Datacircle

Companies House pricing and alternatives: people search API, GET /company/{company_number}/officers

Companies House's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026: pricing compared

Is Companies House yours? Write to us about our scores for this plan. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleHalf of the 497 plans we rank by price cost $4.618 per 1,000 people or less. This plan and 2 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 people of the 497 plans.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Companies House's only plan
Call: GET /company/{company_number}/officers one of Companies House's 3 calls for this API
API: People search API one of Companies House's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many pages as you like.
  • One call. You send company_number to GET /company/{company_number}/officers. You can also send items_per_page, register_type, register_view, start_index and order_by. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Companies House user account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Companies House: people search API alternatives

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

This planCompanies House, free, GET /company/{company_number}/officersGetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People SearchQuickEnrich, freeAnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_arkLeadscart, freeYepAPI, free
$ per 1,000 people$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness8%15%8%85%15%15%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limitno limit300 results a monthabout 5 results, once5,184,000 pages a monthabout 1,666 results, once
Freshnessunknownstoredstored30 daysstoredunknown
Who can get itanyone with a Companies House user accountanyone 16 or overanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone 18 or older using it for business, once per person and mailbox, not with a temporary email addressanyone

Every people search 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 2026-10-30.

  1. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/officers/list
  2. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/resources/officerlist?v=latest
  3. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/guides/rateLimiting
  4. developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/developer-guidelines
  5. developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-started
  6. api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
  7. gov.uk/government/publications/companies-house-accreditation-to-information-fair-traders-scheme/public-task-copyright-and-crown-copyright

Product details

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

  • Experience, not in the answer
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Score
Overall score64.8
Price score100
Data score28
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchList of all company officers
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Companies House imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used." "We place no restriction on how the information is used after purchase, other than the following:" "all customers, including bulk customers, must take their own legal advice regarding possible breach of third party copyright" "customers cannot reproduce the Crown insignia" "if information is used from guidance notes, the website, publications or statistical tables the customer must credit Companies House as the source of the information". Developer guidelines: "We reserve the right to ban without notice applications that regularly exceed or attempt to bypass the rate limits."
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.03 s
The call
You sendcompany_number. Optional: items_per_page, register_type, register_view, start_index, order_by
MethodGET
Path/company/{company_number}/officers
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Companies House user account
The 57 fields the plan's answer can hold

active count, ETag, items per page, kind, link to self, resigned count, start index, total results, premises, address line 1, address line 2, care of, locality, region, postal code, country, PO box, appointed before, appointed on, contact name, country of residence, date of birth month, date of birth year, officer ETag, former forenames, former surname, identification type, legal authority, legal form, place registered, registration number, anti-money laundering supervisory bodies, appointment verification end date, appointment verification start date, appointment verification statement due date, authorised corporate service provider name, identity verified on, preferred name, is pre-1992 appointment, link to officer appointments, link to officer, name, nationality, occupation, officer role, person number, principal office premises, principal office address line 1, principal office address line 2, principal office care of, principal office locality, principal office region, principal office postal code, principal office country, principal office PO box, resigned on, responsibilities

Best GTM APIs