# PontoFato, free: Local business search API

> Companies registered at this CEP, up to 50 per page.

PontoFato's Free companies by CEP plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. PontoFato's docs list 1 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Address.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run PontoFato through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 317 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 or less per 1,000 places. This plan and 10 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 317 plans. [See the best free local business search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/leadswift/24-99-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [Foursquare](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pontofato/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://pontofato.com/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://pontofato.com/api/empresas`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://pontofato.com/llms-full.txt?prefix=%2Fapi%2Fempresas&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: PontoFato (https://pontofato.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 13%
- Address: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Companies registered at this CEP, up to 50 per page.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Respeite as cotas e os limites publicados, automatize pela API e pelo MCP, não contornando o limite de rede. Não use o serviço para atividade ilegal, para assediar ou para se passar por outra pessoa.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: cep. Optional: page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/empresas

## About the plan

- Plan: Free companies by CEP
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

CNPJ, formatted CNPJ, legal name, trade name, registration status, state, municipality, neighborhood, primary CNAE, primary CNAE description, more results

## PontoFato's plans (1)

- [PontoFato, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pontofato/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 13% complete

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

- `GET /api/empresas`: [PontoFato, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pontofato/free/llms.txt)

## PontoFato's APIs (2)

- [PontoFato: company enrichment API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/pontofato/free/llms.txt)
- [PontoFato: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pontofato/free/llms.txt)

## PontoFato: local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Foursquare, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours

## 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://pontofato.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/api/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/llms-full.txt?prefix=%2Fapi%2Fempresas&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pontofato.com/termos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing