# GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent: Company hierarchy API

> Retrieve closest Legal Entity preparing consolidated financial statements for this entity, based on the accounting definition of consolidation applying to that parent.

GLEIF's company hierarchy API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 1 of the 3 key fields we check: Parent.
You get up to 2,592,000 calls a month.
We haven't run GLEIF through [our company hierarchy API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 59 plans we rank by price cost $24.75 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 10 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 59 plans.
[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 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/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-direct-parent
- [Company hierarchy API: the 5 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt)
- Get it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing#b7a8ae84-2888-4f2a-a52b-dfed78d5cf89
- Sold by: GLEIF (https://www.gleif.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Parent: ✓

## 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: Retrieve closest Legal Entity preparing consolidated financial statements for this entity, based on the accounting definition of consolidation applying to that parent.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Worldwide
- Full family tree: no
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The data available through the Access Service are provided under the CC0 licence, see CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0). [...] By using our Access Service, you agree with the following terms: (a) You acknowledge that you do not have, and will not acquire, any intellectual property or other proprietary rights in the LEIs and LE-RD as provided by the Access Service, and that you do not, and will not, claim such rights. (b) You agree that you access LEIs and/or LE-RD on http(s)://www.gleif.org only by way of using the Access Service, and that you refrain from trying to obtain access to our Global LEI Repository or any other of our files or databases other than through using the Access Service as offered by us and, in particular, that you refrain from trying to circumvent technical restrictions or infecting the Global LEI Repository with malware of any kind. (c) [...] You agree that you shall refrain from creating, in whatever way, the impression that, data and/or services, except the original LEI and LE-RD downloaded by you through the Access Service, are provided or supported or authorized or granted or otherwise associated by or with GLEIF. You further agree to refrain from any actions or statements which may mislead the public and/or your customers to believe that any products or services provided by you, even if LEIs and LE-RD may be a part of such product or service, are services or products of GLEIF or any LOU, or that you are part of, or in a special relationship to, GLEIF and/or the GLEIS and/or any LOU.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 2,592,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 63 fields the plan's answer can hold

parent LEI, parent legal name, parent legal name language, parent other names, parent transliterated other names, parent legal address lines, parent legal address number, parent legal address number within building, parent legal address mail routing, parent legal address city, parent legal address region, parent legal address country, parent legal address postal code, parent legal address language, parent headquarters address lines, parent headquarters address number, parent headquarters address number within building, parent headquarters address mail routing, parent headquarters address city, parent headquarters address region, parent headquarters address country, parent headquarters address postal code, parent headquarters address language, parent other addresses, parent registered at, parent registered at (other), parent registered as, parent jurisdiction of formation, parent general category, parent sub category, parent legal form code, parent legal form (other), parent associated LEI, parent associated entity name, parent entity status, parent expiration date, parent expiration reason, parent successor LEI, parent successor entity name, parent successor entities, parent entity creation date, parent event group type, parent event type, parent event status, parent event effective date, parent event recorded date, parent event validation documents, parent initial registration date, parent last update date, parent registration status, parent next renewal date, parent managing LOU, parent corroboration level, parent validated at, parent validated as, parent other validation authorities, parent BIC, parent MIC, parent OCID, parent QCC, parent GEM, parent S&P Global company ID, parent conformity flag

## GLEIF's plans (1)

- [GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-direct-parent/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored

## GLEIF's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-children`: [GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-children](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-direct-children/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent`: [GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-direct-parent/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-children`: [GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-children](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-ultimate-children/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent`: [GLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-ultimate-parent/llms.txt)

## GLEIF's APIs (4)

- [GLEIF: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt)
- [GLEIF: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt)
- [GLEIF: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt)
- [GLEIF: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/direct-parent](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-direct-parent/llms.txt)

## GLEIF: company hierarchy API alternatives

- [Bigdata.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/bigdata-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SavvyIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/savvyiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [ZoomInfo, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/zoominfo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [OpenCorporates, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/opencorporates/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394
- https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://documenter.gw.postman.com/api/collections/7679680/SVYrrxuU?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://www.gleif.org/en/meta/lei-data-terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing