Companies House pricing and alternatives: people search API, GET /company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control

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$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

FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000

Call: GET /company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control 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 call GET /company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control. You send company_number, items_per_page, start_index and register_view. 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}/persons-with-significant-control	GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search	QuickEnrich, free	AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark	Leadscart, free
$ per 1,000 people	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	8%	15%	8%	85%	15%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	no limit	no limit	300 results a month	about 5 results, once	5,184,000 pages a month
Freshness	unknown	stored	stored	30 days	stored
Who can get it	anyone with a Companies House user account	anyone 16 or over	anyone	anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone 18 or older using it for business, once per person and mailbox, not with a temporary email address

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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 score	55.0
Price score	100
Data score	1
Cost to get started score	100
Bundle score	0
Performance score	100

Price
$ per 1,000 people	$0.00
Per	page, size not stated
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	List of all persons with significant control (not statements)

Data
Keep data	no 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 for	no limit

Rate limit
Per second	2
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.04 s

The call
You send	company_number, items_per_page, start_index, register_view
Method	GET
Path	/company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone with a Companies House user account

The 57 fields the plan's answer can hold

items per page, start index, total results, active count, ceased count, link to persons with significant control list, ETag, notified on, ceased on, country of residence, date of birth month, date of birth year, name, name forename, name title, name middle name, name surname, link to person, link to statement, link to notifications, nationality, legal authority, legal form, place registered, registration number, country registered, 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, appointment verification statement date, ceased, description, kind, premises, address line 1, address line 2, care of, locality, region, postal code, country, PO box, natures of control, is sanctioned, 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