# Companies House, free, GET /search/officers: People search API

> Search for officer information

Companies House's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Location.
You get as many pages as you like.
Half 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)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-officers
- [Best people search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
- Request: `GET https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/officers`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
- Its API docs: https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/search/search-officers
- Sold by: Companies House (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Location: ✓

## 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: Search for officer information

## 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

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: items_per_page, start_index
- Method: GET
- Path: /search/officers

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Companies House's plans (1)

- [Companies House, free, GET /search/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-officers/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete

## Companies House's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /company/{company_number}/officers`: [Companies House, free, GET /company/{company_number}/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-company-company-number-officers/llms.txt)
- `GET /company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control`: [Companies House, free, GET /company/{company_number}/persons-with-significant-control](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-company-company-number-persons-with-significant-control/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/officers`: [Companies House, free, GET /search/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-officers/llms.txt)

## Companies House's APIs (4)

- [Companies House: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/companies-house/free/llms.txt)
- [Companies House: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/companies-house/free/llms.txt)
- [Companies House: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /advanced-search/companies](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companies-house/free-get-advanced-search-companies/llms.txt)
- [Companies House: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/companies](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-companies/llms.txt)
- [Companies House: people search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-officers/llms.txt)

## Companies House: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [Leadscart, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadscart/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [treg, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/treg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## 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.

- https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/reference/search/search-officers
- https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/resources/officersearch?v=latest
- https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/guides/rateLimiting
- https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/developer-guidelines
- https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-started
- https://www.api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/companies-house-accreditation-to-information-fair-traders-scheme/public-task-copyright-and-crown-copyright