# OpenVerbs, pay as you go: Company hierarchy API

> Resolve a legal entity's direct and ultimate accounting-consolidating parents from GLEIF's global CC0 LEI registry. Returns parent names and LEIs, relationship status, corroboration and explicit reporting exceptions.

OpenVerbs's x402 per call plan for the company hierarchy API costs $6.00 per 1,000 companies. OpenVerbs's docs list 1 of the 3 fields on our checklist: Parent.
We haven't run OpenVerbs through [our company hierarchy API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt) yet.
We rank 121 plans for company hierarchy APIs by price. Half the plans cost $14.023 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 66% of the 121 plans.
[DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 (about $90) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-599-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: $0.045. DanskCVRAPI's plan covers companies in Denmark only. [DanskCVRAPI's DKK 99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/danskcvrapi/dkk-99-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 companies a month: about $14.90.
[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 (about $90) 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/openverbs/pay-as-you-go
- [Company hierarchy API: the 5 best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-hierarchy-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gleif.openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://gleif.openverbs.com/v1/parents`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://gleif.openverbs.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- Sold by: OpenVerbs (https://openverbs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Parent: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $6.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $6.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Resolve a legal entity's direct and ultimate accounting-consolidating parents from GLEIF's global CC0 LEI registry. Returns parent names and LEIs, relationship status, corroboration and explicit reporting exceptions.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- Full family tree: no
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: lei
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/parents

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base (x402 or MPP)

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

LEI, found, legal name, as of, direct parent, ultimate parent, parent status, parent LEI, parent country, relationship type, relationship status, parent last updated, corroboration level, exception reason, exception reference, source, stale

## OpenVerbs's plans (1)

- [OpenVerbs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## OpenVerbs's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/parents`: [OpenVerbs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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- [OpenVerbs: Amazon product API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [OpenVerbs: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/finland](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-finland/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/france](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-france/llms.txt)
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- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/norway](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-norway/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/poland](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-poland/llms.txt)

## OpenVerbs: company hierarchy API alternatives

- [Greeneris, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/greeneris/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 day
- [Firmbase, €15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/firmbase/15-monthly/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 33% complete, 24 hours
- [CelerAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/celerapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Skrapp, $1,499 monthly, Enterprise 500K, GET /api/v3/companies/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/skrapp/1499-monthly-enterprise-500k-get-api-v3-companies-enrich/llms.txt): $5.996 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://gleif.openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://gleif.openverbs.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://openverbs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing
- https://openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-hierarchy-api-pricing