# Companies House, free: People enrichment API

> List of all officer appointments

Companies House's people enrichment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Location.
You get up to 5,184,000 calls a month.
Half of the 116 plans we rank by price cost $16.60 per 1,000 people or less. This plan is the cheapest of the 116 plans.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/reverse-contact/500-pack/llms.txt) and [Autobound](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/49-pack/llms.txt) are the best people enrichment API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/companies-house/free
- [Best people enrichment API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-enrichment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.api.gov.uk/ch/companies-house/
- Request: `GET https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/{officer_id}/appointments`
- 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/officer-appointments/list
- Sold by: Companies House (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: List of all officer appointments

## 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: 5,184,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: officer_id. Optional: filter, items_per_page, start_index
- Method: GET
- Path: /officers/{officer_id}/appointments

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a Companies House user account

## The 62 fields the plan's answer can hold

ETag, date of birth month, date of birth year, is corporate officer, items per page, kind, link to self, officer name, start index, total results, premises, address line 1, address line 2, care of, locality, region, postal code, country, PO box, appointed before, appointed on, appointed to company name, appointed to company number, appointed to company status, contact name, country of residence, 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 company, name on appointment, name forename, name honours, name other forenames, name surname, name title, nationality, occupation, officer role, 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

## Companies House's plans (1)

- [Companies House, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/companies-house/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete

## Companies House's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /officers/{officer_id}/appointments`: [Companies House, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/companies-house/free/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 /company/{company_number}/officers](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/companies-house/free-get-company-company-number-officers/llms.txt)
- [Companies House: people search API pricing, 1 plan, 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)
- [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 enrichment API alternatives

- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, stored
- [Reverse Contact, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/reverse-contact/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Autobound, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/autobound/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [Parsers VC, free, GET /persons/{id}, Get person](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/parsers-vc/free-get-persons-id-get-person/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [treg, free](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/treg/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% 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/officer-appointments/list
- https://developer-specs.company-information.service.gov.uk/companies-house-public-data-api/resources/appointmentlist?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