# CelerAPI, pay as you go: Company hierarchy API

> Retrieve normalized direct and ultimate accounting-consolidation parent identifiers reported to GLEIF for an exact LEI.

CelerAPI's x402 pay per call plan for the company hierarchy API costs $5.70 per 1,000 companies. CelerAPI's docs list 1 of the 3 fields on our checklist: Parent.
We haven't run CelerAPI through [our company hierarchy API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt) yet.
We rank 121 plans for company hierarchy APIs by price. Half the plans cost $14.023 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 66% of the 121 plans.
[DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 (about $90) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-599-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: $0.045. DanskCVRAPI's plan covers companies in Denmark only. [DanskCVRAPI's DKK 99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-99-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: about $14.90.
[GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/globalentity-api/59-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 54 countries only. GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan costs less up front than DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 (about $90) monthly plan.
[DiscoLike](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/discolike/99-monthly/llms.txt), [Bigdata.com](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/bigdata-com/50-monthly/llms.txt) and [Magellan Data](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/magellan-data/375-pack-25000-credits-post-v1-corporate-families/llms.txt) are the best company hierarchy API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go
- [Company hierarchy API: the 5 best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.celerapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.celerapi.com/v1/lei/{lei}/relationships`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://www.celerapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- Sold by: CelerAPI (https://www.celerapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Parent: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $5.70
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve normalized direct and ultimate accounting-consolidation parent identifiers reported to GLEIF for an exact LEI.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- Full family tree: no
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: lei
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/lei/{lei}/relationships

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402)

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

parent LEI, ultimate parent LEI, relationship status, retrieved at

## CelerAPI's plans (1)

- [CelerAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 33% complete

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

- `GET /v1/lei/{lei}/relationships`: [CelerAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## CelerAPI's APIs (5)

- [CelerAPI: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-company-search/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/lei/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-lei-search/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/entity/profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-entity-profile/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/company/{companyNumber}/profile](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-company-companynumber-profile/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/lei/{lei}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-lei-lei/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: people search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/company/{companyNumber}/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-company-companynumber-officers/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: people search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/entity/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-entity-officers/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: people search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/entity/owners](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-entity-owners/llms.txt)
- [CelerAPI: people search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/company/{companyNumber}/owners](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-company-companynumber-owners/llms.txt)

## CelerAPI: company hierarchy API alternatives

- [Greeneris, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/greeneris/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 day
- [Firmbase, €15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/firmbase/15-monthly/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 33% complete, 24 hours
- [Skrapp, $8,988 yearly, Enterprise 250K, POST /api/v3/companies/bulk-enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/skrapp/8988-yearly-enterprise-250k-post-api-v3-companies-bulk-enrich/llms.txt): $5.992 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [OpenVerbs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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://www.celerapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://www.celerapi.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://www.celerapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing