France Company Lookup API — SIREN, SIRET & Sirene Company Data

Look up French companies by SIREN, SIRET or company name and get a clean, flat JSON record from the official French government API Recherche d'entreprises (INSEE Sirene + RNE open data): legal form, NAF/APE activity code, head office address, headcount band, SME/ETI/GE category, creation and closure dates, active status, latest revenue, labels (ESS, RGE, Qualiopi...) and a computed intra-EU VAT number. Built for KYB checks, lead enrichment, CRM cleanup and AI-agent pipelines. You are only charged for companies found — misses are free.

Mots-clés : recherche entreprise par SIREN, SIRET, nom ; base Sirene INSEE ; fiche entreprise ; code NAF / APE ; forme juridique ; numéro de TVA intracommunautaire ; annuaire des entreprises.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the prefilled queries (the name Airbus and EDF's SIREN 552081317). It finishes in seconds.
2. You get up to 6 company records with legal form, NAF code, head office, headcount band, status and computed VAT number.
3. That first run costs at most $0.018, well within Apify's free monthly credit. Then swap in your own list or schedule it.

What you get

{
  "query": "552 081 317",
  "found": true,
  "reason": null,
  "siren": "552081317",
  "siret_head_office": "55208131766522",
  "company_name": "ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE",
  "company_full_name": "ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (EDF)",
  "acronym": "EDF",
  "legal_form_code": "5599",
  "legal_form": "SA à conseil d'administration (s.a.i.)",
  "naf_code": "35.11Z",
  "naf_label": "Production d’électricité",
  "naf_2025_code": "35.11Y",
  "activity_section": "D",
  "activity_section_label": "Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply",
  "employee_range_code": "53",
  "employee_range": "10,000+ employees",
  "employee_range_year": 2023,
  "company_category": "GE",
  "company_category_label": "Large enterprise (GE)",
  "creation_date": "1955-01-01",
  "closure_date": null,
  "is_active": true,
  "head_office_address": "22-30 22 AVENUE DE WAGRAM 75008 PARIS",
  "head_office_street": "22 AVENUE DE WAGRAM",
  "head_office_postal_code": "75008",
  "head_office_city": "PARIS",
  "head_office_department_code": "75",
  "head_office_department": "Paris",
  "head_office_region_code": "11",
  "head_office_region": "Île-de-France",
  "head_office_country": "France",
  "head_office_latitude": 48.876235098,
  "head_office_longitude": 2.2979350788,
  "establishments_count": 9157,
  "open_establishments_count": 3556,
  "revenue_eur": 118690000000,
  "net_income_eur": 11854000000,
  "financials_year": 2024,
  "is_ess": false,
  "is_association": false,
  "is_public_administration": false,
  "is_mission_company": false,
  "is_entertainment_licensee": false,
  "is_training_organization": true,
  "is_qualiopi_certified": true,
  "is_rge_certified": true,
  "is_organic_certified": false,
  "is_siae": false,
  "is_finess": true,
  "is_living_heritage_company": false,
  "has_responsible_purchasing_label": true,
  "has_egapro_index": true,
  "has_ghg_report": true,
  "vat_number_computed": "FR03552081317",
  "matched_siret": null,
  "establishment_is_head_office": null,
  "establishment_is_active": null,
  "establishment_address": null,
  "establishment_postal_code": null,
  "establishment_city": null,
  "establishment_naf_code": null,
  "establishment_employee_range_code": null,
  "establishment_creation_date": null,
  "establishment_closure_date": null,
  "last_update": "2026-09-14",
  "annuaire_url": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/552081317",
  "source_url": "https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=552081317&page=1&per_page=5&minimal=true&include=siege%2Ccomplements%2Cfinances%2Cmatching_etablissements",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

For a SIRET query you get the same company record plus the establishment_* fields of that exact establishment (address, status, activity, headcount band). Queries that do not resolve come back as {"query": "...", "found": false, "reason": "not_found"} and are never charged.

No personal data

Company facts only. This Actor never returns officers (dirigeants), shareholders or any person's name. Officers and sole-proprietor records are excluded: an entrepreneur individuel (legal form 1000) is registered under the owner's own name and home address, so a SIREN/SIRET lookup for one returns found: false, reason: "individual_entrepreneur_excluded" and name searches silently skip them — never charged. Non-diffusible units (statut de diffusion partiel/non diffusible) and groupings of natural persons (indivisions) are excluded the same way. Name searches also ignore companies matched only through an officer's name, so a person's name cannot be turned into a list of their companies.

Use cases

• KYB / customer onboarding: verify that a French counterparty exists, is active, and check its legal form, age and registered head office in bulk.
• Lead enrichment: turn company names or SIRENs into NAF sector, headcount band, SME/ETI/GE category, revenue and location for segmentation and scoring.
• CRM cleanup: normalise company names, fix SIREN/SIRET typos (checksums validated before any call) and flag closed companies.
• Supplier & procurement checks: confirm supplier status, compute the intra-EU VAT number, spot RGE / Qualiopi / ESS labels.
• AI agents: tiny input schema, deterministic flat JSON — ideal via the Apify API or MCP.

Input

Field	Type	Notes
queries	string[], required	Company names, 9-digit SIREN or 14-digit SIRET (spaces allowed), e.g. Airbus, 552081317, 383 474 814 00100
maxResultsPerQuery	integer, default 5 (1-100)	Companies per name search. 1 = single best-match mode: only a confident name match is returned, otherwise not found (free)
postalCode	string, optional	Name searches: establishment postal code, e.g. 75008
department	string, optional	Name searches: department code, e.g. 69, 2A, 971
nafCode	string, optional	Name searches: NAF/APE code, e.g. 62.01Z
onlyActive	boolean, default true	Name searches: skip ceased companies. SIREN/SIRET lookups always return the company with is_active
minEmployeeRange	select, optional	Name searches: minimum INSEE headcount band (1+, 10+, 50+, 250+ ... employees)

SIREN/SIRET lookups ignore filters and always return exactly that company. Invalid identifiers (failed Luhn checksum, wrong length) are reported without calling the API. The official API caps a search at 10,000 results (25 per page); this Actor pages automatically up to maxResultsPerQuery.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	Meaning
company-found	$3 per 1,000 ($0.003 each)	One company record delivered with found: true. Not-found queries, invalid identifiers, excluded sole proprietors and API failures are never charged.

Example: looking up 1,000 SIRENs that all resolve costs $3. A name search with maxResultsPerQuery: 5 that returns 5 companies costs $0.015. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Source and licence

• Data: API Recherche d'entreprises operated by the Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM), aggregating the INSEE Sirene register, the RNE (INPI) and public labels. Open access, no account or API key.
• Licence: Sirene and Annuaire des Entreprises datasets are published on data.gouv.fr under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0, which allows reuse including commercial reuse with attribution. Source: INSEE (base Sirene), INPI (RNE), DINUM (Annuaire des Entreprises).
• Every record carries source_url (the exact API request) and annuaire_url (the public company page).
• vat_number_computed is computed from the SIREN with the standard French key formula (FR + key + SIREN). It shows what the VAT number is if the company is VAT-registered; it does not prove registration. Verify it with EU VAT Validation.
• Labels (legal_form, naf_label) are the official INSEE nomenclature labels in French.

factpipe Compliance Suite

Official-source compliance data, all pay-per-result and runnable from one Apify account. Same conventions everywhere: flat records, ISO dates, source_url and fetched_at on every row, and no charge for empty or failed lookups, so outputs join cleanly in a single KYB, AML or GRC pipeline.

Workflow	Actor	What it does	Price
Counterparty & KYB checks	OFAC Sanctions Screening	Screen names against the US Treasury SDN list with fuzzy matching	$3/1k
Counterparty & KYB checks	EU VAT Validation	Validate EU VAT numbers in bulk against VIES, with registered name and address	$2/1k
Counterparty & KYB checks	UK Companies House Lookup	Company status, SIC codes and registered office from Companies House	$2.50/1k
Counterparty & KYB checks	France Company Lookup (this Actor)	SIREN/SIRET, legal form, NAF code, head office and status from the Sirene register	$3/1k
Public-sector sales intelligence	SAM.gov Contracts	Federal contract opportunities, set-asides and deadlines from SAM.gov	$2/1k
Public-sector sales intelligence	EU Tenders (TED)	EU public procurement notices from TED, filterable by CPV and country	$3/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	Federal Register Monitor	New US rules, proposed rules and notices by agency or keyword	$2.50/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	FDA Recalls Monitor	FDA food, drug and device recall enforcement reports	$3/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	SEC EDGAR Filings	Full-text search across 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other SEC filings	$2/1k

Use it together:

• VAT check: take vat_number_computed from this Actor and confirm it is live in VIES with EU VAT Validation, which also returns the registered name and address.
• KYB file: confirm the French company is active here, then screen its registered name with OFAC Sanctions Screening.

FAQ

Do I need an INSEE or API key? No. The official API Recherche d'entreprises is open access with no account. The Actor handles rate limits (the API allows 7 requests per second per IP; the Actor stays below 5) and retries with backoff.

Can I look up a list of SIREN or SIRET numbers in bulk? Yes. Pass hundreds or thousands of identifiers in one run; each resolves to one flat record. Checksums are validated first (including the La Poste SIRET exception), and not-found or invalid numbers are free.

What is the difference between SIREN and SIRET? SIREN (9 digits) identifies the company (unité légale). SIRET (14 digits = SIREN + 5-digit NIC) identifies one establishment. A SIRET query returns the company plus that establishment's address, status and activity.

Is the VAT number official? It is computed from the SIREN with the official key formula, which is how French intra-community VAT numbers are built. Only VAT-registered companies actually use it; validate it with EU VAT Validation.

Why is a small business missing? Sole proprietors (entrepreneurs individuels) and companies that opted out of public diffusion are deliberately excluded because their records identify a private person. Everything else in the public Sirene register is searchable.

How fresh is the data? The government API is updated daily from INSEE Sirene and the RNE; each record includes last_update and fetched_at.

Can I call it from Python, JavaScript, Make, Zapier or an AI agent? Yes. Run it through the Apify API or official Python/JavaScript clients, connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets via Apify integrations, or expose it to AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Reliability

Official government API, polite rate limiting under the published quota, retries with backoff on 429/5xx, structured failure reporting per query, daily issue triage.