French Company Search (SIREN, Sirene)

Search French companies in the French State's open company register API (Sirene, INSEE): by name, SIREN or SIRET, NAF code, postal code, department, legal form, employee range or a radius around a point. You get one clean row per company: SIREN, legal form, NAF activity, state, creation date, employee range, headquarters address and coordinates, VAT number. USD 0.003 per company (USD 3 per 1,000). No API key. English field names.

SIREN	Name	Legal form	NAF	City	VAT number
840989800	PIXELRAISE	SAS	62.01Z	Fillinges	FR91840989800
379867997	SILVERPROD	SA	62.01Z	Annemasse	-
819706938	RESPONSIVE IT	SAS	62.01Z	Azay-le-Rideau	FR09819706938
878981646	APPIWEB	SARL	62.01Z	Loisin	FR47878981646
819842717	XTI TECHNOLOGIES	SARL	62.01Z	Thyez	FR43819842717

The rows come from a real cloud run of 04.11.2026 (NAF 62.01Z, computer programming). The full item is under Output.

Who uses it

• B2B market maps and prospect lists: active companies of an activity in a region, with size and address.
• CRM enrichment: add the legal form, the NAF code, the headquarters and the VAT number to a list of SIRENs.
• Supplier checks: confirm that a French company exists and is active before an order.

What it does not do

• No managers and no sole traders: their names are personal data (see below).
• At most 10,000 results per search. Narrow the filters to reach more.
• A company with prospectingOptOut: true must not be used for direct marketing.

Input

{ "activityCodes": ["62.01Z"], "postalCodes": ["74100"], "maxPages": 2 }

Field	Meaning
query	Words of the company name, trade name or address (boulangerie paris), or a SIREN (9 digits) or a SIRET (14 digits).
activityCodes	NAF rev. 2 codes of the main activity, such as 62.01Z. 6201Z is also accepted.
postalCodes	5-digit postal codes. A company matches when one of its establishments is there.
departments	Department codes: 01-95, 2A, 2B, 971-974, 976.
legalForms	INSEE legal category codes, such as 5710 (SAS), 5499 (SARL), 5599 (SA).
employeeRanges	INSEE employee ranges, such as 11 (10-19 employees).
categories	PME (small and medium-sized), ETI (intermediate), GE (large).
activeOnly	Default true: ceased companies are left out.
near	{ "lat": 48.8566, "lon": 2.3522, "radiusKm": 1 }: companies with an establishment within the radius (0.001-50 km, default 5). It combines only with activityCodes and activeOnly.
maxPages	25 companies a page. Default 4 (100 companies), at most 400.

Give a query, at least one filter, or near. The filters combine: all of them must match.

Examples:

• Software companies in Annemasse: { "activityCodes": ["62.01Z"], "postalCodes": ["74100"] }
• One company: { "query": "855200887" }
• Restaurants within 500 m of a point: { "near": { "lat": 48.8566, "lon": 2.3522, "radiusKm": 0.5 }, "activityCodes": ["56.10A"] }
• Large companies in Lyon's department: { "departments": ["69"], "categories": ["GE"], "maxPages": 10 }

Output (one item per company)

{
  "siren": "855200887",
  "siret": "85520088700039",
  "name": "COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN",
  "fullName": "COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (CGEM)",
  "acronym": "CGEM",
  "tradeNames": [],
  "legalFormCode": "5308",
  "legalForm": "Société en commandite par actions",
  "nafCode": "77.40Z",
  "activity": "Location-bail de propriété intellectuelle et de produits similaires, à l’exception des œuvres soumises à copyright",
  "naf2025Code": "77.40G",
  "activitySection": "N",
  "state": "active",
  "creationDate": "1955-01-01",
  "closureDate": null,
  "category": "GE",
  "categoryYear": 2024,
  "employeeRangeCode": "02",
  "employeeRange": "3-5 employees",
  "employeeRangeYear": 2024,
  "employer": null,
  "establishmentCount": 2,
  "openEstablishmentCount": 1,
  "headquarters": {
    "siret": "85520088700039",
    "isHeadquarters": true,
    "state": "active",
    "address": "23 PLACE DES CARMES DECHAUX 63000 CLERMONT-FERRAND",
    "postalCode": "63000",
    "city": "CLERMONT-FERRAND",
    "cityCode": "63113",
    "department": "63",
    "region": "84",
    "country": "FRANCE",
    "latitude": 45.783412445,
    "longitude": 3.0932797959,
    "nafCode": "77.40Z",
    "tradeNames": [],
    "addressPublic": true
  },
  "matchingEstablishments": [],
  "vatNumber": "FR09855200887",
  "prospectingOptOut": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T11:44:35",
  "annuaireUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/855200887",
  "apiUrl": "https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=855200887",
  "error": null,
  "message": null,
  "source": "INSEE Sirene and the other public registers in the French government's API Recherche d'entreprises (DINUM), Licence Ouverte 2.0",
  "sourceUrl": "https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=855200887&...",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-11-04T20:48:03.398Z"
}

• legalForm and activity are INSEE's official labels, in French. employeeRange is in English.
• matchingEstablishments lists the establishments that matched a postal code, a department or the point (up to 10 per company). Each has its SIRET, state, address and coordinates.
• vatNumber is the intra-EU VAT number when the register has one. Searches around a point do not give it.
• prospectingOptOut: true means the company asked that its register data is not used for prospecting (the French commercial code, the opposition to commercial use). Respect it: do not use such a company for direct marketing.
• addressPublic: false means INSEE masks the street and the coordinates of that establishment. The postal code and the city stay.
• A field that the register does not have is null.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
company	USD 0.003	one company delivered

100 companies cost USD 0.30. 10,000 companies cost USD 30. A search without results gives one free item that says why.

Personal data

This actor returns public company data. Its filter removes persons by these rules:

• No managers. The register lists managers (dirigeants) with their birth month. The actor does not request them and does not return them.
• No sole traders. The name of a sole trader (entrepreneur individuel) is the name of a person. The actor does not return sole traders (legal category 1000). It also does not return groupings of persons without legal personality (category 2, such as an "indivision"). A civil company, an association or a co-ownership syndicate whose name carries a civil title such as "MME" or "MONSIEUR" is left out too.
• No search by person. The API's text search also searches managers and elected officials. The actor returns a company only when a word of your query is in the company's own name, trade names or addresses (plural or singular). So a person's name as a query finds only companies that carry that name themselves.
• No masked data. A company that INSEE does not publish in full is left out. A masked establishment address stays masked.

These rules drop results without a charge. The run log counts them.

A company named after a person keeps its name, because it is a legal person.

Data source and terms

• Source: the API Recherche d'entreprises of the French State (DINUM), https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr. It serves INSEE's Sirene register and other public registers. The API's documentation states: "L'API étant totalement ouverte d'accès" (the API is fully open to access). No account and no key are necessary.
• Licence: the Sirene data is published under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab), which allows reuse, also commercial reuse, with attribution. Each item names its source and its update date.
• Rate limit: the API allows at most 7 requests a second per IP address.
• This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by INSEE, DINUM or the French State.

Limits

• The API returns at most 10,000 results for one search. Narrow the filters to reach more companies.
• Companies that are not public in Sirene ("non-diffusibles") are not in the API.
• The text search is a search engine, not an exact lookup. Use a SIREN or SIRET for one company.
• Around a point, the API also counts closed establishments. With activeOnly, the actor keeps only companies with an open establishment among the listed ones. So such a search can deliver fewer than 25 companies a page.
• Employee ranges and size categories are INSEE's annual values (the year is in employeeRangeYear and categoryYear).

Run summary

The run summary is in the default key-value store under SUMMARY, the counts under STATS. The data comes as the source publishes it, without warranty.

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