# UID Register, free, Public Services, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, ValidateUID: Company enrichment API

> Diese Operation erlaubt es, die Gültigkeit einer UID zu prüfen, auch wenn die nötigen Berechtigungen zum Anzeigen der dazugehörenden Unternehmensdaten fehlen.

UID Register's Public Services plan for the company enrichment API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images and 9 more. UID Register's docs list none of the 13.
UID Register limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt), the best plan from UID Register scores 67.0 out of 100. UID Register ranks 149th of 226 providers.
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/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-validateuid
- [Company enrichment API: the best of 220+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
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- Request: `POST https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc`, ValidateUID
- API key: not needed
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- Sold by: UID Register (https://www.uid.admin.ch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## 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: Diese Operation erlaubt es, die Gültigkeit einer UID zu prüfen, auch wenn die nötigen Berechtigungen zum Anzeigen der dazugehörenden Unternehmensdaten fehlen.

## Data

- Countries: Switzerland
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: uid, SOAPAction header "http://www.uid.admin.ch/xmlns/uid-wse/IPublicServices/ValidateUID", Content-Type header "text/xml"
- Method: POST
- Path: /V5.0/PublicServices.svc

## About the plan

- Plan: Public Services
- Who can get it: anyone, no login

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

UID valid

## UID Register's plans (1)

- [UID Register, free, Public Services, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, ValidateUID](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-validateuid/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## UID Register's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc`, GetByUID: [UID Register, free, Public Services, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, GetByUID](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-getbyuid/llms.txt)
- `POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc`, ValidateUID: [UID Register, free, Public Services, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, ValidateUID](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-validateuid/llms.txt)
- `POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc`, ValidateVatNumber: [UID Register, free, Public Services, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, ValidateVatNumber](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-validatevatnumber/llms.txt)

## UID Register's APIs (2)

- [UID Register: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/uid-register/free/llms.txt)
- [UID Register: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /V5.0/PublicServices.svc, ValidateUID](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/uid-register/free-public-services-post-v5-0-publicservices-svc-validateuid/llms.txt)

## UID Register: company enrichment API alternatives

- [jobContext, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/jobcontext/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [GovConAPI, free trial, GET /api/v1/entities/by-cage/{cage}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/govconapi/free-trial-get-api-v1-entities-by-cage-cage/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month
- [g0v Taiwan Company, free, GET /api/bulkquery](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/g0v-taiwan-company/free-get-api-bulkquery/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month (tax registry county or city, tax registry district, tax registry business name, tax registry capital, tax registry establishment date, tax registry uses uniform invoices, tax registry industry, tax registry industry code, tax registry business address, tax registry person in charge surname, tax registry head office unified business number, tax registry organization type name, tax registry unit name, tax registry authority county or city, tax registry last change reason, tax registry last change date, tax registry reason description: 1 day)
- [Latinfo, free, GET /pe/ruc/{ruc}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/latinfo/free-get-pe-ruc-ruc/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored

## 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://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/24605175/master?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/register/unternehmensregister/unternehmens-identifikationsnummer/uid-register/uid-schnittstellen.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?wsdl&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?wsdl=wsdl0&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd0&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd1&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd10&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd3&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid-wse.admin.ch/V5.0/PublicServices.svc?xsd=xsd9&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://www.uid.admin.ch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing