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

> Retrieve 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.

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-ultimate-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}/ultimate-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#e192426b-013f-4ff7-b8ed-2ff5b87fed6f
- 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 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

- 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}/ultimate-parent

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## GLEIF's plans (1)

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