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OpenCorporates Review, Pricing, and Features
OpenCorporates is a large legal-entity and company registry database for researchers, investigators, data teams, KYC workflows, ownership mapping, and corporate transparency work. It provides entity identity, provenance, registry links, officer records, relationships, and bulk data rather than stock-market analytics. Free and open-data access is license-limited, while commercial API and bulk SFTP datasets require paid plans. It is not a valuation platform, market-data feed, company fundamentals terminal, broker, or portfolio research product.
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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)
Key features
- Search tools across a public legal-entity database advertised at 200M+ company records aggregated from official registries with provenance and source links.
- The versioned REST API with API-key authentication and JSON or XML output for company and officer data workflows.
- OpenRefine Reconciliation API to match company names to legal identifiers during entity-resolution work.
- Access to enterprise bulk data through SFTP-delivered CSV datasets for companies, officers, addresses, alternative names, identifiers, and relationships.
- Relationship data for subsidiaries, branches, control statements, shareholdings, and ownership-mapping workflows.
- Monitoring the public status page and JSON feed for website, API, knowledge base, and SFTP availability.
- Licensing: free/open-data use is for personal or public-benefit use, while commercial use requires paid API or bulk plans.
- Entry-plan limits such as Essentials API call caps before building operational workflows.
- OpenCorporates for due diligence, KYC, regulatory monitoring, and entity provenance, not valuation or trading decisions.
- OpenCorporates is legal-entity data infrastructure, not financial statements, market prices, investment advice, portfolio analytics, or a complete beneficial-ownership solution for every jurisdiction.
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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