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

> Retrieve LEI Records for the furthest level Legal Entity/Entities wholly consolidated in the consolidated financial statements for this entity (based on the accounting definition of consolidation applying to this 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: Family tree.
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-ultimate-children
- [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}/ultimate-children`
- 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#a89f2ffb-103d-4020-a2b6-58ee04b77f61
- 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%
- Family tree: ✓

## 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 LEI Records for the furthest level Legal Entity/Entities wholly consolidated in the consolidated financial statements for this entity (based on the accounting definition of consolidation applying to this parent).

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Worldwide
- 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. Optional: page[number], page[size]
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-children

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 64 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## GLEIF's plans (1)

- [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): $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}/ultimate-children](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/gleif/free-get-api-v1-lei-records-id-ultimate-children/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