $72,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/the-swarm/72000-yearly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, stored
- [DiscoLike, $399 monthly, Team, POST /append, Append, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/discolike/399-monthly-team-post-append-append-full/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 30 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://how.is?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://how.is/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://how.is/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://how.is/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://how.is/prices?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://how.is/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing