# VATlayer, free: Company enrichment API

> Validate any EU VAT number and obtain company information simply by passing it into the request URL.

VATlayer's company enrichment API on its Free Plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Headquarters.
We haven't run VATlayer through [our company enrichment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,542 plans for company enrichment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.96 per 1,000 companies or less.
[Extruct's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/extruct/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. Extruct's company enrichment API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[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/vatlayer/free
- [Company enrichment API: 130+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://vatlayer.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://apilayer.net/api/validate`
- API key: with the plan, on https://vatlayer.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.apilayer.com/vatlayer/docs/api-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- Sold by: VATlayer (https://vatlayer.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Single Country VAT Rates · Entire EU VAT Rates · VAT Price Calculation

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Validate any EU VAT number and obtain company information simply by passing it into the request URL.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit vatlayer API Data & Services for any other purposes. [...] You shall not: [...] use, store, or access any vatlayer API Data & Services, or the vatlayer API after the termination of this Agreement, [...] present, archive, cache, frame, scrape, or mirror any Information And Content from any part of the Services within another web site, except with express written permission
- Use data: Subject to Your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, You are hereby permitted to receive, process, and display vatlayer API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use vatlayer API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use, You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit vatlayer API Data & Services for any other purposes. [...] You are permitted solely to use vatlayer API Data & Services for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of vatlayer API Data & Services outside of your application(s). [...] You shall not: reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit vatlayer API Data & Services or the vatlayer API, make access to vatlayer API Data & Services or the vatlayer API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute vatlayer API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet, [...] use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export vatlayer API Data & Services, or the vatlayer API, or, use vatlayer API Data & Services or the vatlayer API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person. [...] You also agree not to: [...] redistribute any Information And Content in any manner whatsoever [...] to any person, organization, corporation or other entity, including within your own organization or externally, except for the limited Permitted Uses, [...] present, archive, cache, frame, scrape, or mirror any Information And Content from any part of the Services within another web site, except with express written permission [...], [...] embed or import any data provided in, on or through the Services into any information services (whether or not web-based), data files, or application software, including without limitation accounting and payroll systems, except as specifically permitted in writing by apilayer.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of each month: unused units are not carried over to the next monthly period

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: vat_number
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/validate

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use only

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, format valid, query, country code, VAT number, company name, company address

## VATlayer's plans (7)

- [VATlayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $9.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/9-99-monthly/llms.txt): $9.99 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $29.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/29-99-monthly/llms.txt): $7.497 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $4.9995 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $107.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/107-99-yearly/llms.txt): $8.999 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $314.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/314-99-yearly/llms.txt): $6.562 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [VATlayer, $1,019.99 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/1019-99-yearly/llms.txt): $4.25 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## VATlayer's calls (1)

- `GET /api/validate`: [VATlayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/free/llms.txt)

## VATlayer's APIs (1)

- [VATlayer: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatlayer/free/llms.txt)

## VATlayer: company enrichment API alternatives

- [vatcheckapi, $99.99 yearly, Small, GET /v2/check](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/vatcheckapi/99-99-yearly-small-get-v2-check/llms.txt): $4.166 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $105 monthly, 50,000 searches, monthly, GET /search, Google Place Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/valueserp/105-monthly-50000-searches-monthly-get-search-google-place-details-full/llms.txt): $4.20 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [gstinapi, ₹2,499 pack, Scale, GET /v1/gstin/{gstin}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gstinapi/2499-pack-scale-get-v1-gstin-gstin/llms.txt): $4.21 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $30 monthly, Project, monthly, POST /api/v1/glassdoor/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scavio/30-monthly-project-monthly-post-api-v1-glassdoor-company/llms.txt): $4.286 per 1,000, 62% 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 2026-11-03.

- https://docs.apilayer.com/vatlayer/docs/api-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/billing-overages-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/permitted-prohibited-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing
- https://vatlayer.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-enrichment-api-pricing