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OpenCorporates Review, Pricing, and Features
OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates is a legal-entity database for investigations, KYC, corporate structures, and registry checks. It provides company identities, source links, officers, relationships, and bulk data. It does not provide market analytics or beneficial-ownership data.
Best for
- Researchers, investigators, and data teams that need legal-entity records linked to official sources.
- People who need free website access for personal or public-benefit work and paid API or bulk access for commercial work.
- KYC, due-diligence, and corporate-structure work that needs entity identity data rather than stock-market analytics.
Watch out
- Website access is free for personal or public-benefit use. Commercial API access and bulk data require paid plans.
- OpenCorporates provides legal-entity records and provenance, not valuation models, filings analysis, or market data.
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Pricing
Free • Contact for pricing · Enterprise · 5 plans
Free (personal & public-benefit use)
Essentials (API)
Starter (API)
Basic (API)
Enterprise Bulk (SFTP CSV datasets)
Deals
Key features
- Search more than 200 million company records collected from official sources, with provenance and source links.
- Use a versioned REST API with API-key authentication and JSON or XML output for company and officer data.
- Match company names to legal identifiers with the OpenRefine Reconciliation API.
- Receive bulk CSV datasets through SFTP for companies, officers, addresses, alternative names, identifiers, and relationships.
- Map subsidiaries, branches, control statements, and shareholdings with the relationships dataset.
- Check the public status page or JSON feed for website, API, knowledge base, and SFTP availability.
- Use the website for personal or public-benefit work. Commercial use requires a paid API or bulk-data plan.
- Check API call limits before using a self-serve plan in an automated workflow.
- Use OpenCorporates for due diligence, KYC, regulatory monitoring, and source-linked entity records, not valuation or trading decisions.
- OpenCorporates does not provide financial statements, market prices, investment advice, portfolio analytics, or beneficial-ownership data.
FAQ
Is OpenCorporates free?
Not entirely. OpenCorporates includes a free tier, but its paid subscription and other options unlock more capacity. Visit the vendor site for current limits and pricing. Enterprise quotes are handled directly with the vendor.
Who is OpenCorporates best for?
It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does OpenCorporates support?
You can use OpenCorporates on Web. OpenCorporates offers an API (REST) with APIKey authentication. Integrations include OpenRefine.
Which markets does OpenCorporates cover?
OpenCorporates covers North America, Europe, APAC, LatAm, Middle East, and Africa. It tracks Other.
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