ASIC Connect alternative
ASIC Connect is the official search portal for the Australian company register, the AFS licensee register, and the banned and disqualified persons register. It is free and authoritative. It is a search UI, not an API.
What ASIC Connect does well
- Source of truth for every ASIC register.
- Free to search.
- Same-day refresh on company changes.
Where ausdata.io fits better
- We mirror the public registers and expose them as JSON, refreshed daily.
- Bulk lookups by ABN, industry, or status without scraping a web form.
- Same auth as every other ausdata.io endpoint.
How to choose
- Pick ASIC Connect if
- You do occasional one-off lookups and the search UI is enough.
- Pick ausdata.io if
- You need programmatic ABN-to-company lookups inside an onboarding flow.
- Pricing
- ASIC Connect: free, paid extracts per record. ausdata.io: $199 Embed for unlimited lookups in product.
Other alternatives
Try ausdata.io for your Australian data layer
500 free calls per month. No credit card.
Get a free API key