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Kernel pricing: company hierarchy API

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33% complete: 1 of the 3 fields on our checklistSee the 3 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run Kernel through our company hierarchy API benchmark yet.We rank 147 plans for company hierarchy APIs by price. Half the plans cost $13.46 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 13 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 147 plans. See the best free company hierarchy API plan.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 (about $90) monthly plan.DiscoLike, Bigdata.com and Magellan Data are the best company hierarchy API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.
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Plan: Starter allocation Kernel's only plan
Call: POST /v1/resolve-parent Kernel's only call for this API
API: Company hierarchy API one of Kernel's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 3 fields on our checklist. Parent.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send kernel_id to POST /v1/resolve-parent. You can also send webhook_url. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Kernel: company hierarchy API alternatives

Kernel alternatives: other company hierarchy API providers by price

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

This planKernel, freeCharity Commission, free, Register of Charities, GET /linkedcharities/{RegisteredNumber}/{suffix}Edgrapi, freeGlobalEntity API, freeBigdata.com, free
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%0%67%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0
Enough fornot publishednot published25 calls, onceno limitnot published
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownstored
Who can get itbuilders Kernel approves after a request form (name, work email, company, what you want to build), access isn't instantanyone with a Developer Hub account (name, email address and password), one subscription each, the Developer Hub is not for use by children under the age of 16anyone with an account (email and password, no card)companies, 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 required

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. dev.kernel.ai/api-reference/endpoint/get-credits.md
  2. dev.kernel.ai/api-reference/endpoint/get-resolve-parent.md
  3. dev.kernel.ai/api-reference/endpoint/resolve-parent.md
  4. dev.kernel.ai/api-reference/introduction.md
  5. dev.kernel.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
  6. dev.kernel.ai/guides/api-keys.md
  7. kernel.ai/kernel-api

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 forfrom the same budget: Resolve entity · Enrich firmographics
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPass a KERN ID and get the entity category and associated hierarchies.
Data
Full family treeno
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendkernel_id. Optional: webhook_url
MethodPOST
Path/v1/resolve-parent
About the plan
PlanStarter allocation
Who can get itbuilders Kernel approves after a request form (name, work email, company, what you want to build), access isn't instant
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

Kernel ID, requested Kernel ID, remapped, retired at, parent Kernel ID, parent trading name, parent legal name, parent website, parent country, parent entity category, parent entity subcategory, parent reasoning, parent confidence, top parent Kernel ID, top parent trading name, top parent legal name, top parent website, top parent country, top parent entity category, top parent entity subcategory, top parent reasoning, top parent confidence, top operating parent Kernel ID, top operating parent trading name, top operating parent legal name, top operating parent website, top operating parent country, top operating parent entity category, top operating parent entity subcategory, top operating parent reasoning, top operating parent confidence, is regional subsidiary, regional scope, regional subsidiary reasoning

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