VerifyNow pricing: company enrichment API
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POST / cipc VerifyNow's only callAbout this item
- Live. VerifyNow looks up the company you ask about when you call the API.
- 5 of the 13 fields on our checklist. Description, Industry, Type and status, Headquarters, Phones.
- A prepaid balance. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You call
POST /with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the company profile.cipc - Who can get it: anyone at the age of majority with a lawful basis for each check. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
VerifyNow: company enrichment API alternatives
VerifyNow alternatives: other company enrichment API providers by price
We list other providers' plans that you pay for up front. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| This planVerifyNow, top-up | Frontrun, $25 pack | Topograph, top-up, Pay per request, POST /v2/company, Get Company Data and Documents (verification mode) | Deepvue, top-up, Self-Serve, GET /v1/verification/mca/cin | Scrapling x402 Data Store, $2 pack | |
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| Completeness | 38% | 23% | 38% | 31% | 31% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | $25 | any amount | any amount | $2 |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at the age of majority with a lawful basis for each check | anyone with a Frontrun account (packs top up any account) | anyone | anyone | anyone with a wallet paying USDC, the pass token is bound to the paying wallet |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Description
- Industry
- Type and status
- Images, not in the answer
- Technologies, not in the answer
- Employees, not in the answer
- Social profiles, not in the answer
- Headquarters
- Locations, not in the answer
- Funding, not in the answer
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents, not in the answer
- Phones
| Billing | pay first |
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| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: SA ID Verification · ID + Photo · SMS OTP · Real Time Alive/Death Status · Refugee / Asylum ID · Africa Verification · AML/PEP one-shot · Ongoing AML · Bank Verification · NPO Bank Account · Capitec Business Bank · Foreign Passport Bank · Adverse Media Search · Consumer/Person Trace · Address Lookup · Property Search · Consumer/Person Trace Lite · Marital Status · Marital Status Real-Time · Deceased Status · Phone Lookup · CIPC Director Search · Standard KYC Bundle · Employee Bundle · ID Photo Offline · Face Match (HA) · Face Match (Std) · Face Match + ID · Passive Liveness · Document Intelligence · Proof of Address Check · Age Estimation · iGaming Pack · ID Document Verify · Passport Authentication · Driver's Licence Barcode · Smart ID Card · Vehicle Licence Disc · Vehicle Valuation · Comprehensive Vehicle Check |
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| Their pitch | The VerifyNow REST API lets South African businesses run identity verification, refugee and asylum identity checks, AML/PEP screening, CIPC checks, bank account verification, face match, and vehicle lookup from their own application. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Countries | South Africa |
| Keep data | no longer than necessary: its Usage Policy prohibits "Retaining personal information beyond necessary periods" |
| Use data | The API policies accepted during API-key generation permit integration of enabled VerifyNow checks into your business workflows. Use remains subject to account permissions, available credits, required licences and a lawful purpose. [...] Each API request must be tied to the permitted purpose stated in the Terms of Service. [...] Customers may not use multiple checks to build unauthorised profiles, marketing lists, surveillance databases, or unrelated risk scores. [...] The following uses of Verify Now services are strictly prohibited: Unlawful discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or other protected characteristics, Surveillance or tracking without a proper lawful basis, Processing personal information for purposes incompatible with the original collection purpose, Circumventing individual privacy rights, lawful-basis requirements, or consent requirements where consent is required, Building profiles for purposes beyond the stated verification need, Reselling or redistributing verification data without authorisation, Using services to facilitate fraud, identity theft, or other illegal activities, Accessing government databases for purposes not authorised under applicable law. |
| Expires | never |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | reportType "cipc_company_match", mode "production", Idempotency-Key header, one of registration_number, vat_number or sole_prop_id_number |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /cipc |
| Plan | Starter |
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| Who can get it | anyone at the age of majority with a lawful basis for each check |
The 60 fields the plan's answer can hold
success, company name, trade name, previous name, registration number, registration date, business start date, status, company type, SIC, tax number, VAT number, business description, telephone, email, website, age of business, financial year end, director count, number of enquiries, authorised capital, issued capital, physical address, postal address, director name, director first name, director surname, director ID number, director appointment date, director status, director status date, director physical address, principal name, principal ID number, principal cellular number, principal home telephone, principal work telephone, principal email, principal physical address, principal postal address, address history type, address history address, address history postal code, address history last updated date, change history effective date, change history type, change history details, auditor name, auditor status, auditor profession, auditor telephone, auditor years with auditor, auditor start date, auditor end date, auditor physical address, VAT number provided, VAT number verified, VAT trading name, VAT registration number, VAT office