Brazil CNPJ Lookup

Each row is one Brazilian company or branch, looked up by its CNPJ in Receita Federal's open company data: legal and trade name, registration status with date and reason, legal nature, size, share capital, start date, CNAE activities, address, Simples Nacional and MEI status, tax regime by year and plain-English risk flags. Paste CNPJs with or without punctuation and click Start; the form comes filled in with Petrobras and Bradesco. Partner names are never returned, and the CNPJs of individuals come back without name or contact details. It costs $0.80 per 1,000 company records on the Free plan ($0.40 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 6,200 company records.

What each row contains

Field	Description
input, reference	The CNPJ as you entered it and your own ID for the row, both returned unchanged.
matched	true when Receita Federal knows the CNPJ.
cnpj, cnpjFormatted	The CNPJ as 14 characters and in the usual form, 76.535.764/0001-43.
entityType	legal_entity, individual_entrepreneur for an empresário individual or MEI, or natural_person for another CNPJ held by a person, such as an election candidate.
name, tradeName	Razão social and nome fantasia, e.g. OI S.A. - EM RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL and OI. Empty for individuals, as explained under Personal data.
status, active, statusDate, statusReason	Situação cadastral (ATIVA, BAIXADA, INAPTA, SUSPENSA or NULA), true for ATIVA, the date it took effect and the reason, e.g. INCORPORACAO when the company was merged into another.
specialSituation, specialSituationDate	Situação especial such as RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL, with the date it was recorded.
legalNature, legalNatureCode	Natureza jurídica, e.g. Sociedade Anônima Aberta with code 2046.
size	Porte: MICRO EMPRESA, EMPRESA DE PEQUENO PORTE or DEMAIS.
shareCapital	Capital social in reais, e.g. 32538937000.
startedOn, branchType	Date the activity started, and MATRIZ (head office) or FILIAL (branch).
mainActivity, secondaryActivities	CNAE codes with their descriptions, e.g. 6110801 for fixed telephone services.
address, district, city, state, postcode, cityIbgeCode	Street, bairro, municipality, UF, CEP and the IBGE municipality code.
phone, email	Main phone in the form +55 31 3131-3131 and the email registered with Receita Federal, which large companies seldom publish.
simplesNacional, simplesSince, simplesExcludedOn, mei	Whether the company is in the Simples Nacional regime, since when and until when, and true for a microempreendedor individual. Empty when Receita Federal has no Simples Nacional record for the company, as for Oi.
taxRegime	Declared regime per year, e.g. LUCRO REAL for every year from 2016 to 2024.
partnersCount	How many partners and administrators the partner list (QSA) has.
riskFlags	Warnings in plain English, most serious first: special situation, a status other than ATIVA, activity started less than a year ago, withheld personal data.
source, checkedAt	Which copy of the register answered (BrasilAPI or Minha Receita) and when, in UTC.

How to look up CNPJs in bulk

1. In Companies to check, enter a JSON list of CNPJs, with punctuation (33.000.167/0001-01) or without (33000167000101). Numbers of 8 to 13 digits, as spreadsheets leave them after dropping leading zeros, are padded back to 14.
2. To label a row, write the entry as {"cnpj": "60746948000112", "reference": "supplier-42"}. The reference comes back on the row.
3. Click Start. Each entry becomes one row in the Output tab, in the order you gave them; export the table as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call the actor from the API with an input like this:

{
  "companies": [
    "33.000.167/0001-01",
    { "cnpj": "76535764000143", "reference": "carrier-07" },
    "60746948000112"
  ],
  "watchName": "suppliers"
}

Example output

One row from a run on 11 October 2026, for Oi S.A., which Receita Federal lists in judicial recovery. secondaryActivities is cut to the first 3 of its 22 entries.

{
  "reference": null,
  "input": "76.535.764/0001-43",
  "matched": true,
  "cnpj": "76535764000143",
  "cnpjFormatted": "76.535.764/0001-43",
  "entityType": "legal_entity",
  "name": "OI S.A. - EM RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL",
  "tradeName": "OI",
  "status": "ATIVA",
  "active": true,
  "statusDate": "2005-11-03",
  "statusReason": null,
  "specialSituation": "RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL",
  "specialSituationDate": "2016-06-29",
  "legalNature": "Sociedade Anônima Aberta",
  "legalNatureCode": "2046",
  "size": "DEMAIS",
  "shareCapital": 32538937000,
  "startedOn": "1966-09-26",
  "branchType": "MATRIZ",
  "mainActivity": {
    "code": "6110801",
    "description": "Serviços de telefonia fixa comutada - STFC"
  },
  "secondaryActivities": [
    {
      "code": "4221904",
      "description": "Construção de estações e redes de telecomunicações"
    },
    {
      "code": "4221905",
      "description": "Manutenção de estações e redes de telecomunicações"
    },
    {
      "code": "4652400",
      "description": "Comércio atacadista de componentes eletrônicos e equipamentos de telefonia e comunicação"
    }
  ],
  "address": "RUA DO LAVRADIO 71 ANDAR 2",
  "district": "CENTRO",
  "city": "RIO DE JANEIRO",
  "state": "RJ",
  "postcode": "20230070",
  "cityIbgeCode": "3304557",
  "phone": "+55 31 3131-3131",
  "email": null,
  "simplesNacional": null,
  "simplesSince": null,
  "simplesExcludedOn": null,
  "mei": null,
  "taxRegime": [
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    }
  ],
  "partnersCount": 1,
  "riskFlags": [
    "SPECIAL SITUATION: RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL since 2016-06-29."
  ],
  "source": "BrasilAPI",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T12:43:55.132Z"
}

How much does it cost to look up Brazilian companies?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 company records	$0.80	$0.64	$0.52	$0.40

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

Checking 10,000 CNPJs costs $8.00 on the Free plan and $4.00 on Business. A CNPJ with wrong check digits, one that Receita Federal does not know and one that no copy of the register answered for cost nothing, and each still gets a row that says why.

Personal data

Receita Federal's open data names every partner in a company's QSA and registers a sole trader under the owner's own name. The actor never returns partner names, only partnersCount. When a CNPJ belongs to an empresário individual or an MEI (legal nature 2135), or to another person who holds a CNPJ (legal nature codes starting with 4, such as 4090 for election candidates), the row leaves out the name, trade name, street, district, postcode, phone and email, and riskFlags says so; city, state, activities and status remain. For companies, the phone and email are the ones the company registered. In a one-person business they can be the owner's own contact details, so treat them as personal data.

Limits

• BrasilAPI and Minha Receita serve copies of Receita Federal's open data. On 11 October 2026 Minha Receita reported its data as the September 2026 release, so a change registered since then can be missing.
• Branches (FILIAL) carry less than their head office. On 11 October 2026 none of 50 Petrobras branches had a taxRegime, and the branches of Oi S.A. and Americanas S.A. had an empty specialSituation, while both head offices showed RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL. A branch of a company in judicial recovery therefore gets no risk flag; its name, such as AMERICANAS S.A - EM RECUPERACAO JUDICIAL, may be the only sign. Look up the head office, whose CNPJ often ends in /0001-, for these fields.
• Only CNPJs are accepted. The actor does not search by company name and does not list the branches of a company.
• When BrasilAPI gives no usable answer, after up to three tries, Minha Receita is asked. If neither answers, the row says the register could not be reached; this happened to 1 of 2 CNPJs in a run on 9 October 2026. A run in which fewer than 60% of the CNPJs get an answer ends with the status Failed, and the rows it has stay in the dataset.
• Lookups run four at a time. A list of 50 CNPJs took 7 seconds on 11 October 2026.

Watching suppliers between runs

Fill in Watch name, for example suppliers, or save the input as a task, and schedule it. Each run compares every row with the previous run of the same name and stores the differences in the CHANGES record of the run: a status that left ATIVA, a new special situation, an added activity, a new address. The comparison is part of the normal price.

FAQ

Is it legal to look up CNPJ data?

CNPJ registration data is public: Receita Federal publishes it as open data, and BrasilAPI and Minha Receita serve copies of it. The actor reads only these copies, never collects partner names and withholds the personal details of individuals as described above. You remain responsible for how you use the results, including under Brazil's data protection law (LGPD).

Does it check a CNPJ before looking it up?

Yes. The two check digits are verified first, also for alphanumeric CNPJs, which Receita Federal introduced in July 2026. A number that fails is reported as invalid without a lookup and without a charge.

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Support

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