EU VAT Validator (VIES): Check VAT Numbers, Pay Per Answer
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from $3.00 / 1,000 vat number checked in vies
EU VAT Validator (VIES): Check VAT Numbers, Pay Per Answer
Validate EU VAT numbers live in the official EU VIES register and get the registered company name. Offline format and Dutch checksum pre-check, optional name match, batches of up to 200. $0.003 per VAT number VIES answers; bad formats and VIES outages are free.
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from $3.00 / 1,000 vat number checked in vies
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Check EU VAT numbers live in VIES, the European Commission's official register, and get the registered company name back. Built for supplier onboarding, invoice checks, checkout VAT exemption and AI agents that need to know "is this VAT number real, and whose is it?"
- Live VIES lookup for all 27 EU member states plus Northern Ireland (XI)
- Offline pre-check of the number format per country (and the checksum for Dutch numbers), so typos are caught without a register call
- Name match (optional): pass the name you expect and get a 0–1 score; legal forms and punctuation are ignored
- Batches of up to 200 numbers per run; a number repeated in the same run is looked up once
- Retries when a member state's VIES service is slow, and an honest
unavailablestatus when it stays down
Pricing: you pay only when VIES answers
| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
vat-check | $0.003 | VIES answered: the number is valid or invalid |
| (free) | $0 | Wrong format (invalid_format), non-EU prefix (not_checkable), VIES down (unavailable), malformed item |
That is $3 per 1,000 answered checks. A batch full of typos or a VIES outage costs nothing.
Input
One number:
A batch (strings or objects, up to 200):
Spaces, dots and dashes are ignored, and GR is read as EL (VIES uses EL for Greece). Clear the single vat_id
field when you send vat_ids.
Output
One dataset item per number, in input order:
status | Meaning | Charged |
|---|---|---|
valid | Registered in VIES for intra-EU trade | yes |
invalid | VIES says the number is not registered | yes |
invalid_format | Not the format of that country's VAT numbers; VIES was not asked | no |
not_checkable | Prefix is not a VIES country (e.g. GB, CH, NO) | no |
unavailable | VIES or the member state's service did not answer; try again later | no |
Dutch numbers also get nl_checksum_ok. Some member states (for example Germany) never return a name through
VIES; name is then null and name_match stays null.
Good to know
- VIES confirms that a number is registered for intra-EU transactions. A business can have a domestic VAT number that is not active in VIES.
- Results come straight from VIES at the time of the run (
checked_at). Nothing is stored beyond your run's dataset. - Need more than a VAT number, for example the IBAN, Peppol registration and invoice VAT maths before you pay a supplier? Use Payee Check, built on the same engine.
Not tax or legal advice. Made by Lerider Technologies (lerider.com).
