# NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API), 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.

NZBN API's Free plan for the company enrichment API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. NZBN API's docs list 4: Industry, Type and status, Headquarters, Phones.
NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API) limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API) through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
We rank 2,688 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $9.00 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 169 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 2,688 plans. [See the best free company enrichment API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
[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 ROIC.ai's $29 monthly plan.
[ROIC.ai](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/roic-ai/89-monthly/llms.txt), [Intrinio](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/intrinio/150-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/nzbn-api-mbie-business-data-api/free
- [Company enrichment API: the best of 220+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/using-the-nzbn/nzbn-services/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/explore-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Sold by: NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API) (https://api.business.govt.nz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Industry: ✓
- Type and status: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- 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 API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs the MBIE API Access Agreement and has a subscription approved

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

NZBN, legal name, trading names, trading areas, entity type, registration status, industry classifications, directors, owners, website, phone number, email, registered address, postal address, address for service

## NZBN API's plans (1)

- [NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API), free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nzbn-api-mbie-business-data-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live

## NZBN API's calls (1)

- Docs behind sign-up: [NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API), free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nzbn-api-mbie-business-data-api/free/llms.txt)

## NZBN API's APIs (2)

- [NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API): company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/nzbn-api-mbie-business-data-api/free/llms.txt)
- [NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API): company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nzbn-api-mbie-business-data-api/free/llms.txt)

## NZBN API (MBIE Business Data API): company enrichment API alternatives

- [Brreg, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/brreg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [RegisterUZ, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/registeruz/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Corporations Canada, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/corporations-canada/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [SEC EDGAR, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/sec-edgar/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/api-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/explore-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://portal.api.business.govt.nz/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://support.api.business.govt.nz/s/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/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
- https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/whats-an-nzbn/primary-business-data/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing