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Companies House pricing and alternatives: people search API, GET /search/officers

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

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15% complete: 2 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 /search/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.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many pages as you like.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search/officers. You can also send items_per_page and start_index. 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 /search/officersGetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People SearchQuickEnrich, freeAnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_arkLeadscart, freetreg, free
$ per 1,000 people$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness15%15%8%85%15%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limitno limit300 results a monthabout 5 results, once5,184,000 pages a monthnot published
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 addressa new account once its email is verified, for one team (aliases of one inbox share one), 16 or over

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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/search/search-officers
  2. developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/resources/officersearch?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.

  • Experiencecurrent job
  • 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
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 pitchSearch for officer information
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
The call
You sendq. Optional: items_per_page, start_index
MethodGET
Path/search/officers
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Companies House user account
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

ETag, items per page, kind, start index, total results, premises, address line 1, address line 2, care of, locality, region, postal code, country, PO box, address snippet, appointment count, date of birth month, date of birth year, description, description identifiers, item kind, link to officer, address snippet matches, snippet matches, title matches, snippet, title

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