# MBIE, free: Company enrichment API

> Find other businesses’ core business information (in the NZBN Register this is called Primary Business Data). For example, to prepopulate a customer onboarding form with their NZBN information such as their legal name, business type and contact details.

MBIE's company enrichment API on its NZBN API plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Industry, Type and status, Technologies, Headquarters, Revenue and budgets, Phones.
You get as many calls as you like.
Half of the 1,208 plans we rank by price cost $9.90 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 70 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,208 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. CNPJ API's R$99 monthly plan costs less to start than Extruct's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-companies-enrich/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/hunter/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-companies-crunchbase/llms.txt) are the best company enrichment API providers in our benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mbie/free
- [Best company enrichment API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api/nzbn?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.business.govt.nz/gateway/nzbn/v5/entities/{nzbn}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api/nzbn?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#api=nzbn&operation=EntitiesByNzbnGet
- Sold by: MBIE (https://portal.api.business.govt.nz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Technologies: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Revenue and budgets: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## 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: Find other businesses’ core business information (in the NZBN Register this is called Primary Business Data). For example, to prepopulate a customer onboarding form with their NZBN information such as their legal name, business type and contact details.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: New Zealand
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "A signed MBIE API Access Agreement is required before an API subscription request will be approved. This ensures that services and information are used appropriately."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nzbn. Optional: If-None-Match
- Method: GET
- Path: /entities/{nzbn}

## About the plan

- Plan: NZBN API
- Who can get it: Customers with a signed MBIE API Access Agreement whose subscription request MBIE's API support team approves

## The 137 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity name, entity ID, entity type, entity type description, entity status code, status, registration date, source register, source register entity ID, last updated date, Australian Business Number, hibernation status code, hibernation status description, email addresses, email purpose, email purpose description, email start date, phone numbers, phone purpose, phone purpose description, phone country code, phone area code, phone start date, websites, website purpose, website start date, address type, address care of, address line 1, address line 2, address line 3, address line 4, address post code, address country code, address PAF ID, address start date, address end date, industry code, industry, trading names, trading name start date, trading name end date, trading areas, trading area start date, trading area end date, GST numbers, GST number purpose, GST number start date, payment bank account name, payment bank account bank ID, payment bank account branch, payment bank account base, payment bank account suffix, payment bank account purpose, payment bank account start date, privacy settings, role type, role status, role start date, role end date, role ASIC directorship, role ASIC name, role ACN, role entity ID, role entity name, role person title, role person first name, role person middle names, role person last name, role address, role ASIC address, annual return filing month, financial report filing month, NZSX code, annual return last filed, has constitution filed, country of origin, overseas company, extensive shareholding, stock exchange listed, number of shares, shares allocated, shareholder type, shareholder appointment date, shareholder vacation date, individual shareholder first name, individual shareholder middle names, individual shareholder last name, individual shareholder full name, other shareholder name, other shareholder entity ID, other shareholder company number, other shareholder entity type, shareholder address, historic shareholders, has ultimate holding company, ultimate holding company name, ultimate holding company type, ultimate holding company number, ultimate holding company entity ID, ultimate holding company country, ultimate holding company effective date, ultimate holding company address, Australian company number, insolvency commenced date, insolvency type, insolvency report name, insolvency report filed, insolvency report date, insolvency appointee first name, insolvency appointee middle names, insolvency appointee last name, insolvency appointee full name, insolvency appointee organisation name, insolvency appointee appointment date, insolvency appointee vacation date, insolvency appointee email, insolvency appointee phone, insolvency appointee address, removal commenced, registered union status, charities number, balance date, supporting document ID, supporting document type, supporting document links, proof of identity type, proof of identity name, proof of identity date of birth, proof of identity number, proof of identity version, proof of identity expiry date, authority type, authority organisation ID, business ethnicity, business ethnicity identifying factor, business ethnicity identifying factor description

## MBIE's plans (1)

- [MBIE, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mbie/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live

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

- `GET /entities/{nzbn}`: [MBIE, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mbie/free/llms.txt)

## MBIE's APIs (2)

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

## MBIE: company enrichment API alternatives

- [ScrapeUnblocker, free, POST /companies/crunchbase](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapeunblocker/free-free-post-companies-crunchbase/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/omkar-cloud/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /glassdoor/v1/employer/detail](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/reefapi/free-free-post-glassdoor-v1-employer-detail/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live

## 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://management.api.business.govt.nz/subscriptions/000/resourceGroups/000/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/apim-ess-map-ae-prd/apis/nzbn?export=true&format=openapi%2Bjson-link&api-version=2022-04-01-preview&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing#api=nzbn&operation=EntitiesByNzbnGet
- https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api/nzbn?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://support.api.business.govt.nz/s/article/cloud-subscriptions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://support.api.business.govt.nz/s/article/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/about-us/terms-of-use/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/bulk-data/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing