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GLEIF pricing: company hierarchy API, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent

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33% complete: 1 of the 3 key fields we checkSee the 3 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run GLEIF through our company hierarchy API benchmark yet.Half of the 50 plans we rank by price cost $25.375 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 10 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 50 plans.GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan 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, Bigdata.com and Magellan Data are the best company hierarchy API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free GLEIF's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent one of GLEIF's 4 calls for this API
API: Company hierarchy API one of GLEIF's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get hierarchies from GLEIF's database. GLEIF doesn't say how old the hierarchies are.
  • 1 of the 3 key fields we check. Parent.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 2,592,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You send id to GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent. The call returns the company's parents.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GLEIF: company hierarchy API alternatives

GLEIF alternatives: every company hierarchy API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

This planGLEIF, free, GET /api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parentBigdata.com, freeSavvyIQ, freeZoomInfo, freeOpenCorporates, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%100%100%100%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for2,592,000 calls a monthnot published125 calls, once1,000 results, once200 calls a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card requiredanyone with an account who is at least 18 (or the age of majority)employees of the company that holds the account (a contractor only with ZoomInfo's prior permission), each with their own login and a business email addressopen data projects: the product or database the data goes into is also released under an open licence (share-alike attribution)

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.

  1. api.gleif.org/api/v1/fields
  2. api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394
  3. documenter.getpostman.com/view/7679680/SVYrrxuU
  4. documenter.gw.postman.com/api/collections/7679680/SVYrrxuU?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  5. gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-api
  6. gleif.org/en/meta/lei-data-terms-of-use

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Company, not in the answer
  • Parent
  • Family tree, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve LEI Record for the furthest Legal Entity preparing consolidated financial statements for this entity, based on the accounting definition of consolidation applying to that parent.
Data
Freshnessstored
CountriesWorldwide
Full family treeno
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe 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 for2,592,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/lei-records/{id}/ultimate-parent
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 63 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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