France Company & SIRET Search

France Company & SIRET Search looks up French companies in the official Sirene directory. Add SIREN, SIRET or French VAT numbers, or search by company name with department, postal code, NAF code and status filters. You get one clean row per company, with legal form, NAF activity, size, dates, head office and a clear status: active, ceased or not found.

It is made for KYB checks, CRM cleaning and B2B lead lists. No login and no API key are needed. A typical run of three SIREN numbers finishes in a few seconds and costs about $0.024.

Contents

• What it does
• Quick start
• Use cases
• Input
• Output
• Pricing
• Limits
• API and integrations
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• Data source and licence
• Support

What it does

The Actor reads the public Recherche d'entreprises API of the French administration. This API serves INSEE Sirene and INPI RNE data. The Actor has two modes:

• Identifier lookup. Each SIREN, SIRET or VAT number is an exact match. A SIRET also returns that establishment. A wrong or unknown number returns a not_found row, so no input is lost.
• Name search. A full-text search on company names, brands and addresses, with filters. Results are ranked by the source. Check siren and name before you use a search result as a verified match.

Optionally, the Actor adds one row per establishment (SIRET): address, status, head-office flag, NAF code and trade names.

Good fit

• Check that a supplier or customer exists and is still active (KYB, onboarding).
• Fill CRM records with the official name, legal form, NAF code, VAT number and head office.
• Build a list of companies in a department or with a NAF code.
• Find the open and closed establishments of a company.

Not a fit

• Directors, shareholders, phone numbers or emails. The Actor does not output them. Note: a sole trader (entrepreneur individuel) is registered under a person's name, and Sirene shows that name as the company name, unless the person hid it.
• Companies that asked to hide their data (non-diffusible). The public API does not serve them.
• A full copy of the Sirene database. Use the official Sirene files for bulk downloads.
• Legal certificates such as a Kbis extract.

Quick start

1. Open the Input tab. The form already has three SIREN numbers: EDF, TotalEnergies and LVMH.
2. Click Start.
3. Open the Companies view in the Output tab. Check name, administrativeStatus and headOfficeAddress.
4. Replace the numbers with your own list (up to 100). Turn on Include establishments if you need SIRET rows.

Expected result: three complete company rows in a few seconds.

Use cases

Buyer job	Input	Output	Key fields
Verify a company (KYB)	identifiers	company row	status, administrativeStatus, closureDate, legalFormLabel
Clean CRM records	identifiers (SIREN, SIRET or VAT)	company row	name, vatNumber, nafCode, headOfficeAddress
Map a company's sites	identifiers + includeEstablishments	establishment rows	siret, address, administrativeStatus, isHeadOffice
Prospect list by area and activity	query + departments / nafCodes	company rows	name, employeeRangeLabel, companyCategory, searchRank

Input

Use either identifiers or a search (query and filters) in one run. A run with both is rejected with INVALID_INPUT.

Field	Type	Default	Allowed values	What it does
identifiers	array of strings	none (form example: 3 SIREN)	up to 100; SIREN (9 digits), SIRET (14 digits), French VAT (FR + 2 characters + SIREN)	Exact lookup. Spaces, dots and dashes are ignored. The same number written twice (or a SIREN and its VAT number) is looked up once. A SIREN and a SIRET of the same company are two lookups.
query	string	none	3–200 characters, or shorter with a filter	Fuzzy search on names, brands and addresses.
departments	array of strings	empty	up to 20; 01–95, 2A, 2B, 971–976	Keeps companies with at least one establishment in these departments.
postalCodes	array of strings	empty	up to 20; 5 digits	Keeps companies with at least one establishment in these postal codes.
nafCodes	array of strings	empty	up to 20; NAF rev. 2 codes like 62.01Z or 6201Z	Activity filter. Unknown codes and NAF 2025 codes are rejected with INVALID_INPUT.
companyStatus	string	any	any, active, ceased	Company status filter for search.
maxResults	integer	25	1–100	Maximum companies in a search.
includeEstablishments	boolean	false		Adds establishment (SIRET) rows.
maxEstablishmentsPerCompany	integer	20	1–100	Maximum establishment rows per company.

Filters belong to search mode and cannot be combined with identifiers. With identifiers, the number already selects one company.

Input examples

Lookup with establishments:

{
  "identifiers": ["552100554", "55208131701156", "FR03552081317"],
  "includeEstablishments": true,
  "maxEstablishmentsPerCompany": 10
}

Search for active bakeries in Paris:

{
  "query": "boulangerie",
  "departments": ["75"],
  "companyStatus": "active",
  "maxResults": 30
}

Output

Each Dataset row has recordType: company or establishment. Use the Companies and Establishments views, or filter on recordType in your export. The key-value store has a RUN_SUMMARY record with the run status and counts.

Row status

status	Meaning	Charged
complete	The record was found. Fields are as complete as the public data allows.	yes
partial	The company was found, but a requested SIRET was not found, or extra establishments could not be listed. Read statusReason.	yes
not_found	The number is not in the public index: unknown, hidden (non-diffusible) or not yet indexed. A ceased company is not not_found: it is complete with administrativeStatus: "ceased".	not-found price
error	Not a valid identifier (INVALID_IDENTIFIER) or a source failure (RATE_LIMITED, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, …).	no

Company fields

Field	Meaning	Example
input, inputType	Your value and its type (siren, siret, search, invalid)	"55208131701156", "siret"
matchedBy	siren_exact, siret_exact or search	"siret_exact"
checksumValid	INSEE checksum of your number; false usually means a typo	true
searchRank, searchQuery	Position and query in search mode, else null	1
siren, name, legalName, acronym	Company number and names	"552081317", "ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (EDF)"
legalFormCode, legalFormLabel	INSEE legal category	"5599", "SA à conseil d'administration (s.a.i.)"
nafCode, nafVersion, nafLabel	Main activity, NAF rev. 2	"35.11Z", "NAFRev2", "Production d’électricité"
naf2025Code	Main activity in the new NAF 2025, kept separate; can be null	"35.11Y"
nafSectionCode, nafSectionLabel	NAF section	"D"
employeeRangeCode, employeeRangeLabel, employeeRangeYear	INSEE headcount band and its year	"53", "10 000 salariés et plus", 2024
companyCategory, companyCategoryYear	PME, ETI or GE	"GE"
creationDate, closureDate	Dates in YYYY-MM-DD	"1955-01-01", null
administrativeStatus, administrativeStatusCode	active (A) or ceased (C)	"active"
diffusionStatus, hiddenFields	partial when some data is hidden by law; hidden fields are null and listed	"partial", ["headOffice.adresse"]
vatNumber	Intra-EU VAT number as given by the source; null if the source has none	"FR03552081317"
isIndividualEntrepreneur, isAssociation, isSocialEconomy	Source flags	false
isEmployer	Employer flag at company level; the source often leaves it empty, so it is usually null. Use the establishment isEmployer instead.	null
latestFinancialYear, revenueEur, netIncomeEur	Latest published accounts, when the company files them	2024, 118690000000
establishmentsTotal, establishmentsOpen	All known establishments and open ones	9158, 3551
establishmentsReturned, establishmentsComplete, establishmentsScope	How many establishment rows this run returned, and whether that is the full list	20, false, "name_matched_subset"
headOfficeSiret, headOfficeAddress, headOfficePostalCode, headOfficeCity, headOfficeCommuneCode, headOfficeDepartment, headOfficeRegion, headOfficeLatitude, headOfficeLongitude, headOfficeStatus	Head office	"55208131766522", "22-30 22 AVENUE DE WAGRAM 75008 PARIS"
annuaireUrl	Public page on annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr
status, statusReason, errorCode	Row result, see above
source, sourceUrl, fetchedAt, sourceUpdatedAt, sourceUpdatedAtInsee, sourceUpdatedAtRne	Provenance and update dates

Establishment fields

siret, siren, companyName, isHeadOffice, wasHeadOffice, administrativeStatus (active or closed), administrativeStatusCode (A or F), creationDate, activityStartDate, closureDate, address, postalCode, city, communeCode, department, region, latitude, longitude, nafCode, nafVersion, nafLabel, naf2025Code, employeeRangeCode, employeeRangeLabel, employeeRangeYear, isEmployer, tradeNames, commercialName, diffusionStatus, hiddenFields, matchedBy, annuaireUrl, status, statusReason, errorCode, input, source, sourceUrl, fetchedAt.

matchedBy tells where the row comes from: siret_exact (your SIRET), head_office, company_establishments (listed for your SIREN) or search_match (matched your search).

Output example

A trimmed company row for a ceased company:

{
  "recordType": "company",
  "status": "complete",
  "input": "552100554",
  "matchedBy": "siren_exact",
  "siren": "552100554",
  "name": "PEUGEOT SA",
  "legalFormLabel": "SA à directoire (s.a.i.)",
  "nafCode": "70.10Z",
  "nafVersion": "NAFRev2",
  "naf2025Code": null,
  "administrativeStatus": "ceased",
  "creationDate": "1955-01-01",
  "closureDate": "2021-01-16",
  "vatNumber": null,
  "establishmentsTotal": 5,
  "establishmentsOpen": 0,
  "headOfficeSiret": "55210055400054",
  "headOfficeCity": "VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY",
  "headOfficeStatus": "closed",
  "annuaireUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/552100554",
  "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-10-08T09:06:03"
}

null means the source has no value. It never means zero.

Run summary

RUN_SUMMARY.status is one of COMPLETE, PARTIAL, NOT_FOUND (no identifier was found), NO_RESULTS (empty search), CAPPED (stopped at a limit), ERROR, INVALID_INPUT or CANCELLED. counts shows rows by status and charged rows. source names the data licence.

Pricing

Pay per event. Platform usage is included.

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.002	Once per run (per GB of memory; the default 256 MB counts once)
Company record	$0.0072	Each complete or partial company row
Not-found lookup	$0.001	Each not_found company row
Establishment record	$0.0003	Each complete establishment row

error rows are free. An empty search costs only the start.

Run	Example cost
3 SIREN (form example)	$0.0236
10 SIREN	$0.074
100 SIREN	$0.722
100 SIREN with establishments (1,854 rows in our test)	$1.278
100 unknown numbers	$0.102

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options to cap your spend. The Actor stops before a paid row that does not fit and reports CAPPED.

Limits

• Up to 100 identifiers per run, or up to 100 companies per search.
• Up to 100 establishments per company. The source cannot list more. Check establishmentsComplete: in our test of 100 transport companies, 96 had their full list.
• In search mode, establishments are the ones that matched your search or filters, not all establishments of the company.
• The Actor sends at most about 3 requests per second. The source allows 7 per second per IP and shares a limit across cloud providers, so a busy moment can give RATE_LIMITED rows. Run them again later.
• Internal time budget is 240 seconds. 100 identifiers with establishments took 94 seconds in our test.
• naf2025Code is a temporary field of the source. The source says it may be removed after 2027-01-01.

API and integrations

Start a run with the same JSON input through the Apify API (POST /v2/acts/cliqtomedia~france-sirene-company-search/runs), then read the Dataset. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON from the Dataset, or connect the run to other tools with the usual Apify integrations.

Join rows on siren (company) and siret (establishment). For CSV, use the Companies or Establishments view.

There is no built-in monitoring mode. To re-check the same list regularly, create an Apify schedule for a saved task and compare administrativeStatus or sourceUpdatedAt between runs.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

AI agents can call this Actor through the Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cliqtomedia/france-sirene-company-search to your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code and others). The MCP server needs your Apify account (OAuth sign-in or an Apify API token); the data source itself needs no key. The agent builds the input from the input schema. The smallest useful input:

{ "identifiers": ["552081317"] }

Key output fields for an agent: status (complete, not_found, …), name, administrativeStatus (active or ceased), legalFormLabel, nafCode, vatNumber, headOfficeAddress. A call with 10 numbers usually finishes in well under 30 seconds and costs about $0.074; up to 100 numbers or 100 search results fit in one run. A large run (100 numbers, around 45 seconds) can outlast the MCP call wait, so the agent may need to poll the run for its result. Search results are fuzzy, so an agent should verify a company by SIREN or SIRET.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Check	Action
not_found for a real company	checksumValid	false means a typo. If true, the company may be non-diffusible or very new.
A ceased company	administrativeStatus, closureDate	This is correct data, not an error.
Address is null	diffusionStatus, hiddenFields	The company hides some data by law.
RATE_LIMITED rows	RUN_SUMMARY.http.rateLimited	Run the failed identifiers again later.
Fewer establishments than establishmentsTotal	establishmentsComplete, maxEstablishmentsPerCompany	Raise the limit up to 100. Above 100, the source gives a subset.
INVALID_INPUT	RUN_SUMMARY.message	Common causes: identifiers and a search in one run; no valid SIREN/SIRET/VAT in the list; an unknown NAF code; a search query shorter than 3 characters without a filter.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or a French account?

No. The source is open and free. You only need your Apify account.

Is a search result a verified match?

No. Search is fuzzy. For verification, use the SIREN or SIRET. Exact lookups show matchedBy: "siren_exact" or "siret_exact".

Why are directors not included?

They are personal data. This Actor gives company data only. Sole traders still appear under their registered name.

How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the source live. Each row has fetchedAt (our read time) and sourceUpdatedAt (the source update time of that record).

Can I use the data commercially?

The Sirene data is published under the French Licence Ouverte 2.0, which allows commercial reuse with attribution. See below.

Data source and licence

Data: API Recherche d'entreprises (DINUM, annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr), built on INSEE Sirene and INPI RNE data, under the Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. When you reuse the data, name the source and the update date (sourceUpdatedAt). This Actor is independent and not endorsed by INSEE, INPI or the French administration.

Support

Use the Issues tab of this Actor. Add the run ID, the mode (identifiers or search) and the statusReason or errorCode you saw. Do not send API tokens or private data.