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GlobalEntity API pricing and alternatives: company hierarchy API

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100% complete: all 3 key fields we checkSee the 3 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 42 plans by price. DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 companies: $0.045. DanskCVRAPI's plan covers companies in Denmark only.GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan covers any number of companies. GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan costs less to start than DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 monthly plan.DiscoLike, Bigdata.com and Magellan Data are the best company hierarchy API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of GlobalEntity API's 6 plans
Call: GET /api/company/ownership GlobalEntity API's only call for this API
API: Company hierarchy API one of GlobalEntity API's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 3 key fields we check. Company, Parent, Family tree.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests. You spend the requests on GlobalEntity API's other calls. This call is free: you can make as many as you like. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send country or lei to GET /api/company/ownership. You can also send orgNr and name. The call returns the company's parents and family tree.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GlobalEntity API: company hierarchy API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

This planGlobalEntity API, freeBigdata.com, freeMagellan Data, free, 10,000 free credits, POST /v1/corporate_familiesSEC API, freeInterzoid, free API key, POST /enrichDanskCVRAPI, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay€0$0$0$0$0DKK 0
Enough forno limitnot published500 results, once100 calls, oncenot published1,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownstoredunknown1 minuteliveunknown
Who can get itcompanies, sole proprietors and other professionals who use company data as part of a trade, business, craft or profession (B2B only), not sold to anyone subject to sanctions administered by Norway, the EU or the UN, nor for use in a sanctioned countryanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card requiredanyone aged 18 or over with a valid business email address, one set of promotional credits per person per companyanyone, no credit card requiredanyoneanyone with an account, no card required, Danish companies (CVR numbers), Norwegian ones need Pro

Every company hierarchy API provider we score, ranked

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. globalentityapi.com
  2. globalentityapi.com/company-ownership-api
  3. globalentityapi.com/docs
  4. globalentityapi.com/openapi.yaml
  5. globalentityapi.com/pricing
  6. globalentityapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Company
  • Parent
  • Family tree
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forCompany search · Decision makers (Norway) · Fetch a stored golden record · Verify VAT / EORI / LEI · Identity & Trust Score · Deduplication · Corporate graph · Entity monitoring · Sanctions screening · Chat with a company · KYB report · IBAN check · VAT rates · Insolvency · Digital footprint · Company signals · Buying signals
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSee who owns and controls a company. Get the corporate ownership graph — parent, ultimate parent and subsidiaries — from official GLEIF data, the full list of shareholders with percentages for Norway from the official share register, and board and management roles.
Data
CountriesNorway, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Åland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Greenland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Croatia, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, Moldova, Ukraine, Spain, Austria, Serbia, Canada, Brazil, United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Nepal, Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Monaco, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andorra, San Marino, Montenegro, New Zealand, South Korea
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe free trial gives access to the Starter tier and ends automatically. [...] You may not use screen scraping, crawlers, bots or other automated techniques to extract data, and you may not integrate the data or functionality into your own products or systems. [...] Regardless of tier, you may not (a) exceed the usage limits of your plan, (b) circumvent authentication, rate limits or seat controls, (c) redistribute, resell, sublicense or otherwise make the data available to third parties except as expressly permitted by your tier, (d) use the service in breach of the terms of the underlying official registries, or (e) perform wildcard or mass queries, bulk-export whole registers, or scan or enumerate identifier ranges (for example sequential registration numbers). [...] You must comply with any attribution or licensing requirements of those registries, and the rights we grant you do not exceed the rights we are ourselves permitted to pass on. [...] before using company data for direct marketing, sales outreach or profiling, you must check and respect any advertising or marketing protection, opt-out or do-not-contact status that applies in the relevant country [...] as well as applicable data protection and e-marketing law (including the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules).
Plan
Pay€0
You get100 requests
Enough forno limit
Expires7 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of country or lei. Optional: orgNr, name
MethodGET
Path/api/company/ownership
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itcompanies, sole proprietors and other professionals who use company data as part of a trade, business, craft or profession (B2B only), not sold to anyone subject to sanctions administered by Norway, the EU or the UN, nor for use in a sanctioned country
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

ultimate parent, parent, company, subsidiaries, shareholders, shareholder ownership percentage, persons with significant control, beneficial owners, board and roles, auditor, UBO candidates, UBO candidate ownership percentage, UBO candidate kind, UBO candidate reason, UBO basis, LEI, legal status, registered address, country, source and licence

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